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I use a MIDI controller, I'm using the Oxygen 49. It was close to $120 or so, and it doesn't have weighted keys or the full set of keys, so it's definitely the first step in the commitment to piano playing. I find I can still play a majority of stuff on it.
It took me a month to learn the first 30 seconds of fantaisie impromptu fluently, but I feel like I could finish the entire song in a few more months. Though that might be too long and all I'm doing is slowing down my learning by focusing on a piece like that.
Rousseau does do articulation and dynamics though. It's an actual performance, as opposed to just feeding a MIDI file through a computer program, which often sounds bland and brash. You also get to see Rousseau's hands to see what he's actually doing with his fingers. Also, still waiting on HR2.
I've played guitar for years but only ever really used tabs. Synthesia is like the piano version of that. I know how to read treble clef but piano sheet music has been a struggle for me and I end up recording parts separately. I suppose I should try getting back into reading bass clef so I can actually play live
He's so right, though. I read music really well for a couple years and then I switched over to watching Synthesia or Rousseau because I couldn't find music for a couple songs. I was instantly hooked and now I'm out of practice at reading music 😭
0:27 -> 1.Playing what you are already good at over and over again without spending ample time on problem areas. 1:31 -> 2.Playing too fast 3:21 -> 3.Not writing in proper finger technique. 5:13 -> 4.Trying to play pieces way above your current level. 7:19 -> 5.Skipping music theory, reading music, and any other essential skill to playing piano. 10:42 -> 6.It is important to take a minute to analyse the piece in terms of key, chords, scales, etc.
Learning note: Don't skip trouble parts Don't play too fast Write in correct finger numbers Don't play something too difficult Study your music theory Don't rely too much on synthesia, learn the damn sheet Analyze the sheet that you didn't learn to read, with the music theory that you didn't study Bam!
by synaesthesia, do you mean sone kind of program, or when sound has colour and weight, texture, flavour, etc? cause my brain does its own synarsthesia.
@@TayNoTaisho i have finally found something that is helping me, after decades, and that is to find sheet music on yout tube witg the music plauing while a line moves through the bars, eo i know where it is, and just watch it... i could niot read it at firstt, but now its clicking in... like being read storys when you are little.. you read by being read to : )
Mistake 1: playing the same thing over and over again that you are already good at without challenging yourself by playing more difficult pieces Mistake 2: playing too fast Mistake 3: not using proper finger technique Mistake 4: playing pieces that are way above your level Mistake 5: skipping music theory, reading music, and any other essential skill to playing piano Mistake 6: not analyzing the piece ahead of time
@@GeneralGob When you have a song in muscle memory but you have a mistake something that wasn't written, in your muscle memory. You have to slow down to correct this mistake, and it feel agonizing sometimes.
@@ElvannReacts well, a pianist only makes pre-made cakes, a composer discovers new recipes. ;) If you are able to play music by ear, (even complex classical piano pieces) that does not make you a bad pianist or not a pianist at all. It makes you lucky and cursed all at once. Perfect pitch and synthesia are rare and that said many people who can play by ear easily will have a very quick start but if you skip learning to read sheet music you will eventually hit a roadblock where your hearing cannot discern it easily anymore and you will either play poor versions or not be able to play it at all and become frustrated. Personally I had this as well (but I did learn to read sheet music but without lessons at the time). Now that I am finally able to read complex sheet music and play through it at the first time (a prima vista) things have become much faster and easier. The biggest advantage I now have is that when I already know how I like the piece to sound I can focus more on playing it nicely rather than just technically and thus have more fun whilst playing. That all said, a pianist with synthesia/perfect pitch will generally still have to have good training to develop their playing properly.
@@ElvannReacts I hear what you're saying, But i bet all those people who gave up trying to learn the keyboard years ago wish at the time they could learn from Synthesia, some of them would still like to learn to play 10 or 20 songs, Not everyone learns the same way, If it wasn't for synthesia i would've never learned how to play my 20 songs, ( i have learn the names of the chords and when learning a song always write down the keys they play) Does synthesia limit you in what you play yes! So you are right! but it's better than nothing! Most people don't know the differences between a piano or a keyboard, So for those people, they would be impressed that you can play and don't know that you can play only certain few songs
@@ElvannReacts I watched keyboard tutorials for almost a year before a temping to try to learn, All i kept thinking was there are a lot of people that were smarter than me that took lessons and gave up! But every time i watched i kept saying to myself " i can do that" it not learning all that i need to know but i can learn this song, the song repeats with the same chords" yes now all i have to do is find a cheap keyboard, and i found one it was from the salvation Army for $ 7.00 i said if i don't quit and learn for a year then i will buy a new one, And i did that was 5 years ago! I can play 10 songs very nicely and 10 more that i'm still learning to play good, Now with the programs that they have out now i will learn how to read sheet music" But if it wasn't for learning songs "first" i know i would've gave up too. My friends say in the dictionary under the word frustration" boring, and wanting to smash something up is keyboard lessons lol!
I'm in my 50's and always wanted to learn how to play the piano and read a musicsheet. I've recently given up smoking and now have extra money to pursue my dream. My husband supports my learning journey as he knows this is something I have always wanted to do. I went out and found a piano teacher and everything you have mentioned in this video is exactly what she has told me 😀. I guess I'm at an age where I am so ready to learn and I find I'm picking things up quickly, most probably because I'm enjoying what I am learning and i practice alot. I believe it's never too late 😀 I started in February this year.
I started this year as well, and some people allready think I had played for a long time. How is it going? What have you started with? I'm just looking for inspiration, because I have some "goal pieces" that I just know are too hard for me right now, so just looking for something I might improve on :) Best of luck to you
That is great. It is never too late. I never learned piano till I was in highschool. I practiced hard but never took it seriously until my 30's. That is when I went to school and got a degree in music. I worked really hard to get it and now I am a teacher myself. Good for you.
@@justinvidad-menezes2364 thank you. Yes, it takes alot of work and I'm still enjoying it. I'm doing alot more music sheets to excercise my left hand. Takes alot of practice but I'll get there 😀
@@tomasjosefpiano8902 hi, I started with the real basic's. My piano tutor teaches kids most of the time and I was really happy starting at his level. She said that I picked up quite quickly and I started to get bored with some of the stuff I was given. My tutor now has me on Fur Elise. I have to say that this is very exciting, cause i am now working alot more on my timing, reading and understanding the music sheet and exercising my left hand etc.. I'm alot slower working on this piece and I totally enjoy the challenge. I want to learn and understand more of the classical stuff, I'm not aiming to be a concert pianist...lolz....but enjoy listening to classical piano pieces. I have along road ahead and as long as I can afford the lessons, i will keep going and practice, practice, practice. I hope you find what you are looking for 😀. Let me know how you get on. Cheers 😀😀
6:39 i see your point, however everyone is different. I'm self-taught and i find i learn way better when i have something callenging that i really wanna be able to play. Not too challenging of course, but honestly the motivation for me was to be able to play my favorite songs, not learn a lot of nursery rhymes first. But i was already playing a little for fun as a kid before i picked the piano up again after 5 years so maybe that's a little different. Great video tho xD
Exactly dude there is no catch all method to learning. That’s a point of criticism I have with many of the tutorials on YT, having a teacher there with you in real time allows you to discuss with them how you feel, what you think about the lesson, and how you learn best as a student
I have always wanted to learn, but just didn't have the patience for the step-by-step paper book kinda learning. Like you, I want to learn to play the piano portion of Mark Knopfler's song "Our Shangri-La". Yep, baby beginner here... I'm 51 this year, I'd better get started. LOL
Actually, you're right; when you understand how to use the correct techniques for piano playing (or any skill in general), you can't play the most advanced pieces in the world. Nobody can. When you try to play an advanced piece as a beginner and inevitably fail, you will learn: *How fast-paced everything gets *What parts are easy *What parts are challenging *How you can improve Use failure to succeed, there are no other jigsaw pieces for life.
Synthesia has its place. As someone who has no aspirations to be a musician, has wanted to play piano but for various reasons can't spare the time to learn it properly being able to just follow some visual cues and play your favorite songs at a reasonable level is all I really want. Do o want to learn to read and write music? Yes. But any spare time I have at this point in my life goes to other hobbies, studies, and family. When can find the time to sit down at that piano, if I'm not practicing technique, I'm progressing I'm a synthesia song. If you're trying to be a musician, take the authors advice and learn it properly. If it's a passing hobby, don't feel bad about using synthesia. Just know your goal first.
So glad someone said that, and I feel the same way! Right now piano is just a thing that helps me make the time pass since I'm locked up at home, and I do not have neither the opportunity or time to get real lessons. So just being able to quickly learn the songs I like is really all I want
@@ciciamanda. Since you're locked up - right now is the best time to learn! I used Synthesia for a long time, for what, to forget 99% of the songs I learned on it? If you just learned 30 minutes a day you would be playing some great pieces in no time. I've been learning from youtube recently and I've learned more while in lockdown than any other time in my life. Now is the best opportunity to learn anything imo.
I already know all this stuff but it took me 20 years to learn it, why I wasn't making any progress. I didn't have a teacher. Learning piano is not about reading music. It's about how to go about working properly. Go slow in small bites and don't spend much time on what you already know. Actually look at the notes and their timing and not just play by what you think the music should sound like. Never think that something is hard because in time it will be easy. Saying it's hard kills your enthusiasm. It's negative thinking, telling yourself an untrue thing and you then reap the added burden.
I myself am a self taught. I can play piano, but I can’t read any piano notes. I’ve been playing for about 5-6 years, and so far I’m doing good without reading notes, or having a piano teacher. I learn watching how other pianist move their hands, or sometimes I play by listening. My first song on piano was Canon in D it took me 1 year to finish the song. I’ve learned about 4-5 advance songs, and so far it’s getting easier for me to play other songs.
@@SlimCheeze1 To ItsaBoy: Congrats in your enthusiasm to teach yourself. What do you mean that you are doing good, are you making bread? For this should be the objective of a musician. When I was a kid, I love to hear the applause and yeah, yeah! But when one age, it's the bread which is what it's all about. My musical expressiveness is usually commensurate with the bread in my account -- I would be playing like a typist!
