How to play piano- chords, scales, arpeggios BEST on YOUTUBE!!
www.NathanShirley.org – Donate some money on my website and I’ll make some more insightful videos! So easy a cat could learn. -THIS VIDEO IS A JOKE- Apparently the majority of viewers have failed to grasp this important element of the video. As the video has become quite popular, I decided to add this comment here so as not to upset anyone else unnecessarily.
this is a great video man u show how to do things then you do them uber fast to make everyone shit themselves at the end great song though rated 5*****
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Correct me if I’m wrong but i thought that two notes played at the same time is an interval and three notes make a chord. Soprano, alto , tenor. No disrespect but this guy is whack.
No, you only need two. Mezzo-soprano, baritone. And thanks.
You’re right Keybear! ~
“In music and music theory a chord is a set of three or more different notes from a specific key that sound simultaneously. Chords constructed of three notes are described as triads and consist of two intervals. Two-note combinations are commonly referred to as intervals. The technical name for an interval is dyads. A succession of chords is called a chord progression.”
– Wikipedia
this is not a how-to video, more of a show-off video
Check the Grove Dictionary, you’ll find it’s different.
Take heart! You can do it, don’t give up just yet.
ha haa WTF?great video for beginers
LOL, you are a terrible instructor!
The stuff you do I already know….. even begginners can play this method…. You need to teach advanced technique. Also, you play things too fast for most average tutorial veiwers to notice how it actually works here!
Very cute.
Anyway, give me the fingering for your reach over arpeggios at 4.35, if you’d be so kind… or tell me a rachmaninoff that has some good ones.
Left hand- octave, 5-1. Right hand single notes starting on 1 then,2,3,4,5. Then left hand crossing over right hand for single note played by any finger (2 works well). Then right hand goes back down in same position as before, but now, 5,4,3,2,1.
Then repeat using a different set of notes, omitting or adding as desired. Hope that helps.
Hey, thanks for taking the trouble to answer. It’s roughly what I got by trying to figure it out by myself, but it’s nice to know that you concur.
well you are obviously an amazing piano player but as far as teaching goes this is a pretty lame
I guess some one should fix the Wikipedia article… eh, I’ll do it when I get a chance.
I think the lesson here is, (and this goes for pretty much any art form), the steps to becoming good at your art:
1) develop a love for your art with improvisation and intuition.
2) hone your art by becoming proficient with technique and theory.
3) go beyond technique and theory with improvisation and intuition.
do you find handy-capped people as funny as I found this video?
@44R0N : Good points. But my first step is buy a Harry Lorayne book. The rest takes care of itself
hahaha … note for K!K!
This is not a how to video. This is not helpful, I’m sorry.
very interesting approach to teaching!!!! your technique with chords, scales and arpeggios are just to a tee!!!! your hand crossing is to perfection!!
how would you recommend working on virtuosity and not getting tense or stiff or injured yet keeping the music free and full of life??? would you sugest starting slow and then gradualy pick up tempo using a metronome (as most teachers would have you do!)?
i wish my teacher did more ear-training with me. love playing by ear!
gee looks very easy. hmm okay here i go, damn!! im playing like mozart and i`ve never played piano before. thank you nathanshirley now im going to showoff to my friends just like you
Don’t mention it. See friends, RJiminez did it, and so can you!
I really, really like this. You give me and the rest of us absolute freedom…and that’s great, because in the end all music will ever do is take you to heaven.
it is important to play with- I mean for yourself, but you need a foundation of knowlege to work out of first