Thanks so much for your videos. I took a brief course in piano 25 years ago and forgot it all. Now at 56 years old, I got the motivation to learn again and I find your videos pleasant, clear and easy to follow advise.
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I'm 34 years old, I'd been trying to learn to play the piano unsuccessfully many times before... This year I tried again and finally made some baby steps!! But what really encourages me was a one of your videos I saw on 2022. It reminds me how happy I am around the piano. Your feelings towards what your passion, your vibes and how you enjoy giving advices and good tips help me a lot. You said what I need to heard, now I embrace my passion at my own pace... I know I am on the right track this time thanks to you. I will watch all your videos from the very beginning. I hope you will be safe and healthy to share with us your magic for the years to come. Thanks again, you save my dream, turning it into a goal
I really like you're enthusiasm :) I realize for me it's really important to learn from someone with a great attitude like yours, who still knows what they're talking about. Thanks for doing this for free :)
I wonder why it took me so long to subscribe to your channel. Every time I search for a high-quality explanation of some issues I have, I come across one of your videos at the end and my problem is solved. You also have such an inspiring nature to motivate people and make them happy just by listening to you. Great work!
I feel so proud that these are the same methods I intuitively used while learning the scales. I've learnt to play all major and minor scales starting on white keys so far. Great content!
What a shock! I routinely warm up with scales to loosen up my 78 year old fingers, and am fairly competent with them without having to look. I thought your idea of descending first was a great idea for a pleasant change. Surprise! It gives a totally different feel - beginning with - oops, what finger do I start on. It IS a great idea and makes me realize how we fall into the trap of doing scales somewhat mechanically. Starting at the top the first few times has made me feel like I was starting all over again. A great wake up call. Thanks Jazer, it's now part of my routine.
These are very good tips, especially the one about stopping at the octave. With the second tip, I imagine it would benefit many students who have a tendency to start from the beginning if they make a mistake. Strangely, for me, it's always easier to go down the scale than up. And playing blind comes naturally to me - I rarely look at the keys anyway, unless learning a piece where hands jump a lot. But again, it would be a great tip for beginners.
@@kapilyoutube interesting question. I'm sorry if I can't answer to your satisfaction. Perhaps it's to do with a good space awareness, perhaps it's to do with me being a good mathematician, well associating symbols with their meaning. To explain : each key on a piano has an unambiguous place on the stave lines, allowing for the clef and key signature. But perhaps it's simpler. Constant practice of scales, chords and arpeggios gradually allows fingers to remember where they should land when eyes see the notes on paper. Perhaps it's to do with my childhood teacher, who never played me the music, but made me read it at home, to prepare for the lesson, and only then correcting any mistakes. Perhaps it's to do with my musical sensitivity, which rarely allowed me to read music incorrectly. I started playing piano at 8. I don't actually remember looking at my fingers much, in fact, I would get somewhat confused if I force myself to look at the keyboard, say when I'm trying to remember a particularly difficult passage. It's as if I had to switch to a different part of brain. I don't know if this helped you at all, I hope it did.
@@silverlinings3946 surely it validates what I thought. You being a mathematician inherently implies you’d be way above par with abstracts. Thank you for replying. I have a long ways to go. Started piano two years ago.
@@kapilyoutube I wonder if you should try something else. Trying to copy simple melodies on piano, and then writing the music out, and working out the signature key out of that. I remembered that as a child I would write out the Christmas carols, just a melody lines, then attempting to add accompaniment. It's probably a good idea to make the notes less abstract. For me, they are more like letters of the alphabet.
I have an exam in piano in 6 hours. I am supposed to know every major, melodic and natural minor scale at a certain tempo, along with some other tests and exercises. I am far from prepared and most scales i cant play fast enough. I will be using these tips and praying that i’ll pass.
1st: Thank you for your videos, & 2nd: I’ve been doing the closing of my eyes to really get good muscle memory since I started playing. Stopping at the octave marks, & starting out on the descending at the start off has really gotten me at a more flowable rate of playing scales.
I've only been playing again after a near 30 year hiatus, and its amazing that some of the tips you give are methods I use to relearn! thank you so much, great channel sir.
Merci beaucoup, Jazer. I watched one of your videos 8 months ago and went out and bought a piano after my retirement. And it's changed my life. I used to laugh and say I was born with two left ears. Great tips for the scales, especially playing with the eyes closed. But also for descending scales. I've asked two people about this, one a Professor at our local Conservatory as well as a Julliard trained pianist. We all learn our scales as Do Ré Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do. And Ti is the leading tone, bringing us back home. What if they trained a student Do Ti La Sol Fa Mi Ré Do, so that Ti would be leading someone away from home on a journey which though familiar, would maybe open up new pathways.
You are a gifted teacher and an excellent pianist Jazer! I have only watched 2 tutorials from you and I am already learning a lot. As a senior, I am self taught, though I had basic piano lessons when I was 6 & 7 year old (just 2 years). Thankful, I still remember to read music notes but very s--l--o---w! Need to get some tips from you to improve my sight reading and techniques. Thank you for your tutorials. Keep posting please!
I memorized like the first 4 scales like C, G, D and F major. But the more I learn, I felt like my mind is blocked! Perhaps I learn too many scales at the same time? I will try your technique (1 & 2 - not 3 yet!) and I hope I will no longer have a phobia of looking at the scales. Thank you so very much. Oh. And I should practice scales every day instead of once or twice a week.🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂!!! Now I learn from your techniques. Thank you.👏👏👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Another home run of a video. Really knocked it out of the park! Two minutes in I heard the Turkish March in the back and couldn't help but see Lang Lang's jubilant face as he plays the song, having more fun than anybody else in the world has ever had!
