Create Emotion With 4 Notes (Piano Lesson)

This video is a sequel to one of our most popular lessons of all time: How to create emotion with just 3 notes. 😎

So if 3 notes are good, then 4 must be better right?

This is another perfect lesson for beginners. I'm going to show you how to create something truly beautiful and emotional with just a handful of notes.

...4 to be exact. 😂

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Chapter:
0:00 Intro
0:45 The 4 notes
1:27 Adding the left-hand
2:46 Building emotion
3:32 Changing the left-hand progression
4:03 Adding 1 more note (optional)

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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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[jahnvisingh]

I am a beginner pianist learning all by myself with no proper training or teacher. Your videos really help me. Whenever I feel like leaving to play the piano, your videos give me motivation to continue to practice and makes me feel happy. I can just say that I am really thankful to the whole team of pianote helping millions of students across the globe learn piano. Keep up the good work.
Btw, the video was really helpful. 🥰

[mojogaucho]

Thank you. Your channel is exactly what I need right now. When I was very young, my aunt started to teach me how to play the piano. This soon petered out after a couple of weeks and I lost interest in the technical side of things. I could not develop my reading skills as if I had heard the song I would just play by ear. Jump forward to my very early teens and like ten million other kids I took up the guitar. Piano was something that I had abandoned years before and not made any progress with. And like a lot of my friends I only had a few lessons until I knew a few cords. Then it was out with the records and learn all those Deep Purple/ Led Zeppelin riffs by ear. And so time passed. I grew up, got a trade under my belt and sailed forth into life. Marriage, kids and career. Music in general and guitar in particular became my escape from the stresses of life. Then, as my kids started in school, they took up musical instruments, mainly the piano. After what seemed like a very short space of time they were playing tunes. I found myself becoming very envious of my two daughter's ability to just sit at the piano and knock out a tune. They could do this long after the lessons at school stopped. I finally asked my young nephew who by this time was a professional musician to give me lessons. Again this only went for only a few months until life threw in another fork in the road and the lessons stopped. Flash forward to today. I never stopped playing the guitar, in fact I've now been playing for some 40 years and I can fool a lot of people into thinking I'm a gun. And maybe I am but deep down I still don't have a competent grasp of music theory and I still longed to play the piano. So enter Covid and lockdown. I'm using the time to get on the kids old piano and start banging away at least half an hour a day every day. I'm using the old books I still have from my lessons with my nephew and, I've discovered the enlightenments of Youtube and just now your good self. I'm excited and I'm making good progress. I've subscribed and I'm looking forward to more of your videos. Thank you once again. P.S. It's fun how I can still play a C scale as my aunty taught me all those years ago.

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I love this piano teacher. Lisa makes you feel you can really improve as a piano player. She is a wonderful teacher!

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:45 The 4 notes
1:27 Adding the left-hand
2:46 Building emotion
3:32 Changing the left-hand progression
4:03 Adding 1 more note (optional)

[bigbrownbro]

I feel very emotional just listening to your play and I can't imagine what would it be if I translate this beautiful chord progression (4notes + 5notes) on a classical guitar play.. I would be spending a box of paper towel wiping out my tears. Thank you so much for the great tutorial, Pianote. Lots of love from Malaysia ♥️

[chucksaeger]

I love the way she teaches! Excellent demeanor and it appears she is truly having fun. Wish I could subscribe to her videos!

[allybangbang_]

Lisaaaa you are the cutest and most adorable piano instructor I've watched online!!! your instructions are far better and clearer than my vision💙 thank you so much for all the help you're giving us specially piano students like me that is on the beginner level (for now 😆), i love you and more power to Pianote 💙

[Tore_Lund]

A lot of practicing and every bit of composing is just that. You invent a progression on a few chords, but what you really are doing is exploring a story told through a change of moods. I don't play much piano, but I work a lot with mucisians, and just looking at them through their warmup, seeing how they mentally change as they get into their focus, is very much what you are going through in this video. It is a beautyful thing every time!

[Icareaboutwhoilove]

It's awesome!! It wouldn't call it sad perse, but more remembering the past while traveling towards a shiny future!!🌈🌈🌈🌈

[heisliv]

I make beats and after watching this, I finally understand how coming up with melody works, Thank you so so so much🙏🏾

[pajeeper]

Love your teaching style. As a trumpet player and someone who studied piano in the traditional manner of memorizing scales and theory, this approach really resonates with me. You get people playing immediately and the ability to create simple music totally reinforces the desire to learn more. Thank you.

[ryanmelvey]

i knew about these four note patterns from noodling around, but never thought about adding in the b. great idea! makes it feel less pentatonic

[JoBeeProject]

omg you finally making me WANT TO PLAY piano!! i tried so many !! you are the the

[desi_pink]

Contemplative and introspective, calm and restful… Centering… Those are the vibes I’m getting. Love your videos. So easy to follow and encouraging, and the emphasis on the feeling of playing piano rather than the technical skills only. Two things have gotten me through a rocky childhood - my God and my music. Sometimes we just need encouragement that we can do it and even the simple things are stunningly beautiful. I love how you carry that message through your videos to all of us!

[omarpasha]

Place the thumb on an octave above middle C on C with the right hand. Play a melody of 5, 3, 2, and 1 with the right hand. With the left hand alternate playing of various notes a fifth apart up and down the keyboard for emotional variety, and tension variations. Note that raising the pitch raises the emotional pitch and emotional intensity.

[saketk]

Absolutely loved it!!!! Especially the part where you connected it to the previous 3 notes version, that was way beyond awesome! My head was like 🤯🤯🤯! Great going Lisa!

[myriaddsystems]

Invaluable! The best teachers get even the most complicated things across so that anyone can understand- you are a first class example of this- THANKS

[kenny]

Hi I’ve just pucrchased a new digital piano and I’m trying this at the moment I’m a complete novice but I love the sound of the piano, I love your channel and videos that’s what has inspired me to start piano keep up the great work!!

[raquelbalasa]

you are an amazing teacher... I am learning so much and you are the best!!!! god bless you so much more than you can imagine..