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When I first started this piano journey a couple of years ago, I was motivated to "do it right," and I started to look at massive amounts of material to help me have the right approach. These videos are helping me to emphasize those ideas so that I don't develop any ingrained bad habits. Well done!
Thanks and good luck with your practise! One thing that springs to mind is 'paralysis by analysis' so just be careful not to go too far the other way and overthink every aspect. You have the right mindset but mistakes are part of the learning process and I'm a firm believer in learning mostly by getting stuck in and actually 'doing it' as well as having tips along the way to make the process easier.
@@PianoFromScratch I agree. And, there is no shortage of mistakes to help me learn. I just want to spent my energy on doing it correctly as I build up my facility. I used to encourage my flight students to learn the same way..."begin with the end in mind."
This teaching was so essentially helpful. Thank you for teaching slowly-after all, we’re starting from “scratch.” Thanks for understanding the beginner.
I cannot overstate how helpful this video is. Exactly what I was looking for. I cannot understand why so many piano tutorial videos miss explaining this crucial part that of left out makes practice so much more difficult than it needs to be.
I just started piano and I had lots of problem with the hand position and this video really helped! I’m practicing playing howls moving castle with the tips on this video it really helped me! Thank you so much!
This is a really great explanation of finger positioning and movement around the keys. Many of these things I realize I have learned over time, however you have articulated the many different situations one will encounter and a useful approach to each one. I don’t think I was ever taught more than, “relax your wrist and keep your fingers curved.” There is so much more to it than that depending upon what is being played, as you’ve so nicely illustrated.
I find in my playing (especially hymns) , I have difficulty in good hand placement. I tend to stay on the white field (not sliding up correctly between notes), if that makes sense. I am going to try to incorporate your instructions/suggestions into my playing. Thanks.
What a beautiful and professional lesson. By the way, how I can play the middle/center keys with my right hand going up (pitch) without moving my body to the left and play with fingers angled? I have a cheap keyboard (with keys narrower) and not long and slim fingers. So it's hard to play high (literally) on the keys because I'll have to play between black keys. That's why I do this. Otherwise I would have to go bend my wrist and moving my chair further back.
I started to learn (play around with) piano last year. I'm 56 so still mentally and physically able to learn something completely new. I just wanted to say out of all the 100s of videos and piano lesson videos I've watched, yours are without any doubt the best. I've learn so much in a relatively short time.
I am glad i found your video. I intuitively realised (after a long time haha) I was twisting my hand to reach notes, in particulae with my pinky. Now my focus is positioning my hands where it feels comfortable and my fingers have much more power.
thank you for sharing your expertise and explaining it so well. I am doing naturally what you described and for me it is a bit like a confirmation that this is quite good and that I am on the right way to learn and develop here. Have a great day- I wish you many "listeners" and "fans" :-) THANKS - MICHAELA
I started playing piano virtually in vr 😂 for $10. I can't wait to learn more and get my hands on a actual piano ❤ It's totally not the same, though, because I can use mutiple fingers to hit one key that's highlighted and in real life I would hit all the keys and the song would be ruined lol. 🙃 but it's great practice in the meantime 😊
That might seem a joke, but it's a serious question: I'm a beginner and I feel that my fingertips are too thick to be positioned in between the black keys. I often hit wrong notes trying to do so. Is there anything I could do to solve that, like put my fingers a little bit down on the keyboard or it's something expected for beginner and time will handle that automatically? Thank you.
Marcelo! - it’s simple! Play the white keys almost to the bottom of them, far from the black keys. When you need to play a black key simply move up a bit. Time and practice will solve this automatically yes! But it’s good to know how to target it so that it becomes faster to solve.
Hi thanks for the video, you seem to play the black notes with the “pulp” part of the finger, (I had to google finger tip anatomy) rather that the tip, which you use on the white keys, should you not use the tip rather than this, thanks
My aim is just to learn to play by hear. Will I be better buying a digital piano or a midi keyboard with 88keys? Please suggest a model 🙏 Thanks & regards
Any advise for those of us with thick non-pointy fingers? Every time I try your technique on chords with straddled white keys I pull along both straddling black keys! The only way I manage is by turning my hand so the fingers get in sideways. But that's really tiring and slows me down considerably.
Being a large chap with chubby fingers, my main problem using the 'upper plain' is getting to the white notes in between the black, without hitting the wrong notes. So frustrating.
