A beginner's guide to learning the piano // 15 topics you need to know
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This video is a beginner's guide to learning the piano but also for anyone else who has some experience but looking for ways to develop more freedom on the instrument. It's jam packed with important piano lessons for beginners and teaches you a lot about how music actually works and how to start playing so you can improve and learn to speak music as a language.
These are things I have learned over many years experience, learning myself, playing with other musicians and teaching. Things that I know from first hand experience that many beginners don't realise and need to know in order to get good at piano. They will help lay a strong foundation of fundamental musical knowledge and piano skill to set up you up to keep learning and learning, get far more advanced and go down many musical avenues.
Of course it's impossible to unpack everything completely in one video, so this is an overview of how to play piano for beginners, and advice about things you should be looking into and working on over a longer period of time. Each topic will be getting its own dedicated videos to delve deeper into exactly what and how to learn effectively!
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TIMESTAMPS for The 15 Things (Mixture of practical, music theory for beginners and general advice on learning)
0:00 Introduction
3:00 Learn the notes names and Keyboard
6:34 Basic Technique
12:08 Scales
16:57 Melody
18:10 Chords and Harmony
22:51 Thinking in Numbers
28:11 Chords of the Major Scale
31:56 Chord inversions (Playing chords in different ways)
38:08 Learning Songs and Music
40:58 Focusing on Ears
46:43 Rhythm
51:11 Basics of Reading
53:21 Learning to Learn well
58:33 Musical Terminology
58:42 Enjoy Making Music
Thanks for watching! 
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HERE'S THE 15 THINGS WITH TIME STAMPS TO EACH SECTION!
1 Learn the notes names and Keyboard Layout 3:50
2 Basic Technique 7:24
3 Scales 12:58
4 Melody 17:47
5 Chords and Harmony 19:00
6 Thinking in Numbers 23:41
7 Chords of the Major Scale 29:01
8 Chord inversions (Playing chords in different ways) 32:46
9 Learning Songs and Music 38:58
10 Focusing on Ears 41:48
11 Rhythm 47:33
12 Basics of Reading 52:01
13 Learning to Learn well 54:11
14 Musical Terminology 59:23
15 Enjoy Making Music 1:00:32
Thanks for watching!
Thanks!
Thank you this a great learning platform to begin from
Kind regards
Billy
Ok now because of you I gonna save some to get me a keyboard and learn steadily. Great content thank you!
you screamed lol XD
Thank you, I just bought a keyboard.
You presented the most crucial elements for learning to play the piano in a clear and comprehensive manner. You are an incredibly effective and efficient piano teacher.
Great ! I’m 64 never ever played a piano in my life but you have helped me get started well done young man 👍
Yes. Great to hear your 64. This inspires me since I'm 60👍🏻
Making progress?
@@ljkoh20052000able making progress on piano?
..and I thought I was late being 44, thank youuuuuu
@@michaeljoseph3475 I’m now 65 and I really get a lot out of it. Iam quite happy learning and practising. Been able to play a few things correctly is better than playing a lot of thing’s badly. I wish you all the best it’s never too late to learn anything.
I'm working my way through your videos, to give me something related to playing when I am not at the keyboard. Your tight editing makes the videos "content rich," and that is a plus. You don't have a lot of extra talk, and get right to the point. You are one of the experts here on youtube when it comes to piano, and I'm sure many of us appreciate your efforts.
The fact that you put visuals over your keys while you’re playing the notes is so helpful for a visual learner like myself. Thank you 🙏🏼
I am a senior citizen and i enjoy the Techniques you share Thank you
I'm a returning piano student, still a beginner level, 67 years young, thanks for ALL the info. My interests are play by ear and lead sheets. I plan on checking back to your channel often. Thanks.
Loads of things here I didn't realise that makes much more sense now
Glad to hear, thanks for watching!
This guy is the truth when it comes to learning piano on youtube..everything single thing he says resonates with me as i have a very basic knowledge of music theory.thank you for this video
BRO, you don't know how much I appreciate you, 1 week in I've learned the keys and notes, I'm not as fast as I wanna be, but this is one helluva big step, you put everything in simpler terms and were all can understand without as much frustration... Thanks again bud!!
Glad the channel has been helpful!
Very well said. I am two weeks into my new life learning the piano. I've seen several sites, and learned things and appreciate the efforts of those people. But he has a way of opening up the mind an pouring in facts and it feels like a massive jump in my comprehension.
