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Subject:	Music
Topic:	Piano
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Name:	Andrew Furmanczyk (Andrew Furmanczyk)
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How To Play Piano

Video Lectures

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Lecture 1 Play Video	The Basics In this video lesson, teaches the basics of how to play piano.
Lecture 2 Play Video	Semi Tones & Whole Tones In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk lectures on Semi Tones and Whole Tones.
Lecture 3 Play Video	Chords In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk talks about Chords.
Lecture 4 Play Video	Time Signatures and Note Values In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk talks about Time Signatures and Note Values.
Lecture 5 Play Video	Music Theory: Notes and Clefs In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk teaches Music Theory, including how to read a music sheet, and the names of the Clefs and the Notes.
Lecture 6 Play Video	Music Theory: Intervals, Signs, Staccato and Legato In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk lectures on topics of Music Theory such as Intervals, some basic Musical Signs, as well as Staccato and Legato playing.
Lecture 7 Play Video	The Functions of a Grand Piano In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk gives a general idea of how the piano works. He shows the pin block, strings, dampers, hammers, cast iron frame, sound board, and funtions of the pedals.
Lecture 8 Play Video	Minor Scales: Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor and Melodic Minor Scales In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk teaches Minor Scales. He shows the differences of Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor and Melodic Minor Scales.
Lecture 9 Play Video	Drawing Circle of Fifths (Circle of Keys) In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains the Circle of Fifths or sometimes known as the Circle of Keys. He explains how to draw it, and gives a few tips on how it works and how to read it.
Lecture 10 Play Video	Chromatic and Pentatonic Scales In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains how to play various piano scales including, Chromatic and Pentatonic Scales.
Lecture 11 Play Video	How To Learn a New Song For Any Instrument In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk teaches how to learn a new song quickly and efficiently. He gives the following method: Remember: - Play it 1x slow 2x fast 1x slow 2x fast 1x slow. - STOP - Now repeat the notes in your mind in the order you played them. - Now you're on your way to learning how to play a song very quickly!
Lecture 12 Play Video	How To Play Chords Fast: Chromatic Chords In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains an exercise we can use to learn all chords very quickly.
Lecture 13 Play Video	Music Theory: Transposition In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains the idea of Transposition.
Lecture 14 Play Video	Music Theory: Beats, Time Signatures and Rests In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains the basic concepts of Beats, Time Signatures and Rests.
Lecture 15 Play Video	Music Theory: Scale Degrees, Tonic & Dominate In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk teaches how to use Scale Degrees in Music Theory, as well as Tonic and Dominate, but also the flow of music by using Chord Progressions.
Lecture 16 Play Video	Ear Training In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains how to find Intervals by ear and by sight on the keyboard. If you want to play by ear you must know how to recognize the intervals in your head: Minor 2nd – Jaws, White Christmas, Pink Panther Major 2nd - Happy Birthday, Frere Jaques, Silent Night, Do-Re-Mi (The Sound of Music), Batman Minor 3rd - O Holy Night, Greensleeves, Smoke On the Water, O Canada, 007 Major 3rd – When the Saints Go Marching In, Morning Has Broken (Cat Stevens) Perfect 4th – Harry Potter Theme, Amazing Grace, Here Comes the Bride, Auld Lang Syne Tritone - Maria (from West Side Story), The Jetsons Theme, The Simpsons Theme Perfect 5th - Star Wars, Superman, Back to the Future, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, My Favorite Things (The Sound of Music) Minor 6th - Love Story, Across the Stars (from Star Wars), The Entertainer (big interval after pick-up) Major 6th - My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, Leia’s Theme (from Star Wars), Super Mario World Minor 7th - Star Trek Major 7th - Psycho Theme, Somewhere Over the Rainbow (first and third notes), The Immigrant Song (first and third notes), Willy Wonka Perfect Octave - Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Let it Snow, Singing in the Rain
Lecture 17 Play Video	Pianist Posture In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains various ways we can relax our body at the piano and avoid injury by keeping a good posture.
Lecture 18 Play Video	How to Play the Piano in a Relaxed Way In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk lectures on the right mental approach to music, piano, and performance. He also gives a tip on how to play hard combination of notes that require many movements in an easier way.
Lecture 19 Play Video	How To Sight Read Music Sheets In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains how to sight read music sheets.
Lecture 20 Play Video	Rhythm & Clapping: More Advanced Rhythm, Beats & Clapping In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk demonstrate more advanced clapping exercises to improve your overall sense of rhythm. This should help you keep your beat steady when playing more difficult songs and pieces.
