Your Handy Dandy 🕘 Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:34 3 Principles 2:55 Tip Number 1 3:40 Tip Number 2 5:19 Important Items to Learn 6:20 Tip Number 3 7:22 Tip Number 4 8:18 Tip Number 5
Some of my favorite tips: - If you had to stretch your hand a little bit, let go of the tension as soon as you can. Don't hold onto it. - Find the breaks in the music that allow you to move into comfortable hand positions. - Never be afraid to experiment with fingering.
I’ve needed this for quite a while. Not all tune sources have recommended fingerings and spelling out these principles will provide a practical guide. Thanks for yet another superb well-condensed video.
Thank you Jazer. I have been hitting a wall of non-progress for some time and needed this video to revitalize me passion for playing. I will take your advice on scales and arpregios really seriously. Appreciate your gentle method of teaching
Thank you. I’m struggling with the fingering (marked on the score) so this video is just what I needed today to enable me to re-assess it and hopefully find what is best for me.
Thanks! Student at Berklee Online School of Music. My professor remarked on one of my videos that my fingering was “cumbersome”. This video is wonderfully thoughtful. Thank you so much!!
Same! Still at the part where I'm trying to find the right fingering. Scales I can see have really helped me develop it further, but there's a lot of these awkward positionings that I haven't encountered yet enough to get an automatic feeling for what is best
4:22 now _this_ way of playing scales opened my eyes. I'm absolutely adopting it. Playing scales smoothly and evenly takes the attention away from those little runs. The question I had when I started watching this video was about improvisation where there's not the option of figuring out the optimal fingering. This will definitely help me get my hands prepared even if I'm just playing fragments of those runs - at least I will have led with a good finger and thumb-under will keep things moving where necessary! Excellent video 👍
Hello Jazer Lee, thank you very much! I can take so much from you and also from Lionel Yu for my piano practice process. You are really a great help and inspiration! Thank you very much for your time. Your videos are also very motivating, especially when I sometimes think I'm not making any progress. Best regards
You seem to upload a video on a specific topic when I need it most. Thank you! I actually would love lessons with you but I am located in NC (U.S) which would make it 5am (4pm your time). Crazy time difference. Appreciate your videos 😁⭐
Thanks a lot, you are using simple words to explain struggles i have without noticing them, specially the split 1-2 vs 2-3-4-5 seems so basic yet never thought of this!
Thanks - good advice here. “Replace finger” is pretty much essential with WTC fugues but with so much happening with interweaving voices it’s like a complex puzzle that needs to be disassembled to work out what’s going on. Then putting it back together requires figuring out the fingering to play each part correctly (I tend to circle in pencil those finger change notes with the numbers eg “2-3” so that I can see them coming up as I play and don’t forget!). It can take me hours just to properly learn how to play just one or two bars! So I’ve started learning different sections at the same time so that at some point they will all be joined up - otherwise I’d probably give up on the piece!
Jazer, I'd really appreciate a video on the fingering of all scales. I also have trouble with arpegios and chromatic runs. Small hand span, I can barely reach a ninth.
Oeh! Super timely! I just bought my first book of ‘real’ pieces, but forgot to check if it indicated fingerings. Classic beginner mistake! This video lifted my spirits, now it will just be a new thing to learn!
@@SeaDrive300 i think so too! It’s kind of a ritual I do when learning a new piece. ForScore on my iPad makes it easy and neat to annotate all my pieces.
Great video, thank you. I talk about 'caterpillar hand' where you use a series of stretching (usually an octave) and bunching to move around the piano - very common in Baroque type bass parts. But when you do it, your hand looks like a caterpillar 🐛☺️
Hello , may i ask what is the melody you are using for the video ? I find your videos and your approach very helpfull, thank u for the effort you put into them
In my first piano lesson I thought that there was a DEFINITIVE way of fingering like each finger corresponds to a certain set of notes lmao, good to know!
I’ve noticed something very funny as I learn to play piano. I grew up taking classical singing lessons, so every week I’d spend an hour next to my teacher watching her play the piano, then when I was 16 I fell in love with an amazing pianist, and we would spend hours where he would sit and play whatever and I’d sit in a chair next to him just staring mesmerized at his hands. I’ve noticed that I have a very intuitive sense for fingering now, (I’m 18) and I think a lot of that has to do with just how much I’ve watched people play piano. So I guess my tip would be if you are struggling with fingering, just watch people playing!!
