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Welcome to Lesson 1 of PianoVideoLessons free Beginner Piano Lessons series. This series of free video lessons is designed to walk you through learning all of the basic of piano playing. After completing the Beginner Piano Lessons Series you will be ready to start to read notes on the staff. All of these Beginner Video Piano Lessons are taught without sheet music so you will get a solid foundation in understanding the mechanics of playing the piano. More videos lessons will continue to be added to teach you to read and play piano. If you`re looking to learn to read notes and want to do it quickly, I recommend my Note Reading Crash Course.
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. Introduction to Keyboard DVD & Video by Lee Davis is a 60 minute video for the beginning keyboard or piano student and is the companion video to the Keyboard Primer book. It covers all the basics of playing – including proper technique, hand and body positions, scales, chords, and note reading. The student plays along with a full band on 12 familiar songs which are played at 2 speeds (slow for practicing and performance tempo). Our unique split screens show both hands in detail and utilizes onscreen notation for all of the music, with a bouncing ball type pointer showing each note as it is being played. It’s all you need to get started on the keyboard or piano. Video Rating: / 5
Today I have been learning Piano for exactly 1 year, having never touched one in my life.
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I was inspired by the 2018 John Lewis Christmas advert (the Elton John one, with Your Song) and went to buy one…
I kept a VLOG from Day 1, and this is a small collection of these clips.
Thankyou to all my fellow YouTubers who are on their own Adult Piano Adventures! It’s been fun to share the journey.
This video covers BASIC TECHNIQUE // 5 NOTE FINGER WORK // SIMPLE WHITE KEY IMPROV // STARTING TO PLAY CHORDS // BLACK KEY IMPROV – Timestamps BELOW ⏰ 👇
0:00 Introduction
1:15 Keyboard Layout
3:15 Important Basic Technique
5:38 5 Note finger work and Improv
15:41 Starting to play chords
26:15 Black Key Improv
A lot of people want to but don’t know how to start playing piano/keyboard. This video is a tutorial on how to play piano for beginners covering some BASIC TECHNIQUE, how to GET YOUR FINGERS MOVING, PLAYING CHORDS some simple IMPROV to loosen up and use your ears, plus starting off . I think that learning by doing is a great first step into music
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Note: I was already a musician when I started the piano, I have been playing guitar since the age of 8 and electronic music since the age of 15.
For those who discover me with this video, my progress can seem very fast but they are logical in regards of my journey. I spent thousands of hours composing music, listening to it, and I already had a sense of rhythm and harmony because of it. The piano is very visual, so progress quickly arrived, especially since I spent a lot of time there (it was my number 1 priority during this year !)
I invite people who discover me with this video to go see what I have been doing for several years on my youtube channel and my soundcloud, to better understand my journey.
Good viewing 🙂
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1. Liquid – Sweet Harmony 0:21
2. Derrick May – Strings of life 0:27
3. Stevie Wonder – Isn’t she’s lovely 0:31
4. Gypsy Woman – She’s Homeless 0:46
5. Daft Punk – Within 1:05
6. Jazz Jam 1 2:10
7. Golberg Variations – Bach – Aria 1st part 2:23
8. Jazz Jam 2 3:04
9. Jazz Jam 3 3:16
10. Turkish March – Mozart 3:42
11. Lullaby of Birdland (Don Shirley’s style) 4:07
12. Golberg Variations – Bach – Aria 2nd part 4:38
13. Autumn Leaves 5:24
Starting playing the piano changed my life. After classes, I went home and instead of watching Netflix I chose to practice the piano, and somehow it helped me to get more energy, feeling productive and focus. I believe that what we learn always helps us in other areas of life.
I started by practicing famous loops from classic house music, because I listen to a lot of it, and I wanted to play it in live situation with my drumbox. I am also really interested in jazz and classic music too, and after practicing those simple loops I decided to get to more complex songs by playing them.
I got into music theory, just enough to understand what I play (especially in jazz music), why it sounds like this and how I can shape my own voicings.
Here is some cools youtube channel to learn piano jazz:
Piano Pig: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-obvt6Gn0Eef9vKxwcg_pg
Piano en ligne (french): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2fJkVzZK1WTy4JxwFzKSjQ?view_as=subscriber
I also highly recommand you to watch “Green Book” and “Whiplash”, two of my favorite movies about Jazz Music.
If you are just getting started with jazz, you may be overwhelmed by the sheer amount of standards there are to learn and may not know where to start.
