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Bill Hilton
Великобритания
Добавлен 2 июн 2008
Piano, improvisation, chords, music theory and more!
Most of my videos are piano tutorials. I have a series of 21 tutorials on how to play piano for beginners, and dozens of other tutorials you'll find useful if you're a pianist who already has some basic skills and you want to move outwards into areas like improvisation, jazz piano, blues piano, rock and pop piano, songwriting and more.
I also have quite a few tutorials on music theory, chords, songwriting and composition and related areas if you're trying to improve your overall musical skills.
If you have any questions about anything piano or music theory-related, or suggestions for tutorials you'd like to see, give me a shout!
Most of my videos are piano tutorials. I have a series of 21 tutorials on how to play piano for beginners, and dozens of other tutorials you'll find useful if you're a pianist who already has some basic skills and you want to move outwards into areas like improvisation, jazz piano, blues piano, rock and pop piano, songwriting and more.
I also have quite a few tutorials on music theory, chords, songwriting and composition and related areas if you're trying to improve your overall musical skills.
If you have any questions about anything piano or music theory-related, or suggestions for tutorials you'd like to see, give me a shout!
Beautiful, Easy Piano Improv Targets 3 Vital Skills 🤩🎹 (Beginner-Friendly)
Impress your friends with this really beautiful piano improvisation that you can learn even if you’re brand new to the piano and you don’t yet have many practical or or music theory skills.
👉Improve your piano skills with my great value Piano Packs and 3 Ebook Bundle deal:
www.billspianopages.com/pianopacks
www.billspianopages.com/bundle
👉Revolutionise your music skills with my new book, How To Be A Better Musician:
www.bettermusicianbook.com
👉Join my Patreon community - we're a very friendly bunch of piano learners!
www.patreon.com/billhilton
*PIANOS I RECOMMEND*
People often ask me about digital pianos, so here are a few recommendations. Disclosure: please note these are affiliate links to US mu...
👉Improve your piano skills with my great value Piano Packs and 3 Ebook Bundle deal:
www.billspianopages.com/pianopacks
www.billspianopages.com/bundle
👉Revolutionise your music skills with my new book, How To Be A Better Musician:
www.bettermusicianbook.com
👉Join my Patreon community - we're a very friendly bunch of piano learners!
www.patreon.com/billhilton
*PIANOS I RECOMMEND*
People often ask me about digital pianos, so here are a few recommendations. Disclosure: please note these are affiliate links to US mu...
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Learn 29 Crucial Piano Skills... From One Song 🎹🙌
Просмотров 14 тыс.3 месяца назад
You can learn a huge amount about piano and music theory by digging into songs. So in this tutorial we look at a song that can teach us a vast amount about different aspects of playing the piano and musical creativity in general - especially in the areas of piano chords, comping, jazz piano style and how to play around with melodies. GET THE PDF I’ve made a PDF to accompany the tutorial. It inc...
6 Piano Chord Questions Answered
Просмотров 3,6 тыс.5 месяцев назад
In this piano tutorial I take six questions I’ve been asked in comments on previous videos about piano chords and offer practical answers to them. There’s quite a range of stuff on chord theory here, from the basics of voicing through to ideas about chord notation and function. MY BOOKS How To Be A Better Musician: www.bettermusicianbook.com Three ebook bundle: www.billspianopages.com/bundle MY...
Piano Scales Are Puzzles: Let's Tackle Them Together
Просмотров 4,3 тыс.6 месяцев назад
Practising your piano scales is probably the single best thing you can do for your piano playing. In this tutorial we explore how you can approach scales to make them more absorbing and rewarding, and exactly why regular scale practice is so very useful. Along the way we dig into ideas about exercise and habit and think of ways you can build a scale practice that dramatically increases your con...
Is Piano With 2 Hands Too Hard? 🎹👋
Просмотров 38 тыс.7 месяцев назад
If you find playing the piano with two hands a challenge, then this series of shaker exercises will help! Designed to take your piano hand independence to the next level, they're easy to get into, but challenging enough to really supercharge your two-handed piano playing skill! US residents - check out this GREAT set of shaky eggs on Sweetwater.com: sweetwater.sjv.io/B0dqNJ (Disclosure: I recei...
