5 Pro Tips on Piano Fingerings

[@jazerleepiano]

Your Handy Dandy 🕘 Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:34 3 Principles 2:55 Tip Number 1 3:40 Tip Number 2 5:19 Important Items to Learn 6:20 Tip Number 3 7:22 Tip Number 4 8:18 Tip Number 5

[@aivanflores9904]

Thank you for another tips sir☺️

[@maryfrey]

Thank you! This is so helpful!

[@charanew9435]

😊😊😊😊

[@tiffcat1100]

‘if a piece isn’t flowing properly …’ Bless you, nothing has ever yet ‘flowed’ but I live in hope 😊

[@maryfrey]

😊 I know what you mean!

[@adamyohan]

Some of my favorite tips: - If you had to stretch your hand a little bit, let go of the tension as soon as you can. Don't hold onto it. - Find the breaks in the music that allow you to move into comfortable hand positions. - Never be afraid to experiment with fingering.

[@26yz]

I think Jazer just read my mind, this is exactly what I'm looking for!

[@tiffcat1100]

Yes, I was wondering whether for example a b flat should always be a particular finger

[@willieervinjr2764]

Same!

[@shaunreich]

Same! Still at the part where I'm trying to find the right fingering. Scales I can see have really helped me develop it further, but there's a lot of these awkward positionings that I haven't encountered yet enough to get an automatic feeling for what is best

[@camdinh]

same too, jazer and youtube can read our minds 😂

[@willieervinjr2764]

@@camdinh 😂😂

[@user-sl3hp4pm1m]

As always, brilliant. Thanks Jazer. One of the many reasons you are such a brilliant teacher is, that your words are combined with illustrations and demonstrations that makes the understanding complete. When one is told to do scales, one is not motivated. But when one understand why to practise scales, one is super motivated. Your gift is that you can make people understand and be motivated. A gift from the gods to all of us ;-)

[@billbowdoin7541]

This lesson was very very helpful!! You are a great teacher. Thank you 🙏

[@purpleglitter7]

I love the song you played, just read that it’s an original composition. I need it on my playlist!

[@codentia___4369]

Game changer for me since I struggle with arpeggiation. Much appreciated!

[@AskTheAIOracle]

You are a gold-mine Jazer

[@GuanglayKangyi]

as someone who started a week ago this is incredibly helpful!! you're awesome man

[@johncubbin825]

I’ve needed this for quite a while. Not all tune sources have recommended fingerings and spelling out these principles will provide a practical guide. Thanks for yet another superb well-condensed video.

[@תמראיתן-י7ג]

Hi Thank you for that great content Do you have a video where you play the hole composition (or link for sheet music? I liked it alot)

[@newtypehuman]

What is the name of the music piece you were playing? 0:51

[@baldy555]

Thank you Jazer. I have been hitting a wall of non-progress for some time and needed this video to revitalize me passion for playing. I will take your advice on scales and arpregios really seriously. Appreciate your gentle method of teaching

[@binhannguyen1365]

Thank you so much. Can you do a video to train all the scales and arpeggios as well? It would be awesome

[@larrygraham3377]

Thanks Jazer for another splendid lession. Struggled with this a lot now you have made things so much easier. Again, Thanks a whole bunch !!! 🙌

[@suemoyers67]

Thank you. I’m struggling with the fingering (marked on the score) so this video is just what I needed today to enable me to re-assess it and hopefully find what is best for me.

[@bunnyhollowcrafts]

Thanks! Student at Berklee Online School of Music. My professor remarked on one of my videos that my fingering was “cumbersome”. This video is wonderfully thoughtful. Thank you so much!!

[@catestout3888]

Thank you for teaching us, and sharing your gift of music. It's so very helpful to beginners.

[@RobertCarlBurns]

You have read my mind,i needed your confirmation of scales, thumberina etc, thankyou jazzi

[@angenalaschka5976]

Hello Jazer Lee, thank you very much! I can take so much from you and also from Lionel Yu for my piano practice process. You are really a great help and inspiration! Thank you very much for your time. Your videos are also very motivating, especially when I sometimes think I'm not making any progress. Best regards

[@merandabubbles1124]

I so very much appreciate your videos. It seems that most times, when I have a question about something, I find you have made a video on it. Your students are very lucky and blessed to have you.

