Which improv technique was your favourite? 😍 0:00 Intro 1:11 Left Hand 3:01 Technique 1: Single Long Notes 3:42 Technique 2: Simple Melody 4:29 Technique 3: Scales 5:40 Technique 4: Thirds 6:24 Technique 5: Sixths 7:28 All Techniques Demo
This is the best kind of video that a beginner can find. Not overwhelming, with slow tempo, left hand pattern with not so many notes and endless possibilities for right hand improvisation to make beautiful melodies (even by accident :D ).I wish I came across such videos many years ago when I started playing… :) I really like the quality of your content and it helps me a lot in creating my own youtube piano lessons. I hope one day to grow my channel to your level :)
The last time I was at a piano store, the salesman thought I was playing a piece by Scarlatti. Have done some music arrangement reworking pieces for other instruments. Improv is something a lot of students wouldn't normally do because we have a teacher and learn to read other's music note for note. Not many people are comfortable playing in front of others. Being able to improv allows people to do just that.
Another great lesson from you. It gives us newbies a shot of enthusiasm to practice everyday and sound a lot more advanced then we are. The non players have no idea how relatively simple this is.
I've always felt that Mozart was the master of simplicity and could make a single note hang in the air, leaving you breathless. Your "Single long Note" technique reminded me of that. Thank you for sharing.
i do not like typing cause it takes for...e...ver for me, but i gotta say something especially to the people who put the time helping others. i listened to your song with a smile on my face a whole time. i was so happy, loved all the technique and after all i think that i have found a piece easy enough for beginner and sound wonderful as well. Thanks Jazer
Just. Wow. I just can't believe that after only one week I'm able to follow along and do this (very tentatively for now, but still). Wow. Thank you Jaser for enabling newbies and giving us a taste of musical magic :)
Hi! Would love to hear you actually play something one day, a full piece. Do I sense a holiday performance in our near future?...and the crowd goes wilddd. Wouldn't ask for or expect anything crazy. You just play so beautifully.
I discovered your site this morning when I needed help playing piano using chords. Your teaching method fits my learning style so perfectly! I've spent most of the day watching your various videos and bouncing back and forth from my computer to my piano to practice what you were showing your viewers. It has been one of my happiest days ever at piano! (I'm the 70-year-old that has no gift.) This video is the last I watched today. It may be the only way I play again! (Well, that's an exaggeration, but you get the idea!) LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this lesson! THANK YOU!!!
I'm a beginner as well and I am 77. My significant other can also play. We like your channel the best of anyone. You take your time to explain and make it easy to follow. I like the single long notes and the sixths. Can't wait to try it! Thank you.
I've been playing for 10 years, and recently got burnt out after moving to uni, your videos are giving me the motivation to pick it up again! Thank you for your content!!
This technique make me sound musical this is what i was looking for many many years before thank you very much and keep posting more videos like this god bless you and your family
God bless you and your family you are changing my life with this technique i was listening this kind of technique for years i didnt know what is going on i was asking my self if i could play in the future now that i know what is going on i felt that the doors begins to open for me thank you once more i keep posting more videos like these
Very beautiful improvisation. I my self play alot using just the white keys. C major is an easy key which i use alot when playing popular music. I will try this tuneful method to warm up my fingers.
Very nice video indeed! It sounds great! The next step after that for students will be to understand exactly why it works --- in the theory part. That is - for the selected pattern of the left hand notes ---- the understanding behind why the right-hand notes sound good with those left-hand note patterns. Thanks Jazer!
The reason it works is because the left hand is playing chords in the key of C and the right hand is playing notes in the key of C (basically any white note) so any note you play will sound good with any of the chords.
So theoretically, you should be able to do this in any key if you use the IV-V-vi progression in the left hand and the notes of the scale in the right hand. Try it in the key of G using C-D-E in the left hand and all white keys except for the F (play F#) in the right.
Second time watching, and with a little more music theory. Starting scales adds a new mode, or colour. They are also called Church Tones. C - Ionian D - Dorian E - Phrygian F - Lydian G - Myxolydian A - Aeolian or Natural Minor B - Lochrian which is the darkest scale