Ear Training For Pianists: 7 Essential Exercises (Beginner Friendly)
Просмотров 7 тыс.8 месяцев назад
This tutorial is packed with ear training tips and exercises that any musician will find useful, but which I've specifically designed for pianists. One of the problems piano players have is that simply learning our instrument doesn't train our ear (as it does for many strings and winds) and so it's easy for us to neglect our aural skills. But ear training can make a massive difference to your m...
Be Your Own Piano Teacher With Semi-Objective Feedback
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.9 месяцев назад
This piano tutorial covers a technique I call semi-objective feedback, which essentially involves videoing yourself as you practise playing the piano in order to identify problems and opportunities that you might not spot in the heat of practice. The tutorial covers some basic techniques for self-filming, including taking shots from the side and above, and then considers in detail some of the t...
4 Chords + 1 Hand Position = Great Piano Improv
Просмотров 8 тыс.10 месяцев назад
One of the best ways to get into piano improvisation is with a simple four-chord exercise, so that's what we're looking at today. The slight twist is that we're going to do it in a "difficult" key - D flat major - though, as we'll see, it's not really that difficult at all. In the tutorial I go through the basic chord progression, the single hand position we'll be using in the right, and explor...
10 Problems of Self-Taught Pianists (...With Solutions)
Просмотров 238 тыс.11 месяцев назад
Piano learners who teach themselves can do incredibly well - I’ve seen many of them go through my free beginners’ piano course and watch my other piano tutorials here on RUclips. However, self-teachers tend to have particular problems that I see turn up time and again. In this tutorial I go through the ten most common problems I see self-taught pianists dealing with, and offer solutions. 👉Join ...
POWER UP Your Piano Playing With 2-Against-3
Просмотров 7 тыс.11 месяцев назад
EDIT: a couple of times in this tutorial I refer to "sixteenth notes" when I mean "eighths" - apologies for that. I naturally refer to "quavers", but thought I'd try to be a bit more international. I'll remember to check next time 🤣 In this piano tutorial we explore a really important piano technique. It's used a lot in classical playing from intermediate level onwards, but it's also useful to ...
Jazz Piano Tutorial: The Rhythm Changes
Просмотров 5 тыс.Год назад
The 'rhythm changes' is the most popular jazz chord progression. In this piano tutorial I look at the progression in depth, going through the individual chords on the piano keyboard, and demonstrate a fairly standard piano improvisation that uses them. Then I talk about how you can use chord substitution and extension to get a cool sound more suited to jazz and cocktail playing than the bare ch...
Three Piano Exercises You'll Love (Exercises, Inventions and Ideas, Part 1)
Просмотров 10 тыс.Год назад
This piano tutorial features three piano exercises that will really help you to develop your skills on the piano keyboard - in particular your skill at dynamic (playing the piano loud and soft), your expression, legato, staccato, keyboard improvisation, finger management and one or two other things like pedalling and chord evenness.. PDF DOWNLOAD LINK: drive.google.com/file/d/1dcQAnTxuHweNJOFgT...
Want To Play Piano Better? Use This.
Просмотров 3 тыс.Год назад
👉Improve your piano skills with my great value Piano Packs and 3 Ebook Bundle deal: www.billspianopages.com/pianopacks www.billspianopages.com/bundle 👉Revolutionise your music skills with my new book, How To Be A Better Musician: www.bettermusicianbook.com 👉Join my Patreon community - we're a very friendly bunch of piano learners! www.patreon.com/billhilton 👉My gear (in association with Sweetwa...
Pachelbel’s 5 (or 6) Really Useful Piano Chords
Просмотров 6 тыс.Год назад
👉Improve your piano skills with my great value Piano Packs and 3 Ebook Bundle deal: www.billspianopages.com/pianopacks www.billspianopages.com/bundle 👉Revolutionise your music skills with my new book, How To Be A Better Musician: www.bettermusicianbook.com 👉Join my Patreon community - we're a very friendly bunch of piano learners! www.patreon.com/billhilton 👉My gear (in association with Sweetwa...
