Are you guilty? 0:00 Intro 0:29 Not practicing with a metronome 1:24 Poor posture 2:19 Overcomplicating things 3:14 Not making a plan 3:54 Not stretching 4:53 Not connecting with a community
Curses I'm guilty of all six I'm too stubborn and rigid Unhappy and cynical Even stretching is torture The piano demands so much of me It wants me to sacrafice everything for her The guilt will make for Good harmonious reconstruction When I build the courage to dive My posture is passable but the issue is my back, deeply damaged by a series of factors. My hands are also weak, but this has become useful for I can gracefully allow gravity to move it in a very sense inducing way if that makes sense. It is like a trigger except I dont know where to aim the feeling, then the thought disrupts the flow. Yes, which brings me to your second point. The thought comes, that gnawing thought. That burning wheel. Then, hopelessness or pure instinct which prevents me from strategizing. Stretching would help release the nerves, the tension. But with that comes images, horrors and disruption. My analytical mind believes that I need to find a way to make the images musical. I need to figure out which key tone is representative of the emotional generation. But the seemingly indefinite level of possibilities overwhelms me. I need some basic system for this . Some foundation I can build off of. I must know the key for the image by heart or my body refuses to pursue it further. This is my handicap. The community would threaten my beautiful gem stones, I would shy away like a child or tremble and reveal all my latent complexes. I cannot Will not You can't make me *runs back to the haunting piano video from the other day*
I'm a trumpet player and I decided to learn to play the piano 2 months ago. I thought it would be easy (trumpet player ego is the worst)... but it isn't. Your videos are helping me a lot. Thanks for the tips, keep it up!
It is tough at first but playing to the click of the metronome on the upbeat clicking on the "and" instead of clicking on the downbeat on the number count has huge benefits with the irritating click and it helps ones feel and syncopation skills and jazz vibe also and more.....there is a learning curve but crazy worth the time....
You are the smartest, most intelligent piano teacher I have ever seen. I want to add you are gifted to teach. You give us very important information, you show us how to identify our weaknesses, and correct them, you help encourage us, and keep us focused. I have learned so much from you. Thank you for your videos, I appreciate you so much.
Hi! I've been using your videos to help me with piano (I just started February of this year) and I love that whenever I have a question related to piano or a tutorial you have the answer! I really appreciate the content :)
Definitely guilty of all of these. I get sleepy too. Especially if I'm practicing something relaxing. Yes. Taking breaks is great advice, along with everything else you advised to do and not to do. Thank you, thank you!
The first one DEFINITELY I am guilty of! In fact, I was just practicing about an hour ago and could feel myself playing faster and faster and I was like "Why am I playing so doggone FAST?" I need to learn to keep the same pace throughout a song.
Great video! Me as a piano teacher have realized that my students tend to struggle more when don't start off a new exercise by playing it super slow (like trying to run before you crawl). That, but most importantly: not continuing to the very end of the exercise or song even after they make a mistake while reading! Instead they always return to the beginning and in doing so, their brain never processes the entire music sheet or exercise and get stuck in a loop of 2 bars tops, lol.
I like your no.6. I'm the only one in my family who plays an instrument. I practicd by myself, and sometimes I feel discouraged. I think I'm gonna start looking for the community. Just thinking about it already gives me the fire. Thanks for the great tips!
THANK YOU! I'm totally self taught ~ always loved music, played a bit of rhythm guitar ~ but absorbed by horses & showing w/no time for much else. Well! When I started watching your tutorials two years ago & often had no idea what you were talking about, I could play scales & songs I'd figured out by ear in C, E, G, A well enough; D, E, F, B crudely. B FLAT? FORGET IT! IMPOSSIBLE! Reading music? I'm 65 & figured that was a Quixotic undertaking. Wrong! I'll never be a sight-reading standout, but the piano bench is now my second home. Playing the beginner version of "Fur Elise" from the sheet music is the most exciting thing I've ever done. As the mysteries of the piano (and how music is 'built') fall away, I love playing more & more. Your best tip (for me)? Practicing one scale at a time. Thanks to that lesson, I'm now the master of B flat!!! A veritable virtuoso (well, maybe not)... but I can play all sorts of things like my favorite hymn (in A flat) & a song I love in E minor, thanks to your way of explaining things. The coolest revelation has been that once I 'get' the math of it, the music falls into place. The second coolest is that the less I think, the better I play (which is like riding a horse, actually ~ learn the correct technique, practice endlessly & then muscle memory takes over ~ just like become a really good rider) I play. THANK YOU!!!
