Asked some of my fellow organists and they practice once in a blue moon but they can go for 3 hours of a serious practice. I can't sit for more than an hour. So here's what I do: I practice everyday. But can only practice 2 hours at max. But not in one sitting. I do 30 mins to an hour when I woke up. Then 30 mins or an hour at night or afternoon. Do you think that's still good??? Was afraid doing that can't help me improve
There's no timings as such, usually it's mornings and evenings, while taking break from house chores and cooking. You played my favourite piece (Fur Elise) which I had started without realising that it was not a beginner piece😄 I tried one exercise from hanon after seeing a Pianist TH-cam video, it's amazing! I am making the best of time since I am not working.
I am a senior age 72 who had a long career as a jazz pianist and singer. In these autumn years I am returning to my high school years of classical pieces. It is a delight, but even more delightful is that I found your channel! I just wanted to say thank you, young man, for sharing your skill, your expertise and most of all your deep love of music. Through the miracle of the internet I get to meet you, study with you and enjoy your great warmth and enthusiasm! You are a blessing.
Amen to that! In a similar 'boat' making a comeback to piano at 61. With Jazer its happening- Thank you so much Jazer! P S: Im interested in learning classic gospel style but find it a tough cross overn from classical learning. Tips welcomed. Thx, MJ
me too, I studied piano when I was a kid (that was my instrument of choice), then I played the guitar for some time as a teenager (did not play it well though), and now I learn again the piano at the age of 34!
I've recently started taking piano practice seriously; returning to piano at 74 after slamming the piano lid down at 14, from too much parental pressure. I too find TH-cam a blessing, especially in the time of Covid. I'm learnng so much and can definitely tell I'm progressing. Can't wait to tickle the keys again tomorrow. Thanks for all the guidance and inspiration 😁
As a saxophone player, I want to add a single thing: When practicing, USE A METRONOME. It will keep you humble, and consistent. You may think you don't need one. But EVERYONE needs one when practicing. Once you can play it with a metronome at full tempo, then remove it and work on expressing the piece. Only once you've learned the piece, can you truly *perform* the piece.
I find that breaking down a piece also helps prevent you growing sick of a piece before you have properly learned it. Each section that you practicing is sort of like a little piece in itself. And the satisfaction you feel when you put it all together is highly motivating.
Your suggestion of isolating and mastering each hand before playing together has been super helpful to me. I think you once said "1+1=5" when it comes to playing hands together and that is so true. If you can't play each hand by itself, there's no way you'll play them together.
I studied piano for 6 years, but because I moved to another country I had to leave my piano behind. For 21 years I didn't play, couldn't afford the instrument. 3 days ago I finally bought a classical uptight piano and I'm absolutely ecstatic!!! I'm looking forward to learning the piano again and your videos are already helping so much! Thank you!
I just started watching these videos a few days ago, and I have to say, Jazer Lee is the best piano teacher I have ever come across. He wastes no words, his examples and pointers are all spot-on, and he makes every minute of every lesson count. He has really got me excited about practicing and playing. Bravo, Jazer! Thank you!
Thanks Jazer Lee ! I am finding your TH-cam videos very helpful ! You are not only intelligent and gifted, but also sincere and generous. God bless you !
15 minutes for practice??? At that rate I might never get there, Jazer! I'm in my 70's and I need to put in more than 15 minutes. I have to say that your videos really help me. I actually did not think I could do the Hanon exercises until I watched your video on the Hanon exercise and decide I would try it out and now I have the book close and work on Hanon daily. I also have the Fingerpower books. These are all great tips and helps. And yes, the difficult pieces help you grow musically! Thank you for doing these videos!!!
Take any song sheet-practice each measure say 11 22 44 88 times-you’ll have finger technique ! You won’t need other technique books…it is already embedded in the piece you are trying to learn.
THANK YOU Jazer for the quality subtitles! I'm not HoH but words often get mixed up in my head (kind of like audio dyslexia) so it is a huge help for so many people that you have good subtitles on your videos -- thank you!
This is a very good video. I agree completely about having a minimum practice session of about 15minutes. For many of us chaotic souls, that means practising this way every time, and then seeing if we have any more time for other piano tasks. Also, by not obliging yourself to do a huge practice session in one go, music practice remains fun. I should add that there needs to be a fun element in most practice sessions, for obvious reasons. Guys, Jazer touched only lightly on a very important issue: Not stopping when you make mistakes. Here's the low down: With written music, there is testing yourself, and there is drilling to fix mistakes. You should never confuse these two tasks! Start by choosing a not-too-difficult piece. It doesn't have to be the whole piece. Play this without stopping for anything, even if you have to abandon one hand to do it. Keep going for the length you promised yourself, even if you can only play single notes in the end. Then go back and drill the areas that went wrong, always trying to play the whole short phrase which contains your mistake.