It’s fine actually. My piano teacher always gives me pieces with higher difficulty which I would have to spend months to finish learning while giving me several pieces within my level at the same time. This is so there would be progress in my piano playing and not just being stuck in my current level. The only thing that we would have to be careful of is to make sure to take things slowly one step at a time and not just jumping into it all of a sudden to avoid injuries. Of course practicing too much is also dangerous.
I was begging my parents for a keyboard and piano lessons since I can remember to no avail. I finally picked up a 61-key keyboard at 40 and oh boy is it ever difficult to do the simplest of practices. I really wish I had done this when I was a kid but seeing everyone else starting out much later in life gives me a boost of energy and the desire to learn. Thank you for being part of the motivation with your clips bro. Good luck to everyone else out there in my shoes.
I would add: Not checking your timing and tempo - especially if you play through the same piece lots of times it's quite likely you develop some rhythm/tempo inaccuracies. Grab your phone, make a recording and listen carefully to it in order to detect rhythm/tempo mistakes. Once you detect something, work on it while still checking your progress with a recorder and maybe a metronome. It takes a lot of time to unlearn bad rhythm habits!
I have a subjectively better way: use a metronome and once you have the tempo right, you half the speed of the metronome. Let's say you're playing 4/4 you go from a tick every beat to one every 2 beats, to one every 4 beats and so on. I've done this to improve my timing with the guitar. It's really motivating because sometimes you're just of, by a fraction of a second and you just know that you can do it the next time. And there's no feeling like playing for 2 minutes or so and being ON POINT!. That may not sound like much but no matter how civilized you think you are, you gonna behave like a child, because you're so happy.
I think if it's a motivator it can be a good thing to still have that piece to work on in parallel with other things. I'm super guilty of that, but if the piece doesn't retain my attention you'll get nothing from me XD If I love the piece tho I'll work through it like you wouldn't believe.
It works...kinda, i can play moonlight sonata for example but still can't read sheet music and i still don't know the basics in music theory...idk how it happend. It's sad because if i would take a level 1 test about music i would probably fail. BUT i can play some cool songs... Sorry for the bad english:/
A piece above your level is okay, once you are proficient. The point here is If you are beginner then start with stretches. If you were just starting out learning a car, you wouldn't go onto the highway. Instead learning one piece at a time in a parking lot is customary. Practice five finger exercises, then scales, chords, and arpeggios. And finally find simple arrangements of songs you like. I disagree with using Nursery Rhymes if you are an adult and aren't interested in child songs. Learning child songs can be a major turn-off. Instead, seek out people who simplify popular songs you normally enjoy. JayJay Johnson has two piano courses that do just that. www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-play-25-hip-hop-classic-songs-ch2/ And then practice those simple arrangements. And understand that everything played is actually an arrangement (an adaptation of anything you play just at different levels of complexity). th-cam.com/video/m6buIdQacoM/w-d-xo.html
The thing I do is find a song I like, search the piano version of it, learn the first part, once I get to the middle I give up, then find another song I like just to learn the beginning and then give up
Omg this is me like, I just find the tutorial 9f the song that I want to learn, then I learn like the beginning and just go to a different one like what is up with me.
I know the feeling, got keyboard 2 weeks ago due to lockdown. well its a keyboard with weighted keys. studiologic sl88. amazing thing. this is also when my piano learning came into play too. first week learning stranger things theme. playing it very slow. second week, can play it, not perfectly, but okay enough so far. now learning some moonlight sonata. I think in a few weeks i will start sheet music reading.
Me before watching: “I bet I’m not making any of these mistakes since I play the euphonium and not the piano” *Mistake 1: Playing things you’re good at and skipping over the hard parts* I feel personally attacked
@@marcuss6312 haha me too! I started from scratch, I never even touched a piano untill I happened to be gifted a really old electric piano and downloaded the app. Now I have finished 4 courses, am crushing Pop Chords 1 and half way through Essentials 3 I believe. It's getting more difficult but I love it. Just have to pace it and repeat harder things many times. I LOVE SIMPLY PIANO 🤍
It’s funny cause I played piano for 3 years back in elementary school and then stopped taking lessons but I always taught myself songs I wanted to learn throughout the years, but I lost skill and wasn’t where I wanted to be so I kind of gave up. But now I’m in college and this past year I’ve actually picked up guitar and found it easier than piano, and so I’ve left it behind yet I still find myself watching a bunch of piano videos.
I'm not a music student, I'm entirely self taught. Never watched any videos on it either... except for this one. The only one I think I'm really guilty of doing was using synthesia. The thing is, you will pick up on music theory just by learning many many songs. I can't read sheet music very well, which certainly is a downside, but my ability to pick up on songs by ear without sheet music or video tutorials has been improved a lot. Practice is practice, and when it comes to learning piano, it's not a linear path. You can really learn in whatever way you want. "slowing down your progress" is so subjective.
If you know music theory then there should be no reason you can't pick up sheet music. Synthesia is a crutch. It's alright if you're only looking to play simple songs, but if you want to play a high level piece, synthesia doesn't give you anything more than notes and the rhythm. Sheet music gives you much more instruction and not all songs are easily played by ear, unless maybe you have perfect pitch.
There's a lot of free music at places like imslp.org. It's old (all public domain...mostly depending what country you're in) and might be difficult to find grade appropriate pieces, but you can find a lot of classics there.
I think that synthesia helps me visualize when notes come together. I’m a more visual person and sheet music makes it more daunting and stressful to read bc of my adhd
Learning chords and intervals really do make a difference . I don’t find theory drudgery as some students say. It has helped me so much in reading a piece.
I've been playing for 20 years and never knew about there being the right fingers. I always just kept trying until I figured out a good position :o I think the best advice I can give to anyone playing piano is to practice scales and chords. Get familiar with what flats and sharps are coming. I was in choir in high school and we would practice scales by starting from Do, then going to re, mi, fa, etc. It made an exceptional difference in my sight reading skills. I read and play by ear, so looking at a note and knowing what it sounds like helped me even more because my brain already knew which key would make that sound + my fingers know what key the dot on the page symbolizes.
Yeah I remember when I used to play classical having to stress about readying the piece in time for the recital. That is why I am a jazz musician now lol
Classical music is too precise, with other music you can learn it by ear or use sheet music and add whatever you want to it and no one will question you. Skip one note in bach and suddenly you suck at piano
I am self taught mostly with some minor influence from early lessons when I was younger. I do not agree you absolutely need sheet music. I learn mostly by ear and in some cases when pieces are fast or weird I use Synthesia videos to understand what's going on. I can play just fine but I barely understand sheet music beyond the very basics. The only issue I face is that I am much more well versed in certain key signatures than others. In fact I don't even know what which key signature is. It's all by ear. I have been playing and improving for over 10 years now. I use rather unusual finger techniques (often when striking 3key-chords or doing other things with the right hand I tend to use my middle finger index finger instead of middle finger, piano teacher hated me but I was stubborn) and most well versed pianists I ineract with are shocked that I can't read sheet music. To be honest I would learn it for the sake of being able to just read music and not needing other tools but, it's so difficult and boring to me that I just can't get myself to even care. When learning an intrument it's just not natural for one to learn the language first. Just like when a baby learns to talk, they just try and start to make sounds and then by immitation learn how to speak, you don't give the baby a dictionary first and language lessons, forcing it to understand writting language before actually speaking. Although I can certainly see the benefit I don't think it's absolutely necesairy to learn this before or at all for that matter especially if you just play piano as a hobby.
Yeah I'm in the same boat as you. I learned with synthesia and can't read sheet music at all... But I've been playing for about 3 years. I tend to find synthesia better because I can see when the notes are coming (and it's by sight). It takes time to read and comprehend the different types of those dot things and the timing and it's confusing to me. But I do need to learn it... Just not eager to learn it.
To be honest, without that i wouldnt have started to play the piano. I started to play Guitar with a Teacher and Rocksmith at Home. Synthesia kinda looked at least like a similar experience. Well, it wasn't, but when browsing through youtube it helps a lot to find new things you might want to have fun learning.
Just wanted to say that this all heavily depends upon the player type. Let me just tell you my story. I have been listening to classical piano pieces everyday for atleast 7 years now (kinda a deal considering that I am 13 right now) every day for hours. I just had a huge love for all of it but never actually minded learning it cuz I didn't have a piano. It's been just 8 days since I have started to learn and the first song I learnt? Für Elise. It was kinda hard at the start but look at me now! I only have slight problems at the last movement but otherwise perfect. Maybe I am a prodigy? Not sure. Good thing I decided to teach myself how to read sheets years before starting. I already have plans for every piece I am gonna learn after this. 1) Moonlight Sonata Movement 1 2) Moonlight Sonata Movement 2 3) River flows in you 4) Clair de lune 5) Experience 6) Waltz of the flowers 7) Nocture in E flat major (Not sure about this one) 8) Nuvole Bianche Enough for the next three years or smth ig Edit- Just wanted to say that I haven't really stopped learning Fur Elise it's just that I am pretty close. I am gonna keep working on it for a month or smth Edit2- Ok it's all perfect now.
I began playing piano last year, with lessons once a week. I haven't had a lesson in about a month bc of the whole covid-19 ordeal, so I took out some of my mom's paino books (she's very good at paino) and started playing them. They're out of my league for sure, but I found that I was able to learn a lot about piano from doing that. Now, whenever I go back and learn "new" lessons with my real piano teacher, I find myself already knowing how it works because I'd played my mom's music. So in conclusion it's not always bad to play stuff that's out of your league. Great video by the way!
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I wanna learn music theory online But I dont know the source.can you recommend one please?(I selfstudied with synthesia but decide to start learning music theory)
Started playing by myself when I was 15 years old, I've done 5 out of 6 things you listed... now I have 23 years and can pay a teacher and since 2 months we are working in exactly on what you say. if you are starting out on piano PLEASE make sure you are avoiding this mistakes.
