Advices for learning Piano

1. Develop a daily habit!

2. Improvise on everything!

3. Learn with a Metronom!


3. Though it is important to develop your inner beat, the metronom has serveral advantages. It forces you to pace through different literatur and develops your side reading skills.

Here is another reason of why learning with a metronom is so important

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRJpf9dUAiw

The point is that Rhythm draws attention if it is not done right. Wrong notes, nobody cares; it actually sounds interesting.

The examples demonstrate this very well.

Chord-Progressions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXoaV6rv00o

How to play fast?

When I was a kid, I always wanted to play as first as possible. This following video gives a good advice on how to achieve that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKVLXDS4De0

it is about a specific progression, where the thumb has to be imagined already in the next position, so that your change of position is not noticeable.

Another thing is to only play the beats, and memorize those.

How to play Rachmaninoff G-Minor Prelude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CSFJjojiDE

A good analysis of how to break down Rachmaninoff's G-minor- Prelude


Einführung in den Blues by Goulda Die Meisterung der folgenden Stufen macht dann den guten Bluesmusiker aus. Es wäre nur wünschenswert, wenn wir mehr systematische Seiten im Internet entdecken würden. Die Steigerung ist dann schon ein bisschen stark um als Laie mitzukommen, aber wir lassen uns davon inspirieren oder?

Learn classical piano: Masterclasses

Barenboim and Lang Lang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14dwegqniNg

Barenboim - Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77T1SzCGzzM

Else Puppulo (Chopin, Etude No.4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-Ijd7chpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6vp8QIfcIg

Sir Andreas Schiff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85KJkpbh_us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85KJkpbh_us

Best Piano Music/Inspiration: Ronald Jenkees, The Temptations, Chilly Gonzales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoFurLevE28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJV2pWFyfn4 Harry Potter am Klavier, intense Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwpBSHEHEek

Chilly Gonzales mit Dot, Eye of the Tiger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLB3-0XPPzI

Haywyre - Smooth Criminal (Improvisation am Synthesizer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLXS0EGwCZg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJd58qJ-wys

Night Moves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNocAKSqQNk

When Tom Waits had the Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny3K8Dqth1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y97UQ_TD8c Sehr komplizierte Version von I got Rhythm

Guitar Lessons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVVIplDK7lY

Some cool Riffs, that you could learn?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKtOcEouaWE

List: Songs that I would like to learn and that I can do

Jazz Standards

• Autumn Leaves (60%)
• Charlie Brown, 80% 
• Manhatten (Piano Jazz Version) 
• Misty (a lot of options for improvising)
• Tetris Ragtime-Version

Rock

• Meat Loaf - I'd do Anything for Love (VikiGoesWild), 0 %
• Piano Man (Billy Joel), 80% 
• Billy Jean (Michael Jackson), 95%
• Japanischer Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twxGygfUKu8
• Star Wars Ragtime-Band:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JdoNozqEVI
• Man in the Mirror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uedqcSNKsqs
  70%
• Countrysong für die Diversität, zum zusammen singen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHo1fNnXFVU&index=4&list=RDUs-TVg40ExM
• Hello - Adele - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1VbBiEHVoY
• Don't stop me now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1SPG6_Qz20) Great version with great ideas

Classical

• "Für Elise" in Ragtime (60%)
• Scent of Women - Theme http://www.8notes.com/scores/18093.asp
• Chopin - Fantasy-Impromptu (90%)
• Liszt - La Campanella 
• Beethoven - Rage over a lost penny
• Rachmaninoff - G-minor Prelude
• Rachmaninoff - C-Minor Prelude

Medley (Inspiration)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKEVB2SRa4c

Extended List

1. Charlie Brown (die Pianoguys), 75%

Notes: Has drive, good foundation for improvistations, standardrepertoire

 

2. Piano Man (Billy Joel) (80 Percent)

Notes: Good background for Parties





Details

The Autumn Leaves

• "chord progression consists almost solely of ii-V-I and ii-V, typical for jazz
• Its iim7 – V7 – IMaj7 – IVMaj7 – ii7(b5) – V7 – im chord progression is an example of the circle-of-fifths progression.^[16]
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stsBqdo9Svc (very poetical version on the Piano)

Tutorials on Songs

Tutorial with an impressive demonstration of how to play at the beginning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47YJTeOvvo4

This is another testimony of Awesomeness. Much of what he does gets its drive from the strong

So let me summarize what I want to be able to play:

The repitive movements are quite beautyful, and it creates a great mood. Moreover, it has so much creativity and never loses its internal development. Great work: I wish one day I were able to do this.

  The smooth piano sound seems to be doable, I only need a teacher who guides me slowly into the matter. What I lack is the creativity of connections:

Ronald Jenkees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoFurLevE28

Learn how to sing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4O8SWcf6r0

Singing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NWbSuCrF8o

Piano Idols: Wakeman vs. Rudess, Jacob Collier (Blues, Jazz, Genius)

Wakeman vs. Rudess

I actually don't know why Wakeman is so slow. I also wonder what this is about, only about one rhythm and some speed-shit? It is better, when Jordan Rudess explains some of his music


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcgcrxslh60