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When I first started this piano journey a couple of years ago, I was motivated to "do it right," and I started to look at massive amounts of material to help me have the right approach. These videos are helping me to emphasize those ideas so that I don't develop any ingrained bad habits. Well done!
Thanks and good luck with your practise! One thing that springs to mind is 'paralysis by analysis' so just be careful not to go too far the other way and overthink every aspect. You have the right mindset but mistakes are part of the learning process and I'm a firm believer in learning mostly by getting stuck in and actually 'doing it' as well as having tips along the way to make the process easier.
@@PianoFromScratch I agree. And, there is no shortage of mistakes to help me learn. I just want to spent my energy on doing it correctly as I build up my facility. I used to encourage my flight students to learn the same way..."begin with the end in mind."
This teaching was so essentially helpful. Thank you for teaching slowly-after all, we’re starting from “scratch.” Thanks for understanding the beginner.
I cannot overstate how helpful this video is. Exactly what I was looking for. I cannot understand why so many piano tutorial videos miss explaining this crucial part that of left out makes practice so much more difficult than it needs to be.
I just started piano and I had lots of problem with the hand position and this video really helped! I’m practicing playing howls moving castle with the tips on this video it really helped me! Thank you so much!
This is a really great explanation of finger positioning and movement around the keys. Many of these things I realize I have learned over time, however you have articulated the many different situations one will encounter and a useful approach to each one. I don’t think I was ever taught more than, “relax your wrist and keep your fingers curved.” There is so much more to it than that depending upon what is being played, as you’ve so nicely illustrated.
I find in my playing (especially hymns) , I have difficulty in good hand placement. I tend to stay on the white field (not sliding up correctly between notes), if that makes sense. I am going to try to incorporate your instructions/suggestions into my playing. Thanks.
I started to learn (play around with) piano last year. I'm 56 so still mentally and physically able to learn something completely new. I just wanted to say out of all the 100s of videos and piano lesson videos I've watched, yours are without any doubt the best. I've learn so much in a relatively short time.
thank you for sharing your expertise and explaining it so well. I am doing naturally what you described and for me it is a bit like a confirmation that this is quite good and that I am on the right way to learn and develop here. Have a great day- I wish you many "listeners" and "fans" :-) THANKS - MICHAELA
I started playing piano virtually in vr 😂 for $10. I can't wait to learn more and get my hands on a actual piano ❤ It's totally not the same, though, because I can use mutiple fingers to hit one key that's highlighted and in real life I would hit all the keys and the song would be ruined lol. 🙃 but it's great practice in the meantime 😊
I am glad i found your video. I intuitively realised (after a long time haha) I was twisting my hand to reach notes, in particulae with my pinky. Now my focus is positioning my hands where it feels comfortable and my fingers have much more power.
I'm not sure if i can articulate this, but my main instrument is guitar so when I started playing piano, i thought - "Oh great the notes are uniform as the octaves repeat!" However, i've really been struggling with how varied and unique each fingering is!! This video has helped me imagine each chord fingering like a key that fits into a lock that I just have to slowly accustom myself to! In other words, guitar chord fingerings are uniform as you play up the neck, but the note names are very hard for me to remember up the fretboard! Meanwhile, I can easily see and name every note on the piano, but the chord shapes and fingering are intimidatingly varied!
Thanks so much for this video - However, I have a burning question that I really can't find the answer to: I am using a MIDI controller (32 keys, Komplete Kontrol by native instruments) to learn keys and I am getting frustrated because I can't go deep enough with my fingers so that my thumb is at the edge of its key. I have to resort to curving my fingers since the keys are smaller than regular keys (like the ones you use in this video). What do you think about this? How should I place my fingers on a MIDI keyboard? Literally no one has made a video specifically about this, thanks so much!
That might seem a joke, but it's a serious question: I'm a beginner and I feel that my fingertips are too thick to be positioned in between the black keys. I often hit wrong notes trying to do so. Is there anything I could do to solve that, like put my fingers a little bit down on the keyboard or it's something expected for beginner and time will handle that automatically? Thank you.