I have discovered the best routine for me to improve my piano skills is 2 sessions daily of 30 minutes each. I tried a 1 hour session but it didn't work for me because it was almost impossible to concentrate on learning new and challenging things for 1 hour without a break.
I love that you have tested it and found a better system for yourself Jerry. I myself can't always concentrate for an hour. Those final 20 mins are not too productive as a result. People should try your method!
Exactly. Humans can;t be concentrated for over like 40 min in a row. Maybe there are exceptions, but this is how we are constructed. 4 hours practice a day often means 2 sessions by two hours, with for example 3 10 min breaks. It's better to have a 10 min break and practice with fresh mind than play hours when our is too exhausted to remember all of the information
Hi! I recently discovered you and, as a language teacher, I’m really impressed. Learning how to play the piano and the way you approach it is pretty much the same way you approach learning a second language. I love the quality of your explanations, the examples, and all the tips that you provide thanks to all those years of experience you have gained which is really valuable. I was particularly impressed when I heard you say in one of your videos how you can improve the things you learn the wrong way, because this is exactly how I’ve felt. I never learned it properly and it’s very hard to unlearn the bad habits and replace them with good ones. With that being said, I’m very interested in those videos where you explain all the things we have to avoid doing or the things we should be doing. Thank you so much for all of your videos. You have a new subscriber now! ;) Gabriela.
You have an intelligent approach to practice and you haven't even tried to sell me a course of something I couldn't hope to understand yet. I'm super impressed with this channel and intend to use it as my main resource for learning piano, I would be grateful if you can point me towards bringing my left hand up to speed with my much more accomplished right hand. Thanks in advance 😁
@@jazerleepiano yes, my left hand needs help too. Currently I'm working through a bass guitar sight-reading book but the "melodic" exercises are entirely random and are therefore tedious and not at all musical. That's a pity because the rhythm section of the book helped my bass playing enormously and my piano teacher is amazed that I can read the rhythms of complicated syncopated phrases so at least my notes are in the right place even if they're the wrong pitch! 😀
The most helpful part of this video is seeing that even an experienced pianist has to "figure things out". For some reason I have this feeling that it should not require work.
( sory for my really bad english, i am from Germany, i understand much more than i can write ) I just found your chanel a few days ago and i am so thankful! I have learnd to play the piano in my youth until i was 16... and now i start again at the age of 42 ...with my very first piano at home. I just want to say thank you!! You are so kind and i really enjoy your videos to get help with starting again. I remeber that i played "for Ellise" in my youth very good... and now... i can play nothing... but i will look forward and learn again 😀 with you! So thank you for your helpful videos!
You are a good teacher. I played an instrument before and I had the same problem. I played some parts very well and then I came to the diffecult part and I slowed down or stopped and it sound very bad. I think I gave my teacher a big headache with that. The reason. I hardly practiced and when I had to go to my teacher I had stiff hands because I didn`t play before. My teacher knew that I did not spend much time practicing it.
It's definitely helpful to look for patterns in the notes or the fingerings. For example I'm trying to play parts of the Schubert Wanderer Fantasy. In the 3rd movement starting in bar 65 we have that beautiful modulation, I noticed that the F flat stays the same for five bars, along with the D flat in the bass. I took a colored pencil and drew a straight line through the F flats and D flats. That simplified the chords a lot.
When my daughter started 7th grade music class (violin, then viola), she would come home and complain about Bach, because "he drank beer, had lots of children and wrote hard music." At the end of 7th grade, she came home one day after they had revisited the music they had played at the beginning of the year, and she wondered out loud why they thought that music was hard. Difficulty is relative, and can also be temporary.
I'm in my seventies and I have a little touch of arthritis. Hanon has helped me getting my little fingers on both hands working again when they had basically stopped being able to come down on the keys properly.
Instantly ordered this "Hanon" book with 60 of those. I need to work on my hand technique because after not playing for 18 years my fingers got weak, this will be perfect for it! I love your video's!
love your videos man. I started learning playing the piano in January and your videos help me a lot. love how methodic you are in your explanations. thank you!
Hi Jazer! Thank you so much you are a true inspiration! Having recently discovered your channel I am finding your advice and clarity of enthusiasm and professionalism combined with your knowledge amazing. I have only started learning this month I am 62 this year and with the support of my wife & your session’s hope to progress adequately. Thanks again - Andy 😁🙏
I generally do not practice on scales or patterns, but just go straight to trying to learn challenging songs, that I like. I am a long time guitarist, know theory fairly well and sometimes slow the song I am learning down. Totally a beginner on piano, but is working for me. Probably not a good approach, but improving just the same, I suppose I should try a more logical, traditional way, like you are suggesting. Thanks!
