Thank you Jazer for sharing the roadmap book. You really put your heart into every video and work that you have made for us! As an adult learner, I appreciate them very much!
What I do at the moment is playing 5 pieces from famous composers Bach Mozart Beethoven Schubert Chopin Easy stuff: German Dances, Minuetts, Ecossains, Preludes. Understand what form is and how those composers played around with it. I play them till those pieces are mine. Understand what they are doing and play around with it. Meanwhile I play pop songs and sing . What you ultimately want is expressing yourself. Aim for authenticity.
Thank you for this video!! I have been taking piano lessons for a few months and wondering why I'm still playing easy songs, then when my teacher gives me something slightly harder I get super overwhelmed. He's picking songs specifically for help with technique and in my skill level and now I understand better why that's so important. It's really helpful to hear that from you as well. I need to learn to walk before I can run!
I've been crawling through Burgmuller's Op 100 for far longer than I like to admit, as well as some of the ABRSM exam pieces (not doing the exams, but like the pieces). My teacher before retirement set me Petzold's minuet as a kind of technique/study piece, something I could use both as a warm up, and as a yardstick, and I still use it to this day, however I decided it's time I pushed myself, so have started on Mozart's K545, starting with the Andante - I'll tackle the outer movements when I'm feeling up to them. I've used several of your techniques including shedloads of hands separate (not put them together yet, won't be either, until I've got each hand totally sorted), the seven times bar by bar focusing on total accuracy; the pomodoro timing thing, and of course the metronome. And it takes as long as it takes.
I started piano less than a month ago maybe like 3 weeks now. I’ve been using mostly simply piano, a couple of books for some music theory, and of course UA-cam. So far I have learned to read sheet music, at least anything that played in the C and F position 🤣 and I can play the basic cords pretty well now compared to my first day. Day one I had to look down every time I wanted to change from C-E chord and it took me a couple seconds. After 3 weeks of practice I can play a good amount of songs now cause I can switch chords quickly without looking down. I’m now the best musician in my house which isn’t saying much since I’m the only person that plays any instruments 😅.
When Hendrix was asked if he agreed that he was the best guitarist in the world he said: "I'm probably the best guitarist sitting in this chair." So, you are in good company!
I've always wanted to learn piano, but never had the opportunity. A few months ago, we lucked into an old Hardman upright grand, built in 1903. We got it for a song (pun intended). Much heavier than contemporary uprights, for the record, but I am sure I can fix the floorboards. I started plinking away with just a very superficial understanding of how it all works from a class In took in high school about 100 years ago. Thanks to your videos, which I have been binge-watching, I can feel it getting easier. It is making more sense. I am still on the first steps of this journey, but there is finally hope that I will get there someday.
Jazer is the reason I started to play the piano 2 1/2 zears ago after my retirement. I was watching a video he had on piano playing, I paused the video, went out and bought a keyboard and started. I made a mistake and took a non-weighted key, but the music shop owner gladly took it back to give me something adequate. And I'm taking lessons from him once a week. And having a blast. Merci beaucoup. For sightreading, I'm using Cory Hall's Bach Chorales book. He starts with easy two voice chorales, then slightly harder two voice, then three voice, then four voice, and then the real deal. I'm at Grade 3/4 level, and I'm pretty good as a sightreader. But of course, I want to get better, so I practice it every day.
Important points to be made again and again. Everyone from beginner to advanced tends to pick too difficult pieces. It's in our nature. The best thing would be to only ever study pieces you can be 100% confident of playing in an unfamiliar setting, live on any piano. That's 10x harder than at home.
IMO I think the ''real" reason the last ten years I put into practicing hasn't gotten me further along is that almost the entire time I've been SELF TAUGHT. There is no way for me to get feedback and encouragement and instant response to my mistakes because there aren't any in person teachers anymore. Its ALL gone over to this new standared of teaching which is ONE WAY LEARNING. If you want to excellerate your learning then it would be BEST to have a human teacher who can give you instant feedback. WITHOUT FEEDBACK from a real person through one on one lessons is the slowest way to learn yet its all anyone does anymore. YOU certainly didn't get all of your piano skills and knowledge from the internet so why do you suppse everyone else can do what you didnt' do?
