8 Piano Lessons Every Adult Beginner Needs

Adult beginner at the piano? In this video I go through 8 lessons that can make your playing more musical, more fluent, and less mechanical — especially if you’re teaching yourself. We cover some of the most common beginner problems, from counting and hand independence to dynamics, leaps, scales, phrasing, and even why learning a bit of recorder can help.

In this video:

1. Why counting can help — and when it can get in the way
2. Expression and dynamics really matter
3. Improve your piano playing by thinking like a pool player
4. Why singing can help your piano playing
5. The deep truth of piano scales
6. Work with what you’ve got
7. Hand independence
8. Play something else (like recorder!)

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*Piano for Beginners series playlist:*

*Videos mentioned in this one:*
Tick of Doom/Beginner mistakes: https://youtu.be/rJwY4JEG9_Y
Scales tips: https://youtu.be/ezrOB2VSJcs

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00:00 A little history
03:24 Why you might not count and why you should
08:08 Expression and dynamics REALLY MATTER
11:58 Think like a pool player
16:16 A short stroll
17:42 Singing can help a LOT
20:48 Some tips on scales
25:25 Work with what you’ve got
28:27 How to really practise hand independence
32:27 Play something else (like the recorder!)

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