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1. Introduction: Hi, my name is Natalie. I'm so excited to share this series of ten
piano lesson that I designed for adults who always wanted to play a learn piano. In my lessons. You learned about the music
theory and you will be playing a couple of
nice exciting songs. By the end of less than ten, you be able to read a bit of music in your right
hand or treble clef. So you'll be able to open up some books and read
them music sheets. Please stay with
me and I'll make sure you will learn
along with enjoyments. See you soon.
2. Lesson 1- Getting to know the Piano keys : Hi, I'm very happy
to see you here. Welcome to your first lesson. In this lesson, I want to
show you what are the name of the white keys on
the piano that starts. The piano keyboard is made
of a black and white keys. Black keys are in group
of two or group of three. They stand up, Piano
has got 8888 keys, include black keys
and white keys. The first key on a standard
piano, it's called a. Here's the musical alphabet. A, B, C, D, E. Okay? B, C, D, E, F, G. Now I want to show you
how to find C on the piano. And the piano, we got eight Cs. If you have a look
at the group of two black below on the left side, on the white keys that is called c. Let me explain a bit
better. On the piano. This is C. This is another thing. And what are seeing? It's your tank. Can you find sees on your piano? Now, I show you from C
to G. This one is D, This one is a. This one is F and G. It's good to identify
each key by itself. For example, if you
want to find f, you look at the three black
and under the three black on the left side is f. Now, can we do a little practice? Do you know the name of the
key where the red circles? If you answer a,
that is correct. Now look at this circle. What is the name of this one? If you answered E,
that is correct. What about this circle? If you answered B,
that is correct. And this last one,
what is this cold? If you answered D? That is correct. Now, we come to the end
of Lesson one. I see.
3. Lesson2 -Hand Position- let's Play a song !: Hi, welcome to lesson two. Good to see you again. In this lesson, I want to
teach you about hand position, finger number, and I have a
little surprise for you. Yes. We're going to apply
our first song, which is Mary Had a Little Lamb. It's very important to position your hand
correctly on the piano. If you can make c between
your thumb and your index, which means that your
finger slightly bend it. You gotta be the same
level as your arm. As a juris doesn't
have to be two up or does it have
to be two down? So we keep it like this. That's the correct position. Also, want to make sure that you have the control of
relaxing your shoulders, your arms, your race. And eventually fingers
gotta be relaxed. On the piano. You play piano. We give number two. Our finger means Toms
are number one, indexed. Number two, middle finger
number three, ring finger. And little finger
is number five. It's really important if
you're reading a music ****, you follow the finger number really directs you to
a correct playing. Very exciting. We are going to play a song. Mary Had a Little Lamb. For these, we only need
to use our right hand and finger number 123.
We give them a one. Gotta be sitting
on this one on D, and this one on a. Obviously figure number 45, also sitting on
the keys F and G. Let's start. We come to the end
of lesson two. Thank you so much for watching. I'm hoping that you learned some good stuff and you're not able to play Mary
headed lists allow. You gotta practice. Don't forget that, and
I'll see you soon. Bye for now.
4. Lesson 3 - Piano Black Keys: Hi, Good to see you here. This is less than three. You remember in lesson one, we learned about white keys. In this lesson, I want to show you what are the
name for black keys. Also be going to
learn about interval. It might be the first time
you hear the word interval. Interval is referred to the
distance between two keys. In Western music, the smallest interval called
half-step or semitone. If you have to have
stuck together, it makes it one tone or a
whole step. Let's have a look. But here's C and D whole step. D is whole step. But E, f is just a half-step. In this picture, all
those pink ones or half-step and the blue
ones are whole step. In music, you often hear
the term sharps or flats. Let's start with sharp. If you go whole step
from any white keys toward right side or
to our higher node, you arrange the sharp. This is the sharp sign. In this picture, black
kids showed a sharp case. Now let's talk about
flat sign. What is flat? If you go from a wide key, a half step toward left
side or towards lower Sam, you reached a flat. This is the flat sign. This picture shows flat keys. Here is the end of lesson three. I see you soon. Bye for now.
