How to Play Piano in 10 mins 

"lets dive straight in" *actually dives in****

Quick way to get your footing on the keyboard: the black keys are in alternating groups of two and three. Think of eating utensils. What utensil has three tines? Fork. Fork starts with F. So, everywhere you see the three tines, the white key immediately to the left of the first tine is an F. With the two tines, think chopsticks, which starts with C, so every white key to the left of the two tines is a C.

Guy, you absolutely MUST do a piano playing lessons course. I felt more inspired to learn keyboard after your 10 minutes than ever before. If you do a course I will buy it! And i am sure lots of others will too. Please do it!

Guy, at this point I just wanted to give my most heartfelt respects and appreciation to you. I started music production over 12 years ago, at the tender age of 12. Over the years, I learned "what kinda works" and were able to eventually get commercial work with that. But I always felt that there is so much more to do, explore and create if only I could wrap my head around theory a bit more. If only most lessons out there weren't so dry or just awfully presented... I found your "Learn Music Theory" course three days ago and I'm amazed by how much fun learning is with your videos. A few lessons in and so many blind spots were filled, I wish I could just play around with my new knowledge the whole day. And all of that for not even 30 bucks? Feels like ripping you off. From a human being to another human being: A grateful, humble >>THANK YOU

"I am all on my own, together, we are sitting at home, together" Couldn't resist haha, same chords :)

Great video .. get “them” excited on the “first” cord and they’ll be hooked for life😊 Cheers from 🇨🇦

The next vid will be "Are M-Audio keyboards waterproof," I expect. :)

When it comes to learning music, this is the Guy for me!

I don't know what I appreciate more, the creativity when it comes to you making videos or how easy you teach musical knowledge. You make it fun learning music👍

I recognized that tune in the pool - it was Handel's Water Music :D Fab stuff as always Guy!!!

Haha. Even underwater, Guy has the same multiple camera setup 😁

First of all how enthusiastic can one be to bring music to people? Secondly: is it really that simple? I'm ready to go ahead, totally excited!

I learned to play "properly". Scales, finger exercises, sight-reading. Recently got given a stack of fun music books for piano & organ. All chord + single line melody. Opened book. Played, Simples. Wish someone had taken this approach with me when I started out learning piano. So rewarding so quickly, we teach newbies the wrong way.

Guy is the definition of commitment. Wish he was my teacher

This has the best intro to a video ever! Brilliant stuff! Love the whole video too! 👍

Thanks for this Guy , turns out I've been playing chords wrong for years . I've been practicing tonight with the correct hand layout and already I'm playing better and making less mistakes and not hitting bum notes . 👏👍👌

I am playing the piano for more than 10 years now and I loved watching this video so much !! I know everything you told but I learned something! Your humorous and wonderful videos make me very happy everytime I watch them

was waiting for it! :) missed you already!

Wow. Someone really likes going all out for his intros. Applause all around. Great video!

Thank you Guy, what a great intro to the world of music (literally testing the water)! You always make it fun and importantly never scary! I just started doing your 'How to Write Music' course which I am loving. Cheers!

Just what I've been looking for. Thank you sir!

Great teacher. Thank you

I learned piano when I was young and never really got very advanced. As a senior now I thought it was too late to play again but you make it fun and easy to learn. Thank you for giving me inspiration and hope again! I am seriously considering buying a keyboard or piano now!

Thank you sir. Nicely done!

Great! I've just started playing around with chord construction (sus, inversions, 7ths etc) and teaching myself music theory, this video highlights the direction I'm going and makes sense. Great video yet again Guy, thanks (that poor poor keyboard...)

Guy this is amazing, feel like it to be expanded to an entire course, I'm sure a lot of people will be lining up to buy it. You're an amazing teacher!

Finally a utility for the M-Audio controller

Thank you so much. In these 10 minutes I learnt more than I have in past, about playing the keyboard. If you ever do a learning to play the piano (or guitar) course, I will buy it; your teaching style suits me. Thanks again.

I really enjoy your video's. Your energy is definitely contagious!

