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My Brain: this looks easy My piano: sounds like dying parrot

@annaresko6897

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@itsalex1485

3 жыл бұрын

so true xD

@chiquitacyborg

3 жыл бұрын

LOL! You sound better than me😅

@thanduyiseraylee1041

3 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂 Try stand up comedy

"This is surprisingly difficult to do while talking." Couldn't agree more.

@Duke49th

3 жыл бұрын

"This is suprisingly difficult" Period xD

I feel like the last exercise created a brand new connection in my brain

@Ellaa9905

3 жыл бұрын

i can relate to you xd

It's not just 2 hand independence, it's actually 10 finger independence!

@Zinnie988

3 жыл бұрын

And reading the sheet... That's 11

@wonwoo6117

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zinnie988 TRUE

@xecute9455

3 жыл бұрын

Amputated person: 🧐

@alpacheco7100

3 жыл бұрын

Really challenging

@Kellard_27

3 жыл бұрын

and pedaling

I can't tell you how badly I have needed this. I am a beginner and my instructor keeps telling me that hand independence will come. Now I finally have something to work with. Thank you

@randomytguy7315

3 жыл бұрын

Did those exercises help you somehow?

@avpbriglia

3 жыл бұрын

I just started 4 days ago and I already noticed that I need this. It's not something natural for your brain. My left hand keep wanting to follow my right hand and it's soooo frustrating. I'm going crazy

@rashmipai9523

3 жыл бұрын

@@avpbriglia ikr it's annoying and then you look at people covering a song and play flawlessly

@athaya1588

3 жыл бұрын

@@rashmipai9523 this is so relatable

@Lanaa1227

2 жыл бұрын

MY HANDS KEEP DOING THE SAME MOVEMENT

I'm 13 and I've been playing for 2 months now and I just practice and practice everyday and I didn't notice that I improved a lot. This channel really helped me😁👍💖

@watermelonely3970

3 жыл бұрын

Heeeeeyyy I'm 13 and practising for 2 months too! And I agree, this channel helps a lot :D

@phychemnerd

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of when I was 13.

@scottmccampbell72

3 жыл бұрын

You know what I do? When I get to a certain page in some book I just stop and go back to the beginning and do a quick but careful review to see if there's any difference, and I can always play the stuff a lot more easily! I found that in life I need to do something about three times - in anything, school, whatever - to really get it. But three separate times, like with time in between. I'd say keep track of whatever you are doing and periodically go back to whatever you were doing a month ago and see if it's any easier, it probably is!! Good luck!!

@daisyday6432

3 жыл бұрын

@@watermelonely3970 u go guys! i had piano lessons at around that age too and quit around less than a year, im now 19 and relearning everything on my own hahaha. don't give up and keep on playing!

@m4e7

3 жыл бұрын

I’m 11 and I use to play when I was little but I stopped so I’m trying hard to find my passion again

Only started to play again this week after giving up 40 years ago. My left hand just slapped me in the face to remind me why I gave up. Now at 62 I hope to have more patience.

@bshuynhthienphuc

3 жыл бұрын

???

@juliana-yw7bg

3 жыл бұрын

good luck!

@lmarum5936

3 жыл бұрын

You got this man!💪

@Rppiano

3 жыл бұрын

Your left hand is still 22 years old.

@JoseFuentes-fn3dl

3 жыл бұрын

I hit a plateau 15 years ago because of hand independence issues. I started all over in my training and figured out my teacher advanced me too fast and had not developed independence. Practice slower, sightread slower. Really focus on sightreading that has helped me a lot. And practice, practice, practice.

my hand independence is zero and it is driving me insane, but i have just watched this and after playing for an hour i seem to have mastered the first and second part of this tutorial. I am so pleased because i thought i would never get it in a million years. I know this is so simple to those who are more advanced but to me this is a huge achievement believe me and i am bouncing off the walls right now with excitement. Thank you for making this tutorial so straight forward for me and i am going to practise this hand exervcise over and over until it is fixed into my brain and i don't have to concentrate so much on what i am doing with both of my hands.

I am an 80 year old started to learn piano at 74. You have made learning so wonderfully interesting. I love trying new skills that you introduced and felt the benefit every instance. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. xx

@cheslra

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting. I’m 53 and JUST started!

@Aurora_Animates

5 ай бұрын

@@cheslrahaha range of ages here I’m 16 , good luck ❤❤

Lisa is such a clear and helpful and knowledgeable and enthusiastic teacher, a helpful instructress!!!!!!💗!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU

@kunalfuria9768

3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@bingo1232

3 жыл бұрын

@@kunalfuria9768 You, Kunal..... understand the Spirit of Music!!!!!