The part about connecting with other musicians is so true. I have been a guitar player for over 35 years, My playing always improved most when I was playing with or jamming with other musicians. Firstly, musicians are generally very supportive of each other. They love to share what they know. Secondly, you get a way better feel for songs and timings and it improves your ability to find your pocket in a song. Where you fit in. I have recently decided to learn piano and to read music at 48 years of age. I am waiting for payday to sign up for Pianote after much research to find the best online course that suits my needs. I CAN'T WAIT.....I've been doing nothing but C scales for the past 2 weeks.....ZZZZZzzzzzz😴 and I do not want to take on anything more on until I get a proper plan in place. Lisa's advice here is bang on the money and why I want to join.
Thanks for tips or wonderful reminders, they are very much appreciated. This actually goes mostly for piano players. As a former singer, I have noticed while practicing or gigging with other musicians, those that come from a classical school need very much to rely on sheet music to play, rather than just the reference of chords to be able to work on the keys of each song, and yes, obviously you can make some notations here and there. Now, for those musicians coming from a classical background, wouldn't it be sufficient info to work and improvise? I mean I most dare to say that all classical players, would know their scales, therefore shouldn't have a problem, correct? Otherwise, this would mean, like in my case as a newbie keyboard-to-be-player that I have to really study my scales. Your thoughts? :)
Hi, I just wanted to ask if Jordan will show some new things on the piano too again soon ? There haven't been any uploads by him and I really enjoyed his tutorials (I like yours too), especially his longer live sessions in which he just talks about one certain topic and explains everything in detail
4:53 came from playing a clarinet, but when I sat at the piano (started a week ago), I was like "wow, this can sound like a complete song by itself!" No more spit everywhere and getting the right reed anymore for me. Good bye clarinet.
When I was 8 years old I had a strong desire to join a local marching corps and play the drums in their drum line. So I started at the young age of eight or nine taking rudimental drum lessons. My rhythm has never suffered because of it and I am of the school of thought that practically insists every music student should start out with formal drum lessons, learning stick control and learning rudiments. It conveys to every other instrument out there.
#5 Not Stretching - my accomplished instructor is a Taubman method student, had to recover from debilitating condition from playing incorrectly. #6 How to crash a/the community having 0 previous playing experience ???????? Any ideas? I am sure this will speed me along if I start playing with others.
Thanks so much for your channel! As a new player, they've drastically helped in how I've been practicing and hearing this advice up front is really great!
My problem? Playing triads with my first three fingers.. My other problem is, our drummer doesn't practice with a metronome, even if I do (so I can't sequence anything!)
I’m learning cello now but I just love your channel 😃. I’ve learned so much from you. You are a great teacher, motivator, with a sweet singing voice. Thank you so much😎
Finding it very difficult practicing with the metronome. I’m learning to play the blues and improvise. I can’t seem to get my rhythm and timing right. I would appreciate any tips or recommendations.🤨
aside of playing with a metronome, If you have a pc, you can use a DAW like cakewalk to record yourself through midi (just connect the keyboard to the pc using a usb cable). Recording multitracks of yourself (drums, bass, piano, guitar, voice, percussion, synths or whatever) it's the best way to improve your timing since it's like playing along with a band, but every musician is you so you have to put a lot of effort to get everything in the correct timing
it's sooo true ! I talk to other pianists on instagram and they are so motivating ! We play kpop music and talking can help us connect more and realise how we can help motivate each other and how to improve too ;) Thank you for this amazing video ;)
Love these lesson because I always improve and I always learn something new! The timing is perfect with each lesson, it's like your reading my mind! Thanks ! :-)
Well i am teaching myself piano....but sometimes it gets so frustrating that i wanna quit... But i just can't...and the comment section and the video inspire me a lot😍...btw love from India♥️♥️
Ok soooo, I’m short so my feet don’t touch the ground lol. My posture probably isn’t that great. I also never really played with my pinkies, so I’ve been reteaching myself since quarantine started. I made my piano playing life more difficult, I realized.