So, in today’s video, I’m going to make things simple and give you 10 beginner jazz standards to learn that will give you a great entry into jazz and also help you learn important lessons along the way.
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NOTE: This video teaches the Gounod version of Bach’s Prelude. Basically, there’s a bar around 2:40 that “doesn’t fit”, but appears in the Gounod version. Read more about it here:
In this video you will learn to play Bach’s Prelude in C Major, from his Well Tempered Clavier. The piece will be performed, with full notes & fingering shown in screen. Then, I’ll discuss some of the points you should watch out for while practicing. Bach’s Prelude is a great piece for late beginner / early intermediate piano players, because:
1. It sounds sophisticated and mature, and:
2. It’s easy to learn to play, relatively speaking. This is because of its fairly repetitive nature: the bars all follow a very repetitive structure, so you really only have to learn a single pattern and then just change the notes from bar to bar (except for the last couple of bars).
Bach’s Prelude in C major is one of the 24 pieces in his Well Tempered Clavier. From Wikipedia:
“The Well-Tempered Clavier (German: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier),[1] BWV 846–893, is a collection of solo keyboard music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. He gave the title to a book of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys, dated 1722, composed “for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning, and especially for the pastime of those already skilled in this study.” Bach later compiled a second book of the same kind, dated 1742, with the title “Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues.” The two works are now considered to make up a single work, The Well-Tempered Clavier, or “the 48,” and are referred to as The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I and The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II respectively.[2] The Well-Tempered Clavier and Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues are generally regarded as being among the most influential works in the history of Western classical music”
You can read more about it on the Wikipedia website:
My Youtube channel has many other interesting lessons:
Learn how to play Pat Metheny’s letter from home:
Learn how to read sheet music (for beginners):
Play twice as fast with delays:
Learn how to develop your piano technique. This one is good for beginners and intermediate players alike:
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Here is a link to the sheet music of this prelude in PDF format. However, you will have to know how to read notes:
http://www.gmajormusictheory.org/Freebies/Classics/WTCPrelu.pdf
Bach’s prelude is a really great piece to learn is you are a beginning/intermediate pianist, since it’s (1) repetitive and not very complicated technique-wise, and (2) sounds very sophisticated (well, it’s Bach, so it really IS sophisticated!).
For those of you who are interested, the “chords” played are also spelled out on the screen (technically, Bach’s music is not based on “chords” so this is just a simple guideline provided by myself).
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New Free Online Piano Lessons: In this FREE online beginner piano tutorial we will be learning about the staff. You will learn about high notes and low notes, line notes, space notes, treble clef and bass clef, the Grand Staff and the right hand and left hand staves. You will also learn how notes move on the staff.
Lesson index, all found here:http://courses.pianovideolessons.com/courses/free-online-beginner-piano-lessons-year-1/
1-1: The Grand Staff
1-2: Landmarks C and G
1-3: Introduction to Rhythm
1-4: Finger Gym #1
1-5: Bass Clef Landmarks C and F
1-6: Treble G’s Neighbors: F and A
1-7: So Easily and Hot Crossed Buns
1-8: Finger Gym #2
1-9: Bass F’s Neighbors: E and G
10: Sight Reading
11: F and Friends! and I Got This!
12: Finger Gym #3
13: Barlines, Time Signature and Measures
14: At the Park
15: Ear Training – Up and Down
16: Finger Gym #4
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In this lesson we are going to arrange the tune “The Nearness Of You” using simple voicings containing the roots, 3rds, and 7ths.
“The Nearness Of You” is a true jazz classic and is a staple part of the jazz piano repertoire.
The Form & Harmony
The tune follows an AABA form which means that almost 75% of the tune contains the exact same chords and voicings.
The final A section does have a 4 bar extensions and so that’s an important point to remember.
The tune contains lots of common progressions including major 251s, minor 251s, and also 3625 turnarounds which can be voiced in many ways.
1) Mad World 1:43
2) Fur Elise 2:11
3) Dearly Beloved 2:52
4) To Zanarkand 3:20
5) Nuvole Bianche 4:01
6) River Flows in You 4:26
7) Clair De Lune 5:06
8) Maple Leaf Rag 6:09
9) Chopin Nocturne in Eb Major (opus9 no2) 7:10
10) Sadness and Sorrow 8:08
11) Chopin Waltz in A Minor B.150 (opus posth) 8:40
12) Chopin Nocturne in C# Minor (opus posth) 9:06
13) Turkish March 10:13
14) Trying to learn Fantaisie-Impromptu 11:00
15) Mozart Sonata in C Major 1st Movement (K545) 11:53
16) Fantaisie-Impromptu 13:00
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It’s been 1 year this month since I started learning piano and it’s been an amazing and somewhat life changing experience! You may think life changing is a little over the top… but for me it really is true, as this September I will become a full-time music student at University and I’m beyond excited for that!
