Linus and Lucy - Piano Lessons

[@lpa9974]

Scott actually said it perfectly-It’s like trying to pat your head and rub your stomach (In a circular motion) at the same time. They are two different motions controlled by the left brain and the right brain (right hand and left hand). They can be done but you do have to go very slowly first and take your time until they eventually just come together (In the brain- also called muscle memory). It really is more than just knowing the chords or the rhythm by themselves. It takes a lot of focused practice, but you will eventually get it. Patience is key. Good luck. 👍

[@O0Salmon0O]

This is such a strong lesson for being so brief. I know I will be able to play this song eventually after watching this.I love how he suggested practicing each hand's task separately. BTW, David Benoit looks like he could be David Steinberg's brother. His voice bears no resemblance however.

[@BigHerm111]

my dad has a masters in piano that he doesn't use... he would play this .. feels like everyday of my childhood .. love this song

[@FredGemstone]

HA!! Lightbulb moment!! Classic. I'm going to learn this. Music is so awesome!!

[@ZacRea2]

This is such an awesome tutorial! I think this will work perfectly for my son who only wants to play this song!!!! Keep posting guys! You're doing good here!

[@Enobdum01]

This is one of those songs that, no matter how casually, if you play the piano at all, you have to know!

[@Joseph88keyz]

Love it! I catch your show whenever I can..(usually I am at work)..I am primarily an "ear" musician so your show is the best way for me to relate to any kind of lessons. I was fortunate to have seen David Benoit play here at the River Raisin Jazz Festival a couple of years ago and he did this song. I am glad I found your channel!

[@riverraisin1]

I used to love going to that festival every year then moved away from the area. All those great musicians for free.

[@TheSanityInspector]

My small children rushed from computer to piano to computer to piano, soaking up this lesson!

[@StevieB1362]

My favorite all-time song. Thanks for posting. & thanks for saying it's difficult even for you Scott & David. Maybe I will take lessons after all.

[@michelleleeginger5225]

I would give anything to have Mr Benoit for a piano teacher!!!

[@McbrydeWithaY]

I love the Roland guitar amps also, i have a micro cube for travel conveniences.

[@indymustang1969]

Exactly the right explanation and discussion. I am slowing it down and hoping I can break through the wall soon.

[@jennakeith5711]

picked a great guy to teach this! This tutorial got me into playing piano and now i have been taking lessons for almost 3 years!!! ( level 4 now!) Still can't do both hands together but i know I will someday!!

[@pianoinaflash]

Couldn't be happier for you Jenna! Yeah!! Keep having fun! (although I have no idea what level 4 means...)

[@zurvey]

Great clip, and really loved that piano in the closing statement too. Very nice.

[@ta2gypsy]

revisited in prep for Charlie Brown Christmas tonight!thanks for dummying it down for us.

[@Fo0Guy18]

I just saw this show on pbs the other day... Lack of motivation was my main reason not learning.. but this guy made it look sooo easy.. So I went out and bought a nice electric keyboard.. cheap for starters!

[@SteelasophicalSteelBand]

David Benoit recorded one of my fav all time albums 'This Side Up' 🔶🔷

[@TheTRAINOR11]

One of the greatest songs of all-time. Going to buy a small portable piano to learn how to play it.

[@kirbyculp3449]

Succeed?

[@jordanf4800]

Did you learn it?

[@therugratstake2971]

We need to know. Did you learn it?

[@sqa]

@MasterOfTheBlues take it as slow as possible when learning the two hands together. this will help you train your brain and hands to sync what notes in the left hand are played with the right.

[@glendalloyd7052]

OMG awesome song i really enjoyed learning it!

[@KadeshLeMort]

This is awesome,,, If I only knew when this was on tv and what channell i would be waiting with a notebook to take notes

[@guitaromontalban6841]

Are you playing the LH Db on the way back down during the melody?? The LH changes a note and rhythm changes for the melody from the beginning bass part but great job!

[@xbox7888iscool]

love the sound of that piano/keyboard : )

[@gran4404]

I don't know how to read music. I've never even played a real song on a piano. I saw my friend play this really well, and decided I wanted to play it too. This video was so helpful, my only problem is that the keyboard is too big for my puny hands so I can't reach all of the keys. This vid was really helpful though.

[@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823]

Ba-loney. See Wael Farouk. Little person playing Rachmaninoff. Who was a big dude. Playground Sessions. Sheet reading program. I have logged in 22 hours on it (it tells you). Still stink at it, lol. Still pushing on.

[@mikeitzenhuiser1192]

After all these years of trying to play this on my own piano, I've just realized that the chords played with my right hand aren't what I thought they were. Now I have to start learning this method before I can combine my left with my right all over again. Dangit :(

[@jurnagin]

Folks I actually learned this melody by practicing scales, Thats why its very important to practice scales in every key at least 15 minutes a day, So important, it will build up dexterity and confidence, and when you practice a particular song youll already know it.

