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Videos about self-learning piano technique and composition.
Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Piano...
I answer some of the many questions I had when I first started as a beginner self-taught pianist.
00:00 Introduction
00:07 1. How do I practice playing hands together? (Technique Section)
01:05 2. How do I keep my wrist from falling?
01:53 3. Is it bad if my finger collapses?
02:31 4. How do I stop my finger from collapsing?
03:04 5. What’s the proper way to play with my thumb?
03:28 6. What’s the proper way to play with my pinky?
04:09 7. How do I get rid of my wrist pain in quick or loud passages?
05:17 8. How do I play fast passages without my hand tensing up?
05:28 9. How do I get more accurate at leaps?
06:08 10. How do I leap without accenting the note?
06:34 11. How do I play octaves without t...
00:00 Introduction
00:07 1. How do I practice playing hands together? (Technique Section)
01:05 2. How do I keep my wrist from falling?
01:53 3. Is it bad if my finger collapses?
02:31 4. How do I stop my finger from collapsing?
03:04 5. What’s the proper way to play with my thumb?
03:28 6. What’s the proper way to play with my pinky?
04:09 7. How do I get rid of my wrist pain in quick or loud passages?
05:17 8. How do I play fast passages without my hand tensing up?
05:28 9. How do I get more accurate at leaps?
06:08 10. How do I leap without accenting the note?
06:34 11. How do I play octaves without t...
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How I Learned To Play Octaves On Piano
Просмотров 12 тыс.Месяц назад
I share the technique I learned by studying Liszt's teachings on octaves. Finger Control Exercises: ruclips.net/video/JdP5ULv4p5s/видео.html Finger Stretches: ruclips.net/video/NNCu2Nbpxcw/видео.html Sources: Eigeldinger, Jean-Jacques. Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by His Pupils. Translated by Naomi Shohet, edited by Roy Howat and Monica Hall, Cambridge University Press, 1986. Gervers, H...
How It FEELS to Play Für Elise with Emotion
Просмотров 287Месяц назад
I discuss the images and emotions I see and feel when playing Beethoven's Für Elise my performance. 0:00 Intro 0:11 A Section 0:49 B Section 1:31 C Section 2:36 Performance 𝄐 a b o u t m e Hello! I'm Kevin, a self-taught pianist-composer. I learned to play piano and composed by reading books from the greats and their peers. 🎵 Find me on insta: pianopookie
How I Learned Finger Control (4 Exercises)
Просмотров 3,9 тыс.2 месяца назад
I share 4 exercises that helped me get better at finger control on the piano. How I Learned to Play Scales Fast: ruclips.net/video/_uDKWICC3EQ/видео.html 𝄐 a b o u t m e Hello! I'm Kevin, a self-taught pianist-composer. I learned to play piano and composed by reading books from the greats and their peers. 0:00 Intro 0:32 What is Finger Control? 2:41 Exercise for Timing 4:30 Exercise for Dynamic...
How to Easily Glide through Scales
Просмотров 2,9 тыс.3 месяца назад
My first video! I share the 2 technique changes that led me to play scales FAST, going from 80bpm to 140 bpm. 𝄐 a b o u t m e Hello! I'm Kevin, a self-taught pianist-composer. I learned to play piano and composed by reading books from the greats and their peers. 🎵 Find me on insta: pianopookie Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:24 How I Practiced Scales 04:10 Practice Precautions 04:43 1s...
If the angle between your thumb and index finger is acute (i.e. less than 90 degrees), you're screwed. Unless you have huge hands. My right hand is just like that.
Great video.
Where do I get the software to help with the beats/min while I play?And what is an accents pls
You can download a free metronome app on your phone to help with playing in time. Accent is when you play a note slightly louder than the other notes.
Ty as a beginner this was a very detailed and helpful video. How can I start getting the hand coordination I only had one lesson where I learned to locate the musical alphabet and reading notes for right hand only but I would like to start getting two hand coordination but my teacher says one at a time for now what should I do?
Follow your teacher's advice. The reason they say to practice one hand at a time is to develop proper technique and avoid bad habits in both hands. Practicing both hands at once divides your attention, making it more difficult to make sure you're playing with proper technique. If you develop bad habits, it's harder (and in some cases impossible) to correct them. Once proper technique becomes muscle memory, you can practice both hands. To speed up the process, you can practice the exercise in Q19 (09:33) in each hand separately. Make sure you're relaxed, your fingers curved (Q3 01:53), your wrist doesn't fall (Q2 01:05), and the sound is consistent in loudness and articulation. Once you can do that with some ease, would I recommend the exercise in Q1 (00:07) to practice hand coordination. Learning piano (like anything) takes time, but is incredibly rewarding in the end.
loved it! please do more interpretations of famous pieces. and your drawings are great too!
