My worst habit is getting bored of a song when I've learned the notes but before I've put the right dynamics and tempo on, so I have a whole catalogue of pieces I can kinda play, and almost none that I can really play :(
that's exactly why you have to practice with the proper dynamics and phrasing while you're learning the piece :) All of that is also part of our muscle memory.
You nailed it. Many students are interested in a specific goal such as one song or style. So I realized there're 2 ways to teach: 1) The way they need to keep them interested; or 2) The more productive way.
Can you please make a video on learning piano as adults? One problem i face in particular is that I feel rushing through the lessons because of limited time. This one was really helpful. I'm seeing the keys differently already. Identifying them is much easier now. Thanks a lot ✨✨
My worst mistake I do is: PRACTISING TOO FAST - As a 66 year old beginner and playing since about 3 years I always fear that I might run out of time du to my age. 🙂 Great video you did! Best regards from Germany
😅Funny comment! Also German🖐 I am training - literally "training" - Billy Joel's "Root Beer Rag". By many reasons I do so for some years with this difficult song. It is a very fast song; so it tempts to concentrate on speed. I can only recommend to ignore it and train everything in slow motion. With all humbleness I can promise you, that this is no waste of time! Like she says, it results in proper play. Songs like this - with important accentuations - require a proper playing. But not only that. "Learning" is taking place in your brain. And your brain doesn't care about the speed. So the learning-effect is exactly the same. The second advice: not too much at one time. Better is 3-5 repetitions per day. I promise, you will learn your songs faster... faster than you might think.
Great video! Most of your suggestions apply to learning any instrument. For classical guitar, for example, I frequently see newer players not learning how to dampen their open strings. This results in the same effect as holding down the sustain pedal on the piano. One other thing you might mention about memorizing music is to try starting at the end and move backwards through the piece. This really helps with the “What comes next?” problem since you’ve already learned it.
Excellent help. I’ve started practicing with a metronome after years of struggling and I’m amazed how off the neat I usually am. I also try and do a bit every day.
I am just beginning so I have not developed any bad habits in playing. Thanks for exposing what not to do so we can watch out for it as we learning how to play the piano the correct way. Take Care and God Bless. 🙏🙏🙏
I'm playing on and off for years and never got to the beginner part because I'm way to fast with practicing and never got any beat in my playing. Since few years I'm trying to slow down and practice a bit more efficiently. You definitely had me on the correct use of the pedal since I make that mistake a lot.
On the keyboard, my greatest struggle is actually to have fun playing simple blues, boogie woogie, jazz, and other relaxing musical piano arpeggios. Those hands and fingers and sustain pedal coordination and practices are so important. Everything on your channel are based on professional knowledge and from years of experience. I prefer to simply listen to popular songs with their chords but I will never attempt to play or sing with the piano. I don't have the guts and courage, so afraid that I might just ruin the beauty and popularity of the melodies of the thousand songs that was created for us to enjoy listening to everyday. This is the reason why I appreciate every important details of what you have been sharing your subscribers about how we could instantly learn how to play the piano in no time than it should have been, for us to develop the correct skills and acquire the wisdom to overcome the struggles. Thank you so much for being so generous in teaching the easiest way to enjoy playing the piano.
I love your videos. I am 70 and started taking piano lessons several years ago (at least 4) in an adult group lesson. I had taken lessons when I was 5 or 6, but didn't stick with them. So after the group lesson, I signed up for private lessons. I still struggle to this day reading music (my problem is I can play be ear and do it often only to find when I get stuck that I have no idea where I am on the sheet music). I have no further along then when I stopped taking lessons in 2019. My husband loves to listen to me play, but I feel my playing is very basic. My goal is to lean how to play Billy Joel's "And So It Goes:. Thank you for these great videos...I am already feeling inspired to play more.
Playing way too fast guilty as charged 😁😁😁 Thank you for this video, it helps a lot of beginners like me. In my experience I only practice the fingering for C scale and the rest came like an automatic for me without even thinking about it.
I am sooo happy about this video. I am a new music teacher, and I instinctively teach each and every correct habit you mention here. It makes me feel so much more confident about the level of my teaching. I know this will teach my students a high level of playing correctly and laying down a proper foundation. Thank you for this
Thanks again for reminding the bad habits and telling what should be done to avoid them. Again more learning from your video that is why I subscribed.🤝💖
So many people want to play fast so they can impress their friends I feel like but there's nothing more impressive than playing well with good technique!
Trying to teach myself without help! I wasn't even learning how to use the pedal at all. Oh and my fingering... Good thing I just started before I learned bad habits. This video was very helpful.
😎 Thank you for a great video! Liked & subbed. My weaknesses are learning the keys (notes) and fingering. I'm an experienced drummer who thinks like a guitarist & keyboardist; therefore I'm quite unorthodox in my technique. This helps! 🎹
There is an instructor that says you should work out your own fingerings, because you might have to play things differently due to hand size. I don't have an issue with small hands, so its a real time saver to go by the recommended fingerings, rather than work them out and try to remember what I came up with!!! So, I think small percentage of folks may need to get creative, but should still create a cheat-sheet of the fingerings they should learn. I like your summary of bad habits!!!
