Hey! I am a pianist, producer and music educator and my channel features original music, reactions and piano lesson videos, I might throw in the occasional cover, who knows!
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That guy violates every piano
We just got a piano and me and my partner are both total beginners. We’re learning using an app. But even though I’m way behind him on the app, I’m actually far better than him at this point. He’s just speed running through the app and unlocking all the songs he can. Whereas I won’t progress to the next lesson until I can 100% whatever it is I’m learning. I know this because I made the same mistake when I learned guitar as a teenager. I know that in a month or two’s time it’s gonna catch up with him and he’ll hit a wall when he tries to learn something more complicated.
you should react to Tokio Myers, very interesting pianist
I think I did like 20 hours in 6 years so 🤷♂️ I think I am exaggerating but it really feels that way I have been playing more had teachers at the start not anymore though. Seems like I have such little hours in all the stuff I do AHHHHHH.
What is the name of the first song you showed him playing? Thanks!
Nuvole Bianche by Einaudi
This video is both inspiring and frustrating. Inspiring because you see that some people can learn quite a lot of piano playing in such a short period. And frustrating because I am more than six years on this and can't remotely reach tthat level. So, well, I will keep trying!- Perhaps one of my "faults" is that I am playing keys on a band and so that takes also lots of my playing / learning time. You can't have it all!
Really enjoy these videos. They remind me to practice! lol
Please more Animenz reactions! Especially his 10th anniversary My Dearest, its one of the best piano arrangements made for anime music.
How do I send a video for your reaction videos?
I’m also self taught and 2.5 yrs in…. This guy is light years ahead of me
I've noticed another thing. It's one thing to play on a digital piano and playing on an acoustic piano. I just made the shift from a Kawai Digital to a Yamaha B3. The feel is quite different, or so I think. I remember Josh Wright saying if we only have a digital piano to find an acoustic piano every once in a while and practice on it.
Half an hour of Matt explaining music. What a treat. I find it interesting he went from Tiersen and Einaudi in the learning to play stages to Satie and Chopin, but then went back to Tiersen and Einaudi to help inspire him on his own compositions.
30 minutes of my music waffle 😂
I learned that there's a difference between learning to play the piano and learning to play piano pieces. It's easy to jump to the pieces and miss out building up enough technique so that you can play a lot more piano pieces and with less time.
Exactly! Anyone can learn to put there fingers in the right place and press down…but not many can feel and convey music 😊
I'm so glad you did this reaction, Luis Graca was the person who originally inspired me to start playing piano. I love his progress and his dedication, he's so impressive.
He’s definitely dedicated! It’s really great that he inspired you to start 😊
Nice, man! It was fun rewatching this with your comments. I laughed with you at both Moonlight Sonata 3rd Mvt attempts 😂 To answer some of your questions, indeed I learned almost all of these pieces using KZread tutorials, including Arabesque and Fantaisie Impromptu (Rousseau's videos). Looking back, dynamics and technique were lacking, but learning the maximum amount of pieces in the least possible time was what kept me going at the time. After uploading this video, I realised that I wanted to get more out of the piano and to do so I needed to work more on dynamics, musicality, technique, reading music and to learn some theory, so I decided to have a few private lessons for guidance. I started practicing scales and arpeggios at the beginning of each session (5-10min) and to use sheet music to learn pieces, instead of tutorials. I learned some Einaudi, Händel's Minuet in G Minor and Pathétique Sonata 2nd Mvt - I uploaded both in my channel. Once again, I only picked songs that I really enjoyed listening to, even though they were a little more advanced. I can learn pieces through sheets, but I can't sight read. It's not my main goal to be able to sight read. A little after that I decided I wanted to create my own piano arrangements / play by ear, and so far that's what I enjoyed the most. Whenever I'm stuck, I try to get a lesson for guidance. Thanks for the lesson on arranging 🤝🏼 It's all been a big experiment, but I think my main goal is to compose more original music, piano arranangements and to be able to play anything by ear. If anyone is still reading, I will upload a 4 Year Progress Video update in August / September, so stay tuned ;)
I look forward to your next progress video, you're a huge inspiration to me! I adore your original compositions.
