5 Techniques Beginners Should Work on | Piano Lesson
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- There are a hundred of ways on how you can improve your piano playing. In this video, I list 5 techniques that a beginner or even an intermediate piano player should take note and constantly improve. These techniques I have personally found to be quite useful to help me master the art of playing beautifully. Let me know in the comments below which of these you have adopted or which technique do you need to improve?
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0:00 Intro
00:32 Technique 5
02:27 Technique 4
03:23 Technique 3
04:28 Technique 2
07:42 Technique 1
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Which of these techniques do you think you need to work on more?
0:00 Intro
00:32 Technique 5
02:27 Technique 4
03:23 Technique 3
04:28 Technique 2
07:42 Technique 1
Definitely the chords! Learned to play the piano as a kid, classical stuff mostly, which means: give me the sheet music and some time to practice, and I'll get it done, but then I have friends who listen to a song and go "oh, so that sounds like these and these chords" and then procede to play the damn thing and I'm just staring at them thinking "what sorcery is this??"
In the chords section, I think inversions is a must to practice since they come up very ofter in songs and sometimes it's hard to know what chord you are playing if you don't practice inversions
Thank you Mr. Lee.
I definitely need to work on fingering which is also extremely important for organists which I am.
I don't use synthesia. I don't like it because it doesn't show you the fingering and the lighting is a bit much. I'll watch other pianists when needed since I can't look at sheet music.
Since I learn a bit differently, I find when my fingering is off, the flow is off. The transition to where my fingers need to be next doesn't feel natural. It doesn't come with ease. That's the best way I can explain it.
You've given me some new things to work on over the holidays. Thanks. 😁
Learning how to use a sustain peddle will be one of them. The sustain peddle I'm getting has the same style as an acoustic piano.
I use my forth finger on the black key for octaves.
I wish I could find piano players who break classical pieces down into sections so that I can learn new pieces visually.
I'm learning a new piece by ear. Les tendres plaintes- Rameau
Definitely fingering, I (more or less) deal with the other points, but find a way to get the right fingering on non-classical sheets is a recurrent struggle for me. I'm a consistent pinkie user for black and whites key in octaves.
For me knowing chords by heart was a breakthrough moment. Suddenly everything started to make sense. Arpeggios based on chords became easy, reading sheet music became much easier (instead of deciphering each note you just see the chord there), and most of all, improvisation became much more fun. That was the reason I started my own channel to help people who had the same problems at the beginning. Fell free to check it out :)
You gave me hope. Thank you 🙏
I am afraid of learning chords by themselves not reagarding keys.
But maybe im wrong, now i know keys i m gonna practice chords again
@@recorr well, for me the best connection between chords and scales is placed in the circle of fifths. I know people are sometimes afraid of it (as was I once) but in fact it’s quite easy when you understand the basics. Some time ago I created few short videos about the circle of fifths, maybe it can help you somehow? :)
th-cam.com/video/OCyFLIR0cgg/w-d-xo.html
How did you master chords?
@@kingmalik09 In my case improvising over basic chord notes was the best option. You need to master all inversions of the chord, so wherever your hand is on the keyboard, you need to be able to see where are the chord notes. This is what I did:
1. Choose a chord you want to learn (e.g C major)
2. Pick some nice pattern for left hand (e.g. progression 1-6-4-5)
3. Improvise with right hand using only those base notes of a chord (C E G for Cmajor).
Some time ago I did a video about "Learning chords through improvisation" for C Major and C Minor but you can use the idea for all other chords.
Cmaj: th-cam.com/video/aEo-ASQargU/w-d-xo.html
Cmin: th-cam.com/video/ziFtKewTQ6U/w-d-xo.html
I hope it'll help :)
Your calm gentle way of giving us your best advice is much appreciated.
I can't help but hear The Office's opening theme in the chords you played haha
😁
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Same
Yup! It’s even in the right key.
Absolutely 😃
65 year old in the middle of my first week with a piano. I laughed at my musical inability, but now I am excited at this new language. After watching your video yesterday and practicing a basic exercise that I started Sunday, I started to see the keyboard as notes for the first time.