[@caterinaml]

Thank you, Jazer! Most eye opening & helpful. Good information-will be more cognizant while using these tips in my playing. 🙋‍♀️👍👍🎶

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

I just watched this video 3 weeks ago, and I'm watching it again, since the message is so important. I'm still in preparation to be a beginner, and I've started doing exercises that I've always done but by studying music theory, they take on a new meaning. Thoroughbass used to be how they taught all keyboard students, and they didn't teach chord inversions but instead cadences. There are finger movements that happen as you move up and down on the bassline. Two weeks ago, my piano teacher hadn't heard of Rule of the Octave. This week he watched as I progressed through the Circle of the Fifths and commented that I had only made one mistake. As he watched me do different exercises with the bass moving up a fourth or down a third that my fingers were learning what to do. That should be the goal. He encouraged that I continue. In the meantime I found the cadences taught by Nadia Boulanger. She is one of the last that taught in the Partimento/Thoroughbass tradition at the Paris Conservatory. I'm learning Major triads, and then will tackle the minor trio of triads. Jazer has a special place for me in my piano journey. I watched one of his videos a year and a half ago, went out and bought a piano and finished the video. Merci beaucoup for being my inspiration, Jason.

[@kizu5451]

very similar to waltz in a minor, this is amazing!

[@unclemick-synths]

4:22 now _this_ way of playing scales opened my eyes. I'm absolutely adopting it. Playing scales smoothly and evenly takes the attention away from those little runs. The question I had when I started watching this video was about improvisation where there's not the option of figuring out the optimal fingering. This will definitely help me get my hands prepared even if I'm just playing fragments of those runs - at least I will have led with a good finger and thumb-under will keep things moving where necessary! Excellent video 👍

[@katttttt]

I found the part at 4:22 so clean 😂

[@Sage-ig9hk]

I’ve noticed something very funny as I learn to play piano. I grew up taking classical singing lessons, so every week I’d spend an hour next to my teacher watching her play the piano, then when I was 16 I fell in love with an amazing pianist, and we would spend hours where he would sit and play whatever and I’d sit in a chair next to him just staring mesmerized at his hands. I’ve noticed that I have a very intuitive sense for fingering now, (I’m 18) and I think a lot of that has to do with just how much I’ve watched people play piano. So I guess my tip would be if you are struggling with fingering, just watch people playing!!

[@Ro8818.]

Thank you Jazer, you have really broken it down and simplified the rules . Love it thanks so much, you have really made a difference 🙏

[@gabrielgracenathanana1713]

Forget about begging him. This is a trick to sell his course. Nothing wrong about it😢 but disgusting anyway. I played it 10 times. Now I know. The forth tone is the confusing part. It is an inversion. It is to make the figuring really smooth. It then keep using similar inversion-like techniques (but generalized - picking the same tone but neighboring octave), and keep it smooth. Again, he intentionally did not explain it.

[@michaelcollins4072]

Thanks so much for these very valuable tips. Looking forward to learning more from you going forward. I'm learning the keyboard on my own.

[@jamelporter6974]

Great dissection and discussion of how to really break down your own piano practicing concepts, thank you 🙏🏿🤗🫵🏿 🎯‼️✊🏿

[@argo4750]

Pls do a video on how to avoid tension while playing piano. Cheers!! 😃

[@Pepper-g7l]

Excellent advice bro!! thank you so much

[@magnusemeritus]

That is your composition? Sounds like Chopin A minor waltz! Very similar! Lovely! Do you have the whole composition?

[@jazerleepiano]

I haven't finished it. But I think, after all the clamor here, I should. 😅

[@solitbeats]

​@@jazerleepiano Please finish fast and upload a tutorial 🎉❤

[@carolvargas6507]

@@jazerleepiano Yes, I was just about to ask what is the beautiful piece you are playing!

[@jaywalker1233]

Thanks - good advice here. “Replace finger” is pretty much essential with WTC fugues but with so much happening with interweaving voices it’s like a complex puzzle that needs to be disassembled to work out what’s going on. Then putting it back together requires figuring out the fingering to play each part correctly (I tend to circle in pencil those finger change notes with the numbers eg “2-3” so that I can see them coming up as I play and don’t forget!). It can take me hours just to properly learn how to play just one or two bars! So I’ve started learning different sections at the same time so that at some point they will all be joined up - otherwise I’d probably give up on the piece!

[@nataliecavanagh7432]

Yay, another Jazer video 🎉 You are a very gifted teacher my man

[@tanialopes196]

Obrigado!

[@jazerleepiano]

Thank you for the support @tanialopes196!

[@trantrungnghia9642]

3:03 what is this piece name guys? Starting to love the melancholy in this piece

[@Floorguy1000]

Good tips ......and thank you for that charming little piece!

[@shuangfei5046]

This is so much useful to me! exactly what I need to know. Great tips!

[@Minipera]

Thanks a lot, you are using simple words to explain struggles i have without noticing them, specially the split 1-2 vs 2-3-4-5 seems so basic yet never thought of this!

