7 Things I Wish I'd Known When First Learning Piano
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- In this lesson, I teach you about the tips I wish I knew about when I first learned piano. These tips will help you learn piano faster and save a lot of frustration in the long run.
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00:00 Lesson Breakdown
00:27 Tip 1
02:03 Tip 2
03:17 Tip 3
05:52 Tip 4
08:56 Tip 5
09:45 Tip 6
10:18 POWER TIP
11:20 Tip 7
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The main reason i love Tim's lessons is he's not a show off. Most teachers on youtube just want to show you how good they are but this dude just understands where beginners are coming from and he's great at making a point without it being convoluted. Such a good guy sharing this knowledge for free on social media.
The rule is simply stated: "If you can't play it slow, you can't play it fast."
People who study TaiChi start with a very legato motion to allow focus on every nuance of the movement. Once mastered, it can be sped up to create TaiChi masters who have repeatedly proven to be undefeatable by other martial art forms. The reason is that, having mastered every one of the multiple nuances for each movement, when at full speed all those nuances are still present at lightning speed.
When you practice slow, you are able to focus on all the nuances--hand and body movements, where your eyes go to assist the movements; ultimately when you have sped it up, all the nuances you learned are still there, but are taking place at lightning speed!
The legendary ledger line trick has been a savior! Most beginners struggle to read in this area!
God knows I struggle with ledger lines ✋ thanks for the tips!
Chapters
00:00 Lesson Breakdown
00:27 Tip 1
02:03 Tip 2
03:17 Tip 3
05:52 Tip 4
08:56 Tip 5
09:45 Tip 6
10:18 POWER TIP
11:20 Tip 7
binge watching this channel - need my sight reading to improve
Love the tip about the ledger lines!! Tfs
Had a few lessons at a young age that didn't work out. Ended up learning years later as an adult. Wish I knew the LH & RH hands coordination isn't as hard as I thought. Many people including myself are not good "sight" readers. We wouldn't be able to play a piece accurately the first try. After practicing a piece for a while you'd find that you're relying on your memory (including muscle memory) more than reading. The first time you need to read every note or every other note but not after that. Some people have good ears that they can play by ear than reading their pieces all the time except when learning.
The first & last thing I wish I knew was not to compare myself to my siblings. Coming from a non-musical family everybody took music lessons but nobody played an instrument well. Years later I started learning on my own. Music is a skill that can be learned, not inherited because your family have music genes or you come from a musical family.
Years ago there were only toy keyboards & acoustic pianos and nothing in between. Wish DPs with weighted hammers were available that I would have been able to start earlier and practice with headphones.
This guy is pretty good with his ability to explain his ideas to us lesser skilled. 5 stars .
The two that especially resonate with me are:
Practice slow. Yea, I tend to want to go at the proper pace and if it is a fast paced piece i really struggle with it. Just recently started realizing that I need to slow it down.
Also, start with something challenging. Only my particular issue is that when I royally jack up a song I stop and start over. So I get great at the beginning, but don't practice the end nearly as much. So I really need to practice in chunks. Don't always start at the beginning but start at the chunk I am struggling with.
Going to speed is addictive and hard not to do. I'm guilty.
It took me a while to learn to practice the parts I can’t play not the parts I can.
Great tips ! Thank you !
Beams = 1 beat - Shoot, I too just thought I learned something new. Well... yeah, MOST of the time. BUT, there is this thing called syncopation. I have a measure here in front of me in 2/4, that my notation program decided to put 1 long beam on the top of all the notes. But nope, it's not 1 beat yet it's also not 2 beats, so I'm not sure why it did that.
Starts with a 32nd rest (which messes up the whole timing thing) then 2 32nd notes, 1 dotted 16th, 2 8th notes, and 1 16th note, which all amazingly equals 2 beats. But my program (Finale) decided to put ONE beam across this mess. So yeah, the rest of the song without syncopation is 1 beam = 1 beat. But this syncopated stuff I wrote, nope. It's impossible to split that measure into two beats, because the first beat bleeds over into the 2nd with that dotted 16th.
Anyway, cool fact that I had never heard of before, but just be aware, it's not 100% the time...
Lots of useful info, thanks.
Greetings from the UK.
great advice, thank you!!
