5 Pro Tips on Piano Fingerings

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  • @jazerleepiano
    @jazerleepiano  Рік тому +27

    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

  • @tiffcat1100
    @tiffcat1100 Рік тому +10

    ‘if a piece isn’t flowing properly …’ Bless you, nothing has ever yet ‘flowed’ but I live in hope 😊

    • @maryfrey
      @maryfrey Рік тому +2

      😊 I know what you mean!

  • @adamyohan
    @adamyohan Рік тому +20

    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.

  • @user-sl3hp4pm1m
    @user-sl3hp4pm1m Рік тому +28

    As always, brilliant. Thanks Jazer. One of the many reasons you are such a brilliant teacher is, that your words are combined with illustrations and demonstrations that makes the understanding complete. When one is told to do scales, one is not motivated. But when one understand why to practise scales, one is super motivated. Your gift is that you can make people understand and be motivated. A gift from the gods to all of us ;-)

  • @26yz
    @26yz Рік тому +48

    I think Jazer just read my mind, this is exactly what I'm looking for!

    • @tiffcat1100
      @tiffcat1100 Рік тому

      Yes, I was wondering whether for example a b flat should always be a particular finger

    • @willieervinjr2764
      @willieervinjr2764 Рік тому +1

      Same!

    • @shaunreich
      @shaunreich Рік тому +1

      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

    • @camdinh
      @camdinh Рік тому +3

      same too, jazer and youtube can read our minds 😂

    • @willieervinjr2764
      @willieervinjr2764 Рік тому

      @@camdinh 😂😂

  • @billbowdoin7541
    @billbowdoin7541 10 місяців тому +3

    This lesson was very very helpful!! You are a great teacher. Thank you 🙏

  • @purpleglitter7
    @purpleglitter7 Рік тому +5

    I love the song you played, just read that it’s an original composition. I need it on my playlist!

  • @codentia___4369
    @codentia___4369 Рік тому +1

    Game changer for me since I struggle with arpeggiation. Much appreciated!

  • @johncubbin825
    @johncubbin825 Рік тому +9

    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.

  • @AskTheAIOracle
    @AskTheAIOracle 9 місяців тому +1

    You are a gold-mine Jazer

  • @baldy555
    @baldy555 Рік тому +7

    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

  • @GuanglayKangyi
    @GuanglayKangyi Рік тому +5

    as someone who started a week ago this is incredibly helpful!! you're awesome man

  • @תמראיתן-י7ג
    @תמראיתן-י7ג Рік тому +2

    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)

  • @catestout3888
    @catestout3888 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for teaching us, and sharing your gift of music. It's so very helpful to beginners.

  • @merandabubbles1124
    @merandabubbles1124 7 місяців тому

    I so very much appreciate your videos. It seems that most times, when I have a question about something, I find you have made a video on it. Your students are very lucky and blessed to have you.

  • @suemoyers67
    @suemoyers67 Рік тому +3

    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.

  • @binhannguyen1365
    @binhannguyen1365 Рік тому +7

    Thank you so much. Can you do a video to train all the scales and arpeggios as well? It would be awesome

  • @RobertCarlBurns
    @RobertCarlBurns 3 місяці тому

    You have read my mind,i needed your confirmation of scales, thumberina etc, thankyou jazzi

  • @unclemick-synths
    @unclemick-synths Рік тому +2

    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 👍

    • @katttttt
      @katttttt Рік тому

      I found the part at 4:22 so clean 😂

  • @larrygraham3377
    @larrygraham3377 Рік тому +1

    Thanks Jazer for another splendid lession. Struggled with this a lot now you have made things so much easier.
    Again, Thanks a whole bunch !!! 🙌

  • @bunnyhollowcrafts
    @bunnyhollowcrafts Рік тому +1

    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!!

  • @lawrencetaylor4101
    @lawrencetaylor4101 Рік тому

    I just watched this video 3 weeks ago, and I'm watching it again, since the message is so important.
    I'm still in preparation to be a beginner, and I've started doing exercises that I've always done but by studying music theory, they take on a new meaning.
    Thoroughbass used to be how they taught all keyboard students, and they didn't teach chord inversions but instead cadences. There are finger movements that happen as you move up and down on the bassline. Two weeks ago, my piano teacher hadn't heard of Rule of the Octave. This week he watched as I progressed through the Circle of the Fifths and commented that I had only made one mistake. As he watched me do different exercises with the bass moving up a fourth or down a third that my fingers were learning what to do. That should be the goal. He encouraged that I continue.
    In the meantime I found the cadences taught by Nadia Boulanger. She is one of the last that taught in the Partimento/Thoroughbass tradition at the Paris Conservatory. I'm learning Major triads, and then will tackle the minor trio of triads.
    Jazer has a special place for me in my piano journey. I watched one of his videos a year and a half ago, went out and bought a piano and finished the video. Merci beaucoup for being my inspiration, Jason.

