I just cannot get enough of this woman! She is just a wonderful teacher and when she names EACH keynote or chords by letters with charts or POPUPS symbols just make it all easier to follow..... ❤️🆕🆕❤️
I am 63 years old. When I was 28 I had organ lessons. When I was 58 I bought a Yamaha Tyros and played with the experience I had on the Tyros. I always wanted to learn to play the piano since I was 28, but that never happened. I saw your videos on RU-vid and immediately felt like learning to play the piano. I then bought a Roland FP10 and am now trying to follow your learning method.
I've always had the passion to learn to play the keyboard, and now, at 58, I bought my first keyboard. I've been searching on RU-vid to find some tips and techniques step-by-step. I have gone through dozens of videos until I came across yours, and I find very catching onto and hoping to learn more from your videos .
I have been of more interest to know how to play the piano .having more interested in piano basic and simple playing techniques. Although I bought a piano recently. Am 43 on ege from kenya East Africa. Obliged
Hello. I'm excited to have come across your channel. I really wanted to learn cords and NOT that baby stuff. I feel like this is perfect for me. Thanks so much.
Hello...why wouldn't someone want to learn the piano? It is a very engaging instrument. I finally have the time and patience to try and learn. Thank you for the encouragement!!
I'm 62 and this really is my first piano lesson. I bought my piano today! This lesson is packed with info, and I am glad to know my arthritic curled fingers are the correct shape for piano playing.
67 yo. I've tried to teach myself a couple times with books but got frustrated and stopped. One of your lessons was on my youtube, I watched and was very impressed. Watched another, and I was sold. Your humor is much appreciated, I started yesterday and am really excited to learn.
This is Ilyas Inderyas here from Islamabad Pakistan. I'm a musician and can play western flute and guitars. Now, I need to learn keyboard. I liked this first lesson so much as your teaching methods are great to understand in a least time span. I plan to take all your lessons for the beginners. Keep up the best you have been doing. Blessings 🙏
I’ll be 62 in a month, whacked at the drums a bit, but had too many melodies in my head that I could never get out of my head to my fingers. Learning notes on the keyboard, while trying to learn notes on the staff just wasn’t (isn’t) working. I need to learn where on the keyboard are the sounds in my head. Your method allows me to quickly relate keyboard areas (regions) and how they relate. It’s sort of like learning guitar by strumming chords versus trying to play classical guitar finger picking as a beginner while trying to read sheet music. You can’t be musical with your hands when your brain is stuck interpreting notes from sheet to keyboard.
I subscribed! I want to learn because I have always wanted to but never had time or the ability to focus. Now I am older more relaxed and got anew piano!
Thanks for asking, Kaitlyn. I am 41 from Greece. I want to learn the piano because I love music and I find joy in playing music alone or with the company of others. I already play the electric bass amateurishly, but the piano and the keyboards are totally different than that. Playing music is so beneficial, healing and a means of socialization. I think it's the most enjoyable and powerful mental exercise. Also, I like learning and developing new dexterities in general.
My mother played piano and read music she was amazing, she always wanted me to learn and she would teach me but never happened, i love music and more so piano so i don't know why its taken so long to actually do it , ive had 2 lessons so far and everything you say is so right 😂 , i came across you just flicking through RU-vid and i have to say you're 1 amazing lady the way you come across and how easy you explain things and make it fun and not a chore so top marks from me and ive subscribed for more keep up the good work and hopefully ill progress quicker than i thought
I'm 61 years old and have always been a music lover. I dabble with guitar but the piano haunts me. So, I bought a nice used piano and found you ! I'm very excited about learning. You make it very understandable. I'm not really a book person so your tutorials are great. Thanks for being you !
I'm 58 and my entire life I wanted to learn the piano. My reason is both challenging myself and learning something new. It also seems like a activity that will be brain stimulating, I love puzzles and I can see the piano as a puzzle to solve. It is overwhelming and I even asked myself "what am I doing at 58?" Unsure how I will progress, trying to build finger dexterity with scales and learning how to read the notes. But I'm starting slow, scales, reading, and looking for and easy song that will help me with my motivation. I like your teaching style slow enough to comprehend yet not too slow to be boring. There is so much to learn!
After decades using typewriters (but not playing pianos) I find curved fingers absolutely natural and wonder why anybody would hold their fingers flat.
I retired and I'm 66 and I have always wanted to play a piano but I never had the time until now. About a month ago I bought a Yamaha keyboard with 76 keys to learn on. Yamaha gave me a free membership to a lesson site to get started, but the technique teaching is a little lacking on that site. I found your videos and am now cleaning up my techniques to make it work better and sound a little better. I'm learning the keyboard, I never marked the keys, I'm just learning where they are from sight and feel and I'm learning to read music in the treble clef at the same time. I'm really enjoying this adventure and am looking forward to learning a lot more as time goes by.
