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Learning to play the black keys

What are the risks of learning to play the piano from videos and without a master?

The only risk is the one of not doing the exercises learned correctly as there is no-one to check and correct you.

However if you know in advance which are the most common mistakes made in starting to study these exercises, you can avoid this by making sure you don’t make the same mistakes yourself!

The first thing that I will show you today is exactly which are the most common mistakes to avoid in begining to study the exercises which we learned the last time and how to correct them.

But this is only one of the several things you will learn today, including:

How to do the exercises studied in the last lesson as best as you can thanks to the use of different angles

How to do a new exercise with the black keys

How to organize as well as possible the study of all exercises when you have little time available.

Learning material of this lesson

4 videos	24 mins
1. The most common mistakes: exercise on white keys	7m 33s
2. The most common mistakes: exercise on black keys	4m 51s
3. A very important variant of the black key exercise	6m 16s
4. How to do all exercises on pianoforte having little time available	5m 51s

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How to play the black keys

Up to now, in our piano lessons we have used only white keys which correspond to natural notes (corresponding to C major scale).

Obviously we often have to play a written sheet music with some sharps or flats key signature. Even if these accidentals are not written in key, they may sometimes appear during the piece.

This happens very frequently.

It is necessary to begin to play the black keys immediately in order to make sure that in the future we don’t find ourselves not being able to play something in which the use of these is required.

As you will surely have noticed, the black keys are very different from the white ones. It is therefore necessary to understand how to use them and most importantly of all to have an exercise which applies the technique of using black keys

This is what we will learn in this lesson although it will not be the only topic.

I will in fact teach you another important exercise to be applied to the white keys and which will enable you to start playing more notes with the same hand and at the same time.
Moreover this excercise will allow you to avoid the main mistake which people make when starting to play the piano.

Learning material of this lesson

4 videos	17 mins
1. Two new exercises	3m 47s
2. The white key exercise to practice playing more notes with the same hand at the same time	4m 49s
3. The exercise to learn the correct technique of playing black keys	5m 00s
4. Some considerations on new exercises	3m 32s