The Ultimate Piano Learning Hack! Learning From a Pro (Episode 3)

[@Lullkeys_Beats]

Great progress man. If I were to give you tips it would be these. 1. The major scale that you're playing. Associate numbers with it. Where you will find that in each key there a 7 notes. - So there are 12 keys and in each key there are 7 notes = major scale. - Minor scales are just major scales starting from the 6th note. 2. learn the basic triad chords associated with the correct number of the major scale. Example. Left hand side= 1 And Right hand side = 1+3 +5 - You do that for each nunber of the major scale. 3. Inversions. I would say this topic its the thing that took my playing and knowledge to the next level. - what you will find its that you will only need to know 4 chords and its inversions ,because 1 =3 , 2=4 , 5=7 , and 6 is alone. - Which will help a ton with composing your own things[samples/Songs]. Because you will be able to change progressions and substitute the way you want. -Just search inversions and you should be able to find someone who explains it in a simple way. 4. In music we are always using the same chords. The only difference between songs its the melody and the chord(voicings). It might seem like I spoke alot and you might be confused , but with these things within 2 weeks. You could be making your own things on the piano and literally start composing things you hear in your head as ideas or things you pickup as inspiration from other peers. I would be glad to help and break down each point I said to its basic level , but overall am just happy by the progress. You're really a fast learner and you're gaining momentum. I just don't want to you to have all that momentum in the wrong direction , because regaining the momentum its hard. Great video. Can't wait for the next Episode🔥❤️✊🏾

[@mystertom100]

I started taking jazz piano lessons very recently, I think it's also very useful to go down the scale backwards after going through it forwards, it helps you master the scale quicker than just going up

[@mystertom100]

Really good video though, enjoying this series

[@iramatx]

Chords and scales are easier if you memorize the key signatures. You already kind of know them without realizing it. Practice the diatonic chord progression (iii-iv-ii-V-I) in each key. After that you can incorporate 7th chords/chord extensions, chord substitutions, and altered chords. That’s why I love the 12 bar blues. Such a fun way to practice this stuff. It starts extremely simple and quickly evolves into advanced concepts and techniques. Great tool for developing solo chops too.

[@jaredbobier2844]

Stoked you came back to scales. I know they seem boring at first, but if you step back and realize that music theory was basically built on a piano (not quite the version we use today but it’s not a big deal, same theory), understanding and utilizing it will fast track you to competency with the instrument. Something that might be very helpful to you in streamlining your scale learning is doing it via the circle of 5ths. If you learn the scales in the order of the circle of 5ths, you will be adding a “sharp” each time you learn a new scale. This helps build connectivity between not just the scales and the notes that make them, but it helps you see how chords actually connect and even how the different scales can connect to eachother. (this does you will be learning “major” scales, but like your friend already mentioned, each major has a relative minor scale that is built using the same notes so it’s essentially the same)

[@user-pd9fe1vx3i]

Yes to circle of 5ths! learn those relative keys.

[@BishopXLR]

That "Sit with a movie" shit is real. Practicing scales to something visual is a great way to improve composition and improvising as well. Its hard for the tone of a movie to exist without the music.

[@LDreTheGiant]

Facts

[@rikishiphatu6892]

When you said you can feel yourself leveling up and thats pushing you to keep practicing resonated with me so hard man. Keep recording your personal progress. This stuff is so inspring!

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thanks! Will do!

[@TomisinAk_music]

That you've learnt two keys that aren't C major to this level is really good. I just wanted to point out that you should avoid playing like you're tapping when you practice the scales. It helps to learn the scales with the fluidity of having your hand more or less fully on the keyboard as you play.

[@Sarah2ill]

Dope video! Thank You for the shout out!!! Shoutouts to Oliver!

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thank you!!

