Sheet Music is the WORST Way to Learn Piano (Use THIS Instead to Learn Piano Fast)

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It burns me up a little when I think about how much time I wasted on sheet music when I was a kid… and how many other people out there have done the same as piano beginners. There are faster ways to get things done, folks! And it just so happens that the faster way is FUN.
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🕒 TIMESTAMPS 🕒
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Should you burn your sheet music?
00:43 The worst way to learn piano
00:59 Sheet music and… dating?
01:32 How traditional piano let me down
02:30 Inspiration and an easier way
03:19 What you really need to know
03:41 Piano keys
04:51 What and how to memorize
06:19 Learning about chords
07:17 Major chords
08:01 Minor chords
09:00 My song-learning process
09:11 Step 1: Find the chords
10:05 Step 2: Listen to the song
11:45 Step 3: Play along with the song
13:04 Step 4: Add improvisation
15:12 Step 5: Break free
16:05 Can you sound good without sheet music?
16:44 Going beyond basic chords
17:12 Wrapping up
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@AntAggs 10 ай бұрын

No two musicians are alike. Some of my friends are in the top pianists worldwide. They learned from sheet music early on. Some people doesn’t want to read at all which is totally fine. But I disagree with the claim that sheet music isn’t beneficial from the get go. It totally depends on the student.

@integrityborn6156 2 ай бұрын

Yeah it does depend. For me sheet music is more difficult, I play by ear. I learned sheet music in elementary but forgot bc I play by ear, and felt I didn’t need it, but I should of stuck with it bc now it feels more difficult, not necessarily to learn, but just memorizing everything!

@richard135b7 Жыл бұрын

Jacques I am at an intermediate level so I know the power of chords chord progressions inversions fill techniques etc but I can see the incredible value you're providing to beginning students with the contents of this amazing tutorial. I hope every beginning piano player will find your channel and watch this video.

@pamelaclayton7535 4 ай бұрын

You are brilliant boy! I was also one of those people who waded through sheets of music! I could never get it right. At the age of 73 I realise you can play seamlessly with a chord sheet. Thank you!

@Zed.90 4 ай бұрын

Ok let me share a story with you how this video has changed my life: I'm 33 years old and learned Piano for about 9 years with many short brakes and i hated it I HATED IT. I had very talented teachers but i couldn't understand how someone could play without notes. I had all the basics but never "combined" them. I tried everything after i stopped the piano cause i LOVE music but i gave up after many tears and tried violin, ukulele, guitar. After watching this video i suddenly could play all the guitar songs instantly on my piano. And i still had all the knowledge... i could sing and do a whole song like on guitar, just with keys. Everything makes a fcking sense now. I now know exactly how to improve, where i could learn a bit ... WHILE HAVING FUN PRACTISING WITH REAL SONGS...srsly up untill this day is ALWAYS remembered EVERY note of EVERY piece i know. Maybe that's why i can remember tunes so nicely ... but i was a total idiot not opening the door watching this video earlier. Chords for piano did change my life. After 2 years i sat at the piano over 1 hour didn't even noticing i was actually practising cause i was busy loving it. Sometimes your videos can change someones life. And you just did that. Thank you.

@jwdes8806 Жыл бұрын

I started learning piano 8 months ago via an app, I had very fast progress learning a few intermediate peices .. River Flows etc. But after not playing these peices for a couple of weeks, I could not play them at all, my brain would not retain the information. I started learning with a piano teacher 5 months ago via sheet music, my progress has been MUCH SLOWER than with the app, but if I return to a peice a few weeks later I can still play it by looking at the sheet music. I am 61 years old and maybe my brain does not retain learned music easily.

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

Sheet music does make it easier to play without memorizing the song.... if you get very good at reading sheet music. ;) But most people struggle with finding that sweet spot. Glad to hear you're figuring out what works best for you! -Jacques

@golfvilla2 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your eady-to-learn piano videos!!! I am 67 and have been playing the guitar for years, but I always wanted to learn how to play the piano, especially now that our daughter's piano is in our house. In one day, after watching a couple of your videos, i downloaded and started playing Hey Jude on the piano!!!

@Kots2016 Жыл бұрын

I took Jacques's course - "Piano in 21 Days" - last year. I learned so much! He explains things so well, just like in this video! I am still a beginner & I have struggled for a while to learn to read music, but I have only learned a few simple songs that way. For me, this method is great! I have learned to play so many more songs this way! And the songs sound so much better when you know which chords to use!

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

Awesome comment, thanks for your kind words K. :) -Jacques

@DrDAP Жыл бұрын

Jacques, this was a very well thought out lesson. Any beginner should be motivated to start after viewing it. Related to my experience with sheet music, it was challenging but, after many years of not playing piano, having that knowledge in my background has enhanced my learning the chord method along with the structure of music foundation theory.

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

Thank you Debra Ann. :) I appreciate your perspective! -Jacques

@PatricioDuarte Жыл бұрын

Excellent! Complete, simple, well organized and nicely presented. Great motivating approach. Thanks

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that Patricio, thank you! -Jacques

@ILovsKeys Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I needed. Thanks!

