+Paul Speidell Thanks! You can tell I am really a hard-nose teacher, huh? :-) I always tell students they call it "playing" piano, not "working" piano so let's keep that in mind as we keep working through stuff. If you haven't yet, you should check out my online Courses at pianoinaflash.com as i teach like this throughout the whole darn thing...
Whoosh....... and the “magician’s secrets” are revealed in their simple beauty. And the beginner (me) is drawn in a step deeper..... Thanks, Scott. I have your (PBS?) book from, like, 2003. Never too late, as they say, so if I didn’t plant a tree fifteen years ago the next best thing is to plant one today.
You helped me so much 10 years ago I went through a tough time and quit the piano. Much better place now and have returned to learn the piano and play. Thanks
This sounds like a great exercise for dealing with hand separation issues. This is a big issue for me. I'm keeping this video "on tap" so I can learn this.
You make it look SO easy, I can noodle the scale with my right but as soon as I am moving my left hand everything goes out of sync. If I do quicker notes on the right then my left starts matching it
I'm confused. I recently saw your 12-bar boogie woogie video. It had a different progression from this video. Is boogie woogie different from blues/jazz progression? In playing 12 bars, it doesn't matter how many times you play a chord as long as you play the I, IV and V chords? I've even seen other websites that have a different progression from your two videos; all are different in the last few bars. I'm enjoying playing from your boogie woogie video, but I want to make sure I am playing the correct progression.
Dive on in... the water is warm! You have a huge head start on most people that are just beginning. But, you have a huge obstacle most beginners do not have to deal with: your preconceived notions of "right and wrong" as it pertains to piano playing. Classical piano is an extremely cool thing, as is playing in all these non-classical styles I teach. Neither is "right or wrong", but to play both authentically you use VERY different "rules." Leave your "piano prejudices" at the door and come on in! :-)
Sorry if I did.. I'm too lazy to watch the whole thing again, but I bet I probably also played a Gb because that also works in the blues scale in C. Just to be clear the blues scale in C is: C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb, C Those are all "safe" notes you can pull from to noodle around and improvise over the Blues in C (which is C7, F7, and G7). Hope that clears things up!
It is either a Roland or Yamaha "slab" stage piano. I shot that a few years ago and I don't really know which one I was using in that shoot. I typically just need an exceptional acoustic and Rhodes piano patch, which most pro-line slabs have. So I go through them every year or two. An odd thing I have a need for, which I'm sure 99% of players never notice because they are listening to their playing, is a physically quiet key action (i.e. less clacking and mechanical noise when playing on the keys and not hearing any of the piano sound coming from the instrument). That is because we patch the keyboard directly into the mix and I monitor it in my ears. That keeps the room quiet for my vocal mic without any of the piano bleeding in. For that reason, the quieter the better for the actual keys themselves. In that regard I have found the Roland keyboards to be far superior to the Yamahas. The Yamaha action is really noisy ...
Play Piano In A Flash / PianoGuyTV Wow, I didn't expect all that information. Thanks a lot. I own a roland as well. I think I just got bored of my piano sound. For Rhodes and EP I like the Yamaha better.
How did you know to play the Aflat over the chords ? All this was educational and enlightening but you didn't say anything about the Aflat. How did you decide to use it?
Left hand is slow (good) but the right hand (jazz/bebop licks) is way to fast to hear the accents, triplets etc. and of course he has complete hand / finger independence. A better lesson would be to slow/break down the licks with the right hand and then learn how to comp them with the left.
+notoriouswhitemoth but if I'm not mistaken, Sinatra never composed anything. He would "only" Sing. So he didn't need to read music. But God! he was gifted with that wonderful voice!!
I second that notion... It's not that theory, or for that matter reading notation well, isn't a cool (and helpful) thing to know and be proficient at. It's just that I feel sooooo many get the cart before the horse and think that "music" comes from the notes and theory, which is exactly the inverse of reality. The names you have mentioned are proof positive that making music does NOT require notation reading and theory skills. The perfect analogy is the reality that we learn to communicate through speech before we learn to read words. We also absolutely and positively can (and many do!) learn to communicate through music before learning to read notation.