Marcelo! - it’s simple! Play the white keys almost to the bottom of them, far from the black keys. When you need to play a black key simply move up a bit. Time and practice will solve this automatically yes! But it’s good to know how to target it so that it becomes faster to solve.
Hi thanks for the video, you seem to play the black notes with the “pulp” part of the finger, (I had to google finger tip anatomy) rather that the tip, which you use on the white keys, should you not use the tip rather than this, thanks
Hey guys, would be really grateful if you could click that like button above, that would be really helpful to the channel!👍 And let me know below how your hand placement at the piano has been going!
@@DragosStefan TH-cam has a 'super thanks' feature but seems to just be in Beta testing and only a few channels seem to have access at the moment. I have Patreon instead of memberships just to keep it in one place and plus TH-cam takes a giant cut compared to Patreon which seems a bit unfair to supporters and creators I think. But thanks man, always very grateful for your comments and support!
Good evening, thanks for this video, it is very interesting to me to learned this proper position to be made as a beginner, thank you very much sir coz this is my 1st to see your video, it is very understandable for me , hope you'll aways be there for us, as beginner i'm continue watching your video sir , i really like it the way you teach and demonstrate for us, God Bless You Sir...
Any advise for those of us with thick non-pointy fingers? Every time I try your technique on chords with straddled white keys I pull along both straddling black keys! The only way I manage is by turning my hand so the fingers get in sideways. But that's really tiring and slows me down considerably.
I find myself missing the black keys often when using my ring and pinky, any exercises to get them more accurate. Also learning to finger drum. I kinda wanna texturize my black keys, make it easier to catch.
My aim is just to learn to play by hear. Will I be better buying a digital piano or a midi keyboard with 88keys? Please suggest a model 🙏 Thanks & regards
Good stuff. Any chance you could edit your words to about 30%-50% of what you have here and make your explanations all simple enough for a 9 year-old? That would be so helpful to my younger students!
Iv always wanted to learn how to play piano with that being said someone just gave me 1 lol now I don't even know the first thing. about it and she told me it was just tuned I hope by watching your videos and a shit ton of others that I can learn because believe me as of now my ⁰fingers are tied in a knot it's a Fayette S. Cable
Great video! But... the first joint at his fingertips often collapses, denting inward, which is not the most efficient! Keeping the first finger joint strong rather than letting it collapse will allow you to get better tone out of a piano that has strings, and will allow you to eventually play faster and more efficiently!
HELP!! At 10:03 playing the A maj scale where you turn your thumb under and proceed. But how do you do it with the left hand? I can't find that answer anywhere!
How can I position my finger better when I have to press a white key in between the black keys? Whenever I do, I press the black key at the side part of it unintentionally.
Being a large chap with chubby fingers, my main problem using the 'upper plain' is getting to the white notes in between the black, without hitting the wrong notes. So frustrating.
So confused right now as i have a yamaha pss 780 as a midi keyboard but the keys are so small.Think i gonna need a different keyboard if i want to have a diffrent feel when playing
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I am interested in one of your pdf's for scales because I want to support. I wanted to know if they show finger placement on the worksheets? Thanks!
When I first started this piano journey a couple of years ago, I was motivated to "do it right," and I started to look at massive amounts of material to help me have the right approach. These videos are helping me to emphasize those ideas so that I don't develop any ingrained bad habits. Well done!
Thanks and good luck with your practise! One thing that springs to mind is 'paralysis by analysis' so just be careful not to go too far the other way and overthink every aspect. You have the right mindset but mistakes are part of the learning process and I'm a firm believer in learning mostly by getting stuck in and actually 'doing it' as well as having tips along the way to make the process easier.
@@PianoFromScratch I agree. And, there is no shortage of mistakes to help me learn. I just want to spent my energy on doing it correctly as I build up my facility. I used to encourage my flight students to learn the same way..."begin with the end in mind."