Very useful concrete advice to get the most out of the available practice time. Brilliant as always, thanks a lot Jazer! A simple chord chart of the improvisation at the end (10:05) would be helpful, a starting point for our own improvisations so to speak. The melody is not difficult but picking out the left hand with the muted notes is a bit of a challenge.
Hello Jazer Lee, i am not so professional in playing piano. I have no teacher and try to learn piano with books, videos and playground. I have problems with reading notes and playing chord variations. I have an Yamaha S90 XS keyboard with 88 keys and can unfortunately only use a few of the 88 keys in the songs i play. It would be great to be able to use more. You are a very professional piano player and it is great, that you produce tutorials. My tipp for you to get more clicks and more money is: Publish one song per month as TH-cam Video. Can you play New York, New York from Frank Sinatra ? With ABBA Songs e.g. Dancing Queen, Madonna - Hung Up or Chi Mai Ennio Morricone ... you will also get many clicks. Best regards, Michael There are so many piano players on youtube with less skills who get much more clicks.
Thanks Jazer, again. I guess we busy adults all know deep within that we should do some practice, warm up the fingers, work on difficult parts, and yet every time i just jump in and play the parts of songs that i know well, just to feel good about myself. And then finding out a month later that i did not actually make any progress. You are a great reminder for me, every time i see a new tutorial.
@02:02 I started practicing Hanon as a Jazz pianist and you are spot on. That exercise has made faster and more fluid. I practice that routine daily now!
Hi Jazer, like your approach a lot, very systematic and efficient👍 I’m picking up my piano practice again after 20 years and your videos help me a lot. Thanks heaps 😊
You are a very good teacher...especially this video is awesome.... I am following this daily.... Thanks for the sharing your experience and knowledge.....
Find this very helpful,thank you. I took lesions for about one year I took sixty years off and have started lesions again. I’m learning much faster this time.
Lol, I always work on the hard parts Jazer, because at the moment it's almost all hard for me 😆 But honestly, great tuition as always. Thanks so much and have a great weekend!
7:20 This part here, working each hand of the melody separately, does help a lot, but the biggest issue for me right now, matching the notes on the score to the keys on the piano. You have to say them out loud as you play them, so that as soon as you see a note on the page, you can name it without thinking. I'm working on this one very hard right now, and I still get lost when I stop reading the score. Learn your notes! 👍
Picking up the piano again as an adult and I find your videos motivating. Do you have any videos addressing the use of a metronome? In warm ups? In learning a piece?
Hi Jazer! Thanks for these study suggestions -- most appreciated. Well, as far as I'm concerned, I only study half an hour a day. I wish I could study more hours, but I just can't. One of your suggestions to study the hardest part of a music piece resonates with my ex piano tutor. She always oriented her students (myself included) to go over the entire piece and get started from the hardest part/passage. On a side note, I am hopeful if you could kindly consider making a video about arm weight when playing the piano. Again, thanks so much for your videos. All the best!
Thank you Jazer, a very logic approach to learn an improve this instrument. Though one knows it already it‘s very good to have someone reminding on these simple principles now and then.
These are great tips, Jazer! 👍 Most students don't know how to practice efficiently and end up wasting a lot of time. You are especially right about isolating and practicing the hard parts first, and unfortunately most people don't like doing that and only want to play the parts they're good at...learning to play an instrument is all about delayed gratification! 🤓
With practicing easier pieces I like to have the whole book that they came from for variety rather than just playing from easy collections, for example I now have Bach's entire Well-Tempered Clavier. A lot of the preludes and all the fugues are too difficult for me to play well at this stage because I haven't practiced them, I'm gonna focus on the second half of the prelude 1 book 1 first, but it's nice to be able to flip through the book when I get bored of Prelude 1, find other preludes at least and get an idea of how their rhythm differs and how they sound. I particularly like book 1, Prelude 12 F minor. It's tricky but the intro sounds nice. Similarly I have the whole planet's suite and Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition, and while the first Promenade does appear in the same easy collections it's nice to have the full piece because the Old Castle is tricky, but REALLY badass sounding and I really enjoy trying to get better at that sort of piece while improving my basics.
Brilliant really is helpful, I am lucky as I play bass and sax and now learning piano so I can read both treble and bass clefs, but you make complicated pieces seem so playable for a novice like me, thanks
Could u make a video where you explain the dynamic? For example the basic dynamics p,pp,mp,mf,f,ff, crescendo, decresendo,dim. Also I would like to hear some tips about them. In addition I would like to hear your opinion about how to enter from p to f, I mean some pieces when they have p mark for a couple of meters then an F appears suddenly without any crescendo. I have heard from teachers that when I see an F a good way is to add my self a crescendo before I enter into F. Thanks.