Hai nice to hear your piano technique's. This is John. I'm a music teacher. Right now due to Covid-19 I'm taking online classes to my students. I like to know how you have add virtually keyboard with your piano. Can you help me please....
Hi John! We use an app called Chordie: buy.chordieapp.com/ It connects to the piano via MIDI and then we put the virtual keyboard on the screen during the editing process.
This is so true. I propably make the majority of these mistakes. Sometimes I get stressed over doing a lot of exercises on a day, so It's better to keep it simple. Also recently I've been sharing compositions with friends that play too and they help me correct any mistake, since I'm a begginer. Playing along with someone is the most BEAUTIFUL thing ever. You literally feel a connection you cannot describe
I cant stand metronomes. Lucky for me there is drum beat tracks on youtube. I don't know if my rhythm problems are from not using metronomes or being lazy. Your so right about taking breaks but sometimes you start creating something beautiful and before you know it you have been playing for an hour and a half. Piano is addictive in that way
Hi, your video is such so inspiring! I have a question... I am in the process to buy a piano, I would like to what is the brand and model I should buy for a beginner? And what is the brand and model of your piano? Thanks already for your answer. Really appreciate your videos!
Ooh so exciting! We have a blog article that has a lot of info: www.pianote.com/blog/how-to-buy-your-first-piano/ I really like the Roland FP-10 for beginners, or the Yamaha P125 is also fantastic. The piano we use is a Roland V-Piano Grand. Good luck!
Lisa!!! Coming from your fellow pianist here in Washington, I totally agree with all of these. The last one is so true though. We pianists when we are not at work which most or all of us are not beings that we are still in middle of a pandemic we are the people that others relie on for their tunings for their accompanying but we really don’t have a community of piano players. We are the ones that are isolated and alone most of the time and like you said other musicians do have a community of people that they hang with and you are right it has to do with the nature of our instruments their is a 7th mistake that I think we don’t do as pianists. Yes. Meditation...... I actually started that a couple of weeks again after looking up on line the important of meditating for musicians. As musicians we are so busy with our mind and set expectations on our personal selves. I think some people really think even musicians. What does meditation have to even do with playing an instrument but it is so cruised. I have been in meditation day and night before and after practice. We have to clear our minds so we can bee here in the present moment. It is really amazing what meditation does to me as a pianist. I really find it addicting when I am not at the piano. I am however their all day making music and recording but when i get up I put on some guided meditation and even in the middle of the day I am so focused on what i am doing I forget the present moment. So I I bring myself back to the moment in which i am. But a state of meditation is so cruisal for us to bee at our best. It is part of our it should bee part of our every day warmups as well so we can physically warm up at the piano.
Hi Lisa. I have tried to contact you (pianote) many time in many ways, and It has been impossible get information from you about the courses. What is wrong with your service? I am trying to buy the courses and I can't talk to you. I have questions....
Hi Javier! I'm so sorry to hear about that! You can email support@pianote.com to get answers, or if you like you can call us at 1-800-439-8921 (it's toll free). We have a team of people who can answer your questions.
I can either play the piano or listen to the metronome, but I can't do both. All videos I've seen on UA-cam assume you can do both. What's needed is something really, really basic on using the metronome.
Listening to the metronome isn’t really an active endeavor...it’s in the background as a guide. Try playing something you have already memorized and run the metronome in the background as a guide to playing the music at a constant tempo.
@@orlandocfi I've tried, but unless I focus on the metronome, or a drum beat, I eventually loose sync and wind up ahead or behind. So, what I requested was a video to show ow to accomplish pushing the metronome into the background.
I think the main problem is let the monkey escape, or lose all the intrinsic motivation to practice. If you have "the monkey" you can practice for a couple of hours because you like it. ut if you let the monkey go away you approache the piano like you approach vaccuming or go to buy food at the supermarket, you have to do it but you will happy to have a Roomba and to have someonr deliver home the groceries it will be the same...
My mistake is: after receiving the foundation books I could get myself away from them. So my plan is : I am not allowed to open book 3 before I know 1 and 2 by head.😂😂 they are so helpful!!!!!!