@@kaitlync5922thanks for the support, Kaitlyn 🙏🏼
I’m glad you enjoyed it Luís, it was fun to watch having already had a vague idea of the type of music you play now. It’s important to lean into the parts of music that interest you the most and you’ve done a great job at building up your technique to be able to play those more complex pieces! So I thank you for your original video, I enjoyed it! 😊
Really lovely videos you have on your channel. I wanted to ask if possible what pieces of music do you suggest to start learning in order to get better at sight reading? I am learning sight reading with Pianote. Thanks@@matticawood
Playing 2 hours a day for 2.5 years is crazy! Props to him!! I am still in high school and started about 3.5 years ago so I don't have that much time to practice.
It is a lot of practice! It’s more about what you do with that time that’s more important though 😊
Underrated Pianist Matthew Cawood, nice Video 👏.Best regards:)😊
Thank you, I appreciate you! 😊
Matt your level headed and optimistic approach to piano learning is an absolute joy to watch, one of the big reasons I've just started learning. Keep it up man
Thank you, I appreciate that and I’m glad you’ve decided to get started! 😊
Hey just wanna say I love your videos, you and frank tedesco inspired me to learn piano after 2.5 years.
Thank you! I appreciate you and I’m glad I could have an impact 😊
Hahahah same for me. Always loved the piano, but I have zero musical knowledge. Now, at almost 40, because of Frank and Mathew I decided to try and learn it. :)
2000 hours in just 2.5 years is crazy .. Props to him for such consistency and determination
I started piano while it was Corona, I was home all day, did 2000 hours in like 7-8 months...
You can tell he definitely has the ability to power through and put in the time (particularly on those harder pieces) where others would quit! 😊
@@matticawoodYes true, but it can also be dangerous to play harder pieces very early on without proper technique... I know it from my own experience, from this same Moonlight Sonata 3rd (the main reason I started to play) I suffered a permanent injury on my pinky finger, and can't play certain pieces without pain eversince.
Agree, but I also have midi devices recording my "actual play time" and 2.5 hours of "practice" gets me one REAL hour of playing, if I'm lucky? Got to take all the yelling at the sky in frustration looking at youtube videos, or staring at sheet music trying to figure out fingering etc and just flat out distractions. I still get in 2 to 3 hours on my weekends, but it has to be at least 1 good hour a day IMHO.
Aaaah You're the reason I keep getting pianists in my recommendations. I don't have money for a piano. I have to play virtual piano in roblox. :D
I’m so sorry 😔 👀
You could try find a piano in your area or rent a practice room
Nice video 🙂 I've just started reading grade 2 level, and use a mixture of landmark notes with stepping or skipping up and down. Will get to reading whole words soon...I hope!
Matthew, you are an amazing teacher.
I really like your videos you really encouraged me to start learning classical but I feel really lost on what songs to learn and what techniques are used in playing and which motor skills that i should practice
Where’s his shoes? I think it’s much easier to use the pedals with shoes I hate trying to pedal barefoot
Excellent video Matt, piano is hard...i practice two hours a day and I have been doing it for 2 years now and I feel I am getting worse hahaha
write the 6 chord as vi not VI its a minor you know that. also calling chords numbers with this context is misleading. you could of 100% added a tag line to say 'here i have a video on how to name this correctly check it out' and BAM better and more correct information AND MORE VIEWS
Chord 6 is a minor chord in a major key. Not every song is in a major key. So I didn’t use upper or lower case to demonstrate major or minor/dim chords for 2 reasons. Firstly I didn’t talk about the types of chords, so it would add more confusion to those wondering why some are upper or lower case. Secondly, I didn’t specify the key or tonality, so it’s unclear which chords would be major, minor or another type of triad.
"Where as playing them as inversions sounds like this" goes on to play the chords plus the melody. You're not teaching well
I explained inversions and played inversions on there own with graphics onscreen..then showed an example of a song both without and with using inversions 🤔
Yes,I swear to god when I was 6 I about to wrote a piece,but when I was 8 I found it really similliar to la campanella and yes the melodys is similliar
Why do you remind me of PianoPig?
How is my man so underrated get this guy's subcount up like rn
That unravel take was his first attempt and he happened to get it the first try. So you weren’t wrongz
You could give one note to each person in the top 4 most populated countries in the world (about half the world population) and then still have some notes left
That impromptu duet at the end right there was quite the pleasant surprise.
This man is a genius because he gets you to sit through a video of a car alarm going off for three minutes, and as a bonus gives us a good piano song
Excellent explanation.