7 months on in my piano adventure, and I'm reviewing this video to see how I'm doing. Oops, I've neglected the pedal. I've got to fix it into a position since the Yamaha keyboard tends to slide around. I've learned all my major and minor scales, but the fingering isn't automatic. I bought a Hanon Book with all the fingerings for scales and arpeggios that Im using it methodically. I'm using the Chopin scale more recently. Chopin thought the B Major scale was ergonomically easier for the student's hand and so started with that one. I'm using it now in warm-ups and it helps. I'm still using your excellent routine almost everyday at the beginning. Legato, staccato, double, triple and quadruple time. I've dabbled in polyrhythms but I've got other things to work on.
Your videos have been very helpful and I'd like to say merci beaucoup for your help.
@@lawrencetaylor4101 kickass Lawrence I'd definitely consider the Alfred premier piano books to play using sheet music and lessons if ya haven't alrdy started
Thank you Jazer for really simplifying the pedal timing. It's something I have been really working on a lot more since watching your earlier video on this topic. I usually incorporate at least a half hour a day of improv with scales in chord progressions in various keys which is really making a huge difference in learning overall.. thanks for your awesome videos.
Excellent tips. Been self learning for more than 10 months thru youtube, and seem to be hitting a wall right now. I'm sure this video would help a lot in smoothing things out, thanks Jazer!
Thanks Jazer. You’re clearly a fine pianist. I’ve found these tutorials really useful with some sound advice. Appreciate your engaging and enthusiastic approach.
Jazer,... You are a super teacher. Somehow, I seem to get the concepts into my head easier with you as a teacher. I'm still just a beginner though. You seem to be able to get the point across without excessive yapping, therefore keeping someone with a limited attention span like me focused. Thank You
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I think it's brilliant. Thanks to your videos, I'm finally unlocking my full musical potential and tackling things like this lesson that I had put off for years.
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Started learning yesterday and I know it isn’t a big deal to others. But as someone who didn’t know a thing about music sheets, I finally can read C D E and sometimes F! E and F confuses me though. I just get happy when I can read it right lol
Hope you made some improvements!
Thank you for having these tutorials, stopped playing at level 6 and now I am relearning everything
Great advice Jacer!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOÒO MUCH!!!!!
Thanks so much for the great advices. They are exactly what I have been looking for!
All of them. I have only been playing for less than 3 weeks. But your videos are extremely helpful. I find focusing on chords, all 12 of them, is very beneficial. Your tips have helped me a lot. You are my go-to youtube piano teacher.
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This video helped me a lot on my pieces and my scales sound more even toned
Thank you Jazer 👍👍👍
Great advice. I’m going to start using the pedal. I’ve never used it before. Thank you from Melbourne Australia
Thank you Jazer for your suggestions 😊👍🏻🎹🎼
You're great you helped out so much! Thanks!😄
Love your videos always !
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Thank you very much. Good advise
This is really helpful! I am a beginner and I wasn't understanding what to learn as an beginner. But after some research and this video (mostly this video) i now know what things to work on... Thankyou!🙏🙏
You are super great teacher, Jazer! I only found your channel today, I’ve never been to a music school, just play by ear, but your channel has changed my life! Now I am just really into it! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and skills!
Glad to have you onboard!
You’re right, fingering is tough for a new pianist. I learn most stuff by ear and struggle to figure out the most efficient fingering to use when going up or down the keyboard. There’s always more than one way, but you could be doing it in a way that creates bad habits. Oh, love the octave exercise! That helps the hands get used to the keyboard. Sometimes just not looking at your hands and trusting them to “feel” where the notes are is helpful in developing comfort on the piano. Awesome tips Jazer! 👌🏼👍🏼
I am the same way as far as learning fingerings with Jazer. I use Let's play Piano as my guide.
Great explanations!!
Bro, I learn more from you in less time than my piano teacher. Thanks a ton!
Thanks jazzer ! Playing each scale for 3 octaves is challenging for me especially getting the fingering for both hands to coordinate.
Thank you so much!
Playing Bohemian Rhapsody was my gate into octaves. It's really cool.
You are awesome jazer....... Ur teachings helped me,
Thank you for this Video! I begin playing Piano since the day I came across your beautiful Tutorial Clips
Hi Jazer, I always have problems with " FINGERING ". Just as you started in this efficiency is everything !!!
Excellent video ! Thank you!
Wonderful tips Jazer
Thanks for these tips, I struggle with octaves because I only have small hands. At a push I can reach 9 notes just about, 10 is a definite no chance. Not too bad with chords, I have come back to the piano after playing organ/arranger keyboards so I love chords, although most of the time I played them with the left hand. I have had to teach myself to read the bas clef, getting better now, thanks again.