Good evening, thanks for this video, it is very interesting to me to learned this proper position to be made as a beginner, thank you very much sir coz this is my 1st to see your video, it is very understandable for me , hope you'll aways be there for us, as beginner i'm continue watching your video sir , i really like it the way you teach and demonstrate for us, God Bless You Sir...
I find myself missing the black keys often when using my ring and pinky, any exercises to get them more accurate. Also learning to finger drum. I kinda wanna texturize my black keys, make it easier to catch.
Good stuff. Any chance you could edit your words to about 30%-50% of what you have here and make your explanations all simple enough for a 9 year-old? That would be so helpful to my younger students!
Iv always wanted to learn how to play piano with that being said someone just gave me 1 lol now I don't even know the first thing. about it and she told me it was just tuned I hope by watching your videos and a shit ton of others that I can learn because believe me as of now my ⁰fingers are tied in a knot it's a Fayette S. Cable
Great video! But... the first joint at his fingertips often collapses, denting inward, which is not the most efficient! Keeping the first finger joint strong rather than letting it collapse will allow you to get better tone out of a piano that has strings, and will allow you to eventually play faster and more efficiently!
I am learning on a DX100 which looks to have much shorter keys and thinner. An octave on this measures 13.5cm. Getting a finger in between two black keys is near impossible. I am not sure of the size an octave should be.
Hey guys, would be really grateful if you could click that like button above, that would be really helpful to the channel!👍 And let me know below how your hand placement at the piano has been going!
@@DragosStefan UA-cam has a 'super thanks' feature but seems to just be in Beta testing and only a few channels seem to have access at the moment. I have Patreon instead of memberships just to keep it in one place and plus UA-cam takes a giant cut compared to Patreon which seems a bit unfair to supporters and creators I think. But thanks man, always very grateful for your comments and support!
Thank you for this video, very helpful and informative as always! I'm trying to be mindful of my hand placement during practice but one thing I have really been struggling with is pressing the keys when I move my hand deeper into the piano (especially the black ones and especially when it's a chord). I feel like the issue is that I am still having a hard time learning to use my hand weight instead of pressing with the fingers but I am not sure. Do you have any insight?
Okay one question boss if like I playing all black keys scale or even like C# F# or B scale which have all black keys ..u many times comes into situation where u just dont use in between white keys. So I basically practice skipping a black key inbetween my fingers... Especially like if my middle 3 fingers on 3 black keys combo and I have to hit D# of next octave. I only have option to hit it with lil finger. So its one skiped black key inbetween. Like 4th on Bb and then hit D# with pinky move hand altogether to C# D# combo or just hit D# with pinky and come back. Now honestly speaking as a newbie its not that comfortable to skip a black key between fingers. Especially pinky and 4th but I can now reach it somewhat than what I use to do in absolute start. So is it over stretching as u say or training them this way is okay? And it might be more comfortable and accurate at even higher tempo in days to come... No? I mean u just somewhat reach it but not that comfortably but if u rotate a hand a bit pivoting on Bb u can reach it in more comfortable manner and lil more accurate manner than just try reach it by stretching pinky to D#. Though u have to especially train for it to execute it smoothly and accurately at higher tempos. Cause I think u have to be comfortable skipping one black key inbetween.. cause sometimes its absolutely necessary or efficient. Though I guess it need lot of practice to be comfortable and accurate without stress to have that. So whats your take on this as a experienced player. U might have encountered such situation many times in your playing I guess. Or is it really over stretching or over thinking as u say. I mean with lil twist u can reach that but certainly not with that accuracy or ease currently.
So confused right now as i have a yamaha pss 780 as a midi keyboard but the keys are so small.Think i gonna need a different keyboard if i want to have a diffrent feel when playing
How can I position my finger better when I have to press a white key in between the black keys? Whenever I do, I press the black key at the side part of it unintentionally.
as a starter i find that doing like what you said about the wrong way to position the hand really hurt the wrist after a while now i finally know how to do it correctly
Hey there. Was watching some of your beginner vids from hmm, dunno, maybe a year ago, and they had links to where one could purchase some of the backing tracks but those links no longer work. Do you have current links? Thanks.
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I am interested in one of your pdf's for scales because I want to support. I wanted to know if they show finger placement on the worksheets? Thanks!
When I first started this piano journey a couple of years ago, I was motivated to "do it right," and I started to look at massive amounts of material to help me have the right approach. These videos are helping me to emphasize those ideas so that I don't develop any ingrained bad habits. Well done!