Not even going to lie, I’m 30 years old and this is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. This was very difficult for me and I was starting to get really frustrated and doubting my ability to learn piano, but I eventually got it 😁

@toyalee6841

2 жыл бұрын

How?? This is something that I am struggling with

@Nick-kb2jc

2 жыл бұрын

@@toyalee6841 Slow it all the way down. Go slow. VERY slow. Trust me, it will work.

@toyalee6841

2 жыл бұрын

Any recommendations of vids. I usually do piano tutorial but sometimes the songs are too fast for me.

@Nick-kb2jc

2 жыл бұрын

@@toyalee6841 Have you tried the exercises in this video right here that we're on? I'd recommend starting with exercise one and do it very slowly. Like extremely slow. Put like 4 or even 5 seconds between each beat. It might seem silly and very slow, but you need to train your hands. Gradually pick up the speed and you will be surprised. In no time you will be doing them very fast.

@toyalee6841

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nick-kb2jc Thank you. I will do that

I love how optimistic Lisa is! Just when I watch an exercise and think "I'll never get this" she seems to read my mind every time, pause, and say "I promise you'll get this!" 😂 this is where I get my self-confidence from! Thanks a ton ❤

Hello Lisa, I’m 71 year old man, all my life I dream of learning playing piano, unfortunately never had a time, first family then kids. Finally I retired and my wife bought piano for me and I started learning piano 6 months ago but the biggest problem was hand coordination. I’ve look in many KZread lessons but still have a great straggle with two hands coordination Scrolling through website trying to find a lesson on hand coordination and finally stumble In to your website and I tell you beside being a beautiful young women you’re the best music teacher that I found, within a week my hand start to listens to me and I’m doing better as days going along. Thank you very, very much and God bless you.

1) I really appreciate you leaving in the mistakes. I'm a very self conscious person so seeing others make mistakes when they've been playing for years really helps me to not feel so bad making beginner mistakes. 2) I love that your exercises are musical and not just a series of empty notes playing one after the other. It makes me feel like I'm actually playing something and not just pressing keys. Thanks for these videos they really do help.

@tammejohnson6885

8 ай бұрын

I agree!😊

this woman is an ANGEL FROM HEAVEN

Great tips Pianote! I think at any stage of playing we can do with better independence of our hands (I find my right more developed than left, like most right-handed people). Another good exercise (maybe suitable as the next slightly more advanced), is for INDEPENDENCE IN ARTICULATION - play a scale up and down with both hands, but ONE HAND LEGATO, ONE HAND STACCATO, then as you go up again, switch (without stopping) so the legato hand plays staccato now, and the staccato now plays legato.

@PianoteOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

That is a supe smart exercise to practice!

@justA.

3 жыл бұрын

I think Pianote has given this tip in one of their videos about hand exercises but I can't remember which one. And you are right, it is a really good exercise ! Helps practice another type of hand independence. As a beginner, who still struggles with hand independence, I wouldn't say it's more advanced but a different type of exercise (still difficult though ^^).

How are you at hand independence?? 😓🙃 Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:05 - Exercise 1 (beginner) 4:26 - Exercise 2 (moderate) 8:55 - Exercise 3 (more advanced) 12:12 - Review!

@JC-db7so

3 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I have been looking for!

@RhysP65

3 жыл бұрын

Independently my hands are fine, it's when I try to use them both at the same time it all goes wrong... 😂

@PianoteOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

@@RhysP65 🙃

@eshaankumarrajbhandari9503

3 жыл бұрын

I'm practicing well. The lessons you are providing makes my hand improved a lot .. Thank you so much Pianoite..

@pacificnorthwestpilots6050

3 жыл бұрын

I am horrible...I started playing on Sunday, 10/11/20 😊 Thank you for the library of content , I am using your beginner videos and also using the hanon exercises.

65 year old beginner here - just what I need! Still learning to do the C major scale with both hands after starting about 3 weeks ago. I can do each hand independently without mistakes, and NEARLY without mistakes using both hands. It does help to hear that even you have your momentary struggles playing certain things with both hands. MANY THANKS FOR YOUR LEARNER FRIENDLY VIDEOS. 👍👍👍

lady you literally saved my life. please keep uploading videos.