I never play slowly 😂😂😂 I rush into the room take out the keyboard from the bag aaaaaand start playing a song...along a video I have no patience 🐥 That's also a mistake ig 🤔
Great suggestion! Thanks! On the piano, power chords are just the root note and the 5th. They're most often played in the left hand, but you can do it in the right as well. I use them a bit in this video: ua-cam.com/video/EHI3e75zHis/v-deo.html
My piano teacher would rap my knuckles & say "Your not holding that invisible golf ball !" LOL I am also a victim of playing too fast. I hate it & I know it. I always think to myself now. SLOW
Is it actually better to practicing a lot of technique instead of the techniques that is important to specific song you want to play? I really want to know because I just want to play like 4-5 songs.
It really depends on your goals. If you only want to play a few songs, then practicing techniques you never plan to use is not a great use of your time. But technique is super helpful to become a really well-rounded piano player!
I'm glad that I only make 2 of the 6 mistakes which are not stretching and not having a plan. 😅 I stopped playing (due to time conflicts with school) for a whole year prior to lockdown. I've been playing for 2 years (would be three if I didn't take the year off last year) and I have found your videos to be the biggest help after not playing for so long. When I sat at the piano again it felt like my first time again and I knew nothing about the instrument. You have also helped me get rid of some bad habits I had when i originally started out. Pianote is the best!
Are you guilty?
0:00 Intro
0:29 Not practicing with a metronome
1:24 Poor posture
2:19 Overcomplicating things
3:14 Not making a plan
3:54 Not stretching
4:53 Not connecting with a community
Curses
I'm guilty of all six
I'm too stubborn and rigid
Unhappy and cynical
Even stretching is torture
The piano demands so much of me
It wants me to sacrafice everything for her
The guilt will make for Good harmonious reconstruction
When I build the courage to dive
My posture is passable but the issue is my back, deeply damaged by a series of factors. My hands are also weak, but this has become useful for I can gracefully allow gravity to move it in a very sense inducing way if that makes sense. It is like a trigger except I dont know where to aim the feeling, then the thought disrupts the flow.
Yes, which brings me to your second point. The thought comes, that gnawing thought. That burning wheel.
Then, hopelessness or pure instinct which prevents me from strategizing.
Stretching would help release the nerves, the tension. But with that comes images, horrors and disruption.
My analytical mind believes that I need to find a way to make the images musical. I need to figure out which key tone is representative of the emotional generation. But the seemingly indefinite level of possibilities overwhelms me. I need some basic system for this . Some foundation I can build off of. I must know the key for the image by heart or my body refuses to pursue it further.
This is my handicap.
The community would threaten my beautiful gem stones, I would shy away like a child or tremble and reveal all my latent complexes.
I cannot
Will not
You can't make me
*runs back to the haunting piano video from the other day*
Avengers Endgame - Portals plz teach this one🙏🙏🙏😢
No wizards allowed Simon
Sorry
Just kidding
Be nice though
Or face eternal torment burning in a contraption of your own doing
*big goldfish eyes*
Yep, guilty of all 6! Thanks for this video, now i'm aware of the 6, I know what to work on! 😆👍💖
Still love you and your hair🥰🥰🥰
20+ years of playing piano and I make all of these mistakes!! 👍😃
Me: _uses a metronome_
Hours later, Brain: tic tic tic tic
Me: brain stop
Brain: tic tic tic tic
This is so meeeee 😂
@@carolineaileen2021 lol
hahah hahah ahahahahah lmaooo ikr
@@yumaa7800 yup
Hahahaha same ;-;
Teacher: "The next thing is poor posture."
Me: *Straightens back*
I'm a trumpet player and I decided to learn to play the piano 2 months ago. I thought it would be easy (trumpet player ego is the worst)... but it isn't. Your videos are helping me a lot. Thanks for the tips, keep it up!
gooooo!!! keep practicing! 😁 you'll get the hang of it. 😉 huuugs
Try blowing the piano .. it might work got you lol
It will get worse. Believe me.
Instead of metronome, you can also use a drumbeat, some digital piano’s have them build in, just the drum, not the whole rythm.
