Warm-Up Exercises that are Beautiful but Challenging

[@NahreSol]

PDF score (and learning notes) of these exercises: www.nahresol.com/shop/p/4-beautifully-challenging-warm-ups-with-learning-notes *Also available on my Patreon, for BM Patrons

[@venusspacey9685]

Please don’t post videos like these. It’s to informative for it to be free on KZbin. This is a paid lesson. Other teachers need students, and grateful students. It’s a worldwide community!! ❤

[@wrycoder]

Thank you for posting the score--especially at such a low price! There's one minor misprint on p. 4: the bass line of measures 8-10 overlaps the treble line of measures 11-13. I can work around it based on the theory (it's the third iteration), but you might want to update the score.

[@marcusshoults]

I may be a guitarist, but my alternate timeline pianist self is loving all this content.

[@NahreSol]

Thank you!! Btw, I'm learning the guitar right now, and will produce a video documenting this soon!

[@paulrhodesquinn]

@@NahreSol Me too! It's a challenge as a pro keys player to go back to the beginning on another instrument, but I'm learning so much that will also make me a better musician and improve my knowledge and role as a keys player. Sore fingers!!

[@AbeKenney]

We hear you brother!

[@benc4968]

@@NahreSolso many benefits learning guitar as a pianist, or vice versa

[@tony89718]

Would love to have these warm up pieces translated for the guitar! 🙂

[@okiyomi256]

That first excercise is so nice, reminds me of Kapustin's second etude!

[@NahreSol]

Thank you!

[@Yubin_Lee_Doramelin]

That's EXACTLY what I thought!!

[@MsMARsX3]

please make a theory book!!!! i love the way you explain theory and harmony. take my money 😭🫶

[@ilyapetoushkoff8362]

There seems to be one already, check the notes to the video.

[@benjibenj7]

I really appreciate the slow-paced breakdowns

[@GautierSeguinMusic]

Yeaaah the warmup exercices are back :D

[@NahreSol]

Yes :)))

[@adamyohan]

Even though I don't know how to read notation the slowed detailed breakdown makes this feasible to learn. Thank you.

[@NahreSol]

Thank you!! I'm so glad to hear this...

[@adamyohan]

@@NahreSol 🙏

[@drewwhite6865]

"beautiful but challenging" - it's everything one could wish for in life.

[@christophersimmons7784]

Thank you for this, I’ve been having the itch to start playing again more regularly and this is such a pleasant but challenging exercise that have such great harmonies. On to practice!

[@NahreSol]

So glad to hear, thank you!

[@CLabmusic]

Thanks for giving me something for my Fall practice❤

[@NahreSol]

Thank you back!!

[@maillardsbearcat]

You're the best! Thank you!!

[@NahreSol]

Thank you back!!

[@JessieDaRabbit]

Finally got enough motivation to practice :D

[@lorenzorambo3064]

nahre posted a new video!!! best news of the day❤

[@NahreSol]

☺️☺️☺️

[@markshveima]

These are so beautiful, and so beautifully articulated and taught. I LOVE the step by step instructions you give. My favorite of them is #2, because it is very reminiscent of Guaraldi's work on the animated Charlie Brown specials and series. Sweet nostalgic feeling. : )

[@henryw.1732]

I heard that too!

[@Whatalunatik]

9:35 is giving "one day more" energy

[@andrewa3825]

I love these warm-up videos, I always learn one

[@botlhalebakwa9364]

Honestly this could not have come at a better time. I've been in need of exercises that will help me with technique and theory so much, so thank you!!

[@NahreSol]

Thank you back!

[@koshka818]

Nice, thanks!

[@NahreSol]

Thank you back!!

[@ezion67]

Thank you.

[@NahreSol]

Thank you back!!

[@barbaraterracciano1]

Wow Nahre,sounds so Jazzy thank u Nahre ur fire❤❤❤❤

[@NahreSol]

Thank you!! 🙏🏻

[@splashesin8]

Thank you Nahre! 💕🤗

[@brennanthompson]

Tysm!

