As a neuroenginnering student, probalby it did! Our brain is capable of creating newer connections, either physical or chemicals. This phenomena is called 'Brain plasticity', on the short-time scale it regards a increase of neurotransmitters released and caught by the neuroreceptors: this is way after a couple of minutes trying something new it seems ever so slightly easier. But this increase of neurotransmitters released goes down after a couple of hours since stop practicing. Instead, when something is trained on a long-time scale (months), the quantity of neurotransmitter released stays the same, meanwhile the amount of neuroreceptors on the post synaptic cells increase!
I'm 13 and I've been playing for 2 months now and I just practice and practice everyday and I didn't notice that I improved a lot. This channel really helped me😁👍💖
You know what I do? When I get to a certain page in some book I just stop and go back to the beginning and do a quick but careful review to see if there's any difference, and I can always play the stuff a lot more easily! I found that in life I need to do something about three times - in anything, school, whatever - to really get it. But three separate times, like with time in between. I'd say keep track of whatever you are doing and periodically go back to whatever you were doing a month ago and see if it's any easier, it probably is!! Good luck!!
@@watermelonely3970 u go guys! i had piano lessons at around that age too and quit around less than a year, im now 19 and relearning everything on my own hahaha. don't give up and keep on playing!
I can't tell you how badly I have needed this. I am a beginner and my instructor keeps telling me that hand independence will come. Now I finally have something to work with. Thank you
I just started 4 days ago and I already noticed that I need this. It's not something natural for your brain. My left hand keep wanting to follow my right hand and it's soooo frustrating. I'm going crazy
Only started to play again this week after giving up 40 years ago. My left hand just slapped me in the face to remind me why I gave up. Now at 62 I hope to have more patience.
I hit a plateau 15 years ago because of hand independence issues. I started all over in my training and figured out my teacher advanced me too fast and had not developed independence. Practice slower, sightread slower. Really focus on sightreading that has helped me a lot. And practice, practice, practice.
my hand independence is zero and it is driving me insane, but i have just watched this and after playing for an hour i seem to have mastered the first and second part of this tutorial. I am so pleased because i thought i would never get it in a million years. I know this is so simple to those who are more advanced but to me this is a huge achievement believe me and i am bouncing off the walls right now with excitement. Thank you for making this tutorial so straight forward for me and i am going to practise this hand exervcise over and over until it is fixed into my brain and i don't have to concentrate so much on what i am doing with both of my hands.
I am an 80 year old started to learn piano at 74. You have made learning so wonderfully interesting. I love trying new skills that you introduced and felt the benefit every instance. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. xx
Hello Lisa, I’m 71 year old man, all my life I dream of learning playing piano, unfortunately never had a time, first family then kids. Finally I retired and my wife bought piano for me and I started learning piano 6 months ago but the biggest problem was hand coordination. I’ve look in many TH-cam lessons but still have a great straggle with two hands coordination Scrolling through website trying to find a lesson on hand coordination and finally stumble In to your website and I tell you beside being a beautiful young women you’re the best music teacher that I found, within a week my hand start to listens to me and I’m doing better as days going along. Thank you very, very much and God bless you.
1) I really appreciate you leaving in the mistakes. I'm a very self conscious person so seeing others make mistakes when they've been playing for years really helps me to not feel so bad making beginner mistakes. 2) I love that your exercises are musical and not just a series of empty notes playing one after the other. It makes me feel like I'm actually playing something and not just pressing keys. Thanks for these videos they really do help.
Not even going to lie, I’m 30 years old and this is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. This was very difficult for me and I was starting to get really frustrated and doubting my ability to learn piano, but I eventually got it 😁
@@toyalee6841 Have you tried the exercises in this video right here that we're on? I'd recommend starting with exercise one and do it very slowly. Like extremely slow. Put like 4 or even 5 seconds between each beat. It might seem silly and very slow, but you need to train your hands. Gradually pick up the speed and you will be surprised. In no time you will be doing them very fast.
I love how optimistic Lisa is! Just when I watch an exercise and think "I'll never get this" she seems to read my mind every time, pause, and say "I promise you'll get this!" 😂 this is where I get my self-confidence from! Thanks a ton ❤
Great tips Pianote! I think at any stage of playing we can do with better independence of our hands (I find my right more developed than left, like most right-handed people). Another good exercise (maybe suitable as the next slightly more advanced), is for INDEPENDENCE IN ARTICULATION - play a scale up and down with both hands, but ONE HAND LEGATO, ONE HAND STACCATO, then as you go up again, switch (without stopping) so the legato hand plays staccato now, and the staccato now plays legato.
I think Pianote has given this tip in one of their videos about hand exercises but I can't remember which one. And you are right, it is a really good exercise ! Helps practice another type of hand independence. As a beginner, who still struggles with hand independence, I wouldn't say it's more advanced but a different type of exercise (still difficult though ^^).
@@milesgilbertpiano it's just that your typical "beginner note" is C. There nothing particularly scary about G, I was just exaggerating a bit for laughs.