I’m just starting at 14 (close to 15) and my lessons start tomorrow.. I’m a bit nervous since I felt like 14 was a bit too late to start but these comments and yours are reassuring
@@acejini I’m doing very good so far and renting a piano from where I take my lessons- I wanted to say thank you because comments like this help me through it all and I’m always grateful to have some :) I am very passionate so ill never give up on it
@@savvymarie7882 I’m 26 and just started lessons a month ago! Been feeling that “too old” feeling for so long that I never started. But I’m glad I’m finally taking the plunge and I’m addicted now (:
You are 100% correct in recommending the habit of reviewing the piece prior to playing. In time, patterns will emerge, triplets, arpeggios, sections that may otherwise catch the player off guard are noted. The brain immediately starts processing, formulating the material, all while the player is blissfully unaware! A piano novice, less than a month, but former professional guitarist (now a weekend warrior!). I'm sort of a weirdo in that I am a huge promoter of learning to read music. Additionally, learning theory will pay lifelong dividends. Many times, it was the deciding factor in who received the position. Also, the ability to read, express, and understand theory opens doors to the higher end, better paying venues. Lessons with qualified teachers is so important. Hell, I started lessons in the fourth grade, some five decades ago, and I am still taking lessons, currently jazz guitar. I enjoyed your post very much, thank you.
I’ve been playing piano for six years, and my friend said she plays piano too. So during music class, I asked her to play me a song she knew. She got out an iPad and put on a synthesia video. It made me really sad. I’m not hating on synthesia players, but learning how to read sheet music is so much better! It will truly be worth it in the long run! I’ve been reading sheet music for my whole music career, and I tried to play a synthesia song with my friend during music class. I could not do it at all! It was so much harder than reading the actual notes! One time I had to learn a song that I couldn’t find the sheet music for anywhere, so I had to use synthesia. Luckily, I found a video that had the sheet music with it, so I could ignore the synthesia part and just read the music.
The problem there wasn't synthesia, the problem was that she didn't memorize any song. And obviously using something that you're not used to is gonna be hard, what did you expect? With synthesia you're always gonna be on time but if you don't keep up with it you can just use sheets. Thats the only differece i see I think it could be better learning both so when someone needs to teach you without the sheet music you wouldn't struggle to learn it
Before I watched the video: "Yeah, I'm an advanced player, probably won't do a lot of them." After I watched the video: "Oh boy. You're right, I am advanced but I'm still guilty of every single one of them, even the ones I KNOW are mistakes (like to focus on your weak parts and not play from the beginning all the time)". You, Sir, have earned a subscriber.
This was very helpful! Thank you so much!!! I did level 1 theory when I was 16 and then stopped. So I have a bit of knowledge, but then when I tried to pick up learning again, it was confusing but THIS was SO helpful for pointing me in the right direction. Thank you so much 💕
Tim inspired me to play and even make a channel for it, TH-cam growth might be slow at times but He has motivated me to keep going with it and so many other things in my life :) would mean the world if you came by or even subscribed but ALL THANKS TO TIM!!
Although he is right learning music is essential, it's also important ot take your eyes away from the page. My wife has been playing over thirty years and she has absolutely no creativity at the piano. Music reading can make you a slave, as soonm as those little black dots dissappear you can fall flat on your face. I say learn lots of nursery rhymes by ear, taking them through all 12 keys, inevery single cadse don't just learn the notes (C,D, F etc) but also their function - in the Key of C these notes would be root, second and fourth. In the key of F they would function and sound completely differently and be the 5th, 6th and root (in that order). Learning the pitch relations like this, and your jazz modes, is essential to progreessing creativity. Only leave this step out if you are sure ytou only want to play other peoples material.
Lol i can't read music but without the music sheet, i could perfectly memorize every single key until the very end. Is it a bad thing to avoid music sheets? To this day, I still can't read music after 2-3 years of piano.
First I thought: oh god, another theachers tutorial ! But at the end I have to tell you: this is all I am telling my students the whole time! So good to know same problems round about the globus! :-)👍👍👍
I am 45 y.o and just buy digital piano AND taking piano lesson by watching youtube channel. I find that this method (using youtube) is the fastest way to learn, by copying which notes to press, and learn how the same sound output is on my piano. So I never learn notes, I never have any musical background, I only learn what I like, and now I can play "Let It Go" quite fluently, both hands. I'm trying to say that is through youtube, now we can reach what our goal is, and to me, reading notes is ONE BIG STEP I CAN SKIP a lot. Because to me, at the end of the day it is what sounds came out of the piano is matter the most, not how fluently we can reading notes.
Synthesia! I always wondered what that technique was called when I see videos of colored bars, of various lengths, falling down on piano keys. I am not a fan of learning to play the piano that way. In videos, I much prefer seeing notes on music sheets while demonstrating playing a musical pieces, etc. Learning to read music is much better. Thanks for the lesson Tim.
Then you are missing the easiest ways to study piano. Synthesia is the answer, the fastest method to learn puano, not reading notes. You seems like an old idealist who already spent hours and hours of reading notes, then one day your neighbour, who never learn piano outplayed your skills through synthesia!
@@B501R Did you watch the video? He talks about it on 7:24. Basically- It's the easiest one when you're just starting. But learning sheet music will pay you in the long run. It becomes easier then synthesia after you get the hang of the basics. With synthesia you limit yourself to being a one trick pony. And the time it takes to rewind, pause, restart those videos when you get one note wrong. You don't know the tempo, dynamics or articulations. (Which is kinda important.) and so much more. I say this because I'm a beginner that started with synthesia. Mistakes were made. Don't make them too, please
@@user-sx5me8qu5s not necessarily, remember, we only playing piano on song that we LIKE, right? Why forcing one to study reading sheet that we DON'T LIKE? I like "Let It Go", I like to study it and wants to playing it, then I just go to synthesia, find the song, and then practice it afterwards. That's is ALL I NEED. We do not need playing Rachmaninoff, right? Reading sheet is another hours wasted, and again studying tempo, articulations? You can master it by listening and watching synthesia video, which is millions of it today. And to pause, restart, replay is not an issue, since today all smartphone are touch screen already mam. Why struggle with things that we don't like? And they say reading sheets is important?
@@B501R It may be the easiest and fastest way to learn the piano without learning to read notes. If you are in a hurry, use that method. However, I see a big problem with it. If you hear a music piece you want to learn, you have to search for a synthesia video and hope one exists. If it doesn't, you are out of luck unless you can read notes. If you can read notes, you don't have to rely on someone creating a synthesia video. And if you want to learn a different arrangement of that music you may have heard, again you have to hope the synthesia video exists. Another problem is I can write down on music sheets the difficult parts of the music I may want to hilight and remember for my next practice. I can't do that with a video. I could write down the timestamp on a piece of paper and hope I don't lose the paper but not quite the same as seeing it on music sheets where notes and comments are together. Another problem, there may be less than 1% of all music made into a synthesia video. It may take a very long time if ever to have all or most music in a synthesia piano video. I see other problems but this is long enough. Synthesia is good if that is the way you want to learn. I still prefer being able to read music notes and I am in total control.
@@Omega0401 OK first things first. Paragraph #1 and #3, again, WE ONLY PLAY SONGS THAT WE LIKE, If one songs doesn't exist, just search and play ANOTHER song, right? THERE ARE MILLIONS SONGS out there that we LIKE and available in synthesia, WHY STUCK with songs that doesn't exist? Paragraph #2, to me, piano is mostly about HAND COORDINATION, therefore for difficult parts, as you said, I repeat and repeat practicing my hand coordination, I never bother to take notes, except on chord arrangements, but again that is solve all the time by practicing HAND COORDINATION. There you go, YOU CAN WRITE DOWN AS MANY PROBLEMS AND ARGUMENTS as you like, but again, me, as an ordinary piano enthusiasts, will believe that synthesia is better ways to learn piano. Beside, at the end of the day, it is the song that counts, whether you learn it by reading sheets or else.
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Fur elise is a good example of a harder piece, but note the "fur elise theme" in and of itself is quite simple, easy, and rewarding to practice / learn at a beginners level. (Great for getting hands together, wrist motions and used to bigger movements)
@@thereyougoagain1280 I'm aware hes talking about beginners. Thats why I mentioned the "fur elise theme". It was the first thing I ever learned how to play. I had no prior experience on piano and no talent either. But it really is quite easy if you just take it slow / step by step. One hand then the other, and once you practice enough it begins to flow and allows you to play it smoothly at any speed however fast.
Just bought myself a yamaha PSR-E360 because I've always wanted to learn how to play... But it's been more of a day dream than anything... Until now! So glad I came across your videos, my brother told me to download that app but it was waaaay to fast paced for me! Looking forward to watching your piano lessons next 😊😊
Pieces like Turkish March, Fur Ellise etc, maybe be difficult as a beginner but I found that putting in that time to learn them as a beginner, no matter how long it takes, perfecting songs like that first will make learning other difficult songs in the long run much easier. In my opinion it’s worth it to put in the time. Been playing piano for about 5 years and I’ve progressed faster this way but it’s all subjective to how YOU want to learn piano.
Loved the video! I personally tend to go for songs way above my level and sometimes it works out. I love a challenge but I often get the need to go back to easier stuff and take it slow. First song that I (partially) learned on piano completely from the sheet music was about 3 minutes of Toccata e Fugue in D minor to show how crazy anxious I started. Took me a while to see how important it is to take it slow but every now and then I still like to take a hard song as a challenge.
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Hey I have a question. I've been teaching myself the piano for 2 years now. I use my muscle memory and my own memory to play the piano and I've gotten very far. I play my own songs and they end up being good. I never really read music or learned how to play pieces I regularly play my own songs and not songs I like. And if I run out of songs to play I can make a new one in a few minutes. I teach myself new things like instead of playing with 3 fingers I try to play with my entire hand and using those black note things in the middle of the normal notes of the piano. But my question is how will music theory and all that other stuff affect how I will play the piano outside of not reading how to play pieces because so far I've gotten better and better over the years and I don't see how that will really help me. I am not interested on learning how to play other people's music but rather my own.
