7 Days To Learning Piano (Beginner Lesson)

let's learn some piano so maybe you've always  dreamt of learning to play the pianos maybe when   you're a kid you wish you had piano lessons but it  just wasn't possible or maybe you did take lessons   and you had a terrible experience and you gave it  up whatever your reasons are there's never been a   better time to get started or return to the piano  so this video is going to give you a complete   practice routine and we're going to start from  the beginning so if you've never touched a piano   before i've got your back i'm going to take you  through all the steps we're going to be learning   how to navigate the keyboard how to play  scale how to improvise and how to play a song   and we're going to do all of that in  seven steps so i've designed this to be   sort of a day by day thing you can learn  the first skill pause the video go practice   return work on the next skill and just keep  on coming back but if you're keen on you're   not really making progress right now feel free to  go as far as you like into the video you can make   this whatever experience you want it to be the  main takeaway here is that i've got your back   i'm going to walk you through all the steps  you're going to learn some amazing skills and   you might surprise yourself at what is possible  in a really short period of time so here we go   okay so first things first keyboard familiarity  we've got this beautiful instrument in front of   us here and we need to know what's what and how  to get around so the first thing i want you to   do is take a look at all the keys and notice that  we've got black keys and white keys and this is   really important because as a piano player even  if you're not brand new to the piano you need to   know your way around this keyboard and the better  you are at this now the better you're going to be   down the road when you want to go play something  that sounds amazing so notice how we've got groups   of two black keys and blue bloops groups of three  black keys oh dear okay groups of two and groups   of three black keys these are going to help us  to sort of navigate and create landmarks on the   keyboard that will help us to move around so at  the base of a group of two we have c and you can   notice that that pattern repeats itself throughout  your keyboard um so this is c and it would be so   good for you just to take your right hand thumb  your which we'll call our one finger and play c   and then c and then c and then c and then you  could do the same thing with your left hand   five finger your baby finger you play  c in the middle and then down low   and just practice that way so if we know that's c  we can use our alphabet so we could move up from c   we've got d we've got e then we've got f then  we've got g in the music there's no h after g   we just go to a and then b and then would you  look at that group of two we're on c again   so groups of two help us to sort of find  c groups of three three you'll notice at   the base of those we've got f so that's another  really great little landmark that will help you   to get around the keyboard and so you know find  your group of three there's f or three f three   f so that's step one is just getting  comfortable with the musical alphabet   and the layout of your keyboard so for your first  day or your first practice what i want you to do   is practice moving your hands around so right  hand five fingers one two three four five left   hand five fingers one two three four five you're  gonna take your right hand thumb and place it on c   and i'm gonna take your left hand five finger  and place it on the c below and see if you can   get all your fingers to nicely sit on on each key  see how each finger kind of has a key for a home   my wrists are curved like this i'm just going to  keep my hands here i'm not going to play anything   yet we call this c position so you can find c  position and place your hands on your lap now   we're going to see if we can find f position so  remember that group of three you're gonna look for   it boom there's f position and i want you to get  there as quickly as you can so back to your lap   quickly find c and then back down and then quickly  find f and then if you know where f is where's g   here okay if you know where g is where's a it's  just after now let's get random where's d this   is c here's d so how quickly can you get your  hands into position into all of the different   you know kind of spaces that are directly in  front of you so i guess a better way to say that   is work through your musical alphabet you can go  consecutively you can start on a which is here b c   d e f and this might take you a bit  to all your fingers cooperating g   and then we just repeat back at a or you  could go in random order just kind of   call it a random musical alphabet like d boom  okay and then a okay there spend i don't know   three to five minutes doing this and you are  going to have such a great feel for the layout   of the keyboard you're gonna save yourself so much  time in the future because there's nothing more   frustrating than trying to play something amazing  and you can't find where your hands are supposed   to go because you don't know where the notes  are on the keyboard so that's practice day one okay day two so this would be your second day of  practice i know the first day we didn't do any   playing but trust me you're going to be thankful  for that now so what we're going to be doing in   this step is we're going to be actually playing  some notes and we're going to be moving around   the keyboard a little bit and so there's a great  there's a great deal of goodness that's going to   happen in this particular part of your seven day  process because you're going to develop finger   dexterity controlling your hands and you're going  to be taking some steps to teach yourself a chord   progression and you won't even really realize  you're doing it just yet so here's what