It is tough at first but playing to the click of the metronome on the upbeat clicking on the "and" instead of clicking on the downbeat on the number count has huge benefits with the irritating click and it helps ones feel and syncopation skills and jazz vibe also and more.....there is a learning curve but crazy worth the time....
Thanks for tips or wonderful reminders, they are very much appreciated.
Your tipps are so great! 👍🎹
Thank you so much! 💖
Absolutely right!
I did some of them, and thank you to make me realize.
Great job, and love it ♥️
The way you speak and make it easy to understand that is so wonderful. Lv from India.
You are the smartest, most intelligent piano teacher I have ever seen. I want to add you are gifted to teach. You give us very important information, you show us how to identify our weaknesses, and correct them, you help encourage us, and keep us focused. I have learned so much from you. Thank you for your videos, I appreciate you so much.
Hi! I've been using your videos to help me with piano (I just started February of this year) and I love that whenever I have a question related to piano or a tutorial you have the answer! I really appreciate the content :)
Thank you for these tips. They are very useful in helping me become not just a pianist, but a well rounded one.
I am so going to consider everything that you said. I got a keyboard a month ago and eve since I've been watching your channel to learn how to play it
Definitely guilty of all of these. I get sleepy too. Especially if I'm practicing something relaxing. Yes. Taking breaks is great advice, along with everything else you advised to do and not to do. Thank you, thank you!
Actually this inspired me so much
Thank you ❤
The first one DEFINITELY I am guilty of! In fact, I was just practicing about an hour ago and could feel myself playing faster and faster and I was like "Why am I playing so doggone FAST?" I need to learn to keep the same pace throughout a song.
Great information! Thanks for the reminder about the dreaded Metronome, yikes! I will make it a point to start using it again.
Learning a bit of theory has really helped my piano
happy i found your youTube page. All very useful info! Im a beginner and need all the help i can get! thank you!
Thank you so much. I appreciate you and all you do ❤️
I'm in the process of correcting these mistakes. Thank you very much.
Great video! Me as a piano teacher have realized that my students tend to struggle more when don't start off a new exercise by playing it super slow (like trying to run before you crawl). That, but most importantly: not continuing to the very end of the exercise or song even after they make a mistake while reading! Instead they always return to the beginning and in doing so, their brain never processes the entire music sheet or exercise and get stuck in a loop of 2 bars tops, lol.
Thank you, wow, these are tips not just for the piano lesson but for the entire life :)
Not practicing with a metronome AND not playing slowly (aka always playing fast / performance tempo)😂😂
I like your no.6. I'm the only one in my family who plays an instrument. I practicd by myself, and sometimes I feel discouraged. I think I'm gonna start looking for the community. Just thinking about it already gives me the fire. Thanks for the great tips!
THANK YOU! I'm totally self taught ~ always loved music, played a bit of rhythm guitar ~ but absorbed by horses & showing w/no time for much else. Well! When I started watching your tutorials two years ago & often had no idea what you were talking about, I could play scales & songs I'd figured out by ear in C, E, G, A well enough; D, E, F, B crudely. B FLAT? FORGET IT! IMPOSSIBLE! Reading music? I'm 65 & figured that was a Quixotic undertaking. Wrong! I'll never be a sight-reading standout, but the piano bench is now my second home. Playing the beginner version of "Fur Elise" from the sheet music is the most exciting thing I've ever done. As the mysteries of the piano (and how music is 'built') fall away, I love playing more & more. Your best tip (for me)? Practicing one scale at a time. Thanks to that lesson, I'm now the master of B flat!!! A veritable virtuoso (well, maybe not)... but I can play all sorts of things like my favorite hymn (in A flat) & a song I love in E minor, thanks to your way of explaining things. The coolest revelation has been that once I 'get' the math of it, the music falls into place. The second coolest is that the less I think, the better I play (which is like riding a horse, actually ~ learn the correct technique, practice endlessly & then muscle memory takes over ~ just like become a really good rider) I play. THANK YOU!!!
Thank you for tips lisa
love this !
