How to Get Better at Playing Piano: A Roadmap
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- I explain why some pianists get "stuck" while learning piano, and present a high level map for aspiring pianists who want to break through from the beginner to the intermediate to the advanced stages of playing.
0:00 Introduction
1:16 What is "Better?"
2:54 The roadmap
4:56 From beginner to intermediate
10:18 From intermediate to advanced
16:04 Beyond advanced
people paid good money for such valueable lessons in the past and you put it up all for free, for everyone, no gatekeeping. thank you!
You're welcome, and I hope this particular lesson helps you.
Thank you so much for making these videos! please never stop, you're great!!
YES! I always feel lost because i dont know what to learn. Thank you for the video!
Happy to help!
Just when I am giving up, you inspire and encorage and make an interesting insight. Merci encore. je t'apprécie beaucoup!
Awesome! Glad to hear my words have inspired a player. Remember, it's a marathon, not a sprint.
This came at the perfect time. I quickly got to your definition of intermediate through another channel, and I've felt stuck this month. I felt guilty about learning pieces instead of directly doing exercises, yet I also felt that I was falling short by only doing exercises. Funny incongruences that we put ourselves in. I feel better about learning pieces now.
WHAT, you mean to say you got to intermediate through ANOTHER channel?! :)
The truth is that there has never been and will never be a better way to improve than learning real pieces. This is true for both technique, as well as your understanding and mastery of theoretical concepts (however, it sometimes does make sense to focus on particular sub-parts of a piece, to rapidly improve specific aspects of playing - e.g. a short but difficult passage, or a series of complex chord changes).
@@MangoldProject I just found this channel! haha
I have been watching piano tutorials for years and this is the most helpful one I have seen. It seems to give me an actual strategy for getting better, an understandable plan. Yes, a roadmap. Thank you for sharing your wisdom,
Glad it was helpful!
Sir…you do such a good job at explaining concepts and ideas ! Thank you
Awesome video (and channel in general!), I just wanted to add a tip I used to get out of my comfort zone of playing in keys I was comfortable in. Get a 12-sided die (I also use an 8-sided one for modes), to randomise which key you're going to play in. Definitely helped me get a bit more fluent playing in the different keys.
I'd add one more VERY important skill that gives confidence, fluency and creativity, and that can help you break levels: ear training. It can be sometimes boring, but if you are able to hear a chord in your head, or a note, or look at a key on the keyboard and know how it will sound, then you'll be able to improvise and be creative. You'll be able to hear a song in your head and reproduce it on the keyboard. Ear training starts by identifying intervals, but it can be developed as being able to identify complex chords and differentiate their inverted positions. Professional conductors can even look at an orchestral score, and hear the chords and notes they are reading. To reach such a level, practice every day if possible for 15 minutes. Just like it's said in the video, you'll also stagnate and see very slow progress, but you'll definitely become a great musician with that skill. At a higher level, you'll be able to hear more complex harmonies such as the Neopolitan chords in their different flavors, etc.
Thank for your great lessons!
Your channel is the best!
Thanks as always. Really enjoying these last two videos
Glad you like them!
Thank you very much. Grateful for your contribution. Blessings.
Great tips as usual sir...Thank u sir for helping us
Thank you, thank you. I have been watching your videos for some time now and find them very inspiring and professional. So I thought it was about time I thanked you for that.
Thanks man!
You should demonstrate how to create easier exercises in congruence with the difficult phrase we are dealing with, an easiest and easier versions to improve; Perhaps that approach will be the most helpful. For example a counterpoint phrase or pattern such as Hoffnung II _ Florian Christl or anything.
I'll definitely think about that idea. However, that's not what this video is about! :)
Great advices…Thank you so much!!
Glad it was helpful!
Yes sir. Thank you.
Great vid. I had a look at the videos section on your channel and I think you might get more viewership with more consistent thumbnails (thematically yours), and also simpler (less text, and most often only one or two focus things, with good contrast and bordering), just a thing I've noticed helps get people into (viewing) quality videos in the first place.
Thanks! 🙂
Beautiful Sir!
Thank you kindly.
You have been a great inspiration for me and have helped me with my technique, and I can do some things that people would say are Intermediate skills. But I'm still a Debutant and I'm not yet a Beginner. There are some teachers that say you have to prepare for over a year to start Beginner courses, and I have to agree. I have decided that I have to master triads before I can move on. I am starting with a handicap since I have never been a musician, and in fact suffer from Aural Aphantasia. I don't hear music in my head. But that hasn't stopped me.
I recently learned the Rule of the Octave and have spent one month playing scales and singing. This is a big accomplishment, since I have lots of psychological baggage with my voice. But I'm making progress. I'm taking a different route since I'm studying Bach first. I have heard a jazz musician that says it's best to be at level 8 before starting jazz. Of course there are gifted people that can do things sooner, I'm talking for probably the majority of people that might not have those talents.
Don't get me wrong, you are really one of the most inspiring people on You Tube, and I'm greatful for what you've taught me. It's just that I have to take the time to digest it.
Thanks for sharing, Lawrence. Unless you are aiming for a professional career as a pianist, there is no "timeline" you have to follow. Whether it takes you a month or a year is meaningless. You should always measure your progress not against others, but against the You of yesterday.