Great tips. Thank you 🙏
Thanks for your useful tips !
Merci beaucoup, great tips.
Thank you
Brilliant lesson!
Thanks!
What a great video and tips 👏👏 My absolute problem is that I've never been able to master reading sheet music 😓 I write out all the notes (letters) instead and play them that way....or worse...by ear 😭😭
Damn It! I always knew there were helpful tips to making learning piano less painful. Thank you!
Thank you for this video, it is very helpful! Can you tell me what program and gear are you using to write the notation and have it appear on the screen? Thanks!
You are wonderful-do you give private lessons
I agree that sight reading is an important skill, I got pretty good at it, but I wish that I had been told that being able to play without music is equally important. That could be pieces you have learned from sheet music, or some that you have only heard or even some you make up.
Great tips thank you.
What is the program that u use? it is great.
nice
Every good boy deserves favor.
I'm watching this video again, first time was 4 months in my piano life, and today would be almost 15 months after I started.
1) Sight reading is the most important. The first place to start is by learning scales and chords. Use these as sight reading exercises. And Tim is correct, don't learn mnenomics, learn the notes. There are only seven.
2) Rule of the Octave. This is how Italian orphanages in Napoli, Italy would train young children to be maestri. What is it? Learning to harmonize the scale. I suffer from Aural Aphantasia. I don't have music in my head. Even after a year of playing, I'm not musical. But when I harmonize the scale part by part, I hear the changes that should happen with music. More important, I learn what my fingers should do. I sing the changes, very very softly and very very badly, but I sing. I call this Ear training practice.
3) Cadences. I never realized that chord changes were cadences. There are rules. It can get complicated. So I'm learning the simple rules for now, and tackling the complicated ones little by little. Again, you can learn how your fingers should move.
4) First species counterpoint. Boring music. But you have to start somewhere. I don't have any advice on the other levels, baby steps.
5) Bach. Johnny Seb. Did you know he came from a family of musicians, and had 20 kids? And at family get togethers (also known as supper) they would sing, and improvise often bawdy songs.
6) Bach CPE. I'm learning my cadences and rules of the octave from him.
7) Cat videos. Cuz it's a dogs life.
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I think I have music dyslexia? Fortunately I can play by ear. I’m still trying to read…😤
Hang in there it will get better. Just write down the notes under the music notes and in time you’ll need to do it less and less.
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Given that developing facility with the keys, that which is known as technique, can be 'acquired' (at least in the sense of becoming 'competent'), I wish that I had known that the journey is very, very much harder, not to mention longer, if you haven't the natural propensity for memory, which is far harder to acquire than technique.
Memory is the principle building block for 'smartness', which is a measure of 'things you know' (as opposed to things you 'understand', which is a measure of intelligence). The innate ability to remember services all aspects of instrumental performance, and especially the multi-tasking nature of piano.
Memory strength, health, fitness, whatever you will, is directly responsible for one's facility with reading too, but more importantly it is the principal device that accelerates neuromuscular memory and automation, the elements that propagate speed and fluency to cause you to approximate competence through speed.
The...constipated mechanisms that you develop for 'lacking' fluid memory become engrained as habits that compound over time to affect your playing for as long as it goes unaddressed. Even if in acknowledgment of this you orient yourself towards 'reading' (meaning that you will always require music), your play will be...unreliable.
Memory, rather than any degree of talent or technical investment, determines your success at the keyboard. Absent it, playing the piano will always require an effort on order of magnitude that disturbs the ease and unconscious facility necessary to enjoyment, regardless of how far you develop despite it.
In particular it inhibits your ability to more quickly (within a period bounded by your becoming bored, frustrated, disappointed, ir disillusioned) develop a 'known' repertoire, or learn a piece for public recital. Basically, you are consigned to be an amateur-enthusiast at best, which it must be said satisfies some recreational players.
Better close your eyes for 6 minutes when you need a break - research has shown.
“I wish I had known” not “I wish I knew”
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Teachers should be REQUIRED to inform you that this will take almost forever. 3-5 years of boring arpeggios, scales, Hanon, sight-reading, inversions, memorizing endless technical stuff. It's not fun, it's not creative. It's drudgery. You will have to immediately know the flats and sharps to all scales and where your hands go to play them. This must be immediate, with no hesitation. Good luck.