Thanks and good luck with your practise! One thing that springs to mind is 'paralysis by analysis' so just be careful not to go too far the other way and overthink every aspect. You have the right mindset but mistakes are part of the learning process and I'm a firm believer in learning mostly by getting stuck in and actually 'doing it' as well as having tips along the way to make the process easier.
@@PianoFromScratch I agree. And, there is no shortage of mistakes to help me learn. I just want to spent my energy on doing it correctly as I build up my facility. I used to encourage my flight students to learn the same way..."begin with the end in mind."
@@arthouston7361 That's a great phrase! May have to borrow that one
@@PianoFromScratch It was created by Stephen Covey. It is number 2 on a list of the "7 Habits of Highly Effective People."
Omg, I was wondering why I see so many pianist doing the last sneaky trick. Now, I understand. Thank you!
No problem!
This teaching was so essentially helpful. Thank you for teaching slowly-after all, we’re starting from “scratch.” Thanks for understanding the beginner.
I cannot overstate how helpful this video is. Exactly what I was looking for. I cannot understand why so many piano tutorial videos miss explaining this crucial part that of left out makes practice so much more difficult than it needs to be.
For real 100%
I just started piano and I had lots of problem with the hand position and this video really helped! I’m practicing playing howls moving castle with the tips on this video it really helped me! Thank you so much!
This is hands down the best tutorial I’ve seen on this subject.
Thanks, I never really knew what to do with my thumb without my hand felling really strange, this feels way more natural 😊
This is one of those videos that will actually "stick" in my learning journey. Appreciate you sharing this info!
This is a really great explanation of finger positioning and movement around the keys. Many of these things I realize I have learned over time, however you have articulated the many different situations one will encounter and a useful approach to each one. I don’t think I was ever taught more than, “relax your wrist and keep your fingers curved.” There is so much more to it than that depending upon what is being played, as you’ve so nicely illustrated.
Thank you, I haven't been motivated to take notes like this in a while but this video is absolute gold. Absolutely what I needed!
I find in my playing (especially hymns) , I have difficulty in good hand placement. I tend to stay on the white field (not sliding up correctly between notes), if that makes sense. I am going to try to incorporate your instructions/suggestions into my playing. Thanks.
Hope it helps, remember when playing lots of chords it’s really worth changing fingers most of the time too to hep move around smoothly 🙂
Wow there's a lot of treasures here, thanks for sharing! 🎹🎼
This video was EXCELLENT!!!! I feel more comfortable playing now with these tips. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
Awesome, glad they helped, thanks for the feedback!
This is such a great video. I just keep returning to it for a technique reset. 👍
These little showcases will definitely level up our technique. Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart!
FANTASTIC video, as always. CLEAR explanations. Well done! :)
Thanks!
This is exactly what I was looking for. Liked and subscribed.
Super helpful! I'm new to piano and this explains so much.
Such a beautiful video. Thanks for making it.
What a beautiful and professional lesson.
By the way, how I can play the middle/center keys with my right hand going up (pitch) without moving my body to the left and play with fingers angled? I have a cheap keyboard (with keys narrower) and not long and slim fingers. So it's hard to play high (literally) on the keys because I'll have to play between black keys. That's why I do this. Otherwise I would have to go bend my wrist and moving my chair further back.
good tips . For someone who has been self taught. This video would help me a lot.
been playing for a long time self-taught, but find myself hitting a wall. Will definitely use these tips. Thanks!
We all hit a wall occasionally, sometimes a small adjustment or learning one new thing can help things click. Good luck
Thank you this is incredibly useful for an old novice such as myself. I knew I was doing something wrong when my wrist was hurting.
I started to learn (play around with) piano last year. I'm 56 so still mentally and physically able to learn something completely new.
I just wanted to say out of all the 100s of videos and piano lesson videos I've watched, yours are without any doubt the best.
I've learn so much in a relatively short time.
I am glad i found your video. I intuitively realised (after a long time haha) I was twisting my hand to reach notes, in particulae with my pinky. Now my focus is positioning my hands where it feels comfortable and my fingers have much more power.
after getting that intuition of hand placement playing became quite abit easier and less frustrating.
Good teaching! Thanks! Tomorrow I start to learn piano as Accordion Player. Greetings from Germany!
This guy is super! And Funny when he says things like "or else you'll end up doing something really weird". Lol. That's the best
Loved the video. It really is an absolute game changer for making fingering so much easier and relaxed. 👍
Ayo bro? 😂
This is absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much.
thank you for sharing your expertise and explaining it so well. I am doing naturally what you described and for me it is a bit like a confirmation that this is quite good and that I am on the right way to learn and develop here. Have a great day- I wish you many "listeners" and "fans" :-) THANKS - MICHAELA
Brother... You are the mvp!!!
dang his energy is fabulous
Thank you very much for these tips! Very helpful!
