Play an INSANELY Melodic Piano Piece From Scratch! Part 3 - Both Hands Together

Hey guys, welcome to Creative Piano Academy with me, Joseph Saikora, and this is part 3, the final part of our 3 part series of learning a piece of music from scratch, in real time. Check it out. You're almost there, stick with it, it's a beautiful, impressive piece of music to play. If you haven't seen parts 1 and 2 yet, then check those out, go through those. This video, part 3, is all about putting the left and the right hand together. So, let's get going. OK, welcome to part 3 of our real time piano lessons, trying to get this really nice melodic, sounding like piano-y kind of riff thing going. I just made it up, but I think it sounds really nice. And what I want to do is make sure that before you even tackle this video, make sure you've gone over video 1 and you're very comfortable. Make sure you've gone over video 2 and you're very comfortable. There's no point trying this video until you can play that left hand really nice and comfortably, and the right hand nice and comfortable, because this is going to start messing with your mind. You're going to have to start thinking and putting stuff together. So make sure you get used to that, and then we can get cracking and put the left hand together with the right. So by now, you should know where our positions are. You want your left hand down this octave below middle C, and you want your right hand the octave above middle C, OK? And what we're going to do is, like I said, this is a real-time lesson, so I'll count you in, and we'll take it in stages and we'll take each chord separately, OK? So remember, our first note in the right hand is the C, our first note in the left hand is the C, and so we're going to play these two C's together, OK? And then we're going to play the G here, and the G in the right as well, and then we're going to play the top C, OK? And then after that, we're going to play this bottom C in the right, but we're going to play the G in the left, like this, OK? So those are our first four notes. I'll just go over those once more. OK? So I'll count you in, we'll play this really nice and slowly, and let's see if we can get it. So four, and one, and two, and, OK? You got that? So let's try this again. Four, and one, and two, and, OK? One last time. Four, and one, and two, and, OK? Now, notice in the right hand, we play a G, and we play a C in the left, OK? So remember, I don't know, we don't, we play a D, so we get this, OK? So let's see if we can put that together, really slowly. One, I'll play it first, and then I'll count you in. One, and two, and three, OK? Now, so let's try this again. Four, and one, and two, and three, OK? And again, one, four, and one, and two, and three, OK? Our little finger up here in the right is a top C, our thumb moves up to the E, like that, OK? Remember, in the left hand, we jumped from the D to the E. So let's try that again. Four, and one, and two, and three, and, OK? And then, to finish it off in your right hand, you just play the C and the G, OK? Remember our pattern, C, G. So let's put the pedal down and see if we can get this. Play it really nice and slowly to start with. Four, and one, and two, and three, and, OK? Messed up a little bit there, let's try it again. Four, and one, and two, and three, and four, and. Again, four, and one, and two, and three, and four, and, OK? I'll just play this up to speed so you can hear, like, what we're aiming for. OK? Sometimes, when you play something really slowly, it can sound, like, a bit confusing, and, like, it's hard to see the end goal, but, anyway, so that's what we're aiming for. Now, let's just play this a few more times. Let's try and, let's see if we can just speed it up a little bit before we move on to the next chord. So, four, and one, and two, and three, and four, and, OK? One, and two, and three, and four, and. Four, and one, and two, and three, and four, and. OK, so, once we've got used to that chord, we're going to move on to the next one. So, our right hand, remember, stays exactly where it is. It's our left hand that moves, and now this is where we create some dissonance, we create some interest, some melodic tension, resolve, it sounds amazing. So, keep your right hand where it is. Now, remember our left hand. So, hopefully, you've got used to that by now. So, we'll tackle this note by note. Let's take the first two to start with. OK? So, four, and one, and, OK? G, D, C, G. Four, and one, and. Now, you're, remember, in your left you go G, D, and in the right you go C, G. OK, sorry, I made a mistake, no. So, we go back to the C in the right hand. So, let's try these first four notes. One, and two, and, OK? So, now it's in the right hand. And the left. OK? So, one, and two, and. Now, if you remember, our thumb comes up to the C, and our third finger comes on to the G at the top. So, we get this. One, and two, and three. OK? So, I'll count you in, let's see if we can put that in. One, four, and. One, and two, and three. OK? And then, we play a top note in the C. So, we've got bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. And in the left, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, we've got the D. OK, so, I'll play it first, and then I'll count you in. So, one, and two, and three, and. OK? So, I end up with a D in the left, and a C in the right. OK? So, I'm going to count you in. Four, and. One, and two, and three, and. OK? One last time. Four, and. One, and two, and three, and. OK? There's only one more note in the left, which is that B, which I'll leave hanging. And we play this bottom C in the right. OK? One, and two, and three, and four. Sounds a little bit weird, but it'll sound good when we speed it up. OK? So, I'll count you in. Let's see if we can play that whole thing. Four, and. One, and two, and three, and four, and. OK? Four, and. One, and two, and three, and four, and. So, now we've got our first two chords. OK? OK. So, let's see if we can play the third chord, and then the fourth, and then we'll put it all together. So, where we were with the left hand is we're going to move to the A position. So, just to refresh your