I love your videos, I dabble in multiple instruments(mostly guitar and bass), but piano and organ intrigue me. I can come up with simple ideas and melodies, but practice is unstructured at best. Your videos are full of great advice. My poor guitars are becoming neglected lol
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. Another video for learning a basic banjo roll had you do it as slow as needed to hit every note. Then repeat at that speed 100 times. Only then speed up.
Nice job, been playing for years off and on but now back to getting serious again only one I am doing wrong is the pedal foot thing. I will practice that..thanks
شكرا لك من المغرب في شمال افريقيا ، استفدت من هذا الدرس الموسيقي و استفدت كذلك من لغتك الإنجليزية السهلة.... سؤالي كيف يمكن تعلم البيانو مع الغناء . Thank you From Morocco.
Thank you so much for this wonderful video, I’m a beginner and guilty of most of the things. It feels good to know that I am not the only beginner who is facing all these and there is always scope of improvment by constant practise.
Very good advice Miss all round. I do have a question though. I was trained classically through the Toronto Royal Conservatory and I noticed one thing about your hands. Maybe it is because you have rather long fingernails and although it doesn't seem to inhibit your playing ability at all, I was taught on penalty of a crack over my hands with a yard stick to form my fingers as in the shape of a claw as if you were holding a large grapefruit; not with flattened out fingers like you do. It was explained to me that the science of it is that with the claw method, you have a potential speed and movement advantage because you are not waving a longer stick around (each finger) as you need to. Also, you have a mechanical advantage in that when you play a note with a shortened stick you have better control over where it will land, and have potentially more control over how hard or soft to play the note. Plus, with the meaty part of your hand being raised up a bit, you are essentially just moving your wrist up and down instead of your whole arm. For example; take two boards laid parallel to you at 1ft away and 2 ft away with a dozen 3" nails partially started into the wood in each board. Now take 2 hammers, one 2 ft long and the other at 1 foot long. Now try and drive all the nails further into the wood another inch using the 2 ft long hammer on the furthest board and using the 1 foot long hammer for the closer board. Which was easier and more accurate? As a further note regarding human finger mechanics, I think it is a good idea to make aware to a student that the 4'th finger is connected to the arm's musculature independently from the first three fingers requiring a separate brain circuitry which can make it somewhat of issue when learning. (The 5'th, or little finger, may be the same; don't know). Students may find difficulties with the fourth finger and not realize why. Making a student aware of this can give them a sort of heads up so as to place some additional effort as to those fingers.
Excellent video thanks for helping me out. To return the favor, I would say that a common bad habit I have not listed in your video is that I allow myself to be “sloppy” when I first start to play or practice and then after I warm up a bit I focus more and become more precise. This is BAD because when performing a piece you have to get it right first try right out of the gate. The audience has no interest in hearing you do a sloppy warmup first. Also, another bad habit is that I sometimes allow myself to play wrong notes rather than taking a necessary pause to make sure I’m playing the right note. I’m a big believer in trying your hardest to never play a wrong note. It’s not possible but one should always strive for that.
I gave up piano when I was about 14 because instead of saying the beat mentally like 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3 I would just say the right hand fingering, like the numbers 1 to 5 for the melody line I was playing. At 14, I lacked the ability and discipline to address this problem and my teacher was no help, so I gave up. Many years later, I have restarted piano and taking lessons etc, and I now think the beat all the time. I still say the fingering occasionally when the music has a fast scale or arpeggio in the right hand but that is only briefly for a bar or so. I am surprised this does not seem an issue so I imagine teachers do not get students to think the beat any more, although they did back in the sixties and seventies when I was learning.
Feeling the beat and more so your timing is very important- however it assumes you know where the time signature, chord breaks how many bars of each are and the note values for lead melody parts which for a beginner with out the use of sheet music , wouldn’t know from just “feeling it “ I can’t “feel “ with out learning what a quaver or a triplet is and how to measure it even with a metronome But all we learn in different ways 😎👍
I have learned that practicing fast leads to sloppiness. It is much better for me to start slow. Slow, steady and clean. So much better than fast and sloppy.
Hi I bought midi keyboard its semi weighed I have muscel wating condition so this is fine for as note easy on my little finger but this one work fine for me it's a keystation88. I am working slowly to get thing right .
thanks for this video. I'm a newbie- first of all I have nails, they're not long and I just grew them but I'm going to cut them down- it's nice to see someone with fingernails able to play though bc I was sad thinking I'd have to always have them super short! I think one of the bad habits I'm noticing is holding my pinky finger up! IDK how to stop.
Over my 55ish years of amateur music, I’ve played viola, bassoon, classical guitar, and classical saxophones, plus I’ve taken the usual (college) freshman and sophomore Theory and Ear Training classes. However, I’ve never particularly seriously taken up keyboards until now. (That’s largely because I’m hooked on the Lumatone (ua-cam.com/video/cpYBnzaWZqU/v-deo.html), but that’s another story.) Anyway, the main mistakes you mentioned that I make are not playing slowly and carefully enough, and continuing to “deliver the notes on schedule” when I make a mistake. I believe that’s a somewhat ironic … “musicianship skill,” more or less … that isn’t taught nearly enough: making mistakes gracefully! You want to be aware of when you’re on the brink of losing sufficient control, and play straight through that loss of control, even if what you play isn’t exactly right. That’s a skill I never really learned on any of my instruments, but I’m _starting_ to figure out now.