i'd like   you to do take that right hand find c position  with it you know how to do that because we've been   practicing boom there it is okay so we are going  to play the five notes that fall under my hand so   c d e f g and then back down f e d c now if you're  brand new to playing the piano just doing this can   be very difficult fingers get tense and you feel  like your brain isn't connected to your hands and   that's okay you can actually take as much time as  you need on this step you could take a few days   here and that would be totally okay so see about  just spending a few minutes playing up those five   notes i'm pressing right down into the keys and  you can just keep going up and down like this as many times as you like and when you're ready  i'd love to encourage you to practice this with   your left hand as well because left hand is a hand  that often feels a little bit weaker on the piano   and when you're really feeling like pushing  yourself or if you'd like a challenge   you could do this hands together but this  is tricky at the beginning so don't worry   if you can't do this right away so that's  a five note scale on c and so that's part   of what we're going to be doing here but  i actually want you to practice it on c   and then i want you to move your hands both of  them down to g position so here's c position   here is g position and you're gonna do the exact  same thing now i'm demonstrating hands together   but as i mentioned earlier there's absolutely  nothing wrong with doing this one hand at a time   and taking as much time as you need just to build  up the muscle skills for this it can take a bit   so here we go one more time and then i'm  actually going to switch positions again   and this time we're going to move up to a so  g a so we're just it's this teeny little shift you can play that a couple times  remember to breathe and smile and relax   and once you're comfortable here we're gonna move  down to f position which is a g f remember that   group of three we talked about at the first  day boom there and there's our f position and they're gonna sound a little funny and strange  for now but don't worry about that this is just   about getting your hands to wake up to get your  fingers to cooperate and just to develop some   strength and dexterity and control in your fingers  so that's basically it for day two so your job   is to locate and play the five notes that fall  under your fingers in c position either with your   right or your left are both together depends how  you want to put this practice together and where   you're at in your skill level and coordination  so you're going to do it on c then you'll move   down to g then up to a and then down to f  and a great rule of thumb would be to play once and then move down and you can go slow  and move up to the a and then down to the f but you could you know play five  rotations on each or ten rotations on each   i always want to encourage you to get creative  with how you put your practices together   but the main goal is just to get comfortable  playing those five notes that fall under your   fingers on c g a and f now spend as much time as  you need on this step on this day and i'll see you   in the next day where we're gonna be looking at  how we can actually create something that sounds   really really beautiful and song like you're  going to be improvising so i'll see you there okay so so far we've practiced moving our hand  position and then playing a five note scale on   the notes c g a and f in those positions  and now what we're gonna do is we're gonna   take all of the muscle memory that we've  built on moving our hands around like that   and we're gonna actually play something that  sounds beautiful and very very song-like so   let's get our right hand back into c position  and instead of playing you know all the notes   that fall under your fingers i want you to play  your thumb and your baby finger at the same time and this might just take a little bit of time  to get the feel for but keep your wrist up and   your fingers relaxed and that's what we're going  to do so we'll play it four times two three four   then we're gonna move down to g and we're gonna  keep that same shape playing our bottom finger   our thumb and our five finger it creates what's  called a fifth we'll play it four times there   and then we're gonna shift up into that a position  two three four and then down to the f position so   it's like i'm setting myself up just like i did  before but instead of playing the notes one at   a time i'm playing two notes at the same time on  the bottom and the top of that shape using the one   and the five and then we're down on the f  position so let's try that with our left hand so c   two three four down to g two three four  now this might be sounding a lot like   some of you know the songs you hear because  this is the chord progression can you believe it   you're playing a chord progression um that most  popular music uses so you go for four for each and then here's the a and when we come back  around to c we're going to try this hands   together and it's okay this takes some time  in practice but here we go c 2 3 4 down to g   2 3 4 and then a position 2 3 four and f  position two three four and i'll move back to c   and that's your homework that's all you have to do  for this step it could feel a little bit intense   right now if you're brand new or if you've got  some previous history at the piano this might   feel like a really comfortable thing for you in  which case spend some time and see what kind of   creative ideas you can come up with this uh but  i want you to just get comfortable here first   in the next step we're going to be looking  at ways that you can kind of change this up   to challenge your coordination a little bit and  and to kind of beautify what we've done even   further so practice practice when you feel  ready i'll see in the next step here we go   okay so we're going to take what we just