Mr. Michelmore, I've just recently discovered your charming channel, as a self rediscovery of sorts led me to find it. I play multiple instruments. My first ever instrument as a child in the 1980's, were two different 32 key Casio keyboards. My first one had a sort of ROM song memory switchable cartridge, and had lights on above they keys to teach you Greensleeves, or Hey Jude or whatever. My second was that one Casio that famously "sampled" audio with a built in mic. Mostly as a child I would peck about attempting my own renditions of John Williams' famous works among others. Although I had no real lesson training or idea of what I was doing? I eventually pushed away from keys/piano and pursued more "popular" instruments, such as the drums, bass, and guitar circa the 1990's, and for some odd reason? I couldn't explain how all three of those instruments seemingly came to me quite easily to be honest. All by ear. Enough even to have had a decent go at a career over a decade or more ago. I never really figured out why it was that I could seemingly pick up those three instruments naturally like that, but then, just recently, it dawned on me. As a child? I had inadvertently trained my ear via Casio, by copying (to my best abilities) the works of Carl W. Stalling, John Williams, Goldsmith, and Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf (a personal favorite record as a child). Apparently? Once I had discovered The Beatles, and then moved into my teenage years? I was then ready to subjectively fly blind through it all. It's absolutely bonkers really, but explains it quite well. Currently however, and upon recently discovering the advantages of MIDI? Much with your help? I have now found myself within a completely fresh new world of symphonic inspiration that feels like coming round full circle. My free copy of Spitfire's BBC symphony orchestra Discover arrives next weekend. I honestly can't wait! Cheers & Many Thanks!!

All these years... I should have thought of composing underwater. What have I been thinking all this time? You are always such an inspiration, my dear man!

Guy! I think you are the most inspiring guy on RU-vid. Always fun and uplifting whilst keeping the core of the topic up front. Can't play the keys but love your content..... wish we were neighbours!!

This works. I'm self taught on guitar, bass, drums and piano. Every lesson on how to is exactly how I taught myself. Love the channel can you do one on how to get a midi keyboard connected. I've never worked it out

Just watching this has inspired me, even though I can already play basic stuff. Sir, you are a legend!

Would you be Willing to make another video diving deeper into how to play the piano?

your dedication to playing the keys in difficult environments is admirable!

I just discovered you a few days ago. You're a legend. Thanks for everything you do. Your videos and even more so the knowledge contained in them is absolutely magical.

Really x3 inspiring. Thank you for the content.

Thanks Guy, great video. I hope you continue with more videos in this series

you are simply wonderful! Thank you for your character and your way to explain something to us

I love this Guy!!!!!!!!!

I see the Guy Michelmore giveaway coming on. “Win the actual keyboard I went swimming with!!! Worked prior to filming, so...”

Guy I just love your enthusiasm and energy. You make eveything fun and interesting. I really enjpoy watching your videos very much. How refreshing :)

Came here for wonderful music lessons, stayed for the wonderful role model that is @Guy Michelmore. I am learning so much about music from you, but so much more about being a decent human, lol, you got a whole positive vibe about you bro, it is needed in the world. So much love man, cheers!

Very cool video. This is how I started learning piano, the same way I learned guitar.

Dear Guy, thank you for making the process of composing music so fascinating and so easy to understand! I really enjoy watching your videos and so does my mum! I just got interested in creating piano music and I would love to show you my miserable attempts to do it, if possible!

You are so much fun to watch and learn from. I've always thought this stuff was beyond me. You've given me inspiration to give it a try and to make it fun and understandable. THANK YOU!

The 7:36 inversions area is beautiful! Guy, thank you so much for the inspiring, positive, and instructive videos! Your videos and works will inspire so many people to explore and learn the magic of playing music! 🌝 🎵 Wishing you the best, and take care! ♥️

Love the videos. Your overhead camera has a blurry spot in the middle of the lens. Might want to clean that.

The music teacher I wish I had! Brilliant!

Uh oh. :) You've outdone yourself with that intro Guy, not to mention the valuable approach for beginning piano. I mean the chords, not playing underwater. ;)

Guy in 5-10 years when remaking this video: "Alright if you're up for that let's dive straight in!". **proceeds to skydive out of an airplane at mach 5 with his now retired s88.**

Clear, fun and extraordinary style to teach..this man made me MORE excited about buying and playing the piano for the very very first time..I only wish that he's my teacher that teaches me face to face..just finished watching first video from this channel "music theory in 16 mins" and I surprised that I understood that easily.... SUBSCRIBED 😍💙

This. was. in. cred. ible. I like your style. Thank you! Subbed. MORE LIKE THIS!

Thankyou!

I love your enthusiasm! Also thanks for the cheat sheet! My students and I will love this!

All of this is spectacular. Just a brilliant piece of modern culture. Everything is better underwater.