#9: When you start working on a new piece (even just an exercise), don’t even touch the ol’ ebonies or ivories for several minutes: Don’t start actually playing until you already have a pretty solid idea what playing it will sound like and feel like to play! Walk through it first. Sound it out in your mind: sight-sing or just imagine the sound, especially of the most musically-important or most difficult parts. Look at the fingerings, preview where there are difficult hand crossovers or position changes. Mark the probably-difficult parts. When you finally do start playing, start with the hard parts, and play them so slowly and deliberately that you _cannot possibly mess them up_ ! If one hand is harder than the other, practice it one hand at a time at first. Then crank up the tempo on each of them. _Only then_ attempt to play the entire composition!
@@aspensulphate, I personally hadn’t heard of this “Think System,” but from a quick search, the underlying goal appears to be “all the kids need to do is think about the music, and they'll eventually be able to play it.” I’m not sure what to make of that… What we have to do as a performer of a written compositions, is to deliver the notes _as written_ (initially at least), without stopping or losing the beat. After we can reliably “play the notes,” then we need to add our own interpretation, style, and “feeling” to it. If you are capable of *_sight-reading_* a composition without stopping, going back, nor making any particularly glaring mistakes, and can also deliver it with a unique interpretation, all with no previous knowledge of what’s on the page, then that’s dang impressive! _Very few students can do that though_ . All too many students can’t play more than a few measures without stopping, going back, etc. Often they make the same mistakes over and over. The way to avoid that isn’t to “think about it,” but to not try to sight-read it, nor launch into it at full speed. Look over it first, so that you understand it well enough to know what to expect as you play it. Statistically, few students are great sight-readers.
I was horrible at reading, and I tried reading the melody lines in the "Real Books" 15 minutes every day and it became a lot easier after just a few weeks. As usual something happened after a few months and I had to stop. But the reading skill stuck. Playing every day is incremental progress almost as good as compound interest.
Rhythm/ pulse : this should be learned by counting practice (sight reading with counting out loud) this is presuming a beginner is learning to read music...
My finger speed is much better. But I still find myself lost with the keys. Also I am never sure if I am seated correctly at the piano. I still can't completely separate my left hand notes with the right one. I still don't know the arpeggios.
These are all good suggestions. I’m working my way through the Alfred adult book, and along the way as a special treat, I rewrote a section of Joni Mitchell‘s River, and I use that as a prompting to get me to sit down at the keyboard every morning and have some personal enjoyment. Of course, at the beginning it was far beyond my capabilities…. but it forced me to read the sheet music and figure it out and then create a shortened version that could serve as a satisfying warm-up. At some point the Alfred book is going to get me to use the pedal …but so far I’ve been ignoring it. I also have the book you referenced on scales, chords, arpeggios, and cadences.
@@pianoly Well, I work a full time job but I am highly motivated. Truth be told, over the past year I haven't been practicing enough. I sing in my church choir and lead ensemble, and I can truthfully say that learning some piano has really helped me to become a better singer. I have a much better sense of intervals and scales than I did before, and I can easily construct vocal harmonies for most pieces on the fly. Because I'm a bass, I don't get to solo. Nobody really cares about basses, but that's OK....I'm going to keep on working at it and maybe in 3 or 4 years I'll be able to take on some of the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas stuff. Linus and Lucy is much more difficult to play than it is to listen to.....
Oof. I actually have a few of these bad habits. I know little pieces of songs that I can whip out at parties, but I never “practice” the songs, so I can only play little riffs and then have to stop. I’m pretty sure I use incorrect fingerings too. And my sustain pedal technique is totally backwards! Thanks, and keep it up!
Me too. I find myself attracted to the "iconic" parts of popular songs. I learn these, and then move on to something else, without learning the whole song. This is particularly true of songs which have a highly recognizable piano interlude, though the piano is not the primary instrument throughout the song.
A big issue I've noticed is memorizing the hand movements to the point you don't read the music anymore. Sure you can play that specific piece, but what of a piece that's even slightly different? Personally I cant think of much of a solution other than perhaps doing a lot of sightreading.
Nice video. I am an adult beginner with some music experience. I will watch your video several times because you have some good content. I would like to make a suggestion as this is my perspective only as some people like to fly through things. If you slow down slightly it would give me better comprehension of your advice. I noticed this as soon as you mentioned the key names at the beginning. When teaching it is never a bad thing to slow down for beginners and even repeat to make sure they see your point. Of course there is a balance so we don't get bored...anyway thanks for the video.
one of my bad habit is when i see a complicated rhythm i give up or when i am trying to figure out a chord from the radio if i dont get it i give up and i dont try it again i would like if you can help me with this problem thank you
I think slowing down to learn and taking small chunks to learn are the best ones. On learning some harder songs, I slow the tempo down for the whole song and then find the trouble spots. I really struggled just last week on the key change on "Great is thy Faithfulness". I took 3 or 4 bars before the change and 5 or 6 bars after the change and just worked on that and finally got it down.
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Great Video, thank you. Your explanations are very clear and easily understandable. I’ve been playing on and off since I was 7 yrs old. Sadly due to family and health issues there’s been large gaps when I didn’t play at all. For many years I played a squeezebox so my right hand is good but my left hand is quite poor. I’ve done a lot of music arranging on my PC but again not lately. In all that time I was never taught how to use the sustain pedal properly!! Anyway, now I’m in my senior years I have arthritis in both my hands, but I’m determined to get back to playing regularly. Just need to get myself a decent weighted keyboard with midi so I can still do some arranging as well for when I’ve had enough of my scales 😂.
