7 Techniques Piano Beginners Don't Spend Enough Time On

Here's the Timestamps to help you find each technique 🤓 🕘 Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:27 Technique 1 1:41 Technique 2 2:33 Technique 3 4:50 Technique 4 5:55 Technique 5 6:35 Technique 6 8:49 Technique

As someone who is self-taught and learning, this is really helpful to know what I should be practicing! I didn't even know what chromatic scales were until this video. Or minor harmonic, haha

0:27 Pedaling 1:41 Chords 2:33 Arpeggios 4:50 Metronome 5:55 Octaves 6:35 Major/Minor Scales 8:49 Chromatic Scales

Pedaling and metronome, essential. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen anyone describe pedal function in a YouTube video. It’s usually taken for granted, or completely overlooked.

I took lessons as a child for only 1-1/2 yrs. At 70 years old, I purchased an inexpensive keyboard and a beginning piano theory book. I was starting from the beginning on the base cliff and my left hand. I purchased beginning song books containing a variety of genre and simple songs where I could feel like I was progressing. Three years later, I can play from mid level books and some advanced pieces, for my own enjoyment. This new late in life hobby has given me renewed joy in life. (Shamefully, I have on order a Yamaha clavinova small footprint baby grand. 🤗) I LOVED YOUR VIDEO. I think it very valuable for beginners young and old! Thanks!!!

Really important to balance technique development with musicality. One of the most transformative exercises I was introduced to by my teacher is broken chords going from root form, first inversion, second inversion, back to root. Is very tricky at first but does wonders for the hands in terms of strength, dexterity and control.

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I remember my piano teacher would have me do an arpeggio exercise where you used the right hand and did C major up the piano C minor down the piano, all one motion. Then D major up D minor down and so forth - major up, minor down for every note. Then the left hand same thing, then together. This was actually insanely helpful not just for arpeggios but learning all the chords and getting used to switching between different arpeggios. Really really helpful and I have been playing piano as a hobby for more than 20 years now and I still warm up with this exercise from time to time

I think many people (especially self taught) think they don't have time/motivation to learn the theory/technique, and they just want to learn pieces they like through sheer memory While possible, it is not very effective over time, and knowing the theory makes it MUCH faster to learn the same thing, and you rely much less on memory which makes it less tedious (because you see the patterns/chords, especially if they are common, instead of memorizing every note as such). That's what I noticed over the years and from my own experience. Don't think "I just want to play, I don't want/need to study the theory" If you want to get better, that's a slow and boring road : don't try to reinvent the wheel on your own through pure experience. Just the basics (chords, degrees, inversions) help a LOT.

From a student's POV, I think the best way to learn scales is by the number of sharps in the scale, rather than just learning them randomly. For example, learn C then G the D, etc.

I just tried my simple 25 key MIDI controller I bought for fun and mostly for making sound fx in video production. I got in my head that I will try to learn basic piano. This channel is the best I found so far. You are very knowledgeable and have the ability to explain stuff calmly and clearly and that encourages me to give it a go.

I heard everywhere that learning scales is a drag, but I enjoy them. They're good quick exercise for warm ups!

I'm self-learning and I didn't take chords seriously but after you explained why IT IS important I understood that. A really helpful video for every piano players for every category of knowledge. Thank you!

As someone who has been taught in piano class for years, this is very informative! I was taught to play 1 major scale and 1 minor scale every week. Keep practising them and you'll get used to them for any piece you wanna play!

It helps so much that you give context for each and every technique and how it aids in making playing simpler. It makes the daunting task of learning so much less intimidating. Thank you! ♥

This video helps me so much especially as a beginner. I love playing piano and I want to improve my skills just like you do. Continue to share with us what you've learned as a musician. God bless!!

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Your lessons have helped me improve so much on my piano journey 🙏 thank you sir! Keep up the great work it’s much appreciated

I’d love to see you do some more on music theory. The times you’ve talked about it I’ve found concepts I’d struggled with making more sense thanks to your explanations. Is this a possibility? I’m just scratching the surface of it at the moment but it’s super fascinating!

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