Boogie Woogie Left Hand - from ZERO to INDEPENDENT in 15 exercises (time-lapse)
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
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With over 30 years of experience playing boogie woogie, it still takes effort and patience to put a new left hand bass pattern into my muscle memory. In this video I cover 15 exercises to take a new bass pattern from zero (just knowing the notes) to independent (can do anything with the right hand).
BEGINNERS: to get a new bass pattern under your fingers and into your muscle memory, the process may take a month or two of daily practice for at least 20 min a day. The first left hand pattern you try to learn always takes the longest. As you get the hang of one, and then another, and then another, the process takes less time. Be patient and stick with it!
This bass pattern came from French pianist Fabrice Eulry (he's awesome) and is taught here by Chase Garrett (also fantastic). • How To Play Boogie Woo...
I chose this bass pattern because it was something I had never played before, so for me it was "starting from zero", even though you must keep in mind that my left hand is used to repeating a series of 8 notes, so that mindset is already in place for me.
Exercises:
1) Left hand only (5~10min)
2) Talk
3) Big movements with right arm
4) Watch TV
5) Read a book
6) Color or draw
7) Call someone and have a conversation
8) Right hand chords
9) Right hand licks
10) Practice the IV chord
11) Different song in the right hand
12) Practice the V chord
13) 12 bar blues
14) Focus on problem areas
15) Metronome
Final Stage: Licks + 12Bar Blues + Metronome
****Supplemental videos that may help****
Hand Independence Exercises: • How To Play Boogie Woo...
8 Right Hand Licks (24 vids): • Boogie Woogie Piano - ...
Set your Metronome for Boogie: • How to Set Your Metron...
#handindependence #boogie #lefthand #pianoskills
There must be hundreds of pianists here on RUclips, all promising to teach you left-hand for boogie woogie. But you‘re the ONLY guy who actually shows THE WAY! Thank you so, so much. This is perhaps the most helpful piano video I‘ve ever seen.
Thank you! That was exactly why I made this video so I am thrilled that it helps!
You took the words right out of my mouth. Brilliant.
I agree with you totaly!!!
True, true! I ordered therefore his book.
I tried a lot of other online teachers. Some are really nice guys, but it didn't in the end for the one or the other reason not really work for me. It means not that I sometimes don’t watch what other teachers show. But normally I have more than enough to do here and the method is getting better and better.
In the end, it's a lot of work to do and I hope Arthur delivers more Material.
OMG....for real....I'm on it. Now that's got to be the best video on the subject....thank you SIR. Eternally grateful.
This is outstanding and reassuring to us mortals that experts need to work just as hard as the rest of us on learning new stuff. Thanks
But of course people who've played piano for long will have an easier time learning it
@@lucaslucas191202 they still started as beginners! :)
@@amyk9813 Exactly.. "Gods" were mortals too in the beginning.. Confidence and persistent practice.. ;)
Hey Nick, it's not really working HARD, but working SMART. I found that 10minutes at a time with a short break in between , learns faster than 1 long session. All the Best....
Best tutorial for left hand I've seen here. Been hard getting my left hand to play independently and I'm left handed.
I play multiple instruments. I’m left handed also. The piano has always been tough. But it is all about muscle memory! Thank you for your encouragement! Practice is usually not fun; but you made it fun!
Great lesson. No ego, just solid, genuine, helpful information. Many thanks from England.
I've tried picking up piano for years to emulate my grandfather a great boogie woogie player. After a few hours I gave up thinking it impossibe. I can barely play the piano and now at 48 I'm trying again and after watching this it's actually coming. Every day I'm getting closer with these exercises. Can't thank you enough for this. I was in the woods and now I've found the path.
That is great news! So happy to hear that!
Cheers for that , Arthur. Now, as a beginner, I don't feel silly having to practice a left hand for as long as I do.
Great! Just hard work. That's all it takes. 😉
A big THANK YOU, Arthur. YOU KNOW a GREAT TEACHER when they pull away all the stops and actually want you to be better, and even better than the instructor! This shows how great you are ! NOT many can do what you are showing. Well Done, liked, subscribed and telling other students in my class. ! Cheers, Don.