Thank you, luckily as a original guitar player I do not have so many of those bad habits although I am still guilty when I am lazy. I am glad I stumbled on your channel today. I am not sure if the video was at your place, but I can say from experience that if you were able to have your piano on some flooring other than carpet you would be amazed at the tone difference.
'... playing the song instead of practising it ... ' guilty. :( ... slap my forehead but i KeEp dOinG thaT ... ..u put me on the road to learning scales & chords properly - the BooK u hold up is sooo easy to understand. Thank you. ... sustain pedal... later i think :)
I am trying to play piano again at 46 yrs old. Taking time to practice everyday is the hardest thing after coming home from work. I took lessons when I was 12 and it was so slow and boring learning like twinkle little star etc. I only took them for like less than 6 months. I did learn some other songs later from my sister but finally sold my piano and quit. Wish you tube and the internet was around back then..
Thank you for that video, it really helps a lot! Usually I want to play the whole song, and not practice it... or do it quickly and don't slow down... Also as begginer it's difficult to keep the rithm, some times hands doesn't obey my mind and they go faster than I want. Quick question: Does the pedal still sense on broken chords? Meaning if left hand remains on the chord but right is broken it on the same time. How to play pedal on this case?
For popular music you will never see a symbol. In some classical music you will see it or educational books. It’s basically a line below the staff. Hard to explain in a comment. You could google to see how it looks!
Right-on-the-nose tips, thanks! Tip #8: _Mark the tough spots_ on your music (in pencil, of course)! This ties into your tip of practicing music rather than playing it.
Hi there, one of my students said I should check your channel out because she thinks my personality is similar to yours (maybe but I’m probably two decades older than you :-) the other one you remind me of a famous you tuber name, Sarah Detichy, I don’t think I spelled her last name correctly, though. Seriously, even look like her. Good job with your channel and you’re probably the fastest growing channel I’ve seen in the last three or four years.
Hmm, zero to Lingus lol. Ah my aspirations are not that high lol...very good video, I do have some of the issues like counting from middle C and not practicing. I just got a rental a few days back and have basic knowledge already.
Hi...you should introduce yourself to your audience...I always go to the ' about ' link to read the channel's backstory...where you're from, how long you've been playing, why you're here...makes a better connection with your audience
Fingering. I’m not new, I’m seasoned. Always played but never got real training. Retired for 3 years and really going after filling in the holes of youth.
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I've been trying for 15 years to play the piano and can't seem to play with musicallity and memorizing is not there either. I feel hopeless and feel I've wasted all that money. I'm on the third teacher. I think there are some of us that just don't have the ability.😮💨
Think about this. What does it really mean to “learn to play the piano”. One never learns to play the piano. Every day a dedicated pianist learns something new about “how to play the piano”.
My worst habit is getting bored of a song when I've learned the notes but before I've put the right dynamics and tempo on, so I have a whole catalogue of pieces I can kinda play, and almost none that I can really play :(
Oh yes that’s so common!
that's exactly why you have to practice with the proper dynamics and phrasing while you're learning the piece :) All of that is also part of our muscle memory.
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You nailed it. Many students are interested in a specific goal such as one song or style. So I realized there're 2 ways to teach:
1) The way they need to keep them interested; or
2) The more productive way.
Can you please make a video on learning piano as adults? One problem i face in particular is that I feel rushing through the lessons because of limited time. This one was really helpful. I'm seeing the keys differently already. Identifying them is much easier now. Thanks a lot ✨✨
Stay tuned! That video has been planned and is on the way! 😊
My worst mistake I do is: PRACTISING TOO FAST - As a 66 year old beginner and playing since about 3 years I always fear that I might run out of time du to my age. 🙂 Great video you did! Best regards from Germany
😅Funny comment! Also German🖐
I am training - literally "training" - Billy Joel's "Root Beer Rag". By many reasons I do so for some years with this difficult song. It is a very fast song; so it tempts to concentrate on speed. I can only recommend to ignore it and train everything in slow motion. With all humbleness I can promise you, that this is no waste of time! Like she says, it results in proper play. Songs like this - with important accentuations - require a proper playing. But not only that. "Learning" is taking place in your brain. And your brain doesn't care about the speed. So the learning-effect is exactly the same. The second advice: not too much at one time. Better is 3-5 repetitions per day. I promise, you will learn your songs faster... faster than you might think.
Love that pedal advice. Too often I catch myself "stepping" all over the music.
Great video! Most of your suggestions apply to learning any instrument. For classical guitar, for example, I frequently see newer players not learning how to dampen their open strings. This results in the same effect as holding down the sustain pedal on the piano.
One other thing you might mention about memorizing music is to try starting at the end and move backwards through the piece. This really helps with the “What comes next?” problem since you’ve already learned it.
Excellent help. I’ve started practicing with a metronome after years of struggling and I’m amazed how off the neat I usually am. I also try and do a bit every day.
I am just beginning so I have not developed any bad habits in playing. Thanks for exposing what not to do so we can watch out for it as we learning how to play the piano the correct way.