5. Lesson 4- Chords: Hi, this is less than four. I'm so happy you've
been with me so far. In this lesson, I want to
teach you about chords. In chord, to play more
than one note at a time. Mostly be play chord
without left-hand. Chords are quite fun
because you can play chords with your left hand
and seeing the melody on top. We're also going to teach you
about two types of chord, a major chord, an a minor chord. This is how I explained
to my junior students. I say major chord
sounds like a sunny day and minor chord sounds
like a cloudy, rainy day. I will now play CEG together, which is C major chord. Here is F major chord, which is F, a, C. Now I play G major chord, which is G, B, D. Now I'm going to play
a couple of minor chords. Here. I play D minor chord, which is D, F, a, play an E minor
chord which is E, G, B. And finally I play a minor
chord which is AACE. I now like to ask you to do
some practice by yourself. Here is what you could
play as a chord. In music theory, we hear
about the term the root key. What is the root key? The root key is the key that we choose to build a chord on it. The root of the chord
gives the cord its name. For example, if you
make a chord on C, We call that chord a C chord. Here we make the C
major chord from c to hold step further, we reach E. From E, 1.5 step further, we reach G. And this is the structure of the major chord in
the music theory. Now, let's have a look at
the minor chord structure. Let's make C minor chord
from C, which is the root. We going 1.5 step away, we reach E-flat from E-flat, going further to hold step, which is g. And this is the structure of a minor
chord in the music theory. We learned about the
structure of making major chord and minor
chord. But guess what? A lot of time, and
most of the time you can listen and recognize
with your ear, a chord is a major or a minor. Let's practice applying a chord. You tell me, is it a minor
chord or a major chord? Let's start. What do you think of this chord? If you say major
chord, That's correct. What about this one? Yes. That is also a major chord. And what about this one? Yes. If you say minor,
That's correct. We reached the end
of Lesson Four, IC, and bye for now.
6. Lesson 5 -Let's play a Song: Hi. This is less than five. Thank you so much for
being with me so far. It's very exciting today we
want to play a new song, twinkle, twinkle little star. Here I wrote the music
sheet with all the letters. There is no rhythm. There's only letters
and finger numbers. Your finger number one gotta be on C. Finger number five is sharing between G and this music **** is
only for right hand. First, I'm going to show you
both hands playing together. Now, I only play right-hand using the application
which is called Xia. We're going to add
some court without left-hand C major chord, F major chord, G major chord. We're reaching ended
less than five. Thank you so much for
watching. Bye for now.
7. Lesson 6 -Beats & Rhythm : Hi, and welcome to lesson six. It's time for us to
learn about bees. Bees is actually a steady pulse, which we use it in music. Short beats and long bits together make it
rhythm and music. Remember, music doesn't
exist with other rhythm. So let's start to
learn about the beats. You can notice the beats
when the clocks tick. You also can make beads by clapping your hands
or tapping your foot. In a music show, you might see this site which is
called semi braver. When you see this sign,
you play the notes and hold it for 1234 beats. This one's called mini, and it has two bits. Sometimes this team is up and sometimes this team is down, but it still has got two bits. This one's called
dotted minimum, and it gets three bits. This is called Cratchit, and it has one bit. This is quaver and
it gets half a beat. Semiquaver, it gets
one-quarter of a bit. Music sheet beads
divided by Allied. These lines called bar line, between two power lines. We call it a measure or a bar. They are equal beats in
each measure or each bar. When you look at
the music shade, you always see a time signature which is just in
front of the clef. The time signature indicates how many beats we
count in each measure. The top number tells you how many bits there is
an a measure or a bar. And a bottom number tells you what kind of note gets one beat. For example, in 34, we have three beats and
four indicates a crotchet. So three crunch it and h bar. Now, time for a little quiz. Can you put a bar line and divide each bar
with four beats? Here is the answer. Now, let's try to put the
bar line in this one. Here is the answer. And this is the
end of lesson six. Bye for now.