65 year old beginner here - just what I need! Still learning to do the C major scale with both hands after starting about 3 weeks ago. I can do each hand independently without mistakes, and NEARLY without mistakes using both hands. It does help to hear that even you have your momentary struggles playing certain things with both hands. MANY THANKS FOR YOUR LEARNER FRIENDLY VIDEOS. 👍👍👍
I’ve only been playing the piano for 3 months and I’m 48 years old. My polish grandfather used to play the piano and accordion, I would sit and watch him in amazement 😊 I have been struggling a little with hand independence and so I tried these exercises. You are by far my favourite piano teacher on TH-cam ❤️❤️❤️ these exercises are really helpful and I love the fact you explain everything so clearly and slowly for us beginners. Thank you so much for all your hard work uploading these videos to help us play you are an absolute Angel 👼 god bless you.❤️❤️
Whoa did I just play that?! lol It really helps if you start super slow and get every note right first try, THEN start to speed up. Great Video! I subscribed! :)
Hey ma'am I'm a 14 year old girl and I've had a piano since I was 11 but I never really understood how to play it and recently in quarantine i've learnt a lot from you and I'm so grateful to you ❤️😊also ma'am I've a piano with 23keys.. Is it ok if i practice on that because it's just the start the model of my piano is CASIO SA-47 can you please tell me if it's ok to practice piano lessons on this piano it would be really helpful 😊
@@p.v.joseph1594Really, I'm a brazilian 12 year old girl and I've had a keybord since I was a 6 but I don't have interest to play it, and recently in quarantine i learn I lot about keyboard with this channel. In this year I despert the interest to learn English and this channel help me a lot with that too.
I've been playing for 6 months, 3 to 4 hrs a day and struggling with hand independence. I actually played Linus and lucy once correctly from your exercise and now it all comes to light. You are the best. Thank you, Lisa
Just started a week ago after decades of never touching a piano at all. Quickly I found my hands weren't independent and then ran into your video. First day, found your first and last exercises were really tough! But, surprisingly the second was almost automatic. This is just what I need... something to train my brain's two halves independently and approximating some kind of melody at the same time. Thx!
Me, too! I also took drum lessons for a year for fun and that helped me with piano a lot realizing that it's not strange to have different things going on at the same time.
I am watching some of your videos and enjoying them. I am 85 years young and have always loved piano music. 2 years ago I decided I was going to learn how to play. Im doing on-line which there are seemingly many good on-line piano teachers. I am enjoying every minute in spite of being very slow at learning. I especially like your teaching methods Lisa. Mastering hand coordination has definitely been a huge challenge. I have never expected to master the challenge at my age but have definitely enjoyed the journey so far. Thank you for being here for me.❤️
This is why I love piano. The challenges are endless. This exercise forwards and backwards in every key will challenge best. And this is just a few exercises. I will be playing piano for the rest of my life!
Hi, I'm guitar player and after years of playing i found these practices on guitar. But now i was struggling with my bew piano . And now when i finnaly fing you video i found what i was REALLY wanted to find. "Hand practice" . When u said we can make these practice methods i got you. Cause i really know amazing fingering practic on guitar and could not do it on piano, cause i didn't now the basic methods. Thanks to you now i can improve my skills. Tnx👍🤝
I don't usually comment but today I really wanna thank you, ma'am. I was struggling with hand independence since last 3 yrs and now I am able to believe in myself and practice it all because of you. I'm genuinely grateful to you ma'am. Thanking you! Love from India♥️
Must be 20 years since I last touched a piano upon which I could never play properly just tinker. I now have a new Roland Go and have found the best teacher... Lisa.... you say you're never too old.... at 73 I'm going to try and make that statement come true!! Your enthusiasm can only drive me on. Amazing progress in only my first week. Enjoying the exercises very much. Thank you.
I am 40 years old, trying to learn piano on a keybord. Thanks so kind of you. It’s so beautifully musical. Or should I say musically beautiful. Now I’ve become confident because of you
Yours are the clearest tutorials on TH-cam. I do get a lot of action from some other channels, and I can play their stuff at really fast rates - which make me feel very virtuoso. But, when it's you...I really feel like I'm learning something that's very important and that I get new abilities "mechanized" (I'm not sure if it's the right term in English, but it also applies to you) and I make so much progress, it's like a TH-cam pianist's Pandora's Box. I think that you're able to share your knowledge very, very well. Thank you so much.
I'm loving these exercises. After just one day of practice with these, I'm playing something that sounds genuinely musical. I've only been playing piano for a few weeks, but this is the first time I've felt like I'm making music. I'm thrilled. Thanks so much.
This is so great! I have only been properly learning via your channel (and a couple of others) a couple of months and practising exercise 2 when it suddenly came together and my fingers just behaved and listened to my brain, it was magical! You made the magic happen, I can't thank you enough. I'm over 60 now....
Love your perky enthusiasm, Lisa! That said, seems to me that hand independence is what makes people quit piano. It's work and takes the joy out of learning piano. That's why I think "Scott the Piano Guy" (and others?) have it right by teaching piano with the lead sheet method. With that method you are playing full chords with your left hand and it is so much easier hitting the chord on the first note of the bar (usually) than having to finger a pattern. I have been playing for over ten years and have not missed not being able to pattern with my left hand. I play songs like "Misty, " "Vincent," "And I Love Her," "You Don't Know Me" "Moon River." To my ears, I like the sound of how these songs sound with full chords. Recently, I decided I wanted to learn how to play "The Swan." I found a version that had a left hand pattern. Gave it a shot. But the more I listened to the pattern in the version I found, the more "sing-songy" it sounded to me. I then found a written score with lead sheet chords. The chords made the piece sound so much richer and substantial. Again, to my ears. By using the lead sheet method, people can get to playing songs reasonably quickly. And build quite a repertoire in short order. And can achieve ENJOYMENT of playing the piano. Having accomplished that, they might want to up their game to left hand patterns. Seems to me tasking a student with left hand patterns too early is like starting swimming instruction with the butterfly. If a student has to take on that complicated stroke before he's even had the chance for success and enjoyment with the easier strokes, how likely is he to continue? I haven't seen a lot of your videos, so I'm not sure whether or not you're emphasizing left hand chords for beginners. So, perhaps all this is just to encourage those who were stopped in their desire to learn the piano by left hand patterns a.k.a. hand independence. To them I say that you can learn to play, and enjoy playing, the piano without the hand independence required to play left hand patterns. I did.