I'm a self-teaching beginner. Started a week ago and I'm really proud I'm not doing any of these mistakes even without any guidance! (Using Alfred's basic piano lesson book)
Fur Elise is actually a great song for beginners to learn, because it's a classical piece that sounds complicated (though, it's not) and will impress non pianists, despite the fact that it's actually an easy piece to play. It only has like, 3 chords. It's a real encouraging song to play.
I’ve been playing guitar for 10 years and piano for about 4, and a lot of these not only apply for piano, but all instruments! This list is very accurate and something all beginners should see! I sure wish I did! :)
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I learned to sight read through synthesia, it has settings that allow you to display the music as sheet music and turn off the falling notes and it's surprisingly effective in terms of learning to read when using it that way
Tim inspired me to play and even make a channel for it, TH-cam growth might be slow at times but He has motivated me to keep going with it and so many other things in my life :) would mean the world if you came by or even subscribed but ALL THANKS TO TIM!!
I still can't play by note. I tried to learn with my teacher. I got frustrated and gave up. Didn't touch the piano for years. Finally picked it up again. I personally find playing by ear is far easier then playing by note.
When I started to play piano. I realized more the way to play Intermediate to advance piece level like River flows in you by yiruma and Nocturne op 9 no.2 and sitting next to you by handsome. And now learning lacrimosa and Clair de lune
That was a very enlightening lesson. I always start playing right off and then 1/4 of the way through, I'm like, "is that a flat note or a sharp?" have to throw my eyes back to the beginning, etc etc
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I've been watching several videos(very helpful!). I start questioning if i should continue to throw money on my current piano teacher 😅😅 I'm so frustrated tonight in reading music sheet. So I went back home start watching tutorial videos. You do solved many of my confusions 😁
These are helpful tips. There are two things in the video that may be confusing to beginners. First, at 3:30, when you talk about studying fingering and you circle the numbers, I would explain the "321" (it's an ornament that a beginner might not play but might wonder why there are 3 fingers for one note). And (ironically) at 2:25, just as you mention playing both pitches and rhythms accurately, you misplay the appoggiatura in measure 8. It's not a grace note.
“You’ll have an idea in your mind like: man I’ve always wanted to play für elise” I feel so attacked right now this is one of the reasons I wanted a piano lmaooo
I watched this video months ago and was making a lot of the mistakes mentioned here. I’m watching it again today and I don’t think I’m making these mistakes anymore. Your tips really helped!
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LOL That’s absolutely true hehe, I was learned Minuet in G as the first piano piece and I kept playing the first part of the song for an hour during practice
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My biggest mistake was:
*Playing a piece that requires 88 keys on a 61 key keyboard.*
Most of all classical pieces normally uses a number of keys that you normally don't have in the keyboard. Sorry I normally don't speak English.
Like Chopin's.
Thats me trying to play Pagganni on piano...My keyboard only has three octaves and I need like...five.
Your biggest mistake is buying a keyboard
I feel this I’m learning a piece but I can’t play some of the top notes because it goes too high then it just sounds horrible 😂
Mistakes that are slowing down my piano progress:
1. Not having a piano..
WarDimension
1. Not having fingers
get one
So truee
I use a MIDI controller, I'm using the Oxygen 49. It was close to $120 or so, and it doesn't have weighted keys or the full set of keys, so it's definitely the first step in the commitment to piano playing. I find I can still play a majority of stuff on it.
@@stupidrainbo at first i bought some cheap midi device too untill i got enough money together to get an electric piano.
“Playing pieces way above your level”
*I feel attacked and offended*
It took me a month to learn the first 30 seconds of fantaisie impromptu fluently, but I feel like I could finish the entire song in a few more months. Though that might be too long and all I'm doing is slowing down my learning by focusing on a piece like that.
Literally every piece I ever played
lmao idk i played ballade no.1 by chopin and it's clearly above my level but it's still possible(・・;)
Duro Piri l
ClumzyLemon yeah? most of that song is beginner level lol
So you're saying I shouldn't learn flight of the bumblebee as my first song?
Nah you should go for it definitely a beginner level piece... If you try hard enough you can play 15 notes a second
@@sneha1469 INteReStInG
@@Neptas LING LING WANNABE!!!!
@@sneha1469 thats a bit *sacriligeous*
SACRILEGIOUS
My biggest mistake: watching TH-cam videos about practicing piano instead of actually practicing piano 🎹
Great video, right on point.
Honestly, same
honestly tho
same
Same here
Same
"If you can play it slow, you can play it fast."
- One Sacrilegious Boi
Two set
sacrilegious bois reunite
Are there any songs you shouldn't play fast?
@@CodeByGozzo Songs that are supposed to be slow
@@dragonusmolamola4140 r/woosh
"Don't get used to synthesia"
Me: *breathes heavily in Rousseau*
Rousseau does do articulation and dynamics though. It's an actual performance, as opposed to just feeding a MIDI file through a computer program, which often sounds bland and brash. You also get to see Rousseau's hands to see what he's actually doing with his fingers.
Also, still waiting on HR2.
I've played guitar for years but only ever really used tabs. Synthesia is like the piano version of that. I know how to read treble clef but piano sheet music has been a struggle for me and I end up recording parts separately. I suppose I should try getting back into reading bass clef so I can actually play live
jet hahaha
It's more like he uses it as a visualisation though not a teaching tool. And the stuff he plays is often really not for beginners anyway.
Whats synthesia??
Jokes on you, I already made these mistakes on other instruments.
Lol
Underrated comment 😂😂😂
Lmao
lol same on trumpet
Especially on a kazoo
I've played piano for 22 years. I don't know why I'm watching this.
Same 😂 but he's right with what he's saying, i guess it's helpful fir beginners
@@Mixamuse woah what's the matter with you?! chill down! it's a typo. relax
Rawspie it was literally a typo i
@@Mixamuse what's wrong with you? It's just a freaking mistake, calm down
Me too
"Some people use synthesia to avoid learning music notes"
Damn, I've been called out
i feel attacked
I do the same thing
Valeria Olimej I’m fine with music notes, it is just all I see is synthesia
He's so right, though. I read music really well for a couple years and then I switched over to watching Synthesia or Rousseau because I couldn't find music for a couple songs. I was instantly hooked and now I'm out of practice at reading music 😭
lol
0:27 -> 1.Playing what you are already good at over and over again without spending ample time on problem areas.
1:31 -> 2.Playing too fast
3:21 -> 3.Not writing in proper finger technique.
5:13 -> 4.Trying to play pieces way above your current level.
7:19 -> 5.Skipping music theory, reading music, and any other essential skill to playing piano.
10:42 -> 6.It is important to take a minute to analyse the piece in terms of key, chords, scales, etc.
Thx
Thanks, friend!
Edmacel Quilaman ur awesome
That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
It would be great if your comment was at the top.
Omg I do 0:27 so much
Learning note:
Don't skip trouble parts
Don't play too fast
Write in correct finger numbers
Don't play something too difficult
Study your music theory
Don't rely too much on synthesia, learn the damn sheet
Analyze the sheet that you didn't learn to read, with the music theory that you didn't study
Bam!
I don't agree. I have a friend who plays really well, composed lots of cool songs in various style, and never read a single sheet.
by synaesthesia, do you mean sone kind of program, or when sound has colour and weight, texture, flavour, etc?
cause my brain does its own synarsthesia.
You had me up until learning to read sheet music 😭 it’s HARD
@@TayNoTaisho i have finally found something that is helping me, after decades, and that is to find sheet music on yout tube witg the music plauing while a line moves through the bars, eo i know where it is, and just watch it... i could niot read it at firstt, but now its clicking in... like being read storys when you are little.. you read by being read to : )
@@TayNoTaisho Ikr, im still going "every good boy deserve fudge" whenever I read the sheet lol, and its very slow and painful!
“Don’t play pieces above your skill level, it will take too long.”
Me in quarantine: Moonlight sonata 3rd movement it is
Edit: I can now play it!
How is it going?
FwdStealth Fantasie Impromptuis an absolute banger, I’m going to try it after I finish Chopin’s waltz in C sharp minor
How far are you cause I have same idea
I also want to play la campanella
same I just started learning that 10 minutes ago
The biggest mistake is not practicing 40 hours a day
ling ling approved!
Me waiting for someone to get wooshed
RiverChaneyTV who’s ling ling
RiverChaneyTV r/woosh
Im waiting for someone else to get wooshed
Mistake 1: playing the same thing over and over again that you are already good at without challenging yourself by playing more difficult pieces
Mistake 2: playing too fast
Mistake 3: not using proper finger technique
Mistake 4: playing pieces that are way above your level
Mistake 5: skipping music theory, reading music, and any other essential skill to playing piano
Mistake 6: not analyzing the piece ahead of time
and also with me my finger keeps slipping off the #/flat (black) keys
@@ajplays7241 1) practice the b major scale; 2) if you're curious i'll keep going
I am the epitome of these mistakes then :/
@@freshmilk7122 good to see I'm not the only one.
Thank u
Mistakes that are slowing you down: "You are going too fast!"
sounds weird but it is oh so true!
@@LessonsOnTheWeb having to slow down on a piece is so much worse than having to speed up
@@merekcook573 Yeah but you should start slow then go faster when you feel a bit comfortable and go faster and faster
@@GeneralGob for instance
@@GeneralGob When you have a song in muscle memory but you have a mistake something that wasn't written, in your muscle memory.
You have to slow down to correct this mistake, and it feel agonizing sometimes.
He was talking about synthesia and about skipping on reading sheet music and I felt so attacked💀💀
Same honestly.😂😂😂
Synthesia feels to me like the Betty Crocker version of playing piano tbh XD You're not a baker if you can only make pre-made cakes.
@@ElvannReacts well, a pianist only makes pre-made cakes, a composer discovers new recipes. ;)
If you are able to play music by ear, (even complex classical piano pieces) that does not make you a bad pianist or not a pianist at all. It makes you lucky and cursed all at once.
Perfect pitch and synthesia are rare and that said many people who can play by ear easily will have a very quick start but if you skip learning to read sheet music you will eventually hit a roadblock where your hearing cannot discern it easily anymore and you will either play poor versions or not be able to play it at all and become frustrated.