[@dimosthenisbitras4235]

Hello , may i ask what is the melody you are using for the video ? I find your videos and your approach very helpfull, thank u for the effort you put into them

[@3stripern]

I just love your composition in this video. When you finish, would it be possible to buy a copy?

[@thisisourchannel3589]

You seem to upload a video on a specific topic when I need it most. Thank you! I actually would love lessons with you but I am located in NC (U.S) which would make it 5am (4pm your time). Crazy time difference. Appreciate your videos 😁⭐

[@Salsayed]

Name of piece played at 0:51 ?

[@Her_Mez]

Does anyone know?

[@jazerleepiano]

It's a personal composition.

[@Her_Mez]

​@@jazerleepiano really really beautiful and nice to hear. We would like to hear it fully

[@Salsayed]

​@@jazerleepiano wow this composition is so beautiful, would love to hear it fully !And thank you for your great videos and tips they helped me alot ❤

[@shirleyromero8425]

Awesome tips, thank you. You have the best piano channel.

[@larryluffel777]

Thank You for these tips. Wish my local teacher had shown me this!

[@zekiyezeynepsahin9449]

Hi Jaser… Tip number 4 is very artistic… I benefited very much.. Thanks…

[@Haizou]

In my first piano lesson I thought that there was a DEFINITIVE way of fingering like each finger corresponds to a certain set of notes lmao, good to know!

[@JessieDel514]

Thanks again, Jazer, for these very helpful tips. You're such an amazing piano teacher 👏👏👏

[@rosesred2155]

Oeh! Super timely! I just bought my first book of ‘real’ pieces, but forgot to check if it indicated fingerings. Classic beginner mistake! This video lifted my spirits, now it will just be a new thing to learn!

[@SeaDrive300]

I'm probably a little crazy but, for me, figuring out the best fingerings to use is part of the fun of learning a new piece! 🙂

[@JD-72191]

@@SeaDrive300 i think so too! It’s kind of a ritual I do when learning a new piece. ForScore on my iPad makes it easy and neat to annotate all my pieces.

[@artimarga-margarita6200]

You are amazingly good. Thank you. Although some people could find you too quick....

[@grandiosa86]

Thanks for another very helpful video. I need to watch it a few more times, it was that good!

[@stuboyer1901]

Jazer, I'd really appreciate a video on the fingering of all scales. I also have trouble with arpegios and chromatic runs. Small hand span, I can barely reach a ninth.

[@saradenault5903]

What I don't see in books is the fingering for playing scales in two octaves. So a video for that would be really great too!

[@miketurnbull4333]

@@saradenault5903 look at the ABRSM piano scales book.

[@Practicalmusicministryskil4906]

This is great- thank you! I just started sharing videos on my KZbin channel in the hopes of making music literacy accessible to all.

[@StopAndGo1]

Nicely explained ! Thanks for putting this together.

[@hhl2296]

Thank you so much for your videos!

[@marcobucci4375]

Thanks to your tip I have just fixed a nasty passage that was bothering me. I will show to my teacher the solution and see what she thinks. Works for me!😃

[@elissahunt]

What fingers to use has always confused me. Thank you for this extremely helpful and enlightening video.

[@floresfamily9580]

I would love to learn that song you keep playing!!😊

[@MS-sz7se]

Title of the piece played in the video? So beautiful. Always thanks for your tips : )!!

[@yethukyaw9696]

Thanks Jazer.. this video helps me a lot

[@verabb6113]

Thank you! Really useful tips

[@luisbalderas-ariza2644]

Thank you very much. That is what I was looking for

[@JL-od3ik]

Thank you for this. It has been something that I have struggled with. Excellent!

[@Milaynos]

I LOVE YOU JAZER❤❤❤❤

[@ericmitchell9331]

Great video, thanks Jazer.

[@tiffcat1100]

How superb, thank you SO much! If I learn scales, do I have to learn what they are called? I’m 65 so won’t be taking any exams! I don’t suppose you would take us through a few scales & arpeggios (I love the latter) would you, pretty please? ❤

[@peaceking7526]

another set of great tips. im improving already

[@kalabalakrishnan1484]

Shalom thank you very much. Just starting to learn piano. Will keep your advice in mind n start my good habit early 🙏😊

[@mirandajsummers]

Great video, thank you. I talk about 'caterpillar hand' where you use a series of stretching (usually an octave) and bunching to move around the piano - very common in Baroque type bass parts. But when you do it, your hand looks like a caterpillar 🐛☺️

[@elaineolson550]