I decided to make my own 1 year progress video, after watching so many myself before finally committing to purchasing my own digital piano. Who knows, maybe if it wasn’t for those videos I wouldn’t have ever taken that first step, which is crazy to think looking back now! That’s why I decided it was important for me to record these clips and make a video, in hopes of motivating someone else to take up an instrument, giving it there all and seeing where they can go with it too.
Up until month 8 I used Jane’s piano tutorials to learn 99% of the music I learnt. She is a retired math teacher and dedicates her free time to playing through requested pieces by viewers every single day! Mostly all classical pieces have a tutorial and many popular video game, anime, TV shows and movie compositions can be found on her channel. If you really want to learn but can’t afford a teacher, I think this would be your best option.
Jane’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCidvz_O5zdX7z2mr4zkeL2g
There are a few pieces I learnt on my own and for lessons which I didn’t put in the video due to time/not recording, so below is a more detailed breakdown of what was happening every month:
Month 1:
-Random beginner piano tutorials and books (stopped trying to read music and started to learn music through online tutorials)
-Gary Jules – Mad World
-Song of storms from The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time – Koji Kondo
-Beethoven – Fur Elise
Month 2:
-Dearly Beloved from Kingdom Hearts – Yoko Shimomura
Month 3:
-To Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X – Nobuo Uematsu
-Ludovico Einaudi – Nuvole Bianche
-Tifa’s Theme form Final Fantasy 7 – Nobuo Uematsu
Month 4:
-Yiruma – River Flows in You
-Ed Sheeran – Shape of You
-Ludovico Einaudi – Una Mattina
(Started getting lessons at the end of this month)
Month 5:
-Claude Debussy – Clair De Lune
Month 6:
-Scott Joplin – Maple Leaf Rag
Month 7:
-Chopin – Nocturne #2 in Eb major (op9 no2)
-Sadness and Sorrow from Naruto – Toshio Masuda
Month 8:
-Various classical pieces from the book ‘Classics to Moderns #2
-Chopin – Waltz in A minor B.150 (Op Posth)
(Stopped learning music through online tutorials and committed to reading music. Everything past this month I learnt by reading)
Month 9:
-Various classical pieces from the book ‘Classics to Moderns #2
Month 10:
-Chopin – Nocturne #20 in C# minor (Op Posth)
-Kuhlau – Sonatina in C major (op55 no1)
Month 11:
-Mozart – Turkish March (K331)
-Clementi – Sonatina in C major (op36 no3)
-Beethoven – Sonata #20 in G major (op49 no2)
List of Books used:
-Learn to play Piano by Alison M. Sparrow
-John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course Books 1, 2 and 3
-Take Five and pass first time (for learning up to grade 5 theory) -Classic to Moderns Books 1 and 2
-Sonatina Album Volume 1 (Peters Edition)
-Chopin Nocturnes (Henle)
-Chopin Impromptus (Henle)
-ABRSM -A keyboard anthology (Book 1) & Encore (Book 1) (sight-reading practice)
Here’s a list of some YouTube channels I found extremely useful when learning:
-Paul Barton: https://www.youtube.com/user/PaulBartonPiano
-Josh Wright: https://www.youtube.com/user/joshwrightpiano
-Cedarville music: https://www.youtube.com/user/cedarvillemusic
-Living Pianos: https://www.youtube.com/user/LivingPianosVideos
-Piano TV: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz0PmHG0RvQHazlEsFU-4uQ
-BachScholar: https://www.youtube.com/user/BachScholar
Pianos used:
-Digital Piano – Yamaha P-115
-Acoustic Pianos – Yamaha U2 (later upgraded to Feurich 125) Video Rating: / 5
Easy Piano Tutorial: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Learn how to play the piano with this easy tutorial for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Play along with the free sheet music at our website: https://www.PianoSongDownload.com/twinkle.html
Looking for a more challenging version of Twinkle Twinkle? Check out our new Play Along version: https://youtu.be/FPuoO8lYh-0
Performed using the piano app Synthesia, with a midi file created by Julie Lind for PianoSongDownload. Permission from Synthesia, LLC to use video footage. Video Rating: / 5
