i wanted to ask what is the best piano dvd/tutorial you ever watched?

preferably no sheet notation involved

thanks

 

you can do far worse than the collected works of Chico Marx.

 

I've never seen a tutorial. When I started learning the keyboard, there were no tutorials, only books.

My first book was: 1000 Tips for Keyboards by Jacky Dreksler and Quirin Härle from Voggenreiter Verlag.
It included the Magic Keyboard Charts, chords, harmonies, scales, improvisation scales, and intervals with and without notes.


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when you figure out a harp is just a piano that they never finished

 

if your an absolute beginner,

https://pianopicnic.com/

offers a course


Piano for beginners - 2minute lessons, no sheet music
it will get you started....

 

Musical instruments, especially piano, require music theory and notation. Without these two, it becomes difficult. Playing techniques are also necessary, but they come after theory.
But for what you asked for, this course isn't bad:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/beethoven-piano-sonatas

 

This one, hands down:

 

I found this guy helpful, you need to grab some of the simpler exercises then progress.

I use a few of his and my own in sequence every day.

https://www.youtube.com/@Creativepianoacademy


As it's relevant,
I started writing on a duophonic synth, so only binary chords, even so i wrote complete songs using only two fingers.

So you need to get going without any guidance, there's only seven notes in a scale, and all you need to do is step or leap to the next note/interval, for instance, you can't leap from a 2nd to a 7th, (except possibly in certain situations) but you are safe on the 1 3 5, try it, leap to & from them, get a feel for it, then step in between, Try picking out a bass line with two fingers, one from each hand, an octave apart, you can hit the same note as many times as you want and you can always play an octave of the note you are on if you choose so.

You just need to create a steady rhythm or beat involving those notes.

You don't need any instruction to write harmonically sound music or to knock a tune out on a keyboard, just try, it's not complicated, you alreaday know far more than you realise just by being into music, passion is all that's required, the rest will come naturally, my music's no better now with knowlege, than it was without knowledge.

Musicianship isn't the key, i was writing before i was a keyboard player, i became a player soley thru writing, there's no better way.

I will add this past three years i've been improving my keys skills, the fingering, an hour or more every day, with this guys help plus my own exercises and it's reaping rewards, giving me way more options, so it's really worth getting them fingers moving in the correct relaxed manner etc.

I never ever felt i could ever play as well as i can today, so you need to stick with it, it'll come with practise.

 

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no sheet notation involved?

Foster.

 

Piano Keys: The Layout Of Keys On The Keyboard (Video)

 

C major scale is all the white notes, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Play the 1 3 5 with, thumb, on 1, middle finger on 3, and little finger on 5. Notice the shape, miss a finger, miss a note.

Now play that same shape, on every note of the Cmajor scale, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8.

You now know all the chords that are in the C major scale, any scale actually, major or minor, just repeat, all you need to do is arrange them in the correct manner rhythmically. Use your ears.

These fundamental chords are known as triads and hold the key to understanding, er, keys. It doesn't matter if you add a 9th 11th etc, it does not change the harmonic relationship.

Chords follow the exact same rules of harmony, as individual notes do and plenty of great songs are written without chords, chords are not the answer, individual notes are used far more than chords are, intervals are the key to understanding keys, and intervals are the same for chords or notes.

Knowledge isn't the answer, virtuoso musos understand harmony but that knowledge doesn't mean they can write songs...

I wrote many many harmonically sound songs without knowing anything about chords, harmony, intervals, etc, or be able to play a keyboard, other than two fingers, but you know wot, one would've done und two or more didn't make my music any better.

 

to make it easier to follow along, paint your fingers in matching colours to the chords, or at least your fingernails...

 

just playing the white notes is racist..I think there should be more brown,yellow,an

almost as if the piano keyboard were a series of octaves that could be numbered from lowest to highest numberically, and the same chord, say "C", could be "C1" if played in the lowest octave or "C3" if played in the 3rd octave. Almost as if learning one octave, opens up the entire 88 key keyboard.

startling information if true...

 

Other than the obvious OpenStudio, I also find MangoldProject really cool.

 

Just wondering...

if anybody knows about the pedals? I know the one on the right makes it go faster, and the one on the left stops the notes, but what does the one in the middle do? Whenever I step on it the telephone rings, but I don't think the telephone was invented until 2 centuries after the piano, so I don't know how they could have tested that....

 

No comment...

 

a piano is a instrument that presents a series of notes in ascending order from left to right.
the white keys are naturals,the black keys are sharps and flats which are the same but referred to as sharps when ascending as they sharpen the natural below it in order, and flats for exactly the opposite reason when descending.

Obviously while playing notes is fun and can be hours of madness for those inhabitating the same room with you and the piano keyboard, eventually you will grow bored and tired of them throwing things at you and notice if you play two or more notes at the same time it produces a bit different, more complex sound, these are called "chords", because if you don't learn them someone listening will eventually string you up with a chord and attempt to choke the life out of you.

Think of it as a motivation tool to continue your musical journey and your life.

Chords are important.

The most important thing for any beginning piano student is to get the hand into a proper form and strength to play chords, (your life depends on it at this point). This is why we practice to learn to move the fingers independently and to get them to land where we want them to. Spend 20 minutes to a half an hour, running your fingers up and down the keyboard, learning to tuck your thumbs when needed, and if you wan to get fancy play the bass with your right hand and the treble with your left (it looks cool and it keeps you from getting bored).

Find a song or two on you tube, some deluded fool will think he can make money and get uber social status by showing randoms how to play a song on the piano, use this to your advantage. Watch the tool show you the chords, and being a member of the primate family you will find you can ape him and copy his moves. God likes piano music too!!!, that's why he included this in your programming patterns, now just pound out those chords until you can recreate the song you just watched without crying, or making those around you cry.

if you can accomplish this, and repeat it a few times, you will have the "ear" for playing, and the "Feel" for playing, now you just repeat it about a million times until you become a musician instead of a badly made player piano with the punched roll music.

Now you can learn why those chords sound like they do, and what intervals are, and why different scales sound different and if they all sounded the same why would we need so many of the damn things anyhow?

but thats piano 101, be sure to click the like button and the bell and subscribe to my thing and you'll get more of whatever you clicked on last for infitity or until your thumbs give out and you go catatonic.

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