I practise about an hour a day, and 15 minutes of that is my brain mentally battling itself with me hunched over contemplating why I can’t do whatever it is I’m trying to do.
Hi Mr. Jazer Lee thank you for sharing your talent, and because of your clearly tutorial and explanation, you are encouraging me to play and learn Piano, Thank you and more power❤️
Hey Jazer, the Problem is, when i have only 15min to play or practice, I had a stressfull Day and want to relax and clear my mind.... Maybe one Day practice and the next Day playing ;-). Thanks a Lot for your helpful Videos.
Hi Jazer Lee! I am only a beginner. I am busy with work but I like playing piano. Thanks for showing me how it’s done. I am looking forward for more videos! Just subscribed.
I think I had to use the Hanon book of exercises with my last (and best) piano teacher several decades ago. In fact, I recognized exercises #1 & #2 for sure when you played through them. I looked for my book, but with many household moves, it must be packed away somewhere (I hope). My teacher was using the drills specifically to try to get my left hand fingers to strike the keys in precision with the right hand. This is still a struggle so I will take your advice and keep at it. The other thing I struggle with is finger placement in working to play a whole piece through smoothly. I only made it through maybe 3 years of lessons and didn't learn chords, so my fingers don't naturally fall into shapes ... I have to study each measure as it relates to its neighbors and figure out where my fingers need to be along the way. I would be embarrassed to have anyone look at all the fingering numbers scribbled on my sheet music.
Thanks for the share. Definitely give the Hanon another go. You have a good point regarding finger shapes and how each bar's shape relates to the next- great insight!
How many minutes/hours do you practice a day? ⌚
12-14 during holidays 2-3 during schooldays
Asked some of my fellow organists and they practice once in a blue moon but they can go for 3 hours of a serious practice. I can't sit for more than an hour. So here's what I do: I practice everyday. But can only practice 2 hours at max. But not in one sitting. I do 30 mins to an hour when I woke up. Then 30 mins or an hour at night or afternoon. Do you think that's still good??? Was afraid doing that can't help me improve
@@Dave-zd1gi hiii. Thanks so much, Dave! Do you have sheets for anime songs that you can maybe send me? Much appreciated!
There's no timings as such, usually it's mornings and evenings, while taking break from house chores and cooking. You played my favourite piece (Fur Elise) which I had started without realising that it was not a beginner piece😄 I tried one exercise from hanon after seeing a Pianist TH-cam video, it's amazing! I am making the best of time since I am not working.
an hour a day (on average), the very maximum I can do is 2 hours (not in one go)
I am a senior age 72 who had a long career as a jazz pianist and singer. In these autumn years I am returning to my high school years of classical pieces. It is a delight, but even more delightful is that I found your channel! I just wanted to say thank you, young man, for sharing your skill, your expertise and most of all your deep love of music. Through the miracle of the internet I get to meet you, study with you and enjoy your great warmth and enthusiasm! You are a blessing.
Amen to that! In a similar 'boat' making a comeback to piano at 61. With Jazer its happening- Thank you so much Jazer! P S: Im interested in learning classic gospel style but find it a tough cross overn from classical learning. Tips welcomed. Thx, MJ
me too, I studied piano when I was a kid (that was my instrument of choice), then I played the guitar for some time as a teenager (did not play it well though), and now I learn again the piano at the age of 34!
Wow thank you for blessing everyone with that comment
Just started playing 3 years ago and i love piano so much. Im 33.
I've recently started taking piano practice seriously; returning to piano at 74 after slamming the piano lid down at 14, from too much parental pressure. I too find TH-cam a blessing, especially in the time of Covid. I'm learnng so much and can definitely tell I'm progressing. Can't wait to tickle the keys again tomorrow. Thanks for all the guidance and inspiration 😁
As a saxophone player, I want to add a single thing:
When practicing, USE A METRONOME. It will keep you humble, and consistent. You may think you don't need one. But EVERYONE needs one when practicing. Once you can play it with a metronome at full tempo, then remove it and work on expressing the piece. Only once you've learned the piece, can you truly *perform* the piece.
I find that breaking down a piece also helps prevent you growing sick of a piece before you have properly learned it. Each section that you practicing is sort of like a little piece in itself. And the satisfaction you feel when you put it all together is highly motivating.
Agree!
I concur. it is how I practice. Many instructors recommend it. Break it down, play it over and over….
Best piano teacher on TH-cam - hands down.
Your suggestion of isolating and mastering each hand before playing together has been super helpful to me. I think you once said "1+1=5" when it comes to playing hands together and that is so true. If you can't play each hand by itself, there's no way you'll play them together.