@@arthouston7361 That's a great phrase! May have to borrow that one
@@PianoFromScratch It was created by Stephen Covey. It is number 2 on a list of the "7 Habits of Highly Effective People."
You know what else is massive?
Omg, I was wondering why I see so many pianist doing the last sneaky trick. Now, I understand. Thank you!
No problem!
This teaching was so essentially helpful. Thank you for teaching slowly-after all, we’re starting from “scratch.” Thanks for understanding the beginner.
I cannot overstate how helpful this video is. Exactly what I was looking for. I cannot understand why so many piano tutorial videos miss explaining this crucial part that of left out makes practice so much more difficult than it needs to be.
For real 100%
I just started piano and I had lots of problem with the hand position and this video really helped! I’m practicing playing howls moving castle with the tips on this video it really helped me! Thank you so much!
I am definitely guilty of the "flinging back" you mention at 3:58. Thank you for making me aware of this! Great video!
This is one of those videos that will actually "stick" in my learning journey. Appreciate you sharing this info!
This is a really great explanation of finger positioning and movement around the keys. Many of these things I realize I have learned over time, however you have articulated the many different situations one will encounter and a useful approach to each one. I don’t think I was ever taught more than, “relax your wrist and keep your fingers curved.” There is so much more to it than that depending upon what is being played, as you’ve so nicely illustrated.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Liked and subscribed.
Thank you, I haven't been motivated to take notes like this in a while but this video is absolute gold. Absolutely what I needed!
This is hands down the best tutorial I’ve seen on this subject.
This video was EXCELLENT!!!! I feel more comfortable playing now with these tips. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
Awesome, glad they helped, thanks for the feedback!
I find in my playing (especially hymns) , I have difficulty in good hand placement. I tend to stay on the white field (not sliding up correctly between notes), if that makes sense. I am going to try to incorporate your instructions/suggestions into my playing. Thanks.
Hope it helps, remember when playing lots of chords it’s really worth changing fingers most of the time too to hep move around smoothly 🙂
This is such a great video. I just keep returning to it for a technique reset. 👍
Such a beautiful video. Thanks for making it.
FANTASTIC video, as always. CLEAR explanations. Well done! :)
Thanks!
Thanks, I never really knew what to do with my thumb without my hand felling really strange, this feels way more natural 😊
These little showcases will definitely level up our technique. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart!
good tips . For someone who has been self taught. This video would help me a lot.
Super helpful! I'm new to piano and this explains so much.
Wow there's a lot of treasures here, thanks for sharing! 🎹🎼
Thanks!
This is exactly the advice I was looking for. Thank you!
Thanks Ken, appreciate that. Glad it was helpful for you!
I started to learn (play around with) piano last year. I'm 56 so still mentally and physically able to learn something completely new.
I just wanted to say out of all the 100s of videos and piano lesson videos I've watched, yours are without any doubt the best.
I've learn so much in a relatively short time.
Thank you this is incredibly useful for an old novice such as myself. I knew I was doing something wrong when my wrist was hurting.
Good teaching! Thanks! Tomorrow I start to learn piano as Accordion Player. Greetings from Germany!
thank you for sharing your expertise and explaining it so well. I am doing naturally what you described and for me it is a bit like a confirmation that this is quite good and that I am on the right way to learn and develop here. Have a great day- I wish you many "listeners" and "fans" :-) THANKS - MICHAELA
I started playing piano virtually in vr 😂 for $10. I can't wait to learn more and get my hands on a actual piano ❤
It's totally not the same, though, because I can use mutiple fingers to hit one key that's highlighted and in real life I would hit all the keys and the song would be ruined lol. 🙃 but it's great practice in the meantime 😊
Thank you so much man!!!
I am glad i found your video. I intuitively realised (after a long time haha) I was twisting my hand to reach notes, in particulae with my pinky. Now my focus is positioning my hands where it feels comfortable and my fingers have much more power.