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

Awesome, so glad to hear that! -Jacques

@hughkelly1358 Жыл бұрын

Great lesson Jacques! Really breaks everything down to the main elements to follow when learning to play!

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

Thanks Hugh, glad to hear it helped! :) -Jacques

@zhongli2015 Жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I was looking for. I have gained basic mastery of chord progressions (been stuck at "step 3" for over a month) and moving directly to sheet music felt like a steep climb but this is a great way of improving myself. Thank you Jacques

@evanstetteh7146 Жыл бұрын

U are the best and open minded teacher keep it up

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

Thanks! :) -Jacques

@ronwhitehouse23 10 ай бұрын

You are my new hero, so perfectly simple. Thank you so much. I love you.

@SuperBond113 Жыл бұрын

Very very helpful 😊

@doritahains2554 Жыл бұрын

After taking a break for awhile (moved), this is a great comeback lesson. Very thorough. This is a keeper lesson. If I did have music sheets, I would be very tempted to burn them, except right now it is way to hot to turn the fireplace on. Thanks again.

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

Thanks Dorita! ;) Hope you're settling into your new place nicely. -Jacques

@gabe415 Жыл бұрын

Cool method for beginners! Thank’s Jacques!

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching Gabe! -Jacques

@michaelengland7228 Жыл бұрын

Very very good thanks

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael, I appreciate you watching! -Jacques

@olvaddeepfake 11 ай бұрын

I'm a beginner and I've been learning to play piano using sheet music and it is difficult. i found your video and decided to do it this way because i don't feel like i need the sheet music to learn. not yet anyway, maybe in the future. when my grandad was around he used to be able to play a song on the piano if you told him how to beat went but he couldn't read sheet music but he was taught by a teacher.

@akhandbeats1654 Жыл бұрын

I m convinced by watching only one of your videos n now i m thinking going through all of em

@roystonwalters454 4 ай бұрын

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the time and trouble you've put into your amazing teaching. You might have guessed how grateful I am. Thank you again.

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

Obviously I’m not a big fan of sheet music, but what’s the alternative? Let me know what you think of this new video (and our thumbnail for this one!)

@sjakie0420 Жыл бұрын

hi, how do you know what to play when it says “hit e note on d string”? i guess that’s for guitar 11:09

@byp4677 4 ай бұрын

Dude. Awesomely simple stuff. I wish i would've seen this a couple decades ago. I will send cash. ;-)

@lolsucks3599 Жыл бұрын

Can you make a channel for acoustic guitar?

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

I don't play guitar and I'm not actually sure how well my method would carry over to guitar. But there some pretty cool guitar courses out there! -Jacques

@luckypegasusvol7700 11 ай бұрын

But can you play Fantaisie Impromptu like that? I wonder can you just watch other yt videos and learn which notes to play without sheet music? Like watching heroic polonaise from Rousseau then try to play it.

@luckypegasusvol7700 11 ай бұрын

Classic songs

@user-dp1le5fh1q Жыл бұрын

1) This is busking. 2) Chord based busking is always an approximation of a song and almost guarantees the original baseline for most players 3)when you teach pupils to bypass sheet music reading you create a fresh batch of frustrated piano players in the future who are at a greater risk of giving up because when they realise busking only gets you so far and they want to learn properly like they should have done in the beginning, they, their ability to play far exceeds their ability to read and if the gap Is too large, they give up. This kind of system Is a cheat system designed to get you a result quickly, but please understand that the quality of this result is not as high as traditional quality teaching. I would advocate using both of the systems but never substituting the harder system for the cheat. Otherwise you just increase the risk of crippling yourself.. This is good for teens trying to impress naive teens, and useful for music theory, but let’s not over claim the value.

@Robert-ts2ef 2 ай бұрын

You did not inform the uninformed about the inversions of each chord that professionals use as the chord changes are not jumping all over the keyboard and they also sound better.

@ThomasTakanashi Жыл бұрын

nice house

@PianoIn21Days Жыл бұрын

Thanks! We had a lot of weather issues recently so it's nice to have the house put back together now! -Jacques

@Vasaccisisu 2 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@josegameplays6024 9 ай бұрын

hero

@jamesmartinomusic5969 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like the Schillinger method

@happycampers6592 Жыл бұрын

I am just learning piano, so I am definitely no expert. However, do you think it is fair to say that the title of this video should be qualified by stating that sheet music is the worst way to learn popular songs? How would you address a student's desire to learn classical music or to play melody for popular songs? Again, I'm a beginner, but it doesn't sound reasonable or logical to completely dismiss sheet music, without first assessing individual goals. Seems like an assumption is being made on your part that all anyone wants to do is to bang out chords and sing along. I am on a path to learn both the method you describe and the traditional way, with sheet music. Am I missing something?

@leandrechardon2268 Жыл бұрын

sacrilegious

@silloweet Ай бұрын

Not watching this video but you're wrong

@CS-uc2oh Жыл бұрын

So you're just going to ignore rhythm? Like all you have to do is play some chords and bam, you're playing you're favorite song? 😂 Sheet music is for the rhythm. Many people can pick out the notes of a song by ear but would struggle with complex rythms. I personally read sheet music to learn the rythm and then memorize it. Then I play expressively from memory.