This video is for the absolute beginners. You've been playing piano for a few weeks and months and
you just want some really simple exercises to begin to work on your finger control and speed
In this video, we're gonna do some simple exercises. In three phases, we're gonna do five note scales,
four scales and then ending with arpeggios. Before we jump into the exercises make sure you like and
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Phase one we're going to start with five note scales very simply you're just going to put your thumb
on the c and play up like this and then come down when you reach the g
just a little tip when you're doing this, make sure each finger is independent
when you're playing each note so for example if you're playing your pinky
and your thumb is coming up this is not really good it means that your
pinky isn't really independent so try your best to keep everything really low and level
once that starts to get comfortable you can quicken it up a little bit
let's move on to left hand this time, you're going to put your pinky on the lower c
once that's comfortable you can start to speed it up
try to remember the tip I gave you before to keep everything low so that it's controlled
and each finger is independent. What you don't want to play is something like this
where every time you go to one end of the hand, the
other part of the hand is coming up. Let's now do hands together
and once that's comfortable you can start to make it a little faster
before we finish up on the five note scales I want to give you a couple of challenges before
we've been doing this now instead of doing one to one let's now do two to one sounds like this
that means for every two right hand notes left hand is going to do one note
and of course once that gets comfortable, start to make it a little faster okay and the next
challenge is to flip that around for your left hand to be faster than your right hand
just remember to always first practice slow to understand the movements before
you practice it faster. If you want more hand coordination challenges like the one I just
showed you click on this video here where you can get 10 levels of coordination challenges
All right moving on to phase two which is the full scale okay you're going to need
to put your right hand thumb again on the c and this time we're going to play this.
Okay now, obviously they're eight notes and us having only five fingers we need to reuse some of
our fingers right okay so you're gonna do one two three and over here you're gonna do a quick thumb
tuck okay where you do something like this okay where the thumb just kind of goes underneath so
and once that's comfortable, start to speed it up
you might find a thumb tuck is not very comfortable at first but with some practice
you will definitely get better at it. Let's move on now to the left hand the left hand
fingerings are a little bit different because it's a mirror image to your right hand so it
has implications for fingerings you're going to start with your pinky over here finish using your
fingers before you use turnover to do sort of a reverse thumb tuck to do number three
one more time it sounds like this
and once it starts to be comfortable, you can do a little bit faster.
okay hope you're doing well, we're going to move on now to hand stick at the contrary
and that means both your thumbs are going to start on the c and they're going to travel
outwards like this and come back
start to get faster when it starts to get comfortable
Very fun one this one. Once that's good, let's move on now to hands
together similar motion it looks like this
this one is harder than it actually looks because the thumb tucks are happening at
different points in your hands so you have to really coordinate your hands properly for
this one so look at this again, right hand thumb tucks here but left hand only changes over here
left hand change back first so one more time.
For the absolute beginners, this particular one will probably
take a bit more practice but it will definitely be worth your while.
Moving on now to phase three which is arpeggios. We're going to use your right hand first
to place the thumb on the c and this time we're going to be skipping some notes we're going to go
g with one two three
and then we're gonna do a massive thumb tuck for the thumb to go to
the next c same thing again e g and pinky on the c before we come back down the same way we did
okay so one more time thumb tuck
super little bit faster now
now the tricky thing about this one is this transition from the g to the c
so if I were you I'll be really practicing that transition like this
just to really get that transition properly
okay right hand down let's move on now to our left hand for left hand i recommend
the fingers five three two one and then turn to do three to one again
so again five three two one three two one
a little bit faster now
awesome you're doing great let's move on now to hands together
if you're interested to learn more about arpeggios make sure you click on this video
where I teach what arpeggios are and gave you some exercises okay that's all for today's video
How did you go with these simple exercises? Let me know in the comments hope you have
some fun practicing these mini exercises and I'll catch you in the next tutorial