A very big thank you to you Don! I'm glad this is helpful!
The First Tutorial That teils the hole truth about how to study Piano, trank you Arthur.
This.
I have been playing classical piano for years. Always wanted to try boogy woogy and this is definitely the way.
This guy is brilliant!!
This was inspiring. I thought I was lacking when I couldn't immediately pick up something like Cantaloupe Island, but I see how it takes time and repetition, and that's to be expected. You gave me a new mindset about practicing. Thanks.
Best instructional video on the left hand I have ever seen. I even asked Ann Robson herself, along with Dr. John and they just said “Keep Playing”. Thank you, this makes so much sense from a progressive and brain stand point. Thank you so much!!!!
Walter, I am so happy to hear that it makes sense and gives you a game plan to make progress with the left hand! Keep it up
I'll give this a try, I've been playing guitar for 52 years and obviously know chord sequences but I've always wanted to play blues piano. Thanks
Thought I was a slow learner until I saw this - but battling the same problems, like everyone else!
That's right we all go through the same thing! Keep it up
Merci pour ce Tutoriel monsieur !Je travail seul et grasse à vous J'AI BEAUCOUP PROGRESSÉ CONTINUER 'ENCORE MERCI ROBERT OLES FRANCE
I like how you are realistic about how much practice any instrument takes. Very few videos are open and honest about it. Many make it seem like I'll get this in no time.
Great explanation of how the subconscious brain is so important to ear training, muscle memory and especially the hand independence requirement of Boogie Woogie. This is different than multi-tasking, which studies have proven to really be multi-switching. Quickly switching between one task and then the other but never actually performing both simultaneously. Getting the left hand to go on auto is something else altogether and you demonstrated it well. For me, repetition is more important than association as a mnemonic memory device. Boogie Woogie is so different than almost any other type of music that is linear with melody and chord changes working in syncopation. This video is helpful to all of us learning how to play Boogie.
Thanks for the great exercises! Unfortunately exercise 7 felt impossible to me... Can't call your wife without her number ;)
🤣🤣🤣 anybody's wife will do
@@thearthurmigliazza and then the fight started !! : ) GREAT lesson thank you
Ha ha, same here, she blocked my number
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Thank you for posting this! You just talked me out of selling my rig. I was coming to the conclusion that I'm just not able to do hand independence. You made it possible by showing exercises to do that I now want to try again. Thank you
That is great news. Thanks for sharing. Stick with it!
Absolutely brilliant! This singular video cuts through to the heart of piano practice! There is no magic or hacks on the way to becoming a better pianist. You have to do the work and put in the effort! Thank you for posting this and helping me to focus my practice!
I went and saw a play called Million Dollar Quartet. Story of Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Johnny Cash (and someone else). Well the dude playing Jerry Lee Lewis KILLED it on the piano.
I came home and said to myself, “I am going to learn that left hand”!
I did exactly what this video teaches.
Though, it took me 3 months to have my left hand not think about what it was doing!
But, man, when you get it - you got it!
Cool video. Thanks for sharing!
Great tutorial. Now I have to try to get this song out of my head.
Gina!! ❤
same 😆😂
I've tried it, playing table tennis with my right hand at the same time. Now I am a good table tennis player. So many thanks for the trick, then !! :-)
As a beginner, this is such an important video for me to see. It's reassuring to know that mastering a new piece is the same process for everyone regardless of how long they've been playing, and that nobody just "gets it" right away. I love your technique for attaining hand independence and will definitely be using it going forward (and cleaning my piano lots while I do it), cheers!
Mental challenges for the brain! Nice job
I don't see how this could have 121 thumbs down...What the hell people??? This is EXACTLY what practice is all about. Excellent job on this video and thank you very much!
Superb. It’s important to see the difficulty in the process.
maxmerton Yes exactly, and I think too many teachers tend to sugarcoat that
This is real practice plan for several months.. Thank you Arthur.