How superb, thank you SO much! If I learn scales, do I have to learn what they are called? I’m 65 so won’t be taking any exams! I don’t suppose you would take us through a few scales & arpeggios (I love the latter) would you, pretty please? ❤
I just recently found you on youtube and I am really enjoying your videos. I have just recently started learning to play piano, something I have wanted to do all my life. I do have a question for you that is not about piano. What breed is that puppy in your video?
I particularly like to practice the same piece on several different keys. For example, if I usually play a piece in C but a singer following along prefer to sing in Eb, I like having the ability to switch on the fly (circle of fifths on 🔥!). So, in addition to the great tips mentioned here, I usually go with a fingering that enables me the smooth key transition (typically the same fingers regardless of the key). This is not something I have practiced a whole lot, though, so constructive criticism is very much welcome!
Thanks, some really useful information here. A question for you regarding the Thumb Tuck, could you demonstrate the thumb tuck using one hand to play over maybe three octaves? Thanks. I understand the thumb tuck on a single octave but if I want to continue up or down the keys, after the first octave I run out of fingers.
Im going to have to try the “replace” method more. Sometimes that one is harder to see at first but would probably solve some trickier fingering patterns. By the way, what was the title of that piece you were playing throughout the video? It’s lovely.
Figuring out the fingering is the worst part of learning a new piece/song. I try to connect the notes smoothly, but sometimes there's no way around it but to make a jump. When I watch performances on UA-cam, I see a lot of jumps. They do it smoothly, though.
Based on this, when do I actually press the pedal up and down? 😅 atm I just do it when the sound begins to get muddy, but there’s probably a better way?
Ok. I am half way through level two. My instructor is good, but I am very frustrated. I learn tunes in the book, but play nothing I want to hear, or would play for anyone else. I feel like I am getting nowhere. Is this feeling common? I’m 72 years old. Will I ever be able to play “real tunes”?
See if you can find a book at a music store at your level of playing. Buy it and then ask your teacher to help you learn one of those pieces every few weeks. It will encourage you. Playing the "songs" they put in the theory books are not always very conducive to wanting to play once you've learned them. Hope this helps.
Hello sir, I want to serve to Church using Piano, I buy my first piano Yesterday, but i dont know how to start😢😢please give some tips and advice, thank you❤
Is it ok I aim low, in other words play "easier" pieces like some of chopin's nocturnes mazurkas and waltzes and leave the monsters like scherzos and ballades etc. to the pros? and be a happy person? Surely not ALL piano players dont have to be able to play those right?
Hey, @jazerleepiano! I'm trying to figure out the most comfortable left-hand fingering for playing this bit from Patrick Pietschman's Interstellar arrangement: ua-cam.com/video/4y33h81phKU/v-deo.html but i seem to always feel this tension in my wrist/arm. Do you happen to have some advice here? Much appreciated. Cheers.
Your Handy Dandy 🕘 Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:34 3 Principles
2:55 Tip Number 1
3:40 Tip Number 2
5:19 Important Items to Learn
6:20 Tip Number 3
7:22 Tip Number 4
8:18 Tip Number 5
Thank you for another tips sir☺️
Thank you! This is so helpful!
Some of my favorite tips:
- If you had to stretch your hand a little bit, let go of the tension as soon as you can. Don't hold onto it.
- Find the breaks in the music that allow you to move into comfortable hand positions.
- Never be afraid to experiment with fingering.
‘if a piece isn’t flowing properly …’ Bless you, nothing has ever yet ‘flowed’ but I live in hope 😊
😊 I know what you mean!
I’ve needed this for quite a while. Not all tune sources have recommended fingerings and spelling out these principles will provide a practical guide.
Thanks for yet another superb well-condensed video.