While it's true that a GOOD teacher (plenty of bad ones around) will propel you forward, with some years of experience, self learning can be effective too. There's good ways to assess oneself, like recording. It's harder to catch technical shortcomings though.
Same here. I once had a teacher who jumped every time I played a wrong note (which was often) and told me I'd played a wrong note, which I knew already, of course.
Yes, I feel this 🤣. Once I got a piano teacher, I learned more in 1 month than the previous 8months on my own thru books/courses. I decided to also start learning the guitar 🎸 2months ago without a teacher and I feel like I'm getting nowhere with it 🤦🏾♂️🙃🙂😅😂
@@pianoplaynight the technical is where an in person teacher comes in handy. I'm self thought and decided to hire a teacher to go full on classical training. She picks up nuances of my playing that I didn't even know I was doing incorrectly, so even recording myself wouldn't matter because I wouldn't know what to listen for. She's also filling my gaps in theory knowledge big time. Again you can't know what you don't know, if you don't know what you don't know lol. I recently learned a piece by Bach and thought I had nailed it when she was like nope, wrong, wrong, wrong (she was nice about it) and helped me go over each measure, one by one and helped me make the correct notes sing.
This video really hit home for me. I am trying to learn Soliloquy by Timothy Brown and it is kicking my butt. I recognized the other day that I have gaps in my theory that are holding me back. I have great difficulty recognizing and duplicating the patterns in the left hand because I don't recognize the chords and keys. I confessed that to my teacher and we are bringing back more technique, sight reading and theory into my lessons. I am 74 and I find that many teachers don't stress these building blocks for their more 'mature' students. That is a mistake in my opinion. There are no shortcuts in learning music.
I started with self-teaching, but decided I wasn't going to progress without a face-to-face instructor. This was money well spent for me. Each weekly half-hour lesson begins with scales and a few Schmitt exercises before going through the passages he assigned. The lesson ends with more scales and two or three arpeggio exercises.
Sight reading has been one of my shortcomings since I got (back) into playing the piano. I now practice it at the start of each (lesson) practice session. I (currently) use Hannah Smith's collection of exercises, about 500, that are great but limiting in that each exercise stays in one five finger position. They do explore the different key signatures. However it would be good to have a collection that explores changed positions gradually, ie different ways that position change in bite-sized steps. A nice way to keep at it in a systematic way while also exploring possibly sight-readable pieces.
Thanks so much for your sharing, I have go through your piano roadmap and all the recommended songs are beautiful and relevant to your learning path. They are so inspiring and helpful!! Looking forward to your videos, I have learnt a lot from you. 😊
My story with sight reading is that I have never had to pick it up. Honestly I am just using Synthesia where I can sight read quite well. I would like to hear the story of someone that actually made the transition to sheets and how to tackle that best.
I just got through music theory 1 at CU Denver and fully grasp how to read music now. However, I am still slow at it. I need to practice my sight reading while playing now.
Sight reading is probably the main skill I've avoided practicing. I'll try to add just 5 minutes a day. I've never deliberately studied music theory, but I have noticed a lot of similar patterns show up over and over again just from learning different songs.
Hi Jazer. I'm working on "Dawn" by Dario Marionelli. Its a beautiful song from the movie Pride & Prejudice. Thank you for the roadmap. I tried to sign up for your upcoming class waitlist but I don't think it worked.
Some Holiday tunes by Vince Guiraldi - Challenging to say the least! Cheers! / Though I am attempting to spend more time on sight reading, the new songs I need to learn for my band are all by ear. Just not enough hours in a day to do it all. I hope to get my sight reading to the same level as playing that I can do by ear...Hopefully one day..Tks!
Jazer, what are some pieces in genres other than classical that you would recommend to a late beginner. I enjoy just about all genres other than classical.
I wonder why you never make reference to lesson book series, like Hal Leonard or John Thompson. I use them for proximal development and my sight reading, while I'm also working on more difficult pieces (e.g., Mozart K545).
Is there any chance that you will create missing 3rd part of 2 hands training video from series started some time ago? Two first parts were great and you also teased third part which so far did not appeared...
