5 Simple Things to Practice to Become a Better Piano Player 

As a pretty much self-taught pianist this is so helpful, thank you

I'm a self -taught beginner piano player (startet one year ago) and even ist something is a little bit to complicated I learned so much from your channel and from this video! THank you! :)

Thank you

I’m sorry to do this but I’m friggin obsessed with your playing buddy..unbelievable technique and tips for growth you offered as well! You improv freaking beautifully bruh 🔥🔥

This is the first time anyone has ever said to learn your songs by numbers and not scale names. That makes so much sense. Now I have to see if I can do it after 20 years of playing. Probably not, but it's a cool way of learning.

I am so glad I that your channel.

Thanks for this, man! Excited to try these out. Would love more such content around building independence. That's been a very hard thing to build as a self-taught player.

Good reminder to get the basics down first

The New York City subway's "A" train runs north-south along the west side of Central Park. According to legend, Duke Ellington gave Billy Strayhorn some directions to his home in Harlem that started with "Take the 'A' Train." The key is unrelated to the story, but the recorded arrangement starts in C and changes key to E-flat. The "jam session" version usually starts and ends in the key of C.

Thank you. This was a joy to listen to.

Awesome tips! Thank you so much

One of the best “top skills for beginners” videos I’ve seen on here for piano players. Great content. Definitely earned a subscriber

This is gold. Thank you.

Sam thank you for all that you do hearing you play has inspired me to start playing the piano again! I appreciate you man

Excellent tips and playing. Supplemental to your scale & arp advice: to make scale practice less boring, vary up *how* you play them. Triplets and other rhythms will emphasize different fingers. Playing staccato vs legato, left vs right and v.v., playing totally different scales against each other no matter how ugly, etc, playing pianissimo, polyrhythms, etc, and combinations. Also, you briefly mentioned it (I think) but your fully altered C7 scale was just C# minor melodic from C to C (via TT sub, it’s the m.m. Scale a fifth up from F#s root.) Not that you don’t know that, but it really should be mentioned, IMO.

I have been watching videos on youtube for over 15 Years, and you are by far the BEST of the BEST teacher Man. THANK YOU Automatic subscriber here!

Love your playing Beard Guy. As Miles would say, "nice touch". Bravo 👏

Listening to you makes me a better player! 🤷🏾‍♂️

Dear bro thanking you a lot for a wonderful improvisation lesson.

Great video thanks!

thank you!

So good! You're a fantastic player Sam. I'll get right to practicing all this so I can one day be half the player and tutor you are :)

nice video concept, really helpful!

Great master

Cool stuff. wondeful playing and solid help. You earned my sub sam!

No comfort zone for being a better player...Love it bro, auto sub!

Very useful video thanks for sharing. For a total beginner like myself it would be useful to see you go over the scales you mention one by one with a focus on fingers, because I struggle to understand what fingers to use and it goes quite fast in the current recordings.

I've created exactly the same routine program for my pianists students that's crazy !

Thank you for the great video. You are such a smart guy! Could you please do more videos on improvisation? Thanks.

Great

Amazing content as always! I was wondering wether you had any tips on breaking out of your playing comfort zone/harmonic creativity

I absolutely love this! Will you please make another video? 37 things sounds good lol!

Thanks for sharing these. These are things we all should know to do but don't do. By the way, (since I see a stack of them in the background always), I'm looking forward to the '5 simple things a piano piano that wants to learn to play the guitar needs to do' video!

Top!

That's a super-locrian scale (20:15). At least that's how I learned it back in the day. LOVE your channel, and you're a BEAST!!

Sir I've been playing for about 3 years now. I hope to someday reach this but at the moment no where close but thanks for the advice. Self teaching is very hard I'm finding out.

3:37 "That's a lot harder" but you make it look easy

Great performance. Thank you for sharing, Wish you a nice day and i'm waiting for your new video!