[@JesusJIMSreps]

Sarah the GOAT

[@banxmusic]

Keep going bro! You'll get there! Tip: Learn songs and you will start to recognize the patterns. Eventually, you will be able to identify the progressions without even sitting down to play your keys. And lastly - If you can say it, you can play it. 💪🏽

[@kimiuk]

great progress man! proud of ya

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thanks bro!

[@Prod.ijay2135]

The long awaited episode!

[@bodhibeats8257]

Love this! I’m gonna admit one of the weirder things I do all the time: I listen to podcasts while I practice piano. I literally play a podcast on my AirPods, put them in transparency mode, and put my studio headphones on on top of them. 😂 But it works! I noodle and improvise and work on muscle memory type things while I catch up on my pods. It’s probably not a full replacement for more structured practice, but it’s great when you’re noodling and exploring. And, yeah…for just hammering out something you basically know over and over and over again to get that sweet muscle memory. Great progress man! Keep going! 🙌

[@coindaddy5986]

Will try doing this. Thanks for letting us know

[@LDreTheGiant]

That’s genius

[@Icyskittlez457]

Bro idk if you’ll see this or not, but I love your music so much it’s so calming, i’ve been going through some shit recently, and I put in my airpods and listen to your beats and I love it so much man. Awesome job keep going. 🙏🏼

[@LDreTheGiant]

This means more than you know man thank you 🙏🏾

[@kyleyoungmusic]

2:43 😂🤣 Yall are bringing the vibes fr. Loving the style of video and just overall editing choices. 👏

[@liquidgroove]

Love it man. Oliver is a G. Big up Sarah2ill. And big up yourself - for having the openness and humility to share your journey.

[@Brobbl]

I waited for this one haha! It was again a good video, I really like the series. Probably the next step after practicing the scales would be practicing the diatonic chords. And I'm currently doing that - actually just today I tried to figure out all the diatonic chord extensions - here's a list: 1. normal major chord with major scale extensions 2. a normal minor chord 3. minor chord with b9 and b13 4. major with a #11 5. dominant 7th 6. minor with b13 7. minor with b5, b9, b13 and here's something that I thought was crazy when I first figured it out... Whether it's a major or a minor chord just affects the 3rd and the 7th, the further extensions are all from the major scale. As always, good luck on your journey :)

[@Bashanvibe]

This new age of learning piano!!! I learned piano back in the early 80s!!! Learning has definitely changed over the years!!!! But I do need to go back to the basics!!!

[@lukehenry9369]

I did piano for most of my life growing up, and one of the biggest things was learning scales for sure. Though I was trained classically I would prefer to use the number system lol. Don't worry about that until you get the shapes in your head though, once you get there, you'll notice that all of the scales and chords have patters (inversions and such). You're going to do great! I am so happy you are learning as an adult, that is pretty rare! Keep going and don't stop!!

[@vinsanebeats]

learning keys is a game changer.. nice to see youre progress, KEEP GOING IT GETS BETTER

[@itsrichysmart]

Bruh!! This is GOLD!!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thank you 🙏🏾

[@damonsmith7661]

Dope series!

[@RickyTinez]

I love these! Let's get these keys down!

[@LDreTheGiant]

My guy thank you 🙏🏾

[@TooCole]

I love the fact that you’re hungry again! It’s helpful in my own keys journey

[@thisisxonyx]

been a minute since ive commented but your progress is so encouraging bro! going to try to learn guitar enough to play simply and sing!

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thank you bro, get to it ! 💯

[@eafortson]

So right off the bat Olivers approach is exactly what I was personally was looking for as way to practice scales and develop muscle memory. Particularly learning the minor scales and completely ignoring the major ones but still learning them as they are the relative. (I honestly found it hard to understand what the relative chords meant until he explained it that way and now it makes perfect sense to me). Really wish I had someone explain it to me like this ages ago when I was first trying to learn. Big props for this video.