  • @newtypehuman
    @newtypehuman 6 місяців тому +1

    What is the name of the music piece you were playing? 0:51

  • @angenalaschka5976
    @angenalaschka5976 Рік тому +7

    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

  • @jaywalker1233
    @jaywalker1233 Рік тому

    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!

  • @magnusemeritus
    @magnusemeritus Рік тому +4

    That is your composition? Sounds like Chopin A minor waltz! Very similar! Lovely! Do you have the whole composition?

    • @jazerleepiano
      @jazerleepiano  Рік тому +5

      I haven't finished it. But I think, after all the clamor here, I should. 😅

    • @solitbeats
      @solitbeats Рік тому +2

      ​@@jazerleepiano Please finish fast and upload a tutorial 🎉❤

    • @carolvargas6507
      @carolvargas6507 7 місяців тому

      @@jazerleepiano Yes, I was just about to ask what is the beautiful piece you are playing!

  • @michaelcollins4072
    @michaelcollins4072 7 місяців тому

    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.

  • @Floorguy1000
    @Floorguy1000 Рік тому

    Good tips ......and thank you for that charming little piece!

  • @Ro8818.
    @Ro8818. Рік тому +1

    Thank you Jazer, you have really broken it down and simplified the rules . Love it thanks so much, you have really made a difference 🙏

    • @gabrielgracenathanana1713
      @gabrielgracenathanana1713 5 днів тому

      Forget about begging him. This is a trick to sell his course. Nothing wrong about it😢 but disgusting anyway. I played it 10 times. Now I know. The forth tone is the confusing part. It is an inversion. It is to make the figuring really smooth. It then keep using similar inversion-like techniques (but generalized - picking the same tone but neighboring octave), and keep it smooth. Again, he intentionally did not explain it.

  • @dimosthenisbitras4235
    @dimosthenisbitras4235 4 місяці тому

    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

  • @Minipera
    @Minipera Рік тому

    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!

  • @tanialopes196
    @tanialopes196 Рік тому

    Obrigado!

    • @jazerleepiano
      @jazerleepiano  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for the support @tanialopes196!

  • @kizu5451
    @kizu5451 Місяць тому

    very similar to waltz in a minor, this is amazing!

  • @shuangfei5046
    @shuangfei5046 Рік тому

    This is so much useful to me! exactly what I need to know. Great tips!

  • @nataliecavanagh7432
    @nataliecavanagh7432 Рік тому +1

    Yay, another Jazer video 🎉 You are a very gifted teacher my man

  • @stuboyer1901
    @stuboyer1901 Рік тому +2

    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.

    • @saradenault5903
      @saradenault5903 Рік тому +1

      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!

    • @miketurnbull4333
      @miketurnbull4333 11 місяців тому

      @@saradenault5903 look at the ABRSM piano scales book.

  • @zekiyezeynepsahin9449
    @zekiyezeynepsahin9449 Рік тому

    Hi Jaser… Tip number 4 is very artistic… I benefited very much.. Thanks…

  • @caterinaml
    @caterinaml Рік тому +2

    Thank you, Jazer! Most eye opening & helpful. Good information-will be more cognizant while using these tips in my playing. 🙋‍♀️👍👍🎶

  • @3stripern
    @3stripern Рік тому

    I just love your composition in this video. When you finish, would it be possible to buy a copy?

  • @shirleyromero8425
    @shirleyromero8425 Рік тому

    Awesome tips, thank you. You have the best piano channel.

  • @Sage-ig9hk
    @Sage-ig9hk 8 місяців тому

    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!!

  • @argo4750
    @argo4750 Рік тому +1

    Pls do a video on how to avoid tension while playing piano. Cheers!! 😃

  • @Pepper-g7l
    @Pepper-g7l Рік тому +1

    Excellent advice bro!! thank you so much

  • @jamelporter6974
    @jamelporter6974 Рік тому +2

    Great dissection and discussion of how to really break down your own piano practicing concepts, thank you 🙏🏿🤗🫵🏿 🎯‼️✊🏿

  • @deericcio3379
    @deericcio3379 Рік тому

    I am a self taught older adult beginner , about 14 months in , I think I spent too much time on music theory and not enough actually playing lol, as my sight reading is much improved over the year , fingering is definitely a challenge, for instance tonight I was working on Silver Bells ( Christmas song) and I’m jumping over myself with the back and forth octaves in the chorus

  • @Salsayed
    @Salsayed Рік тому +6

    Name of piece played at 0:51 ?