Take Care and God Bless.
🙏🙏🙏
I'm playing on and off for years and never got to the beginner part because I'm way to fast with practicing and never got any beat in my playing. Since few years I'm trying to slow down and practice a bit more efficiently. You definitely had me on the correct use of the pedal since I make that mistake a lot.
Thank you so much, I’m a beginner and guilty of all these things!
Another great tip is to practice feeling energized not tired after work or school 😁
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On the keyboard, my greatest struggle is actually to have fun playing simple blues, boogie woogie, jazz, and other relaxing musical piano arpeggios. Those hands and fingers and sustain pedal coordination and practices are so important. Everything on your channel are based on professional knowledge and from years of experience. I prefer to simply listen to popular songs with their chords but I will never attempt to play or sing with the piano. I don't have the guts and courage, so afraid that I might just ruin the beauty and popularity of the melodies of the thousand songs that was created for us to enjoy listening to everyday. This is the reason why I appreciate every important details of what you have been sharing your subscribers about how we could instantly learn how to play the piano in no time than it should have been, for us to develop the correct skills and acquire the wisdom to overcome the struggles. Thank you so much for being so generous in teaching the easiest way to enjoy playing the piano.
I love your videos. I am 70 and started taking piano lessons several years ago (at least 4) in an adult group lesson. I had taken lessons when I was 5 or 6, but didn't stick with them. So after the group lesson, I signed up for private lessons. I still struggle to this day reading music (my problem is I can play be ear and do it often only to find when I get stuck that I have no idea where I am on the sheet music). I have no further along then when I stopped taking lessons in 2019. My husband loves to listen to me play, but I feel my playing is very basic. My goal is to lean how to play Billy Joel's "And So It Goes:. Thank you for these great videos...I am already feeling inspired to play more.
paino eh a coisa mais dificil que ja fiz na vida e fico tao feliz de ja ter superado desafios.
Playing way too fast guilty as charged 😁😁😁 Thank you for this video, it helps a lot of beginners like me. In my experience I only practice the fingering for C scale and the rest came like an automatic for me without even thinking about it.
I am sooo happy about this video. I am a new music teacher, and I instinctively teach each and every correct habit you mention here. It makes me feel so much more confident about the level of my teaching. I know this will teach my students a high level of playing correctly and laying down a proper foundation. Thank you for this
1:38 I feel personally attacked.
Lol
Thanks again for reminding the bad habits and telling what should be done to avoid them. Again more learning from your video that is why I subscribed.🤝💖
So many people want to play fast so they can impress their friends I feel like but there's nothing more impressive than playing well with good technique!
That’s right! We’ve got to play the long game when learning piano! 👍👍
Trying to teach myself without help! I wasn't even learning how to use the pedal at all. Oh and my fingering... Good thing I just started before I learned bad habits. This video was very helpful.
😎 Thank you for a great video! Liked & subbed.
My weaknesses are learning the keys (notes)
and fingering. I'm an experienced drummer who
thinks like a guitarist & keyboardist; therefore I'm
quite unorthodox in my technique. This helps! 🎹
I’m glad it helped!! Thanks!!
There is an instructor that says you should work out your own fingerings, because you might have to play things differently due to hand size. I don't have an issue with small hands, so its a real time saver to go by the recommended fingerings, rather than work them out and try to remember what I came up with!!! So, I think small percentage of folks may need to get creative, but should still create a cheat-sheet of the fingerings they should learn. I like your summary of bad habits!!!
I love your videos, I dabble in multiple instruments(mostly guitar and bass), but piano and organ intrigue me. I can come up with simple ideas and melodies, but practice is unstructured at best. Your videos are full of great advice. My poor guitars are becoming neglected lol
Great advice.
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. Another video for learning a basic banjo roll had you do it as slow as needed to hit every note. Then repeat at that speed 100 times. Only then speed up.
Nice job, been playing for years off and on but now back to getting serious again only one I am doing wrong is the pedal foot thing. I will practice that..thanks
شكرا لك من المغرب في شمال افريقيا ، استفدت من هذا الدرس الموسيقي و استفدت كذلك من لغتك الإنجليزية السهلة....
سؤالي كيف يمكن تعلم البيانو مع الغناء .
Thank you From Morocco.
I may make a video on this soon!
eu começo bem devagar nota por nota
Thank you so much for this wonderful video, I’m a beginner and guilty of most of the things. It feels good to know that I am not the only beginner who is facing all these and there is always scope of improvment by constant practise.
Very good advice Miss all round. I do have a question though. I was trained classically through the Toronto Royal Conservatory and I noticed one thing about your hands. Maybe it is because you have rather long fingernails and although it doesn't seem to inhibit your playing ability at all, I was taught on penalty of a crack over my hands with a yard stick to form my fingers as in the shape of a claw as if you were holding a large grapefruit; not with flattened out fingers like you do.
It was explained to me that the science of it is that with the claw method, you have a potential speed and movement advantage because you are not waving a longer stick around (each finger) as you need to. Also, you have a mechanical advantage in that when you play a note with a shortened stick you have better control over where it will land, and have potentially more control over how hard or soft to play the note. Plus, with the meaty part of your hand being raised up a bit, you are essentially just moving your wrist up and down instead of your whole arm.