Thank you Jazer. I have been hitting a wall of non-progress for some time and needed this video to revitalize me passion for playing. I will take your advice on scales and arpregios really seriously. Appreciate your gentle method of teaching
This lesson was very very helpful!! You are a great teacher. Thank you 🙏
You have read my mind,i needed your confirmation of scales, thumberina etc, thankyou jazzi
as someone who started a week ago this is incredibly helpful!! you're awesome man
You are a gold-mine Jazer
Thank you for teaching us, and sharing your gift of music. It's so very helpful to beginners.
Thank you. I’m struggling with the fingering (marked on the score) so this video is just what I needed today to enable me to re-assess it and hopefully find what is best for me.
Thanks! Student at Berklee Online School of Music. My professor remarked on one of my videos that my fingering was “cumbersome”. This video is wonderfully thoughtful. Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much. Can you do a video to train all the scales and arpeggios as well? It would be awesome
I think Jazer just read my mind, this is exactly what I'm looking for!
Yes, I was wondering whether for example a b flat should always be a particular finger
Same!
Same! Still at the part where I'm trying to find the right fingering. Scales I can see have really helped me develop it further, but there's a lot of these awkward positionings that I haven't encountered yet enough to get an automatic feeling for what is best
same too, jazer and youtube can read our minds 😂
@@camdinh 😂😂
4:22 now _this_ way of playing scales opened my eyes. I'm absolutely adopting it. Playing scales smoothly and evenly takes the attention away from those little runs.
The question I had when I started watching this video was about improvisation where there's not the option of figuring out the optimal fingering. This will definitely help me get my hands prepared even if I'm just playing fragments of those runs - at least I will have led with a good finger and thumb-under will keep things moving where necessary!
Excellent video 👍
I found the part at 4:22 so clean 😂
Hello Jazer Lee, thank you very much!
I can take so much from you and also from Lionel Yu for my piano practice process. You are really a great help and inspiration! Thank you very much for your time. Your videos are also very motivating, especially when I sometimes think I'm not making any progress.
Best regards
Thanks Jazer for another splendid lession. Struggled with this a lot now you have made things so much easier.
Again, Thanks a whole bunch !!! 🙌
Thanks so much for these very valuable tips. Looking forward to learning more from you going forward. I'm learning the keyboard on my own.
Thank you, Jazer! Most eye opening & helpful. Good information-will be more cognizant while using these tips in my playing. 🙋♀️👍👍🎶
Hi
Thank you for that great content
Do you have a video where you play the hole composition (or link for sheet music? I liked it alot)
Great dissection and discussion of how to really break down your own piano practicing concepts, thank you 🙏🏿🤗🫵🏿 🎯‼️✊🏿
You seem to upload a video on a specific topic when I need it most. Thank you! I actually would love lessons with you but I am located in NC (U.S) which would make it 5am (4pm your time). Crazy time difference.
Appreciate your videos 😁⭐
I would love to learn that song you keep playing!!😊
Yay, another Jazer video 🎉 You are a very gifted teacher my man
Thanks again, Jazer, for these very helpful tips. You're such an amazing piano teacher 👏👏👏
Thanks a lot, you are using simple words to explain struggles i have without noticing them, specially the split 1-2 vs 2-3-4-5 seems so basic yet never thought of this!
Thanks - good advice here. “Replace finger” is pretty much essential with WTC fugues but with so much happening with interweaving voices it’s like a complex puzzle that needs to be disassembled to work out what’s going on. Then putting it back together requires figuring out the fingering to play each part correctly (I tend to circle in pencil those finger change notes with the numbers eg “2-3” so that I can see them coming up as I play and don’t forget!).
It can take me hours just to properly learn how to play just one or two bars! So I’ve started learning different sections at the same time so that at some point they will all be joined up - otherwise I’d probably give up on the piece!
You are amazingly good. Thank you. Although some people could find you too quick....
Thank you Jazer, you have really broken it down and simplified the rules . Love it thanks so much, you have really made a difference 🙏
Jazer, I'd really appreciate a video on the fingering of all scales. I also have trouble with arpegios and chromatic runs. Small hand span, I can barely reach a ninth.
What I don't see in books is the fingering for playing scales in two octaves. So a video for that would be really great too!
@@saradenault5903 look at the ABRSM piano scales book.
Good tips ......and thank you for that charming little piece!
This is so much useful to me! exactly what I need to know. Great tips!
Awesome tips, thank you. You have the best piano channel.
