Come back to this video each day and take your next steps! Sightreading music is one of the most important skills a piano player can have it will open up your musical abilities to new worlds of understanding and allow you to enter into the minds of the world's most famous musicians... but it can be so intimidating for new players! In this lesson and over the next 7 days, Lisa will walk you through the process, stepbystep, sharing her tips and tricks to make learning sight reading easy!

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⚡Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:48 DAY 1
1:03 Measures and the Grand Staff
1:37 Reading your first notes (Middle C)
4:00 Stepping up and stepping down notes
5:22 Low C
6:05 Simple hands together
7:10 Review and repeat
9:18 DAY 2
9:26 Musical patterns
10:11 G as a 'Landmark Note'
11:30 Hands together
12:31 Review and repeat
13:37 Reversing the patterns
14:47 Final line
16:21 Review and repeat
18:39 DAY 3
18:48 Intervals right hand
20:39 Intervals left hand
21:28 The C Scale and musical alphabet
22:31 Playing notes together
22:52 Right hand
23:15 Left hand
24:35 Both hands together
25:09 Review and repeat
27:12 DAY 4
27:35 Review what you know
28:57 Right hand
29:48 Left hand
30:20 Both hands together
31:20 DAY 5
30:25 3/4 time
30:50 Left and right hands
32:22 (Use the pedal!)
35:05 C major chord
35:17 Dotted halfnotes
35:50 Review and repeat
37:57 DAY 6
38:16 Rhythms & timing (8th notes)
39:38 Playing different rhythms
40:43 Adding in melody
41:08 Sightreading your first song
41:25 Lefthand notes
41:56 Righthand notes
44:00 Both hands together
44:55 How to memorize the grand staff
46:00 Review and repeat
47:19 DAY 7
47:43 Learning a song starting with your right hand
49:22 Clapping the rhythm
50:22 Reading the left hand
52:10 Putting both hands together
54:24 Lesson Review

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Note Values PDF: https://d1923uyy6spedc.cloudfront.net...

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ABOUT LISA:
Lisa Witt has been teaching piano for +20 years and in that time has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn to play the songs they love. Lisa received classical piano training through the Royal Conservatory of Music, but she has since embraced popular music and playing by ear in order to accompany herself and others. She is a songwriter and recording artist. Lisa’s contagious enthusiasm will have you excited to practice and return to the keys for your next lesson. Her teaching style focuses on you, making lessons encouraging and fun.

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