Great video. I've seen other videos saying to pull back on the notes like a guitar or to move your fingers upwards on the notes. Which on should i do?
I started playing piano virtually in vr 😂 for $10. I can't wait to learn more and get my hands on a actual piano ❤
It's totally not the same, though, because I can use mutiple fingers to hit one key that's highlighted and in real life I would hit all the keys and the song would be ruined lol. 🙃 but it's great practice in the meantime 😊
I’m so glad I found your channel, was struggling with hand placement while playing Audiomachine Allegory, will try this method \o/
Very good basics hand placement instruction 👍🏾🎶🎹
Hope it helped!
Note his nice skinny fingers! Makes it look so easy.... Good video though, just a little trickier between black keys for those of us with big hands.
Wow! You are amazing! Thank you so much for this! 😘
I have my own my own piano 🎹 I love you are teaching me
That might seem a joke, but it's a serious question: I'm a beginner and I feel that my fingertips are too thick to be positioned in between the black keys. I often hit wrong notes trying to do so. Is there anything I could do to solve that, like put my fingers a little bit down on the keyboard or it's something expected for beginner and time will handle that automatically? Thank you.
Marcelo! - it’s simple! Play the white keys almost to the bottom of them, far from the black keys.
When you need to play a black key simply move up a bit.
Time and practice will solve this automatically yes! But it’s good to know how to target it so that it becomes faster to solve.
@@Joshuagarciaofficial thank you!
Hi thanks for the video, you seem to play the black notes with the “pulp” part of the finger, (I had to google finger tip anatomy) rather that the tip, which you use on the white keys, should you not use the tip rather than this, thanks
This is very valuable. Thanks
appreciated!! very useful information.
I feel so silly about playing the scale upwards moving my thumb awkwardly. Thank you for helping me straighten that out. :-)
Very informative 🎉
Tried to cram lots in there!
This is very helpful and informative
Thank you very much 💫
I love this channel! I've been progressing really fast following your videos 🙌🏻
Awesome! Great to hear, thanks for watching, Sean
Great content. You always share loads of info. Thank you
My aim is just to learn to play by hear.
Will I be better buying a digital piano or a midi keyboard with 88keys?
Please suggest a model 🙏
Thanks & regards
Any advise for those of us with thick non-pointy fingers? Every time I try your technique on chords with straddled white keys I pull along both straddling black keys! The only way I manage is by turning my hand so the fingers get in sideways. But that's really tiring and slows me down considerably.
Being a large chap with chubby fingers, my main problem using the 'upper plain' is getting to the white notes in between the black, without hitting the wrong notes. So frustrating.
So helpful! Much better to start with proper fingering than have to correct poor fingering later on. Thanks!
Sure is!
Thankyou.
Brilliant, very clear.
Good evening, thanks for this video, it is very interesting to me to learned this proper position to be made as a beginner, thank you very much sir coz this is my 1st to see your video, it is very understandable for me , hope you'll aways be there for us, as beginner i'm continue watching your video sir , i really like it the way you teach and demonstrate for us, God Bless You Sir...
I discovered that sitting at a certain angle is more comfortable for me
I find myself missing the black keys often when using my ring and pinky, any exercises to get them more accurate. Also learning to finger drum. I kinda wanna texturize my black keys, make it easier to catch.
Thank you so much. This video is very useful.
So helpful for a beginner. Many many Thanks! :D
Very nice job. I am learning piano.
Thanks this helps a lot cuz I'm learning to play piano but only on my phone 😢 but thanks
Best teacher ever here in UA-cam
🙏 Glad to help
Very VERY HELPFUL!! Thanks and Blessings!!!! :)
Thank you!
Thank you that was very helpful.
Good stuff. Any chance you could edit your words to about 30%-50% of what you have here and make your explanations all simple enough for a 9 year-old? That would be so helpful to my younger students!
So useful! Thanks a lot,
Thank you
Very helpful advice! Thank you!
Where was your UA-cam channel when needed you in 1980s?
I grew up playing piano but didn’t seem to understand music much until I hit college.
