You are a great teacher and make us go further and further! As a noob I can’t explain by words my evolution since I came across your channel. Thanks for all the technical lessons and mental lessons too! 🤘🦾
This is a good way of looking at this, I agree, I have experienced this. As I’ve been playing a long time, my focus is finally on being musical at all times, and you can only do that once you got it, not when you’re learning it.
Thank you Dan. You’re incredible! I’ve watched a few of your videos now and I really like your out of the box thinking and teaching style. Sometimes when I play, it feels almost out of body witnessing my hands move the way they do. Anyway, just wanted to say thanks and I enjoy your videos.
Thank you very much and welcome! 🙏 Have a good look around and don’t let yt force all my old videos on you! Do also consider my video management website. Best, Dan
It truly is an exciting experience to become an 'observer', that point where it's just happening and there is seemingly no thought, the rhythm stabilizes and syncs. I have come a long way because of your videos (but much much further to go). Best piano teacher on YT IMO. Thanks Dan!
Definitely going to give this a try. Hand independence is an ongoing battle for me so anything that helps is great. Also, as shown,, great for reinforcing scales/chord/inversions, so that's an added bonus! Thanks for this video, Dan!
Thanks Dan. This is a great exercise, and which for sure I plan to incorporate into my practice routine. By the way, many thanks for all your excellent materials and information that you continue to produce to help on our pianistic development. I've bought all your books, and just finished reading 'A philosophical approach to Jazz Piano' and it's awesome, specially the chapter on naming chords/tonality I found it very useful. Your explanation makes it so logical and easy, and brings so much clarity on this typically confusing subject.
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I so so need this i can see this helping because i do have timing issues ....help me to get Cannon in D my left timing is mostly off and i want to learn river flows in you Yiruma as well so ya that timing gets ....Great video thanks Dan
I warched this because im testing the water before i jump in and buy a digital piano. I found it beneficial to learn that i might be okay, possibly using lifelong typing skills to adapt to using both hands simultaneously with this revolutionary mindset on piano. Im wondering if guitar skills will help in the piano pursuit and then piano will help my guitar... thought provoking inspiring video.
Thanks for your comment. The guitar and typing will certainly help on the piano, just as the piano content I share will help with any other instrument. The instrument is after all the illusion; it is the mindset which is true! I hope you'll have a good waddle through my videos and find other beneficial ideas! Best, Dan
Piano G gave me the word for my situation, a Noob. But your videos really are a way to break down the mental barriers of thinking I won't be able to achieve what I want without years of practice. I hope that my piano is étanche since I feel that I'm flowing like water over the scales now. But I do have some problems with counting every two or three....for now. It's better than it was last week, I'll look on your channel to see if you have any specific videos on it.
Thank you as ever Lawrence for enjoying my content. When you say problems counting every 2 and 3, can you expand on this so I can direct you to the correct video or make a new one? Best, Dan
@@danthecomposer I found this video again on my feed and will be doing this. Your finger independence video really helped break down barriers, and I've been doing it this week as part of my warm-up. 2 or 3 in one had against 4 or 5 in the other hand. Still loving the playing, it's helping me get through a difficult time with climate anxiety.
danthecomposer It burns me up to think that I can easily be doing 5 things at a time, at the same time, while using independent hands, without even thinking about them when I'm driving!! - And I'm only limited to a chord or two with either hand and playing keyboard lead with the other. Even eating requires independent hand movement.
Hello GG, yes that's a good point - there are many things we can do involving many layers without thinking about them but do you realise how? Most of the time, we learnt UNconsciously and this is the problem: piano kinda forces you to learn consciously and conscious interference is the number one obstacle, so it's a catch 22 really. I therefore encourage you to consciously know you're doing something slowly and consciously but then to observe, consciously, your ability naturally improving without you trying to make it improve. It's a lot of bla in words but when you do it, on repeat, slowly, at your natural limit, eyes closed... things WILL get more refined and increase in speed. The pleasure is watching the scales sway from high conscious interference and low ability to low conscious interference and high ability. This is the magic I try to get across and have you experience... Hopefully you're stick to the ideas and see progress in hours and days, not months and years! Best, Dan
Thanks for the response danthcomposer! But my NOTICE BELL stopped working (: And my mom has dementia . So it takes me a while to get to the email.. Sorry about that.
I love this approach, but do you have a suggestion for how to avoid doing this by sound-listening for the pattern and playing that pattern-rather than turning your brain off so it doesn't focus on one hand, and consequently shifting the pattern from one hand to the other? I find I'm starting to be able to do it for a very simple pattern (a very simple blues shuffle with the left hand) and a few notes of a blues scale with the right. But anything more complex with the left and I lose the right entirely. I know this will probably just click one day, but until then... 🤯 Thank you for these wonderful tutorials, nonetheless.