I like how realistic he is. He doesn't promise you'll be a brilliant player within a month like some other online tutorials . That & his advice is free which for someone on a fixed budget is great👍
I'm new to piano and I've been plodding along for weeks. I learned more in this video than I have in all this time. Thank you!
I hope you are making progress.
I've tried out a few different piano teaching videos, but I must say that your video channel is more in-depth than most others. Your tutorials have given me a ton of inspiration and I will definitely follow your methodology.
An absolute tonne of great, important information in here!!
Tried to pack in as much as I could, still more to come though!
Yeah I second that
This video is exactly what I was looking for as a beginner who wants to lay solid foundations for the long run. There's a lot of great material for learning here on youtube but this guide was the missing link. Great video and great channel.
Thanks, Andrea. Hope you find lots of other useful content on the channel
I'm halfway through the video but already I'm amazed at your methods of telling things that I've heard before but you explain it on a different level. You give us information on turbocharge. Merci beaucoup.
WOW! Now I find the best online help ever. After 7 years of lessons, I had a stroke. Soon as I gain better hand strength I want to get a keyboard and start again. Thank You,
Wishing you a good recovery and hopefully you can get back to it soon enough!
Okay, i started some 50 day's ago,,i bought a YPT 260 from Lidle for a great price,,,got the unit home set it up,, started scouring the Internet for Minor & Major Scales i started the routine learning the scales and memorising,, Woo the blood pressure was unreal intence for a few day's as the first week went on it became easier,,by week two was makeing improvement i noticed in week three all started to settle,,, and the blood pressure,, i notice on my journey it had been best to undertake one hour regime just before bed,,and on the next day just after breakfast an hours training on what i had lernt,,buy week four five i had Minor and Major Scales covered along with Harmonic and Blue's Scales,, to date i use my scales as my daily training,, I'm moving into chords shortly,,however whilst i recognise chords are a quick fix for me it really says it's not really piano,,my route is to learn piano by notation and reading sheet music,, Hymm i say sheet music,,well I've reverted to chords it makes sense and using notation and sheet music as the long term strategy,,in my learning,, I'm amazed where i am today i wish 50 years, ago i had started well thats life,,I'm currently playing songs i thought would be impossible don't get me wrong I'm know Guru no sir just learning,, I've decided to learn my scales also blindfolded sounds crazy doesn't it but look,,, we all have this left and right hand issue pending which you have the problem with,,, so this was what i noted along my journey.
The eye's are mischievous and Kind of control what you see so thats the piano keys hand's fingers,,but just imagine being partially sited or blind,,imagine therfore just being blind how would you accomplish leaning piano,, well i understand braille is, the answer and thus this applied to key's but look the reality is one has to learn patterns it's therfore best without such support other than your ears thats right its great to for once hear a new language since starting I've been blown away with my achievements,, i blindfold my self and continue as i do with my regime when i see the notes without blindfold i become overwhelmed at times, my mind wonders, my hands fidget and this set's a bad seen for my finger positioning,,, i get none of the above issues when blindfolded its as if i am as calm and collected as sitting with a cup of tea.
Well there you have it just to end just imagine you are a classical pianist,,you lost your sight from illness,,do you give up or continue your chosen career,, my view on this is as important as playing,,if i could see the understanding playing blindfolded it helps train your brain your hands your your thoughts feelings emotions frustrations and gives back your unique ability to play piano when i now play i have no known issues , as above why would i be placed with a dilemma when i know there is a solution i belive the best classical pianists are bourn from there physical disability why not visit a special school for the blind that teach classical music to the blind one might just be taken back from what they will see and learn.
I started 50 plus day's ago and can say im comfortable with my left and right hands now, when playing piano i where the blindfold when i become overwhelmed to calm the moment the training is intense but hay paying attention playing slow is key building up skill and knowledge.
Excellent video and explanations! I have never heard things explained so clearly and easy to understand! Not only for the technique itself, but why it needs to be learned and how it applies to music! Your video definitely has me wanting to look for patterns in music and to listen to music more actively. I will be checking out your other videos for sure!
Very clearly and well explained! I started playing 3 days ago and I have to say that the end of your video is really inspiring and motivating.
BEST PIANO TEACHER EVER!!!
Hi! Thanks , loved this video, descriptions are so clear, I am a beginner an American, living in France so that even the keys become another language ! I subscribed and I am looking forward to learning more! Wishing you a great week-end!