Also, don't forget the 4th finger in chromatic octave runs. 4th on black notes and the pinky for whites.
Yes, if you can reach and they’re comfortable for your hands
genius video bro thanks for sharing all that
What about fast stacatto octaves?
Speed will come with practice. For staccato octaves, just release the note immediately after playing (don’t hold it down.)
where can I find information about the Chopin method?
Chopin: Pianist and Teacher by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger
this channel is actually awesome
What camera do you use?
Sony A6100, with a Sigma 18-50mm F2.8 lens. I also use a Tiffen Black Pro Mist 1/8 filter to make the lights “bloom” a bit. For the piano cam, its just the iPhone 11 pro’s ultrawide camera
the quality of both the production and info in these videos is amazing! keep up the good work
Thank you!
Here's the list of questions: Technique Section 00:07 1. How do i practice playing hands together? 01:05 2. How do I keep my wrist from falling? 01:53 3. Is it bad if my finger collapses? 02:31 4. How do I stop my finger from collapsing? 03:04 5. What’s the proper way to play with my thumb? 03:28 6. What’s the proper way to play with my pinky? 04:09 7. How do I get rid of my wrist pain in quick or loud passages? 05:17 8. How do I play fast passages without my hand tensing up? 05:28 9. How do I get more accurate at leaps? 06:08 10. How do I leap without accenting the note? 06:34 11. How do I play octaves without tensing up? 06:41 12. How do I stop accenting notes with my thumb? 07:10 13. What should I do with my thumb when I’m not using it? 07:39 14. Should I play with the tips of my fingers or the pads? 08:18 15. Where should I look when playing? 08:41 16. What’s the ideal posture? 08:57 17. Is technique really that important? 09:11 18. How do I get better at memorizing music? Practice Section 09:33 19. What’s one exercise that will develop my playing the fastest? 10:47 20. What’s a 2nd exercise that will develop my playing the fastest? 11:31 21. Why should I practice scales? 11:45 22. How long should I practice? 12:19 23. How should I divide my practice time? Pain Section 12:31 24. I have severe pain when playing. What should I do? 13:31 25. I have a certain pain when I play a specific passage. What should I do? 14:43 26. How do I avoid pain and injury as a self-learning pianist? 15:23 27. I get a burning sensation on the top of my arm when playing. What should I do? 15:55 28. Should I stretch before playing? Equipment Section 16:09 29. What piano should I buy? 16:22 30. What pianos did you have? 16:44 31. What headphones do you recommend? Theory Section 16:58 32. What is the circle of fifths? 17:33 33. How do I get faster at reading music?
Heyy! Thanks for sharing your research here with demos! I like how you made connections from those two sources you found! I'm still trying to imagine how it actually feels to do the three steps you shared in the technique breakdown! Thanks again for sharing your research! Keep 'em coming!
This is great, I hope you can grow the channel more, very interesting video.
Crazy Man I liked you are video information video
informative video!
You are a very good teacher thanks
Have you heard of PASK and David Steinbuhler?
I have not!
@@pianopookie he's gonna glaze 7/8 pianos
Liszt has 12 books of technical exercises. There is also a shorter version.
When it comes to exercises, I like Chopin. In Eigeldinger’s book (in the description) There’s a few exercises Chopin wrote that I’ve pretty much practiced exclusively. It’s 2 pages and covers most of piano technique
Underrated video🥲🙂↕️ great research!
Great research exceptionally well explained! Thanks! 😊
Liszt and Chopin had large hands. Just saying
I can only reach a 10th (9th uncomfortably before I started stretches). Liszt could allegedly reach a 13th. Chopin’s reach was most likely smaller than Liszt’s. Hope that helps.
@@pianopookieActually, in reality, Liszt had avarage hands.
Liszt was 185 cm and he had hands proporcionated to his body. Chopin sas shorter than him, 170 cm, and he had smaller hand, but just about 1 or 2 cm.
