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

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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

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!!!

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

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

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.

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.

Jazer is a wonderful teacher. Charming. Inspiring. Motivating. Builds hope and confidence. Great clarity too.

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.

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!

A brilliant player and a brilliant teacher teaching great lessons

Milo, what a sweet doggie. Thanks for introducing him/her to us. :-). Mine was always close to me/the piano when I was practicing. We enjoyed this special time together. When I was near the piano, she laid down on the rug and looked at me like "Come on, let's make some music". Now she's passed away and I play for her the pieces she loved most and "did together".

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

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!

Excellent teaching style! Thanks!

I really love the content and especially the way you teach. You are inspiring, giving tons of knowledge in 10 minutes. Appreciate the effort ❤️ hope I can learn.

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.

Hi, Aaron Seaworthy here. I'd like to thank you for reminding my owner why she should be practicing her arpeggios and scales. She really likes your videos and thinks they have great value.

This video helped a lot, thank you so much I never knew any of these skills and you teached me this I will practice more then I will play the piano in the music room in my school to show my skills❤