Hey everyone my name is Jazer in this video i want to teach you a beginner warm up
that is on your traditional scales or arpeggios it's an exercise that sounds like an actual song.
Scales and arpeggios are very important but sometimes maybe you just want to play something
a little different to spice things up. I'm first going to teach you step by step how to play
the exercise that you just saw and heard and then in the later part of the video I'm going to give
you four bonus challenges to make things a little bit more interesting for you to practice. And just
before we get into the tutorial make sure you like and subscribe to this channel to stay in
touch with more of these free piano lessons and tutorials we're gonna first start by learning
the right hand all you need are fingers one two and four and you're gonna place them on g
c and e okay so to play this exercise you're gonna start on the e travel down and back up like this
pretty easy right
so this little riff here happens throughout the entire warm up let's
now jump into learning the left hand the left hand moves around a little bit more
you're going to need to play in four positions for the left hand so you're going to start on
the c position or you can call this this the c chord you're going to play this
four times and then you move to the g
and then to a
and then down to f
i'm going to start again on the c
to g now
next is going to the a
and finally to the f
okay and when you've mastered both hands you can start to put them together
and that's it it's really that simple just some extra advice make sure when
you're playing to rotate your wrist as well like this so don't play stiffly like that
make sure you're rotating your wrist like this very freely because this is a warm-up exercise
i want to make sure you're warming up and moving your wrists too
all right let's move on now to our four bonus challenges
so how did you go with that warm-up exercise was that easy medium or difficult for you
let me know in the comments once you've mastered that basic warm-up exercise let's move on now to
four bonus challenges that's gonna make things a little bit more interesting for you challenge
one is the slow left hand so in the original challenge you are playing something like this
where every right hand note your left hand is also playing one dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum dum
but this time you're gonna play left hand twice as slow as the right hand so something like this
and one more time it looks like this
so challenge one in its complete form sounds like this
moving on to challenge two challenge two is
the left hand stretch so the left hand in this challenge looks something like this
repeat again move down to the g
into the a remember each one of them is always twice second round and to the f
repeat again please
g
to the a now
f
i love this one this one sounds really beautiful and it's also
a really good warm-up for your left hand to do that little stretch with
your thumb so once you've mastered that you can then play it together
now moving on to challenge three this one is slightly more on the difficult side to
proceed with caution challenge three is called create a right hand melody line in challenge
three i want you to imagine splitting your right hand into two different parts
okay so if you imagine that these two fingers are one hand and this is three four five is like
another hand so imagine you you cut your hand into two to make two hands okay so for this first part
we're doing the cg c cg we're going to keep it as it is
but then at the top part this time instead of playing just the e
this time you can play any other notes around this range so you can do something like this
now remember the only rule is that you have to keep this okay this part of the hand
but with the e you can replace that with anything around this area now it depends it depends on how
your how big your hands are but probably a good range to play are notes from d to about
a or b okay so play any note in this range in replacement of the e so something like this
this is a good chance for you to improvise and compose something
for yourself but let's say you're not really sure how to do that at the moment
here are two examples that i've created myself that you can follow first
before you go and compose something yourself so you can do something like this
okay so remember these you have now two hands within your right hand this part that remains
the same the entire way but then your three four five this other hand over here you're allowed
to play any notes here and you can follow my examples for now so you can do something like this
oh
the sky's the limit you can really do any notes in it and try and create something that sounds
nice for yourself it's very interesting to do in this challenge three because within
one hand it almost sounds like you're playing two different parts and so people say wow that sounds
really busy or sounds really pro right and that's because you are you're doing more than one thing
with with this hand so so very interesting technique to learn to do this challenge
now if you've mastered challenge one two and three and you still want something else you can move on
to my final challenge challenge four challenge four is the combination of all one two and three
this one's a pretty hard one you might have to just really slow it down and practice
hands separately before you merge it all together and there you go that's a beginner warm-up that
doesn't sound like our traditional scales and arpeggios just something that sounds a bit more
modern and interesting to try how did you go with this warm-up which challenges could you do let me
know in the comments don't forget to practice daily and i'll catch you in the next video
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