Wow. You're an amazing teacher. Thank you so much for sharing your piano knowledge 😊🙌🎹🎹🎹.
you are the piano teacher I have been looking for! Thank you for all your tips! you've explained them clearly!
I totally agree with all the positive comments on this video. Fantastic highly concentrated overview about the APPROACH to piano. It will greatly help me to understand where things fit into the big picture. And I believe it will help me to understand the importance of things as I progress. This vid is in my OneNote and is my kickstarting guidepost as I build my learning plan.
Fantastic Video. I listened to it in 3 x 20 Minute chunks and there are some real Gems of advice in there. Invaluable information. Thank you!
i love your accent it's really calming and sometimes I get really anxious when learning the piano so I love this!
Thank you for the beautiful video. I have learned a lot from it. Extremely interesting the way you explain this for folks like me that don't know a thing about music theory. Some of it is easier in order to learn the sounds of music as you put it. You are a very gifted teacher. Thanks a lot.
Super helpful! I'm just starting my journey with piano and this was so motivating and eye opening.
PrimitiveSE here, can't wait to check this out!
Enjoy!
Great presentation skills and by far the best introduction to learning music/piano I’ve seen anywhere on the net. Excellent - subscribed 👏👏👏
Really clear explanation and very helpful, thank you.
Thank you for your post, the you explain with so much detailed it's AMAZING 🎹🙏
I just found your channel yesterday and out of all the videos on learning piano, yours are the best for me... Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos... You definitely got a sub from me 😁🎹🎶
I am 48 with some music background, bass guitar and electronic music production, I started to learn piano seriously now and your channel helps alot! Keep up 🤟🏻
I am gradually working my way through your videos and they are all extremely helpful. I have only just started but this one explains such a lot, thank you.
Thank you so much for making this video!! I'm a beginner and your videos have been great help!!
Super useful! Thank you so much, this has helped me tremendously.
Thank you for doing these videos for free. I just bought my piano and I wanted to ask if you can “create a playlist for beginners” and arrange the lessons in an orderly fashion so that we can follow the lessons accordingly. Thank you 🙏🏿
Brilliant teacher, thankyou. Going at a pace I can keep up with. Thanks
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This was extremely helpful. Thank you!
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You are just amazing! Thank you!
You are an excellent teacher! So glad I found this channel!
Thanks for the feedback!
Very helpful guide to new learner. Thank you！
There is so much valuable content packed in this video, I wish it had 1000x times more views! Thank you for such a broad overview of all these topics, at the same time making them insanely well-explained.
As one of the commenters below, I also wish I could find a better way to structure my learning. I'm having trouble focusing on one constant routine, and I often change the sources of learning materials for some reason :) In the end I'd love to be able to improvise my own music. But at the moment I'm learning scales and chords inversions, as well as trying to improvise on my synthesizer :)
I think after watching your video I have a much better general understanding, on what I should be focusing on.
Thanks for the comment man that’s always great to hear you find value in it. Yes it sounds like a lot to do right?! Just wanted to give a broad overview so people have some insight into how everything starts to piece together eventually. It’s great that you’re laying the foundations to achieve your goals. You probably already are but make sure to learn lots of actual music along the way too. It’s much easier to learn french if you go to france and have to speak it. Yes wish it had more views too but that’s the youtube game. Every like comment and people playing videos the whole way really helps things to grow though so thanks! I wish you all the best with your practice
Found you from Reddit. Great content!
Thanks! Lots more to come!
Great video. Thank you.
I think you are doing it amazing ... I had straight away enjoyment to follow you fully concentrate, because you just left time for a few deep breaths before you start so structured wonderfully to explain absolutely everything, like a journey I have sold. I described the planning for the journey -temperature/flight length/Visa/language/country/sport-/city-/beach-/culture or adventure journey/busy-/quiet-/infra structure etc. Then I told and build up their knowledge and growing excitement to arrive, because I did show, first of all the island, to meet the "new' from the beginning, that they got an imagination/idea then expectations of the that area, then the way to the village from the airport, how it looks like there, the way to the hotel/apartment or anything else until they finally would reach their hotel room.
And because I have mentioned everything the excitement grow and they felt sure which is the most precious feeling.