The part about connecting with other musicians is so true. I have been a guitar player for over 35 years, My playing always improved most when I was playing with or jamming with other musicians. Firstly, musicians are generally very supportive of each other. They love to share what they know. Secondly, you get a way better feel for songs and timings and it improves your ability to find your pocket in a song. Where you fit in. I have recently decided to learn piano and to read music at 48 years of age. I am waiting for payday to sign up for Pianote after much research to find the best online course that suits my needs. I CAN'T WAIT.....I've been doing nothing but C scales for the past 2 weeks.....ZZZZZzzzzzz😴 and I do not want to take on anything more on until I get a proper plan in place. Lisa's advice here is bang on the money and why I want to join.
Very helpful
Can you post a video about how to use a metronome in the future. I just got into playing piano and will begin my piano lessons on Monday! 🥳
Thanks for tips or wonderful reminders, they are very much appreciated.
This actually goes mostly for piano players.
As a former singer, I have noticed while practicing or gigging with other musicians, those that come from a classical school need very much to rely on sheet music to play, rather than just the reference of chords to be able to work on the keys of each song, and yes, obviously you can make some notations here and there.
Now, for those musicians coming from a classical background, wouldn't it be sufficient info to work and improvise? I mean I most dare to say that all classical players, would know their scales, therefore shouldn't have a problem, correct? Otherwise, this would mean, like in my case as a newbie keyboard-to-be-player that I have to really study my scales. Your thoughts? :)
I love pianote!!!!!!!!
Hi, I just wanted to ask if Jordan will show some new things on the piano too again soon ? There haven't been any uploads by him and I really enjoyed his tutorials (I like yours too), especially his longer live sessions in which he just talks about one certain topic and explains everything in detail
4:53 came from playing a clarinet, but when I sat at the piano (started a week ago), I was like "wow, this can sound like a complete song by itself!" No more spit everywhere and getting the right reed anymore for me. Good bye clarinet.
3:54 Not stretching 🤣🤪..
Thank you so much Ma'am for this👆 🙏👍😍
Your always great madam thanking you please continue this programme
When I was 8 years old I had a strong desire to join a local marching corps and play the drums in their drum line. So I started at the young age of eight or nine taking rudimental drum lessons. My rhythm has never suffered because of it and I am of the school of thought that practically insists every music student should start out with formal drum lessons, learning stick control and learning rudiments. It conveys to every other instrument out there.
First time I ever sat at drum set at my high school music appreciation class I was the best one lol
Played piano many before tho
So true! The amazing hand independence and rhythm that drummers have is incredible.
Hi! Would you do a video on how to improvise duets and have musical conversations, please? I can't remember if I asked you.
Love your lesson
Love from india
Definitely recommend Piano World Forum. You can post questions and submit samples of your own playing.
Thanks
I love you sooo much) You are so brightful, beautiful, talented and charismatic) Thank you for your lessons via youtube)
#5 Not Stretching - my accomplished instructor is a Taubman method student, had to recover from debilitating condition from playing incorrectly.
#6 How to crash a/the community having 0 previous playing experience ???????? Any ideas? I am sure this will speed me along if I start playing with others.
Good tips! Keep it up!
Thanks so much for your channel! As a new player, they've drastically helped in how I've been practicing and hearing this advice up front is really great!
Could you tell me about techniques & skills especially ? So I can grow it
The community part is so true
My problem? Playing triads with my first three fingers.. My other problem is, our drummer doesn't practice with a metronome, even if I do (so I can't sequence anything!)
I’m learning cello now but I just love your channel 😃. I’ve learned so much from you. You are a great teacher, motivator, with a sweet singing voice. Thank you so much😎
Finding it very difficult practicing with the metronome. I’m learning to play the blues and improvise. I can’t seem to get my rhythm and timing right. I would appreciate any tips or recommendations.🤨
aside of playing with a metronome, If you have a pc, you can use a DAW like cakewalk to record yourself through midi (just connect the keyboard to the pc using a usb cable). Recording multitracks of yourself (drums, bass, piano, guitar, voice, percussion, synths or whatever) it's the best way to improve your timing since it's like playing along with a band, but every musician is you so you have to put a lot of effort to get everything in the correct timing
it's sooo true ! I talk to other pianists on instagram and they are so motivating ! We play kpop music and talking can help us connect more and realise how we can help motivate each other and how to improve too ;) Thank you for this amazing video ;)
How long does it take on average to conquer the hand independence and coordination?