Loved this video❤
A few people who are far better: Yuja wang, Martha Argerich, Evengy Kissin, György Cziffra, Mark Andre Hamelin, Vladimir Horowitz, Arthur Rubenstein, Sung Chan, Seong Jin Cho, Yunchan Lim, Khatia Buniatishvili, Anna Fedorova, Nikolai Lugansky, Daniil Trifonov, and a lot of other people.
SASAGEYOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice video Matthew! I've seen some very notable names from the youtube piano community here in the comments which are undoubtedly great pianist, but all very well known. One name that I see less often, but is one of the most technical pianists I've ever seen as well as an extremely creative arranger is Yui Morishita, sometimes called by his online name "Pianeet". His arrangement on Akiba Pop is mind blowing from start to end featuring difficult arpeggios, large leaps, intertwining "four hand techniques" and extremely creative arranging, kzread.info/dash/bejne/mn51k7GSYrGwo7w.html. Please do check him out! :)
Thank you, it is relevant for me to understand the music harmony. But sharp means one semitone up. “One key up” is quite confusing, for instance D is one (white) key up from C.
No problem 😊 The closest key to the right of a C (up 1 in pitch) is the next black key rather than the white key. The reason it’s better to think of it that way is because an E# is the same as playing an F 😊
Its turn your brain off tv.
fun idea maybe its fun to react to the songs swordland and crossing fields corver of Animenz
amazing, thank you.
fun fact, I tried to learn this Interstellar arrangement maybe 6 months into learning the piano, gave up after the crossed hand section seeing as you react to youtube pianists, I think it'd be interesting for you to react to Kyle Landry's Interstellar arrangement (imo the best there is on youtube), or really any of his videos (some of my favorites are his 2016 rendition of Dearly Beloved, his arrangement of Musique pour la tristesse de Xion, and his arrangement for A Beautiful Song from Nier Automata). Into the more classical pianist, I've always loved Kassia's rendition of La Campanella, and Cateen (or Hayato Sumino's) own cadenza of Hungarian Rhapsody from Liszt, think you'd like watching these two (Cateen is a marvel, his rendition of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Thousand knives is so good)
💥 You forgot the two main characteristics of a good sight reader: 1 - Never look at the keys. 2 - Read ahead, at least 1 bar, perhaps 2 to 3 bars would be Ideal. You mentioned a lot of important things, but seems you forgot the obvious. Thanks. 🎉
That’s because these two things aren’t required or things that always apply. When reading you will need to look at your hands on occasions and I would only say to someone “never look at the keys” if someone is overly reliant on looking at the keys. This is automatically fixed by only playing a piece of music once, because you can’t memorise something you’ve never seen before and therefore you have to look at the piece of music. Looking a bar ahead is also context dependant and isn’t really what happens when we sight read. We are trying to predict what’s next and glance ahead to see if that is what happens. For example if I see that the piece of music is outlining G7 (dominant 7th chord). Il glance ahead to see if it goes to a C major chord (which is what I would expect). That might be a bar ahead, or it might be half a bar ahead or 4 bars ahead. We don’t actually consistently read ahead of where we are. We look for clues, fill in the details and glance ahead. 😊
💥 I only find sightreading videos playing childish music. I already can do that. I want to sightreading a Liszt piece, a Scriabin sonata, a Prokofiev or Rachmaninov pieces, but how to do that ???? Do you know ? My current ability to sight reading or reading without memorizing is a Chopin waltz or perhaps some nocturnes. But this is not enough, specially because when I read music, I can't memorize at the same time. When I read, it's like always the first time. I'm a jazz pianist, my ears are better than my reading. My reading rhythms are not good for difficult ones. I prefer to rely on a recording of a piece, than learning to read without knowing. I know it's a big fault on me and I need to fix that. I can't stand the idea to play a piece for months in order to learn, I like to play a Scriabin prelude studying for 3 hours. More than that, it's very boring to repeat, repeat... Any tips ? Or am I a lost case ? 😮😮😮
4:32 this stuff right here, oh my lord, when I hear this stuff on guitar it makes me smile much, I’m not the most musically inclined with words and lingo and stuff, but Sweep Picking ? Gets me 🧱
Can u do a review of How to Train your Dragon? Songs like "Test Drive" or "This is Berk" are very famous and John Powell (the composer of these) even got nomanted for "best film music" in 2010.