I never before did hear so much squeezed wisdom in so less time ... your course really blew me away, fantastic 👏👏👏
It's so awesome you do to mention anything, every little thought/tip/recommendation/advice with explanations/showing everything ... you are constantly telling precious stuff ... you give us miles boots ... absolutely, deeply appreciated, thank you so much for so much help especially with the patterns/shapes of cords ... incredible 👏
thank you very much -@PianoFromScratch- for giving so much knowledge in this clear way away x🎹x
Ps Could you imagine to do about hearing better the beat and @LogicFromScratch?☺..., Jana👋 x
These lessons are great and so helpful to me. Thank you so much.
Very useful! Thank you so much for making this video! 😉
I've seen a lot of piano tutorial videos and was getting desperate last night. Everyone says something different about what you should learn first. Then I came across this video and can only say many many thanks. Neatly explained basics, why this is so, which variants there are and according to which scheme you can easily remember. And not: "Learn these 4 chords, then you can play hundreds of songs." Or someone explaining to me for 15 minutes how to hand play C D E F G. I needed the basic framework that you provide here. This really brings me further. Absolute must watch video for beginners.
You are a brilliant teacher! Thank you!
This is the second video of yours I’ve watched. It’s great! I’m now subscribed! Highly recommend for others. 👏
my gosh! is like, the first couple of sentences changed my way of thinking! I am looking at learning music completely differently now! how exciting!
Excellent video! Thank you.
Brilliant recap/overview. Thanks
Very good video! Thanks so much for this!
I just don't understand why this video has only ~7k views, though this is one of the most helpful videos on the internet.
also, tips from 9 to 15 are not only beneficial for piano beginners but any kind of instrument beginners, 6 to 7 are semi-beneficial for any kind of instrument beginners.
you just earned a subscriber ^_^
Thanks for the feedback! Much appreciated Yes many things cross over between instruments
well personally speaking it doesn’t have many views because it’s RUclips and popularity always wins. Don’t get me wrong he deserves so much more like many of the content creators
Great content for such a new channel! Keep it up! 👍🏻
Thanks, I will hopefully!
Thank you for such important information about learning piano for beginners.
Wow!!
I really learn alot in this video!
Thank you!
Super work and intro, quite to the point and barebones. Perfect and well rounded. Clean and important for starting or getting going. Motivational! Thanks so muchj. Doc Z
Thanks for the feedback, glad it was useful for you
Thank you for such a great video!
Brilliant! This is the first of your videos I have watched. Many thanks for this great series, very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Great tutor you are, thanks!
Brilliant! Thank you so much
Fantastic video. Thank you.
Thanks for this video 📹 very helpful
Thanks so much for presenting a very good demo ....
Great👍 thank U. I fel motivatet must learn more..
This is an absolutely brilliant & very helpful video, thank you!!!
I'm glad you came across a good piano video that can break piano down to simple steps.
Thank you so much for your informative advice. I'm learning a lot from your video lessons.
Glad to help!
Thank you, it was more than helpful
Thank you for the map/overview of the journey to become a proficient musician.
Woow this is amazing. The best teacher ever!
Wow...I thank God, i found this channel. Thank you sir for sharing. God bless.❤
What an amazing video! I am so glad I found this channel. I am a beginner piano player with some singing experience and your videos have given me a clearer picture of what I want to get out of my learning and an idea of how to approach it. Thanks!
Great, glad it helped you out!
This was extremely helpful. I have a better sense of direction now.
Great video. Thanks!
