- You are frustrated that you can't play hands together.
All your life, you've only needed to use one hand
to write, to brush your teeth, to shake hands.
You just picked up the piano and you quickly realized
that you need to be a master at controlling both hands
and to execute different movements at the same time.
Well, how challenging is that?
You want to create beautiful music like,
(Soft piano)
Or you want to play,
("Fur Elise")
Or you want to play,
(Melodic piano)
You want to play all this amazing stuff
but you just can't seem to get your hands
to do different things at the same time.
Hi, my name is Jazer,
and today I'm going to give you 10 exercises
you can do right now to improve your hand coordination.
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Now, before we start with our piano exercises,
I have a fun coordination challenge for you.
Let's see if you can do this.
You will need your two hands and your two thighs.
So what are you going to do with your left hand
is you're going to do this punching motion like this.
Very gently, of course, don't hurt yourself.
And then with your right hand, I want you to do this.
Okay. So hopefully you're going okay with this.
Now let's see if we can swap them around.
So the right hand is now doing the gentle punching
and the left hand is doing the stroking.
So this is an interesting one.
Okay. When I get people to do this quite often
when they do this challenge
they start to do something like that, like punching both
of them or they sort of stroke both of them.
And especially the change is not easy.
So, so just work on this guys
before we start our piano challenge.
So hopefully you went well with that.
Let me know in the comments, how you went.
All right. So we are going to jump into our exercises.
Now for all of these exercises,
we are going to be placing our fingers
right here in the C position.
(bell dings)
So your right hand's thumb is going on this C.
Place your index, third and fourth and fifth finger
on the next keys
and the left hand your in the same position
but your pinky is on the C and four, three,
two, and one over here.
I have created 10 levels for you to do today.
Okay? Let's see if you can do all 10 levels. Level one,
I call this level best friends.
(bell dings)
(playing piano scales)
Okay, so they're going up and down at the same time.
Now this might look easy, but if you're new to piano,
this can be a little bit challenging.
Okay? You might find the fourth finger.
(playing piano scales)
This one here, is particularly hard to play
because it's a very weak finger.
Now don't worry. You're doing great.
Just keep practicing and it will get stronger. Okay?
And you want to make sure you're focusing
on creating the same volume
for each note. Okay.
Pay attention, especially to fingers four and five.
Cause they're a little bit weaker.
Okay, so you don't want to play something like this.
For example, the left hand, you don't want to play this.
(playing piano scales different volumes)
You don't want to play that.
So you want to make sure they're all at the same volume.
(playing piano scales)
Okay, that is super.
All right. So once that starts to feel good,
I want you to now start to increase your speed.
(playing piano scales quickly)
Okay, but It's very important that you maintain control.
So what you don't want to do,
you don't want to do something like this.
(playing uncoordinated piano scales)
Okay, so this is what I call very unclean music.
Where it's messy. It's not together.
You want to make sure they are controlled
(playing coordinated piano scales)
and executed exactly at the same time.
All right, amazing.
Moving on to level two, level two, I call this the mirror.
So you're going to remember all the 10 levels are based
in the C position.
So imagine there is a mirror right
between where the hands are.
You're going to now do this.
(playing mirrored piano scales)
Okay, so it's where thumbs play together,
you're going to travel outwards,
and then you're going to come back inside.
I'll teach you a quick musical term here.
This is called the contrary motion in music.
The contrary motion, where you go out and come back
at the same time.
(playing mirrored piano scales)
Okay, just a quick tip for you here, guys.
Just make sure when you're playing this,
that your pinky is staying low and down
when your thumbs are playing and vice versa.
When your pinky are playing but your thumb is staying down.
So please don't do this. This is bad technique.
(playing piano scales)
Okay, so you want, what you want to do is to keep everything
pretty grounded and controlled like this.
(playing piano scales)
If you see how really amazing concert pianists
and jazz musicians play.
This is the reason they have really,
really good technique is because they control it
and they get all the fingers to stay down.
You might start to experience that your fingers have sort
of this tendency to want to come up.
So you just need to keep that in control, guys,
keep that low and in control.
Moving on to level three.
Now, level three, I call this the two for one,
(bell dings)
is where the right hand plays two notes
and the left hand plays one note.
It looks like this.
(playing piano scales)
Okay, right hand, two notes for every one left hand note.
Okay, hope you're going okay with that one.
I'm going to now show you level four.
Level four is the same thing, two for one,
but it's flipped around where the left hand
is playing two notes, right hand plays one.
(bell dings)
(playing piano scales)
Okay, and of course, you just keep repeating that.
But just for the sake of this video, I'm going to
I'm going to plow through these very quickly.
Level five is called three for one.
So you might guess what this might sound like now.
Three for one. Three notes in here. One in here.
(bell dings)
(playing piano scales)
Okay. Level six, now. Level six is also three for one
but flipped around.
(bell dings)
(playing piano scales)
Okay. Hope you're traveling okay.
Level seven is now called four for one
and it starts with a right hand playing four notes.
(bell dings)
(playing piano scales)
Level eight, flipped around.
(bell dings)
(playing piano scales)
Okay and if you just notice something,
my fingers are very controlled and I'm keeping them down.
Okay. Just remember.
It's very important that you don't have your pinkies
or your, for, your thumbs flying up, stay grounded
to the keyboard.
Our final two levels, level nine.
This is a pretty tricky one.
This is the polyrhythm three for two.
This is where your right hand is playing three
and your left hand is playing two.
(bell dings)
So it sounds like that.
(playing piano scales)
Okay, so if you see, if you, if you're doing that correctly
it should all end back together on the C.
Let's see that one more time.
(playing piano scales)
Okay, and level 10, the final level.
Okay. This is polyrhythm
but flipped around.
(bell dings)
left-hand playing three, right-hand playing two.
(playing piano scales)
One more time.
(playing piano scales)
How did you go with this hand coordination tutorial?
What level did you get up to
before things got a little harder?
Let me know in the comments
which level you got up to comfortably.
If you enjoyed this video
make sure you stay tuned to my part two
of this hand coordination series,
where I'm going to upload some more difficult challenges
to improve your coordination even more.
Again, my name is Jazer, thank you for watching.
I hope this helps you coordinate your hands
a little bit better and I'll catch you in the next video.
(uplifting piano)