Teach Yourself Piano (Piano Lesson #1 of 5 Piano Lessons)

[@diannesolomon2006]

The instructions for each hand is clear and repeatable with practice. But you gloss over how to put the two together. Without sheet music as a visual clue, this is a significant omission.

[@pianoinaflash]

Actually Dianne, the entire goal is to play it without the sheet music as a visual cue. Music is in the aural domain, not the visual. I realize fully the difficulty that presents for people who have previously only considered their ability to play by their ability to read sheet music, but that is faulty logic for the styles i teach. Written sheet music notation is no more music than a recipe is food. Suffice it to say we address this whole topic in a LOT of depth throughout my method at pianoinaflash.com

[@kevingthompson14]

@@pianoinaflash I have worked around some of the top Euro bands and especially symphonic metal and that can be complex but they do not use sheet music either. When they have actual symphony added to the pieces, they record an actual symphony who is classically trained to read & play the sheet music score they have for that song. But the rest of the band does it by your method just on other instruments. Personally I appreciate your helping so many get past that mega sheet music roadblock. There is a time and application for that, but we all are not Mozart so there is no real purpose in it for practical use in many cases.

[@vramos1000]

That’s Ok but I’ve to write the notes só I can practice

[@johnnycook2384]

Like most boys I struggled with piano lessons while my sister became a virtuoso. It just didn't make sense at the time and took too much time. Now, in my later years, I regret not learning enough to actually enjoy playing the piano. So, at 72, I am finally going to do this thing. Thanks for the encouragement.

[@49Macman]

Pretty neat! I teach piano the old fashioned way and tell them it will take them a while before they can sound like that. If I taught this way from the beginning I may have kept many students interests who didn't want to crawl before they could walk! I would actually show them Joy to the world from hi to low C just the melody. Your way motivates from the beginning! Thanks!

[@Elizabethd69]

thank you for making music more fun and less complicated and more creative. Not so stuffy .Much more enjoyable , I appreciate it.

[@vickivaughnmorrison6170]

Actually, that last note you called a C for the right hand, is really an E. So the right hand is on a C, a G and an E. Good lesson!

[@preventionsister]

Thank you, Vicki, I am a beginner and I thought "wait isn't that an E?" He just misspoke I am sure. You are right great lesson I am excited.

[@ejo3571]

Hey Scott, although I play this already, I really enjoy the gospel style. I shall play it your way this year. Thanks for sharing. I also enjoy your secrets of the pros....thanks again.

[@lisamccormack3367]

Any chance you can put the sheet music up for this.

[@davidrenwick4493]

Hey Scott, love what you do!! I really appreciate all your hard work and effort to help others share the joy. About 1:25 I think you misspoke a note. Perhaps an annotation? Keep up the great work!!!

[@bestmusicservices]

Thanks Scott but I agree with some of these comments. One of the most important aspects of playing this is the timing. How the correlation between the left hand and right hand works. I have been able to figure it out but a count out of beats during play would be most helpful.

[@edchepen]

Exactly!!! A count on beats would be most helpful!!!

[@virginiatoupin8403]

awesome! thanks

[@rogerphyllisforee8810]

Great! I love it

[@Ghuey527]

Amazing video keep up the great work

[@elainekomara8555]

That’s pretty cool. It seems easy too.

[@barbdripsue]

Thank you so much. ❤️🎹🎵🎼

[@OneCatholicSpeaks]

Hi Scott, I”m having a chronic case of “walking/ chewing gum” issue. However, If gured with such an easy tune like this, I can break through it. I’m starting to have some success. My logic is to start of with success on as easy level as possible. Then when I know I can do it a few times, then progress to slightly harder and so forth.

[@andygouberman4903]

How to do i sign up to your piano lessons Scott Houston.

[@maitree07]

Wowwwwww. I learnt backward chord progression for major scales too. Thank u so much. Wonderful tutorial. And easy

[@maitree07]

Also the song is interesting to learn in an easy way.

[@gavinvonmeyer3746]

Gotta come back to watch this one.

[@vusalaabdullayeva6794]

Thanks a lot! that's cool!

[@sereneleo879]

I am very pleased that I can play the entire tune with right hand but wish you explained more how to get left hand sync with right. I never played piano before. Perhaps in the paid lessons it will have better explanation? Thank you so much for putting up the free lessons

[@edchepen]

I have the same question about figuring out how to get the left hand in sync or figure out when to play it or the count for when to play things(without a bass clef - with that it is trivial) I have the paid course and after finishing book one I almost returned it because there was no explanation for how to do this. I kept the course thinking that this will be covered but so far nothing and now maybe I am wishing I had returned. The support team said that I had a hand coordination problem - which I don’t think I do because again I can read the bass clef and if I had it for this song, I could play it just fine ( I do have other renditions with a bass clef). I think this method is it is all or largely by ear and I think that if you don’t know the song, you won’t be able to play it … at least correctly.

[@RitchieCollins]

Hey Scott 2 things, please reference middle C, and zoom out so we can see all your left hand movements.

[@BL4NDY]

Nice one Piano Guy,I'm lookin forward to seeing more videos ;}

[@zhuoliu5340]

hand is to small, can’t even cover the octave you are doing

[@BCTurb]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I saw you on PBS Play piano in a lfash ( I think i have the wathever i donated to get the wahtever) but now you are here!!! I'm gettin me another keyboard and going to try again!!

[@benknowles3760]

Hi Scott, I first saw you on PBS about 7 years ago? I was instantly inspired to think that I could play piano! I now can play piano, thanks!

[@pianoinaflash]

Well how great is that! Thanks for sharing... You made my day. :-) (It's really not snake oil is it? Ha! People are always soooo skeptical...)