Personally I had this as well (but I did learn to read sheet music but without lessons at the time). Now that I am finally able to read complex sheet music and play through it at the first time (a prima vista) things have become much faster and easier.
The biggest advantage I now have is that when I already know how I like the piece to sound I can focus more on playing it nicely rather than just technically and thus have more fun whilst playing.
That all said, a pianist with synthesia/perfect pitch will generally still have to have good training to develop their playing properly.
@@ElvannReacts I hear what you're saying, But i bet all those people who gave up trying to learn the keyboard years ago wish at the time they could learn from Synthesia, some of them would still like to learn to play 10 or 20 songs, Not everyone learns the same way, If it wasn't for synthesia i would've never learned how to play my 20 songs, ( i have learn the names of the chords and when learning a song always write down the keys they play) Does synthesia limit you in what you play yes! So you are right! but it's better than nothing! Most people don't know the differences between a piano or a keyboard, So for those people, they would be impressed that you can play and don't know that you can play only certain few songs
@@ElvannReacts I watched keyboard tutorials for almost a year before a temping to try to learn, All i kept thinking was there are a lot of people that were smarter than me that took lessons and gave up! But every time i watched i kept saying to myself " i can do that" it not learning all that i need to know but i can learn this song, the song repeats with the same chords" yes now all i have to do is find a cheap keyboard, and i found one it was from the salvation Army for $ 7.00 i said if i don't quit and learn for a year then i will buy a new one, And i did that was 5 years ago! I can play 10 songs very nicely and 10 more that i'm still learning to play good, Now with the programs that they have out now i will learn how to read sheet music" But if it wasn't for learning songs "first" i know i would've gave up too. My friends say in the dictionary under the word frustration" boring, and wanting to smash something up is keyboard lessons lol!
When you fatfinger 2 keys
And you’re a perfectionist
Random User I hate it when that happens
Thank god my fingers are kinda slender
Kill me, when that happens one more time to me..
@@azkatakebayashi1517 lucky, me and my friends compare my other friend to Slenderman since she's super slender(she compared herself to Slenderman too)
ugh
I'm in my 50's and always wanted to learn how to play the piano and read a musicsheet. I've recently given up smoking and now have extra money to pursue my dream. My husband supports my learning journey as he knows this is something I have always wanted to do.
I went out and found a piano teacher and everything you have mentioned in this video is exactly what she has told me 😀. I guess I'm at an age where I am so ready to learn and I find I'm picking things up quickly, most probably because I'm enjoying what I am learning and i practice alot.
I believe it's never too late 😀
I started in February this year.
I started this year as well, and some people allready think I had played for a long time. How is it going? What have you started with? I'm just looking for inspiration, because I have some "goal pieces" that I just know are too hard for me right now, so just looking for something I might improve on :) Best of luck to you
That is great. It is never too late. I never learned piano till I was in highschool. I practiced hard but never took it seriously until my 30's. That is when I went to school and got a degree in music. I worked really hard to get it and now I am a teacher myself. Good for you.
@@justinvidad-menezes2364 thank you. Yes, it takes alot of work and I'm still enjoying it. I'm doing alot more music sheets to excercise my left hand. Takes alot of practice but I'll get there 😀
@@tomasjosefpiano8902 hi, I started with the real basic's. My piano tutor teaches kids most of the time and I was really happy starting at his level. She said that I picked up quite quickly and I started to get bored with some of the stuff I was given. My tutor now has me on Fur Elise. I have to say that this is very exciting, cause i am now working alot more on my timing, reading and understanding the music sheet and exercising my left hand etc.. I'm alot slower working on this piece and I totally enjoy the challenge. I want to learn and understand more of the classical stuff, I'm not aiming to be a concert pianist...lolz....but enjoy listening to classical piano pieces. I have along road ahead and as long as I can afford the lessons, i will keep going and practice, practice, practice. I hope you find what you are looking for 😀. Let me know how you get on. Cheers 😀😀
@@whetulloyd6660 good for you keep up the good work and let me know how you are doing from time to time. I can give you some pointers too.
6:39 i see your point, however everyone is different. I'm self-taught and i find i learn way better when i have something callenging that i really wanna be able to play. Not too challenging of course, but honestly the motivation for me was to be able to play my favorite songs, not learn a lot of nursery rhymes first. But i was already playing a little for fun as a kid before i picked the piano up again after 5 years so maybe that's a little different. Great video tho xD
Exactly dude there is no catch all method to learning. That’s a point of criticism I have with many of the tutorials on YT, having a teacher there with you in real time allows you to discuss with them how you feel, what you think about the lesson, and how you learn best as a student
its scary how much i relate to this
I have always wanted to learn, but just didn't have the patience for the step-by-step paper book kinda learning. Like you, I want to learn to play the piano portion of Mark Knopfler's song "Our Shangri-La". Yep, baby beginner here... I'm 51 this year, I'd better get started. LOL
Actually, you're right; when you understand how to use the correct techniques for piano playing (or any skill in general), you can't play the most advanced pieces in the world. Nobody can.
When you try to play an advanced piece as a beginner and inevitably fail, you will learn:
*How fast-paced everything gets
*What parts are easy
*What parts are challenging
*How you can improve
Use failure to succeed, there are no other jigsaw pieces for life.
"Use the correct fingering to prevent not running out of fingers"
7 finger people: *surprised pikachu face*
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepared to die (yes I know he only had 6 fingers)
There is the 6 finger piano player in the movie Gattaca. He couldn't find his middle finger.
@@darykinnaman2319 technically he has 2 middle finger tho
@@thatguy7155 Double s
@Skeleton Masher frick 2 middle finger he gonna go full auto 6 fingers oh crap i went to fat
Synthesia has its place. As someone who has no aspirations to be a musician, has wanted to play piano but for various reasons can't spare the time to learn it properly being able to just follow some visual cues and play your favorite songs at a reasonable level is all I really want. Do o want to learn to read and write music? Yes. But any spare time I have at this point in my life goes to other hobbies, studies, and family. When can find the time to sit down at that piano, if I'm not practicing technique, I'm progressing I'm a synthesia song.
If you're trying to be a musician, take the authors advice and learn it properly. If it's a passing hobby, don't feel bad about using synthesia. Just know your goal first.
So glad someone said that, and I feel the same way! Right now piano is just a thing that helps me make the time pass since I'm locked up at home, and I do not have neither the opportunity or time to get real lessons. So just being able to quickly learn the songs I like is really all I want
Amanda Astgård Same, this video has guilt tripped me into trying to learn properly though xD
Try learning to read music as a hobby. Its really fun.
exactly
@@ciciamanda. Since you're locked up - right now is the best time to learn! I used Synthesia for a long time, for what, to forget 99% of the songs I learned on it? If you just learned 30 minutes a day you would be playing some great pieces in no time. I've been learning from youtube recently and I've learned more while in lockdown than any other time in my life. Now is the best opportunity to learn anything imo.
I already know all this stuff but it took me 20 years to learn it, why I wasn't making any progress. I didn't have a teacher. Learning piano is not about reading music. It's about how to go about working properly. Go slow in small bites and don't spend much time on what you already know. Actually look at the notes and their timing and not just play by what you think the music should sound like. Never think that something is hard because in time it will be easy. Saying it's hard kills your enthusiasm. It's negative thinking, telling yourself an untrue thing and you then reap the added burden.
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I myself am a self taught. I can play piano, but I can’t read any piano notes. I’ve been playing for about 5-6 years, and so far I’m doing good without reading notes, or having a piano teacher. I learn watching how other pianist move their hands, or sometimes I play by listening. My first song on piano was Canon in D it took me 1 year to finish the song. I’ve learned about 4-5 advance songs, and so far it’s getting easier for me to play other songs.
@@SlimCheeze1 To ItsaBoy: Congrats in your enthusiasm to teach yourself. What do you mean that you are doing good, are you making bread? For this should be the objective of a musician. When I was a kid, I love to hear the applause and yeah, yeah! But when one age, it's the bread which is what it's all about. My musical expressiveness is usually commensurate with the bread in my account -- I would be playing like a typist!
@@eddyvideostar So by you're logic you only do something good if you can make a living from it? Sounds like a tough rule to live by
"playing a piece above your skill level"
me: *puts claire de lune piano tutorial video away *
I feel CALLED OUT
@Gizio the Jackal i started piano 3 days ago, i can almost play the full piece, clair de lune,
@Gizio the Jackal I'm assuming they learned an easy version of the song like the ones with no chords and just the melody lol
I was literally just doing this 😭
@@max-nu6vq liar
i'm definitely guilty of learning things too hard for me
like what pieces have u learned?
cyka blyat megalovania, darkside
@@clownfishxd4523 gymnopedie op. 1
Yea same but that's what makes you better so I don't think it's a mistake
It’s fine actually. My piano teacher always gives me pieces with higher difficulty which I would have to spend months to finish learning while giving me several pieces within my level at the same time. This is so there would be progress in my piano playing and not just being stuck in my current level. The only thing that we would have to be careful of is to make sure to take things slowly one step at a time and not just jumping into it all of a sudden to avoid injuries. Of course practicing too much is also dangerous.
First song I learnt was Fur Elise, didn't know it was "way above my level"
HAHAHA samee, I don't remember how 'hard' it was when I played it and now I can play it flawlessly skfkmdgnngn
Jaruud omg me too at first i just play it only on my right hand
task failed successfully then i guess
haha i learnt that too
playing a higher level piece is one thing, but playing it musically is another.
congratulations! I kept repeating this mistake all the way to grade 8 and didn't really realize it
Which one?
you are filipino right
@@libraconz filipino is not me
@@MIO9_sh weh hahahaha
I was begging my parents for a keyboard and piano lessons since I can remember to no avail. I finally picked up a 61-key keyboard at 40 and oh boy is it ever difficult to do the simplest of practices. I really wish I had done this when I was a kid but seeing everyone else starting out much later in life gives me a boost of energy and the desire to learn.
Thank you for being part of the motivation with your clips bro.
Good luck to everyone else out there in my shoes.