After a lifetime of letting my kids and now grandkids follow their music dreams, I finally, at over 70, have time to try to do this as well. It's scary and I obviously won't be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon (bwahaha!). But your videos are SO encouraging and delightful to watch that I feel like I have permission to noodle and have fun, and not just slog through. Thank you! You are amazing!
Just found this..thank you sooo much.pretty lady..now l feel l can progress..lm 76! Started my chequered piano journey as a child.. restarted as an adult..got to grade 5..but still can't vamp..
I got a keyboard as a gift last Christmas. I'm 34 years old and just started to play. I started with absolutely zero knowledge of anything music related. Exercises like these hurt my brain lol but I actually feel like I've improved a decent amount over the last 8 months by watching a lot of videos on this channel when I feel like I'm getting lost. The channel has been a big help keeping me pointed in the right direction and I've learned a bunch, so thank you!
Never played piano before. Just bought an FP-10 this Christmas and I can't stop playing. Learnt to play Toccata in D minor and fur elise, both half way through on TH-cam. At start my hands swelled a lot and had a lot of pain playing some of the cords. I just watched some of your video's and love them. Probably wouldn't have been so painful if I had found your daily routine warm up and hand independance practices in the beginning. Thank you! Big fan already!
i started practicing from when i was 14 and learnt keyboard programmed songs on piano but they were one hand only!!!!!!! didnt realize that piano is supposed to be played with two hands !!!!!!!!!!!! realized it on my 15th birthday *thought who needs two hands when i am so fast with one hand* then tried to play songs a few months later but failed and tried to learn two hands by copying directly from notes, practiced a lot did not get hand independence . then i turned to internet for my problem and this video has helped me gain self confidence not hand independence cause after following this video i realized actually my cousin who helps me realized it first i already have it i was just fooling myself by getting overwhelmed by the term hand independence and due to fear i am unable to it SO i am extremely grateful to you and this video for providing me this self confidence !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am extremely whimsical so i can only speak for too long or too short sorry if you get bored by the end of this message !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Learnt drums from a teenager and used to teach them - picked up keyboards in my 30s but used sequencers for my songwriting - now I'm almost 60 and wished Id learnt properly as I did with drums - amazing how similar the exercises are - learning an instrument is simply teaching differing patterns either between limbs, fingers, breathing (woodwind,brass), etc which at first seem like sorcery until the brain learns the sequence of events which then allows speed to develop - you have really nice way of making things sound musical which will allow the student to feel like they are getting somewhere which will make exercises feel like less of a chore allowing for rapid development - subscribed and very well done!!!
I am a guitar player trying to learn piano to increase my overall music knowledge. Now I suck at both of them... I found your lessons to be best and most fun. Thank you.
well I've only just found you and I think you are such a good teacher, I've just joined a choir and I wanted to learn how to read music and I said to our musical director that I'm to old, but she said you are never to old you may have to practice more, more many thanks for your videos they are brilliant :-)))))
Just bought a piano (Yamaha P45) to pick up a new skill during the lock down in South Africa! Love this channel and super excited to develop a new skill!
We’re off to Holland to visit my wife’s mum tomorrow. My birthday/ Christmas pressie is a ‘fold up ‘ keyboard 🎹 being delivered to mums house,hopefully before Christmas. This is the perfect exercise to practice whilst the girls chat away in dutch to each other,!!
I’m a complete beginner at age 62! I love your energy and you are soooooo clever. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, there can be no greater gift. 🙏
Ugh, hand cramps! I appreciate your transparency and leaving the glitches in the video as it is encouraging to see that even the pros work at these exercises.
Lisa you are the like the real- life Lisa Simpson .... I love your teaching method!!... you are so calm and cool about it...Thank you for all your videos.
For those who are finding this tough, trust me it gets better with practice. I practiced a few exercises from Lisa's another video on hand-independence and, although it did feel almost insurmountable at first, I got wayyy better at Rhythm later- something I lacked so horribly.
I love your videos. I've been learning to play the keyboard since July last year because my 4 year old son is interested in playing the keyboard. We mess around with the keys a lot like this.
Thank u for posting this video! I was playing piano since I was four, but then my piano teacher left and I didn't make so much effort to keep going. I'm 8 years later I'm trying to get back on and my fingers are like NOPE so this helped a lot
Your ALBERTI BASS (left hand D A F# A) s a really good and useful exercise. It's mind-blowing to see Michael Angelo Batio play this on one guitar neck simultaneously with a separate lead line on the other neck of his double necked guitar, but he says that he got the idea from his early piano lessons.
I really like the way you make practicing fun and interesting and explain how it all works together as a whole. It's also cool how you keep lessons challenging and give just enough to practice until the next lesson. And my favorite is how you explain what emotions and barrier that will come up while practicing and how to work through them. Once I get my hand independence better, I decided I going to become a member of Pianote! Thanks for bringing me this far.
Hi Marc, I have joined pianote and if I may make a suggestion please do a lifetime membership as I found I am not making as fast a progression as it thought I may have and was planning on doing another 12 month contract BUT it is better in the long run to just do lifetime at the start. I am not affiliated with pianote at all, I am just like you and Lisa is enjoying crucifying my brain along with yours too lol. You are not alone trust me. P.S. Good luck and enjoy the emotions as you improve, which you will do.
I am using a 61 keys cheappy keyboard but I love playing ang in fact I can now sing with chords and i also love how you teach with so chearful and happy and after a month watching you I can now read 4 notes in key of c😲
Great video. I tried doing the second excersise with triplets in the right hand as well, which was quite challenging at first. But it went better than anticipated once I had that triplet down where the movement changes directions (i.e. the ring finger, pinky, ring finger triplet). My piano teacher from 40 years ago would probably not approve of the wrist rolling motion, though, as he was very old school. You were supposed to move the keys by the weight of your fingers alone. Thank you for your content.