[@NahreSol]

Thank you back!

[@PsychHacks]

Can’t wait to work on these. You create the most beautiful harmonies.

[@DorothyOzmaLover]

So divine and worthy of adapting to a composition so bless Nahre!

[@rubenchannel8237]

You're amazing Nahre, thanks.

[@anderkeyboard]

Fantástic my friend GOD bless you 🎹 thank you so much 🎹

[@gryffynda1]

Yay! An alternative to my Dohnanyi!

[@DatsMac]

Wow,I am not alone with my daily Erno!🤣

[@davidraiklen4521]

Thank you for bringing back harmony and sequence, there's plenty of wonderful music to be made with these elements. I like them all, but my favorite today is parallel flickers!

[@voltapix]

you're amazing

[@michaelcho6039]

I like the 4th exercise that you called it "Sparkling Ivy". It's very similar to my lead guitar speed exercise, aka the "spider exercise," when fingers are moving in sequence of index, ring, middle, pinky to any scales especially on chromatic scale.(on piano would be pinky, middle, ring index.) This gives great exercise for the fingers if it’s done correctly and also can make awesome musicality for riffs and licks with fills and solos.

[@marclafontaine6996]

Can't wait to give this a whirl! Tks! Cheers!

[@Cyberfairy6]

I think like if you casually bust out cascading beads people would think you are like philip glass 😂. It's just so beautiful and with such big movement :') thank you! Im going to practice these

[@LivingGuy484]

I've watched many of your exercise videos. Just starting the video and it feels like this is your best one yet. I am so GRATEFUL that you're breaking it down in such helpful steps This is really well done!

[@ewtam24]

Thank you!

[@pikmin4743]

this is great, thank you

[@MakoDMusic]

Bless this women for providing the best musical content on yt ❤

[@massimoshi]

Beautiful!

[@NahreSol]

THANK YOU!!

[@baldy555]

Thanks Nahre. Gonna practice now

[@cyrillebacher1980]

Excellente vidéo une fois de plus ! J’adore la variété des sujets abordés sous tous les angles, merci !

[@MrBoundji]

Fantastic lesson,merci beaucoup❤

[@donpeterson7]

Nahre you are AMAZING!!!❤😀

[@mikeschmidt5376]

I've been watching your videos for quite awhile now. You are so good at opening up new areas and ways of thinking, just an excellent teacher. I just bought your pdf for this and look forward to going through these examples. Guitar is my first instrument but I have also been playing keyboard instruments for quite awhile. The way I have experienced it is that there is music that you can get through a guitar and then music through a keyboard, both can take you to quite different places along with the the wonderful overlap they can bring. Enjoy your guitar journey! Wishing you a great week Nahre!

[@Chuck26814]

Love these. Thanks Nahre!

[@bobbygadourymusic5476]

Gorgeous warmups!

[@Favion]

Wow. If I just learn these exercises I should be good enough to play Carnegie Hall just performing the exercises. Now I see why you are such a musical Wonder Woman. Hard work along with the inner love that sings from your heart and soul. Just perfect. : )

[@nomannic1]

These are stellar and musical sounding exercises! thanks for sharing! :)

[@georgearthurmantiri]

Luarrr biassaa ... Thanks

[@gamebrain7]

thank you for this

[@kalebbrewer4510]

Finally when i say “let me warm up real quick” i can actually show off😭

[@NahreSol]

😅

[@phanjazm]

THANK you for sharing!!! I really enjoy these types of instruction videos.

[@pottedrodenttube]

Very inspiring practice lessons!

[@ushaandusha]

Beautiful

[@hvadhvem6138]

I wish we talked about 7th and 9th chords more in my theory classes. The harmonic functions remain the same, but everything gets coated in something bright, rich and dreamy!

[@jeanpatripaiez432]

Such good exercises, thank you for sharing ! I will add that to my practice and then warm-up routine. I'd love you to make a similar video that focuses on left hand pattern instead

[@NahreSol]

Will do one soon!