Love these lesson because I always improve and I always learn something new! The timing is
perfect with each lesson, it's like your reading my mind! Thanks ! :-)
I am a left-hander I feel very hard when I play string part of right hand how can I improve my piano rply
I’m lefty but better with my right hand because it gets more practice.
2:58
Twoset fans : *we don't do that here *
Yeee
how to use a metronome for a song I was practicing with 2 -1/4 notes per measure?
We want part 2
Can you please make a video on a progression for a rap?
I come here to learn piano and can't stop look her hair, I love it
posture, mindset, easy - take a few Alexander lessons
I'm guilty of playing my keyboard whilst flexing my muscles in the mirror
Hahaha lol XD
What if I don't have a stand for my keyboard? How can I keep my good posture?
Well i am teaching myself piano....but sometimes it gets so frustrating that i wanna quit... But i just can't...and the comment section and the video inspire me a lot😍...btw love from India♥️♥️
Ok soooo, I’m short so my feet don’t touch the ground lol. My posture probably isn’t that great. I also never really played with my pinkies, so I’ve been reteaching myself since quarantine started. I made my piano playing life more difficult, I realized.
Hai nice to hear your piano technique's. This is John. I'm a music teacher. Right now due to Covid-19 I'm taking online classes to my students. I like to know how you have add virtually keyboard with your piano. Can you help me please....
Hi John! We use an app called Chordie: buy.chordieapp.com/
It connects to the piano via MIDI and then we put the virtual keyboard on the screen during the editing process.
Unsaid in Pianote's reply is that she's not using a regular acoustic piano. It's an electric piano.
@@PianoteOfficial Thank you very much for your reply. Are you working for any schools as music teacher?
This is so true. I propably make the majority of these mistakes. Sometimes I get stressed over doing a lot of exercises on a day, so It's better to keep it simple. Also recently I've been sharing compositions with friends that play too and they help me correct any mistake, since I'm a begginer. Playing along with someone is the most BEAUTIFUL thing ever. You literally feel a connection you cannot describe
Seat height unadjusted or improperly adjusted.
I cant stand metronomes. Lucky for me there is drum beat tracks on youtube. I don't know if my rhythm problems are from not using metronomes or being lazy. Your so right about taking breaks but sometimes you start creating something beautiful and before you know it you have been playing for an hour and a half. Piano is addictive in that way
I successfully passed the not doing 1 through 6 test. definitely guilty!
Hi, your video is such so inspiring! I have a question... I am in the process to buy a piano, I would like to what is the brand and model I should buy for a beginner? And what is the brand and model of your piano? Thanks already for your answer. Really appreciate your videos!
Ooh so exciting! We have a blog article that has a lot of info: www.pianote.com/blog/how-to-buy-your-first-piano/
I really like the Roland FP-10 for beginners, or the Yamaha P125 is also fantastic.
The piano we use is a Roland V-Piano Grand.
Good luck!
@@PianoteOfficial Thanks for your answer. I actually watched some reviews for both models, I think I,m ready to make my decision!
I am really guilty. But what can I do?People hardly play Piano in my region.
So why I,have no community to connect or discuss with. Can I get help?
Lisa!!! Coming from your fellow pianist here in Washington, I totally agree with all of these. The last one is so true though. We pianists when we are not at work which most or all of us are not beings that we are still in middle of a pandemic we are the people that others relie on for their tunings for their accompanying but we really don’t have a community of piano players. We are the ones that are isolated and alone most of the time and like you said other musicians do have a community of people that they hang with and you are right it has to do with the nature of our instruments their is a 7th mistake that I think we don’t do as pianists. Yes. Meditation...... I actually started that a couple of weeks again after looking up on line the important of meditating for musicians. As musicians we are so busy with our mind and set expectations on our personal selves. I think some people really think even musicians. What does meditation have to even do with playing an instrument but it is so cruised. I have been in meditation day and night before and after practice. We have to clear our minds so we can bee here in the present moment. It is really amazing what meditation does to me as a pianist. I really find it addicting when I am not at the piano. I am however their all day making music and recording but when i get up I put on some guided meditation and even in the middle of the day I am so focused on what i am doing I forget the present moment. So I I bring myself back to the moment in which i am. But a state of meditation is so cruisal for us to bee at our best. It is part of our it should bee part of our every day warmups as well so we can physically warm up at the piano.