This is brilliant! Finally a video that explains how to get the LH independend. And showing the hard work needed. Thank you for uploading this
Thank you,I am truly inspired by this,I am a retired person and going into my 5th year playing boogie and blues,and I was beginning to think am I making any real progress?but after watching how long it took you as a professional to play this Left hand piece,it has definitely made me realize perhaps I am expecting too much too soon,and I thank you for that, it's given me a reason to continue with more enthusiasm.
I bought the book before even realising he had a YT channel... the lessons blend perfectly.. just got my first keyboard and I love Boogie Woogie
Thanks Paul! Best of luck on your boogie woogie journey!
Now THIS is practical musicianship. Thanks bro.
OMG, parquet from 80's!!!!!!
Left hand play piano and right hand cooking a omellet.
Thanks a lot from Spain
That was very inspiring , the old line "how do you get to Carnigie Hall ? Practice !" brought to life ! Thanks man
Inglorious bastards
Arthur ... fantastic ! ... at this point, I've managed to get a bunch of left hand boogie patterns under my belt, that I can play consistently without even looking, but as soon as I bring in the right, the left begins to go to hell. So realizing now that I was missing the next 14 exercises you demo'd ...jumping into those now. Big Thanks !! .. and I'm a subscriber now ;-)
Freddy, thank you! Yeah keep with it. It just takes sheer time and dedication to get things in muscle memory. The more you can enjoy the process the faster it goes by.
Great, finally a piano lesson that helps
I am 75 so I need accelerated learning, plus My back can’t handle too much sitting. So this will help a lot. A big thank thank you, Arthur. There is a correct way to practice if you know what it is . 🇿🇦😊❤
Thanks Pat best of luck with these!
Thank you very much excellent tuition
Wow, this video is so educational. With attitude like this, I think one can lean anything. I have to show this video to my kids. Big thank you from Taiwan.
Thank you very much! I hope it helps with learning many things :-)
Wow. Just what I was looking for. This is excellent
I did almost this exact same thing about 2 years ago not knowing if it was productive or useless. I'm really glad I came across this video! I'm going to work up some more left hand patterns now that I have some confidence that it's a viable approach.
I would wear earbuds so that I could watch Star Trek on my phone. Then I would wear standard headphones on top of the earbuds and attach them to the piano so that I could hear the keyboard and the metronome.
Then I would try to text and play on the phone while playing piano and watching the show (floating window on the phone for the show).
Made getting two hours of practice in much easier!
Excellent! Yes all those things work!
Thanks Arthur for showing us in such great detail the process that we’re all trying to master - it’s so encouraging!
Having studied the workings of the brain, I can appreciate how mechanical repetition (that establishes new patterns which move from the conscious to the subconscious), allows us to repeat a pattern without ‘thinking’ about it.
A similar process takes place when we’re learning to drive a car.
Great! Yes it's the same as any automatic movements we learn, like driving!
i cant think of a better lesson than something as real as this. Showing yourself learning a grove simply gives a person confidence in whatever method they use of repetition they use to learn. I honestly was thinking how do people practice. I am a musician and fairly new at piano but I often feel like for me to really master just a riff or part of a song I would have to do what Im sure is way way more than anyone else has to do before it comes naturally. However I often think Im sure things dont just come naturally super quick for most people. I mean when you see a respected musician you see them when they have honed the music they are playing to the point of making it look easy. So when a lesson like this comes along and shows you how to practice it by showing you his true method and being humble enough to make it clear that it takes work for beginners as well as advanced players to learn something new. Im rambling I just think this is simple video teaches so much more than than it intended to teach. Incredible to keep finding great teachers.
Last year I was in a music class making my own song and I chose a rock and roll tune. Before that I haven’t played in like 7 years. I had to reteach myself everything. I couldn’t do separate left hand. Until I thought to 100% concentrate on something else. Within 30 seconds I was so excited that I figured it out. It’s weird to think to learn something you shouldn’t give it any thought
That's right! It's just like walking, or driving, or eating... at first we have to really focus and try. But if we are motivated to keep trying eventually it becomes a learned pattern of movements and we can do it "in our sleep" if we have to!