[@V3R0N1C4-o4x]

4:27

[@Markpianist1]

After you do all that and have it well then attempt in time slowly. Also don't attempt more than 2 measures at a time. And before you go to the next two measure make sure you can play the two measures you are in perfectly 3 times out of five twice in a row. If you fail on either start over and don't leave the piano until you have it. If two measures is difficult do only one.

[@ronfrey5327]

THI IS AWESOME TO SEE THANK YOU VERY MUCH...

[@SmirnovaLarisa]

I just started yesterday and I already know half of it THE HARD WAY

[@djfusesmusic]

I always thought this song was more complex and it really isnt, just takes some pratice.

[@pianoinaflash]

djfusesmusic It's all a coordination exercise for sure. As boring and trite as this sounds... the key is to start S-L-O-W-L-Y until your brain can kind of "wire up" the order your fingers need to fall between both hands. Then you can speed it up pretty quickly. Have fun!

[@nathanielnelson6078]

+djfusesmusic It gets a lot harder when you get into other parts of the song. The swing part is by far the hardest!!!

[@guitarfreak41658]

what is that closing song?!?!?!?! i love it!

[@LJG907]

Excellent tutorial .. Always loved "Peanuts"

[@swinemn]

Laura G Photos and Film

[@swinemn]

I do agree

[@mikegLXIVMM]

Good Grief!! You make it looks so easy!

[@themarcshark]

This is too hard for me! I have small hands. so i cant stay in one position when im doing the right hand part. Do you have any tips for people with smaller hands?

[@capslock793]

4:28 for tempo 4:27 for prep

[@psalc1]

Great lesson. Still waiting on the Great Pumpkin though...

[@theghostofsw6276]

Thanks for this!

[@Markpianist1]

So say left meaning left hand or together meaning both hands play or what ever the situation is. Say it then take your time, don't be half ass make sure you get the right notes!

[@TheWillster14]

so easy yet it sound so hard!!! thank you very much!!!!

[@Swamy456]

that part is the easiest its on youtube here somewhere. this is the best tut with the beginning which is arghh

[@jaimes9623]

I was younger when my dad taught me to play this but I still don't know my keys or how to read sheet music. he would mark the keys and the book to match with abcde etc.

[@izzymilan]

i've been practicing this song for about 4 months and i still dont have it rightt!!!

[@geckoman07]

thanks so much!!!! i learned it in 10 minutes :D i really needed this song for christmas today ^^ thx :D

[@daabest1]

@sirCheeseMaster well i have smallish hands so thats what i do... it makes the ending hard though

[@minggnim]

Nice sounding keyboard.

[@wallmunky503]

Fantastic video. I'm impressed :D I'm gonna subscribe.

[@daabest1]

Does anyone else use their thumb for the C and Eb on the right hand riff?

[@SADSTEV]

What were the keys for the right hand

[@reizavicereno]

This is quite an easy piece but I'm having trouble with my right. I'm having trouble with my ring finger, it's my weakest finger and I'm double jointed. But I'm not losing hope :)

[@josepastrana2785]

Did u ever learn it? :0

[@sifluellen]

Now all we have to do is master that in every key and then we really can say we know how to play the song👌🏾

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

***** ,,Good one. You have probably told your students that trying to transpose easy musical phrases to all 12 keys is how you become a jazz soloist.. Like starting with the first phrase of Eleonor Rigby,,etc. I still have not found a pianist that plays the peanuts theme the easy way like I do.

[@aeedin]

I got to say, I really like this song. So I wanted to try and play it on my keyboard. So I get it out of storage and I figure out that it is a half-keyboard and the tune is all whacked out! Grr.

[@michelleleeginger5225]

I originally started out playing drums. My favorite among many was, of course, Neil Peart. As far as pianists go, I always considered David Benoit in that echelon of artists, and watching him teach this piece reminds me of a quote that Mr. Peart once passed along, and it is this; The teacher takes something complicated and makes it look easy, while the student takes something easy and makes it look complicated. Now that I'm done yammering, it's back to the keys to complicate....oops, I mean complete this lesson 🙃🙂🤣❤

[@kaziiqbal7257]

My school played Linus and Lucy in the winter concert and we’re playing 1812 overture in the spring. Coincidence? I think not!

[@Getrealpeeps]

I LOVE that song!! (kinda of makes me wish I HADN'T QUIT taking piano lessons) :(

[@Hotchocolate1494]

I'mm so confused. learned to play this in the Key of C, but everyone plays it in Ab

[@ThunderCatMovies]

Wow they are missing a crucial piece of instructions, when he plays it fast at the end watch his left hand, he throws in another note that he didn't mention in the movie, watch carefully, it took me a couple of times to notice.

[@depechecherry]

Thank you so so so so so much.

[@HenneyV808]

Man, I gotta try that!

[@daabest1]

what channel is this show on?

[@ThunderCatMovies]

@DanishBoogieBoy ya its for the timing

[@AceR4808]

3:10 what song did he just play

[@pianoinaflash]

It's a well known theme from the Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture

[@jonahdove1902]

Swear word! My hands are too small for the harmony on the right hand, and I can barely get the left hand part!