    • @Her_Mez
      @Her_Mez Рік тому

      Does anyone know?

    • @jazerleepiano
      @jazerleepiano  Рік тому +6

      It's a personal composition.

    • @Her_Mez
      @Her_Mez Рік тому +1

      ​@@jazerleepiano really really beautiful and nice to hear. We would like to hear it fully

    • @Salsayed
      @Salsayed Рік тому +1

      ​@@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 ❤

  • @trantrungnghia9642
    @trantrungnghia9642 Рік тому

    3:03 what is this piece name guys? Starting to love the melancholy in this piece

  • @hhl2296
    @hhl2296 Рік тому

    Thank you so much for your videos!

  • @rosesred2155
    @rosesred2155 Рік тому +1

    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
      @SeaDrive300 Рік тому +2

      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! 🙂

    • @JD-72191
      @JD-72191 Рік тому +2

      @@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.

  • @Practicalmusicministryskil4906

    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.

  • @verabb6113
    @verabb6113 Рік тому

    Thank you! Really useful tips

  • @floresfamily9580
    @floresfamily9580 Рік тому

    I would love to learn that song you keep playing!!😊

  • @sandeeppathak8170
    @sandeeppathak8170 Рік тому

    Brilliant Jazer...

  • @artimarga-margarita6200
    @artimarga-margarita6200 Рік тому

    You are amazingly good. Thank you. Although some people could find you too quick....

  • @StopAndGo1
    @StopAndGo1 Рік тому

    Nicely explained ! Thanks for putting this together.

  • @larryluffel777
    @larryluffel777 Рік тому

    Thank You for these tips. Wish my local teacher had shown me this!

  • @grandiosa86
    @grandiosa86 Рік тому

    Thanks for another very helpful video. I need to watch it a few more times, it was that good!

  • @yethukyaw9696
    @yethukyaw9696 Рік тому

    Thanks Jazer.. this video helps me a lot

  • @thisisourchannel3589
    @thisisourchannel3589 Рік тому +1

    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 😁⭐

  • @ericmitchell9331
    @ericmitchell9331 Рік тому

    Great video, thanks Jazer.

  • @MS-sz7se
    @MS-sz7se Рік тому

    Title of the piece played in the video? So beautiful. Always thanks for your tips : )!!

  • @neilshaba9186
    @neilshaba9186 Рік тому +1

    Sweet melody in the examples you used. What is it and who is the composer?

    • @angenalaschka5976
      @angenalaschka5976 Рік тому

      Yes it is a great melody. I think it is Tetris Theme (Korbeiniki). You can use a (your) Handy (funktion) to recognize a unknown melody. So I do this, when I hear something, wich I don't know, but wich sounds good 😊
      greetings from Germany

    • @jazerleepiano
      @jazerleepiano  Рік тому +6

      I actually composed it before I made the video. It is still unfinished.

    • @angenalaschka5976
      @angenalaschka5976 Рік тому +1

      @@jazerleepiano it sounds very great, I like it very much

  • @JessieDel514
    @JessieDel514 Рік тому +1

    Thanks again, Jazer, for these very helpful tips. You're such an amazing piano teacher 👏👏👏

  • @rezaghiyasvand2161
    @rezaghiyasvand2161 Рік тому

    Thanks Jazer

  • @Dennis-Mac
    @Dennis-Mac Рік тому

    These are some great tips. Thanks.

  • @JL-od3ik
    @JL-od3ik Рік тому

    Thank you for this. It has been something that I have struggled with. Excellent!

  • @mirandajsummers
    @mirandajsummers Рік тому

    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 🐛☺️

  • @peaceking7526
    @peaceking7526 Рік тому

    another set of great tips.
    im improving already

  • @luisbalderas-ariza2644
    @luisbalderas-ariza2644 Рік тому

    Thank you very much. That is what I was looking for

  • @willieervinjr2764
    @willieervinjr2764 Рік тому

    Thanks! Perfectly timed help!

  • @phrankus2009
    @phrankus2009 Рік тому

    Such cogent advice and such a digestible presentation. Thank you, Jazer.

  • @tiffcat1100
    @tiffcat1100 Рік тому +1

    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? ❤

  • @elissahunt
    @elissahunt Рік тому

    What fingers to use has always confused me. Thank you for this extremely helpful and enlightening video.