I studied piano for 6 years, but because I moved to another country I had to leave my piano behind. For 21 years I didn't play, couldn't afford the instrument. 3 days ago I finally bought a classical uptight piano and I'm absolutely ecstatic!!! I'm looking forward to learning the piano again and your videos are already helping so much! Thank you!
I just started watching these videos a few days ago, and I have to say, Jazer Lee is the best piano teacher I have ever come across. He wastes no words, his examples and pointers are all spot-on, and he makes every minute of every lesson count. He has really got me excited about practicing and playing. Bravo, Jazer! Thank you!
Thanks Jazer Lee ! I am finding your TH-cam videos very helpful ! You are not only intelligent and gifted, but also sincere and generous. God bless you !
Thank you Joshua, hope the vids are helpful for you
Your teaching is very clear and enjoyable. I actually look forward to practicing for the first time in years. Thank You!
Happy for you Julie, let me know how you go!
I have never clcked so fast on a recommendation just based on the title.
The way you spelt click made it sound convincingly fast.
I double on this.
Same
Yeah..same with me lol 😂
15 minutes for practice??? At that rate I might never get there, Jazer! I'm in my 70's and I need to put in more than 15 minutes. I have to say that your videos really help me. I actually did not think I could do the Hanon exercises until I watched your video on the Hanon exercise and decide I would try it out and now I have the book close and work on Hanon daily. I also have the Fingerpower books. These are all great tips and helps. And yes, the difficult pieces help you grow musically! Thank you for doing these videos!!!
My pleasure Dauntie! Hope Hanon works out for you. Love your spirit, playing and pursuing piano in your 70s, you are my hero!
Hello Could you tell me where to get that Hanon exercise that I can download it? Would appreciate your reply. Thanks
I am 74 I practice 2 too 3 hrs a day Hanon part 1 is great my work includes 10 different things songs scales cords etc We are all a work in progress
@@mohammadsophidjudzman6095 I purchased the Hanon Book on eBay.
Take any song sheet-practice each measure say 11 22 44 88 times-you’ll have finger technique ! You won’t need other technique books…it is already embedded in the piece you are trying to learn.
My problem is I either practice for 3 hours straight or I dont practice at all. 😭
That's Relatable @phuong Tran
How come?
@@jazerleepiano unable to follow daily routine :(
Same!
Same 😅
THANK YOU Jazer for the quality subtitles! I'm not HoH but words often get mixed up in my head (kind of like audio dyslexia) so it is a huge help for so many people that you have good subtitles on your videos -- thank you!
This is a very good video. I agree completely about having a minimum practice session of about 15minutes. For many of us chaotic souls, that means practising this way every time, and then seeing if we have any more time for other piano tasks. Also, by not obliging yourself to do a huge practice session in one go, music practice remains fun. I should add that there needs to be a fun element in most practice sessions, for obvious reasons.
Guys, Jazer touched only lightly on a very important issue: Not stopping when you make mistakes. Here's the low down: With written music, there is testing yourself, and there is drilling to fix mistakes. You should never confuse these two tasks! Start by choosing a not-too-difficult piece. It doesn't have to be the whole piece. Play this without stopping for anything, even if you have to abandon one hand to do it. Keep going for the length you promised yourself, even if you can only play single notes in the end. Then go back and drill the areas that went wrong, always trying to play the whole short phrase which contains your mistake.
LOVE the pre-play advice of 1. pattern recognition & 2. the isolate the tough section & conquer it!
I have discovered the best routine for me to improve my piano skills is 2 sessions daily of 30 minutes each. I tried a 1 hour session but it didn't work for me because it was almost impossible to concentrate on learning new and challenging things for 1 hour without a break.
I love that you have tested it and found a better system for yourself Jerry. I myself can't always concentrate for an hour. Those final 20 mins are not too productive as a result. People should try your method!
Exactly. Humans can;t be concentrated for over like 40 min in a row. Maybe there are exceptions, but this is how we are constructed. 4 hours practice a day often means 2 sessions by two hours, with for example 3 10 min breaks. It's better to have a 10 min break and practice with fresh mind than play hours when our is too exhausted to remember all of the information
Hi! I recently discovered you and, as a language teacher, I’m really impressed. Learning how to play the piano and the way you approach it is pretty much the same way you approach learning a second language. I love the quality of your explanations, the examples, and all the tips that you provide thanks to all those years of experience you have gained which is really valuable.
I was particularly impressed when I heard you say in one of your videos how you can improve the things you learn the wrong way, because this is exactly how I’ve felt. I never learned it properly and it’s very hard to unlearn the bad habits and replace them with good ones. With that being said, I’m very interested in those videos where you explain all the things we have to avoid doing or the things we should be doing.