Hey man thanks for the octave pause tip, that seems to have helped me during a practice session. I’ll keep trying... Also in your other video about sight reading, the cloth... on point. Thank you, subscribed.
so funny Jazer, you said to close your eyes when doing scales practice, because, when I learnt typewriting using 10 fingers system we had to cover the keyboard! YES we had to type the letters blind! Im not at all surprised that it works for doing the scales blind too! Thank you Jazer! Cheers Robyn from the land down under but living in Switzerland :)
@@jazerleepiano With the left hand is starting out with little finger an option as well, instead of thumb? I now understand how badly trained my thumb is, so perhaps I should just stick with it so it become stronger.
Jazzer it is one thing to be the player of an instrument vs a teacher of an instrument. When I was in high school we had a math teacher from Scotland. His name was McTavish. He would walk into the classroom. He would put his attaché down take out his chalk and text book. Turn his back to to the class. Write the math problem and solution on the chalkboard then sit down. Then expect us to understand. That is like you speeding through what you are playing and you expect us to understand. Some will. Most won’t.
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very good job señor. hope you make a video of how to place our fingering moves back and forward like in this E scale you made. greetings from Huntington Beach Ca
Jazer lee require us to be concious when applying a scale formula in one octave, B4 applying again towards the right or left. more he say is that play backwards also and also that play a scale while closing the eyes, you want to use your sense or feelings or pillar with your hands.
Hi Jazer I love you and your channel! I learnt scales years ago over 4 octaves using the metronome and for me it was very useful starting with 1 note per beat then 2, 3 and 4 notes I always had difficulty doing the 4 notes per beat though as my playing isn’t fluid with speed but I suppose it’s because I learnt piano as an adult
The mind just tends to work better going left to right, rather than right to left. They found this out during WW2 when training machine gunners. They were always more accurate when going from left to right.
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Tip #4: Learn a keyboard instrument with an isomorphic key layout so that learning one scale, you automatically learn them all. Such as the Lippens or Janko keyboards.
I'm surprised no one has answered this. No, I wouldn't recommend memorizing fingering (: I would recommend learning the scales in order. Starting at C Major, then progressing through the keys with sharps and then, finally, going over the keys with flats. From F Major on. So C Major, G Major, D Major etc. I purchased about 20 piano books trying to find one that covered scales properly. I wasn't successful. However, a really good guitar player at work mentioned to me on a side note if I knew the circle of fifths... THIS changed my life. I would recommend memorizing the order in which Sharps appear in music followed by the order in which Flats appear. The relative minor keys will of course be cake once you have all the keys of music memorized. Before I figured out I needed to memorize the order in which these things appear, I was struggling to memorize scales period. Including proper fingering etc. I would want sheet music to see the notes. But you don't need sheet music to memorize and perfectly play all the scales on the piano. Once you know the order of sharps and flats, you're gold. I hope this helps someone! P.S. The best scale book I was able to find is "The Complete Book of Scales, Chords, Arpeggios & Cadences" by Palmer, Manus & Lethco. However, it isn't perfect in my humble opinion. I kept getting stuck not being able to retain all the keys of music. They could explain and make things 100x easier IMHO.
There are principles of fingering for scales - patterns and "rules" which help you remember the fingering. Of course you must know which sharps and flats are in each key. For example, the fingering and the following "rules" (patterns) are the same for the keys of C, G, D, A, and E major, and c, d, e, g, and a minor (melodic, harmonic, and natural). 1. the 4th finger in each hand only plays 1 note in each octave - either just before or just after the key note 2. the 3rd fingers in both hands play at the same time Fingering using C major (2 octaves): RH: 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 4 3 2 1 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 3 2 1 c d e f g a b c d e f g a b c b a g f e d c b a g f e d c LH: 5 4 3 2 1 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 3 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 Other keys have different fingerings but some share similar rules and patterns in one hand or the other - for example thumbs always play on white keys. The Schmitt Preparatory Exercises book also has scale and arpeggio notes and fingerings at the end in an appendix.
@@aBachwardsfellow This is good and I can add to it a little bit. It is helpful to learn the scales in 'groups'. So, learn, C, G, D, A and E Major together - this is group 1 and they all use the same fingering as C Major. Group 2 is B, F#/Gb and C#/Db major - these don't all use the same fingering but use the same principle - You always play the groups of three black keys with fingers 4, 3 and 2, and the groups of two black keys with fingers 3 and 2, with the thumb always going on a white key in between those groups of black keys. Group 3 takes a bit more thought but it includes F, Bb, Eb and Ab major - In the right hand, finger four will always go on Bb. In the Left hand, finger four will always go on the fourth scale degree (though this does produce a different fingering to how many people learn to play an F major scale, it makes more sense to me this way). This way rather than just learning fingering, you understand why the fingering is the way it is. I think it is a much better way to learn and memorise scale fingerings.
@@legatissimomusiceducation yes! Thanks so much for sharing this. I know there are groups which share similar fingering patterns but did not remember which ones are which. The technical resource I used (and still use) is Louis Plaidy, "Technical Studies for the Piano" This seems to be relatively unknown among piano posts - mostly we hear of Hanon and sometimes Schmitt.. I would recommend that every pianist look into Plaidy as an excellent compilation of technical studies including many similar to Schmitt and Hanon. The appendix by A. Knecht in Schmitt - beginning on p. 20 is a nice concise reference for fingerings for scales, arpeggios, and more.