  • @NirHason
    @NirHason Рік тому

    Thank you so much for your informative videos! You actually made me writing it down on a paper using a pen (something I'm not doing so often).
    I'm summarizing most of your tips videos that way to remember them :)

  • @lawrencetaylor4101
    @lawrencetaylor4101 Рік тому

    What a timely video. I'm learning the Circle of Fifths progression, the I IV vii° iii vi ii V I progression. And I am trying to do it eyes closed. I was approximating a finger replacement, and this really gives me a concrete example.
    My other technical exercise of late is the Rule of the Octave. I'd love to see you do a video on this principle. Derek Remes has lots of material, and lots for free on his website.

  • @pianoby40
    @pianoby40 Рік тому

    Thank you for the lesson 🙏

  • @elaineolson550
    @elaineolson550 Рік тому +1

    Hey thanks! Great timing for this lesson. I think I use all your tips although my reading ahead needs improvement. The one thing I try to do is to replicate my fingering the next time the difficult section appears (I’m sure you’ve said this too!). Sometimes I get tripped up by this particularly if there is one “odd” note in the repeated sequence, such as when there’s a half note in there to hold the musical thought, rather than just moving on as before. I will unconsciously be tempted to change to a different fingering and I don’t think that is a good idea… Hope this makes sense! Again, thanks so much. 😊

  • @santamariajorge
    @santamariajorge Рік тому

    Very useful Jazer, thank you!

  • @kureshimaizumi
    @kureshimaizumi Рік тому

    Thanks for all the awesome video.. it helps me a lot

  • @neo_7035
    @neo_7035 Рік тому

    Thank you❤

  • @eunicerodrigues1500
    @eunicerodrigues1500 Рік тому

    Awesome stuff. Was just thinking about this today after watching the "self-taught pitfalls" video.

  • @wigglyk2796
    @wigglyk2796 Рік тому

    Hi jazer, thanks for the tips, Can you say what is the name of the song/piece that you're playing at 7:30?

    • @null.5851
      @null.5851 Рік тому

      Also looking, sounds like some nice waltz but not sure which

    • @jazerleepiano
      @jazerleepiano  Рік тому

      It is a personal composition of mine. I haven't actually finished it yet.

  • @marcobucci4375
    @marcobucci4375 Рік тому

    Thanks to your tip I have just fixed a nasty passage that was bothering me. I will show to my teacher the solution and see what she thinks. Works for me!😃

  • @chanm7033
    @chanm7033 Рік тому

    Very useful
    Thanks 🙏🏻

  • @Milaynos
    @Milaynos Рік тому

    I LOVE YOU JAZER❤❤❤❤

  • @shirleyromero8425
    @shirleyromero8425 Рік тому

    What is this lovely piece of music? Would like to put it on my 'to learn' list.

  • @stefanjagger
    @stefanjagger Рік тому

    Thank you!

  • @jamesmcmahon1312
    @jamesmcmahon1312 Рік тому

    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?

  • @seda14us
    @seda14us Рік тому

    Thank you... Super 100% Best.

  • @thallesaraujo7814
    @thallesaraujo7814 Рік тому

    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!

  • @richardgraham65
    @richardgraham65 Рік тому

    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.

  • @khomkhankh4970
    @khomkhankh4970 Рік тому

    Very good my teacher ❤

  • @sayonara6301
    @sayonara6301 Рік тому

    Could u teach modes?

  • @damarisfuenteslorenzo
    @damarisfuenteslorenzo 8 місяців тому

    I have a question regarding the last tip, about using 2, 3 or 4 for black keys. I'm doing fifths with my left hand. If playing E chord, i play E (E and B) with fingers 5 and 1. However, when playing chord B (B and F#), intuitively I play those keys with 5 and 2, but teacher told me it's wrong, I should do it with 5 and 1, and it's akward for me.

  • @brendamengeling4653
    @brendamengeling4653 Рік тому

    This was really helpful. I have three different scales and arpeggios books, and for the major flat keys, the arpeggios are not the tonic but the first inversion, so the thumb doesn’t play a black key. Are tonic arpeggios in flat keys not a thing?

  • @kalabalakrishnan1484
    @kalabalakrishnan1484 Рік тому

    Shalom thank you very much. Just starting to learn piano. Will keep your advice in mind n start my good habit early 🙏😊

  • @phyllisgordon6577
    @phyllisgordon6577 Рік тому

    Is there a book you would recommend to study chords, scales, and arpeggios?

  • @Sundance_
    @Sundance_ Рік тому

    Could you please share what you played? I would like to give a try:)

  • @velcroman11
    @velcroman11 Рік тому

    I have arthritis in my fingers. I spend quite some time working out the fingering that doesn’t hurt or hurt the least. My piano has realised that some of my fingering does make sense. Some times, not all the time. 😊

  • @Haizou
    @Haizou 6 місяців тому

    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!