Hi, I'm 70 yo today and have promised myself to play the piano we've had for 40 years. I've watched some of your tuitions on RU-vid and really impressed. Thankyou for inspiring me. Cheers, Rob from Australia 🇦🇺
Watching you from Moscow.... You language is very clear, I understand almost every word, learn how musical terms sound in English. Your lessons are very interesting. Thanks! And good luck!!
I love your style of teaching piano. I've been teaching myself since Christmas and struggling to learn notes still. I subscribed to you yesterday and can memorize chords...I've always wanted to play the piano since a young girl. I'm 46 and just now starting...
I’m using my niece’s old Yamaha keyboard and relearning how to play piano. I’ve had lessons many years ago. My first instrument was an accordion so I struggle with the left hand. I’d like to teach my sister who is 80 years old too. The idea of starting with chords makes it sound nice. I like it.
I want to finish once and for all to learn to play it has been a passion all my life to play. I had got married then the children came then my career. Now I live alone with my piano and have all this free time for me now. And mostly of all I would love to play and sing to the Almighty God to give him glory. Because is the one who gave me the gift..I also love your way of teaching I can understand you very easily. Thank you!!❤🎉
Took lessons for about 2 or 3 months in 1985 and stopped (won't go into detail why, but it had to do with my ex and her daughter). I have a keyboard and kept playing for awhile, but stopped. I recently got back into it now that I'm retired. They say learning a new language or an instrument is the best thing to keep your mind sharp. I really enjoyed this lesson. I have a small keyboard, so I'm limited to keys (64). Took me only a few minutes to get the C and D notes and Chords. Thank you for these lessons and I hope you keep making them.
The church I was in this man played a piano, but sadly he passed and his wife donated me his antique piano, when I was younger I was taking piano lessons very shortly till we moved away, so now it is my dream to learn how to play hopefully someday for the church! ❤
I’m 66 and have always wanted to play the piano. We have an old baby grand piano but I’ve never felt comfortable learning it since it’s in a living room and would disturb my wife and dogs if I practiced. I just acquired a high end keyboard that was seldom used and have placed it in a spare bedroom. After watching many videos, I purchased a bench and head set so that I don’t disturb anyone. I want learn to play by ear but due want to learn to read music. I found your videos to be easy to understand and I’ll be using your piano planner. You have an excellent teaching method. Thank you for the inspiration.
I want to learn to play piano. There's nothing I can do better with time. I feel weaker everyday. I was blind once for about three years until I was lucky enough to get a free eye surgery in two consecutive years. I was using Davis 955 Piano Keyboard with 61 keys for several years now however a slow learner, I was enjoying as I strike the keys and pretty excited how my fingers can work with some of the keys I can hardly remember what name it was. I enjoy most of the sounds I was able to create while practicing broken chords, sometimes not really. Thank you for sharing your channel with your skills and talent. I don't regret starting off late to learn piano looking years back because there's still months left, but with you around, no need to struggle to enjoy playing piano in years.
So nice your lesson. Finally I find someone who can teach for really beginners. I just want to learn a music instrument and help my little one enjoy music instruments and have fun playing music. Thank you so much.
I started teaching myself guitar at the age of 52. Last year at the age of 58 I developed severe rheumatoid arthritis and I cannot bend my fingers well enough to easily play guitar chords. So I got a keyboard and decided to try the piano since I can keep my fingers Fairly straight. I’m not really into piano and I would love to get back to guitar but I enjoy playing music and maybe I will learn to love the piano. Also, I am legally blind, and cannot see well enough to read sheet music even on the computer zoomed in. So this is why I have to learn piano using chords.
Day 1 for me. Just got home with a new Yamaha keyboard. And it’s so cool to see that the song that inspired me to Finally start to play is the first to learn. (Well, many years ago as a child, I did learn MHALL 😉). Now, off to learn this. Thanks!
I will take your lesson from today. I got personal guidance last time, but after months of not having access to piano at all, I decided to learn piano again and started watching your lesson today. I will work hard first, so please post a lot of good videos. Thank you
Hello Kaitlyn; I have been a Jazz lover since a young boy, I was always a sports player and once I found myself thinking about an instrament I fell in love with the sounds of the piano and it's natrual good looks. I really would like to incorporate poetry into my piano playing.
I'm the eldest of 6 kids. We had a piano in our house for as long as I can remember. I learned guitar from 9 years on, by ear. Then I taught myself all the chords on the piano, except I know now was the wrong way. Eg the C chord I would do an octave on the C with my left hand, then E, G, and C with my right hand. I would follow that pattern on all the chords for every note. I started learning the lead guitar parts for Beatles songs, The Shadows, etc. Formed a band at 16, where I played lead guitar for 5 years, playing at pubs and clubs around Birmingham in England, UK. At 34 I formed a new band, where I played bass guitar for 5 years. After that I did nothing but the occasional playing electric guitar along to backing tracks. Now at 62, I've decided to learn to play the piano properly, from scratch, as I recently bought a new Yamaha P-125 for my 85 year old mum, who plays from music sheets. I tried to play "I'm Not in Love" by 10cc, by watching RU-vid videos of people playing it, then realised I really need to learn all the chords again properly, especially the inverted ones. So I found your channel and like your approach to teaching. I plan on following your method. Thanks!