Since music is made to delight your ears, obviously you don't need to learn to read music. Nevertheless, your horizon is limited. There's a Paul McCartney interview here on youtube and among other things he says they had to record individually (on a tape) every single part of a song so they wouldn't forget the melody since none of them could read music. Imagine all the extra time they had to spend recording and retrieving those tapes over and over and over again! What about if the tapes get lost or damaged? So Eventually they had to hire other musicians to put their melodies into music notes and vice versa. Needless to say, you would be a more proficient and more complete musician if you knew how to read music.
I just wanted to tell you an interesting story about a guy who composed about 400 piano melodies (mostly classical music style) He has composed one of the most beautiful melodies I've ever heard. He also has his own music recording label in Europe. His a big time producer as well. Nevertheless, he cannot read, write, or play music or any type of instrument !!! So you may ask how in the world he composed 400 melodies and became famous? This is his trick: He sings whatever tune comes to his mind into a small tape recorder at home or in his studio. Then he calls a pianist (or an arranger) to help him make an arrangement, before recording it with a larger ensemble. His name is Paul de Senneville and his most known and beautiful melodies are: Ballade pour Adeline, A comme amour, Lettre à ma mère, and Mariage d'amour. Richard Clayderman is the pianist who usually executes Paul Senneville's compositions.
You make it look SO easy, I can noodle the scale with my right but as soon as I am moving my left hand everything goes out of sync. If I do quicker notes on the right then my left starts matching it
Ahhh... the old "rub your head and pat your tummy" syndrome. :-) You are certainly NOT alone with that struggle. That's SUPER common for beginners and will only go away when you slow things WAY down at the beginning to give you brain time to connect the dots with what needs to come down in what order. You'll get there... promise.
Play Piano In A Flash / PianoGuyTV thank you man, I can handle playing the drums but I'm finding the piano sooo much more difficult, I think it's because there's more moving parts? ie 10 fingers not 2 arms and 2 legs. Awesome videos - thanks for putting in the time to upload them
Oh wow. Where have you been all my life. Wish I could have been taught in this way many years ago. A moment of grace for me!
I don't think I can thank you enough. You have taught me so much through all your videos. Again thank you, it means a lot.
Thanks for the nice words Travis. I'm honestly thrilled you're cranking along and most of all, having FUN playing :-)
Thanks for the instructions and inspiration on playing with 2 hands you have played it in a slower pace for people to keep up
This was GREAT Scott ! Wow, thank you PianoGuy
I have to say,as a ‘new’ starter on the piano keys………..Your program is No1; for a “Helping Hand(s)” thank you.
This is great! Your humor adds to wonderful lessons.
+Paul Speidell Thanks! You can tell I am really a hard-nose teacher, huh? :-) I always tell students they call it "playing" piano, not "working" piano so let's keep that in mind as we keep working through stuff. If you haven't yet, you should check out my online Courses at pianoinaflash.com as i teach like this throughout the whole darn thing...
Love that fun slow blues
AWESOME video and it's very helpful....THANK YOU!!!
Great video mate this gives me something else to do besides your online teaching platform . Redards Scott from Melbourne Australia
You are so good at teaching and soooo hillarious. I have literally liked all of your vids. Have a nice day and wish you health and hapiness
superb, thank you. By far the best tutorial for beginners like myself for starting improv i have come across
You deserve more than a million subscribers! So far, you are the best in teaching piano for beginners, thanks a lot and keep it up!
Thanks for the nice words... :-) Glad these are helping you!
Exciting info, look forward to practicing the 12 measures for the blues. Thanks for making it easy to learn
Whoosh....... and the “magician’s secrets” are revealed in their simple beauty. And the beginner (me) is drawn in a step deeper..... Thanks, Scott. I have your (PBS?) book from, like, 2003. Never too late, as they say, so if I didn’t plant a tree fifteen years ago the next best thing is to plant one today.
Attaboy! Exactly... Just sit your "arse" down and get started. Ha! Have fun...
Super tutorial.. thanks piano guy ..amazing .
Your videos are great, I am a beginner, and they help me a lot and fun.
Thanks! Glad they are helping out...