@@MangoldProject Merci. So good to hear from you that it isn't a competition.
I'm satisfied with what I've done.
I seriously recommend you steer clear or at least question standard teachers who just want you to give you the cookie cutter dogma "scales, arpeggios and hanon". You'll be a good robot but not an interesting musician. Sadly, for people who want to learn classical music, you'll have to learn techniques and adapt them into your playing from difficult etudes. Most those technique books are simply boring, mechanical exercises that do nothing for your musicianship. Unless musicianship means playing scales in both hands. It's qood skill to have, but has nothing to do with music. It's alot easier to find sources for techniques for piano if you want to learn jazz, blues, gospel etc.
Hello. I learned to play the piano all by myself. I even learned to play some Mario music from many Mario games, especially the Dr. Mario 64 songs from Dr. Mario 64 and soundtrack!! I like piano and music!!
Awesome! There's no right or wrong way to learn to play. And I suspect this video will give you a good roadmap for your growth as a pianist and musician.
Thank you for this video.
Please where is the link to your jazz theory course you talked about?
Coming this weekend, starting September 8th!
Really nice video again 🙏
I'm learning piano by my self and I selected pentatonic minor scale to learn....I loved the video that you made explaining how to play Lofi and I discovered that I have many difficulties to do transposition.
Please, do you have any exercise or video to share about transposition ??
Thank you.
Just to double check I understood you: Do you mean transposition, as in moving a melody or progression up/down a set number of semitones? Or did you perhaps mean transcription, where you try to copy/imitate the notes played by another player?
@@MangoldProject Exactly, I have dificuities to move in a set number of semitone.
Other day I was playing in Lydian mode and I was not able to go up/down the register in semitone.
Thank you so much !!
i have a problem when playing with 2 hands, my eyes starting to look both hand and my brain couldnt focus on 1 hand
The brain isn't supposed to focus on a single hand, but rather assimilate the combined motion of both hands. This is why even if you practice a piece one hand a time, it's still non-trivial combining them. The answer is to practice both hands but very slowly, even at a level where your brain still can't even hear them coming together (but still capable of playing both accurately).
Could you pls suggest, how to improve improvisation techniques
Is there any good books and video s lessons sir
iam a self learner
The best solution is to transcribe/play solos from famous players. Second best solution is to watch my upcoming jazz piano for beginners series here on UA-cam, starting September 8 :) (Although it will take a few good lessons before we get into soloing)
@@MangoldProject
Can you suggest famous Christian solo piano player who were playing for church sir
@@NagiReddy33 I'm not familiar with the Christian gospel/rock scene, although I have occasionally heard some fantastic players there (isn't Corey Henry essentially a Christian musician?).
Let me suggest you to practice ear training! When you get good at ear training, you are able to hear the chords in your head before you play them. That way you can just reproduce on the keyboard what you are hearing in your head. Ear training is the secret for improvisation. You can play Chopin's Ballads perfectly, but if you never developed your ears, you'll never be able to play as a real musician, you'll lack an essential skill. You can compare that to a language: you can learn to sing a song in Korean even if you can't speak the language, and you'll actually never understand anyhting of what you are singing. You'll spend weeks to learn how to sing the lyrics in a language that doesn't make sense. But if you start learning Korean and everything makes sense, you'll be able to learn the lyrics in a couple of hours, and you'll also be able to improvise and modify the lyrics. Do not think the piano as only technique to develop! Do think yourself as a musician, and you need to develop you musicianship. Many people can play advanced Chopin's pieces by heart. Are they musicians? No. They'll be unable to explain any harmonic concept that they can hear. When you start being able to hear all that, when the chords, progressions, and harmonic techniques start to make sense to you because you can hear them in any song, you'll enjoy music much more because you'll be able to "feel" what the music is really expressing, and you'll be able to analyse styles and techniques of various masters just by listening. When you can do that, you'll gather a lot of "imitation" data very quickly that you can try and integrate in your own style. Practice piano, and DO practice ear training, that can be boring, but that's the most rewarding.
@@MFJMD564 Thank you 😊
I love your videos but the suspense is killing me when you plan to upload them so long in advance
Right? The hype will just keep rising.
Thanks Jeremy. I used to forget to upload them in the past - I find that uploading in advance and having a "buffer" both encourages me to create and upload them more regularly. I hope you will understand and accept the minor inconvenience of waiting for them :)
@@MangoldProject No worries! Anything that encourages more MangoldProject video's is amazing! Thanks a lot for your hard work!
Hello sir, I am quite a self thought piano player, the most important thing is that i struggle to keep the rythym is there any sure way to get better at this i can play moderately heavy pieces but my rythm problem comes in between . wish you could help thankyou
The simplest and best advice I can give you is to practice the pieces with a metronome, as slowly as needed so you don't fall off the beat. Then slowly and gradually increase the tempo.
Nice looking video
Im grateful for all these free videos for all these years. I'm hoping you would make a video on using the left hand making simple melodies while playing chords on the right hand. I can't find any material on this. Please Mangold
That's a fairly unusual request, but I'll give it some thought. Where would you encounter something like that?