How's it going?
you must be good right now though
I would add: Not checking your timing and tempo - especially if you play through the same piece lots of times it's quite likely you develop some rhythm/tempo inaccuracies. Grab your phone, make a recording and listen carefully to it in order to detect rhythm/tempo mistakes. Once you detect something, work on it while still checking your progress with a recorder and maybe a metronome. It takes a lot of time to unlearn bad rhythm habits!
Jan Ptáčník “NOT MY FUCKING TEMPO”
I have a subjectively better way: use a metronome and once you have the tempo right, you half the speed of the metronome. Let's say you're playing 4/4 you go from a tick every beat to one every 2 beats, to one every 4 beats and so on. I've done this to improve my timing with the guitar. It's really motivating because sometimes you're just of, by a fraction of a second and you just know that you can do it the next time. And there's no feeling like playing for 2 minutes or so and being ON POINT!. That may not sound like much but no matter how civilized you think you are, you gonna behave like a child, because you're so happy.
Or play with a video of someone playing it on the right tempo(synthesia)
@@spurka8837 that's exactly what he said not to do
Trueee
The one where you're practicing a piece above your level hit me bad, I just wanna play these sweet sweet songs lol. Guess I'll go to first grade
gotta learn the words to make a sentence
I think if it's a motivator it can be a good thing to still have that piece to work on in parallel with other things. I'm super guilty of that, but if the piece doesn't retain my attention you'll get nothing from me XD If I love the piece tho I'll work through it like you wouldn't believe.
It works...kinda, i can play moonlight sonata for example but still can't read sheet music and i still don't know the basics in music theory...idk how it happend.
It's sad because if i would take a level 1 test about music i would probably fail. BUT i can play some cool songs...
Sorry for the bad english:/
There is always a good threshold to how much you can push yourself. You can attempt more difficult pieces to an extent for many good reasons.
A piece above your level is okay, once you are proficient.
The point here is If you are beginner then start with stretches.
If you were just starting out learning a car, you wouldn't go onto the highway.
Instead learning one piece at a time in a parking lot is customary.
Practice five finger exercises, then scales, chords, and arpeggios.
And finally find simple arrangements of songs you like.
I disagree with using Nursery Rhymes if you are an adult and aren't interested in child songs.
Learning child songs can be a major turn-off. Instead, seek out people who simplify popular songs you normally enjoy. JayJay Johnson has two piano courses that do just that.
www.udemy.com/course/learn-how-to-play-25-hip-hop-classic-songs-ch2/
And then practice those simple arrangements. And understand that everything played is actually an arrangement (an adaptation of anything you play just at different levels of complexity).
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I don’t make these mistakes because I don’t play piano
You are a true professional, teach me.
@@oaryihn5659
Ez
First : Do nothing
Second : D o n o t h i n g
Third : *D O N O T H I N G*
Why are you watching this than?
😂absurd
@@tysturge5139 then, than is for comparing
The thing I do is find a song I like, search the piano version of it, learn the first part, once I get to the middle I give up, then find another song I like just to learn the beginning and then give up
I’ve known many people who know a TON of intros to songs. Mostly on guitar.
Omg this is me like, I just find the tutorial 9f the song that I want to learn, then I learn like the beginning and just go to a different one like what is up with me.
this is why i've never finished learning a piece 💀
What if you learn the intro and the outro first? Maybe makes you more inclined to fill the rest for completion ^^
3:24 Explains why I am so slow to learn: I don't have 321 fingers. :)
No
‘no’ hahahahha
I don't think that's what they ment...
So basically Disney World (321)
Hilarious!!!
4. Playing above your skill level
Me: I feel so attacked
4. Maybe you wanna play Fur Elise
Me: I FEEL SO ATTACKED!!
XD
Hahahshshahhahahahah
I can play fur elise but i cant play the ed song of ep 19 demon slayer
I know the feeling, got keyboard 2 weeks ago due to lockdown. well its a keyboard with weighted keys. studiologic sl88. amazing thing. this is also when my piano learning came into play too. first week learning stranger things theme. playing it very slow. second week, can play it, not perfectly, but okay enough so far. now learning some moonlight sonata. I think in a few weeks i will start sheet music reading.
Leighmyster good for you
The moment he mentioned Fur Elise I thought of Dan's piano teacher incident
Me before watching: “I bet I’m not making any of these mistakes since I play the euphonium and not the piano”
*Mistake 1: Playing things you’re good at and skipping over the hard parts*
I feel personally attacked
Ahahah same man! Especially number 4! Straight to the back of the arban book before I am ready!
Beginner piano mistakes that are slowing you down:
Simply piano ad
Me: well that’s accurate.
Simply Piano is fantastic, it starts you from very basics and teaches you to read music, I’m learning with it now and it’s only £65 a year
@@marcuss6312 ain't it
s ac r i l e g i o u s
though
@@marcuss6312 haha me too!
I started from scratch, I never even touched a piano untill I happened to be gifted a really old electric piano and downloaded the app. Now I have finished 4 courses, am crushing Pop Chords 1 and half way through Essentials 3 I believe. It's getting more difficult but I love it. Just have to pace it and repeat harder things many times. I LOVE SIMPLY PIANO 🤍
@@marcuss6312 ok
Honestly flowkey is better to me
I play guitar
Why am I watching this
Naw jk helped me too
Because you secretly want to play the piano and ditch guitar ;)
because you secretly wished you can play piano too...:)
These tips really apply to guitar too. Not #3 really but all the other ones. I wish I had seen a video like this when I started learning guitar.
Because Piano is the instrument of civilization, and Guitar is just used to swoon women.
It’s funny cause I played piano for 3 years back in elementary school and then stopped taking lessons but I always taught myself songs I wanted to learn throughout the years, but I lost skill and wasn’t where I wanted to be so I kind of gave up. But now I’m in college and this past year I’ve actually picked up guitar and found it easier than piano, and so I’ve left it behind yet I still find myself watching a bunch of piano videos.
great advice - especially for us that are self-mastering.
Can you teach Senorita
I'm not a music student, I'm entirely self taught. Never watched any videos on it either... except for this one.
The only one I think I'm really guilty of doing was using synthesia. The thing is, you will pick up on music theory just by learning many many songs. I can't read sheet music very well, which certainly is a downside, but my ability to pick up on songs by ear without sheet music or video tutorials has been improved a lot.
Practice is practice, and when it comes to learning piano, it's not a linear path. You can really learn in whatever way you want. "slowing down your progress" is so subjective.
Using synthesia.. yes so just practice a lot
Same here 🌺 I can't read sheet music as well but I can play by ear like nobody's business
If you know music theory then there should be no reason you can't pick up sheet music. Synthesia is a crutch. It's alright if you're only looking to play simple songs, but if you want to play a high level piece, synthesia doesn't give you anything more than notes and the rhythm. Sheet music gives you much more instruction and not all songs are easily played by ear, unless maybe you have perfect pitch.
Zebo12345 (Mobile) I honestly completely agree and people who can’t afford lessons and then they cant get sheet music
There's a lot of free music at places like imslp.org. It's old (all public domain...mostly depending what country you're in) and might be difficult to find grade appropriate pieces, but you can find a lot of classics there.
I think that synthesia helps me visualize when notes come together. I’m a more visual person and sheet music makes it more daunting and stressful to read bc of my adhd
Same
it helps me a lot too but i also practice way more with the notes in front of me, but i look back on the video quickly for help
me: *trying to pay attention and be a grown up*
also me: "heh he said use proper fingering"
@@TribuneAquila ugh that sounds soooo wrong xD
My piano teacher: work on fingering and we'll be doing aural next week
My mind once I lost my innocence: 👀
@@TribuneAquila LMAO
You can accuse me of that too I am afraid :')
Video: "I guarantee you make these mistakes."
Me: Ha! Yeah right!
00:26
Me: .... I concede.
Learning chords and intervals really do make a difference . I don’t find theory drudgery as some students say. It has helped me so much in reading a piece.
where’s my ‘I learned from Synthesia’ gang 😭😭
i’ve learned piano at first by Synthesia tutorials on TH-cam but now I know how to read music lmao
Here.
HERE
Hey
Preach
here lol
I've been playing for 20 years and never knew about there being the right fingers. I always just kept trying until I figured out a good position :o
I think the best advice I can give to anyone playing piano is to practice scales and chords. Get familiar with what flats and sharps are coming. I was in choir in high school and we would practice scales by starting from Do, then going to re, mi, fa, etc. It made an exceptional difference in my sight reading skills. I read and play by ear, so looking at a note and knowing what it sounds like helped me even more because my brain already knew which key would make that sound + my fingers know what key the dot on the page symbolizes.
1. You’re obviously Brazilian, and I am too.
learning by "instinc" , thats the way i learned to 'play guitar
@@vanessaalina6245 ultra musician instinct
@HoneyedHylian, that is SO cool!!!
I have to be honest, this comment might be better than the video
"Don't play pieces above your current level"
*cries in 13 days to finish a piece I've been working on for 3 months*
hahah
Yeah I remember when I used to play classical having to stress about readying the piece in time for the recital. That is why I am a jazz musician now lol
Classical music is too precise, with other music you can learn it by ear or use sheet music and add whatever you want to it and no one will question you. Skip one note in bach and suddenly you suck at piano
I am self taught mostly with some minor influence from early lessons when I was younger. I do not agree you absolutely need sheet music. I learn mostly by ear and in some cases when pieces are fast or weird I use Synthesia videos to understand what's going on. I can play just fine but I barely understand sheet music beyond the very basics. The only issue I face is that I am much more well versed in certain key signatures than others. In fact I don't even know what which key signature is. It's all by ear. I have been playing and improving for over 10 years now. I use rather unusual finger techniques (often when striking 3key-chords or doing other things with the right hand I tend to use my middle finger index finger instead of middle finger, piano teacher hated me but I was stubborn) and most well versed pianists I ineract with are shocked that I can't read sheet music.
To be honest I would learn it for the sake of being able to just read music and not needing other tools but, it's so difficult and boring to me that I just can't get myself to even care. When learning an intrument it's just not natural for one to learn the language first. Just like when a baby learns to talk, they just try and start to make sounds and then by immitation learn how to speak, you don't give the baby a dictionary first and language lessons, forcing it to understand writting language before actually speaking. Although I can certainly see the benefit I don't think it's absolutely necesairy to learn this before or at all for that matter especially if you just play piano as a hobby.
