The Most Important Exercises For Piano Players 🎹🚨 (Beginner Lesson)

What sets you apart as a piano player? This video will show you a few important exercises that will help with:
---Dynamics
---Speed
---Dexterity
---Hand independence
These exercises will help you target some of the most important aspects of your piano playing so that you can sound your very best, and this lesson is all about giving you the tools to do exactly that!
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:03 - Exercise 1 - Speed with "Hanon #10"
4:49 - Exercise 2 - Hand Independence
8:30 - Exercise 3 - Control with "Beautifully Simple"
13:47 - Lesson review
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Lisa Witt has been teaching piano for +20 years and in that time has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn to play the songs they love. Lisa received classical piano training through the Royal Conservatory of Music, but she has since embraced popular music and playing by ear in order to accompany herself and others. She is a songwriter and recording artist. Lisa’s contagious enthusiasm will have you excited to practice and return to the keys for your next lesson. Her teaching style focuses on you, making lessons encouraging and fun.
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maybe someone already mentioned this ... on the exercise for independent hand coordination, on your second time through - when you started w the right hand ( 1 - 2 and -- 4 ) and then added the left hand you reversed back to the first way you played it, meaning when you brought the left hand in your right hand switched to 1 - 2 - 3 - 4. Love you joyful approach.

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Thank you Lisa Witt. Good night.

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Thank you for the section on Control. I am 70 this year and have been learning piano for 3 years and I am despairing that I will ever get my hands to put expression into my playing. Lisa, you make it look so easy.

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Thank you so much Lisa. These exercises are just what I needed. I had a bone removed from each wrist and I think these are really going to help strengthen my hands, not to mention that they are beautiful sounding. I love listening to and watching your videos and one of these days I plan to join Pianote to have full access to your site. Thanks again!

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Thank you so much, Lisa, for your helpful, fun-loving videos on learning the piano. As a young boy of 6 I had my first year of piano, then 2 more years of lessons from my church music director at age 13 - 14. At that time I was just beginning to play hymns. Then, nothing for almost 60 years. Now I am reviewing and continuing on. Last year I bought a Yamaha portable, digital piano (P-121) and practice almost everyday with 2 sessions of 30 minutes each. It might seem strange, but I actually enjoy Hanon and scales because I know they are helping develop better technique. Following your suggestion I also do arpeggios, and chords with inversions. Several years ago I saw "Scott, The Piano Guy" on PBS TV and realized that someday I would again be learning to play music, but this time I have a strong inner desire to stay with it and become good. Next year I hope to buy a Kawai MP7SE portable digital piano. It is an amazing instrument which has won many international awards. Many musicians feel that Kawai is surpassing Yamaha in offering high-quality, reliable and affordable keyboards. The features on the MP7SE and the beautiful voices (sounds) simply were not available when I was much younger. Thanks so much, Lisa, for your helpful videos. I like the musical content, but most of all, I ABSOLUTELY ADORE YOUR PLAYFUL, FUN-LOVING ATTITUDE. It helps to take the drudgery out of repetition when doing Hanon, scales and other finger exercises. I send you a big warm hug of support for sharing your musical talent with us. Best wishes from the USA, Jerry.

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I’ve been playing the piano for 10+ years and still shy away from brisker pieces. Thank you for a great video covering the most important aspects of piano playing, I need these reminders from time to time to stay focused on what’s important!

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I watched this video while away from the keyboard. The exercises look like they will be very challenging and effective. I can’t wait to get to the keyboard and start working on these! Thank you so much, Lisa!

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That first exercise is a bit of a challenge hands together ...one of those exercises where afterwards you can feel synapses being reconfigured! 👍

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got the Hanon book a few weeks ago and got stuck with exercises no. 1 - 3 because, frankly, they are boring - surely they are useful though. Now I will add no. 10 to the list, always helps to get a little extra motivation. Thanks!

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I'm so glad! - Lisa

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These are wonderful and fun exercises, still struggle mightily with the hands together. Feels like my brain hemispheres are at war with each other!

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Thank you so much for this wonderful tips for exercises. I enjoyed and learned a lot... Now, im going to apply these things coz among the three exercises, the hardest for me was the "independence". 🙂😃😘🥰 Thanks a whole bunch 🙂😃😘🥰 Perhaps, i will make my own version too.... hopefully. 🙂😃😘🥰

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A side comment you made about hand independence is probably one of the most helpful ever. “You never really master it”. I’ve been trying for years to separate the two and while now I have no idea why I struggled with swing beats or simple arpeggios etc I now struggle with complex blues rhythms. Maybe hand independence is not a skill in itself, you just have to get one of your hands in autopilot eg a repeating arpeggio pattern, but if you learnt a new pattern you start again. I’ve been frustrated that after all these years I haven’t mastered “the skill” of hand independence . Love your lessons by the way.

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