@@Andrea_Suriano Well, there is a cast of Liszt's hands, ans it's allegedly avarege, but he had big little finger
While Liszt's hands were indeed huge, Chopin had pretty average sized hands. There is a replica of his right palm so that everyone can see for himself. Training can get you from comfortable octave to comfortable 10th, and that will be enough for most of the classic repertoire. If an octave is really stretchy and you are an adult, piano is probably not the best instrument of which to become a virtuso. But the majority of people can handle an octave and with trainings it only gets better.
Thank you for the insights! Now I can play octaves easier!
This is great stuff! For how long have you been self teaching piano?
Thanks! About 7 years
@@pianopookienice!! How old are you? Wondering if it's too late for me
It’s never too late! I started taking piano seriously at 19
im just beginning on piano i have ordered a nice digital piano to start practicing do you think I should invest into piano lessons? I am starting very late age 19 so im not sure if it would be better to just self learn but im going to use your videos to help me practice
I don’t have much experience taking piano lessons tbh, so I might not be the best person to ask. There’s alot to consider. Most pianists will say get a teacher, and that’s probably right for most ppl. I’d say try it out, try to find a good teacher, and if you’re happy with the results, then stick with it. Josh Wright (on RUclips) has some good advice for finding a good piano teacher. For me, I wanted to understand the specific technique of Chopin, so I HAD to do the research and learning by myself. Now I’m just sharing my findings. Also it’s never too late to learn piano. I also started taking piano seriously at 19 (7 years ago). Hope that helps.
YES! get a teacher!
keep it up man! very helpful and i cant wait to see more piano stuff from u in the future!
W editing!
Thank you for this video, keep up the good work ! I wish you would also make a series of videos on how you would help someone learn piano on their own, as you did yourself, like what to learn (techniques/pieces) and when to learn these things to have real progress
That’s a good idea
A note on my performance: I only practiced octaves for 10 to 20 hours (at MOST 30), from learning the new technique to the performance in the video. I mostly practiced on one note, scales and leaps, and very little on the actual passage. I’ll make an update video in the future (6 months, 1 year?) to show my progress on octave playing. Also, if you wanna read my highlights from Auguste Boissier’s journal (aka stuff that didn’t make it into the video w/ each quote in the original French + translated English), you can check it out on this Notion page here: changeable-galleon-a5b.notion.site/Liszt-P-dagogue-by-Auguste-Boissier-1178f8ed609380da93bdcb7e5163d24d
Unfortunate that your hr6 snippet was so slow. I'm sure with a week of practice you can play way faster without tensing up, the end goal being to play as comfortably as Alexei Grynyuk's hr6
@@SuperDieu_6666 I wouldn't say it's unfortunate. I'd say it's an honest depiction given the time I put in. I made more progress in those 20 hours than I did from practicing exercises from other YT videos, and I wanted to upload this video asap to help others who were also struggling :)
@@pianopookie although I’ve been investigating octaves on my own and can say that what you said, despite being great advice that I also wrote but worded a bit differently is not sufficient to feel comfortable enough, I praise your desire to bring more hope into something a lot of people struggle with :)
@@pianopookie i may quote your video on it too for good purposes :)
Wow. I love this interpretation. And didn't know you are also an artist. Looking forward to see more content like this. Bless you❤
Thank you for the kind comment! ❤️
Awesome video! Was surprised to see it’s only your second. Honestly this is very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Very good video. It is these subtitles that eventually give you competence and good technique. This a great explanation of yet another small part of the whole picture. Well done!
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback 🙏
I'm a Violinist but this video is still great subbed!
thank you, glad to be here early, great potential. p.s when did you start playing piano?
I appreciate it! I started taking piano seriously 7 years ago
What helped me was to play in ultra slow motion mode, almost without too much sound
This video came up at the perfect time, as I'm learning an arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen for Christmas and am . . . struggling with this. Thank you!
The view and subscriber count jumpscared me. This channel is destined to grow!
😂Thank you!
That was very interesting, thank you for the working tips!
This was very useful!! I was so surprised when I saw that this wasn't very popular. So underrated 😭
Thank you! Glad it was useful
Why so dark? Are you a closeted piano player
😂I forgot to fix it lol. I'll do it next time 👍
bro is underrated af
Thank you! I just share what worked for me
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Feract you are
I completely agree with everybody above. And now I’m a happy subcriber.
Starting out as a theory student in college this really helped me with practicing ❤
I'm glad it was helpful!
Bro i thought i was watching an atleast 10 thousand subscriber channel. Remember me when you get big bro
Love those kind of practice tipps. Keep it on, good job!
Nice vid, subbed!
Keep up with this awesome work, great video. Subscribed.