8. Lesson 7 -Learn to play Jingle Bells: This is lesson seven. I'm so excited. We are going to
play Jingle Bells. Let's do it. Here. I wrote Jingle Bells
in a simple way. You see three things
in this music sheet. The key name, the
beats and the chords. Right hand is in C position, which means finger number
one on C and finger number five on G. Now, I
play right-hand. We just play the melody
without right-hand. Melody is the main
part of our song. I'd say, is the most
memorable part of our song. And when we add up some
court with our left hand, we are adding up
harmony to our melody. Harmony bring some
color to our melody. Here again, we're going to
use the same code as we played before in the
past lessons with it, C major chord, F major chord, and a G major chord. Let's now put both
hands together. We reached the end of
lesson seven. See you soon. Bye for now.
9. Lesson 8 -Piano Clefs : Hi, this is less than eight on. So happy to see you here. In this lesson, I
want to teach you what is treble clef
and bass clef. We ride music on five
lines and four spaces. We call this lines the
staff or this stave. This sign is called treble clef, and this sign is
called bass clef. And a piano music sheet, we have to stuff on top. We have treble clef and
down we have bass clef. Usually we play treble clef, foot, right hand, bass clef. With left-hand. We use treble clef to write higher notes and bass clefs
to write lower nodes. As we said before, the standard piano
has got 88 keys. We have eight Cs
in standard piano, C number four, which is sort of in the
middle of the piano. It's called middle C. Now I'm going to show
you the eight Cs which exists in the
full-size piano on the application
called synesthesia. If you have a smaller keyboard, you won't have eight Cs. You just find the C in the
middle of the keyboard and use it as middle C. Here, I want to explain a
bit better how to find treble clef and bass
clef keys on the piano. Basically, keys from middle
stick to the highest K is considered as
treble clef keys. And keys from middle seat to the lowest key is considered
as bass clef case. This is the end of lesson eight. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you soon. Bye for now.
10. Lesson 9- Learn to read notes in Treble Clef : Hi, welcome to Lesson Nine. I'm so happy to see you here. In this lesson, we're
going to teach you about how to read
music and treble clef. Let's start. In treble clef, we'll look at these nodes which are online's, rehab E, G, B, D, F. Let's have a
look on the keyboard. A line one. Line two is line three is
B. Line four is D. Line five is f. There's a famous saying
for the nodes which are online's in treble clef. Every good boy deserves fruit. Now, let's look at
treble clef notes, which are in the
middle of the lines, which is called space. We have F a, C, E, which makes the word face F, a, C, E. Here is two new nodes, middle C or C4 and D. We
now know treble clef notes from middle C up to F. I
show you the middle C and F. We learned that the piano, It's so exciting that
you can now read from C to a treble clef. Thank you so much for watching. Please keep up with
your practice. See you soon. Bye for now.
11. Lesson 10 - how to play ''My favorite Things'' from the sound of music : Hi, Great to see you. This is our last
lesson, less than ten. In this lesson, as
I promised before, we are going to play a
song, very popular one. Yes. We going to learn the song called my favorite
things from the movie, The Sound of Music. Let's start. You are able to read this note. You are also able
to count the beats. The tricky part is actually
the changing finger. So you gotta have
a flexible hand which moves around the keys. Remember to follow
the finger number. Let's start with right hand and put finger number one on a. We repeat from the start at play slow for you to see
the change of fingers. Now, let's play
left-hand chords. For these, I'm using an
application called synthase. Yeah. Now, let's play both hands or use synesthesia to play
both hands together. The actual speed as a
bit faster than this. Here I play slow for
you to learn better. This is the end of Lesson ten. Really enjoyed being with you. I hope you did as well. Bye for now.
Naz Fitzgibbon, Piano teacher ,Pianist