Derek in England thank you just learning unfortunately during lockdown my piano teacher died so this is the best lessons I have found thanks for your easygoing nature
It's rare that I write comment to anything but now I must thank you for your tutorial. With your help I have improved my skills faster I could ever imagined. These are very practical exercises for beginner like me and you have absolutely professional teaching skills. There's enough challenge to improve patience also but exercises are not too challenging. You know how to motivate and how to use your lovely personality as a tool in process. Thank you so much!
I'm 64 and only started to play piano a year ago, I think it's going to take me some time to get this, but I am making progress, this video as helped me, I can now paint a wall twice as fast with a brush in each hand.
This exercise is like a Doctor's prescription to make our brain senses active and slowly reaching the pace especially who are suffering from anxiety. 😂 Thank you, Lisa.
Watching you play this is so claming... but then playing this myself makes my brains want to explode! Thank you very much for causing a collective brainplosion to help us move forward.
Lisa's the best teacher I've found on web. Her positive attitude and upbeat approach is great... and the lessons are just enough to be challenging..but still doable. Thanks for helping... and the encouragement 👍👍
I always wanted to know how piano players did this, and now a light bulb flashed in my head. You are an incredible teacher! I am so happy that I ran into your channel.
It’s so refreshing to see someone give musicians solid advice without all the elitism. I’m about to graduate with a music degree and this is the content and attitude I wish I found at my school.
This is so helpful! I am so happy to have found you. I am 40 and haven't played piano since I was a kid. I'll keep watching this lesson on a regular basis until I can play both parts of your Halelujia lesson at the same time!
You’re a wonderful teacher. It wasn’t too difficult until we switched hands in excerise 3 and I couldn’t help but laugh when I would look at a note and my hand wouldn’t play it haha
Just discovered your channel, Lisa - after 50+ years of collecting record albums, I figured it was about time I learned to play the piano. Your exercises have been very beneficial and inspirational - thanks so much!
My thoughts are, first I believe you’re a Canadian and second it’s like being a drummer playing different rhythms with your hands and feet. I’m almost 60, I have a ton of lyrics I have written and I was given a piano for Father’s Day to help me write my music. I am one of those people who disappears when I’m focused on music. I have never learned to play piano but have played guitar for a long time. I had a stroke in May so this is a challenge. Thanks Lisa you’re awesome!!!!
Thanks Lisa, you’re awesome!!!!!!im almost 60 and have written tons of song lyrics. My family gave me a new electric piano for Father’s Day so I could put my lyrics to music. I had a stroke in May just to make this more of a challenge!
I love the challenge of these exercises! The one causing me the most challenge right now is in one of your other videos - legato on the LH and staccato on the RH. My brain gets all confused! I play the flute and have fallen in love with the fun and challenge of the piano. Thank you!
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I feel like the last exercise created a brand new connection in my brain
i can relate to you xd
As a neuroenginnering student, probalby it did! Our brain is capable of creating newer connections, either physical or chemicals. This phenomena is called 'Brain plasticity', on the short-time scale it regards a increase of neurotransmitters released and caught by the neuroreceptors: this is way after a couple of minutes trying something new it seems ever so slightly easier. But this increase of neurotransmitters released goes down after a couple of hours since stop practicing. Instead, when something is trained on a long-time scale (months), the quantity of neurotransmitter released stays the same, meanwhile the amount of neuroreceptors on the post synaptic cells increase!
@@TooMuchEditsThanks for the useful information man, now I know how important consistent practices are
My Brain: this looks easy
My piano: sounds like dying parrot
lol
so true xD
LOL!
You sound better than me😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Try stand up comedy
"This is surprisingly difficult to do while talking."
Couldn't agree more.
"This is suprisingly difficult" Period xD
I'm 13 and I've been playing for 2 months now and I just practice and practice everyday and I didn't notice that I improved a lot. This channel really helped me😁👍💖
Reminds me of when I was 13.
You know what I do? When I get to a certain page in some book I just stop and go back to the beginning and do a quick but careful review to see if there's any difference, and I can always play the stuff a lot more easily! I found that in life I need to do something about three times - in anything, school, whatever - to really get it. But three separate times, like with time in between. I'd say keep track of whatever you are doing and periodically go back to whatever you were doing a month ago and see if it's any easier, it probably is!! Good luck!!
@@watermelonely3970 u go guys! i had piano lessons at around that age too and quit around less than a year, im now 19 and relearning everything on my own hahaha. don't give up and keep on playing!
I’m 11 and I use to play when I was little but I stopped so I’m trying hard to find my passion again
@@m4e7 Make sure you squeeze in a little bit of something you really like to play each time you practice!
I can't tell you how badly I have needed this. I am a beginner and my instructor keeps telling me that hand independence will come. Now I finally have something to work with. Thank you
Did those exercises help you somehow?
I just started 4 days ago and I already noticed that I need this. It's not something natural for your brain. My left hand keep wanting to follow my right hand and it's soooo frustrating. I'm going crazy
@@avpbriglia ikr it's annoying and then you look at people covering a song and play flawlessly
@@rashmipai9523 this is so relatable
MY HANDS KEEP DOING THE SAME MOVEMENT
It's not just 2 hand independence, it's actually 10 finger independence!
And reading the sheet... That's 11
@@Zinnie988 TRUE
Amputated person: 🧐
Really challenging
and pedaling
Only started to play again this week after giving up 40 years ago. My left hand just slapped me in the face to remind me why I gave up. Now at 62 I hope to have more patience.
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good luck!
You got this man!💪
Your left hand is still 22 years old.
