P2P August 04 2015 | 3.3 GBMaster keyboard fundamentals by learning real music
"He makes it stupid easy" - Alex Kilker
This course will teach you good piano technique by getting you to play real pieces of music. In it, I'll show you how to play the following pieces:
the riff to John Lennon's "Imagine" - When the Saints - Happy Birthday hands together - Amazing Grace hands together - the opening of Pachelbel's "Canon" - the bass line and chords of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"
And at the same time I'll teach you the following fundamentals:which way is up on a piano - good practice technique - the finger numbers - playing in time - the note names - good hand position - how to play "legato" (and what that means) - phrasing - what an "octave" is - coordinating your 2 hands - how to play with a metronome - the right way to play chords
So why this beginner piano course instead of any other one?
1) It doesn't teach you how to play the piano by teaching you how to read music first
Almost all beginner piano courses teach you how to read music first and then get you to play from a score, but that's backwards - after all, you didn't learn to read before you could speak! Reading music is difficult, and if you try to learn how to play piano while learning how to read music at the same time you'll end up doing both badly. Instead, there's a body of research that shows that getting people to play first and then showing them how to read music is better (the approach is called "Sound before Sign"). This is the approach I use in this course. (I have a separate course which teaches you how to read music, called "Read Music FAST!", which you should do after this one.)
2) I have a ridiculous amount of experience teaching music using videos
I've been teaching piano one-on-one for over 10 years, to children and adult beginners as well as industry professionals, and I record practice videos for all of my students. At the time of writing I have over 4,000 private videos on YouTube, and so know exactly how to pace videos so that they're not so fast you can't follow them, but not so slow you get bored and stop either.
3) You'll develop good habits which will save you a ton of time in the future
A lot of beginner piano tutorials are designed to get you to play a piece as fast as possible, which is a good aim in itself (mine do the same), but they'll usually teach you bad habits at the same time, which you'll then have to spend a lot of time unlearning in the future. By contrast, I'll get you to play pieces as fast as possible but also make sure that you're developing good habits in the process so that there's no limit to how good you can get.
What are the requirements?
No musical knowledge is needed to take this course!
What am I going to get from this course?
Over 89 lectures and 4.5 hours of content!
Play the following pieces from memory: the riff to John Lennon's "Imagine"; the opening of Pachelbel's "Canon"; the bass line and chords of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean"; Amazing Grace hands together; Happy Birthday hands together; and When the Saints
Know which way is up on a piano
Understand good practice technique
Know the finger numbers
Play in time
Know the note names
Understand good hand position
Play "legato" (and know what that means)
Phrase melodies properly
Know what an "octave" is
Coordinate your 2 hands
Play with a metronome
Play chords
What is the target audience?
This course is for complete beginners who want to start playing real music without getting bogged down in lots of theory
This course is not for people who want to learn how to read music - I have a separate course called "Read
Music FAST!" for that
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