I LOVE YOU JAZER❤❤❤❤
Thank you❤
Such cogent advice and such a digestible presentation. Thank you, Jazer.
Oeh! Super timely! I just bought my first book of ‘real’ pieces, but forgot to check if it indicated fingerings. Classic beginner mistake! This video lifted my spirits, now it will just be a new thing to learn!
I'm probably a little crazy but, for me, figuring out the best fingerings to use is part of the fun of learning a new piece! 🙂
@@SeaDrive300 i think so too! It’s kind of a ritual I do when learning a new piece. ForScore on my iPad makes it easy and neat to annotate all my pieces.
Great video, thank you. I talk about 'caterpillar hand' where you use a series of stretching (usually an octave) and bunching to move around the piano - very common in Baroque type bass parts. But when you do it, your hand looks like a caterpillar 🐛☺️
Hi Jaser… Tip number 4 is very artistic… I benefited very much.. Thanks…
Thanks for another very helpful video. I need to watch it a few more times, it was that good!
This is great- thank you! I just started sharing videos on my UA-cam channel in the hopes of making music literacy accessible to all.
What fingers to use has always confused me. Thank you for this extremely helpful and enlightening video.
Nicely explained ! Thanks for putting this together.
Thank You for these tips. Wish my local teacher had shown me this!
Very good my teacher ❤
I just love your composition in this video. When you finish, would it be possible to buy a copy?
Hello , may i ask what is the melody you are using for the video ? I find your videos and your approach very helpfull, thank u for the effort you put into them
In my first piano lesson I thought that there was a DEFINITIVE way of fingering like each finger corresponds to a certain set of notes lmao, good to know!
Thanks Jazer.. this video helps me a lot
Thank you very much. That is what I was looking for
I’ve noticed something very funny as I learn to play piano. I grew up taking classical singing lessons, so every week I’d spend an hour next to my teacher watching her play the piano, then when I was 16 I fell in love with an amazing pianist, and we would spend hours where he would sit and play whatever and I’d sit in a chair next to him just staring mesmerized at his hands. I’ve noticed that I have a very intuitive sense for fingering now, (I’m 18) and I think a lot of that has to do with just how much I’ve watched people play piano. So I guess my tip would be if you are struggling with fingering, just watch people playing!!
extremely helpful tips. Thank you ❤
another set of great tips.
im improving already
Thanks! Perfectly timed help!
Thank you! Really useful tips
Shalom thank you very much. Just starting to learn piano. Will keep your advice in mind n start my good habit early 🙏😊
How superb, thank you SO much! If I learn scales, do I have to learn what they are called? I’m 65 so won’t be taking any exams! I don’t suppose you would take us through a few scales & arpeggios (I love the latter) would you, pretty please? ❤
Thank you so much. This is very helpful
Title of the piece played in the video? So beautiful. Always thanks for your tips : )!!
Thankyou dear you are vary helpful to me a 71 year old man trying to lurne to play the keyboard, please help I love to lurn to play
I do offer online piano lessons. 🙂
wow that was useful 😎
Name of piece played at 0:51 ?
Does anyone know?
It's a personal composition.
@@jazerleepiano really really beautiful and nice to hear. We would like to hear it fully
@@jazerleepiano wow this composition is so beautiful, would love to hear it fully !And thank you for your great videos and tips they helped me alot ❤
I just recently found you on youtube and I am really enjoying your videos. I have just recently started learning to play piano, something I have wanted to do all my life. I do have a question for you that is not about piano. What breed is that puppy in your video?
Thanks Jazer
What is the name of the music piece you were playing? 0:51
I particularly like to practice the same piece on several different keys. For example, if I usually play a piece in C but a singer following along prefer to sing in Eb, I like having the ability to switch on the fly (circle of fifths on 🔥!). So, in addition to the great tips mentioned here, I usually go with a fingering that enables me the smooth key transition (typically the same fingers regardless of the key). This is not something I have practiced a whole lot, though, so constructive criticism is very much welcome!
Thank you... Super 100% Best.
Thank you!
3:03 what is this piece name guys? Starting to love the melancholy in this piece
Yes! Im hyped
Guy has covered every problem that I'm facing 💀
Could u teach modes?
