In today's video I will lay out five skills which I consider to be essential for all pianists, from beginners to advanced. These are important from either a technical or theoretical standpoint, or both. We'll cover scales, octaves, stride piano, arpeggios, and the circle of fifths, and I'll give you some simple and great exercise ideas for working on them.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Introduction
0:23 Skill 1 (Scales)
1:02 Exercise 1
2:50 Skill 2 (Octaves)
3:55 Exercise 2
5:02 Skill 3 (Arpeggios)
5:57 Exercise 3
8:00 Skill 4 (Stride Piano)
9:13 Exercise 4
12:32 Skill 5 (Circle of Fifths)
14:45 Exercise 5