Lecture 21 Play Video	Arpeggio Pattern In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains what an arpeggio is, and also gives tips on how to best play the arpeggio pattern.
Lecture 22 Play Video	The Art of Trills and Ornamentation: Turns, Trills & Mordants In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains how to play Trills, Turns, Mordants and the basic art of Ornamentation. Trills are best played with a "free" and relaxed hand. If you're too tense you'll get a horrible sounding trill. It needs to be under control and well articulated.
Lecture 23 Play Video	Expressing Emotion in Music In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk describes ways to add emotion and feeling into your playing in both creative ways, and in general rules such as Phrasing.
Lecture 24 Play Video	Metronomes In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains the uses of a Metronome.
Lecture 25 Play Video	Music History: The General History of Music from 1600-Present In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk lectures on a few topics of Music History.
Lecture 26 Play Video	Polyrhythms In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk covers the topic of Polyrhythms. He suggests using the following sayings for Polyrhythms: - For 3 vs 2 I say "Not Dif-i-cult". - For 3 vs 4 I say "Not Ve-ry Dif-i-cult".
Lecture 27 Play Video	Cadences In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains Cadences and their different types. A Cadence is like a punctuation mark but for music instead of language.
Lecture 28 Play Video	Basic Modulation In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains Applied Dominates. To understand this lesson, it is necessary to know Circle of Fifths. Please see Lesson 9: Drawing Circle of Fifths (Circle of Keys).
Lecture 29 Play Video	Fur Elise Tutorial In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk teaches Fur Elise, by Ludwig Beethoven. Fur Elise is a very popular piece and the first section is not very difficult, so it is a great beginner level piece for someone who has been playing for a week or two. Fur Elise should be played with a steady tempo, a slight accent on beat one, a flowing sound and beautifully shaped phrases.
Lecture 30 Play Video	Music Theory: Basic Harmony Rules In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains Basic Harmony Rules.
Lecture 31 Play Video	Structure in Music: Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Binary, Rounded Binary, Ternary Form In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains how to analyze music to determine the structure the music is written in. This will also help when composing pieces with structure. The types of music structure covered are: Symmetrical Binary, Asymmetrical Binary, Rounded Binary and Ternary Form.
Lecture 32 Play Video	Playing Eyes Closed: Leaps, Jumps & Hops In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains how to play with your eyes closed without looking at the keys (good for Sight Reading or playing Liszt), and playing big jumps, hops and leaps.
Lecture 33 Play Video	Alberti Bass Pattern: How To Play Broken Chords In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains the commonly used bass pattern called "Alberti Bass Pattern".
Lecture 34 Play Video	Hanon Method In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk explains what the Hanon exercise book is used for. Pros and cons of the Hanon Method are discussed, as well as the difference between the finger centric belief and the whole body belief.
Lecture 35 Play Video	Formula Patterns & Scales in 6th's & 3rd's In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk covers technique drills to practice daily. He also teaches how to play piano faster if you can play your technique every day for even 15 - 20 minutes.
Lecture 36 Play Video	How To Perform In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk covers the topic of performance.
Lecture 37 Play Video	Teaching Kids Piano In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk gives some tips for how to teach kids piano.
Lecture 38 Play Video	Rolling Chords on Piano In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk teaches rolling chords on piano.
Lecture 39 Play Video	Pedaling In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk discusses the broad topic of Pedaling.