Thank you so much for all of your videos. You have a new subscriber now! ;)
Gabriela.
I am so glad to have you as a student. 🤓
You have an intelligent approach to practice and you haven't even tried to sell me a course of something I couldn't hope to understand yet. I'm super impressed with this channel and intend to use it as my main resource for learning piano, I would be grateful if you can point me towards bringing my left hand up to speed with my much more accomplished right hand. Thanks in advance 😁
Hi AOD digga, this is a fantastic question and great video idea. I will be working on this.
@@jazerleepiano yes, my left hand needs help too. Currently I'm working through a bass guitar sight-reading book but the "melodic" exercises are entirely random and are therefore tedious and not at all musical. That's a pity because the rhythm section of the book helped my bass playing enormously and my piano teacher is amazed that I can read the rhythms of complicated syncopated phrases so at least my notes are in the right place even if they're the wrong pitch! 😀
I like that you got Für Elise as your example. I’m 37 and just recently started learning to play the piano and currently studying this piece. 😄
Rock on!
The most helpful part of this video is seeing that even an experienced pianist has to "figure things out". For some reason I have this feeling that it should not require work.
( sory for my really bad english, i am from Germany, i understand much more than i can write )
I just found your chanel a few days ago and i am so thankful! I have learnd to play the piano in my youth until i was 16... and now i start again at the age of 42 ...with my very first piano at home. I just want to say thank you!! You are so kind and i really enjoy your videos to get help with starting again. I remeber that i played "for Ellise" in my youth very good... and now... i can play nothing... but i will look forward and learn again 😀 with you! So thank you for your helpful videos!
At my age, you give me hope that one day I will be able to play for my children.
You are a good teacher. I played an instrument before and I had the same problem.
I played some parts very well and then I came to the diffecult part and I slowed down or stopped and it sound very bad.
I think I gave my teacher a big headache with that.
The reason. I hardly practiced and when I had to go to my teacher I had stiff hands because I didn`t play before.
My teacher knew that I did not spend much time practicing it.
Dear Mr. Lee It will work definitely for me, thanks for your time, and I look forward to working with you once again.... You are a great teacher ❤
As an adult piano learner, thank you!
I used this routine in my lunch break today.
A talented piano player, and a good teacher.
I think your slow and mindful learning is my finished product. 😁
Wonderful!
It's definitely helpful to look for patterns in the notes or the fingerings. For example I'm trying to play parts of the Schubert Wanderer Fantasy. In the 3rd movement starting in bar 65 we have that beautiful modulation, I noticed that the F flat stays the same for five bars, along with the D flat in the bass. I took a colored pencil and drew a straight line through the F flats and D flats. That simplified the chords a lot.
When my daughter started 7th grade music class (violin, then viola), she would come home and complain about Bach, because "he drank beer, had lots of children and wrote hard music." At the end of 7th grade, she came home one day after they had revisited the music they had played at the beginning of the year, and she wondered out loud why they thought that music was hard. Difficulty is relative, and can also be temporary.
I'm in my seventies and I have a little touch of arthritis. Hanon has helped me getting my little fingers on both hands working again when they had basically stopped being able to come down on the keys properly.
You are such a good teacher! Easy to understand; your explanations are very clear. Thanks 😊
He has a nice presnting manner - clear and precise.
Instantly ordered this "Hanon" book with 60 of those. I need to work on my hand technique because after not playing for 18 years my fingers got weak, this will be perfect for it! I love your video's!
Hi Jazer I watch all your video tutorials and put your instructions into practice. It has helped me progress in my music. Thank you
Enjoy your sincere and honest explanations. Feel your care.
love your videos man. I started learning playing the piano in January and your videos help me a lot. love how methodic you are in your explanations. thank you!
Hi Jazer! Thank you so much you are a true inspiration! Having recently discovered your channel I am finding your advice and clarity of enthusiasm and professionalism combined with your knowledge amazing. I have only started learning this month I am 62 this year and with the support of my wife & your session’s hope to progress adequately. Thanks again - Andy 😁🙏
I generally do not practice on scales or patterns, but just go straight to trying to learn challenging songs, that I like. I am a long time guitarist, know theory fairly well and sometimes slow the song I am learning down. Totally a beginner on piano, but is working for me. Probably not a good approach, but improving just the same, I suppose I should try a more logical, traditional way, like you are suggesting. Thanks!
Very useful concrete advice to get the most out of the available practice time. Brilliant as always, thanks a lot Jazer!
A simple chord chart of the improvisation at the end (10:05) would be helpful, a starting point for our own improvisations so to speak. The melody is not difficult but picking out the left hand with the muted notes is a bit of a challenge.