[@djfusesmusic]

keep praticing, at some point your hands will stretch out

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

yes, You could try the thumb on the E Flat,, second finger on F, and the third finger on the A Flat like the original. Almost any composition can be changed into an easier version.

[@drbrown2402]

May I ask ? What frequency has the instrument been tune to? 440 hz or 432 ?

[@1rewd133]

434 1/8.

[@HunterMann]

Nice video, but would have been nice for them to credit the late, great Vince Guaraldi.

[@douglasfuqua7082]

Cool !!!

[@1972ibleedcrimson]

What a boss! :)

[@V3R0N1C4-o4x]

3:58

[@satelng]

Good God, how can all your fingers do diffrent things at the same time like that?

[@Reyalp]

@overtime2005 You forgot to end that sentence with "FML"

[@Tony09101]

Am I the only one who thinks that guy looks like Steve Jobs?

[@Spiceking02]

Yeah he does look like Steve Jobs

[@cosmikdebris4950]

Yeah, you're almost the only one.

[@videopimp1]

Yup. Looks more like Bob Tuschman from Food Network

[@sparnman]

The one playing looks like his head was crushed in a cardboard baler

[@66flamer]

sparnman but that would hurt.

[@GloriaD5767]

I kinda felt that it wasn't hard to play, it was just a matter of coordinating each hand. Practice, practice, practice!

[@jbidlow9617]

I 13 I like to play this song but the easer version (no sharps or flats) I mean I have only been playing for 3 months.

[@pianoinaflash]

+1hunter201 plays Funny as I think it is easier to play this one using the black keys (what you call sharps and flats) than to play it in a different key using mostly white keys (which I've done in the past). The reason is that the black keys give me physical "guide posts" my fingers can more easily feel to know "where I am" as both hands are doing their own thing. Don't confuse the fact that playing in a key with a lot of black notes is harder to "read" (due to all the sharps and flats in the notation) with that being hard to "play" because in fact many times it is physically easier to play NOT using primarily the white notes. A lot of gospel players that do not read well play almost exclusively in keys like F# that are primarily played on black notes...

[@dougbinda7972]

can this be played on a keyboard with 61 keys?

[@sepultura7771]

Yes

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

at a few places, play the right hand and left in unison rhythm, and cut out a few bass notes,,,,,,,, the way I do it is easier and most listeners will not know they difference

[@dritz3806]

Great lesson.. Thank you... But no mention of the author of this classic.. The great Vince Guaraldi.

[@SuperSmily110]

@HoopsMaster4 Whoa! It does lot like Steve Jobs!

[@TallSilentGuy]

Props to this Benoit guy for being able to play the piano with such stubby fingers!

[@jezlang2214]

He's sold 26 million albums. His fingers are probably not an issue...

[@Wykinyan]

@matthew623210 The 1812 Overture finale.

[@Dadee3]

This was catchy!!! =)

[@Grandetrepertre]

thank you!!! chhers from italy!

[@Drumboy5165]

@MrJjraptor Simultaneous is always hard :/

[@FlukeHuman]

aaah this is so hard

[@rogerrobie2451]

I like how the key change part is not even mentioned...

[@SaintD382]

I was waiting for that too. He plays it at the end, but doesn't show us how to actually do it.

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

at a few parts,, play the right hand and left in unison rhythm and cut out a few bass notes,, the way I do it on my channel is easier and actually may seem more Syncopated and most people will not notice the difference

[@riverraisin1]

Sure, but can you play jingle bells? You know, deck them halls and all that stuff"? Santa Claus, and ho-ho-ho, and mistletoe... and presents to pretty girls...?

[@MegaCream100]

16 thumbs-downers think they are such pros, yet they watch this.

[@Markpianist1]

Play out of time. You learn in time, make a mistake in time that is the way your brain will learn it. When playing both parts, say what the situation is ie left, right or together. If hands are together, think about one hand then the other. After a while you will see both hands notes without doing that..

[@BillyBatsonMarvel]

Holy Moly! David Benoit kinda look like Charlie Brown. lol

[@Pfsif]

Schroeder's da man!

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

Vince too

[@kirbyculp3449]

If he is so great then why isn't he on a bubblegim card?

[@dillpickle327]

The only problem with your videos is that you only do poart of the song I know its really just about learning the riffs but itd be so awesome if u could do the whole song once

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

THE Easy way is,,,, when the right hand plays, a flat b flat c c b flat a flat,,,,, play the right hand and the left in unison rhythm,,, then go back to original bass rhythm,, most people will not miss it,,,

[@itsmegp46]

My 9 year old niece taught herself to play this piece all by herself and with the help of some youtube tutorials. She is amazing.

[@ocamargo3]

@HoopsMaster4 no xd

[@jasobres]

Who better to teach "Linus and Lucy" then the very man who was responsible for the music of the most recent Peanuts specials?

[@eggizgud]

The rhythm isn't easy. It's syncopated!

[@diallobanksmusic]

1812 overture

[@rogerrobie2451]

"all black keys in left hand" 6th key is white...

[@ultrakool]

4:13 he couldn't play this part without his security blankee

[@Epicdps]

@pianoguytv lol commercializing