Thanks, some really useful information here. A question for you regarding the Thumb Tuck, could you demonstrate the thumb tuck using one hand to play over maybe three octaves? Thanks. I understand the thumb tuck on a single octave but if I want to continue up or down the keys, after the first octave I run out of fingers.
★★★★★ Great tips. What is the waltz you use as an example piece? Composer? Title? Source?
hello 😊what is the name of this song you are playing part 4 thank you
Arpiegio Moonlight 3 mvt.
Anyone know which song he was playing to give those examples?
No one knows because I just wrote it for the tutorial.
Could you please share what you played? I would like to give a try:)
Let me finish writing it. 😅
Is there a book you would recommend to study chords, scales, and arpeggios?
what about db major
Lee Be Jammin
Idk I just want to not learn anything but play piano from inside of my heart
Im going to have to try the “replace” method more. Sometimes that one is harder to see at first but would probably solve some trickier fingering patterns.
By the way, what was the title of that piece you were playing throughout the video? It’s lovely.
It's a personal composition. ☺
How about your left hand? That’s extremely tough
Figuring out the fingering is the worst part of learning a new piece/song. I try to connect the notes smoothly, but sometimes there's no way around it but to make a jump. When I watch performances on UA-cam, I see a lot of jumps. They do it smoothly, though.
What is that lovely piece of music ?
Thank you. It's a personal composition.
@jazerleepiano I'd like the music to it. It's probably a bit ambitious for me though.
what if i wanted tp play etude water fall does it need to be good at piano or having long hand to play
Jazer you gotta start letting us know what pieces you’re playing 😭i just wanna listen to these songs
Let me finish writing it and let me upload here.
Hi Jazer - what piece are you playing the most in this? Did you write it?
Yes, as a matter of fact, I did. About 10 minutes before I filmed the lesson. 😅
@@jazerleepiano it’s so beautiful!!! Did you write it down so we can buy it? 😂👏
Based on this, when do I actually press the pedal up and down? 😅 atm I just do it when the sound begins to get muddy, but there’s probably a better way?
I actually talk about this in one of my piano tutorials on pedals.
My teacher never taught us scales and the apre... whatever it's called. She just showed us where the notes are and told us to practice
Ok. I am half way through level two. My instructor is good, but I am very frustrated. I learn tunes in the book, but play nothing I want to hear, or would play for anyone else. I feel like I am getting nowhere. Is this feeling common? I’m 72 years old. Will I ever be able to play “real tunes”?
See if you can find a book at a music store at your level of playing. Buy it and then ask your teacher to help you learn one of those pieces every few weeks. It will encourage you. Playing the "songs" they put in the theory books are not always very conducive to wanting to play once you've learned them. Hope this helps.
hey I cannot hear any music in the examples
Hello sir, I want to serve to Church using Piano, I buy my first piano Yesterday, but i dont know how to start😢😢please give some tips and advice, thank you❤
You need to start by learning all the notes on the piano and learn how to play simple chords.
@@jazerleepiano thank you sir, i hope someday i can play Piano like you sir 🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
What is the name of this piece ? 1:30
I haven't thought of the title yet.
@@jazerleepiano
It's really beautiful 😂💖
Is it ok I aim low, in other words play "easier" pieces like some of chopin's nocturnes mazurkas and waltzes and leave the monsters like scherzos and ballades etc. to the pros? and be a happy person? Surely not ALL piano players dont have to be able to play those right?
Hey, @jazerleepiano! I'm trying to figure out the most comfortable left-hand fingering for playing this bit from Patrick Pietschman's Interstellar arrangement: ua-cam.com/video/4y33h81phKU/v-deo.html but i seem to always feel this tension in my wrist/arm. Do you happen to have some advice here? Much appreciated. Cheers.
Is there ever one note on the piano that must ALWAYS have one particular finger, ie always the same one?
@tiffcat1100 No!
Principle #3 : Never play in an uncomfortable position. Me who's learning some Liszt's pieces and have a 8" span 😮💨😑
Am 20 years old can I learn piano?
Anyone can learn the piano, whether you are 6 years old, 20 years old or even 60 years old.
@@jazerleepiano thanks I will give you feedback