For example; take two boards laid parallel to you at 1ft away and 2 ft away with a dozen 3" nails partially started into the wood in each board. Now take 2 hammers, one 2 ft long and the other at 1 foot long. Now try and drive all the nails further into the wood another inch using the 2 ft long hammer on the furthest board and using the 1 foot long hammer for the closer board. Which was easier and more accurate?
As a further note regarding human finger mechanics, I think it is a good idea to make aware to a student that the 4'th finger is connected to the arm's musculature independently from the first three fingers requiring a separate brain circuitry which can make it somewhat of issue when learning. (The 5'th, or little finger, may be the same; don't know). Students may find difficulties with the fourth finger and not realize why. Making a student aware of this can give them a sort of heads up so as to place some additional effort as to those fingers.
Do you have a video of tips for former piano players looking to restart piano playing and to refresh their hand dexterity/ independence?
Excellent video thanks for helping me out. To return the favor, I would say that a common bad habit I have not listed in your video is that I allow myself to be “sloppy” when I first start to play or practice and then after I warm up a bit I focus more and become more precise. This is BAD because when performing a piece you have to get it right first try right out of the gate. The audience has no interest in hearing you do a sloppy warmup first. Also, another bad habit is that I sometimes allow myself to play wrong notes rather than taking a necessary pause to make sure I’m playing the right note. I’m a big believer in trying your hardest to never play a wrong note. It’s not possible but one should always strive for that.
Being Addicted to your Videos So beautiful teaching 😍
5:54 I like how she winks when she says "if you're a beginner" 😉
I gave up piano when I was about 14 because instead of saying the beat mentally like 1 and 2 and 3 and 1 and 2 and 3 I would just say the right hand fingering, like the numbers 1 to 5 for the melody line I was playing. At 14, I lacked the ability and discipline to address this problem and my teacher was no help, so I gave up. Many years later, I have restarted piano and taking lessons etc, and I now think the beat all the time. I still say the fingering occasionally when the music has a fast scale or arpeggio in the right hand but that is only briefly for a bar or so. I am surprised this does not seem an issue so I imagine teachers do not get students to think the beat any more, although they did back in the sixties and seventies when I was learning.
I'm a new subscriber and watch several videos already. Great help for a newbie like me.
Feeling the beat and more so your timing is very important- however it assumes you know where the time signature, chord breaks how many bars of each are and the note values for lead melody parts which for a beginner with out the use of sheet music , wouldn’t know from just “feeling it “
I can’t “feel “ with out learning what a quaver or a triplet is and how to measure it even with a metronome
But all we learn in different ways 😎👍
I have learned that practicing fast leads to sloppiness. It is much better for me to start slow. Slow, steady and clean. So much better than fast and sloppy.
This video is really helpful
I’m so glad!
Thanks so much for recommending the book. I want to learn the correct fingers for chords and scales before forming any bad habits🙏🏿♥️😘
Thanks so much!
Yes I love practicing every day!
Hi I bought midi keyboard its semi weighed I have muscel wating condition so this is fine for as note easy on my little finger but this one work fine for me it's a keystation88. I am working slowly to get thing right .
.pls. make a vedio of how to read easy and fast of reading sheet song of A time for us . Very hard to follow the chord
thanks for this video. I'm a newbie- first of all I have nails, they're not long and I just grew them but I'm going to cut them down- it's nice to see someone with fingernails able to play though bc I was sad thinking I'd have to always have them super short! I think one of the bad habits I'm noticing is holding my pinky finger up! IDK how to stop.
Over my 55ish years of amateur music, I’ve played viola, bassoon, classical guitar, and classical saxophones, plus I’ve taken the usual (college) freshman and sophomore Theory and Ear Training classes.
However, I’ve never particularly seriously taken up keyboards until now. (That’s largely because I’m hooked on the Lumatone (ua-cam.com/video/cpYBnzaWZqU/v-deo.html), but that’s another story.)
Anyway, the main mistakes you mentioned that I make are not playing slowly and carefully enough, and continuing to “deliver the notes on schedule” when I make a mistake.
I believe that’s a somewhat ironic … “musicianship skill,” more or less … that isn’t taught nearly enough: making mistakes gracefully! You want to be aware of when you’re on the brink of losing sufficient control, and play straight through that loss of control, even if what you play isn’t exactly right. That’s a skill I never really learned on any of my instruments, but I’m _starting_ to figure out now.
#9: When you start working on a new piece (even just an exercise), don’t even touch the ol’ ebonies or ivories for several minutes: Don’t start actually playing until you already have a pretty solid idea what playing it will sound like and feel like to play!
Walk through it first. Sound it out in your mind: sight-sing or just imagine the sound, especially of the most musically-important or most difficult parts. Look at the fingerings, preview where there are difficult hand crossovers or position changes. Mark the probably-difficult parts.
When you finally do start playing, start with the hard parts, and play them so slowly and deliberately that you _cannot possibly mess them up_ ! If one hand is harder than the other, practice it one hand at a time at first. Then crank up the tempo on each of them.
_Only then_ attempt to play the entire composition!
Sounds like the "Think System." Professor Hill would be proud!