[@fdeebeats]

I couldn't wait to see how you composed Bloom 🌌

[@santiagoklein275]

Keep doing this videos!! Awesome material and I'm just starting to learn Piano for producing me too. Great inspiration ! Shout out from Argentina!

[@LDreTheGiant]

Much love 🙏🏾

[@kyleyoungmusic]

My bro!! Love to see an L.Dre upload. We with you on the journey!! 💪 💫 🐐🔥

[@LDreTheGiant]

More to come!

[@imregii]

super dope , the substain pedal changed everything for me and allowed me to have time 2 think when playing chords frrrr but i think you should try melodics specially when you want to practice , it shows u the hand placement and its lowkey fun cause its like guitar hero but for piano. It really helps with the basic scales, it helped me a ton. Highly recommend it no capppppppp, that + everything youre doing , i think youll b Beethoven in. no time

[@LDreTheGiant]

Trying that in the next episode 💯

[@brokent163]

2nd melodics, dope learning tool

[@MORPH-tl2jx]

Thank you for making these videos. They're a big help🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥

[@LDreTheGiant]

Happy to hear that!

[@KevinSimpson031]

Bro learning piano the ADHD way 😅

[@LDreTheGiant]

FACTS LOL

[@AdilConstantineMusic]

Love watching you growing your piano skills! You two were fun to watch, also that trap sample was FIRE lol

[@LDreTheGiant]

You're the best!

[@DavidElijahHines]

This is actually dope 🔥 cuz when you think about all the people on mouse it’s insane they have no keyboard skills that’s real skill fr

[@OhitsShiftz]

This is my absolute favorite video from you, this is the one that got me to start this journey with you. Got 2 scales down today and im going to keep on working and look forward to the next video man, THANK YOU!

[@Yhuntermusic]

Loving your journey bro!! Keep going 🔥

[@jgabrl]

This is helpful and entertaining at the same time! been watching it multiple times now XD

[@YusefB]

Oliver got a really good vibe, amazing guy 😂

[@LDreTheGiant]

He’s quite the character lol

[@DeiSonn]

Dope video Dre 🔥

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thanks 💯

[@kyleyoungmusic]

Mannnn he called you out on the sustain pedal!! 😂 Come on L.Dre!!! 😂😂🤣

[@LDreTheGiant]

Bruh I know 😂

[@osymmusic]

Thats my boy! Havent seen him in a minute…extremely talented individual

[@88keyz]

Everyone learns differently the end result you learned it 💯

[@dontaefranklin6804]

Nice! Congratulations on the progress!

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thanks!

[@16sumo41]

fucking svensk hiphop! Härligt! :D No but seriously. Best video thus far in your journey! Keep it up. You and Oliver should make more videos together. Great chemistry!

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thank you haha! And he was putting me on cause he’s Swedish lol

[@krhym21]

Great job sir!!! Keep growing!!!

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thank you, I will!

[@felmoy2320]

Yea I’m doing that movie shit rn

[@kendarkus]

Great video, the car ride and trip to guitar center ended up being a great way to mix up the content! On the right track the only thing I will mention is he said something about only learning the minor keys since they have relative major counterparts..it's still important to learn the major keys as well so you understand how they interact with each other. This is fundamental stuff before you even move into seventh, augmented, diminished, other advanced chords that will help you in music production so your stuff sounds even better, especially in Jazz which is related to the Lo-Fi songs you be making. He also said something about "learning in a month", which may of have had good intentions but for our "want it now" society I just have to reiterate; there are no shortcuts, there will never be a shortcut to replace the hours and hours that you need to dedicate and put in to becoming fluent in piano. Good luck and keep going!

[@madd2377]

Love this series bro seriously thats some serious progress right there! Maybe if you want to feel Even more productive while practicing you can try to do little piano/music theory practive livestreams ? I would definitely tune in

[@ASDPOWER]

practise 2 octaves at a time as well will help immensly

[@nsp932]

Two octaves definitely drives home the muscle memory.