Excellent tips! Thanks.
This is very true, I hope I told this to my younger self. For me, the scales, arpeggio and the broken chords needs to be trained for the rest of your life to be fluid as possible (I mean mastering all major, minor, etc).
a very useful video. Wow.i literally got my dubts cleared. Thankssss🎉🎉🎉
Concerning fingering, i would say take fingering seriously as in, always use the same one once you have decided on it. Most of the time i tell my students to ignore the fingerings written by the editors as they are mostly either unpianistic or simply not suited to their hand. Get used to scale and chord fingerings and try to apply them in your pieces as comfortable as possible. Always consider where you came from and where you are going next.
Your chord progression was reminiscent of the opening theme music of "The Office"! (the American version). Thank you Jazer for your suggestions. I jumped into the deep end when I began playing and I still sometimes amaze myself when I'm thinking of what I was doing back then, however there is no substitute and nothing to fall back on if one does not have a strong core which can be obtained solely by practicing the fundamentals until they have become second nature and have gelled in one's muscle memory. So I'm starting over and my goal is to do it properly from the beginning, even if it means playing the baby stuff, with my focus set on correct fingering and executing flawless scales. Thank you for your guidance and sound advice! No pun intended there! lol 🙂
That because it WAS the office opening.
@@KeysoftheLord oh. Hahaha hahahaha! 🙂
LMAO I WAS THINKING THAT TOO
OK everyone, my stupid!!! (haha!) I'm going to crawl away now and find somewhere to hide for the next million years...........
He is the best teacher you could have in my opinion!
Thank you so much. All your videos improved me a lot to play piano.
Beautiful session. Thank you 🙂
Very helpful tips, Thank you!
Great job!
YOU ARE A FANTASTIC TEACHER !!!!
I like the way you presented the chords. I know all the chords/keys but I haven't been practicing them the way you showed. But I will! Thanks!
This was so helpful thanks a lot.
Thank you for your videos. Your tips are helping me with getting back up to speed after a long break and are really useful in my attempt to teach my kid about keyboards playing.
If I may, another useful way to practice chords (Technique 2 section) would be to play a different inversion of the chord with each hand.
CHORDS .. most problematic; brand new at it after decades of sheet music playing; but what I've learned so far has opened up my world! Thanks for this list!
I am learning piano techniques from you thanks for sharing your knowledge and expertise. I am studying Liturgy and Church Music now in Silliman University at age 58, the oldest student.
Oh they are all are challenge for me. Pedal is my nemesis right now. Fingerings probably the least because I reclaimed right from the start that I need to be consistent and I have always make sure to pay attention to it. And by always I mean since I stayed learning 3 months ago.
And I also want to say that your demonstration of using the pedal just made this so much more clear and I just applied it to a song I have been learning all day and it finally makes sense now. Thank you
Thanks for this video Sire
You are SO helpful Jason. THANKYOU!
Happy to help! - Jazer
I love your videos and they are helping a lot. Cheers from Brazil!
Dang these are great exercises! Thank you!
Thank you Jazer
Excellent advice, as usual.
Great video. Thanks
We demand a full version of The Office theme now. You've teased us too many times.
That chord progression immediately made me think of The Office. Iconic chord prog!!
Thank you so much for this video...🎹 it's so helpful...👍💕
You're the best man!
Thanks a lot for this amaz info❤❤
I see know that as a child/young teen, I compartmentalized the different aspects of piano lessons. Sight reading/techniques/theory/learning pieces were to me all things I had to learn but didn't really see/understand/appreciate that they are all parts of the whole with a common goal. It's changing the way I practice now. I've gone back to my grade 3 and 4 RCM books and am now up to an hour and a half each day. Have to add more technique to the mix.
Chords are the hardest for me, but everything in your video x will be helpful to practice. You are a terrific teacher! Thanks so much!
I hate cords! They are so hard!
Wonderful Video, Great Tips 🤩
I was trying most of what you've mentioned, except the pedal stuff and the octave practices. Our keyboard doesn't have pedals it in so I can't really get the same effect as your demo. I too believe in getting the fingering correct because it helps transitions smoother and efficient. Thank you so much 😊
I would recommend buying a pedal it makes the sound 10x better trust me
Thank you
Thanks again for the useful video. Now I understand why my pedaling always sounds awful. I am making exactly the same mistake as you mentioned in the video about changing pedal at the same time as the tone/measure changes. Also, fingering is super important. I am too casual on this. Thanks. You are super helpful, Jazer.