[@paulborovina932]

❤😊 Thx!

[@rubenchannel8237]

Amazing 😍

[@misaelnavea2788]

just love it

[@NahreSol]

Thank you!!

[@paulrhodesquinn]

Stunning! Your creativity and ideas are wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing these 😀🎹

[@rudolphpyatt4833]

The last one, especially played quickly, sounds like the bridge of the old jazz piece “Cherokee”. Written by Ray Noble (I believe circa 1935), it remains a jazz standard, and was a favorite of bebop players from the start of the Bop era. In fact, Charlie Parker is known to have practiced playing over the changes to that tune (in all 12 keys) as a crucial part in developing his approach. That said, my favorite version of the song is by the Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet; it’s the opening track on the “Study In Brown” album. In fact, Richie Powell (younger brother of Bop piano titan Bud Powell) plays up a storm on that song, and indeed on the entire album: Essential listening for anyone interested in jazz.

[@wonderfalls2]

These are too advanced for me right now, but I still learned a lot about how to practice effectively. Thanks!

[@johnchessant3012]

very nice

[@philipbenjamin4720]

Wonderful thank you. Perfect for a fifty-nine year old who wants to counteract hesitance and functional decline. Just the right thing.

[@SamuelAlps]

how nice to listen to while you train 🙂 I'm also practicing them with the Saxophone for a video on my channel hoping to give the same relaxation to those who watch it as I feel watching your workouts 🙂

[@amnesomniac]

My passion for playing piano has been slipping away these last few months. It has been hard to find the time and confidence to practice and often when I do, I feel like an imposter at my own instrument since my skills don't seem to be improving. These exercises are so beautiful and seem fun to learn, and now I can't wait to get home so I can practice. Thank you so much! 🙏

[@mostafaheshamahmed1607]

This is awesome. Would love to see a version for left hand exercises

[@regulocastromusic]

My goodness! First you bewithched us with that Beauty but The Beast to play patterns,💫🙂‍↔️✨🙂‍↕️ and then you show us how easy to see and understand they really are..😮 The Teacher in You is a really huge force 👊😎

[@amnesomniac]

Smells like ai

[@regulocastromusic]

@@amnesomniac I'm sorry,but no, I'm real, but not a good english speaker I guess...

[@nothingman7163]

As a guitarist, I utilize piano chord theory all the time and appreciate these videos breaking it down

[@fraviersckeiser2727]

Me encantaaaa

[@Luka38]

You have a great way of teaching and breaking things down in your videos. I think I'm not the only one who would love a tutorial series for beginner pianists/keyboard players, starting from what you would consider the basics then progressing to more complicated exercises and concepts. I know there is probably something similar on youtube already, but your videos are so easy to follow that they would be the perfect way to learn piano.

[@NahreSol]

I’ve been working on some stuff related to this!! 😃 keep tabs on my channel…

[@Luka38]

@@NahreSol Awesome! Can't wait!

[@ilyapetoushkoff8362]

These are brilliant! (It would be amazing to get a set of some 12…24 etudes by Nahre Sol one day!)

[@eokoji9886]

Nice video!! i'm really enjoyng theese exercises 🥰🥰

[@ushaandusha]

Slower sunny side to side my fav

[@99jdave99]

I'm surprised none of these focused on the left hand! The first one definitely looks like it would lend itself well to "swapping the action" (if not making both hands do the motion the right hand does in the video), the second one as well. I wonder how the third one would sound swapped though🤔 My gut says it would work well overall, albeit a bit awkwardly for some keys (that "this is a bit higher than I'd prefer, but if I keep it lower it gets a bit too muddy" kinda thing haha; probably would be best "mirrored" (downward motion becomes upward motion and vice versa, I mean)). My gut initially thought the fourth would probably be too muddy (even mirrored), but the motion seems so useful that when I thought about it more critically it definitely seems like it could work with a bit of adjustment (though it probably would involve starting rather high initially haha). Thanks for the food for thought, I definitely would benefit from these :)

[@NahreSol]

Will do a left hand one soon!