[@madd2377]

The scales ? You mean playing them with both hands a the same time ?

[@nsp932]

@@madd2377 yes the scales. Say you wanna practice c major and you start on c3, practice the scale over two octaves up to c5, it helps with muscle memory. Eventually you wanna be able to play both hands at the same time but that comes with time.

[@madd2377]

@@nsp932 Thank you !

[@Ken254Ken]

This has been helping me bro. Been starting my journey on the keys myself and starting with this helped the hell out of me instantly.

[@JSSoundsmusic]

Yeah bro this will be one of the lessons that changed your life. Guaranteed

[@LDreTheGiant]

100000%

[@DJ_Mbora]

We want part 4🔥💯🙏

[@trackmasters65]

I'm worried you're gonna get better at playing piano than me who's been messing around on the keys for over 15 years. Unlike you, I didn't take the time to checkout the theory of scales and chords first. I just learned songs I liked, developed muscle memory for several different songs from the beatles, Billy Joel and yann tiersen, and that gave me just enough to be able to create any music I want by trial and error and playing them convincingly. Unfortunately this also meant I quickly hit a plateau and never broke past it. So after 15 years of playing piano I can play you beautiful songs I composed or learned, but I can't improvise anything, I run up and down the keyboard like pros do on the fly. So this video inspired me to go back to the basics and learn everything from scratch again Thanks!

[@xole]

Love this series fam

[@LDreTheGiant]

Thank you 🙏🏾

[@remyvegamedia]

This is exactly what I was hoping you'd learn. This is essentially the same method I teach my teen/adult students interested more in writing their own music. Not necessarily the watching something while doing it, but that's dope too. Scale->Chord->Chord progression->MAKING SHIT Haha.

[@brokent163]

having them tie it together by making shit is a boss move bro!

[@ciansito]

man this videos are helping me a lot, changing my view and focus on how to play piano

[@Domi3oy]

Keep it going bro! 👍🏼

[@LDreTheGiant]

Will do!

[@giovannymendez9587]

Now I understand how to put chords together the scale is all I needed should of know that how I got better on guitar as well

[@bsixbanson]

Bro you’re giving me a whole braveness to start learning piano too.. I’m starting today😊. It’s never too late ❤❤

[@eafortson]

21:42 Took me all the way out 🤣

[@Kazilow]

been waiting for this for a while and this was worth the wait. I think that advice he gave you can work easily for you I thought he was a actual teacher but it seemed like he was one of your friends so free lessons? maybe but I might try this out too it this actually is some great advice 😄🎼

[@JuanDiego-hu9bd]

By learning the interval of a major scale you automatically learn all the major scales: Tone, Tone, Semitone, Tone, Tone, Tone, Semitone. Just start counting semitones or tones from the first note of the scale.

[@wilmoremusic]

Great vid

[@Prod.ijay2135]

Ok I just watched this Entire video (at work currently 🤫 lol) honestly once I started thinking about getting into sync my entire thought process on creating music changed. Learned the D minor Scale and the chords. Once I got bored of the 1st Inversion voicing I started playing them in their 2nd and third to understand how it made me feel. I wanted to resolve my chord Progressions a certain way which lead me down the rabbit hole of Cadences and have been experimenting and exploring ever since…and now I’m trying to get to where you are which is releasing a song once a week 😂. I get lost in the creativity of writing something and open a new project once it’s done. Ahhh the process. Good Job on upgrading to your first expression tool (sus pedal)

[@gooneybird808]

I want to score stuff too…flylo was an inspiration for me

[@jghosttheconscious]

Major scales can sound happy but it can also sound excited, fun, refreshing and etc. I use to stray away from major scales. Major scale beats make you move…

[@DJ_Mbora]

This is one of the best videos I've watched coz I am in the same situation 🎉❤

[@darkus_prod]

Bro the Crush edit broke me 🤣😂

[@LDreTheGiant]

😂😂

[@courtvlogss]

I love your mixes and would love to use in my vlogs! do you have a link?