I am playing JS Bach's 2-part invention in C major, Schumann's little study in G, and Jack-in-a box by Kenneth Leighton. Thank you for all your videos Jazer. Please could you give some tips on hand relaxation? I can't physically play as fast as I would like to, even though I practice Hanon exercises. Thanks.
@@charlenemisuraca3473 I play some of the Geoffrey Tankard ones too, which I prefer. But does not matter how many scales and exercises I play, I can't play them up to speed, and never seem to get any faster. But I am 60, so maybe age has something to do with it.
Humaare yahan toh sheet music ka chalan hi nahin hai bhai bollywood or Indian music mein. 😅 I mean they certainly must be using it in professional production. But not outside there production houses. All u get notes sequences in sa re ga ma.. or do re me of yours. So don't think reading sheet music gonna be any use here in the music we play. I.e. Filmy song music. 😅
@@WojciechKalka Yes, I love those, and want to play them when I've mastered the pieces I'm learning now. Also 'To a wild rose' and Satie's Gymnopedies.
What piece are you working on right now?😀
Here's the essential piano roadmap link: courses.jazerleepiano.com/ep-roadmap/
L's theme from Death Note! As you said, not too easy, not too difficult and it keeps me motivated because i like the anime
Bach - Prelude in C minor BWV 999
Clair de Lune
Christmas Time is Here 🎄
Right now at the time that I'm posting comment is Chopin impromptu in a flat major no1
Thanks for the roadmap 🙏
Thank you Jazer for sharing the roadmap book. You really put your heart into every video and work that you have made for us! As an adult learner, I appreciate them very much!
What I do at the moment is playing 5 pieces from famous composers
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Chopin
Easy stuff: German Dances, Minuetts, Ecossains, Preludes. Understand what form is and how those composers played around with it.
I play them till those pieces are mine.
Understand what they are doing and play around with it.
Meanwhile I play pop songs and sing .
What you ultimately want is expressing yourself. Aim for authenticity.
Thank you for this video!! I have been taking piano lessons for a few months and wondering why I'm still playing easy songs, then when my teacher gives me something slightly harder I get super overwhelmed. He's picking songs specifically for help with technique and in my skill level and now I understand better why that's so important. It's really helpful to hear that from you as well. I need to learn to walk before I can run!
I've been crawling through Burgmuller's Op 100 for far longer than I like to admit, as well as some of the ABRSM exam pieces (not doing the exams, but like the pieces). My teacher before retirement set me Petzold's minuet as a kind of technique/study piece, something I could use both as a warm up, and as a yardstick, and I still use it to this day, however I decided it's time I pushed myself, so have started on Mozart's K545, starting with the Andante - I'll tackle the outer movements when I'm feeling up to them. I've used several of your techniques including shedloads of hands separate (not put them together yet, won't be either, until I've got each hand totally sorted), the seven times bar by bar focusing on total accuracy; the pomodoro timing thing, and of course the metronome. And it takes as long as it takes.
I started piano less than a month ago maybe like 3 weeks now. I’ve been using mostly simply piano, a couple of books for some music theory, and of course UA-cam. So far I have learned to read sheet music, at least anything that played in the C and F position 🤣 and I can play the basic cords pretty well now compared to my first day. Day one I had to look down every time I wanted to change from C-E chord and it took me a couple seconds. After 3 weeks of practice I can play a good amount of songs now cause I can switch chords quickly without looking down. I’m now the best musician in my house which isn’t saying much since I’m the only person that plays any instruments 😅.
When Hendrix was asked if he agreed that he was the best guitarist in the world he said: "I'm probably the best guitarist sitting in this chair." So, you are in good company!
I've always wanted to learn piano, but never had the opportunity. A few months ago, we lucked into an old Hardman upright grand, built in 1903. We got it for a song (pun intended).
Much heavier than contemporary uprights, for the record, but I am sure I can fix the floorboards.
I started plinking away with just a very superficial understanding of how it all works from a class In took in high school about 100 years ago.
Thanks to your videos, which I have been binge-watching, I can feel it getting easier. It is making more sense.
I am still on the first steps of this journey, but there is finally hope that I will get there someday.
Thank you for all that you do! Especially for that free guide!