Thanks; On point! Fire! Super cute, super sweet, my morning cup of coffee 🤓👍
I had a strong argument about lesson with my piano teacher and I quit. Now I enjoy learning online lesson.
Hi Lisa.
I have tried to contact you (pianote) many time in many ways, and It has been impossible get information from you about the courses. What is wrong with your service? I am trying to buy the courses and I can't talk to you. I have questions....
Hi Javier! I'm so sorry to hear about that! You can email support@pianote.com to get answers, or if you like you can call us at 1-800-439-8921 (it's toll free). We have a team of people who can answer your questions.
I can either play the piano or listen to the metronome, but I can't do both. All videos I've seen on UA-cam assume you can do both. What's needed is something really, really basic on using the metronome.
Listening to the metronome isn’t really an active endeavor...it’s in the background as a guide. Try playing something you have already memorized and run the metronome in the background as a guide to playing the music at a constant tempo.
@@orlandocfi I've tried, but unless I focus on the metronome, or a drum beat, I eventually loose sync and wind up ahead or behind. So, what I requested was a video to show ow to accomplish pushing the metronome into the background.
I think the main problem is let the monkey escape, or lose all the intrinsic motivation to practice. If you have "the monkey" you can practice for a couple of hours because you like it. ut if you let the monkey go away you approache the piano like you approach vaccuming or go to buy food at the supermarket, you have to do it but you will happy to have a Roomba and to have someonr deliver home the groceries it will be the same...
Why are you wearing your shoes indoors? I've seen that a lot in american movies too. Is that a thing in the US?
You guys should have at least 3mil subscribers! Of course.... Your videos could be longer...!?!?
This is heaven for piano players.
My mistake is: after receiving the foundation books I could get myself away from them. So my plan is : I am not allowed to open book 3 before I know 1 and 2 by head.😂😂 they are so helpful!!!!!!
Well mine was trying to try complicated pieces buy at the end no good results.
So I also think we should all take our time 😊😊😇
I never play slowly 😂😂😂
I rush into the room take out the keyboard from the bag aaaaaand start playing a song...along a video
I have no patience 🐥
That's also a mistake ig 🤔
My piano pal Lisa Witt is the beatttttttttttt
my finger number 5, on my left hand, stays up when I'm practice... why can it just be relaxed? :-)
Hey Lisa....any video for power chords...what they are?? Variations etc?? Please?🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Great suggestion! Thanks! On the piano, power chords are just the root note and the 5th. They're most often played in the left hand, but you can do it in the right as well.
I use them a bit in this video: ua-cam.com/video/EHI3e75zHis/v-deo.html
@@PianoteOfficial yes....just looking for more tips...and basics...as you do all the time....please do a video on that....
I am so guilty on all charges :)
Why do i need to practice with a metronome ?
My piano teacher would rap my knuckles & say "Your not holding that invisible golf ball !" LOL I am also a victim of playing too fast. I hate it & I know it. I always think to myself now. SLOW
Please post a tutorial for Purpose by Justin Bieber......... Please Lisa
Avengers Endgame - Portals plz teach this one🙏🙏🙏😢
Well... I'm a bit anti social but I always crack my knuckles before practice 🤣
Is it actually better to practicing a lot of technique instead of the techniques that is important to specific song you want to play? I really want to know because I just want to play like 4-5 songs.
It really depends on your goals. If you only want to play a few songs, then practicing techniques you never plan to use is not a great use of your time.
But technique is super helpful to become a really well-rounded piano player!
I've been listening to the other students playing their lessons the entire class and forgot to learn mine.wasted hours infront of the piano😂
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick (to being guilty - not metronome!)
Great video, thanks. Noone ever told me about stretching
I'm glad that I only make 2 of the 6 mistakes which are not stretching and not having a plan. 😅
I stopped playing (due to time conflicts with school) for a whole year prior to lockdown. I've been playing for 2 years (would be three if I didn't take the year off last year) and I have found your videos to be the biggest help after not playing for so long. When I sat at the piano again it felt like my first time again and I knew nothing about the instrument. You have also helped me get rid of some bad habits I had when i originally started out.
Pianote is the best!