You helped me so much 10 years ago I went through a tough time and quit the piano. Much better place now and have returned to learn the piano and play. Thanks
Good for you David! Welcome back... :-)
Music should be fun like this!!!!!
+Pfsif Agreed! The term is "playing" piano, not "working" piano ...
This sounds like a great exercise for dealing with hand separation issues. This is a big issue for me. I'm keeping this video "on tap" so I can learn this.
Man this is real education, great job !!
Thanks much! There's much, much more just like it at pianoinaflash.com (shameless, but truthful, plug alert...)
Thank You Mr. Scott for this lesson
Sir please make a video on introduction of blues and how to play blue of any scale.
Fabulous tutorial, this will be of benefit to me and many others, thank you for sharing.
Absolutely love, you're just my style. Love your sense of humor, I need it learning piano!
Thanks Wendy! Tell my wife you think I'm funny would you please? Ha! Have fun playing ...
Thanks, gonna give it a try
I like your lessons. I've got a lot of your "1 on 1" series DVDs. Great stuff. Thanks... Keep it up.....PLEASE.
tem aula online para brasileiros também ?
You are the best
Very cool
Nice
2:13 I'm glad that you take the time to say that.
:-)
Great video!
really good thank you . I will be trying this :)
+David Marks (ElectroTinker) You're welcome!
is there a app?
Thank you & hi from the UK.
+TaffmanGuyo You're welcome, and hi to to you as well from across the pond :-)
Thank you
You make it look SO easy, I can noodle the scale with my right but as soon as I am moving my left hand everything goes out of sync. If I do quicker notes on the right then my left starts matching it
@Nobby Exactly...
Thank you sir
Thiis really helped... Thanks alot
You're so welcome... Have fun!
I'm confused. I recently saw your 12-bar boogie woogie video. It had a different progression from this video. Is boogie woogie different from blues/jazz progression? In playing 12 bars, it doesn't matter how many times you play a chord as long as you play the I, IV and V chords? I've even seen other websites that have a different progression from your two videos; all are different in the last few bars. I'm enjoying playing from your boogie woogie video, but I want to make sure I am playing the correct progression.
Thanks, really enjoying your videos. Love the good vibes! 👍🌞
Well im a classic piano player. but i wanna learn jazz. and you make it loooook so easy
Dive on in... the water is warm! You have a huge head start on most people that are just beginning. But, you have a huge obstacle most beginners do not have to deal with: your preconceived notions of "right and wrong" as it pertains to piano playing. Classical piano is an extremely cool thing, as is playing in all these non-classical styles I teach. Neither is "right or wrong", but to play both authentically you use VERY different "rules." Leave your "piano prejudices" at the door and come on in! :-)
Ohh wow didnt expect you to reply, and im doing my best learning it. Your video was a huge help! and it was funny too :)
Scott, am I am incorrect but I thought you only said to use the e flat and b flat in the right hand but you were playing more black notes?
Sorry if I did.. I'm too lazy to watch the whole thing again, but I bet I probably also played a Gb because that also works in the blues scale in C. Just to be clear the blues scale in C is: C, Eb, F, Gb, G, Bb, C Those are all "safe" notes you can pull from to noodle around and improvise over the Blues in C (which is C7, F7, and G7). Hope that clears things up!
What keyboard are you using? This piano sounds pretty good.
It is either a Roland or Yamaha "slab" stage piano. I shot that a few years ago and I don't really know which one I was using in that shoot. I typically just need an exceptional acoustic and Rhodes piano patch, which most pro-line slabs have. So I go through them every year or two. An odd thing I have a need for, which I'm sure 99% of players never notice because they are listening to their playing, is a physically quiet key action (i.e. less clacking and mechanical noise when playing on the keys and not hearing any of the piano sound coming from the instrument). That is because we patch the keyboard directly into the mix and I monitor it in my ears. That keeps the room quiet for my vocal mic without any of the piano bleeding in. For that reason, the quieter the better for the actual keys themselves. In that regard I have found the Roland keyboards to be far superior to the Yamahas. The Yamaha action is really noisy ...
