How I Would Learn Piano If I Started Again

Here's a guide to some key things to learn in your first year or 2 or learning piano to give you a strong foundation to get started as a beginner.

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Chords, scales, theory & more!

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Most Popular Beginner’s Method Book (Alfred)

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VIDEOS TO WATCH NEXT

THEORY 🎹

Half Steps and Whole Steps

Building chords Made Simple

Chord Inversions Made Simple

Minor Scale Theory Made Simple

Chords of a key Made Simple

How To Find Other 3 Note Chords Too

7th Chords Made Simple

CHORDS 🎹

How To memorize every Major and Minor chord

How To find chord inversions INSTANTLY

How To Find Other 3 Note Chords Too

Practise The chords In a key

Slash Chords

SCALES 🎹

Order To Learn Scales

Find Any Major Scale Easily

All 12 Major Scales | Just The Fingerings

Major Scales Tutorial Playlist

Minor Scale Theory Made Simple

Tips And Other Stuff 🎹

5 Must know Chord Rhythm Patterns

How To Play Hands Together

Memory Tips To learn songs Faster

Hand Placement Tips

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Timestamps/Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:33 Tip 1
3:08 Tip 2
4:07 Tip 3
5:17 Tip4
6:28 Tip5
7:01 Tip 6
7:44 Tip 7
9:07 Tip 8
10:24 Tip 9
11:28 Tip 10
12:18 Tip 11
13:43 Tip 12
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[PianoFromScratch]

Don't forget to hit the like button, that really helps out the channel!
And share below - What are the most helpful things you're learning you think everyone else should be too? 🎹

[thesb]

Im learning piano in 2022. The challenge is knowing where to start. There is so much on youtube it scrambles my brain

[breadman]

Tip 1: 2/3 times -> Play a variety of fun songs you like; Chord accompaniments. Classical - technical
Tip 2: Scales -> Majors/Minors (with white notes)
Tip 3: Common chords -> and inversions
Tip 4: Learn theory basics (build chords/scales, chords in a key)
Tip 5: Listening to music
Tip 6: Consistency
Tip 7: Learning to read
Tip 8: Ear training
Tip 9: Regular lessons (or occasional lessons)
Tip 10: Work on Rhythm
Tip 11: Get good at practicing
Tip 12: Some type of book

[boomish]

Great tips thanks, I’m a guitar play for many years starting from scratch on the piano, so rhythm & hearing music is fine but muscle memory & reading is a new dawning to my brain, going to take a long time but can see the progression even after a few weeks..thanks for the encouragement & excellent tips.

[TheColin]

Thank you for your 12 tips! I bought a Yamaha electric piano and paid for a subscription. I became so frustrated trying to learn in a structured environment that I gave up after several months. I'm back now and trying to create my own structure based on how I learn and listening to your 12 tips will help me visualize a visualized framework of how the pieces fit together and their importance. Thanks again!

[scottt]

An excellent representation of great content in my opinion. Well edited, clear, concise, and scaled to the audience. I bumped into this channel yesterday, downloaded the major scales pdf and subscribed. The delivery of the content is on my wavelength so I am down with this channel and will be following the future videos as well as catching up on the back catalog. Thanks for producing.

[Flat-Five]

I would definitely just work harder and try and learn more if I started again. Every time I have periods of playing a lot, after a while I can really feel the difference

[stephaniepreston]

First off love listening to you. Love your accent. Second, thank you for explaining things so well. I have never touched piano before and really want to learn. Thanks for breaking things down. Have been trying to figure where to start. It is intimidating.

[batboy]

Love your videos, I just want to comment on my position! I am 75 years old retired and living solely on social security, so I can’t afford lessons. I saved up enough to purchase the Simply Piano app, and have been learning 14 months now. I spend 2 hours a day and have reached a solid intermediate 1.
I tried jumping ahead and got out of wack and so I went back to the beginning and brushed through the 100’s of songs that I have gotten 3 Stars on!
My problem is trying to memorize a song without the app or sheet music!! Also could you number your chord videos I would like to study them in order and then start on scales !
Thank You for listening, Fran L

[Lina-leup]

This is the best piano channel by far! I watch and play to your videos everyday and it really helps my technique 👍😀
Thanks for helping us out 🔥

[scood]

Think it is important for a beginner to be able to play chords as soon as possible. You can then accompany yourself while doing scales and simple note progressions. Much easier and more pleasant to practice scales when you have an accompaniment and you may get some feeling for the quality of sound as well.

Many beginners are put off the piano because they are obliged to learn to read music as well as learning the keyboard patterns: a bit like expecting a toddler to learn reading as well as uttering first words, at the same time. In other words, beginners will be put off learning if they do not experience some degree of melody in the early stages. I think many piano courses are aimed at passing examinations and sometimes natural musical desire becomes ignored.

I was in a music shop some time ago and I noticed there were no student books beyond grade 5. When I asked why, the response was that most of the pupils never went beyond this level and they could always order books if requested.

Your ideas are excellent for me as an older learner as you get the beginner to learn the keyboard patterns straight away. Thank you.

[TigerCarpenter]

I've been playing piano for 40 days now.

I learned the notes from scratch, and my 1st classical piece ever is JS Bach Prelude in C Major, which I now memorised and play sort of continuously with 1-2 hiccups.

was it the right move / choice in your opinion?

which piece would you recommend as the 2nd one? I think I'd rather learn something moder for a change, I like rock music, but some pop / ballad would be ok too I guess.

I really enjoy your approach, and especially this video lays everything out. as a real beginner, I truly appreciate your advice, so that I can make better decisions and make better use of the precious time.

[lynnewestwood]

Best beginner video for learning the piano I have seen. I will be sticking with this one.😊

[djba]

Thanks very much for this very helpful video and all your other videos. I have found them to be some of the clearest and easy to follow piano instruction videos on YouTube. I am pretty much a beginner and have found a good teacher. We are using the Alfred’s book that you mentioned and it does cover a wide variety of skills. Because of the expense I am probably going to have to switch from weekly to monthly lessons. You mentioned Piano Lab and I will check it out. Another YouTube teacher who I have found helpful is Jason Zac at the Nathaniel School of Music. (Lots of free lessons) One last thing I would mention is the great list of your videos in the description of this video. It will be very helpful to have them listed by topic. Thanks for this great resource.

[ildebrandodongallo]

I'm learning piano by watching youtube videos. Thank you very much for the encouragement. I really need these to keep me going.

[tvstation]

Piano marvel is good, it includes the Alfred all in one book you mentioned also. That means you can work thru the book and all the pieces are in the app which you hook up via midi and see how you are doing with teach one.

[jtdbsvo]

This is very great that I'm learning for free on your channel, thanks a lot ❤🙏

[timajrobins]

This is really helpful, thank you once again! Makes these initial steps feel much less intimidating.

I'm interested to hear what you said about not teaching students to read and play together at the start. I had lessons where this was the approach and I found it to be really confusing, which then stunted my progression and enjoyment. I think if I had just got straight into playing by ear and learning theory practically, I could have got a more immediate connection to piano. It's taken me a while to develop, and your channel has helped so much with that.

Really pleased to see so many coming to the channel and saying how clear and practical all of your info is. I agree!

Another channel with some interesting exercises is Creative Piano Academy, which some of your watchers might find useful as an addition to your videos.

[teresmajor]

Thanks so much for your clear and concise knowledge. Super helpful in figuring out my own roadmap in learning music theory. ❤

[Damani]

This was extremely helpful and appreciated! Thank you so much!