The Most Important Exercises For Piano Players 🎹🚨 (Beginner Lesson)

What sets you apart as a piano player? This video will show you a few important exercises that will help with:

---Dynamics
---Speed
---Dexterity
---Hand independence

These exercises will help you target some of the most important aspects of your piano playing so that you can sound your very best, and this lesson is all about giving you the tools to do exactly that!

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:03 - Exercise 1 - Speed with "Hanon #10"
4:49 - Exercise 2 - Hand Independence
8:30 - Exercise 3 - Control with "Beautifully Simple"
13:47 - Lesson review

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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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[sunil]

Thank you Lisa 😊
Please tell some more beginner lessons

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[Kiwi]

Lisa, you are wonderful. Your personality and sparkling teaching ability shine through and encourage me as I stumble along with tangled fingers and .hands that keep mimicking each another! I will persist. Can you recommend how much time a day to spend on scales or exercises v. pieces? Thank you so much.

[JayagopalNair]

Just wanted to say that I have discovered your videos and I am very impressed with them. Your practice exercises are wonderfully explained and easy to follow. Thank you so very much - You haave re-ignited my desire to learn to play the piano again at 76!!

[CuriousGB.]

*Thank You very much Lisa for all your efforts and positivity. I have been learning to play Piano and Music Theory online. You are very encouraging and inspiring.*
❤️ from India.

[redribbonredribbon]

I started learning piano as an adult in May 2021, I am following many of your beginners lessons here, please do more, they so helpful, and Lisa you’re so sweet.☺️

[joannlee]

Thank you so much Lisa. These exercises are just what I needed. I had a bone removed from each wrist and I think these are really going to help strengthen my hands, not to mention that they are beautiful sounding. I love listening to and watching your videos and one of these days I plan to join Pianote to have full access to your site. Thanks again!

[blablablablabla]

Thank you Lisa! What I love is that you help me to make and enjoy music from my first piano-baby-steps while not shying away from theory and "doing the hard work of practice", I never thought I could learn music but you helped me to get started AND enjoy it!

[AgeingAardvark]

Thank you for the section on Control. I am 70 this year and have been learning piano for 3 years and I am despairing that I will ever get my hands to put expression into my playing. Lisa, you make it look so easy.

[suemoore]

The last excercise is fantastic! I'm trying to work on dynamics atm and it's so much more inspiring when it sounds beautiful, thank you ❤️

[TheHopelessMusician]

Stumbled on this channel while looking up a random song to play around with on guitar, so glad I did have a JDXI and a looper and just mess around with them.
Been playing keys for weeks now.
Excellent lessons and very helpful 👌
Thank you

[jerryspencer]

Thank you so much, Lisa, for your helpful, fun-loving videos on learning the piano. As a young boy of 6 I had my first year of piano, then 2 more years of lessons from my church music director at age 13 - 14. At that time I was just beginning to play hymns. Then, nothing for almost 60 years. Now I am reviewing and continuing on. Last year I bought a Yamaha portable, digital piano (P-121) and practice almost everyday with 2 sessions of 30 minutes each. It might seem strange, but I actually enjoy Hanon and scales because I know they are helping develop better technique. Following your suggestion I also do arpeggios, and chords with inversions. Several years ago I saw "Scott, The Piano Guy" on PBS TV and realized that someday I would again be learning to play music, but this time I have a strong inner desire to stay with it and become good. Next year I hope to buy a Kawai MP7SE portable digital piano. It is an amazing instrument which has won many international awards. Many musicians feel that Kawai is surpassing Yamaha in offering high-quality, reliable and affordable keyboards. The features on the MP7SE and the beautiful voices (sounds) simply were not available when I was much younger. Thanks so much, Lisa, for your helpful videos. I like the musical content, but most of all, I ABSOLUTELY ADORE YOUR PLAYFUL, FUN-LOVING ATTITUDE. It helps to take the drudgery out of repetition when doing Hanon, scales and other finger exercises. I send you a big warm hug of support for sharing your musical talent with us. Best wishes from the USA, Jerry.

[GG-wphm]

Love your lessons...been trying to play piano now for 3 weeks..a work in progress but a lifetime in front of me to improve..keep up the good work!

[lumm]

This lesson pushes me forward! Thanks so much and keep up making these wonderful Lisa-piano-videos.

[alroyer]

All of your tips are magnificent! I really like the way you explain every method in an easy way to understand… keep up the great work!😀

[AdmMusicc]

This is easily one of the best channels for learning piano. I have been practicing moonlight sonata movement 1 ever since I bought the piano a couple of weeks back and the "control" aspect of it is the challenge. Even though I have learnt the entire thing and committed the notes to memory, the degree of softness/loudness that needs to be taken into account makes my playing much more amateur compared to a professional pianist, even though the song itself seems easy at first glance. This video will hopefully help big-time with perfecting that!

[ezildasmith]

I AM VERY APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR VIDEOS, YOUR PRESENTATIONS AND YOUR PROVIDING THE MUSIC ALLOWING US TO PRACTICE WHAT YOU ARE TEACHING. THANK YOU AND I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO MANY MORE LESSONS. YOUR ENTHUSIASM IS INFECTIOUS.

[zinadianthamalapitan]

Thank you Lisa for this free lesson of hand exercises. You inspire me to continue playing piano <3 looking forward for more video and be inspired.

[DanielJenkins]

Your lessons are the simplest way to learn I've seen online. Helping me so much thank you

[maestro]

Lisa, I love your enthusiasm on a bad day your love for the craft lifts me up thank you. Your a very good teacher 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