This video is for the absolute beginners out there. You're wanting to play songs that you love
but your fingers are just not able to do different things at the same time in this video, I want to
give you beginners some very simple starting steps to try to do different things with your
hands so you can move on to actually playing the pieces that you really want to. Before we get
into our exercises today, make sure you like and subscribe to this channel to stay in touch with
more of these free piano lessons and tutorials. These exercises I've got my students to try and
they found it pretty helpful so I want to share this with you today. I've done another video on
coordination before so you can check that out here but today we have a new set of exercises .
Just like our previous video, it also has 10 levels. Here is what level 1 sounds like
so they both are going to start on c and right hand is going to run up
when you hit the g, your left hand also plays another c so
come down and one more on the left one more time
After that's comfortable, let's move on now to level two. Level two is the same as one
but just with the parts flipped around.
Now, as you're giving it a try just beware of some mistakes
I find that when students do this, they do something like this so
okay I don't know if you spot the mistake there but the the final note that happens
is in the hand that doesn't run up and down, so the correct way is actually
see that the right hand plays that final note because it's the
hand that doesn't run whereas what you don't want to play is
some other mistakes that I see as well is something like this,
where they play it hands together right because our hands really dislike
playing different things so one last time level two sounds like this.
Going now into level three, level three is where the right hand runs
again but here's how it's a little bit different
this time both hands are starting on the d
and these exercises, they're all limited to that c position and because it's starting on the d
you sort of have to do more turns if that makes sense so come down come back up one more time.
Going now into level four which is level three but flipped around
you can just keep repeating this
just some really nice exercises to get the hands to do very very different things. One of the best
ways that I've found to practice these exercises is with a metronome. A metronome is really
important because it gives you the beat and a sort of forces you to play things at the right time. One
of the great delights I've had in the past few months of practicing is using this metronome
watch I have right here so what I do is I tap a beat I want and immediately I get a vibrating beat
on my wrist so instead of hearing sort of a noisy and loud click, I just feel it directly on my body
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okay and level six now switching around
as you're doing this you might find that all the levels where the right hand is doing all
the running is a bit easier than when the left hand does it, especially if you're right-handed.
If you're left-handed, then the whole thing is turned around so just make sure that when your
non-dominant hand is doing all the running to really be
thinking and be mindful about every single movement try to be your fingers
if that makes any sense try to think about each and every movement and concentrate
really really a lot on that non-dominant hand okay and level seven now starting on the next note f
moving on, let's go now to level 8.
We're coming now to the final two levels. So level nine starting on the g
level 10 flipped around
and there you go, you've completed all 10
levels. You can actually try to play them all together like this switch
and next one
so on and so forth. You might find that practicing these in isolation
is a lot easier than what I just did which is to play them all together where your brain just
has to do so many gymnastics. Another way that you can try practicing these exercises is to do
all of the right hand runs first before the left hand. So it's something like this and then go to d
and then go to the e so level five and then go to level seven and then level nine.
Before you do the left hand runs so from so two four six eight ten
so on and so forth. So, there you go! Two bonus ways of practicing these exercises. I can guarantee you
the first way is a lot harder than the second way and there you go. Let me know in the comments
please how you went with today's exercises, let me know also in the comments if you have any piano
related questions. 90% of the content you see here are from your questions, so please let me know what
you want to learn next. Have a great day have fun practicing. I'll catch you in the next one