@@aspensulphate, I personally hadn’t heard of this “Think System,” but from a quick search, the underlying goal appears to be “all the kids need to do is think about the music, and they'll eventually be able to play it.” I’m not sure what to make of that…
What we have to do as a performer of a written compositions, is to deliver the notes _as written_ (initially at least), without stopping or losing the beat. After we can reliably “play the notes,” then we need to add our own interpretation, style, and “feeling” to it.
If you are capable of *_sight-reading_* a composition without stopping, going back, nor making any particularly glaring mistakes, and can also deliver it with a unique interpretation, all with no previous knowledge of what’s on the page, then that’s dang impressive!
_Very few students can do that though_ . All too many students can’t play more than a few measures without stopping, going back, etc. Often they make the same mistakes over and over.
The way to avoid that isn’t to “think about it,” but to not try to sight-read it, nor launch into it at full speed. Look over it first, so that you understand it well enough to know what to expect as you play it. Statistically, few students are great sight-readers.
I was horrible at reading, and I tried reading the melody lines in the "Real Books" 15 minutes every day and it became a lot easier after just a few weeks. As usual something happened after a few months and I had to stop. But the reading skill stuck. Playing every day is incremental progress almost as good as compound interest.
Yes!! You’re totally right! 👍👍
Rhythm/ pulse : this should be learned by counting practice (sight reading with counting out loud) this is presuming a beginner is learning to read music...
I am doing a piano course online. But I prefer your videos.
Thanks a lot!!
You're welcome!
Thanks !
Found this video useful especially pedalling techniques. Thanks a lot for sharing. ❤❤❤
Glad it was helpful!
My finger speed is much better. But I still find myself lost with the keys. Also I am never sure if I am seated correctly at the piano. I still can't completely separate my left hand notes with the right one. I still don't know the arpeggios.
My bad habit is not playing the rhythm of the song when practicing because I'm too concerned finding the keys or reading what notes come next.
Totally! That is so common. I would narrow down on those struggle areas and slow it way down. You got this! 👍👍
You might be playing stuff that’s too hard. Maybe try playing easier pieces
Why do you sound like you’re mocking the song when you sing let it be? 😅
These are all good suggestions. I’m working my way through the Alfred adult book, and along the way as a special treat, I rewrote a section of Joni Mitchell‘s River, and I use that as a prompting to get me to sit down at the keyboard every morning and have some personal enjoyment. Of course, at the beginning it was far beyond my capabilities…. but it forced me to read the sheet music and figure it out and then create a shortened version that could serve as a satisfying warm-up. At some point the Alfred book is going to get me to use the pedal …but so far I’ve been ignoring it. I also have the book you referenced on scales, chords, arpeggios, and cadences.
Nice! Sounds like you’re doing well!
@@pianoly Well, I work a full time job but I am highly motivated. Truth be told, over the past year I haven't been practicing enough. I sing in my church choir and lead ensemble, and I can truthfully say that learning some piano has really helped me to become a better singer. I have a much better sense of intervals and scales than I did before, and I can easily construct vocal harmonies for most pieces on the fly. Because I'm a bass, I don't get to solo. Nobody really cares about basses, but that's OK....I'm going to keep on working at it and maybe in 3 or 4 years I'll be able to take on some of the Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown Christmas stuff. Linus and Lucy is much more difficult to play than it is to listen to.....
So cool!!
I really enjoyed this
Thanks!! 😊
Oof. I actually have a few of these bad habits. I know little pieces of songs that I can whip out at parties, but I never “practice” the songs, so I can only play little riffs and then have to stop. I’m pretty sure I use incorrect fingerings too. And my sustain pedal technique is totally backwards! Thanks, and keep it up!
Oof! Glad this video brought you some awareness. Keep up the good work!
Me too. I find myself attracted to the "iconic" parts of popular songs. I learn these, and then move on to something else, without learning the whole song. This is particularly true of songs which have a highly recognizable piano interlude, though the piano is not the primary instrument throughout the song.
A big issue I've noticed is memorizing the hand movements to the point you don't read the music anymore. Sure you can play that specific piece, but what of a piece that's even slightly different? Personally I cant think of much of a solution other than perhaps doing a lot of sightreading.
Nice video. I am an adult beginner with some music experience. I will watch your video several times because you have some good content. I would like to make a suggestion as this is my perspective only as some people like to fly through things. If you slow down slightly it would give me better comprehension of your advice. I noticed this as soon as you mentioned the key names at the beginning. When teaching it is never a bad thing to slow down for beginners and even repeat to make sure they see your point. Of course there is a balance so we don't get bored...anyway thanks for the video.
one of my bad habit is when i see a complicated rhythm i give up or when i am trying to figure out a chord from the radio if i dont get it i give up and i dont try it again i would like if you can help me with this problem thank you
I think slowing down to learn and taking small chunks to learn are the best ones. On learning some harder songs, I slow the tempo down for the whole song and then find the trouble spots. I really struggled just last week on the key change on "Great is thy Faithfulness". I took 3 or 4 bars before the change and 5 or 6 bars after the change and just worked on that and finally got it down.