Thanks ! Ian learning , glad to have you teach me .
I needed to see this lesson. It reinforces how much I really need to spend practicing.
Awesome to hear! I'm glad it was helpful.
Very informative.Thank you.
excellent. this is the way and its the only way
thank you so much for this! i'm a boogie beginner, i used most of these practice techniques and now i can play my first left hand boogie!
Hi Arthur. I'm 67 and always wanted to be able to play boogie woogie piano. Now, with your help, I feel I might have a chance. Cheers, Dave from Leeds, England!
That's great Dave, keep it up!
Dude -- thank you for this! This is great! This is the way to get good. Good old-fashioned hard work over TIME. Muscle memory. I've done it on guitar. For years I wasn't able to play what I wanted. I did this intense repetition and after about a years I suddenly got SO MUCH BETTER. And..I can now play without thinking. You still have to learn new parts, but the better you get the easier it gets to learn new challenging music.
Ken, well said! Nothing like good old fashioned hard work. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Very cool! Very helpful! I’m being too hard on myself… If you literally wrote the book on this and you struggle a little… Gives me some comfort as I learn the basics.
Jim, that's great! Exactly the intended purpose of the video. There is no real "short cut" to motor learning. Just takes repetition, repetition, and more repetition. ;-)
Pay attention to this guy. He knows his stuff. Your brain does work on this shit over night while you're sleeping. Arthur's one of the best on the boogie scene. When you see him put it all together you'll be blown away! Go Arthur go!
Thanks Mr. B! I appreciate it.
Arthur Migliazza Any chance you could share the notes played?
I love the fact you recommend "mindless right hand licks" to help with working on the left hand because that sums up my right hand. Totally valuable advice in this video, thank you Arthur.
Thank you!
Best ever in showing how to practice .
You definitely motivated me to practice this boogie woogie! Thank You ;)
Awesome!
OK, this is genius!
Thank you for putting our real content
Thank you very much for your lessons! Very helpful exercise I guess.
At the end of a day with practice and teaching, then watching this! You crack me up!
Thank You .... This is what YT is all about.
Wow ! Thank you. This should be a sport event in the olympics !
You’re not wrong 😊
Very helpful lesson ! Thanks so much 😁
@@patobrien1171thank you!
This is Fantastic way of teaching to play music !!!
One of the biggest lessons here for me is seeing the substantial amount of time and effort it takes to really get something down. Great format this video has.
Thank you! Yes, no shortcuts that I know of unfortunately 😊
That's how I practice classic pieces! Great video, thanks.
thanks very much for making and posting this video. I'm a beginner (1 month) and this has given me something to work on and a better idea of estimation of how long things can take to learn. All the best to you mate!
Great video. I've always struggled with LH independence, and no one has really broken it down like this for me.
Just invaluable, absolutely invaluable. I would have paid a pro for an hour lesson to show me an example of how one goes
through this in reality and how one learns the new left hand. And I now I have seen you do it, with patience for yourself. I feel so much more normal because I have had the same frustrations, thoughts, and feelings as you. Thank you so much. You are so clear.
Thank you Charlie!
Wow! Awesome video! Can't thank you enough. I started to give up on the idea that I could really learn a solid and steady left hand. But based on this at no point did I give myself nearly enough time to really internalize that. I'm psyched to go back, put in more time and try learning again. Can't wait, thanks again! You rock! (and boogie :)
This has been a great help. Finally starting to get the hang of
🥳I just found my New Years resolution. Reading the book part will be for 2023😁 Thank you. Great to hear that repetition is not boring when consciously transforming left hand independence to an unconscious state.
Just realized I commented last year.🙃
@@rolfr6662 haha!
@@thearthurmigliazza really enjoyed your “throwback” tape… especially the “After Hours” tune. It reminded me of my favorite Charlie McCoy album.
Really, really Great, man!
Thank you, it really helps to know that independance doesn't come easy to everyone. I nearly gave up because I couldn't get it, now I know that I just need more time.
