Three Piano Exercises You'll Love (Exercises, Inventions and Ideas, Part 1)

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This piano tutorial features three piano exercises that will really help you to develop your skills on the piano keyboard - in particular your skill at dynamic (playing the piano loud and soft), your expression, legato, staccato, keyboard improvisation, finger management and one or two other things like pedalling and chord evenness..
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As I explain in the tutorial, this is the first instalment of a new piano learning project I’m creating called Exercises, Inventions and Ideas. I’m going to release a new instalment monthly between mid 2023 and late 2024. Exercises, Inventions and Ideas is designed to help adult piano learners, and self-teachers in particular, develop some of the skills they miss out on, and which are extensively covered in the kind of traditional piano lessons given to kids. Rather than just including a big list of piano scales and arpeggios (though scales and arpeggios are cool!) I’ve tried to make the exercises interesting and engaging, and you’ll often have to use your own musical creativity. Too many adult piano learners have a “press this key then that key” mentality when it comes to learning the instrument, and that can lead to frustration and dead, mechanical playing. Exercises, Inventions and Ideas is designed to help piano students push past those problems.
This first instalment is open access, and there’ll probably be another open access one later in 2023. However, most instalments will only be available to my Patreon subscribers in the first instance (once the project is finished I’ll wrap all the instalments together and put them on sale to everyone, rather as a I did with my very successful Piano Packs series).
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I hope you enjoy these piano exercises - please let me know what you think in the comments!
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00:00 About Exercises, Inventions and Ideas
02:42 Task 1: A swingin’ finger twister
07:19 Task 2: Shhhh!
13:21 Task 3: Staccato/legato and craziness in thirds
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Пікірлер: 38

@happydays1259 11 ай бұрын

Hi Bill! I see another excelent beginner-ish tutorial. Thanks for the effort to keep us "freeloaders" educated. I forwarded the video to my co-worker who as of yesterday ownes a yamaha digital p-125 and has a goal to start playing. I will definetely try the first two becaue swing seems pure fun and the finger switching technique is something I have never intentionally practiced. The third exercise has a Hannon smell to it and I do Hannon exercises on a fairly regular basis.

@mikeonthepiano 6 ай бұрын

These tutorials are excellent, Bill. Looking forward to seeing more in the future! 😎🎹

@BillHilton 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Mike - really glad you like them!

@lio3234 11 ай бұрын

U are an excellent teacher thank you so much for all the piano lessons

@BillHilton 11 ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

@TheDavidlloydjones Жыл бұрын

Gotta go get some work done. Pleasure to see your good stuff, Bill! Thanks.

@BillHilton 11 ай бұрын

Any time, David!

@MartiA1973 11 ай бұрын

First class explanations and details.

@BillHilton 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Marti - glad you liked it!

@CosmicallyBookish Жыл бұрын

This was great! Thank you so much

@BillHilton Жыл бұрын

Thank you - I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@mairaalcantara3946 Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!❤❤❤

@BillHilton Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@pathaks1 Жыл бұрын

Very nicely put to make it challenging ❤

@BillHilton 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@abecadlo6556 11 ай бұрын

Hey Bill! I have recently noticed that I’m relaying too much on fingers 1,2,3 and that it limits my movement while improvising. This is just so strange that when I notice a problem, you come with just a perfect task for me. Thanks!

@BillHilton 10 ай бұрын

You're welcome - glad to be of help!

@Elijahmaardi 11 ай бұрын

❤i did it

@BillHilton 5 ай бұрын

Well done!

@lawrencetaylor4101 Жыл бұрын

Hilton channels Hanon, but with flair. Merci Bill.

@BillHilton 11 ай бұрын

De rien, Lawrence - glad you liked it!

@KellyAnnStiksma 9 ай бұрын

What keyboards do you recommend? Yours looks cool

@BillHilton 9 ай бұрын

I'd always aim for something with 88 weighted, touch-sensitive keys and a sustain pedal, Kelly - they usually get marketed as "digital pianos". Mine's a Nord Piano 88 (and I love it) and it's what's called a stage piano, which is kind of a subset of digital pianos: very rough and tough (it's designed for touring) but it has quite noisy keys. For home use, I usually recommend the Roland FP-series, which are all excellent and I think offer the best quality for the money you spend.

@sargfowler9603 11 ай бұрын

I must admit, I'm one of the self taught piano players. I don't enjoy exercises because I don't think they really add anything to my playing skills. I'd prefer to learn a new song and challenge myself by choosing one that's more difficult than my previous learnt songs. The swinging examples do sound a bit better than most though!

@happydays1259 11 ай бұрын

I found that a properly chosen exercises can be very helpful to prep me for the next piece. Many parts of the new piece appear "almost like that exercise", i get to playing the new piece faster.

@BillHilton 11 ай бұрын

That's really interesting, because you're absolutely one of the people I'm targeting with this! I think the problem is that the value of exercises isn't obvious: adult learners have limited time, so it's natural that they tend to focus on stuff that delivers obvious results (learning a new song) and bypass things that seem irrelevant (like exercises). I think the long-term value of exercises is that they increase control and dexterity (basically, fine motor skills in hands and fingers) in a systematic and comprehensive way that has applicable benefits across everything that is subsequently learned: in others words, the skills exercises help to develop, although subtle, are 100% transferable across songs/pieces/whatever - whereas if you focus only on learning new songs/pieces that challenge you (which is obviously essential, whatever exercises you do) the skills you develop there will not be 100% transferable to the next thing you do, even if they short-term results are clearer. I'm increasingly convinced that this is one of the advantages that child learners (apparently) have: because they're disproportionately likely to have formal lessons, they're disproportionately like to spend a lot of time on exercises... and that gives them an edge with fine motor control and skill transferability. Anyway - sorry, this is all a bit inchoate - one of the aims of the EI&I project is to try to solve that problem and narrow the gap between adult learners and child learners by getting adults doing more exercises by making exercises more engaging. Does all that make some kind of sense? I'm glad you liked the swinging one!

@sargfowler9603 11 ай бұрын

@@BillHilton Thank you for the reply and your kind words. I'll give this a go to see if it improves my playing.

@BillHilton 11 ай бұрын

@@sargfowler9603 You’re welcome - please do let me know how you get on, because I’m really interested in feedback on this 👍

@mgame10 11 ай бұрын

@@BillHiltonI have the same problem and I'm a teenager but I will try these exercises I am also self taught

@hectorh8504 11 ай бұрын

Can you do a video on scales?

@BillHilton 11 ай бұрын

I'm thinking about doing one fairly soon, actually, Hector. I made one YEARS ago - you can see it at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irmemJCKzKiulYU.html though it's showing its age now - and there's quite a lot of stuff on scales spread through my beginners course (playlist link: kzfaq.info/sun/PLpOuhygfD7QnP46wUgQudOySX_z2UOhXs ) but I really need to make something new and fresh, especially since (as you can probably tell from this video) I'm more and more interested in the potential scales and exercises have for helping adult learners, who tend to underuse them. So watch this space...!

@hectorh8504 11 ай бұрын

@@BillHilton Thanks for that!

@winnerufgiug6109 11 ай бұрын

Hello. Can you please tell me an excerpt of which piece is Jordan Rudess playing? Dream Theater keyboardist, here on this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hK-Pe5Rn36-uln0.html at 25.44 minutes

@BillHilton 11 ай бұрын

Yup, that's an adaptation of Fučík's "Entrance of the Gladiators".