[@alejandroacevedo9409]

These are my favorites and your most u ique. Wow you are amazing

[@SpaceBotany]

Hell yeah!

[@FauxieDaoJia]

Your videos have changed my life. I wish I could give you some kind of nice, personal gift, but for now please take this array of emojis 👍🏃🙏🌷🌅🏆☯❤

[@pauljonesesquire]

I am interested in your transition from keys to guitar, I wonder if you have favourite guitarists to draw from or just want to learn the fret board from scratch and transfer your knowledge? Is it Julian Bream or Jimi Hendrix. That was a nice study BTW!

[@botlhalebakwa9364]

Please make more exercises🙏

[@amineboussaada1]

This is great, can you do one to warm up the left hand as well?

[@coltonjohnson9739]

Do you think you would ever do a video on the music theory behind lullabies? I’ve got a sick baby and I’ve been singing to her and sometimes playing with one hand while rocking her with the other, and I got kind of curious. I looked up a bit about it on Wikipedia and it said that many lullabies across the world had similar traits, similar bpm, often were 3/4 or 6/8- it got me really curious! What kind of traits do they follow? What types of harmony or melodies ? Do people use minor or major or maybe some other mode (in western music at least)? But I couldn’t find many other sources, definitely not on KZbin. Anyways, I don’t know if you’ll ever see this comment, but I figured I’d cross my fingers! Good job on your channel and keep it up!

[@manuale7298]

I have to try for left hand too, it's important make with both hands

[@TaurusVenus]

So for exercise 3, we're rolling the chords in the left hand? (That's helpful, because I can't reach a 10th all at once. 😅) Love these beautiful exercises! Thank you!

[@NahreSol]

That's fine!!! :)

[@TaurusVenus]

@@NahreSol Thank you! 🙏🎶

[@superblondeDotOrg]

You become what you practice. Ask yourself... "do I like this sound enough to have it become part of my typical sound?"

[@jayantjrathod]

Superb Ma'am Thank You So Much 😊

[@mrdjangofreeman5560]

Mastercard, another world . At start, I thought "cool easy" 😂. At the end, i am just saying "w-o-w nice", listening 😅

[@mrdjangofreeman5560]

* masterclass, sorry for fat fingers

[@strat1227]

The harmony of that second exercise is blowing my mind ... wtf is even happening those major7 chords are so beautiful and I can't make sense of it

[@mobeck]

These are great exercises! Can't wait to try these out. I need to warm up at the piano so much more than I did when I was younger!

[@NahreSol]

Thank you!!

[@wwxluvr2643]

istg your exercises are one of the best things you post 😭 they are always so unique, beautiful and helpful! I love how you explain them, very informative and easy to follow ❤️ thank you for another video which I’ll spend hours on while trying to recreate every thing you do 💀

[@8Phoenix8]

Thanks for this :)

[@seanlloyd699]

9:40 had me hearing les mis

[@nickk8416]

These are areas I should really improve on. Thanks Nahre Sol. I'll download the pdf. They are priced very reasonably too. Best Regards.

[@Filip_Z]

So beautiful

[@davidsummerville351]

Are you doing this on guitar yet? 😊 Keep us guitar players informed on your progress.

[@Maxi.Ledesma.musica]

😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@NahreSol]

🙏🏻 Thank you!

[@nebbykoo]

Watch out, next stop JAZZ.

[@djlslinet]

❤

[@pedrocem3018]

So good the best❤

[@Scriabin_fan]

These are going to give my fingers quite the workout.

[@remem95]

Im thinking about upping my skill only to play these

[@normalizedaudio2481]

I was scared to watch this because I got to make myself practice it. I been doing some; but, I need to practice these EVERY day. I feel so guilty for not doing it. Fake it till you make it. That's what I say; buy, my hands hurt from no warm up. I will work on it soon.