Play Piano In A Flash / PianoGuyTV Wow, I didn't expect all that information. Thanks a lot. I own a roland as well. I think I just got bored of my piano sound. For Rhodes and EP I like the Yamaha better.
Super
How did you know to play the Aflat over the chords ? All this was educational and enlightening but you didn't say anything about the Aflat. How did you decide to use it?
Give me a time in the vid where you see me doing it and I'll try to answer you? I'm not sure where you are talking about...
Love love love
love, love love, right back at you! :-)
You're funny! I like your lessons.
is it just me? or Steve Jobs has a twin brother? lol ✌😁
I was thinking this very thing!
is it a E-piano or regular one?
+Maggie Wu The one I am playing in my studio on this vid is a digital piano.
Thanks for actually slowing down runs. That Dr. K dude don't know how to really slow it down xD
I completely lost it at the instant replay xD
7:58
Everything you say is correct
Man l love this loool
Me to
Left hand is slow (good) but the right hand (jazz/bebop licks) is way to fast to hear the accents, triplets etc. and of course he has complete hand / finger independence. A better lesson would be to slow/break down the licks with the right hand and then learn how to comp them with the left.
❤
dommage que c'est en anglais
Cold
mais amusant, il est plus
what is in your ears?
In ear monitors ... so I can confirm what is getting recorded, and so that the piano sound doesn't feed back through my vocal mic.
You don't need to know music theory to make great music - it's worth noting, Sinatra never learned to read sheet music.
+notoriouswhitemoth but if I'm not mistaken, Sinatra never composed anything. He would "only" Sing. So he didn't need to read music. But God! he was gifted with that wonderful voice!!
I second that notion... It's not that theory, or for that matter reading notation well, isn't a cool (and helpful) thing to know and be proficient at. It's just that I feel sooooo many get the cart before the horse and think that "music" comes from the notes and theory, which is exactly the inverse of reality. The names you have mentioned are proof positive that making music does NOT require notation reading and theory skills. The perfect analogy is the reality that we learn to communicate through speech before we learn to read words. We also absolutely and positively can (and many do!) learn to communicate through music before learning to read notation.
Since music is made to delight your ears, obviously you don't need to learn to read music. Nevertheless, your horizon is limited. There's a Paul McCartney interview here on youtube and among other things he says they had to record individually (on a tape) every single part of a song so they wouldn't forget the melody since none of them could read music. Imagine all the extra time they had to spend recording and retrieving those tapes over and over and over again! What about if the tapes get lost or damaged? So Eventually they had to hire other musicians to put their melodies into music notes and vice versa. Needless to say, you would be a more proficient and more complete musician if you knew how to read music.
I just wanted to tell you an interesting story about a guy who composed about 400 piano melodies (mostly classical music style) He has composed one of the most beautiful melodies I've ever heard. He also has his own music recording label in Europe. His a big time producer as well. Nevertheless, he cannot read, write, or play music or any type of instrument !!! So you may ask how in the world he composed 400 melodies and became famous? This is his trick: He sings whatever tune comes to his mind into a small tape recorder at home or in his studio. Then he calls a pianist (or an arranger) to help him make an arrangement, before recording it with a larger ensemble. His name is Paul de Senneville and his most known and beautiful melodies are: Ballade pour Adeline, A comme amour, Lettre à ma mère, and Mariage d'amour. Richard Clayderman is the pianist who usually executes Paul Senneville's compositions.
haha watch from 2:30 in half speed
I have not play with time
Very nice but didnt learn anything from it😀
You make it look SO easy, I can noodle the scale with my right but as soon as I am moving my left hand everything goes out of sync. If I do quicker notes on the right then my left starts matching it
Ahhh... the old "rub your head and pat your tummy" syndrome. :-) You are certainly NOT alone with that struggle. That's SUPER common for beginners and will only go away when you slow things WAY down at the beginning to give you brain time to connect the dots with what needs to come down in what order. You'll get there... promise.
Play Piano In A Flash / PianoGuyTV thank you man, I can handle playing the drums but I'm finding the piano sooo much more difficult, I think it's because there's more moving parts? ie 10 fingers not 2 arms and 2 legs. Awesome videos - thanks for putting in the time to upload them
:-)