Sir , thanks Youu have simplified the playing of two hands so well that i need to practice to master t art of 2 hands.
Thanx. God's Blessings.
I feel so motivated after watching this 😄
Hello Jazer Lee, i am not so professional in playing piano. I have no teacher and try to learn piano with books, videos and playground. I have problems with reading notes and playing chord variations. I have an Yamaha S90 XS keyboard with 88 keys and can unfortunately only use a few of the 88 keys in the songs i play. It would be great to be able to use more. You are a very professional piano player and it is great, that you produce tutorials. My tipp for you to get more clicks and more money is: Publish one song per month as TH-cam Video. Can you play New York, New York from Frank Sinatra ? With ABBA Songs e.g. Dancing Queen, Madonna - Hung Up or Chi Mai Ennio Morricone ... you will also get many clicks. Best regards, Michael There are so many piano players on youtube with less skills who get much more clicks.
Thanks Jazer, again. I guess we busy adults all know deep within that we should do some practice, warm up the fingers, work on difficult parts, and yet every time i just jump in and play the parts of songs that i know well, just to feel good about myself. And then finding out a month later that i did not actually make any progress. You are a great reminder for me, every time i see a new tutorial.
Happy to hear this AKO
Comforting to see that I'm not alone ^^
@02:02 I started practicing Hanon as a Jazz pianist and you are spot on. That exercise has made faster and more fluid. I practice that routine daily now!
Like your tutorial so much. Helpful for an adult
beginner like me.
Hi Jazer, like your approach a lot, very systematic and efficient👍 I’m picking up my piano practice again after 20 years and your videos help me a lot. Thanks heaps 😊
Same here. Literally I'm starting all over again.
same here starting all over again after 50 years
You are the great piano teacher Jezer Lee god bless.
the hanon book is dope best gift i ever got
I'm blessed indeed. Grateful for a good job
Awesome teacher !!!!!
Love from Thailand !!!!!
You are a very good teacher...especially this video is awesome.... I am following this daily.... Thanks for the sharing your experience and knowledge.....
Really great advice on the parts that’s the hardest ! Thank you
You're welcome!
What a good teacher this man is 🙏
I was gonna search for this type of tutorial. But then, it popped up itself. Glad that I subscribed to you a few days ago.
😊 Hanon 1 and 6 are my favorites, not hard and fun up and down. Thanks for this review Jazer Lee👌
Yay we are alike Vergie! Have fun practicing!
Thank you for your lessons! You are a gem in the web 🤩
Find this very helpful,thank you. I took lesions for about one year I took sixty years off and have started lesions again. I’m learning much faster this time.
Lol, I always work on the hard parts Jazer, because at the moment it's almost all hard for me 😆
But honestly, great tuition as always. Thanks so much and have a great weekend!
😂😂😂 Have fun practicing Rob
Good tip to learn the hardest bits first. I do work on the hardest bits but not to the point of choosing to delay working on the easy bits.
I"m an organist but this is really helpful to go back to basics when I practise. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks a bunch Jazer! I do 30mins of your 15mins regime.... Love your tutorials
Keep it up
Thank you so much for this. I’m definitely going to add this to my daily piano routine.
Hope it helps Rondy
Thank you for this teaching. Greeting from Netherland. 👌👍
Thank you for wounderful knowledge & trips to share. Very interesting to watch & learn.
WHAAAAA! 😀I'm going to have fun just with those warm ups already! Wicked! Thanks!
Your videos always keep me motivated to learn piano Jazer. Thank you so much😊Greetings from Indonesia🙏
i have not yet started my practice3 still i feel confident in me that i will learn, after going through your vedios. keep teaching and inspiring.
The hanon one seems especially useful for the revolutionary etude from chopin like the starting octaves thing with both hands
7:20 This part here, working each hand of the melody separately, does help a lot, but the biggest issue for me right now, matching the notes on the score to the keys on the piano. You have to say them out loud as you play them, so that as soon as you see a note on the page, you can name it without thinking. I'm working on this one very hard right now, and I still get lost when I stop reading the score.
Learn your notes! 👍
Muy bueno Profe Jazer, muchas gracias !!!
Picking up the piano again as an adult and I find your videos motivating. Do you have any videos addressing the use of a metronome? In warm ups? In learning a piece?
There are a couple of videos now in my channel. 🤓
I must resume back to piano class in 2022 with intense practice. I can't wait to start playing beautiful piano pieces
Fantastic insights on elevating one’s self-practice, thanks Jazer.
Hi Jazer! Thanks for these study suggestions -- most appreciated. Well, as far as I'm concerned, I only study half an hour a day. I wish I could study more hours, but I just can't. One of your suggestions to study the hardest part of a music piece resonates with my ex piano tutor. She always oriented her students (myself included) to go over the entire piece and get started from the hardest part/passage. On a side note, I am hopeful if you could kindly consider making a video about arm weight when playing the piano. Again, thanks so much for your videos. All the best!