I'm impressed that you packed so much content into one easy-to-follow introductory lesson! I'm going to have to practice those inversions, but I think I can learn this song today and (maybe) master it this week!
44, Dad of 2 toddlers, just bought a piano keyboard on the black friday sale via very large online retailer. Im looking forward to starting my journey next week or so. I figured im very good at typing, fast and accurate without having to look and can chat whilst doing it. Surely this must stand for something when playing piano. Let's find out 😅
So I've had a piano/keyboard all my life and been able to play chords on it.. But only like with chords + one baskey if i could say so. I want to learn more. And today, because of you, maybe 20 years from starting I'v learned how to make scales. And i'm frustrated it took so long but i'm also VERY happy. So now i'm looking around, see what else i've missed out on. But for real, piano wasn't what i've tried to learn. It's the violin! So from that to learning notes, thinking it will be easier to understand on piano, i'm here 😅
I have always felt that there is a music inside me , which wants to come out. To be honest, I did try playing guitar and violin for sometime , but I couldn't, somehow, I couldn't connect. Few weeks before, I was in my cousin's room, where I found his keyboard, and started playing. Although it was just random notes, but I kind of felt connected to it. Now I want to learn it properly, so that I can chanelize my energy through it...Let see how it goes
I kid you not -- immediately before I watched this video, I watched another RU-vidr's "Piano for Beginners" video...and she used "Mary Had a Little Lamb" as one of the exercises! (And didn't even teach the correct melody!) 😂 Your entire video is great, but the BEST part is the "Mary Had a Little Lamb" cracks! Your channel is awesome! You got another subscriber!
I always wanted to learn piano, every time I saw a piano in the hospital sitting there, I wish I could just sit there and play like a professional, but never know how, when I saw your website I was so happy even that I try to catch up with you still unable to, in my next visit your website again I will absorb small step atatime.
Hi, I'm Adrian in England. At 72 I thought I was far too old to learn the Piano but your videos have inspired me to fulfill a lifetime of wishing I could! I have yet to pick up a Keyboard (recommended by you) purchased on Ebay and can't wait to get started. Thank you.
Neat move to skip the theoretical jargon and single notes, and move straight to chords and simple formulas to build them! As a string player wanting to get to grips with the keyboard, learning the note positions as two groups (based on the pairs and trios of black notes), rather than individual notes, is so very helpful to me. One minor quibble, though - you said that one had to be seated the correct height and distance from the keyboard, but jumped straight from explaining distance to hand shape, and if you specified what would be the correct height in relation to the keyboard I missed it. A very useful and encouraging video. Thanks.
Learning to play for a girl surprise. My Grandfather was an excellent pianist also, back in Illinois @ church and most of my Bros and sisters play. Lessons when I was 12 or so but had to quit and never went back.
I am a guitar player but I would like to learn piano. A few years ago I purchased a piano, signed up for lessons and failed miserably. I have learned more by watching a couple of your videos than I have going the traditional way. Thank you.
I`m 66 just bought a Roland ft10, play guitar and want to expand my musical sound, and found you on you tube, you are so easy to listen to and follow and may I say gentle on the eyes🤭
Hi I play guitar for years, and I reached the point where I want to learn and go beyond scales. I find the guitar neck ugly when it comes to learning scales, intervals.... the piano keyboard helps me to visualize better the intervals and relationships between scales and chords and more. Also, it helps understand modes easily...
i started out wanting to learn to sing when i discovered my lack of timing and other things i thought if i understand music better than i could sing better than i found music theory wich led me to piano so this all about supporting the singing
I am 65 yrs old, I was a roadie for a rock band in the 80's. I ran sound and lights and actually got pretty good at both. I picked up bits and pieces of playing multiple instruments along the way, but never really excelled at any of them. in the 90's I left the road and ended up joining the local church, where I would sing and sometimes play bass, but mainly just following the cords, really simple stuff. The church I attend now is very small and doesn't have a dedicated pianist, so when there is no one to play piano, or lead singing guess who is nominated? Anyway, I thought if I could learn piano quick enough, it would be really helpful. I already understand a lot of the melody lines from singing, and the bass lines from playing the bass. Does this sound doable? Or am I just dreaming?
I am 80 and three months ago bought my first keyboard so that I can learn to play. So, so difficult and it looks so easy. So I’m trying to find a way to be able to pick it up without having to learn the inevitable “Three blind mice”, etc. I’m hoping that this might just be the way forward.