Hey everyone my name is Jazer. In today's video we're going to be talking about piano arpeggios
what are piano arpeggios and why are they important to you. A piano arpeggio is basically
a chord that is broken up so this is a chord and arpeggio is basically that but broken up.
So that's an arpeggio or this or this these are all arpeggios. Why are piano arpeggios
important to you they're important because they're found everywhere in music you can find them in
all areas of music for example in classical music you'll find them in things like this is arpeggios
chords but that are broken up or even for example things like maybe even
even that is an arpeggio okay
chords that are just broken up. In this beginner arpeggio lesson,
we're not going to go past the octave mark so everything we're going to be doing is
within the octave however i will challenge your brain with playing arpeggios with different chords
my hope is that these challenges are easy enough for you to start but not so easy enough for you
that you can get it in your first go without much practice let's quickly get into it i'll briefly
introduce the chords first okay the chords you'll be using in this video are the c chord
you need the e minor chord you need the a minor chord and finally the f
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let's get into level one level one is called the basic arpeggio this is where both hands
are going to be playing the same notes so just look at what i'm doing and follow along please
and then we're going to go to the e minor chord so just move your thumb to the b
and then next is the a minor chord which is
finally the f chord
okay when it comes to arpeggios one of the more important things to talk about is the fingering
i will briefly talk about it in this video but i recommend you to watch the fingerings that
i'm using and try to follow them as strictly as possible and using the correct fingerings
for your hands will always be beneficial for your long-term piano career so let's go again
go to the b and if you notice something my left hand is now using the two
now a minor now left hand's using three and right hand is using two and
f chord left hand using two and right hand is using three
hope that was okay for you let's move on to level two level two
is called the loop let's see what this looks like
now the only thing you want to be paying attention to in
this level is you want to repeat that top note
like that
and then go to the next one
hope you're doing okay so far let's move on now to level three level three is called the right hand
reach okay so now instead of playing three notes in your right hand you're gonna play four notes
okay so what you're gonna need to do is to replace these two last notes with fingers two and three
so don't use three five anymore you're gonna use two and three and the reason we do that
is because you now need your pinky to play this top c note okay so you're gonna all the
top notes are basically the same as the bottom notes so you're gonna do something like this
just a caution on fingerings for these ones one two and five are always
used the question is regarding if you use either three or four
in this pattern i recommend a three in this pattern i recommend a three
in this pattern i recommend the four in fact i don't just recommend it i would say it's
mandatory that you use a four is because when you use a three this creates a very awkward position
between your two and three you can try this on your by yourself you can feel it it could actually
create some tension okay i know four is weak but i still want you to try to use four in this shape
and moving on to the last one in this shape either four or three are good
or you can do
both are acceptable because both are tension free let me know in the comments which finger
works better for you in this one let's move on now to level four level four is called the right hand
reach song it's basically the same as level three but you're now going to add in some left hand
notes to make it sound like a real song okay and the left hand notes are basically the left-hand
bass notes of the chords we're going to use we're going to use c e a and f sounds like this
let's go again
hope you're doing great let's move on now to level five which is the left hand reach
this essentially is the same as the right hand reach but
because your left hand is a mirror image of your right hand okay it has
implications for your fingerings as well so just watch along and see how you go with this
so use the three for this one that three there
and this one i recommend four
use the four here it's easier and then three
one more time with the three
still keep the three in the next chord
and four
i know it's weak but it's a better finger to use and then three
moving on to level six level six is called the left hand reach song this is basically the same
as the previous level but now you're adding some right hand notes to make it sound more like a song
the notes you'll use for your right hand in this level are g g e then f so it sounds like this
keep that g
next will be o e
and then finally f
sounds nice g again
keep that g
go into your e now
finally f congrats on completing the previous level so far we're gonna move on to our final
level seven this is called the hands together reach
let's go again
that's all for today's video how did you go with this seven levels of beginner piano arpeggios
let me know in the comments let me know also if you have any other piano related questions
90 of the content on this channel are all just answering questions in the comments
so let me know if you have any queries that's all for this one catch you in the next video
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