Thank you very much for these tips! Very helpful!
been playing for a long time self-taught, but find myself hitting a wall. Will definitely use these tips. Thanks!
We all hit a wall occasionally, sometimes a small adjustment or learning one new thing can help things click. Good luck
This guy is super! And Funny when he says things like "or else you'll end up doing something really weird". Lol. That's the best
Loved the video. It really is an absolute game changer for making fingering so much easier and relaxed. 👍
Ayo bro? 😂
Wow! You are amazing! Thank you so much for this! 😘
Very good basics hand placement instruction 👍🏾🎶🎹
Hope it helped!
This is absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much.
after getting that intuition of hand placement playing became quite abit easier and less frustrating.
I'm not sure if i can articulate this, but my main instrument is guitar so when I started playing piano, i thought - "Oh great the notes are uniform as the octaves repeat!" However, i've really been struggling with how varied and unique each fingering is!! This video has helped me imagine each chord fingering like a key that fits into a lock that I just have to slowly accustom myself to! In other words, guitar chord fingerings are uniform as you play up the neck, but the note names are very hard for me to remember up the fretboard! Meanwhile, I can easily see and name every note on the piano, but the chord shapes and fingering are intimidatingly varied!
I’m so glad I found your channel, was struggling with hand placement while playing Audiomachine Allegory, will try this method \o/
I discovered that sitting at a certain angle is more comfortable for me
appreciated!! very useful information.
Brother... You are the mvp!!!
Thanks so much for this video - However, I have a burning question that I really can't find the answer to: I am using a MIDI controller (32 keys, Komplete Kontrol by native instruments) to learn keys and I am getting frustrated because I can't go deep enough with my fingers so that my thumb is at the edge of its key. I have to resort to curving my fingers since the keys are smaller than regular keys (like the ones you use in this video). What do you think about this? How should I place my fingers on a MIDI keyboard? Literally no one has made a video specifically about this, thanks so much!
dang his energy is fabulous
Great content. You always share loads of info. Thank you
I love this channel! I've been progressing really fast following your videos 🙌🏻
Awesome! Great to hear, thanks for watching, Sean
That might seem a joke, but it's a serious question: I'm a beginner and I feel that my fingertips are too thick to be positioned in between the black keys. I often hit wrong notes trying to do so. Is there anything I could do to solve that, like put my fingers a little bit down on the keyboard or it's something expected for beginner and time will handle that automatically? Thank you.
Marcelo! - it’s simple! Play the white keys almost to the bottom of them, far from the black keys.
When you need to play a black key simply move up a bit.
Time and practice will solve this automatically yes! But it’s good to know how to target it so that it becomes faster to solve.
@@Joshuagarciaofficial thank you!
Hi thanks for the video, you seem to play the black notes with the “pulp” part of the finger, (I had to google finger tip anatomy) rather that the tip, which you use on the white keys, should you not use the tip rather than this, thanks
Very VERY HELPFUL!! Thanks and Blessings!!!! :)
I have my own my own piano 🎹 I love you are teaching me
Note his nice skinny fingers! Makes it look so easy.... Good video though, just a little trickier between black keys for those of us with big hands.
Great video. I've seen other videos saying to pull back on the notes like a guitar or to move your fingers upwards on the notes. Which on should i do?
This is very valuable. Thanks
So helpful for a beginner. Many many Thanks! :D
Hey guys, would be really grateful if you could click that like button above, that would be really helpful to the channel!👍
And let me know below how your hand placement at the piano has been going!
Would be great to have "Support" buttons and membership. Just sayin'
@@DragosStefan TH-cam has a 'super thanks' feature but seems to just be in Beta testing and only a few channels seem to have access at the moment. I have Patreon instead of memberships just to keep it in one place and plus TH-cam takes a giant cut compared to Patreon which seems a bit unfair to supporters and creators I think. But thanks man, always very grateful for your comments and support!