Thank you for watching. If you have a digital piano, turn it off! Or, do it on a table, or on your legs. The piano is such an illusion, a distraction! Be sure to master what you can do before moving on too far; it's more satisfying to make progress this way than being frustrated because of an easily correctable error (doing too much too soon). You could also try putting the left hand pattern into the right hand. This will help you to stop thinking about LH does this, RH does that. No. Both hands must be able to do whatever the other can do (and fingers). Hope these tips help! Find your natural limit and use your natural fingering, too. Best, Dan
I need a bit of advice Dan see i recently transition from a new weighted key 61 key casio to a p125 Yamaha and well i have uneven or well woobly hands because my fingers aren't use to it yet i have went away from repertoire to rebuild my fingers as anything can play sounds unbalanced now. I want to do these exercises to help for hand independence and more any other advice videos to help me. Thank in advance best Dan.
Hello there. Glad you left the Casio behind for a Yamaha! Fantastic decision. It will take a few hours to get used to it so don't worry too much. I'd recommend rather than this particular video, to do the ideas in this one: ua-cam.com/video/JCSKxA2Egq0/v-deo.html Best, Dan
Hi Dan, just come across ur video and believe me dis is really helpful but d problem is my hand is not wide enough to play the octave, pls wat can I do
Thanks. Just leap a little. Don’t need to play them at the same time. Thumb first then little finger. Get used to doing that. Alternative: medically have your hand enlarged 🤪 Best, Dan
Indeed. See my technical exercises playlist via my main channel for left hand stuff but even right hand ideas can and should be practised with the left hand too!
You are a great teacher and make us go further and further! As a noob I can’t explain by words my evolution since I came across your channel.
Thanks for all the technical lessons and mental lessons too! 🤘🦾
Thank you kindly. Onwards and upwards. Love your profile picture! 🤓👀
Best,
Dan
This is a good way of looking at this, I agree, I have experienced this. As I’ve been playing a long time, my focus is finally on being musical at all times, and you can only do that once you got it, not when you’re learning it.
Dan, this is brilliant and so helpful, especially with balance: one of my problems. So thank you very, very Much!
That's a great tip to pass on, thanks
Thank you Dan. You’re incredible! I’ve watched a few of your videos now and I really like your out of the box thinking and teaching style. Sometimes when I play, it feels almost out of body witnessing my hands move the way they do. Anyway, just wanted to say thanks and I enjoy your videos.
Thank you very much and welcome! 🙏 Have a good look around and don’t let yt force all my old videos on you! Do also consider my video management website.
Best,
Dan
Good Good stuff Thanks
Will try this out - I'm not a beginner - but took up the piano quite late - and co-ordination seems to raise its head - again and again.....!!!
It truly is an exciting experience to become an 'observer', that point where it's just happening and there is seemingly no thought, the rhythm stabilizes and syncs. I have come a long way because of your videos (but much much further to go).
Best piano teacher on YT IMO. Thanks Dan!
Far too kind. Thank you for watching my content. Glad it helps! 🙏
Best,
Dan
This is really clever -
And will be a real brain workout too
Definitely going to give this a try. Hand independence is an ongoing battle for me so anything that helps is great. Also, as shown,, great for reinforcing scales/chord/inversions, so that's an added bonus! Thanks for this video, Dan!
Ten minutes that will literally take me a year to get halfway down. 😄
A few weeks tops! Especially if you do it with your eyes closed more than open!
Great exercise... Need more hard exercise
Thanks Dan very helpful Alfred
Thanks Dan. This is a great exercise, and which for sure I plan to incorporate into my practice routine. By the way, many thanks for all your excellent materials and information that you continue to produce to help on our pianistic development. I've bought all your books, and just finished reading 'A philosophical approach to Jazz Piano' and it's awesome, specially the chapter on naming chords/tonality I found it very useful. Your explanation makes it so logical and easy, and brings so much clarity on this typically confusing subject.
Thanks likewise for your support! Glad you're making progress in both mind and body aspects.
Best,
Dan
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very helpful and much needed. Thx!
Thank you
I so so need this i can see this helping because i do have timing issues ....help me to get Cannon in D my left timing is mostly off and i want to learn river flows in you Yiruma as well so ya that timing gets ....Great video thanks Dan
Nice exercises
I warched this because im testing the water before i jump in and buy a digital piano. I found it beneficial to learn that i might be okay, possibly using lifelong typing skills to adapt to using both hands simultaneously with this revolutionary mindset on piano. Im wondering if guitar skills will help in the piano pursuit and then piano will help my guitar... thought provoking inspiring video.