How do some one ever get this good in playing ,Sam you something else bro 😂

I just subscribed to ur channel...i can see something incredible here.....

Do you do lessons man? Would love to work with you

22:20 Yes and Thank You!!!

Man, it would be great if you could explain your fast scale (16th notes) you use a lot when you go loco 💪💪 Mostly this is downwards movement.

This was an awesome stream

When I play an altered scale, I think of melodic minor but starting with the 7th. So on C7, I think of a C# melodic minor starting on C.

Thanks for vid, btw at 26.55 you sounded EXACTLY like Ben Folds.

thanks man, really wanting to learn piano as a young producer! how long have you been playing?

Can you make a top 5 things to have a better summer beach bod?

When he started doing the Jazz part I could’ve sworn he played in the movie “Soul”😂😂🔥🔥🔥🎹🎩

Need a music thery lesson advanced chords and resolutions plsss

De dog it’s almost the same color of your hoodie. Nice environment shifting

And you’re Christian 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾.. dope bro

The hardest thing I do with scales is learning what the cross-over points are for each hand to keep them fluid. Do you have any teaching/training vids showing how to approach each scale and each hand on when the thumb or finger crosses over. Man, I struggle with this!!

When practicing scales on piano, how do you know what fingers to use and when to shift your hand positions?

What keyboard is that? It seems super responsive. Nice.

As someone starting out, this is really helpful - I really appreciate it! Are you using the korg d1's onboard sound for this video or keyscape maybe? Sounds great

My Akai mimi is getting ready for me after I finish this video 😏

What are the basic fingerings for scales? It almost looks like you're only using 3 fingers per hand to walk up and down.

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Can you show how to play fast the scales?

I’m a total noob player. Not young either, so I’m hoping I can play half-way decent before my hands become mush. It’s been hard for me to get going because of hand pain. Getting better but I have to be careful. Btw, an overhead camera angle would be awesome if you can swing it.

How to keep the rhythm when the run is super fast?thks

If I didn’t have a reasonable self esteem I’d just quit piano after hearing this! Dang he’s got some chops!

Hey Bearded Guy - the 1st step you say is practicing scales. Which scales should we practice besides the major and the diminished?

Hi Sam, I have a request. Can you review Soundbrenner Pulse Metronome watch as I trust only you on RU-vid 🥺. I was thinking of buying it but it feels all the reivews are biased.

Can you make a 5 simpler things video lol this is pretty advanced stuff. You’re a beast dude!

What are you practicing?

can someone explain me the point of left hand scales

« Simple » things? I watched the first one and tuned out.

Which piano do you use ? 🤔

Can we get a "5 tips to make you a better singer and rapper" from your wife please? Just kidding, love your stuff man.

Do you give lessons?

29 to 30, the best 15 years of your life.

Lol...you said "A-Hole step." Sorry...3 beers later and you in the background and that's all I could come up with.

26:55

Fcuk, thats it. I'm burning my piano.

How have you develop your ear 👂🏽

Exceptional pianist. Often sound like a gospel player; is this intentional or just a jazz crossover?

Good stuff... It's my eyes or you don't really follow the traditional fingering that most teachers will preach, and use mostly fingers 1-3? Can you elaborate? THANKS!

Impossible to do

After this video, Sam's Metronome needed a bottle of scotch.

This video made me realize how much of a Noob I am

Just maybe Stevie, Lenon and McCartney, Monk, Gershwin, Amadeus and so many countless others didn't focus so much on scalar movement, but using their ears placed any note anywhere in any rhythmic context, juxtaposition on any chord in any form and evoked any emotion any feeling that the human being (theta) would respond to creating Music.. Just saying. Keep playing. Music is life itself.

Instead of metronome.... Play with youtube music videos...🤘

it would be easier to just quit.........

I think this was a flex…not a lesson! lol

dude you need to practice. lol

Piano lessons by dude, who don't use all five fingers on scales. Let's do all things wrong and share it on youtube, yeah.