[@erwinmendiola5037]

Good day sir, new subscriber here i hope i will learn more from your tutorial. Godbless you and for the whole family, thank you master...

[@tylerdavidson5734]

Slow is the key Scott,Thank you from England.

[@pianoinaflash]

Agreed! You're welcome... :-)

[@miguelluna3548]

i love you man

[@cornerstoneproductio]

Love it !!

[@jacksonamaral329]

good lesson.

[@rene8877]

Wow❣ I'm 50, always "wished" I could play. Could this work? Is it this easy. We shall see. Thanks

[@bestmusicservices]

HI Rene, I am 67 and just starting to learn. It's never too late!

[@JEspin2024]

One lesson a week? We are not gonna learn it before christmas, because when lesson 5 comes out it will be already Christmas Eve. :( Glad you post it and glad to learn it anyway. Thanks for sharing.

[@joshuaschantz9828]

That's so cool! I didn't think piano could be that easy. I'll be playing like Ben Folds after 10,000 episodes/videos. Or 10,000 hours, can't anybody be perfect?? I can't read music so every good boy does fine (EGBDF) is another trade secret. I saw that in a different Scott Houston video.

[@ThePianoGal]

Just found your channel, really cool! Nice video.

[@destinacije]

Great stuff

[@pianoinaflash]

+Violeta Veljkovic Thanks! Hope you have fun playing because tat's what all this is about... YOU!

[@teresevanhoy5114]

I would like to play Fur Elise

[@jasper007s5]

Thank you. Great Stuff.

[@cesarfernandez2348]

Hi Scott, How can I get one to one lessons? Also want to learn Play Misty for me. Please let me know

[@birky4138]

Scott. I am working with your book called Favorite Piano Fake book. If I might ask a question ?.. with most of the chords played with the left hand, the upper notes of the chords are above middle C. and they clash with some of the melody notes played with the right hand. I am missing something here. please help,, thanks, Len Tudor

[@pianoinaflash]

Aha! The dreaded thumb crash! :-) Yeah, every now and then when the melody note is the same as a note in the chord, it ends up getting down into a spot where your left hand is trying to play it in a chord while your right hand is trying to play the same note in the melody. My advice is so un-scientific it’s going to sound sarcastic, but … Just move your left hand finger out of the way and play it with your right hand in the melody. Or, even better as far as something pro players do all the time, just play the entire melody line up one octave from where it is written. (If you do that you need to play the entire melody from start to finish up one octave, not just that single note that is causing the crash.) To put it in perspective, there are just no “absolutes” in all of this - it’s music … 🙂 Hope that helps...

[@birky4138]

@@pianoinaflash Scott, yes your advice does help. I was in fact doing pretty much what you suggested, but kind of worried I was breaking some piano playing rule 😁 thanks

[@robertatravis475]

Your thumb starts out on an E, not C. :) Excited to learn piano again. I played when I was growing up.

[@karenfal8448]

looking to buy a keyboard. Should I go for 88 keys or 61? Any suggestions on a starter model, Yamaha, Casio, Roland???

[@candace6893]

i have a casio in it isn’t one with 88 keys tho! i’m sure they’re are great youtube videos or articles in great affordable keyboards! God bless you! Jesus loves you :)

[@dalex60]

Your thumb was on “e”, not “c”.

[@stevedecile6543]

Hey Scott, you're great! One question, isn't the thumb on the "E" and not the "C" in the very first hand position of the right hand? Not criticizing or nit picking, but I want to do this the right way.

[@jimmieharper6564]

i am kinda confused. in your lesson 1 you place your pinkie finger on C note then go to the left 2 notes.then you put the last digit on what ? another C note. what note is your second finger playing? is it a c chord in reverse. i know i am confused. new to learning. thanks, jimmie

[@jimmieharper6564]

scott, i do appreciate your giving these lessons. please bear with me i will do my best. thank you Scott.

[@BennieBow]

I need to log in

[@uhhhwhyyy8563]

It’s not that I can’t read piano music im just a little slow but getting there and I just can’t get hand gestures right like for octaves and slurs etc

[@emc2184]

Sorry about this Scott, ..... On your first chord, ... your thumb is on a "E", NOT a "C". AND here's what you do with your LEFT hand, ... NOT the right. Yes, .I can actually play, ... that is why I noticed your mistakes. .

[@aleyalan2010]

EMC2 i do no play at all but yes it is on the egc but i think he just mistake the name lol

[@SallyAnn191]

Thank you. I thought I was going mad.

[@z1234ification]

The first thing I noticed. Went back to double check . But great

[@Skandawin78]

I thought he is the guy from the movie 'The Terminal' Stanley Tucci now teaching piano as well

[@ellenbacklin]

Looking for rockabilly especially lynryd skynyrd and bus boys, The boys are back in town

[@elizabethwilfong2260]

I’m confused with left hand and octaves.

[@milkshakemary8337]

This video's really hard. It was really hard for me to understand because I'm a beginner, but I do understand that you have to show it that way behind, just make it a little simpler please

[@bestmusicservices]

@Turn Up Bass! Sorry, I got that course on Udemy but it was confusing and concentrated more on different beats than the actual music. Most of the songs on that course really don't sound like anything without a melody line.

[@carodestkijken]

hahhah rigor mortis hands LMAO!!

[@haroldjoseph3270]

Wish to suscribe

[@pianoinaflash]

There should be a "subscribe" button somewhere easy to see at kzbin.info if you mean subscribe to this YT channel. If you mean subscribe to my email newsletter or enroll in the online method, head over to pianoinaflash.com

[@twosiciliansisters5747]

Omg adorable r u

[@pianoinaflash]

Why thanks... (blush ...)