Beginner Piano
What you’ll learn
Play the following pieces from memory: the riff to John Lennon’s “Imagine”; the opening of Pachelbel’s “Canon”; the bass line and chords of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”; Amazing Grace hands together; Happy Birthday hands together; and When the Saints
Know which way is up on a piano
Understand good practice technique
Know the finger numbers
Play in time
Know the note names
Understand good hand position
Play “legato” (and know what that means)
Phrase melodies properly
Know what an “octave” is
Coordinate your 2 hands
Play with a metronome
Play chords
Requirements
No musical knowledge is needed to take this course!
Description
“Ok – so who would like to start playing the piano without the hours of frustration learning music theory? I’m one. That’s exactly what Benedict does in this course. … I’m amazed at what I’ve been able to learn and play.” – Greg R”This course walks you through playing simple songs, but they actually sound like the real thing which gave me a sense of accomplishment and encouraged me to keep playing. I highly recommend this course!” – Helenmary CodyThis course will teach you good piano technique by getting you to play real pieces of music. In it, I’ll show you how to play the following pieces:the riff to John Lennon’s “Imagine” – When the Saints – Happy Birthday hands together – Amazing Grace hands together – the opening of Pachelbel’s “Canon” – the bass line and chords of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean”And at the same time I’ll teach you the following fundamentals:which way is up on a piano – good practice technique – the finger numbers – playing in time – the note names – good hand position – how to play “legato” (and what that means) – phrasing – what an “octave” is – coordinating your 2 hands – how to play with a metronome – the right way to play chordsSo why this beginner piano course instead of any other one?1) It doesn’t teach you how to play the piano by teaching you how to read music firstAlmost all beginner piano courses teach you how to read music first and then get you to play from a score, but that’s backwards – after all, you didn’t learn to read before you could speak! Reading music is difficult, and if you try to learn how to play piano while learning how to read music at the same time you’ll end up doing both badly. Instead, there’s a body of research that shows that getting people to play first and then showing them how to read music is better (the approach is called “Sound before Sign”). This is the approach I use in this course. (I have a separate course which teaches you how to read music, called “Read Music FAST!”, which you should do after this one.)2) I have a ridiculous amount of experience teaching music using videosI’ve been teaching piano one-on-one for over 10 years, to children and adult beginners as well as industry professionals, and I record practice videos for all of my students. At the time of writing I have over 4,000 private videos on YouTube, and so know exactly how to pace videos so that they’re not so fast you can’t follow them, but not so slow you get bored and stop either.3) You’ll develop good habits which will save you a ton of time in the futureA lot of beginner piano tutorials are designed to get you to play a piece as fast as possible, which is a good aim in itself (mine do the same), but they’ll usually teach you bad habits at the same time, which you’ll then have to spend a lot of time unlearning in the future. By contrast, I’ll get you to play pieces as fast as possible but also make sure that you’re developing good habits in the process so that there’s no limit to how good you can get.
Overview
Section 1: Just start without knowing anything
Lecture 1 The first pair of notes in the RH of “Imagine”
Lecture 2 The first 4 pairs of notes in the RH of “Imagine”
Lecture 3 Up & down
Lecture 4 The next 3 pairs of notes in the RH of “Imagine”
Lecture 5 How to practise
Lecture 6 Adding the LH of “Imagine”
Lecture 7 Finger numbers
Lecture 8 The fast bit of “Imagine”
Lecture 9 Playing the riff to “Imagine” all the way through
Lecture 10 Going from the fast bit back to the start of “Imagine”
Lecture 11 Getting the riff to “Imagine” in time
Lecture 12 Speeding the riff to “Imagine” up
Lecture 13 “Imagine”: finishing touches
Section 2: Realize that the note names would be useful
