Piano Tutorial for Appreciate - Nicholas Jonas

This piano tutorial is for song from Nicholas Jonas-Appreciate. But today im going to show you how to be a great piano player.

Are there really secrets to becoming a really good piano player? Or is it just a matter of practice, practice, practice? Practice is necessary, of course, but you could practice until the cows come home without understanding what you’re doing at the piano, and all you would end up with is fingers that behave obediently to whatever the sheet music or score tells them to do. There are at least 33 elements that contribute to becoming a good pianist,” says Duane Shinn, pianist and owner of Keyboard Workshop in Medford, Oregon. There are probably more, but without these 33 principles a pianist cannot hope to rise to the level of his ability.

Here they are:

1 - Hand & Body Position — Should you look down at your hands? How to use “eye flips”
2 - The key to productive practice — Spaced repetition
3 - Attitude — how it affects your learning
4 - How & when to pedal. Using explosive dynamics
5 - Exposure: why it’s critically important
6 - Ear Training — Intervals from 2nds to 13ths
7 - Fingering — which finger do you use when?
8 - Chord substitutions that create fantastic sounds
9 - Chord recognition — how to recognize what chord is being used
10 - Musical vocabulary: tempo words, form words
11- Arranging: how is your “bag of tricks” coming along? “Head arrangements”
12 - Melodic sense: how does the melody relate to the chords?
13 - Sight-reading: 7 fundamentals you just cannot ignore
14 - Key orientation: Can you think in the key you’re playing in?
15 - Scanning the score before you start playing
16 - Mental practice — how to learn music in bed
17 - Repertoire: Why you need one to be prepared for any opportunity
18 - Goal setting: How good can you get? Is there a limit?
19 - Rhythm awareness — samba, bossa nova, bolero, etc.
20 - Why knowing music history is important to you
21 - Idea stealing — how and where & from who
22 - 12-bar blues; creating a motif; “blue notes”
23 - Extended chords: 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, suspensions
24 - Technique acquisition: rubber balls, fingering drills
25 - Harmonization: Using I, IV & V to harmonize
26 - Key identification: Recognizing key signatures
27 - Voicing: Open, closed, registers, color tones
28 - Improvisation: Making music right out of your head
29 - Harmony & theory: How much should you know?
30 - Stylistic devices: Western, boogie, jazz, etc.
31 - Analysis: How to understand what you’re hearing
32 - Riffs & runs & fills: How to develop them
33 - Cross-pollination: The best of all worlds!

While reading music is important, the individual who develops these 33 basic skills will be light years ahead of the person who simply plays sheet music the way it is written. There is no longer any reason to be “tied to the written music” when you can master these techniques that allow you to play from the heart. I hope u will keep practising and be a good pianist.All the best!!