Yeah I'm in the same boat as you. I learned with synthesia and can't read sheet music at all... But I've been playing for about 3 years. I tend to find synthesia better because I can see when the notes are coming (and it's by sight). It takes time to read and comprehend the different types of those dot things and the timing and it's confusing to me. But I do need to learn it... Just not eager to learn it.
Thanks!
When he started to talk about synthesia I felt so attacked lmao
Same, but it is true. I can play piano arrange on synthesia but cannot read music better than a music beginner xd
To be honest, without that i wouldnt have started to play the piano. I started to play Guitar with a Teacher and Rocksmith at Home. Synthesia kinda looked at least like a similar experience. Well, it wasn't, but when browsing through youtube it helps a lot to find new things you might want to have fun learning.
@@BaoNguyen-vy2wo some learn piano as a hobby they don't want to be masters
Just wanted to say that this all heavily depends upon the player type. Let me just tell you my story. I have been listening to classical piano pieces everyday for atleast 7 years now (kinda a deal considering that I am 13 right now) every day for hours. I just had a huge love for all of it but never actually minded learning it cuz I didn't have a piano. It's been just 8 days since I have started to learn and the first song I learnt? Für Elise. It was kinda hard at the start but look at me now! I only have slight problems at the last movement but otherwise perfect. Maybe I am a prodigy? Not sure. Good thing I decided to teach myself how to read sheets years before starting. I already have plans for every piece I am gonna learn after this.
1) Moonlight Sonata Movement 1
2) Moonlight Sonata Movement 2
3) River flows in you
4) Clair de lune
5) Experience
6) Waltz of the flowers
7) Nocture in E flat major (Not sure about this one)
8) Nuvole Bianche
Enough for the next three years or smth ig
Edit- Just wanted to say that I haven't really stopped learning Fur Elise it's just that I am pretty close. I am gonna keep working on it for a month or smth
Edit2- Ok it's all perfect now.
Nice job
Nice, what are some main things you do to practice every day?
I have been playing the piano for 32 years, and I completely agree with all of this advice! Spot on! And a good refresher for me :-)
me trying to learn piano:
Also me who can't read sheet music at all and has no planning on learnin it any time soon: Piano time it is
I began playing piano last year, with lessons once a week. I haven't had a lesson in about a month bc of the whole covid-19 ordeal, so I took out some of my mom's paino books (she's very good at paino) and started playing them. They're out of my league for sure, but I found that I was able to learn a lot about piano from doing that. Now, whenever I go back and learn "new" lessons with my real piano teacher, I find myself already knowing how it works because I'd played my mom's music. So in conclusion it's not always bad to play stuff that's out of your league. Great video by the way!
"Fur Elise is to hard for beginners"
Me: "but that was the first song i learned..."
My first aswell lmao
It wasnt very hard at all to play though i mastered up until the hard part in like 2-3days
same here, and now I'm half done with la campanella and have started using sheet music for hr6
Mine too! My brother taught me because I wanted to play it so badly. But I started all over again when I got actual piano lessons... THANK GOD
Yepp
One thing that has stuck with me through out my years of piano is the quote you can play the pice as fast as you can play the hardest part
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Sorry but imma learn Un Sospiro even though it’s way above my pay grade. I’ll never finish but it’s fun to be able to execute the first couple pages.
De ,, easy,, song i stil Can,t do because i have to put on start and it starts right away so no time to put my fingers in place
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Hey students. You definitely want to make sure you check out this lesson next. It's "5 MORE Mistakes Beginner Piano Players Always Make".
Link: th-cam.com/video/UGNjz61u_6c/w-d-xo.html
I wanna learn music theory online
But I dont know the source.can you recommend one please?(I selfstudied with synthesia but decide to start learning music theory)
2nd mistake example: Alla Turca
Not being a seven year old doing the ling ling routine of practicing 40 hours a day
Started playing by myself when I was 15 years old, I've done 5 out of 6 things you listed... now I have 23 years and can pay a teacher and since 2 months we are working in exactly on what you say. if you are starting out on piano PLEASE make sure you are avoiding this mistakes.
I’m just starting at 14 (close to 15) and my lessons start tomorrow.. I’m a bit nervous since I felt like 14 was a bit too late to start but these comments and yours are reassuring
@@savvymarie7882 just wanted to say that starting at 14 isn't late at all, you're fine. i'm sure you'll do amazing :)
@@acejini I’m doing very good so far and renting a piano from where I take my lessons- I wanted to say thank you because comments like this help me through it all and I’m always grateful to have some :) I am very passionate so ill never give up on it
@@savvymarie7882 I’m 26 and just started lessons a month ago! Been feeling that “too old” feeling for so long that I never started. But I’m glad I’m finally taking the plunge and I’m addicted now (:
My biggest mistake: sitting 2 meters away from the key board.
You have 2 metre arms...?
@@tonov451 guess so
best comment can relate
You are 100% correct in recommending the habit of reviewing the piece prior to playing. In time, patterns will emerge, triplets, arpeggios, sections that may otherwise catch the player off guard are noted. The brain immediately starts processing, formulating the material, all while the player is blissfully unaware!
A piano novice, less than a month, but former professional guitarist (now a weekend warrior!). I'm sort of a weirdo in that I am a huge promoter of learning to read music. Additionally, learning theory will pay lifelong dividends. Many times, it was the deciding factor in who received the position. Also, the ability to read, express, and understand theory opens doors to the higher end, better paying venues.
Lessons with qualified teachers is so important. Hell, I started lessons in the fourth grade, some five decades ago, and I am still taking lessons, currently jazz guitar.
I enjoyed your post very much, thank you.
I’ve been playing piano for six years, and my friend said she plays piano too. So during music class, I asked her to play me a song she knew. She got out an iPad and put on a synthesia video. It made me really sad. I’m not hating on synthesia players, but learning how to read sheet music is so much better! It will truly be worth it in the long run! I’ve been reading sheet music for my whole music career, and I tried to play a synthesia song with my friend during music class. I could not do it at all! It was so much harder than reading the actual notes! One time I had to learn a song that I couldn’t find the sheet music for anywhere, so I had to use synthesia. Luckily, I found a video that had the sheet music with it, so I could ignore the synthesia part and just read the music.
I use Synthesia religiously as a way to learn what to play, I can’t imagine using while playing the song lmao
The problem there wasn't synthesia, the problem was that she didn't memorize any song.
And obviously using something that you're not used to is gonna be hard, what did you expect?
With synthesia you're always gonna be on time but if you don't keep up with it you can just use sheets.
Thats the only differece i see
I think it could be better learning both so when someone needs to teach you without the sheet music you wouldn't struggle to learn it
@@spurka8837 i mean synthesia doesn't have the added bonus of finger numbering, pedaling, and other articulations
I agree, the synthesia process is like playing a video game. Its not as authentic as reading sheet music.
I actually use both when studying new piece. I mostly use synthesia to check my timing and know how it's supposed to sound.
Before I watched the video: "Yeah, I'm an advanced player, probably won't do a lot of them." After I watched the video: "Oh boy. You're right, I am advanced but I'm still guilty of every single one of them, even the ones I KNOW are mistakes (like to focus on your weak parts and not play from the beginning all the time)". You, Sir, have earned a subscriber.
wow... he's right on point with like all of this, i definitely do the 1st 2 things....
This was very helpful! Thank you so much!!! I did level 1 theory when I was 16 and then stopped. So I have a bit of knowledge, but then when I tried to pick up learning again, it was confusing but THIS was SO helpful for pointing me in the right direction. Thank you so much 💕
Tim inspired me to play and even make a channel for it, TH-cam growth might be slow at times but He has motivated me to keep going with it and so many other things in my life :) would mean the world if you came by or even subscribed but ALL THANKS TO TIM!!
I have started to sight read. It was frustrating at first. But I gradually do better. That is also very beneficial . Thanks a lot again...
Although he is right learning music is essential, it's also important ot take your eyes away from the page. My wife has been playing over thirty years and she has absolutely no creativity at the piano. Music reading can make you a slave, as soonm as those little black dots dissappear you can fall flat on your face. I say learn lots of nursery rhymes by ear, taking them through all 12 keys, inevery single cadse don't just learn the notes (C,D, F etc) but also their function - in the Key of C these notes would be root, second and fourth. In the key of F they would function and sound completely differently and be the 5th, 6th and root (in that order). Learning the pitch relations like this, and your jazz modes, is essential to progreessing creativity. Only leave this step out if you are sure ytou only want to play other peoples material.
Lol i can't read music but without the music sheet, i could perfectly memorize every single key until the very end. Is it a bad thing to avoid music sheets? To this day, I still can't read music after 2-3 years of piano.
*Thank You, this advice is good for any musician, at any level really.*
no, they are just making fun of beginners and making them feel bad
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First I thought: oh god, another theachers tutorial ! But at the end I have to tell you: this is all I am telling my students the whole time! So good to know same problems round about the globus! :-)👍👍👍
You're not a click bait po. I've learned so many things from you po. Thank you!
Excellent content. I've been learning the piano for the last 3 months and I make a lot of these mistakes. Subscribed.
I am 45 y.o and just buy digital piano AND taking piano lesson by watching youtube channel. I find that this method (using youtube) is the fastest way to learn, by copying which notes to press, and learn how the same sound output is on my piano. So I never learn notes, I never have any musical background, I only learn what I like, and now I can play "Let It Go" quite fluently, both hands.
I'm trying to say that is through youtube, now we can reach what our goal is, and to me, reading notes is ONE BIG STEP I CAN SKIP a lot.
Because to me, at the end of the day it is what sounds came out of the piano is matter the most, not how fluently we can reading notes.
Its like a bit like saying people don't need to learn how to read and write, because everybody will still understand them when they speak
Synthesia! I always wondered what that technique was called when I see videos of colored bars, of various lengths, falling down on piano keys. I am not a fan of learning to play the piano that way. In videos, I much prefer seeing notes on music sheets while demonstrating playing a musical pieces, etc. Learning to read music is much better. Thanks for the lesson Tim.