worked  on with that chord progression moving our hands   around using those fifths and we're going to  change it up just a little bit so what this   will do is it'll give you more dexterity in  your hands and it'll also help you to develop   a little bit of hand independence it's going to  be a little bit challenging but it's definitely   worth it because it's going to sound so pretty  and good so before we were working with our hands   moving together at the same time  what i'd like you to practice now   is playing the bottom of that chord note with  your left hand and holding it so your right hand   is going to move and your left hand is going  to kind of freeze and it'll sound like this let's do that again so i'm going to play and hold  this and i'm going to play this for four one two   three four and then i'm gonna move down into the  g position and i'm gonna play and hold this and   getting the hands to do different things it can be  really challenging so you might want to practice   this for a few rounds and when this is comfortable  you can play that fifth shape and hold that so   this time it'll sound like this it's a little more  full and then you can move down to the g position a position and when that feels good i want to encourage  you to start to explore in your right hand so   what i mean is this i'm gonna play and hold the  fifths in the left but instead of playing a solid   fifth here i'm gonna break it up and  it's gonna sound beautiful watch this g a position just kind of rotating my wrist   in the right hand and i'm going to do  that one more time here's the c position and the g position   now if you're a more advanced piano  player and you're at this step   it might be fun for you to begin to  explore a little bit further with   any of the notes that are kind of fitting  under your right hand so i'm just going to   pause here and say that's the goal that's the  hallmark for this day or this step is to just   get comfortable moving into those different  positions holding this left hand while you get   creative and rhythmic with your right hand  that's the hallmark if you want to expand on that you could play the five notes  that fall under your fingers   the sky's the limit so you could really  get creative here and begin to improvise   and create your own sounds i'm going to  stop it there because that's the skill i   really wanted you to zero in on for now is just  getting comfortable moving those hands around   getting some different rhythms between them and  creating something that's very lovely to the ears   so the next day or the next step  whenever you're ready for it   is going to be looking at how to actually play  a full triad now this can be a difficult thing   for a beginner but lucky for you we've done  the work already in getting used to that fifth   because a full triad or a full chord uses a fifth  but it just adds an extra note into the equation   so instead of playing with my one and my  five i'm playing with my one and my three   and my five and this can be challenging at  first because the other fingers will try   to get in the way so just remember this  is the shape you've spent time with and   gradually work on adding that third finger in  and then you can move into a g position you can   create that same shape on the a position and  then again on the f position and you are now   playing chords and this is really exciting because  the next step from here is going to be playing   a song using these chords using something  called a chord chart but before you do that   you need to be really comfortable here so  one more time c and we're going to go to g   and then we're gonna go to a i'm gonna  get crazy in a second we're gonna go to f   i'm gonna call these out in different  orders so be ready so we'll go to c   four times and next is gonna be  f here we go f let's go back to c and now let's go to g let's go to a and then we'll go to f again and then we'll go to c and then we'll  end on we'll go to g and then we'll end   on c so at the end there i was starting to mess  around a little bit with your sense of routine   because you got comfortable playing those chords  in the same order but i really want you to know   that when you're playing songs these chords can  show up in any order and that can change as you   go through songs so it's really good to always  be challenging yourself to do things just a   little bit differently it keeps your brain really  active and engaged and it really contributes to   your learning process so your homework for this  day or this step however you're approaching it   is going to be to get used to that shape that one  that three and that five and playing chords on it   you can use the c a c g a f positions or  you can just get creative and try mixing   and matching them however you like now next step  when you're ready when all that feels comfortable   we're going to be looking at the song imagine  by john lennon i've got a simplified chord chart   for you and this is really exciting because  this is where you see how just a little bit   of time and attention to developing some really  basic skills in your fingers and on your hands   on the piano uh can bring you to a place where you  can actually play a song and a song that you you   know a modern contemporary amazing song and you  don't even need to be able to read notes to do it   so let's jump in now here we go so you're going to  see on your screen lyrics with chord names above   them you're going to see c's and c's and f's and  all kinds of things i'm going to walk you through   the step by step and you're going to see how  easy it is use what you've learned so far to play   a song so let's take a look at our first lyrics  we've got c over the word imagine so just get you   could play a fifth here you could play record you  could play rhythmically or you could hold it let's   keep it really simple to start let's play our full  triad here and we'll play the root note root note   just means the