Hey thanks! Great timing for this lesson. I think I use all your tips although my reading ahead needs improvement. The one thing I try to do is to replicate my fingering the next time the difficult section appears (I’m sure you’ve said this too!). Sometimes I get tripped up by this particularly if there is one “odd” note in the repeated sequence, such as when there’s a half note in there to hold the musical thought, rather than just moving on as before. I will unconsciously be tempted to change to a different fingering and I don’t think that is a good idea… Hope this makes sense! Again, thanks so much. 😊

[@frankycardoz8270]

Thankyou dear you are vary helpful to me a 71 year old man trying to lurne to play the keyboard, please help I love to lurn to play

[@jazerleepiano]

I do offer online piano lessons. 🙂

[@pianoby40]

Thank you for the lesson 🙏

[@NirHason]

Thank you so much for your informative videos! You actually made me writing it down on a paper using a pen (something I'm not doing so often). I'm summarizing most of your tips videos that way to remember them :)

[@sandeeppathak8170]

Brilliant Jazer...

[@Dennis-Mac]

These are some great tips. Thanks.

[@eunicerodrigues1500]

Awesome stuff. Was just thinking about this today after watching the "self-taught pitfalls" video.

[@phrankus2009]

Such cogent advice and such a digestible presentation. Thank you, Jazer.

[@willieervinjr2764]

Thanks! Perfectly timed help!

[@deericcio3379]

I am a self taught older adult beginner , about 14 months in , I think I spent too much time on music theory and not enough actually playing lol, as my sight reading is much improved over the year , fingering is definitely a challenge, for instance tonight I was working on Silver Bells ( Christmas song) and I’m jumping over myself with the back and forth octaves in the chorus

[@neo_7035]

Thank you❤

[@neilshaba9186]

Sweet melody in the examples you used. What is it and who is the composer?

[@angenalaschka5976]

Yes it is a great melody. I think it is Tetris Theme (Korbeiniki). You can use a (your) Handy (funktion) to recognize a unknown melody. So I do this, when I hear something, wich I don't know, but wich sounds good 😊 greetings from Germany

[@jazerleepiano]

I actually composed it before I made the video. It is still unfinished.

[@angenalaschka5976]

@@jazerleepiano it sounds very great, I like it very much

[@rezaghiyasvand2161]

Thanks Jazer

[@santamariajorge]

Very useful Jazer, thank you!

[@kureshimaizumi]

Thanks for all the awesome video.. it helps me a lot

[@wigglyk2796]

Hi jazer, thanks for the tips, Can you say what is the name of the song/piece that you're playing at 7:30?

[@null.5851]

Also looking, sounds like some nice waltz but not sure which

[@jazerleepiano]

It is a personal composition of mine. I haven't actually finished it yet.

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

What a timely video. I'm learning the Circle of Fifths progression, the I IV vii° iii vi ii V I progression. And I am trying to do it eyes closed. I was approximating a finger replacement, and this really gives me a concrete example. My other technical exercise of late is the Rule of the Octave. I'd love to see you do a video on this principle. Derek Remes has lots of material, and lots for free on his website.

[@paulmoadibe9321]

back in the days, my piano teacher always told me to NOT using my thumbs on the black notes... she was so right ! 😁

[@reynerialounacional7214]

Thanks to you i might have a higher chance of playing clair de lune is a hard piano piece and i wanna play it

[@chanm7033]

Very useful Thanks 🙏🏻

[@jamesmcmahon1312]

I just recently found you on youtube and I am really enjoying your videos. I have just recently started learning to play piano, something I have wanted to do all my life. I do have a question for you that is not about piano. What breed is that puppy in your video?

[@shirleyromero8425]

What is this lovely piece of music? Would like to put it on my 'to learn' list.

[@seda14us]

Thank you... Super 100% Best.

[@Sundance_]

Could you please share what you played? I would like to give a try:)

[@jazerleepiano]

Let me finish writing it. 😅

[@phyllisgordon6577]

Is there a book you would recommend to study chords, scales, and arpeggios?

[@stefanjagger]

Thank you!

[@khomkhankh4970]

Very good my teacher ❤

[@jeremiahreilly9739]

★★★★★ Great tips. What is the waltz you use as an example piece? Composer? Title? Source?

[@brendamengeling4653]

This was really helpful. I have three different scales and arpeggios books, and for the major flat keys, the arpeggios are not the tonic but the first inversion, so the thumb doesn’t play a black key. Are tonic arpeggios in flat keys not a thing?

[@richardgraham65]

Thanks, some really useful information here. A question for you regarding the Thumb Tuck, could you demonstrate the thumb tuck using one hand to play over maybe three octaves? Thanks. I understand the thumb tuck on a single octave but if I want to continue up or down the keys, after the first octave I run out of fingers.