This is very helpful and informative
Thank you very much 💫
Very informative 🎉
Tried to cram lots in there!
Very informative with great helpful tips - thank you man!! Praise the Christ 4 Life forever AMEN 🙌
Best teacher ever here in TH-cam
🙏 Glad to help
Good evening, thanks for this video, it is very interesting to me to learned this proper position to be made as a beginner, thank you very much sir coz this is my 1st to see your video, it is very understandable for me , hope you'll aways be there for us, as beginner i'm continue watching your video sir , i really like it the way you teach and demonstrate for us, God Bless You Sir...
6:47 on comfortably
So helpful! Much better to start with proper fingering than have to correct poor fingering later on. Thanks!
Sure is!
Very helpful advice! Thank you!
Thank you that was very helpful.
Where was your TH-cam channel when needed you in 1980s?
I grew up playing piano but didn’t seem to understand music much until I hit college.
In his dad’s nutsack, I suppose 😂
Thank you so much. This video is very useful.
I feel so silly about playing the scale upwards moving my thumb awkwardly. Thank you for helping me straighten that out. :-)
So useful! Thanks a lot,
Any advise for those of us with thick non-pointy fingers? Every time I try your technique on chords with straddled white keys I pull along both straddling black keys! The only way I manage is by turning my hand so the fingers get in sideways. But that's really tiring and slows me down considerably.
Brilliant, very clear.
Very nice job. I am learning piano.
Great video! Thank you
Thanks this helps a lot cuz I'm learning to play piano but only on my phone 😢 but thanks
Thank you!
I find myself missing the black keys often when using my ring and pinky, any exercises to get them more accurate. Also learning to finger drum. I kinda wanna texturize my black keys, make it easier to catch.
Thanks I found my self bending my wrist a whole bunch to press keys instead of moving my arm
Great stuff!
Very useful, thx a lot
great video
Very informative. Love the way you explain.
Glad to hear, hope it helps!
My aim is just to learn to play by hear.
Will I be better buying a digital piano or a midi keyboard with 88keys?
Please suggest a model 🙏
Thanks & regards
Don't overthink this
Procceds to explain for 15 minutes 😂.
Just found it funny
Good stuff!
Thank you
Thank you so much
I have a question are you figuring out your finger placement per bar of music?
thank you so much for sharing this information
This is so helpful
Glad to hear!
Good stuff. Any chance you could edit your words to about 30%-50% of what you have here and make your explanations all simple enough for a 9 year-old? That would be so helpful to my younger students!
Iv always wanted to learn how to play piano with that being said someone just gave me 1 lol now I don't even know the first thing. about it and she told me it was just tuned I hope by watching your videos and a shit ton of others that I can learn because believe me as of now my ⁰fingers are tied in a knot it's a Fayette S. Cable
My main suggestion is to play where your fingers are comfortable and relaxed
I have subscribed and ready to learn.
Tell me which which instrument to get.
Great video! But... the first joint at his fingertips often collapses, denting inward, which is not the most efficient! Keeping the first finger joint strong rather than letting it collapse will allow you to get better tone out of a piano that has strings, and will allow you to eventually play faster and more efficiently!
Thankyou.
HELP!! At 10:03 playing the A maj scale where you turn your thumb under and proceed. But how do you do it with the left hand? I can't find that answer anywhere!
LH fingers 54321 321
How can I position my finger better when I have to press a white key in between the black keys? Whenever I do, I press the black key at the side part of it unintentionally.
so like at 6:21 isnt that collapsed fingers? im trying to figure out best positioning but i always hear collapsed fingers are bad
Being a large chap with chubby fingers, my main problem using the 'upper plain' is getting to the white notes in between the black, without hitting the wrong notes. So frustrating.
So confused right now as i have a yamaha pss 780 as a midi keyboard but the keys are so small.Think i gonna need a different keyboard if i want to have a diffrent feel when playing
Good one!
Thanks! Just got back to your other thing btw