Lecture 14 Intro & D
Lecture 15 F & B
Lecture 16 C & E
Lecture 17 G & A
Lecture 18 Sharps & flats
Section 3: Learn your first tune
Lecture 19 The 1st phrase of “When the Saints”
Lecture 20 Hand position
Lecture 21 The 3rd phrase of “When the Saints”: part 1
Lecture 22 The 3rd phrase of “When the Saints”: part 2
Lecture 23 Legato
Lecture 24 Phrasing
Lecture 25 The 4th phrase of “When the Saints”: part 1
Lecture 26 The 4th phrase of “When the Saints”: part 2
Lecture 27 The 4th phrase of “When the Saints”: part 3
Lecture 28 The 5th phrase of “When the Saints”
Lecture 29 “When the Saints” all the way through
Section 4: Move your hand around
Lecture 30 The 1st phrase of “Happy Birthday”
Lecture 31 The 2nd phrase of “Happy Birthday”
Lecture 32 The first 2 phrases of “Happy Birthday” together
Lecture 33 Octaves
Lecture 34 The 3rd phrase of “Happy Birthday”: part 1
Lecture 35 The 3rd phrase of “Happy Birthday”: part 2
Lecture 36 The 3rd phrase of “Happy Birthday”: part 3
Lecture 37 The 4th phrase of “Happy Birthday”
Lecture 38 A really important practice technique
Lecture 39 “Happy Birthday” all the way through
Section 5: Add the left hand
Lecture 40 Middle C
Lecture 41 The LH position for “Happy Birthday”
Lecture 42 The 1st phrase of “Happy Birthday” hands together
Lecture 43 The 2nd phrase of “Happy Birthday” hands together
Lecture 44 The first 2 phrases of “Happy Birthday” hands together
Lecture 45 The 3rd phrase of “Happy Birthday” hands together
Lecture 46 The 4th phrase of “Happy Birthday” hands together
Lecture 47 “Happy Birthday” all the way through hands together
Section 6: Play on black notes
Lecture 48 The 1st phrase of “Amazing Grace”
Lecture 49 The rhythm of the 1st phrase of “Amazing Grace”
Lecture 50 The 2nd phrase of “Amazing Grace”
Lecture 51 The first 2 phrases of “Amazing Grace”
Lecture 52 The 3rd phrase of “Amazing Grace”: part 1
Lecture 53 The 3rd phrase of “Amazing Grace”: part 2
Lecture 54 “Amazing Grace” all the way through
Lecture 55 The 1st phrase of “Amazing Grace” hands together
Lecture 56 The 2nd phrase of “Amazing Grace” hands together
Lecture 57 The 3rd phrase of “Amazing Grace” hands together
Lecture 58 The 4th phrase of “Amazing Grace” hands together
Lecture 59 “Amazing Grace” all the way through hands together
Section 7: Learn a bass line
Lecture 60 The first 4 bass notes of Pachelbel’s “Canon”
Lecture 61 The last 4 bass notes of Pachelbel’s “Canon”
Lecture 62 All 8 bass notes of Pachelbel’s “Canon”
Lecture 63 The first 4 RH notes of Pachelbel’s “Canon”
Lecture 64 The last 4 RH notes of Pachelbel’s “Canon”
Lecture 65 All 8 RH notes of Pachelbel’s “Canon”
Lecture 66 The first 4 pairs of notes of Pachelbel’s “Canon”
Lecture 67 The first 6 pairs of notes of Pachelbel’s “Canon”
Lecture 68 All 8 pairs of notes of Pachelbel’s “Canon”
Section 8: Make friends with the metronome
Lecture 69 Pachelbel’s “Canon” hands together with the metronome
Section 9: Play chords
Lecture 70 The 1st chord of “Billie Jean”
Lecture 71 The first 2 chords of “Billie Jean”
Lecture 72 The 3rd chord of “Billie Jean”
Lecture 73 2nd and 3rd chords of “Billie Jean”
Lecture 74 All 3 chords of “Billie Jean”
Lecture 75 The first 4 notes of the bass line of “Billie Jean”
Lecture 76 The last 4 notes of the bass line of “Billie Jean”
Lecture 77 All 8 notes of the bass line of “Billie Jean”
Lecture 78 Get the bass line of “Billie Jean” in time
Lecture 79 The 1st chord of “Billie Jean” hands together
Lecture 80 The first 2 chords of “Billie Jean” hands together
Lecture 81 The next 4 notes in the bass
Lecture 82 The 3rd and 2nd chords of “Billie Jean” hands together
Lecture 83 “Billie Jean” hands together
Section 10: Speed it up
Lecture 84 “Billie Jean” hands together with the metronome
Lecture 85 “Billie Jean” hands together faster
Lecture 86 “Billie Jean” hands together at full speed
Section 11: Keep on learning
Lecture 87 Further study
Section 12: Bonus: the scores
Lecture 88 Just in case you were curious …
Lecture 89 UPDATE 2020: I re-edited the entire course!
This course is for complete beginners who want to start playing real music without getting bogged down in lots of theory,This course is not for people who want to learn how to read music – I have a separate course called “Read Music FAST!” for that
Course Information:
Udemy | English | 4h 6m | 1.45 GB
Created by: Benedict Westenra
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