Lecture 40 Play Video	Review of the Course In this video lesson, Andrew Furmanczyk concludes the course with a general Review for How To Learn Piano by yourself. He gives the following tips: Outline for Learning Piano 1 – Goals Goal Setting is very important. What is your: Life Goal? Year Goal? Month Goal? Week Goal? Day Goal? 2 - Create a Schedule Divide your time like this: (Example) 1 hour a day? 50% to pieces = 30 minutes 35% to Scales and technique = 21 minutes 5% to clapping = 3 minutes 5% to ear training = 3 minutes 5% to sight reading = 3 minutes Do everything to the best of your ability, make each little thing a challenge or "contest with yourself" 3 - Technique: Pieces list: (Keep in mind this is Canada's grading system, different countries might have other ways) * at end signifies a personal Favorite. Pregrade 1 Twinkle little star * Happy birthday March and Run - Joan Last * Old MacDonald had a Farm Freddy the Frog - Anne Crosby Playful Puppy - Boris Berlin Grade 1 Book: "Anna Magdalena's Notebook" - JS.Bach (Grade 1-5) Bourree - JS Bach Mist - Clifford Poole * Big Teddy Little Teddy - Linda Niamath * On the Trampoline - Linda Niamath Porcupine Dance - Dmitri Kabalevsky * Teapot invention - Andrew Markov Study in C - Czerny Duet for one - C Norton Grade 2 Aria in D minor - J.S Bach A Little Song - Kabalevsky * Penguins - Linda Niamath Book called:"A Zoo for you" * Melody - Schumann Mouse in the coal bin March of the Goblins - B. Berlin* Rag Time Jazz Invention no 2 Grade 3 Musette in D major J.S. Bach * Minuet in G major - J.S Bach Horn Pipe in Bb - Purcell Sonatina in G by Beethoven (either movement) The Jolly Roger - M Eckstein * Sonatina in C Op 36 no Clementi (any movement) Song of Twilight - Y. Nakada * Clowns Op39 no 20 - Kabalevsky Book: "Album for the Young Op 68" - R. Schumann (grade 2-8) Play - Bartok Grade 4 Study in Bb Major Op 599 No 83 - Czerny ** (Highly recommended) Minuet in d minor - J.S. Bach * Monkey's in the Tree - B. Berlin * Sonata in F major 3rd movement: Scherzo - F.J Haydn The Wild Horseman Op 68 No 8 - Schumann Grade 5 From the Cliffs - Walter Carroll Intrada in C Major - C Graupner Sonatina in G major Op 36 No2 1st movement - M Clementi Study in A flat Major op 37 no. 44 - A. H. Lemoine Grade 6 Minuet in G minor - Stolzel Sonatina in F major Op 168, No. 1 3rd movement: Rondo - A. Diabelli Valse miniature Op 10 no 10 Rebikov Game of Patience - Karganov Grade 7 Little prelude in C major - JS.Bach Fur Elise - Beethoven Prelude in e minor op 28 no 4 - Chopin Venetian Boat Song Op 30 No6 - Mendelssohn Waltz - Rebikov Wound up - C. Norton Grade 8 Soffiegetto - CPE Bach Sonata in G Major 1st or 2nd movement - Beethoven Sonata in C major K 545 1st movement - Mozart Waltz in A flat Major op 39 no 15 - brahms Prelude in b minor - Chopin Waltz in A flat major op 69 no 1 - Chopin The little Sheperd no 5 - Debussy Etude Allegro - Nakada Grade 9 Le coucou (Rondeau) - Louis-Claude Daquin Nocturne in E flat Major Op 9 No 2 - Chopin Waltz in D flat major op 64 no 1 "Minuet waltz" - Chopin "Rain drop" prelude in D flat major op 28 no 15 - Chopin Waltz in C sharp minor op 64 no 2 - Chopin Rondo in C Major op 51 no 1 - Beethoven To spring - Grieg Romance op 24 no 9 - Sibelius Grade 10 Book: WTC Book 1 & 2 (grade 10 & ARCT) - J.S. Bach (a must buy) Prelude & Fugue in F minor - From WTC 2 J.S. Bach Sonata in C minor op 10 no 1 3 movements in total. - Beethoven Other Beethoven Sonata's include: F minor op 2 no 1 F major op 10 no 2 E major op 14 no 1 G major op 14 no 2 D major op 28 Sonata in D major - Haydn Sonata in E flat major K 282 - Mozart Intermezzo in F minor Op 118 no 4 - Brahms Romance in F major op 118 no 5 - Brahms Polonaise in C sharp minor - Chopin Pas De Deux - Barber 1st Arabesque - Debussy Etude op 2 no 1 - Scriabin Grade "ARCT"** Nocturne in C minor op 48 no 1 - Chopin Polonaise in A flat major "heroic" Op 53 - Chopin Etudes Op 10 and 25 (Any one) - Chopin Intermezzo A minor op 118 no 1 and no 2 Sonata in F minor Op 57 "Appassionata" No 23 - Beethoven Sonata in C Sharp minor Op 27 no 2 "Moonlight" (all 3 movements) - Beethoven Sonata in B minor op 40 no 2 - Clementi Any Hungarian Rhapsody (excluding no 3, 17 and 18) - Liszt ( no 2 is my favorite) Impromptu no 2 in F minor Op 31 - Faure Three preludes - Gershwin Preludes Op 23 no 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and Op 32 3 ,5 ,9 10, 12 - Rachmaninoff Miroirs (Any one) - Ravel