I'm retired, with lots of time, but still like your great video instruction.
Please make tutorials on improvising 🙏
Thank you Jazer, a very logic approach to learn an improve this instrument. Though one knows it already it‘s very good to have someone reminding on these simple principles now and then.
These are great tips, Jazer! 👍
Most students don't know how to practice efficiently and end up wasting a lot of time. You are especially right about isolating and practicing the hard parts first, and unfortunately most people don't like doing that and only want to play the parts they're good at...learning to play an instrument is all about delayed gratification! 🤓
Nicely worded!!
It’s work for me. Thank you Mr. Jazer Lee.
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You are a good teacher. Thanks.
With practicing easier pieces I like to have the whole book that they came from for variety rather than just playing from easy collections, for example I now have Bach's entire Well-Tempered Clavier. A lot of the preludes and all the fugues are too difficult for me to play well at this stage because I haven't practiced them, I'm gonna focus on the second half of the prelude 1 book 1 first, but it's nice to be able to flip through the book when I get bored of Prelude 1, find other preludes at least and get an idea of how their rhythm differs and how they sound. I particularly like book 1, Prelude 12 F minor. It's tricky but the intro sounds nice. Similarly I have the whole planet's suite and Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition, and while the first Promenade does appear in the same easy collections it's nice to have the full piece because the Old Castle is tricky, but REALLY badass sounding and I really enjoy trying to get better at that sort of piece while improving my basics.
This was really helpful, thanks!
It works for me... thanks. I am a jazz improviser essentially but play classics too, but good job Jazer!
Jazer, your channel is awesome. Greetings from Argentina!
Brilliant really is helpful, I am lucky as I play bass and sax and now learning piano so I can read both treble and bass clefs, but you make complicated pieces seem so playable for a novice like me, thanks
Gonna start with this approach today. I'm really curious where it will get me in a few months... Great tips!!
any tips on practicing polyrhythms efficiently?
also, what about scales/arpeggios for practice routine?
Could u make a video where you explain the dynamic? For example the basic dynamics p,pp,mp,mf,f,ff, crescendo, decresendo,dim. Also I would like to hear some tips about them. In addition I would like to hear your opinion about how to enter from p to f, I mean some pieces when they have p mark for a couple of meters then an F appears suddenly without any crescendo. I have heard from teachers that when I see an F a good way is to add my self a crescendo before I enter into F. Thanks.
Great vid! I started using "A dozen a day" for my warmup and i think there are cool little exercises in there
I practise about an hour a day, and 15 minutes of that is my brain mentally battling itself with me hunched over contemplating why I can’t do whatever it is I’m trying to do.
Hi Mr. Jazer Lee thank you for sharing your talent, and because of your clearly tutorial and explanation, you are encouraging me to play and learn Piano, Thank you and more power❤️
You are very welcome
I appreciate your encouragement!
Hey Jazer, the Problem is, when i have only 15min to play or practice, I had a stressfull Day and want to relax and clear my mind.... Maybe one Day practice and the next Day playing ;-). Thanks a Lot for your helpful Videos.
I wish to have teacher like you! Great videos
Hi Jazer Lee! I am only a beginner. I am busy with work but I like playing piano. Thanks for showing me how it’s done. I am looking forward for more videos! Just subscribed.
Great videos. Thank you. What about fingerings or a series of chords
Yeh badiya hai.. yeh sucessful banda hai humari najro mein. 😀
Thanks for your useful advice. I love Fur Elise, so beautiful
I think I had to use the Hanon book of exercises with my last (and best) piano teacher several decades ago. In fact, I recognized exercises #1 & #2 for sure when you played through them. I looked for my book, but with many household moves, it must be packed away somewhere (I hope). My teacher was using the drills specifically to try to get my left hand fingers to strike the keys in precision with the right hand. This is still a struggle so I will take your advice and keep at it. The other thing I struggle with is finger placement in working to play a whole piece through smoothly. I only made it through maybe 3 years of lessons and didn't learn chords, so my fingers don't naturally fall into shapes ... I have to study each measure as it relates to its neighbors and figure out where my fingers need to be along the way. I would be embarrassed to have anyone look at all the fingering numbers scribbled on my sheet music.
Thanks for the share. Definitely give the Hanon another go. You have a good point regarding finger shapes and how each bar's shape relates to the next- great insight!
I found Hanon online in pdf form. I believe any and all classical is available online free - google is your friend in this case 😍
I love watching your videos. You’re the best of the best!
Wow, thank you!