Jazer is the reason I started to play the piano 2 1/2 zears ago after my retirement. I was watching a video he had on piano playing, I paused the video, went out and bought a keyboard and started. I made a mistake and took a non-weighted key, but the music shop owner gladly took it back to give me something adequate. And I'm taking lessons from him once a week. And having a blast. Merci beaucoup.
For sightreading, I'm using Cory Hall's Bach Chorales book. He starts with easy two voice chorales, then slightly harder two voice, then three voice, then four voice, and then the real deal.
I'm at Grade 3/4 level, and I'm pretty good as a sightreader. But of course, I want to get better, so I practice it every day.
Tennessee (Pearl Harbour). My favourite all time piece.
Your videos are always really helpful. Thank you!
I'm ready for you to finish your course 🥰
Important points to be made again and again. Everyone from beginner to advanced tends to pick too difficult pieces. It's in our nature. The best thing would be to only ever study pieces you can be 100% confident of playing in an unfamiliar setting, live on any piano. That's 10x harder than at home.
IMO I think the ''real" reason the last ten years I put into practicing hasn't gotten me further along is that almost the entire time I've been SELF TAUGHT. There is no way for me to get feedback and encouragement and instant response to my mistakes because there aren't any in person teachers anymore. Its ALL gone over to this new standared of teaching which is ONE WAY LEARNING. If you want to excellerate your learning then it would be BEST to have a human teacher who can give you instant feedback. WITHOUT FEEDBACK from a real person through one on one lessons is the slowest way to learn yet its all anyone does anymore. YOU certainly didn't get all of your piano skills and knowledge from the internet so why do you suppse everyone else can do what you didnt' do?
While it's true that a GOOD teacher (plenty of bad ones around) will propel you forward, with some years of experience, self learning can be effective too. There's good ways to assess oneself, like recording. It's harder to catch technical shortcomings though.
Honestly I relate to that really because I've just randomly picked up and learned pieces like rondo alla turca and others without any feedbacks
Same here. I once had a teacher who jumped every time I played a wrong note (which was often) and told me I'd played a wrong note, which I knew already, of course.
Yes, I feel this 🤣. Once I got a piano teacher, I learned more in 1 month than the previous 8months on my own thru books/courses. I decided to also start learning the guitar 🎸 2months ago without a teacher and I feel like I'm getting nowhere with it 🤦🏾♂️🙃🙂😅😂
@@pianoplaynight the technical is where an in person teacher comes in handy. I'm self thought and decided to hire a teacher to go full on classical training. She picks up nuances of my playing that I didn't even know I was doing incorrectly, so even recording myself wouldn't matter because I wouldn't know what to listen for. She's also filling my gaps in theory knowledge big time. Again you can't know what you don't know, if you don't know what you don't know lol.
I recently learned a piece by Bach and thought I had nailed it when she was like nope, wrong, wrong, wrong (she was nice about it) and helped me go over each measure, one by one and helped me make the correct notes sing.
Needed this boost. Thanks for the guide. Will let you know if it helps me get back my motivation
Thanks a lot for These valuable suggestions! I’m studying right now What a wonderful world
Prelude in E Minor is my current piece. I’m looking forward to Fur Elise next.
This video really hit home for me. I am trying to learn Soliloquy by Timothy Brown and it is kicking my butt. I recognized the other day that I have gaps in my theory that are holding me back. I have great difficulty recognizing and duplicating the patterns in the left hand because I don't recognize the chords and keys. I confessed that to my teacher and we are bringing back more technique, sight reading and theory into my lessons. I am 74 and I find that many teachers don't stress these building blocks for their more 'mature' students. That is a mistake in my opinion. There are no shortcuts in learning music.
I started with self-teaching, but decided I wasn't going to progress without a face-to-face instructor. This was money well spent for me. Each weekly half-hour lesson begins with scales and a few Schmitt exercises before going through the passages he assigned. The lesson ends with more scales and two or three arpeggio exercises.
Thanks! Valuable content
Sight reading has been one of my shortcomings since I got (back) into playing the piano. I now practice it at the start of each (lesson) practice session. I (currently) use Hannah Smith's collection of exercises, about 500, that are great but limiting in that each exercise stays in one five finger position. They do explore the different key signatures. However it would be good to have a collection that explores changed positions gradually, ie different ways that position change in bite-sized steps. A nice way to keep at it in a systematic way while also exploring possibly sight-readable pieces.