Then you are missing the easiest ways to study piano. Synthesia is the answer, the fastest method to learn puano, not reading notes.
You seems like an old idealist who already spent hours and hours of reading notes, then one day your neighbour, who never learn piano outplayed your skills through synthesia!
@@B501R Did you watch the video? He talks about it on 7:24. Basically- It's the easiest one when you're just starting. But learning sheet music will pay you in the long run. It becomes easier then synthesia after you get the hang of the basics. With synthesia you limit yourself to being a one trick pony. And the time it takes to rewind, pause, restart those videos when you get one note wrong. You don't know the tempo, dynamics or articulations. (Which is kinda important.) and so much more. I say this because I'm a beginner that started with synthesia. Mistakes were made. Don't make them too, please
@@user-sx5me8qu5s not necessarily, remember, we only playing piano on song that we LIKE, right? Why forcing one to study reading sheet that we DON'T LIKE? I like "Let It Go", I like to study it and wants to playing it, then I just go to synthesia, find the song, and then practice it afterwards. That's is ALL I NEED. We do not need playing Rachmaninoff, right? Reading sheet is another hours wasted, and again studying tempo, articulations? You can master it by listening and watching synthesia video, which is millions of it today. And to pause, restart, replay is not an issue, since today all smartphone are touch screen already mam. Why struggle with things that we don't like?
And they say reading sheets is important?
@@B501R It may be the easiest and fastest way to learn the piano without learning to read notes. If you are in a hurry, use that method. However, I see a big problem with it. If you hear a music piece you want to learn, you have to search for a synthesia video and hope one exists. If it doesn't, you are out of luck unless you can read notes. If you can read notes, you don't have to rely on someone creating a synthesia video. And if you want to learn a different arrangement of that music you may have heard, again you have to hope the synthesia video exists.
Another problem is I can write down on music sheets the difficult parts of the music I may want to hilight and remember for my next practice. I can't do that with a video. I could write down the timestamp on a piece of paper and hope I don't lose the paper but not quite the same as seeing it on music sheets where notes and comments are together.
Another problem, there may be less than 1% of all music made into a synthesia video. It may take a very long time if ever to have all or most music in a synthesia piano video. I see other problems but this is long enough.
Synthesia is good if that is the way you want to learn. I still prefer being able to read music notes and I am in total control.
@@Omega0401 OK first things first.
Paragraph #1 and #3, again, WE ONLY PLAY SONGS THAT WE LIKE, If one songs doesn't exist, just search and play ANOTHER song, right? THERE ARE MILLIONS SONGS out there that we LIKE and available in synthesia, WHY STUCK with songs that doesn't exist?
Paragraph #2, to me, piano is mostly about HAND COORDINATION, therefore for difficult parts, as you said, I repeat and repeat practicing my hand coordination, I never bother to take notes, except on chord arrangements, but again that is solve all the time by practicing HAND COORDINATION.
There you go, YOU CAN WRITE DOWN AS MANY PROBLEMS AND ARGUMENTS as you like, but again, me, as an ordinary piano enthusiasts, will believe that synthesia is better ways to learn piano.
Beside, at the end of the day, it is the song that counts, whether you learn it by reading sheets or else.
Love the way you teach!
You layout everything in a simple way, to the point and demoing what you're talking about. You got a new subscriber!
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"You are not a You tuber until someone accuses you of click bait "
True
Fur elise is a good example of a harder piece, but note the "fur elise theme" in and of itself is quite simple, easy, and rewarding to practice / learn at a beginners level. (Great for getting hands together, wrist motions and used to bigger movements)
I think he’s talking to people who have just started, not people who have already been playing for a few weeks or months.
@@thereyougoagain1280 I'm aware hes talking about beginners. Thats why I mentioned the "fur elise theme". It was the first thing I ever learned how to play. I had no prior experience on piano and no talent either. But it really is quite easy if you just take it slow / step by step. One hand then the other, and once you practice enough it begins to flow and allows you to play it smoothly at any speed however fast.
"Learn songs at your level"
Me: *Learns megalovania as their first song*
Mmm good idea
That's a Wonderfull idea
Hmmm nice one. I tried but I’m pretty bad lol. Ended up doing Mad World
hm... good idea for a quarantined me
This is just me...
Just bought myself a yamaha PSR-E360 because I've always wanted to learn how to play... But it's been more of a day dream than anything... Until now! So glad I came across your videos, my brother told me to download that app but it was waaaay to fast paced for me! Looking forward to watching your piano lessons next 😊😊
Pieces like Turkish March, Fur Ellise etc, maybe be difficult as a beginner but I found that putting in that time to learn them as a beginner, no matter how long it takes, perfecting songs like that first will make learning other difficult songs in the long run much easier. In my opinion it’s worth it to put in the time. Been playing piano for about 5 years and I’ve progressed faster this way but it’s all subjective to how YOU want to learn piano.
Loved the video! I personally tend to go for songs way above my level and sometimes it works out. I love a challenge but I often get the need to go back to easier stuff and take it slow. First song that I (partially) learned on piano completely from the sheet music was about 3 minutes of Toccata e Fugue in D minor to show how crazy anxious I started. Took me a while to see how important it is to take it slow but every now and then I still like to take a hard song as a challenge.
Tim inspired me to play and even make a channel for it, TH-cam growth might be slow at times but He has motivated me to keep going with it and so many other things in my life :) would mean the world if you came by or even subscribed but ALL THANKS TO TIM!!
Hey I have a question. I've been teaching myself the piano for 2 years now. I use my muscle memory and my own memory to play the piano and I've gotten very far. I play my own songs and they end up being good. I never really read music or learned how to play pieces I regularly play my own songs and not songs I like. And if I run out of songs to play I can make a new one in a few minutes. I teach myself new things like instead of playing with 3 fingers I try to play with my entire hand and using those black note things in the middle of the normal notes of the piano. But my question is how will music theory and all that other stuff affect how I will play the piano outside of not reading how to play pieces because so far I've gotten better and better over the years and I don't see how that will really help me. I am not interested on learning how to play other people's music but rather my own.
I'm a self-teaching beginner. Started a week ago and I'm really proud I'm not doing any of these mistakes even without any guidance! (Using Alfred's basic piano lesson book)
"Like I said a MINUET ago"... Literally😆
Fur Elise is actually a great song for beginners to learn, because it's a classical piece that sounds complicated (though, it's not) and will impress non pianists, despite the fact that it's actually an easy piece to play. It only has like, 3 chords. It's a real encouraging song to play.
I’ve been playing guitar for 10 years and piano for about 4, and a lot of these not only apply for piano, but all instruments! This list is very accurate and something all beginners should see! I sure wish I did! :)
Tim inspired me to play and even make a channel for it, TH-cam growth might be slow at times but He has motivated me to keep going with it and so many other things in my life :) would mean the world if you came by or even subscribed but ALL THANKS TO TIM!!
I learned to sight read through synthesia, it has settings that allow you to display the music as sheet music and turn off the falling notes and it's surprisingly effective in terms of learning to read when using it that way
Tim inspired me to play and even make a channel for it, TH-cam growth might be slow at times but He has motivated me to keep going with it and so many other things in my life :) would mean the world if you came by or even subscribed but ALL THANKS TO TIM!!
I still can't play by note. I tried to learn with my teacher. I got frustrated and gave up. Didn't touch the piano for years. Finally picked it up again. I personally find playing by ear is far easier then playing by note.
L5Rocks but when you have to play a piece accurately, sheet music is always better, even if its hard at first
It depends on what you play. Pop music? Definitely by ear. Classical music? Definitely sheet music
When I started to play piano.
I realized more the way to play Intermediate to advance piece level like River flows in you by yiruma and Nocturne op 9 no.2 and sitting next to you by handsome. And now learning lacrimosa and Clair de lune
bigest mistake: not listening to your teacher.......and not counting the beats..... great vid by the way....
agreed. not counting. eek.
That was a very enlightening lesson. I always start playing right off and then 1/4 of the way through, I'm like, "is that a flat note or a sharp?" have to throw my eyes back to the beginning, etc etc
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Fur elise was the first pice i learnd now i playing heroic polonaise
I've been watching several videos(very helpful!). I start questioning if i should continue to throw money on my current piano teacher 😅😅 I'm so frustrated tonight in reading music sheet. So I went back home start watching tutorial videos. You do solved many of my confusions 😁
Mistakes that are slowing down my piano progress:
*not knowing how to play whole note and half note*
*I* *feel* *called* *out*
Whole note? Half note? I only know g note
What are they aren't there just quarter nors
@@BreadBoi-0 Bruh. There are much more than those too
@@namelessghoul615 it was a joke, like I only play quarter notes and no other notes
These are helpful tips. There are two things in the video that may be confusing to beginners. First, at 3:30, when you talk about studying fingering and you circle the numbers, I would explain the "321" (it's an ornament that a beginner might not play but might wonder why there are 3 fingers for one note). And (ironically) at 2:25, just as you mention playing both pitches and rhythms accurately, you misplay the appoggiatura in measure 8. It's not a grace note.
i'm actually starting to learn and I thank you for telling me this in advance otherwise I would have been struggling in the later stages ;)
**I've done everything in this video**
True story
“You’ll have an idea in your mind like: man I’ve always wanted to play für elise”
I feel so attacked right now this is one of the reasons I wanted a piano lmaooo
I watched this video months ago and was making a lot of the mistakes mentioned here. I’m watching it again today and I don’t think I’m making these mistakes anymore. Your tips really helped!
Tim inspired me to play and even make a channel for it, TH-cam growth might be slow at times but He has motivated me to keep going with it and so many other things in my life :) would mean the world if you came by or even subscribed! but ALL THANKS TO TIM!!
LOL That’s absolutely true hehe, I was learned Minuet in G as the first piano piece and I kept playing the first part of the song for an hour during practice
Such a true and basic mistakes! And they apply to many other activities, not just piano :)
Hey, at [06:00] you mention exercises and you'd add a link in the description? Thx