[@PetrolMediaInc]

You went to the northridge guitar center? Nice. It’s near me.

[@Arsonloke]

Bro you and your homie Oliver are a vibe 😂

[@ToneyLocoTV]

Great video, and very helpful !!! Do you happen to have that scale pdf we can use?

[@88keyz]

Salute 👍🏾

[@FatTonyTheSkipper]

Elite way of teaching by malcom. How's that arturia keylab midi? I'm looking to buy

[@Jack-mv3sx]

Keep learning songs by ear too, thats the most effective way to strengthen your ability to bring the sounds in your head to life. Not to mention, it’s fun too.

[@truestprophecy]

You should try scoring games too, osts for games are a great place to start

[@kluss5779]

great video! from the first episode ending preview, i feel like you removed some interesting theory parts, it would be cool to have the unedited parts on the second channel or something 👍

[@RayOnVr]

Nice

[@LDreTheGiant]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@drum877]

Music is about tension and release. What do you feel when you make your chord progression. Make sure to use rhythm with your chords so that way they are just not held and not interesting.

[@Triyanox]

The man is ligit 2000000% 3:29

[@88keyz]

I'm not 100 sure I think there is an way to have the mod wheel control the Sustain basically an work around without having an Sustain pedal it's been a while since I have done that with the arturia products I could be wrong it may not be a feature with that keyboard ?

[@WardaleWilson]

On the last video was literally gonna say get a sustain pedal lol Diminished chords and voicing a is when things get interesting 👀

[@Russplight]

Can you drop a link for the fingering chart

[@MarcioRossano]

How do you guys feel about only learning the easiest scales (C major and A minor) and then transposing in order to hear them in different scales?

[@prodbyfrank74]

Do this bro. After practicing the scale your in, do the diatonic chords that go with the scale. Be like a 2 in one lesson. At least set this way of learning in your head. Learn the scale, the diatonic chords. Next day new scale & diatonics. Remember, in the minor scales there are still major chords, you don’t play all minor chords in a major scales. Why u need to know your diatonic chords. Example, chord 1 and 4 are minor chords, while chord 2 & 3 will be major chords. Feel me 🎉

[@ELLIOT8209]

@03:53 is that SanEL Musician? 😁😁😁🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[@masonbarrett6194]

I’m a little confused. 10:30 why did she give you the finger placement for major scales if your buddy told you to learn the minor scales ?

[@noelgallard1128]

Bro been holding out the chords on his midi keyboard too 😅 get yourself at least 2 more one for the polybrute and your midi controller. Keep it up but if you are an RnB or rap fan learn more 7 chords you’ll be vibing so quick 🤙🏼 remember 5 is dominant

[@88keyz]

@2:42 In the car going to get the Sustain pedal. Oh you need a Sustain pedal bro Oh ok i got ya Sustain pedal how bout this car Sustain pedal to the floor lol 🤣 how is that for an Sustain pedal 😂

[@jessieurena7583]

There's no hack Learning piano is hard grueling work it takes time

[@Prod.ijay2135]

I never paid attention to the fact that you didn’t have a sustain pedal 😅

[@LDreTheGiant]

Yeeeeeeaaahhhhhh lol

[@Sarah2ill]

You’ve been making beats this entire time without a sustain pedal? 😅

[@five2one]

lmao this is great

[@Phaseish]

a month .. into learning only minor keys.. and played with Soulchild? What am I missing here...

[@DonnaClark-u3e]

0360 Jana Locks

[@jravenmusic]

Encouraging!

[@slimvans1]

So many sus moment.

[@invaderzeke]

didn't know cole sprouse played piano.

[@Pisomojado162]

You still don't my have a sustain pedal 😅

[@prodbyducktape8967]

we're back and we're black

[@dre7256]

Bro wtffffff this video is life changing