memory, with the left hand, it's exactly the same as in the C position, we're playing it in the A position, the A minor position, and your right hand does its thing. So, let's tackle the first, because we should be familiar with this, let's tackle the first four notes. OK? So, the first four notes. One, two, three, four. OK? So, we've got C, G, C, G. We've got A, E, A, E. OK? One, and two, and. So, I'll count you in. Four, and. One, and two, and. Like that. Let's try this again. Four, and. One, and two, and. OK? Now, after this, we play a G in the right hand, and in the left hand, a B, and then a C, but we'll just go to that B for now. So, we've got one, and two, and three. OK? And we'll stop on that three. So, I'll count you in. Four, and. One, and two, and three. OK? Then, one more time. Four, and. One, and two, and three. Yep. OK. So, God, this is hard slowing it down. It's messing with my head. I hope you're keeping up. But, so, we've got up to that third note. So, I'll count you in one more time, up to that third B. I'll count you in one more time. Four, and. One, and two, and three. OK? And then, our little finger up to the C, and remember, our thumb jumps to the C. And we play two C's. And then, we just finish it off in the right with a C and a G. OK? So, I'll play it for you. One, and two, and three, and four, and. OK? So, I'll count you in. Four, and. One, and two, and three, and four, and. OK? One more time. Four, and. One, and two, and three, and four, and. OK? I hope that's making sense. And then, we're going to move to the F chord, where it's virtually the same as the easy way. Do you remember in the left hand, I showed you two different ways. I showed you an easy way and a hard way. So, remember, in the left hand, just to refresh. OK? And in the right hand, very same thing. OK? Remember, that just repeats over and over again. So, our first four notes, let's just tackle those first. And you should be really familiar with this by now. So. OK? One, and two, and. So, I'll count you in. Four, and. One, and two, and. OK? Now, we'll play a G in the left hand, and we'll play a G in the right hand as well. So, see if we can count you in for that one. Four, and. One, and two, and three. OK? Try that once more. Four, and. One, and two, and three. OK? And then we play two C's. So, we go down to the C in the left, top C. And then we play an A in the left, because remember, we've gone from here to here. OK? And that's where that hangs. And we play a low C in the right hand. So, let's do this again. We'll get up to the A in the left hand, and the C in the right hand. OK? So, it should sound like this. One, and two, and three, and four. Like that. OK? Let's do this again. One, and two, and three, and four. Like that. OK? So, let me count you in. Four, and. One, and two, and three, and four. OK? And then you just finish it off with a G in the right hand. And that's it. OK? So, count you in. Four, and. One, and two, and three, and four. And. OK? One last time. Four, and. One, and two, and three, and four. And. OK? And that's how we finish it off. So, what I'd recommend you do is you practice each one of those chords. I mean, you can tell how I'm, it's even messing with my head, taking it really, really slowly like that. I thought it would be really easy to record this video, sit here and teach you this in real time. But it actually messes with my head a bit when I'm having to count and I go really slowly and stuff. So, really take each chord separately and see if you can get used to that chord, and then move on to the next chord, move on to the next chord, make sure you're really comfortable with it. And then we have the magic, and that is piecing everything together into a really, really nice piece of music. So, get this. OK? So, that's our tat now. So, we'll start out just like before. We'll start out really nice and slowly. I fully get that you might just be getting used to this. You might not be able to even piece it all together yet. That's absolutely fine. If you need to practice it, then stop this video, practice it, get used to it. Maybe in a week, maybe in a few weeks, come back to it and see if you can play this with me and see if we can start out slowly, playing the whole thing, and we'll see if we can comfortably reach a nice speed with it, OK? So, from the beginning, four and one and two and three and four. And one and two and three and four and one and two. Three and four and one and two. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, two, three, four, one, two, three. Last time. A little variation on at the end there. So, look, this is hard. It's a challenge. Hopefully this has given you a challenge and it's given you something to really get those fingers moving and get stuck into, even if you can't keep up with this in real time, I mean, just really take these concepts and practice them and then keep coming back to the videos and see if you can then try again and keep up. Once you are used to it, if you notice at the end, I was putting a little bit of dynamics into it. I do have a video on how to put in that emotion, that musicality into your playing, so do check that out. I'll put it in the cards. I hope that's given you something to really get your teeth into and kind of impress your friends with and hope you've had a load of fun doing it. So back to me. So guys, there we are. That's one, two and three done. Hopefully you've managed to get something out of this video and you managed to keep up as well as parts one and two, and you've got a really nice, beautiful piece of music that you can play. Do leave me a comment down below. Let me know how you got on and if you found it hard, easy, whatever, and how I can improve these videos, go to creativepianoacademy.com for my latest resource on learning to play the piano. It's all about the best adult practice plan. So go over there, check it out. You'll know exactly how and what to practice. Like the video if you liked it, subscribe to the channel and I will see you. I will see you in part four. No, I won't. I will see you in the next video because there is no part four. See ya. I need a coffee. It's coffee time. I'll see you later.