Guy: "Now I've dried off" But has your keyboard dried off?

Guy - I love your videos. I always learn something, and you always make me laugh while I am doing it.

oh my god this is amazing, i really hope you make this into a series

You are a real professional. If you cant teach a ten-year-old you don't know what you are talking about. The lesson start at 2:15

Love the videos and your enthusiasm guy :)

great video ❤❤❤✊✊✊✊

7:46 - watching you move effortlessly into the thicker jungle of the dreaded black notes, I am irresistibly reminded of my father's story [on this one occasion, a true one] of Irving Berlin's transposing piano: this beast - a real piano - used a wheel to move the keyboard in relation to the strings so that he could get the right sounding notes while playing everything in the key that came most naturally to him - which was, of course - F#.......what? As he said, "The black keys are right there, under your fingers. The key of C is for people who study music."

Thank you so much for your lessons. Just subscribed to your thinkspace theory course. You're funny and entertaining and make learning so much more fun and easy!! I'm all creative right brain and like zero mathematical theory left brain and I have the hardest time working out time signatures and so forth =( but you're making it fun!

Absolutely brilliant intro Guy!!!!

Thanks for this video about learning to play the piano. I am more encouraged to learn how to play.

I nearly choked with laughter as you jumped in the pool with your old controller. Such a great opener. Great video & content as always. I look forward to future videos: How to write music while camping Making music on an Airbus A360 My 3 tube stations masterpiece Scoring a movie whilst at the cinema

Well i never thought it was that easy... Trying my virtual keyboard app RN 🤗 Thank You,,, u r amazing... Universe is with you

Pure class Guy.

You're Awesome! Thanks!

You make learning FUN!!!!

You are so creatively delightful!!!!! :D luv your vids!!!

Nice!!

All in one place, learning, humor and great voice. Love from Pakistan :)

Love your approach ……

Fantastico

I loved your "suspensions and inversions" sequence :)

This channel needs 1M subscribers!!

Dude that intro, I don't know what to say. Your sort of chaotic energy is perfect 😄

Epic! Just enrolled on your Scuba diving course.

*_Who else just clicked this video to see him playing piano underwater_* :-)

the underwater bit was funny & amazing lol

This video helped me because I didn't learn to play an instrument or reading notes. Thanks!

Love it! What's the new toy on top of the Komplete Kontrol keyboard?

I would literally attend your class on learning the piano if you taught somewhere... anywhere! 💖

Guy, not only do you teach very valuable stuff in your videos but you have a natural ability to make people happy with your energy and creativity. Love your work.

Totally bonkers but heck; it's brilliantly simple!! Piano 101 A la Guy!!

Lovely distraction to pull me away from work. Based on a previous video you uploaded, you said at some point it really is worth learning the names of chords and the notes that make them up. So, in tandem with your short courses, that's exactly what I'm doing. (And you also talked about doing a video some time re the advantage of using fifths and diminished chords if I recall). You're so engaging, it makes this all so much more fun :).

parabéns pela introdução

Waiting for your next video on piano learning 😍

brilliant

I’ve always learned how to play piano by just sitting down in front of one and start making music. From an early age I could always just sit at a piano and improvise within a mode or scale. I played the music for my sisters art show only because there happened to be a Piano there - so I just started improvising and creating compositions off the cuff for a few hours. Unfortunately, I never learned how to play chords properly or technique. But now that my musical ideas are getting more complex, I’m more inclined to learn about chords. But still, I’m more of a melody person. I think that’s why non western, old medieval and other early music appeals to me so much.

I came here purely to congratulate you on that thumbnail. That, together with the description is so totally crazy, how could I not click? And then you came through in your intro; wow!

Brilliant post as always Guy. Just one note actually more than one, from middle C and the two octaves above the overhead camera is smudged!

Once again loved the lesson Guy. But as a new starter I couldnt believe you took the Oxygen 88 swimming !!

This guy really loves his job, that's inspiring.

Dear Guy, you are such a lovely crazy guy that it's heart warming 👍😊 Watching your YT videos should be compulsory in schools music lessons, because you are so inspiring! I must say however, that I feel pity for your good ole M-Audio keyboard... hasn't deserved that kind of an end 😉😎

I fully expected this to be a spoof on all the life-hack type videos about playing music. But, no, he actually gave useful fundamental info for the musically illiterate. Exactly what I learned from teenage musicians when I was about 8.

Your intro is the best! It's cool, I mean it