I hit a plateau 15 years ago because of hand independence issues. I started all over in my training and figured out my teacher advanced me too fast and had not developed independence. Practice slower, sightread slower. Really focus on sightreading that has helped me a lot. And practice, practice, practice.
my hand independence is zero and it is driving me insane, but i have just watched this and after playing for an hour i seem to have mastered the first and second part of this tutorial. I am so pleased because i thought i would never get it in a million years. I know this is so simple to those who are more advanced but to me this is a huge achievement believe me and i am bouncing off the walls right now with excitement. Thank you for making this tutorial so straight forward for me and i am going to practise this hand exervcise over and over until it is fixed into my brain and i don't have to concentrate so much on what i am doing with both of my hands.
I am an 80 year old started to learn piano at 74. You have made learning so wonderfully interesting. I love trying new skills that you introduced and felt the benefit every instance. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. xx
Thank you for posting. I’m 53 and JUST started!
@@cheslrahaha range of ages here I’m 16 , good luck ❤❤
Yeah im in the middle im 68 years old and learning not easy
Hello Lisa, I’m 71 year old man, all my life I dream of learning playing piano, unfortunately never had a time, first family then kids. Finally I retired and my wife bought piano for me and I started learning piano 6 months ago but the biggest problem was hand coordination.
I’ve look in many TH-cam lessons but still have a great straggle with two hands coordination
Scrolling through website trying to find a lesson on hand coordination and finally stumble
In to your website and I tell you beside being a beautiful young women you’re the best music teacher
that I found, within a week my hand start to listens to me and I’m doing better as days going along.
Thank you very, very much and God bless you.
Lisa is such a clear and helpful and knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher, a helpful instructress!!!!!!💗!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU
I agree
@@kunalfuria9768 You, Kunal..... understand the Spirit of Music!!!!!
1) I really appreciate you leaving in the mistakes. I'm a very self conscious person so seeing others make mistakes when they've been playing for years really helps me to not feel so bad making beginner mistakes.
2) I love that your exercises are musical and not just a series of empty notes playing one after the other. It makes me feel like I'm actually playing something and not just pressing keys.
Thanks for these videos they really do help.
I agree!😊
Not even going to lie, I’m 30 years old and this is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. This was very difficult for me and I was starting to get really frustrated and doubting my ability to learn piano, but I eventually got it 😁
How?? This is something that I am struggling with
@@toyalee6841 Slow it all the way down. Go slow. VERY slow. Trust me, it will work.
Any recommendations of vids. I usually do piano tutorial but sometimes the songs are too fast for me.
@@toyalee6841 Have you tried the exercises in this video right here that we're on? I'd recommend starting with exercise one and do it very slowly. Like extremely slow. Put like 4 or even 5 seconds between each beat. It might seem silly and very slow, but you need to train your hands. Gradually pick up the speed and you will be surprised. In no time you will be doing them very fast.
@@Nick-kb2jc Thank you. I will do that
I love how optimistic Lisa is! Just when I watch an exercise and think "I'll never get this" she seems to read my mind every time, pause, and say "I promise you'll get this!" 😂 this is where I get my self-confidence from! Thanks a ton ❤
Great tips Pianote! I think at any stage of playing we can do with better independence of our hands (I find my right more developed than left, like most right-handed people). Another good exercise (maybe suitable as the next slightly more advanced), is for INDEPENDENCE IN ARTICULATION - play a scale up and down with both hands, but ONE HAND LEGATO, ONE HAND STACCATO, then as you go up again, switch (without stopping) so the legato hand plays staccato now, and the staccato now plays legato.
That is a supe smart exercise to practice!
I think Pianote has given this tip in one of their videos about hand exercises but I can't remember which one.
And you are right, it is a really good exercise ! Helps practice another type of hand independence.
As a beginner, who still struggles with hand independence, I wouldn't say it's more advanced but a different type of exercise (still difficult though ^^).
this woman is an ANGEL FROM HEAVEN
Lisa: 1:19 "Let's pick a note. I'm gonna pick G."
Me: whoa, whoa, whoa... I thought we said beginners!
exactly.... She G noted us
@@itstonnix7348 I don’t understand... what’s so special about the G note? Sorry if I missed a joke
@@milesgilbertpiano just sarcasm lol
😂😂😭 damn I thought that too!
@@milesgilbertpiano it's just that your typical "beginner note" is C. There nothing particularly scary about G, I was just exaggerating a bit for laughs.
65 year old beginner here - just what I need! Still learning to do the C major scale with both hands after starting about 3 weeks ago. I can do each hand independently without mistakes, and NEARLY without mistakes using both hands. It does help to hear that even you have your momentary struggles playing certain things with both hands.
MANY THANKS FOR YOUR LEARNER FRIENDLY VIDEOS. 👍👍👍
I’ve only been playing the piano for 3 months and I’m 48 years old. My polish grandfather used to play the piano and accordion, I would sit and watch him in amazement 😊 I have been struggling a little with hand independence and so I tried these exercises. You are by far my favourite piano teacher on TH-cam ❤️❤️❤️ these exercises are really helpful and I love the fact you explain everything so clearly and slowly for us beginners. Thank you so much for all your hard work uploading these videos to help us play you are an absolute Angel 👼 god bless you.❤️❤️
Whoa did I just play that?! lol It really helps if you start super slow and get every note right first try, THEN start to speed up. Great Video! I subscribed! :)
Hey ma'am I'm a 14 year old girl and I've had a piano since I was 11 but I never really understood how to play it and recently in quarantine i've learnt a lot from you and I'm so grateful to you ❤️😊also ma'am I've a piano with 23keys.. Is it ok if i practice on that because it's just the start the model of my piano is CASIO SA-47 can you please tell me if it's ok to practice piano lessons on this piano it would be really helpful 😊
Of course! Practice anyway and everyway you can! 27 keys is better than none, and the right piano or keyboard will come to you if you are patient!