bottom note of this shape right now  or you could think of it as if you see the word c   play c chord this is your c chord so you're  gonna play c here imagine there's no heaven and then i'll move to c it's easy  if you try and you can keep going   okay so now let's build some  rhythm so we can do this   it works really well here to play  four for each of these chords watch you could break up that remember how we did  that earlier that broken fifth you could do   that there too so many options so that's the first  little bit of the song and if you can do that you   can play most of it now let's look at the little  coursy bit here because that's where things go a   little bit different so you're going to see f and  then you're going to see f with a slash and an e   and f with a slash with the d and then  f with the slash with a c don't panic   so your right hand is going to play f and it  doesn't have to go anywhere just stay f for   the whole line now your left hand is going to  follow what's happening after those slashes so   you're going to play f and then you're going to  play e because that's what's represented by the   e after the f and the next one sounds crunchy  but don't worry you play with a d and then with c so let's do that again imagine all the people so this part rhythmically is a bit different  we just have two one two then we change one two   and then one two and one two and then you  go to the g and you can just hold it live   and you just keep going you've already done  all this so you've got the muscle memory for it   and you can have some fun and so that's that's  your homework for this day just to get comfortable   playing with this chart you can actually download  it below and you can just spend as much time as   you need getting these things feeling really good  under your hands the final point that i wanted to   make here was that you don't have to travel  down to f you could travel because there's   an f here there's like here there's an f here so  you can travel from c there's no rules about this   up to f and if that's a sound you like  better then that's what you should do and it actually sounds really  nice on this little pre-chorus   okay so i'm gonna leave you with that to spend as  much time with as you would like and our finishing   touch our final day our last step i'm gonna give  you some fun extra creative things that you can do   to add into this to make a sound even  closer to the original kind of like this   we'll be looking at that okay so when you're ready let's do it okay can you believe how far you've come so we've  gone from possibly never having played a piano   ever to playing a chord progression to kind of  improvising to playing with a chord chart and   now we're gonna get fancy so this is so exciting  um okay so the final steps here uh it's gonna be   c chord so you're gonna play  the top two notes together   and then you're gonna rock down to the bottom   this takes some coordination so you might have to  practice this for a few minutes when you've got it you're gonna do that three times and then you're  gonna move up so your five finger is gonna hit b   and think about this you know if this is a group  of two and this is c and this is a group of two   and this is c b is always just below c two three  and then you're gonna hit b and you can hit the g   at the same time and then rock back down to the  c sounds kind of crazy right now but it comes   together i promise one two three four and then  kind of lock into what you're thinking about here   these two fingers are gonna just shift down so  they've gone from being on g and b to being on   f and a and this thumb stays exactly where it is  so we'll do it again really slow put angie here   up to g and b c and then f and a two three  and then your thumb is going to come up   and play a and then this black key here  it's called b-flat and then b and that's   the intro that's the iconic intro let's do  it again i'll add my left hand here a bit and then when we get to this  position our left hand moves to f you can use any fingers you want on these no  it's totally up to you and then you just repeat now you could do that and sing along but  if you don't sing if you can play this   people will know people will know the  song you're playing because it's so iconic and then you're kind of back on  track you could play the f chord here next thing you know you've just spent your entire  day playing the piano and everything's good and   you just feel amazing because you've played a  song and it's beautiful and lovely and it's just   feeling good for your hands and your  brain and your heart so there you go   that is seven days to learning the piano  now obviously there's so much more uh but   the takeaway here is number one there's no  time like right now to learn how to play the   piano i'm not even kidding if you feel like  oh i wish i would have learned back when i   was a kid i'd be so much farther put that away  now is the perfect time you can do this and you   can have a lot of fun doing it which is the next  point is this should be fun you should be moving   towards playing songs you love and developing  your creativity and developing your ability to   play songs at the same time that you're working  on building out those little technical skills   which i think is kind of really demonstrated super  well in what we've done in the past seven days   or steps here we've worked on those technical  skills to develop your hands and your fingers   and we've also worked on our creativity  with the chord progression and the song   so if this is possible in seven practices  can you imagine where you'll be after   30 or 50 practices right the sky's the limit so  i'm so glad to have spent this time with you um   i hope that you enjoyed all this if you have  any questions comment below happy practicing you

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Length: 26min 41sec (1601 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 29 2021