Thanks for your comment. The guitar and typing will certainly help on the piano, just as the piano content I share will help with any other instrument. The instrument is after all the illusion; it is the mindset which is true! I hope you'll have a good waddle through my videos and find other beneficial ideas!
Best,
Dan
Very useful and nice, Thank you sir
Piano G gave me the word for my situation, a Noob. But your videos really are a way to break down the mental barriers of thinking I won't be able to achieve what I want without years of practice. I hope that my piano is étanche since I feel that I'm flowing like water over the scales now.
But I do have some problems with counting every two or three....for now. It's better than it was last week, I'll look on your channel to see if you have any specific videos on it.
Thank you as ever Lawrence for enjoying my content. When you say problems counting every 2 and 3, can you expand on this so I can direct you to the correct video or make a new one?
Best,
Dan
@@danthecomposer I found this video again on my feed and will be doing this. Your finger independence video really helped break down barriers, and I've been doing it this week as part of my warm-up. 2 or 3 in one had against 4 or 5 in the other hand. Still loving the playing, it's helping me get through a difficult time with climate anxiety.
Taking apart, fixing and reassembling my keyboard: ua-cam.com/video/LkugcyKWvYM/v-deo.html
danthecomposer It burns me up to think that I can easily be doing 5 things at a time, at the same time, while using independent hands, without even thinking about them when I'm driving!! - And I'm only limited to a chord or two with either hand and playing keyboard lead with the other. Even eating requires independent hand movement.
Hello GG, yes that's a good point - there are many things we can do involving many layers without thinking about them but do you realise how? Most of the time, we learnt UNconsciously and this is the problem: piano kinda forces you to learn consciously and conscious interference is the number one obstacle, so it's a catch 22 really. I therefore encourage you to consciously know you're doing something slowly and consciously but then to observe, consciously, your ability naturally improving without you trying to make it improve. It's a lot of bla in words but when you do it, on repeat, slowly, at your natural limit, eyes closed... things WILL get more refined and increase in speed. The pleasure is watching the scales sway from high conscious interference and low ability to low conscious interference and high ability. This is the magic I try to get across and have you experience...
Hopefully you're stick to the ideas and see progress in hours and days, not months and years!
Best,
Dan
Thanks for the response danthcomposer! But my NOTICE BELL stopped working (: And my mom has dementia . So it takes me a while to get to the email.. Sorry about that.
Nice ♥️
6:39 I've seen exercises like this before and I would practice them on a table if my piano wasnt available
I love this approach, but do you have a suggestion for how to avoid doing this by sound-listening for the pattern and playing that pattern-rather than turning your brain off so it doesn't focus on one hand, and consequently shifting the pattern from one hand to the other? I find I'm starting to be able to do it for a very simple pattern (a very simple blues shuffle with the left hand) and a few notes of a blues scale with the right. But anything more complex with the left and I lose the right entirely. I know this will probably just click one day, but until then... 🤯
Thank you for these wonderful tutorials, nonetheless.
Thank you for watching. If you have a digital piano, turn it off! Or, do it on a table, or on your legs. The piano is such an illusion, a distraction! Be sure to master what you can do before moving on too far; it's more satisfying to make progress this way than being frustrated because of an easily correctable error (doing too much too soon). You could also try putting the left hand pattern into the right hand. This will help you to stop thinking about LH does this, RH does that. No. Both hands must be able to do whatever the other can do (and fingers). Hope these tips help! Find your natural limit and use your natural fingering, too.
Best,
Dan
This pattern seems to work for 6/4 or 3/4 time. Not really for 4/4 time...
It’s good to practise with weird imbalances 🤓
😮
I need a bit of advice Dan see i recently transition from a new weighted key 61 key casio to a p125 Yamaha and well i have uneven or well woobly hands because my fingers aren't use to it yet i have went away from repertoire to rebuild my fingers as anything can play sounds unbalanced now. I want to do these exercises to help for hand independence and more any other advice videos to help me. Thank in advance best Dan.
Hello there. Glad you left the Casio behind for a Yamaha! Fantastic decision. It will take a few hours to get used to it so don't worry too much. I'd recommend rather than this particular video, to do the ideas in this one: ua-cam.com/video/JCSKxA2Egq0/v-deo.html
Best,
Dan
@@danthecomposer thanks for your suggestion i will get right on it
Hi Dan, just come across ur video and believe me dis is really helpful but d problem is my hand is not wide enough to play the octave, pls wat can I do
Thanks. Just leap a little. Don’t need to play them at the same time. Thumb first then little finger. Get used to doing that. Alternative: medically have your hand enlarged 🤪
Best,
Dan
Steve Reich joined the jam
Training the left hand is the hardest.
Indeed. See my technical exercises playlist via my main channel for left hand stuff but even right hand ideas can and should be practised with the left hand too!