Interleaved Practice: the King of Piano Learning Techniques?
Просмотров 6 тыс.Год назад
Interleaved practice is an incredibly powerful piano practice technique that involves working on two contrasting styles of music side-by-side to improve one or both. In this tutorial we look at how to use baroque-style keyboard music to boost your jazz piano and pop piano skills. You can find the PDF that accompanies this tutorial at this Google Drive link: drive.google.com/file/d/1YN7yYAfZi7Tf...
The Piano Exercise That's Actually Fun To Play
Просмотров 5 тыс.Год назад
The Piano Exercise That's Actually Fun To Play
The Piano Learning Strategy Adult Students MUST Know
Просмотров 30 тыс.Год назад
The Piano Learning Strategy Adult Students MUST Know
Piano Hand Independence: A New Way To Get Hands Working Together
Просмотров 24 тыс.Год назад
Piano Hand Independence: A New Way To Get Hands Working Together
Improvise the 1-5-6-4 Chord Progression in... *B MAJOR* (piano chords tutorial)
Просмотров 7 тыс.Год назад
Improvise the 1-5-6-4 Chord Progression in... *B MAJOR* (piano chords tutorial)
What Makes This Chord Progression So Beautiful? || Six Harmonic Techniques
Просмотров 13 тыс.Год назад
What Makes This Chord Progression So Beautiful? || Six Harmonic Techniques
Practise Piano Like A Soviet Weightlifter
Просмотров 5 тыс.Год назад
Practise Piano Like A Soviet Weightlifter
Want to be an awesome musician? Use one of these
Просмотров 6 тыс.Год назад
Want to be an awesome musician? Use one of these
Practise Piano Like a Pro: 3 Tactics to Speed Up Your Progress
Просмотров 6 тыс.Год назад
Practise Piano Like a Pro: 3 Tactics to Speed Up Your Progress
Playing the Piano With Expression - Tips and Techniques
Просмотров 4,9 тыс.Год назад
Playing the Piano With Expression - Tips and Techniques
Piano Finger Management - Beginner to Advanced
Просмотров 8 тыс.Год назад
Piano Finger Management - Beginner to Advanced
Uncle Harry's Variations, part 2: Variation 1 (Intermediate Piano Series tutorial 7)
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.2 года назад
Uncle Harry's Variations, part 2: Variation 1 (Intermediate Piano Series tutorial 7)
The Surprisingly Cool Augmented Chord
Просмотров 5 тыс.2 года назад
The Surprisingly Cool Augmented Chord
Create Beautiful Piano Songs With MINIMALISM (like Einaudi, Max Richter, Philip Glass)
Просмотров 15 тыс.2 года назад
Create Beautiful Piano Songs With MINIMALISM (like Einaudi, Max Richter, Philip Glass)
I feel like those are the best lessons I've ever found!
Hello Bill, My name is Grant. I'm from Egypt. Unfortunately, I have no availability to learn appropriately because I need all my energy to build competencies for my career. Yet I need some music basics that help me learn to play religious chants for the church. Your learning playlist really helps. Thanks a lot.
Great way to teach this! well done and thank you for sharing :)
THANK A LOT BILL, YOU SO WONDERFULL
Thank you for this ❤
Classic mnemonic: Every Good Boy Does Fine Always (EGBDFA)
Hi Bill, I was able to open your link to the pdf on my laptop but I don't want to have to bug you every time I want to print something out. I still can't find the link on my own. I really am not that technologically ignorant, at least I don't think so! Just can't find that link which you say is at the bottom of the lesson.
Bug away with anything, Carol - not many people get this far, so I’m happy to help. Thanks for the heads up: I’ll double check the video link!
The piece at the beggining, is it improvize? its look like a piece and a little improvize swing chords Beautiful and thanks for the tutorial sir
Thank bill for your tutorial there great, right now im trying to play the older piece that i couldn't finish to get better at sightreading and dont rely on memory.
Help! Can’t find the pdf of the Mozart minuet to print.