@@PianoteOfficial thank you so much 😊also this is the first time any channel pinned my comment 😄
@@p.v.joseph1594Really, I'm a brazilian 12 year old girl and I've had a keybord since I was a 6 but I don't have interest to play it, and recently in quarantine i learn I lot about keyboard with this channel. In this year I despert the interest to learn English and this channel help me a lot with that too.
@@laralucymendes3343 awesome!!! really happy that you love this channel cuz yeah i had no clue about keyboard before I started watching this channel😄
This whole thread is so sweet. If I had the means I would send you a piano. 💓
lady you literally saved my life. please keep uploading videos.
I've been playing for 6 months, 3 to 4 hrs a day and struggling with hand independence. I actually played Linus and lucy once correctly from your exercise and now it all comes to light. You are the best. Thank you, Lisa
When Lisa plays the piano everything seems to be esay but when you try to do the same, it's harder. Helpfull lesson as always. Thank you Pianote.
Just started a week ago after decades of never touching a piano at all.
Quickly I found my hands weren't independent and then ran into your video.
First day, found your first and last exercises were really tough!
But, surprisingly the second was almost automatic.
This is just what I need... something to train my brain's two halves independently and approximating some kind of melody at the same time.
Thx!
My hands doesn't listen after i do all this exercises. Because they are D.E.A.F
long time bassist here - solid music theory and *decent* ears, finally moving to piano. (and more) so happy to have sumbled upon this channel!
Me, too! I also took drum lessons for a year for fun and that helped me with piano a lot realizing that it's not strange to have different things going on at the same time.
@@scottmccampbell72 i Tried the Drums once and i was awful at it but i am gonna Stick with Piano
I am watching some of your videos and enjoying them. I am 85 years young and have always loved piano music. 2 years ago I decided I was going to learn how to play. Im doing on-line which there are seemingly many good on-line piano teachers. I am enjoying every minute in spite of being very slow at learning. I especially like your teaching methods Lisa. Mastering hand coordination has definitely been a huge challenge. I have never expected to master the challenge at my age but have definitely enjoyed the journey so far. Thank you for being here for me.❤️
This is why I love piano. The challenges are endless. This exercise forwards and backwards in every key will challenge best. And this is just a few exercises. I will be playing piano for the rest of my life!
Hi, I'm guitar player and after years of playing i found these practices on guitar. But now i was struggling with my bew piano . And now when i finnaly fing you video i found what i was REALLY wanted to find. "Hand practice" . When u said we can make these practice methods i got you. Cause i really know amazing fingering practic on guitar and could not do it on piano, cause i didn't now the basic methods. Thanks to you now i can improve my skills. Tnx👍🤝
I don't usually comment but today I really wanna thank you, ma'am. I was struggling with hand independence since last 3 yrs and now I am able to believe in myself and practice it all because of you. I'm genuinely grateful to you ma'am. Thanking you! Love from India♥️
I've tried simply piano, various TH-cam channels and apps but hands down your lessons are the best, by a mile! Thank you so so much
Must be 20 years since I last touched a piano upon which I could never play properly just tinker. I now have a new Roland Go and have found the best teacher... Lisa.... you say you're never too old.... at 73 I'm going to try and make that statement come true!! Your enthusiasm can only drive me on. Amazing progress in only my first week. Enjoying the exercises very much. Thank you.
I am 40 years old, trying to learn piano on a keybord. Thanks so kind of you. It’s so beautifully musical. Or should I say musically beautiful. Now I’ve become confident because of you
Yours are the clearest tutorials on TH-cam. I do get a lot of action from some other channels, and I can play their stuff at really fast rates - which make me feel very virtuoso. But, when it's you...I really feel like I'm learning something that's very important and that I get new abilities "mechanized" (I'm not sure if it's the right term in English, but it also applies to you) and I make so much progress, it's like a TH-cam pianist's Pandora's Box. I think that you're able to share your knowledge very, very well. Thank you so much.
I'm loving these exercises. After just one day of practice with these, I'm playing something that sounds genuinely musical. I've only been playing piano for a few weeks, but this is the first time I've felt like I'm making music. I'm thrilled. Thanks so much.
This is so great! I have only been properly learning via your channel (and a couple of others) a couple of months and practising exercise 2 when it suddenly came together and my fingers just behaved and listened to my brain, it was magical! You made the magic happen, I can't thank you enough. I'm over 60 now....
I’m struggling with this and then this video dropped. Thank you so much for this tutorial!
Timing is everything! 🎵
right hand: hello left hand? is anyone home?
left hand: please leave a message after the beep...
You are the piano teacher which I love the most. Thank you for your teaching.
Your lesson is thrilling.... I've been playing traditional piano for a decade now. But this is the lesson that wake me up
Love your perky enthusiasm, Lisa!
That said, seems to me that hand independence is what makes people quit piano. It's work and takes the joy out of learning piano.
That's why I think "Scott the Piano Guy" (and others?) have it right by teaching piano with the lead sheet method. With that method you are playing full chords with your left hand and it is so much easier hitting the chord on the first note of the bar (usually) than having to finger a pattern.
I have been playing for over ten years and have not missed not being able to pattern with my left hand. I play songs like "Misty, " "Vincent," "And I Love Her," "You Don't Know Me" "Moon River." To my ears, I like the sound of how these songs sound with full chords.
Recently, I decided I wanted to learn how to play "The Swan." I found a version that had a left hand pattern. Gave it a shot.
But the more I listened to the pattern in the version I found, the more "sing-songy" it sounded to me.
I then found a written score with lead sheet chords. The chords made the piece sound so much richer and substantial.
Again, to my ears.
By using the lead sheet method, people can get to playing songs reasonably quickly. And build quite a repertoire in short order. And can achieve ENJOYMENT of playing the piano.
Having accomplished that, they might want to up their game to left hand patterns.