I’ve only been playing the piano for 3 months and I’m 48 years old. My polish grandfather used to play the piano and accordion, I would sit and watch him in amazement 😊 I have been struggling a little with hand independence and so I tried these exercises. You are by far my favourite piano teacher on KZread ❤️❤️❤️ these exercises are really helpful and I love the fact you explain everything so clearly and slowly for us beginners. Thank you so much for all your hard work uploading these videos to help us play you are an absolute Angel 👼 god bless you.❤️❤️

Lisa: 1:19 "Let's pick a note. I'm gonna pick G." Me: whoa, whoa, whoa... I thought we said beginners!

@itstonnix7348

3 жыл бұрын

exactly.... She G noted us

@milesgilbertpiano

3 жыл бұрын

@@itstonnix7348 I don’t understand... what’s so special about the G note? Sorry if I missed a joke

@nina-yj6yq

3 жыл бұрын

@@milesgilbertpiano just sarcasm lol

@arnav4174

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😭 damn I thought that too!

@fivetimesyo

3 жыл бұрын

@@milesgilbertpiano it's just that your typical "beginner note" is C. There nothing particularly scary about G, I was just exaggerating a bit for laughs.

My hands doesn't listen after i do all this exercises. Because they are D.E.A.F

Yours are the clearest tutorials on KZread. I do get a lot of action from some other channels, and I can play their stuff at really fast rates - which make me feel very virtuoso. But, when it's you...I really feel like I'm learning something that's very important and that I get new abilities "mechanized" (I'm not sure if it's the right term in English, but it also applies to you) and I make so much progress, it's like a KZread pianist's Pandora's Box. I think that you're able to share your knowledge very, very well. Thank you so much.

Lisa's the best teacher I've found on web. Her positive attitude and upbeat approach is great... and the lessons are just enough to be challenging..but still doable. Thanks for helping... and the encouragement 👍👍

When Lisa plays the piano everything seems to be esay but when you try to do the same, it's harder. Helpfull lesson as always. Thank you Pianote.

You are the piano teacher which I love the most. Thank you for your teaching.

Whoa did I just play that?! lol It really helps if you start super slow and get every note right first try, THEN start to speed up. Great Video! I subscribed! :)

This is so great! I have only been properly learning via your channel (and a couple of others) a couple of months and practising exercise 2 when it suddenly came together and my fingers just behaved and listened to my brain, it was magical! You made the magic happen, I can't thank you enough. I'm over 60 now....

I've tried simply piano, various KZread channels and apps but hands down your lessons are the best, by a mile! Thank you so so much

I love how you think neccesary yet endless repetitions still sound beautiful! Keeps my spirit up for one!

This is so helpful! I am so happy to have found you. I am 40 and haven't played piano since I was a kid. I'll keep watching this lesson on a regular basis until I can play both parts of your Halelujia lesson at the same time!

I've been playing for 6 months, 3 to 4 hrs a day and struggling with hand independence. I actually played Linus and lucy once correctly from your exercise and now it all comes to light. You are the best. Thank you, Lisa

I"m just getting to this video and I love it! I've been using your earlier hand independence video as practice and came up with a similar cadence with scales on my own based on that video. I can't wait to get to the techniques in this one! Thank you for all you are doing and happy holidays Lisa!

Just started a week ago after decades of never touching a piano at all. Quickly I found my hands weren't independent and then ran into your video. First day, found your first and last exercises were really tough! But, surprisingly the second was almost automatic. This is just what I need... something to train my brain's two halves independently and approximating some kind of melody at the same time. Thx!

You and your exercises both are the best!! Had so much thrill to practice

Just discovered your channel, Lisa - after 50+ years of collecting record albums, I figured it was about time I learned to play the piano. Your exercises have been very beneficial and inspirational - thanks so much!

Really helped me develop my hand independence and was surprised to see myself getting the hang of it easily once I put in enough practice. Thanks a lot for this amazing free content!

You really make these exercises sound beautiful and it makes me want to learn more 🙂 Thank you!

Your lesson is thrilling.... I've been playing traditional piano for a decade now. But this is the lesson that wake me up

Your such a good teacher!! Really enjoy your lessons. Played for many years and have taken many lessons and yours really teaches the fundamentals really easy. Thank you

Educator, guide , coach, teacher, skills development ... on and on. Thank you!

I love the challenge of these exercises! The one causing me the most challenge right now is in one of your other videos - legato on the LH and staccato on the RH. My brain gets all confused! I play the flute and have fallen in love with the fun and challenge of the piano. Thank you!

