7 Days To Learning Piano (Beginner Lesson)

It's going to sound beautiful to see this g position by just rotating my wrist in the right hand and I'm going to do that one more time here is the c position and the g position now, if you're a more advanced pianist and already at this step, it might be fun for You start exploring a little more with whatever notes fit your right hand, so I'm going to pause here and say that's the goal, the hallmark of This Day or This Step is just getting comfortable moving. in those different positions holding this left hand while you get creative and rhythmic with your right hand.

That's the hallmark, if you want to expand on that, you can play the five notes that fall under your fingers. The sky is the limit so you can really get creative here and start improvising and creating your own sounds. I'm going to stop it there because that's the skill I really wanted you to focus on for now is just getting comfortable moving those hands getting some different rhythms between them and creating something that's very pleasing to the ears, so the next day or the next. Next step, when you are ready, will be to see how to play a complete triad, now this can be somewhat difficult.

For a

beginner

, but luckily for you, we've already done the work of getting used to that fifth, because a full triad or a full chord uses a fifth, but it just adds an extra note to the equation, so instead of playing with my one and my five I'm playing with my one and my three   and my five and this can be a challenge at first because the other fingers will try to get in the way so remember this is the shape you've spent time with and gradually work on adding that third finger in and then you can move to the g position you can create that same shape in the a position and then again in the f position and now you're playing chords and this is really exciting because the next step from here will be play a song using these chords using something called a chord chart, but before you do that you have to get very comfortable here so once again c and we're going to go to g and then we're going to go to an i'm We're going to go crazy in a second, we're going to go to f .

I'm going to say them in different orders, so get ready, we're going to go to c four times and the next one will be f, here we go, let's go back to c. and now let's go to g, let's go to a and then we'll go to f again and then we'll go to c and then we'll end on we'll go to g and then we'll end on c then on In the end, it was starting to upset your sense of routine a little bit because you were comfortable playing those chords in the same order, but I really want you to know that when you play songs, these chords can appear in any order. and that can change as you go through the songs, so it's really nice to always challenge yourself to do things a little different.

It keeps your brain really active and engaged and really contributes to your

learning

process and your homework for this day or this day. The step however you approach it is to get used to that shape, that three and that five and play chords on it. You can use the positions c to c g to f or you can just be creative and try to mix and match them however you like. Now, the next step, when you're ready, when everything feels comfortable, we'll look at the song Imagine by John Lennon. I have a simplified chord chart for you and this is really exciting because this is where you see how simple it is.

A little time and attention to developing some really basic finger and hand skills on the

piano

can get you to a place where you can actually play a song and a song that you know, an amazing, contemporary, modern song. You don't even need to be able to read notes to do it, so let's start now, here we go, you will see on your screen the letters with the chord names above them, you will see C, C and F. and all kinds of things. I'll take you step by step and you'll see how easy it is to use what you've learned so far to play a song, so let's take a look at our first lyric.

You've got a c on the word "imagine," so get it. You could play a fifth here. You could play a record. You could play it rhythmically. note root note   it just means the bottom note like this right now  or you could think of it like you see the word c   play the c chord this is your c chord so you're going to play c here imagine there's no sky and then i' We'll move to C, it's easy if you try and you can continue. Okay, now let's create some rhythm so we can do this. It works great here to play four for each of these chords.

Look, you can split it. Remember how we did it. before that broken fifth, you could do that too, there are so many options, so that's the first part of the song and if you can do that, you can play most of it. Now let's look at the small part here because that's where things are going a little bit. a little bit different so you'll see f and then you'll see f with a slash and an e and f with a slash with the d and then f with the slash with a c, don't panic, so your right hand is you're going to play f and it doesn't have to. go nowhere just stay f for the whole line now your left hand is going to follow what happens after those bars so you're going to play f and then you're going to play e because that's what's represented by the e after the f and the next one sounds crunchy, but don't worry, you play with a d and then a c, so let's do that again, imagine all the people, so this part rhythmically is a little different, we only have two. one two, then we change one two and then one two and one two and then you go to the g and you can keep it live and you continue, you've already done all this so you have the muscle memory for it. and you can have some fun, so that's your task for this day, just to get comfortable playing with this chart.

In fact, you can download it below and you can spend all the time you need to make these things feel really good under your hands. The last point I wanted to make here is that you don't have to travel to f, you can travel because there is an f here, there is an f here, so you can travel from c, there are no rules about it, to f and If that is a sound that you like it more then that's what you should do and it actually sounds really good in this little pre-chorus. Okay, so I'll leave you with that for as long as you want and our final touch.

On the last day, our last step, I'm going to give you some additional fun and creative things that you can do to add to this and create an even closer sound to the original like this. We'll get a good look at it, so when you're ready, let's do it, can you believe how far you've come? We've gone from possibly never having played a

piano

, to playing a chord progression, to improvising and playing with a chord chart, and now we're going to get fancy. So this is very exciting, um, okay, the final steps here are going to be the C chord, so you're going to play the top two notes together and then you're going to swing all the way to the bottom.

This requires some coordination, so you may need to practice. This for a few minutes, when you have it, you will do it three times and then you will move up so that your fifth finger touches b and think about this, you know if this is a group of two and this. is c and this is a group of two and this is c b is always right below c two three and then you're going to press b and you can press g at the same time and then go back down to c sounds a little crazy right now, but it's together, I promise one, two, three, four and then I'll look at what you're thinking here.

These two fingers will simply move down, so they will go from being at g and b to being at f and a. and this thumb stays exactly where it is, so we'll do it again very slowly. Put Angie here until g and b c and then f and a two three and then your thumb will go up and touch a and then this black key here. It's called B flat and then B and that's the intro, that's the iconic intro, let's do it again. I'll add my left hand here a little bit and then when we get to this position, our left hand moves so I can use any fingers I want. you want on these no, it's totally up to you and then you just repeat, now you can do that and sing, but if you don't sing, if you can play this, people will know people will know the song that you're playing because it's so iconic. and then you go back to normal, you could play the F chord here.

The next thing you know, you've spent all day playing the piano and everything is fine and you feel amazing because you've played a song and it's beautiful. and lovely and it feels good for your hands, your brain and your heart, so there you have it, that's seven

days

to learn to play the piano, now there's obviously a lot more, but the bottom line here is number one, there's no better time now to learn. how to play the piano I'm not even kidding if you feel like oh I wish I had learned when I was a kid I would be so much further away now is the perfect time for you to be able to do this and you can have a lot of fun doing it, and the next point is this should be fun .

You should move towards playing songs you like and developing your creativity and ability to play songs while working to develop them. little technical skills, which I think are really demonstrated very well in what we've done in the last seven

days

or steps here, we've worked on those technical skills to develop your hands and fingers and we've also worked on our creativity with the chord progression and the song   so if this is possible in seven practices  can you imagine where you will be after   30 or 50 practices? The sky is the limit so I'm really glad to have spent this time with you um   I hope you enjoyed all of this.

If you have any questions, comment below. Happy to practice.