CL!! Yes, it’s so important! Good for you for practicing effectively! 👍
How can I get you for my teacher? Do you do zoom teaching calls? I like your approach, I’m just doing apps currently. Linda Sanmiya
Yes! I have an online program and working with me over zoom is part of it. You can schedule a call to learn more… click here to schedule a call: app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=20916111&appointmentType=18729846
Great Video, thank you. Your explanations are very clear and easily understandable. I’ve been playing on and off since I was 7 yrs old. Sadly due to family and health issues there’s been large gaps when I didn’t play at all. For many years I played a squeezebox so my right hand is good but my left hand is quite poor. I’ve done a lot of music arranging on my PC but again not lately. In all that time I was never taught how to use the sustain pedal properly!! Anyway, now I’m in my senior years I have arthritis in both my hands, but I’m determined to get back to playing regularly. Just need to get myself a decent weighted keyboard with midi so I can still do some arranging as well for when I’ve had enough of my scales 😂.
Thank you, luckily as a original guitar player I do not have so many of those bad habits although I am still guilty when I am lazy. I am glad I stumbled on your channel today. I am not sure if the video was at your place, but I can say from experience that if you were able to have your piano on some flooring other than carpet you would be amazed at the tone difference.
I wrote this song- but my friend played it … now I’m learning piano and maybe one day I will play it
'... playing the song instead of practising it ... ' guilty. :( ... slap my forehead but i KeEp dOinG thaT ...
..u put me on the road to learning scales & chords properly - the BooK u hold up is sooo easy to understand. Thank you.
... sustain pedal... later i think :)
I am trying to play piano again at 46 yrs old. Taking time to practice everyday is the hardest thing after coming home from work. I took lessons when I was 12 and it was so slow and boring learning like twinkle little star etc. I only took them for like less than 6 months. I did learn some other songs later from my sister but finally sold my piano and quit. Wish you tube and the internet was around back then..
matur suksma
Thank you for that video, it really helps a lot! Usually I want to play the whole song, and not practice it... or do it quickly and don't slow down... Also as begginer it's difficult to keep the rithm, some times hands doesn't obey my mind and they go faster than I want. Quick question: Does the pedal still sense on broken chords? Meaning if left hand remains on the chord but right is broken it on the same time. How to play pedal on this case?
You'd still just change the pedal with each chord change, no matter what patterns your hands are doing.
cool. so lift and repress the sustain when you hit the new chord
Yes, chord first and pedal second! 👍
@@pianoly clear, thank you :)
what symbol will you see in the sheet music for the pedal?
For popular music you will never see a symbol. In some classical music you will see it or educational books. It’s basically a line below the staff. Hard to explain in a comment. You could google to see how it looks!
Right-on-the-nose tips, thanks!
Tip #8: _Mark the tough spots_ on your music (in pencil, of course)! This ties into your tip of practicing music rather than playing it.
What software is generating the overlay with the keyboard graphic with green keys?
Chordie
Hi there, one of my students said I should check your channel out because she thinks my personality is similar to yours (maybe but I’m probably two decades older than you :-) the other one you remind me of a famous you tuber name, Sarah Detichy, I don’t think I spelled her last name correctly, though. Seriously, even look like her.
Good job with your channel and you’re probably the fastest growing channel I’ve seen in the last three or four years.
Thanks!! And thanks for watching!! 😊
Great tips, for me it’s using the correct fingers and getting jumbled up - ouch
Where is the info you put below do you have to have a computer
Hmm, zero to Lingus lol. Ah my aspirations are not that high lol...very good video, I do have some of the issues like counting from middle C and not practicing. I just got a rental a few days back and have basic knowledge already.
Hi...you should introduce yourself to your audience...I always go to the ' about ' link to read the channel's backstory...where you're from, how long you've been playing, why you're here...makes a better connection with your audience
Hey Shawn, I agree. I just started. This is my month anniversary today! It’s on my to do list 👍👍
Sorry, I disagree. Videos should be as short as possible so we can get on with practice.
I wish students will just LISTEN when you tell them these things!!!
This a dayly thing for a piano teacher 🤣
Uhh, pedal novice here. I'll change that. Merci.
the most daunting part for me is to keep up with the metronome, once I lost a beat, then it ruins everything
Fingering. I’m not new, I’m seasoned. Always played but never got real training. Retired for 3 years and really going after filling in the holes of youth.
1:00 that's one of my problems.
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hi. madam. You are so impressive
How to play with left hand
Mastered them all... ooh wait!!! Now I'm telling a white lie. 10min practicing 😅.
Truly good advice here! Listen up folks 😊
Haha I play for years on hearing haha and that is a bad habit lol.... Started with note notation
I've been trying for 15 years to play the piano and can't seem to play with musicallity and memorizing is not there either. I feel hopeless and feel I've wasted all that money. I'm on the third teacher. I think there are some of us that just don't have the ability.😮💨
Don't give up, Linda! :)
I m from nigeria
My quition is how can i found any cords of a song
Oh my🙏! Thank you so much this channel is so underrated and i don't like that😕
Nothing i try sounds like the original song...but i been trying for less than a month.
When I find myself in time of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom:
"Let eat bee!" 🐝🙀🙈🤣
If you are driving a standard Transmission car and "Let It Be" comes on...DO NOT practice your sustain skills at that time!!! TRUST ME! :)
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Sorry, Billy Joe and Nora Jones sound too draggy too me as if they had too many cocktails!! 🤐🤐🤐🤐
Its hard to slow down.
Think about this. What does it really mean to “learn to play the piano”. One never learns to play the piano. Every day a dedicated pianist learns something new about “how to play the piano”.