Seems to me tasking a student with left hand patterns too early is like starting swimming instruction with the butterfly. If a student has to take on that complicated stroke before he's even had the chance for success and enjoyment with the easier strokes, how likely is he to continue?
I haven't seen a lot of your videos, so I'm not sure whether or not you're emphasizing left hand chords for beginners.
So, perhaps all this is just to encourage those who were stopped in their desire to learn the piano by left hand patterns a.k.a. hand independence.
To them I say that you can learn to play, and enjoy playing, the piano without the hand independence required to play left hand patterns.
I did.
These hand independence excersise will bear more fruitful music for me in future thanx m just a beginner and I am loving it
After a lifetime of letting my kids and now grandkids follow their music dreams, I finally, at over 70, have time to try to do this as well. It's scary and I obviously won't be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon (bwahaha!). But your videos are SO encouraging and delightful to watch that I feel like I have permission to noodle and have fun, and not just slog through. Thank you! You are amazing!
Just found this..thank you sooo much.pretty lady..now l feel l can progress..lm 76! Started my chequered piano journey as a child.. restarted as an adult..got to grade 5..but still can't vamp..
Your energy and positivity is so great and inviting me to learn more. Very fun teacher. Thanks for your effort in the video 😊
I got a keyboard as a gift last Christmas. I'm 34 years old and just started to play. I started with absolutely zero knowledge of anything music related. Exercises like these hurt my brain lol but I actually feel like I've improved a decent amount over the last 8 months by watching a lot of videos on this channel when I feel like I'm getting lost. The channel has been a big help keeping me pointed in the right direction and I've learned a bunch, so thank you!
Never played piano before. Just bought an FP-10 this Christmas and I can't stop playing. Learnt to play Toccata in D minor and fur elise, both half way through on TH-cam. At start my hands swelled a lot and had a lot of pain playing some of the cords. I just watched some of your video's and love them. Probably wouldn't have been so painful if I had found your daily routine warm up and hand independance practices in the beginning. Thank you! Big fan already!
i started practicing from when i was 14 and learnt keyboard programmed songs on piano but they were one hand only!!!!!!! didnt realize that piano is supposed to be played with two hands !!!!!!!!!!!! realized it on my 15th birthday *thought who needs two hands when i am so fast with one hand* then tried to play songs a few months later but failed and tried to learn two hands by copying directly from notes, practiced a lot did not get hand independence . then i turned to internet for my problem and this video has helped me gain self confidence not hand independence cause after following this video i realized actually my cousin who helps me realized it first i already have it i was just fooling myself by getting overwhelmed by the term hand independence and due to fear i am unable to it SO i am extremely grateful to you and this video for providing me this self confidence
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am extremely whimsical so i can only speak for too long or too short sorry if you get bored by the end of this message !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Learnt drums from a teenager and used to teach them - picked up keyboards in my 30s but used sequencers for my songwriting - now I'm almost 60 and wished Id learnt properly as I did with drums - amazing how similar the exercises are - learning an instrument is simply teaching differing patterns either between limbs, fingers, breathing (woodwind,brass), etc which at first seem like sorcery until the brain learns the sequence of events which then allows speed to develop - you have really nice way of making things sound musical which will allow the student to feel like they are getting somewhere which will make exercises feel like less of a chore allowing for rapid development - subscribed and very well done!!!
I am a guitar player trying to learn piano to increase my overall music knowledge. Now I suck at both of them... I found your lessons to be best and most fun.
Thank you.
The holy grail of hand independence (and Piano Playing) is right there at 1:12. Rhythm Skills. Thank you for the great tutorial.
well I've only just found you and I think you are such a good teacher, I've just joined a choir and I wanted to learn how to read music and I said to our musical director that I'm to old, but she said you are never to old you may have to practice more, more many thanks for your videos they are brilliant :-)))))
Just bought a piano (Yamaha P45) to pick up a new skill during the lock down in South Africa! Love this channel and super excited to develop a new skill!
Your lessons are some of the BEST of TH-cam, thanks!
Almost 50yrs old, and I'm a beginner 😀 but it's been a life long dream of mine to play. Was gifted a piano, and here I am, so happy 🥰
I have a mono-tasking brain, made before multi-tasking was a thing. I know these exercises are going to help, thanks.
That’s really good Lisa. I am a 76 year old beginner and these exercises hurt my brain but achievable with application and practice.
Like the way you make what's seems impossible possible.
Its your passion ... awesome approach
I love you so much, you are the best, your intelligent comments and your joyfulness make me so happy, thanks
We’re off to Holland to visit my wife’s mum tomorrow. My birthday/ Christmas pressie is a ‘fold up ‘ keyboard 🎹 being delivered to mums house,hopefully before Christmas. This is the perfect exercise to practice whilst the girls chat away in dutch to each other,!!
I’m a complete beginner at age 62! I love your energy and you are soooooo clever. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, there can be no greater gift. 🙏
Hello madam 👋...IAM a left hander so IAM learning ur exercise s very easily..IAM very happy about u ..and I hope u read this comment...,,
Ugh, hand cramps! I appreciate your transparency and leaving the glitches in the video as it is encouraging to see that even the pros work at these exercises.
Lisa you are the like the real- life Lisa Simpson .... I love your teaching method!!... you are so calm and cool about it...Thank you for all your videos.
For those who are finding this tough, trust me it gets better with practice. I practiced a few exercises from Lisa's another video on hand-independence and, although it did feel almost insurmountable at first, I got wayyy better at Rhythm later- something I lacked so horribly.
I love your videos. I've been learning to play the keyboard since July last year because my 4 year old son is interested in playing the keyboard.
We mess around with the keys a lot like this.
You can't POSSIBLY be this nice in all your videos... except you can
Thank you so much. You are the best ,funny, and helpful piano teacher !!! Regards from Barcelona, Spain.