In his dad’s nutsack, I suppose 😂
thank you so much for sharing this information
Great video! Thank you
Very useful, thx a lot
Thank you so much
Very informative with great helpful tips - thank you man!! Praise the Christ 4 Life forever AMEN 🙌
Iv always wanted to learn how to play piano with that being said someone just gave me 1 lol now I don't even know the first thing. about it and she told me it was just tuned I hope by watching your videos and a shit ton of others that I can learn because believe me as of now my ⁰fingers are tied in a knot it's a Fayette S. Cable
I have subscribed and ready to learn.
Tell me which which instrument to get.
6:47 on comfortably
great video
Great video! But... the first joint at his fingertips often collapses, denting inward, which is not the most efficient! Keeping the first finger joint strong rather than letting it collapse will allow you to get better tone out of a piano that has strings, and will allow you to eventually play faster and more efficiently!
Great stuff!
I have a question are you figuring out your finger placement per bar of music?
Very informative. Love the way you explain.
Glad to hear, hope it helps!
Thanks I found my self bending my wrist a whole bunch to press keys instead of moving my arm
I am learning on a DX100 which looks to have much shorter keys and thinner. An octave on this measures 13.5cm. Getting a finger in between two black keys is near impossible. I am not sure of the size an octave should be.
Hey guys, would be really grateful if you could click that like button above, that would be really helpful to the channel!👍
And let me know below how your hand placement at the piano has been going!
Would be great to have "Support" buttons and membership. Just sayin'
@@DragosStefan UA-cam has a 'super thanks' feature but seems to just be in Beta testing and only a few channels seem to have access at the moment. I have Patreon instead of memberships just to keep it in one place and plus UA-cam takes a giant cut compared to Patreon which seems a bit unfair to supporters and creators I think. But thanks man, always very grateful for your comments and support!
Good stuff!
This is so helpful
Glad to hear!
Thanks!
This is exactly the advice I was looking for. Thank you!
Thanks Ken, appreciate that. Glad it was helpful for you!
Thank you for this video, very helpful and informative as always! I'm trying to be mindful of my hand placement during practice but one thing I have really been struggling with is pressing the keys when I move my hand deeper into the piano (especially the black ones and especially when it's a chord). I feel like the issue is that I am still having a hard time learning to use my hand weight instead of pressing with the fingers but I am not sure. Do you have any insight?
Consume one shot of your FAV whiskey. Try again? "Hope this was helpful" :)
great how you just jumped into the video
Okay one question boss if like I playing all black keys scale or even like C# F# or B scale which have all black keys ..u many times comes into situation where u just dont use in between white keys. So I basically practice skipping a black key inbetween my fingers... Especially like if my middle 3 fingers on 3 black keys combo and I have to hit D# of next octave. I only have option to hit it with lil finger. So its one skiped black key inbetween. Like 4th on Bb and then hit D# with pinky move hand altogether to C# D# combo or just hit D# with pinky and come back. Now honestly speaking as a newbie its not that comfortable to skip a black key between fingers. Especially pinky and 4th but I can now reach it somewhat than what I use to do in absolute start. So is it over stretching as u say or training them this way is okay? And it might be more comfortable and accurate at even higher tempo in days to come... No? I mean u just somewhat reach it but not that comfortably but if u rotate a hand a bit pivoting on Bb u can reach it in more comfortable manner and lil more accurate manner than just try reach it by stretching pinky to D#. Though u have to especially train for it to execute it smoothly and accurately at higher tempos.
Cause I think u have to be comfortable skipping one black key inbetween.. cause sometimes its absolutely necessary or efficient. Though I guess it need lot of practice to be comfortable and accurate without stress to have that. So whats your take on this as a experienced player. U might have encountered such situation many times in your playing I guess. Or is it really over stretching or over thinking as u say. I mean with lil twist u can reach that but certainly not with that accuracy or ease currently.
So confused right now as i have a yamaha pss 780 as a midi keyboard but the keys are so small.Think i gonna need a different keyboard if i want to have a diffrent feel when playing
Good one!
Thanks! Just got back to your other thing btw
How can I position my finger better when I have to press a white key in between the black keys? Whenever I do, I press the black key at the side part of it unintentionally.
as a starter i find that doing like what you said about the wrong way to position the hand really hurt the wrist after a while
now i finally know how to do it correctly
Don't overthink this
Procceds to explain for 15 minutes 😂.
Just found it funny
Hey there. Was watching some of your beginner vids from hmm, dunno, maybe a year ago, and they had links to where one could purchase some of the backing tracks but those links no longer work. Do you have current links? Thanks.
I do have a new website since then but don’t have those on anymore I’m afraid. They are on youtube though so can stream them