Your energy and positivity is so great and inviting me to learn more. Very fun teacher. Thanks for your effort in the video 😊

I'm loving these exercises. After just one day of practice with these, I'm playing something that sounds genuinely musical. I've only been playing piano for a few weeks, but this is the first time I've felt like I'm making music. I'm thrilled. Thanks so much.

I don't usually comment but today I really wanna thank you, ma'am. I was struggling with hand independence since last 3 yrs and now I am able to believe in myself and practice it all because of you. I'm genuinely grateful to you ma'am. Thanking you! Love from India♥️

This is why I love piano. The challenges are endless. This exercise forwards and backwards in every key will challenge best. And this is just a few exercises. I will be playing piano for the rest of my life!

Your lessons are some of the BEST of KZread, thanks!

Thank you Lisa🌹. This vid puts up a smile on my face. You're a very good teacher. Bumping upon your first vid I subscribed immediately! Much love from Suriname🤗🌷⚘

Hi Lisa! I love how you have the time to post, with the frequent uploads!

Most important thing about this video is i dont skip ads, thats my way of help. You creating videos for us. Thank you

Never played piano before. Just bought an FP-10 this Christmas and I can't stop playing. Learnt to play Toccata in D minor and fur elise, both half way through on KZread. At start my hands swelled a lot and had a lot of pain playing some of the cords. I just watched some of your video's and love them. Probably wouldn't have been so painful if I had found your daily routine warm up and hand independance practices in the beginning. Thank you! Big fan already!

Must be 20 years since I last touched a piano upon which I could never play properly just tinker. I now have a new Roland Go and have found the best teacher... Lisa.... you say you're never too old.... at 73 I'm going to try and make that statement come true!! Your enthusiasm can only drive me on. Amazing progress in only my first week. Enjoying the exercises very much. Thank you.

I just want to tell you that I am very pleased with your videos and the amount of effort that you put into them.

These hand independence excersise will bear more fruitful music for me in future thanx m just a beginner and I am loving it

It's rare that I write comment to anything but now I must thank you for your tutorial. With your help I have improved my skills faster I could ever imagined. These are very practical exercises for beginner like me and you have absolutely professional teaching skills. There's enough challenge to improve patience also but exercises are not too challenging. You know how to motivate and how to use your lovely personality as a tool in process. Thank you so much!

Thank you, Lisa! These 3 exercises are challenging, but not so much that it's discouraging. Thank you!

You are the best Lisa! Thank you for your teaching nature, you are a natural.

These sound so pretty! It makes me excited to do hand exercises, can't wait to try it!

You are brilliant! I only discovered this channel last night and can already feel a difference :)

Hi!! I love this video thank you it is really helpful I also focused n your other videos on hand independence I have been practising for a couple of weeks now with those videos and they are just amazingly good and impacting on my piano practice, thank you Lisa 😀😀✌️🤗🤗 And you're so joyful throughout, you remind me of my high school teacher who taught ,e to sing, anyway thanks Lisa

Amazing free Piano lessons, thanks Pianote & KZread!!

I am watching some of your videos and enjoying them. I am 85 years young and have always loved piano music. 2 years ago I decided I was going to learn how to play. Im doing on-line which there are seemingly many good on-line piano teachers. I am enjoying every minute in spite of being very slow at learning. I especially like your teaching methods Lisa. Mastering hand coordination has definitely been a huge challenge. I have never expected to master the challenge at my age but have definitely enjoyed the journey so far. Thank you for being here for me.❤️

Your voice is so soothing..it gives me peace..n the teaching is amazing as always

When something clicks. It's a feeling that you cannot compare. Love the videos and the way to run through things. Thanks for keeping it musical

thank you for all your videos...they make piano playing fun,musical and easier....you are the best🙂

Absolutely worth a million to me. THANKS.

Proper helping me, thank you! I have been looking for decent exercises to help with hand coordination and this has been brilliant! Admittedly, I nearly threw my tablet our the window on just exercise 1!! But stuck with it and managed to do all of them quite comfortably. 👍

I was surprised at how fast your exercises work. I have a keyboard for 3 days and can now play with both hands! Thank you so much

Like the way you make what's seems impossible possible. Its your passion ... awesome approach

You can't POSSIBLY be this nice in all your videos... except you can

This was just the lesson I needed ... loved your style and your approach.

Just bought a piano (Yamaha P45) to pick up a new skill during the lock down in South Africa! Love this channel and super excited to develop a new skill!

