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@Aniseth-1st2 ай бұрын
I'm with you since day one.. and i think I'm improving daily, i never get tired of watching your piano lessons, they're real amazing ❤. Thank you🤝
@BillHiltonАй бұрын
Thanks very much indeed - I'm really glad you like them!
@eustaciascrubb16762 ай бұрын
5:54 Yes, I want to sound cool on the piano, Bill! There's a difference between videos which claim to help beginners (but only include a basic demo) and then there are videos which really pinpoint the problems of beginner pianists, help them address and overcome the problem AND teach and motivate them how to improve and eventually overcome this problem. Bill's videos are consistently the latter, and I really appreciate how he keeps his audience "students" in mind and their goal of progressing in their musical journeys❤ (Yes, yes, ah... that's it I have sticky finger syndrome!) Thanks Bill, keep up the awesome work (love your flat cap and camera work also)😊😊😊
@BillHiltonАй бұрын
You're really welcome, and thanks very much for the kind words - I don't always get the approach exactly on point, but I'm glad you think I do most of the time! Good luck with sounding cool 🤣 and shout if there's anything I can do to help!
@MartiA19732 ай бұрын
First watch through and now to actually....put on my flat cap and play :)
@BillHiltonАй бұрын
I'm not entirely sure what the south coast equivalent of a flat cap would be. A pork pie, a la Arthur Daley? A panama? A boater?
@maplebob232 ай бұрын
I’m on vacation and don’t have my keyboard with me so this is tiding me over until I’m home.
@BillHilton2 ай бұрын
You can always practise the left hand patterns on the counter of the swim-up bar 😂 Have a wonderful vacation and let me know how you get on with this when you get home!
@mrmaison49242 ай бұрын
This channel is where my piano playing lessons started. You are a great teacher Bill!! 👍
@BillHilton2 ай бұрын
Thank you! I’m glad my stuff has helped you!
@maplebob23Ай бұрын
I got back from vacation last Saturday and even though I was exhausted after travel and unpacking, I did find time to work on this. After a week, I’m enjoying my progress. I mostly just use Bb, Eb, and high Bb in my right hand and just started experimenting with the G today. When my fingers get confused, I just take a time out and play a few repetitions in the left hand.
@BillHiltonАй бұрын
Excellent - that's definitely the right approach. Keep working on it and let me know how you get on. And I hope you had a good vacation!
@Pilotlon462 ай бұрын
Terrific, Bill. Thank you.
@BillHiltonАй бұрын
You're welcome Lon, as always!
@lawrencetaylor41012 ай бұрын
Another great user friendly video. And hats off to your video editing team, they do a good job.
@BillHiltonАй бұрын
Thanks Lawrence! Editing team is.... me, so I'll take that 🤣
@lummsmusik32192 ай бұрын
Wonderful chords with positive vibes! Thanks!
@BillHiltonАй бұрын
You're really welcome - thanks for watching!
@user-lf5vi7gb5c13 күн бұрын
Just wanna say thank you!❤ Extremely helpful material and the style of presenting is perfect
@zozikfreeman94032 ай бұрын
Thank you, Bill. Brilliant lesson, learnt a lot, you're too cool. Thank you so much 💙
@BillHilton2 ай бұрын
You’re really welcome, Zozik - glad you liked it!
@PianoImprovVlogger2 ай бұрын
You explain things so well. I’m very interested in this type of content ❤
@BillHilton2 ай бұрын
Thank you! Good looking channel you have there - I’ve subbed!
@craigcraig6248Ай бұрын
Hope you are well Bill! You have helped me tremendously along my journey.
@BillHiltonАй бұрын
All good here, thanks - and that's good to hear. It always makes my day when I hear from people who have benefitted from the stuff I post here!
@NinaSoyfer2 ай бұрын
Well done ❤
@BillHilton2 ай бұрын
Thanks Nina - your piano/yoga stuff looks interesting: I’ll have a look later!
@cognachobo2320Ай бұрын
As always Bill is the real deal. Thanks so much 🙏
@BillHiltonАй бұрын
You're really welcome!
@Pilotlon46Ай бұрын
Bill, I turned chords 1, 3, and 5 into 7ths also, to get some very interesting color added to the progression, which also seemed to open up a few more right hand keys to have a play with. Like both.
@BillHiltonАй бұрын
Good idea, Lon - I thought about mentioning that in the tutorial but thought it might be a level too far. Glad you tried it, though!
@DougyWW2 ай бұрын
You obviously had fun doing this video - lots of fun, great content. Theory wise I see the chord progression has a nice ascending bass line that builds to the 4 chord before looping. The Fm7 pulls in the Eb note to bridge nicely from the Eb chord and then onto the Eb/G chord. And finally the Eb chord notes in the right hand focus on 3 of the notes from the pentatonic scale so it should sound good no matter what you hit. (The notes F and C should work nicely as well.) At least that’s my amateur analysis.
@BillHilton2 ай бұрын
You’re exactly right, Dougy - it’s all about notes from the pentatonic scale over diatonic chords. Always safe ground. Thanks indeed for that (and you’re right about F and C; the Ab I add at the end isn’t from the Eb pentatonic, so maybe has to be used a bit more judiciously (depending on the sound you’re after…)
@victoralfonssteuck27 күн бұрын
Amo seus vídeos, amigo. Vc me ensina muito. Muito obrigado! ❤
@BillHilton23 күн бұрын
De nada!
@MartiA19732 ай бұрын
Never realised how much I relied and appreciated the PDFs normally attached. Mine are all covered in scribbles and hints.
@BillHilton2 ай бұрын
Indeed - they’re a tool to be deployed with caution, though, as some people dip out as soon as they see there’s a PDF (“too much like hard work…”) and yes, you’re right the vid probs isn’t going to help people who approach things like that, but it does rather kill the watchtime, which affects the video’s performance in the algorithm, so people who might find it useful never see it… Also every video with a PDF adds to my mighty stock of “I can’t download the PDF!” emails, which I could already employ a moderately sized call centre to deal with…
@aliceloke26792 ай бұрын
Hi Bill ! I wonder if there is anyone with my problem ? Learn right hand, learn left hand..........then hands together. All is fine until I use the pedal!!!! Everything goes beserk ! Your kind advice please.
@BillHilton2 ай бұрын
It's pretty much a universal problem, Alice - it's tempting to assume that, when playing with both hands, the total difficulty is [difficulty of playing left hand] + [difficulty of playing right hand] but actually it's more difficult than that (and stays that way!). The best strategy in the early days is to practise one hand (typically the left) until you have a very high degree of automaticity - it's one of those situations where you have to practise past the point at which you think you've got something. So the short and boring answer is "keep going!"
@TokcheegeАй бұрын
l got the F7sus4 for the 2nd combination on my synthizer. (not theFm7).😢 And the Eflat sounds breathtakingly beautiful playing it separately. Anyway, how long do l have to make my neighbours suffer?
@BillHiltonАй бұрын
Weeks and weeks and WEEKS! 🤣 I'm sure they'll think it's worth it in the end, though. Keep drilling away at it, and let me know how you get on!