Hey everyone! If you are a piano beginner and you're having trouble doing different things
with your hands this video is for you. It's filled with 10 exercises you can do to get
better at hand coordination. This is a Part 2 in my Hand Coordination series. So make sure
you've watched already Part 1 and practice that before you come and do this Part 2. Part 2 has
some slightly more difficult challenges than Part 1 so just make sure you re-watch and you practice
this a lot so you can get the most output out of them. Before we get into the exercises, I. have a
fun coordination challenge for you. Let's try this out. Alright guys, so I need you to follow me for
the next minute or so. So with your right hand - you're going to rub your tummy like this in a
circular motion. You just had some nice spaghetti or pizza. Yum! So you're rubbing it this way,
okay? And with your left hand you're going to lightly tap on your head like this...
Okay, awesome! So just try to get used to this motion because in a second, I want to ask you to
swap your hands around so your right hand will be tapping your head and your left
hand will be doing the circular motion on your tummy. So let's change up in 3, 2, 1.
Alright, how did you go there? Most people um, will be doing something a bit different
now. They'll probably be tapping either both their hands and head. Or they'll be doing the tapping on
their tummy and then circulating on their head. Okay, we're gonna switch up again in 3, 2, 1.
Awesome! So hope you went well with that one. It's like when I get people to do this,
often they... they start... they start doing uh, a bit of this. Like they start doing, and then
this on their tummy. And it's really funny because they mess up their hair.
Hope you went well with that. That was just a fun exercise! Let's get to the piano. Now
we are going to start with Level 1. And Level 1 is this...
So what's happening is you're playing first with your thumb in this kind of strawberry cake,
strawberry cake, strawberry cakes. This bum bum bum bum,
bum bum bum rhythm and you're traveling outwards. And you're coming back in, so
awesome! Let's move on now to Level 2. Level 2 is the same rhythm...
Okay but this time you're going to ascend and descend
with your hands going up and down together. Okay so we're going to start with the pinky
on the left and the thumb on the right. It's a little bit more challenging because
you're now playing with different fingers, not the same one. So...
Okay one more time. Try and control them...
...nicely.
Let's move on to Level 3. Okay Level 3 looks like this...
Alright, so you can see the left hand is only playing 3 notes. So pinky, the ring finger, and
the middle finger. So C, D and E. It doesn't play these 2, okay? And the right hand is also starting
on the same note as the left hand, but it's doing this sort of up ascending and descending little
motion here. So have a look again. Next one is D. Next one's E. Down back to D. Going up again.
Level 4 is the same thing as Level 3, but flipped around. Left hand is now doing...
Okay!
When you're practicing Level 3 and 4 you might also find that Level 3 is a little bit easy in
Level 4 because most of us are right handers. I think about 90% of the world are right-handers,
so left hand is always going to be a little harder when it's playing the fast notes. Okay, so just
you might need to practice Level 4 a little bit more than Level 3. Okay moving on to Level 5.
Okay. so right hand is just doing this...
It's doing the skip so C skipping to E, skipping to G,
skipping back to E, and back to C again. It's doing this the entire time. And left hand is
slowly ascending every time the right hand finishes around. So let's see that again...
Level 6 now is flipped around, left hand doing the C.. E
G.. E
One
more time.
Alright! Moving on to Level 7.
I really love this one, guys. This one really gets my fingers uh,
up and running and alive. Okay so it's... it's going, they both strike the C at the same time.
And right hand's going C D C D C. And then you go to the next one D E D so on and so forth.
And you when you reach the G, you're now going downwards G F G F G. Let's start again.
Moving on Level 8 is flipped around. Now as I was saying before, left hand playing fast notes are
generally going to be a little bit harder for most of us. So make sure you practice this one heaps.
Hope you're doing well so far. Let's now move on to the last 2 levels. Level 9.
Okay let's break this down. Left hand is doing...
Just the arpeggio C E G and back to C.
And right hand is doing this, the little melody that actually you know sounds like
you're like a real thing. It doesn't really sound like an exercise. It's like a real melody.
So it goes arpeggios up, back down to E F D C. Let's see it really slowly now.
Alright and level 10 is the hardest one where it's flipped around.
Now left hand is playing that complex melody and right hand is doing the...
arpeggios.
Not easy this one...
And there you go. That completes the 10 Levels for today's exercises. Stay tuned to Part 3 because
Part 3, I'm gonna have 10 more exercises for you to work on your hand coordination.
And Part 3 is very exciting because Part 3 is gonna start to include
some exercises that sound like real songs. So I wanna demonstrate some very quickly to you.
So everyone stay tuned to Part 3. It's coming out soon. Don't forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE
to this channel. Let me know in the comments how you went with these 10 levels.
Which level did you get up to? Or which level did you find really difficult? Let me know.
Talk to me. I read all my comments. Have a great day and see you for now.