Great tutorial again, thanks Lisa! Will add this to my daily beginner's practice 😁

Hi, I'm guitar player and after years of playing i found these practices on guitar. But now i was struggling with my bew piano . And now when i finnaly fing you video i found what i was REALLY wanted to find. "Hand practice" . When u said we can make these practice methods i got you. Cause i really know amazing fingering practic on guitar and could not do it on piano, cause i didn't now the basic methods. Thanks to you now i can improve my skills. Tnx👍🤝

These are amazing exercises. I practiced this on my desk along with you (cos, I don't have a piano yet) and it sounded amazing 🙃

These are great for just starting to work on hand independence. Thank you for your help.

Thank you so much. You are the best ,funny, and helpful piano teacher !!! Regards from Barcelona, Spain.

I’m struggling with this and then this video dropped. Thank you so much for this tutorial!

@PianoteOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

Timing is everything! 🎵

well I've only just found you and I think you are such a good teacher, I've just joined a choir and I wanted to learn how to read music and I said to our musical director that I'm to old, but she said you are never to old you may have to practice more, more many thanks for your videos they are brilliant :-)))))

A wonderful challenge, thank you. Yr teaching is clear and easy to follow, makes it a pleasure for me as an adult learner. You make learning fun and inspire me to keep going and make my own music ! Stay safe and keep smiling : )

I am starting and your lessons are great. Please continue delivering this quality of lessons, you are helping so much. And keep up the good vibe too ..

@PianoteOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

It's a deal!

When you explained about exercises that you found difficult and swore you would never get, but then slept on it and had it that is how I felt when doing 2 against 3 or 3 against 2 scales. My brain just couldn't process it then I slept and the next time it just clicked and I could play it in B Maj (the key I chose to start with) and quickly progressed it to every key. Just sharing a personal experience showing the real world relatability. Excited to practice these exercises thank you for sharing them.

Great tutorial here, thanks! I have been learning for almost 3 months now and went through all the courses with one of the apps but still find hand independence very difficult. These exercises are very good. I thought I had gotten them down until I tried to swap hands. Oh boy, my hands turned into cinderblocks. But, this is something to work towards now and, as you said, that means you're learning. Thanks again!

Learnt drums from a teenager and used to teach them - picked up keyboards in my 30s but used sequencers for my songwriting - now I'm almost 60 and wished Id learnt properly as I did with drums - amazing how similar the exercises are - learning an instrument is simply teaching differing patterns either between limbs, fingers, breathing (woodwind,brass), etc which at first seem like sorcery until the brain learns the sequence of events which then allows speed to develop - you have really nice way of making things sound musical which will allow the student to feel like they are getting somewhere which will make exercises feel like less of a chore allowing for rapid development - subscribed and very well done!!!

I got a keyboard as a gift last Christmas. I'm 34 years old and just started to play. I started with absolutely zero knowledge of anything music related. Exercises like these hurt my brain lol but I actually feel like I've improved a decent amount over the last 8 months by watching a lot of videos on this channel when I feel like I'm getting lost. The channel has been a big help keeping me pointed in the right direction and I've learned a bunch, so thank you!

Thanks for sharing your teachings I have found them very useful, I play other instruments but never tried the piano so your lessons are very helpful.

i absolutely love this series.

Thank you- bought my 1 st piano P- 125b Thanks to you, first time - and beginner Thank you for the class!!!

your teaching makes me more confident to learn new lesson always. Thanks

This video is my everyday exercise and it also gives me new ideas for new songs

You are the best👌🏾. Much love from South Africa 🇿🇦

I’m a complete beginner at age 62! I love your energy and you are soooooo clever. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, there can be no greater gift. 🙏

Oh my! The root-fifth pattern in my right is just difficult. The struggle is real. 😅 and As a beginner this is a huge help! Thank you for for this. ❤️

Just found your channel today. Thank you! I like the way you teach.

I’m just getting ready to start learning the keyboard. I’m finding your instructions make sense and are easy to follow.

Thank your for your wonderful work. Bagpipes to Piano playing is like being on an awkward unicycle pedaling backwards. Though in time, it shall come. Your video is a great encouragement.

I love your videos. I've been learning to play the keyboard since July last year because my 4 year old son is interested in playing the keyboard. We mess around with the keys a lot like this.

Wow this so informative 😉. My goodness it's so helpful for beginners struggling with two handed playing. Thanks a million👍

Thank you for your superb explanations!!!!!