As a passionnate beginner, playing 2-3 hours a day, this is a very motivational video. I'll definitly use some of your tricks when learning new patterns. Thank you
Thank you! So glad that it helps
..ha
Your lapses and dramatized struggle in these fundamentals is fun to see...because-
we know you're World Class-
Your point is well taken tho..really.....
I, for one, intend on following your lead and am going to get that left-hand down..firmly!
And..
I've learned you've spent a long time here in Arizona and by my name you can see I am here --I think I use the same Casio(CDP-135) that you have!
So- starting today 4/26/20, I 've adopted you as my new and only teacher of this wonderful genre of music-
It was just meant to be--
Just great!! I'll do it asap. Blessings
Great video!!! Best way to learn is with people that struggles the same way you do! Subscribed!
This is where the good stuff is. The grit of the practice routine. As a beginner I keep thinking that it should be easier. There simply is no substitute for putting the time in. Thanks!
Thank you! That’s right. Just have patience and persistence and you’ll get there!
hahaha!!! colouring made my day
This was an absolutely brilliant experiment! Trying for sure - thank you! I’ll let you know how it goes!
Wonderful!
This is a great video! Your transparency is refreshing, and your heart of care for people super obvious. Thank you so much for posting:)
Amazing teacher! Thank you!
GREAT! This shows how important practicing is!
Haha love it. I've been watching RUclips documentaries while loosening up my left hands. That's how I found you!.thank you!
Great lesson!! I wish I had learned this 50 years ago. I could probably do it in far less time but the idea makes so much sense. Thank you so much Arthur. I'm a classical pianist and have a hard time with boogie woogie practice. Now I know thanks to you. It's so obvious really but it didn't occur to me. Very best regards.
Learning how to practice is so very important especially when you are young.
Thanks Nick!
Excellent and thorough
Thank you for making such an honest (and humble) video! I aspire to play this style, but its daunting to self teach. You have shown me how - and helped to set my expectations, which will help allay frustration! nice one
“Clean your piano”
He’s Mr.Miyagi-ing us!
A really interesting and educational video. You definitely demonstrated that there is no substitute for repetition and hard work.
That is 100% true. No shortcut with this stuff
All your stuff is great. This is very great. Thanks.
Awesome - thank you!!! As a piano teacher, I found the MOST important of this video was the duration of your practice! :D
Hello, It was a very good initiative and motivation to try to do it in the same way, that you do it,but, I din not quite understand which, keys you were, pressing at the begging, but although is a very good way to learn something new, really thank you very much.Sir. A mexican living in Japan.
Thank you! Check the description for a link to the left hand video tutorial
Thank you thank you! For your answer, is very very interesting, the only problem, is my inconsistent behavior some times, I will follow your suggestions..thanks again. A Mexican living in Japan.
Perfect exercises for me, I have a pinched nerve which won't allow me to use my right arm. Now I can continue to practice while stretching, or resting my other arm. You brought back the fun. Many thanks
Great, what a teacher. Thank you.
I like how honest this video is. Now do it in all 12 keys. :D Well done, Sir.
Loved watching this
"Sophie, come here... Of course not" LoL.. I know the feeling.. Keeping it real Arthur.. Great video Brother.. I knew, this had to be a thing.. The time spent is a small price.. I also like to do a thing I call, "Doing within when your doing without.." I mean visualize doing this as you lay down to bed for the night.. It's like practicing. Like you say, time away then coming back is hugely helpful. Now to pick up some coloring books.. ;) Thanks man
Thank you Dan!
That left hand must be nailed to play boogie and this is a great way to get it ingrained-thanks!
Thank You SO MUCH for giving concrete examples of how to actually DO and LEARN something. Seeing your method and process is immensely helpful. You have a new subscriber!
Brilliant vid! Thanks for posting, I've been getting stuck trying to move to fast, hadn't considered training like this. Much appreciated good sir!
Funny thing.. I been playing guitar for 20 years now and had the exact same process there, learning to separate my hands there as well. Learning licks, etc.
Will be fun learning the piano, starting today/tonight. Thanks for sharing !
Hey that's pretty cool. So, yes you know the drill. Just a matter of applying it to piano now :-)