Thanks a lot i am in learning stage. The information is very helpful
Hi, thanks again for this awesome video! I was wondering if you would be interested in making a video about a daily practice routine for technique that includes scales, chords, arpeggios, rythme, speed, evenness, all those things that we have to work technically on to become better. There is a ton of material available on the internet that teaches about each technical aspect separately but nothing that puts together a daily practice program that is more global, comprehensive and progressively more challenging. I am a beginner/intermediate and I find it overwhelming to practice everything everyday without a “plan”. For example, week 1 could be: Scale of C major (legato, staccato, quarter notes, eighth notes, triplets, etc.) + chord of C major (solid, broken) + arpeggios. Increase speed everyday for a week. Right hand can also play the major scale and the left hand can play the relative minor. Then week 2: same routine with a different scale. Etc. Does it make sense to have a practice program like that? How long should it be? 30 minutes a day? I have the Browns scale book, Hanon, Czerny, Rossomandi, but I can’t practice them all everyday. I find that students like me are missing a program that pulls all that together into bite size chunks. Thanks for your help and guidance. Virginia
Hi, yes I know exactly what you mean, there's an overwhelming amount of stuff that you could be doing that it's hard to know what to focus on at any one time. This actually never stops as long you're playing because there's always more to learn. I will try and address this in a video at some point, but it will likely be more along the lines of tactics and considerations when creating your own practice plans because this kind of thing is ever changing with progress, dependant on people's experience, ability, goals, how much time they have etc. In normal lessons when you know the person it's easy to do something bespoke but online, there's so many variables between people, it becomes trickier. Amount of time is hard because you don't always want to move on to the next thing unless you're ready either. Goals keep changing too, so for example, for one period of time, your focus may be on learning minor scales, the next, spending more time or improv or ear training, or a particular piece, or sight reading. You want to push further and learn new things, but at the same time make sure you're not forgetting old things and the fundamentals or try and learn too many new things all at once. I like to divide time between focusing on something new I want to develop and then maintenance of old things. As for your plan, that kind of thing sounds great, you're thinking along the right lines but I wouldn't necessarily do that same thing forever, you have to try and mix things up too and adapt as your goals change. Let's say your goal was to build speed and focus on technique, you may pick a few scales to gradually increase tempo with for a while to help with that. Another time you may be focused on making sure you can just find them all confidently, so you might go through 3 keys a day, playing majors and all the minors in each one, but not worrying about playing fast. Be careful of saying you're just going to increase speed everyday for example, you should only increase when you're ready to. So it's hard to come up with a set daily practice program for piano in general really, it really needs to be adaptive. I will definitely give it some proper thought and see what I can come up with to help for a future video
Piano From Scratch: thanks so much for taking the time to respond and for considering making a video about this topic. Everything you say makes a lot of sense and explains why I haven’t been able to find what I am looking for. There is no “one size fits all”. I will absolutely put in practice your suggestions. It is a bit less overwhelming to focus on a few defined goals at a time. I now get that I should adapt my technique practice routine and that I should not rush. Thanks again for the great tips. By the way, your advice in other videos about segmenting into “blocks” has been very helpful and has actually helped me memorized songs for the first time in the 5 years that I have been learning piano!
That’s great that’s helped you memorise some music! Thanks for the feedback, it’s nice to hear if something has been useful.
very helpful and clear explained what learning piano is all about, and especially the last chapter ... finally and first time somebody isn't shy to mention all these 'learn piano in 30 days' frauds!
and funny enough it is always non US teachers being honest ... keep going on love ya style and really appreciate your work.
awesome thank you.
im trying to learn piano right now at 30 years old so i can use a synthesizer after :) this video helps a lot and gives me a
little direction!
oh god.. this is wonderfully helpful. thank YOU so much for your kindness✨
Glad it was helpful!
Helo sir my name is Enoch .I was so interested in learning the piano.but I was in search of best teacher .atlast I found you sir..thank you so much for your support in learning piano.thank you sir .pls send more vedios .I am starting my practice from now.
Thanks for this amazing content
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Thanks man you really safe me alot 💯💯👏👏
Thank for another another great video :)
Thanks for watching!!
Thank you
I love that you have Bob's picture hanging on your wall.... so kool!
You're a great piano teacher. Thanks for sharing your talents. 🇯🇲❤
Ha yea, it has the 'one good thing' quote on it
Hellooo. This video was really helpful ^-^ thank you.
Really great tips!
Thanks!
I have just started to watch your videos. At last I feel like I am going to start to play and understand what I’m doing and how to remember etc. etc. of all the elements to learn and play the piano, however long this may take. I have only watched 2 of your videos so far which has given me the enthusiasm to learn to play. I have listened to many videos on uTube and all seem to go in one ear and out the other but your teaching is different. I do like your teaching method, it’s great and look forward to watching more. Each one I shall save of course so I can go back over them. Thank you, I now feel that my piano learning experience is going to be a whole lot better.
Hope the channel is helpful! Many of the topics in this video (which is quite old now) have since had specific more in depth videos on each topic 🙂
@@PianoFromScratch thank you for your reply. I shall probably look and watch through from your earlier videos to the present ones. I know I shall look forward to learning from these.
Really great content!
Thanks!
Great video thanks, you're a fab teacher!
Glad it was helpful!
You’re the best! I’ve been playing for 2 years (self taught) and finally started performing in front of people and it’s 😧. Hopefully it gets easier the more I do it. Thanks for sharing this.
Great stuff, well done. Yes performing is a skill in and of itself, wish I had started younger. It's one of those things you just have to do a lot to get aclimatised
Have drink or two
you make great sense