Wonderful sir
My old age and my novice getting hard to see what the fingers or the keys you playing. Love to see starting very slowly or add anything to help seeing what the keys you playing.
Thank you for your efforts…i am flowing you from Egypt your english easy and clear i can understand you without struggling…really I appreciate your help thanks 🙏
Again, excellent advice Jazer especially wrt fingering. I totally get it. Playing trombone, I’m always looking for the most efficient / alternate positioning for optimum efficiency. When you achieve it, it helps technique and automatically increases speed with clarity of playing. I’m nowhere near that level with piano but I totally understand that if I pay attention to fingering efficiency now it will pay dividends later…..Cheers again
Sir, five points are very much important. Thanks for share ... very interesting.
Hey, thank you so much for your tips! For me Octaves are causing the most problems because my hands are really small so I can't do them without it being painful. Do you have any tips for small hands? I came back to the piano after not playing for more than a decade and was struggling a lot with octaves back then as well.
Also totally agree with you about scales and chords! My teacher put a lot of emphasis on that when I learned piano as a kid so I have a really strong theoretical basis to this day, and it makes reading the music sheet a lot easier now that I am not used to doing this.
Hi Jazer, thank you for the video. Really, really like the how you explain everything so clearly. Could you please make a video on how to apply pressure to produce better tones, and how to play with dynamic, please? Thank you so much in advance.
Your videos are amazing. Thank you so much 💖💖
Glad you like them!
Thanks Mr.Lee..
I can't avoid thinking about The Office theme when working with those chords! Nice video!!!
Hi Jazer-these tutorials are brilliant! I've been doing piano via Pianote and Melodics for quite some time now. Pianote is really great (they have a fabulous teacher), but I've mainly been doing Melodics this past year while I've not been well. I've got nearly 200 straight days of practice in Melodics going, and I've made lots of progress, but-hmmm. I keep feeling like I'm not doing things correctly. This video of yours (I've been watching quite a few) with the fingering advice is a clincher. Right now in Melodics I'm working on learning my first big two-handed lesson piece. It's been unbelievably hard for me. The advice given for fingering has been no help, so my right hand fingering for the piece is hopeless. :/
I'm telling you this because watching a lot of your videos is making me think I'm going about this whole project (learning piano) the wrong way. Hmmm. So I've been saving up a lot of your beginner videos to start putting together a new routine. Your work has really helped me see things. I very much appreciate it! ❤️🦑
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I love your videos I’d like a lesson on adding notes to a simple piece. On one you were playing a Disney piece and adding a base! Show us how to know which chords to use.
Thank you!
Wow what a great video
From experience fingering is absolutely #1. For the same reasons you give. Study any great pianist video and his fingering is highly efficient and without unnecessary movement.
Love from France 😂💙
I love octaves ❤️ because they challenge me to play with less tension.
Thank you for listing this five items to focus on!! So my follow up is, where would we find good video tutorials or instructions on each of those topics to begin practicing &’learning them?
Jazer , you are awesome! I find memorizing scales and chords in different keys very challenging. But with more practice I suppose i'll get there some day. What are your tips for this? Thanks for everything, you teach well and play awesome! Were you like 3 years old when you started playing???
I'll be getting a sustain pedal for my keyboard. That's what I need for one of the pieces I'm composing.
On octaves: I have smallish hands, but I can use my third finger for black octaves too. Alternating sometimes can give the fourth and fifth fingers a rest, not sure if it helps the music particularly though (I got the idea from professional fingering in an actual piece of Chopin). This did however pay dividends when the fourth finger on my right hand got stressed a bit. It got more rest! :))
I use 4th finger for octaves on black when it's next to an octave with 5th finger, like a scale or short leap. But for an occasional octave by itself, I use 5th finger on black octaves.
Hi Jazer can you please do a video on how to play the octaves and how to practise them? How we should position our hand and arms? Thank you
Great vid
I love that you wear Ugg boots while you play 😄
good advice
I generally like playing four-fingered chords so it depends on what key/chord I am in. I just let my hands and fingers fall on whatever feels comfortable if I am learning a song, I revert back to just one key
Very helpful thanks! My biggest problem right now is mastering finger independency especially the fourth finger on the left. (I'm right handed).
Nice topic