You should be able to find it at the Google Drive link below, Carol - is it working for you? If it isn't, drop me an email via www.billspianopages.com/contact and I'll send it to you direct! Here's the link: drive.google.com/file/d/1FtESCSJFzFx1VeWIBZiJ7C02vjVgdSoP/view
Thank you.
I'm.trying.to.detrmeine my.level to.start leaning.as.i achieved grade 4.but that was time.back.
At last a decent tutorial
Thanks so much from Brasil! I am restarting to learn, you are an excellent teacher!
Got some clarity on how to enter chromatic mediant
Isn’t he from Bashing Bad?
started to learn piano a year ago by a app. learned nothing at all, this year I tried to learn with a teacher but after 5 months I didn't learn much either. I got high hopes now for the lessons here
thank you so much. the gratitude i feel is beyond the words. i’m a songwriter but i only ever written songs on guitar. i think i’m ready for piano now. thank you from the bottom of my heart for these lessons!❤️
Hi bill I have a 61keyed piano. And where is the PDF?
Yo, does this stuff work?
Great. Now how do people create entire songs out of this theory? Do you simply write and entire song in 1 key, changing progression patterns? Or for more dynamic music, should you change keys using the circle of fifths? Like do a I-IV-V-I in C maj for a few measures then key change to G maj?
Serious question please: Why do you use your first three fingers to play a chord? I usually use my 1st, middle, and 3rd fingers but I've seen professionals use the first, second, and third fingers. Is this something I need to be training or is it a preference thing?
Good question, Lola! Basically you need to get used to using any reasonable combination of fingers. For a root position triad in the right hand than might be 1, 2 and 3, or 1, 3 and 5, or 1, 3 and 4 or even things like 2, 3 and 5 (that's using the standard piano convention of numbering the fingers of each hand outwards from the thumb, which is 1, so what you're calling 1st, middle and 3rd would be 2, 3 and 4). The reason for that variety is that, as a pianist, you've always got to be thinking about where you hand is going next, so being able to finger chords in a variety of ways gives you flexibility in preparing for the next chord or note or whatever. Does that make sense?
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Unfortunately my hands are still small to do this
I've really found it helpful to download the Note Trainer app. Just practice it 15-20 min a day and im getting alot better at finding the right notes quicker. Thanks for the great totorial Bill!
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Thank you so much for this video. This helped me connect a lot of dots.
You're really welcome, David - glad it helped!
Very helpful, thanks!
In spirit
Pls I need you to make it in example
What an amazing 1st lesson. I can say I am way more confident identifying the keys now. Thank you tremendously
i am forever grateful that kind hearted people like you are on this earth because not many drop 27 lessons about piano
Wow thank you Bill! Learnt a lot from this!
Thanks Bill, I will be working on my noodling😊
Way too fast going through the piano chords and which note to play.
Wow im really loving this beginning course! Thanks for making it:) Are the birds real in the background? Lovely to listen to
Make it in example
Make in example please.
I LOVE IT
Wow this new piece is really pretty
Thanks for providing quality content ❤
Bill's understanding of how adult brains adapt and build leading to novel ways of climbing the "educational staircase" is just brilliant. Each time I re-watch an earlier video, I spot something I missed first run through.
Love how you challenge us by giving us great songs to play if i were to hear this randomly, i would say that it is a real song!
I'm 20yrs old and am interested in learning piano
Hey teacher, I am an absolute beginner with the piano so much so that my journey starts with buying a keyboard do you have any suggestions as to which keyboard should i go for as in a 61 keys one or the 88 keys one.I look forward to your reply Love from India
Perfectttt ❤ thank You
Thank you Bill, i have followed the lessons so far, these pieces are going to take a while to practice. Meantime, learning some chords for a change. Great lessons!
Wooi faster lah
Hey bill, has this series ended?
Bit of a painful subject! Short answer: no. Long answer, there are only a relatively small number of people following it, so although I’ve been meaning to update it for over a year I have to spend most of time at the moment on stuff that brings in revenue, so labours of love have taken a back seat. It’s still very much my aim to get in done, though!
@@BillHilton Ahh i definitely understand, well I do hope you continue this series because you are a gem of a teacher mate
What a gift these lessons are! I’m so glad I found them!