Thank u for posting this video! I was playing piano since I was four, but then my piano teacher left and I didn't make so much effort to keep going. I'm 8 years later I'm trying to get back on and my fingers are like NOPE so this helped a lot
Your ALBERTI BASS (left hand D A F# A) s a really good and useful exercise. It's mind-blowing to see Michael Angelo Batio play this on one guitar neck simultaneously with a separate lead line on the other neck of his double necked guitar, but he says that he got the idea from his early piano lessons.
I really like the way you make practicing fun and interesting and explain how it all works together as a whole.
It's also cool how you keep lessons challenging and give just enough to practice until the next lesson. And
my favorite is how you explain what emotions and barrier that will come up while practicing and how to work
through them. Once I get my hand independence better, I decided I going to become a member of Pianote!
Thanks for bringing me this far.
Very very glad to have you here :) We have a lot of new stuff on the way!
Hi Marc, I have joined pianote and if I may make a suggestion please do a lifetime membership as I found I am not making as fast a progression as it thought I may have and was planning on doing another 12 month contract BUT it is better in the long run to just do lifetime at the start. I am not affiliated with pianote at all, I am just like you and Lisa is enjoying crucifying my brain along with yours too lol. You are not alone trust me. P.S. Good luck and enjoy the emotions as you improve, which you will do.
Thanks Pianote for teaching me play left hand of piano.
Without it I would be stuck with a useless left hand.😊👍.
Plus, I made your practices into songs and edited it as my own.
got my first piano today. cant wait to blow my mind TRYING to play it lol. fingers crossed i dont get my fingers crossed ha ha .
You are the best👌🏾. Much love from South Africa 🇿🇦
I am using a 61 keys cheappy keyboard but I love playing ang in fact I can now sing with chords and i also love how you teach with so chearful and happy and after a month watching you I can now read 4 notes in key of c😲
Most important thing about this video is i dont skip ads, thats my way of help. You creating videos for us. Thank you
Great video.
I tried doing the second excersise with triplets in the right hand as well, which was quite challenging at first. But it went better than anticipated once I had that triplet down where the movement changes directions (i.e. the ring finger, pinky, ring finger triplet).
My piano teacher from 40 years ago would probably not approve of the wrist rolling motion, though, as he was very old school. You were supposed to move the keys by the weight of your fingers alone.
Thank you for your content.
These sound so pretty! It makes me excited to do hand exercises, can't wait to try it!
Derek in England thank you just learning unfortunately during lockdown my piano teacher died so this is the best lessons I have found thanks for your easygoing nature
Absolutely worth a million to me. THANKS.
These are amazing exercises. I practiced this on my desk along with you (cos, I don't have a piano yet) and it sounded amazing 🙃
It's rare that I write comment to anything but now I must thank you for your tutorial. With your help I have improved my skills faster I could ever imagined. These are very practical exercises for beginner like me and you have absolutely professional teaching skills. There's enough challenge to improve patience also but exercises are not too challenging. You know how to motivate and how to use your lovely personality as a tool in process. Thank you so much!
I'm 64 and only started to play piano a year ago, I think it's going to take me some time to get this, but I am making progress, this video as helped me, I can now paint a wall twice as fast with a brush in each hand.
This exercise is like a Doctor's prescription to make our brain senses active and slowly reaching the pace especially who are suffering from anxiety. 😂 Thank you, Lisa.
The great thing is how much these exercises help and also how musical and amazing the sound! Thank you so much Lisa!
You are so very welcome!
You really make these exercises sound beautiful and it makes me want to learn more 🙂 Thank you!
Watching you play this is so claming... but then playing this myself makes my brains want to explode!
Thank you very much for causing a collective brainplosion to help us move forward.
Lisa's the best teacher I've found on web. Her positive attitude and upbeat approach is great... and the lessons are just enough to be challenging..but still doable. Thanks for helping... and the encouragement 👍👍
I always wanted to know how piano players did this, and now a light bulb flashed in my head. You are an incredible teacher! I am so happy that I ran into your channel.
It’s so refreshing to see someone give musicians solid advice without all the elitism. I’m about to graduate with a music degree and this is the content and attitude I wish I found at my school.
This is so helpful! I am so happy to have found you. I am 40 and haven't played piano since I was a kid. I'll keep watching this lesson on a regular basis until I can play both parts of your Halelujia lesson at the same time!
You’re a wonderful teacher. It wasn’t too difficult until we switched hands in excerise 3 and I couldn’t help but laugh when I would look at a note and my hand wouldn’t play it haha
When something clicks. It's a feeling that you cannot compare. Love the videos and the way to run through things. Thanks for keeping it musical
Just discovered your channel, Lisa - after 50+ years of collecting record albums, I figured it was about time I learned to play the piano. Your exercises have been very beneficial and inspirational - thanks so much!
My thoughts are, first I believe you’re a Canadian and second it’s like being a drummer playing different rhythms with your hands and feet. I’m almost 60, I have a ton of lyrics I have written and I was given a piano for Father’s Day to help me write my music. I am one of those people who disappears when I’m focused on music. I have never learned to play piano but have played guitar for a long time. I had a stroke in May so this is a challenge. Thanks Lisa you’re awesome!!!!
Thanks Lisa, you’re awesome!!!!!!im almost 60 and have written tons of song lyrics. My family gave me a new electric piano for Father’s Day so I could put my lyrics to music. I had a stroke in May just to make this more of a challenge!
Educator, guide , coach, teacher, skills development ... on and on. Thank you!
I am hopeful that this Lesson will finally help me with Hand Independence.
I am confident it will!! 🙌
I love the challenge of these exercises! The one causing me the most challenge right now is in one of your other videos - legato on the LH and staccato on the RH. My brain gets all confused! I play the flute and have fallen in love with the fun and challenge of the piano. Thank you!