Thanks so much for your sharing, I have go through your piano roadmap and all the recommended songs are beautiful and relevant to your learning path. They are so inspiring and helpful!! Looking forward to your videos, I have learnt a lot from you. 😊
Carols/Christmas songs (Alfred) ❤
My story with sight reading is that I have never had to pick it up. Honestly I am just using Synthesia where I can sight read quite well. I would like to hear the story of someone that actually made the transition to sheets and how to tackle that best.
Thanks a lot
I just got through music theory 1 at CU Denver and fully grasp how to read music now. However, I am still slow at it. I need to practice my sight reading while playing now.
Sight reading is probably the main skill I've avoided practicing. I'll try to add just 5 minutes a day. I've never deliberately studied music theory, but I have noticed a lot of similar patterns show up over and over again just from learning different songs.
Hi Jazer. I'm working on "Dawn" by Dario Marionelli. Its a beautiful song from the movie Pride & Prejudice. Thank you for the roadmap. I tried to sign up for your upcoming class waitlist but I don't think it worked.
Some Holiday tunes by Vince Guiraldi - Challenging to say the least! Cheers! / Though I am attempting to spend more time on sight reading, the new songs I need to learn for my band are all by ear. Just not enough hours in a day to do it all. I hope to get my sight reading to the same level as playing that I can do by ear...Hopefully one day..Tks!
Jazer, what are some pieces in genres other than classical that you would recommend to a late beginner. I enjoy just about all genres other than classical.
I wonder why you never make reference to lesson book series, like Hal Leonard or John Thompson. I use them for proximal development and my sight reading, while I'm also working on more difficult pieces (e.g., Mozart K545).
Anybody know what the outro music is in Jazer's videos? I think it's actually really pretty and would love to hear (or even learn) the whole piece.
How can I practice counting and playing piano at the same time
Where can i buy a book with the correct sheetmusic for these?
Is there any chance that you will create missing 3rd part of 2 hands training video from series started some time ago? Two first parts were great and you also teased third part which so far did not appeared...
I am playing Christ, Be our light by Bernadette Farrell- simple but powerful.
Could someone sugest more songs that i can learn because i dont know what to learn now
My Achilles heel is trying to play my left hand with my right hand. I can’t keep the logistics playing
How long you been playing?
Because you don't think it right. You have to think it like "dancing". Your two hands dance in a certain way.
I am playing JS Bach's 2-part invention in C major, Schumann's little study in G, and Jack-in-a box by Kenneth Leighton. Thank you for all your videos Jazer. Please could you give some tips on hand relaxation? I can't physically play as fast as I would like to, even though I practice Hanon exercises. Thanks.
are hanon the really the best??
@@charlenemisuraca3473Hanon like any other excercises are good onky if done very well. Many people bash through them and that's so counterproductive.
@@charlenemisuraca3473 I play some of the Geoffrey Tankard ones too, which I prefer. But does not matter how many scales and exercises I play, I can't play them up to speed, and never seem to get any faster. But I am 60, so maybe age has something to do with it.
@@pianoplaynight I've only done the first two. The second one Jazer recommended for weak fourth fingers.
Humaare yahan toh sheet music ka chalan hi nahin hai bhai bollywood or Indian music mein. 😅 I mean they certainly must be using it in professional production. But not outside there production houses. All u get notes sequences in sa re ga ma.. or do re me of yours. So don't think reading sheet music gonna be any use here in the music we play. I.e. Filmy song music. 😅
Where can we get the same music as what you have? Finding arrangements in different keys but not the key your music is showing.
Thanks!
I mean I thought I was doing alright...
f* .. Minuet go for the Invention :) ;) .. challenge is the fun .. and frustration
The one in C I can do because it's 'moderato'.
@@CassidaViridis Invention 8 13 .. test yourself
@@WojciechKalka Yes, I love those, and want to play them when I've mastered the pieces I'm learning now. Also 'To a wild rose' and Satie's Gymnopedies.
these pieces sound so boring to me x)
I have problem to play softly.. I play on electric piano! Lists Romance169 dasnt saund softly or sad as hes to!👋