The Best Way To Learn Piano As A Music Producer Subtitles

At 00:00:00,000, Character said: Let me know if this sounds familiar at all.

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At 00:00:01,480, Character said: You've been learning piano for a few months

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At 00:00:03,320, Character said: and you've kinda kept it separate from your music making

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At 00:00:05,880, Character said: until you get good enough at piano

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At 00:00:07,160, Character said: to be able to use it to make music.

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At 00:00:09,160, Character said: Then one day you're making music

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At 00:00:10,520, Character said: and you've made a sick drum track

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At 00:00:11,800, Character said: and you're like, f***k, I need some chords

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At 00:00:13,560, Character said: but I don't really wanna sample anymore

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At 00:00:15,200, Character said: because I've been practicing piano.

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At 00:00:16,680, Character said: How hard could this beat?

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At 00:00:18,000, Character said: You see the keyboard in the corner of your eye,

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At 00:00:19,640, Character said: you move towards it, your hands descend upon the keys

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At 00:00:22,720, Character said: and bullshit.

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At 00:00:24,840, Character said: Hang on, chords were a little bit ambitious

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At 00:00:27,320, Character said: for the first time.

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At 00:00:28,160, Character said: Let's just try a quick melody in the right hand.

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At 00:00:30,880, Character said: Bullshit.

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At 00:00:32,220, Character said: Everything you do sounds terrible.

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At 00:00:34,520, Character said: You have no idea where to start,

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At 00:00:36,000, Character said: and you end up deciding, f***k it,

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At 00:00:37,200, Character said: this whole piano thing, it's gonna take years,

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At 00:00:39,120, Character said: and you quit.

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At 00:00:40,600, Character said: That was me every three months for like three or four years.

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At 00:00:44,280, Character said: And one of my favorite producer YouTubers

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At 00:00:46,080, Character said: just committed to learning the piano,

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At 00:00:47,640, Character said: and I can see this becoming him if he's not careful.

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At 00:00:50,120, Character said: And it's not because we just need to work a bit harder.

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At 00:00:52,560, Character said: Merry f***g Christmas.

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At 00:00:53,920, Character said: It's simply because the traditional techniques

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At 00:00:56,020, Character said: used to learn piano

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At 00:00:57,380, Character said: great for people who want to learn to play other people's songs but absolutely

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At 00:01:01,160, Character said: terrible for people who want to learn to make their own. For that we need something

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At 00:01:05,000, Character said: different and I think I found it. This is Bob. He's been playing piano for 15

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At 00:01:10,760, Character said: years and he sounds like this. Now by contrast about the most impressive thing

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At 00:01:17,010, Character said: that I can play is this. Now to be fair to myself I've only been learning piano

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At 00:01:23,530, Character said: on and off for a few years but I don't think that's the biggest difference

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At 00:01:26,410, Character said: between us. If you asked Bob to write a song on the piano, he'd probably s***t himself,

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At 00:01:30,250, Character said: but if you instead asked him to learn this, he could probably do that in a couple hours.

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At 00:01:34,330, Character said: Now if you gave me a week to learn that, I don't even think I'd be able to do it, but

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At 00:01:37,890, Character said: it only took me a few hours to write this. And this. And this. And this.

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At 00:01:54,980, Character said: but look at all the time you wasted riding your ride in your

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At 00:02:06,260, Character said: and that's just down to exactly how we learned to play the piano. bobs classically trained which

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At 00:02:10,340, Character said: means that every bit of effort he put in every week for like 10 plus years was all going towards

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At 00:02:15,780, Character said: the goal of playing really difficult pieces written by great composers really really well

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At 00:02:20,180, Character said: And I did the exact same thing. I learned violin for 10 years, but despite 10 years of practice,

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At 00:02:25,780, Character said: I can't write a melody on my violin for s***t. When I want a string part, I literally write it

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At 00:02:30,580, Character said: on piano, then I'll go get my violin and record it in later. Now, since 90% of people just want

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At 00:02:35,220, Character said: to learn how to play their favorite songs, 90% of tutorials are just going to teach that skill

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At 00:02:39,220, Character said: set. It explains why it's so easy for people like us to get lost in the sea of tutorials,

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At 00:02:44,260, Character said: learning things that we don't even need. It explains why it's so easy for people like us

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At 00:02:48,980, Character said: to quit after a few months because we're just not getting what we need out of these tutorials.

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At 00:02:52,740, Character said: I've tried learning keys in the past, you know, I went and g***t a little course online, followed it

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At 00:02:58,020, Character said: for a week or two, and then I gave up. Now I would love to be able to play as well as Bobcann.

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At 00:03:03,140, Character said: I really would, but if I could only choose one, I know what's more important to me.

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At 00:03:07,540, Character said: What's more important to me is being able to sit down and write the chords which fit perfectly

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At 00:03:12,340, Character said: with that drum loop that I've made, or to sit down and capture a feeling of nostalgia that I have,

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At 00:03:16,660, Character said: or to sit down and listen to a Frank Ocean song, hear the chords, understand why they work,

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At 00:03:22,100, Character said: and then transplant it into my music. In my opinion, most of the battle as an artist is

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At 00:03:26,420, Character said: knowing what to play, and if we never develop the skill, we're gonna sit down at the piano

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At 00:03:30,260, Character said: with all the piano chops in the world and have no idea what to play. And somehow, we still expect

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At 00:03:34,660, Character said: to, even though all we've ever done is listen to someone else who tells us what notes to play.

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At 00:03:38,500, Character said: And to do that, we need a methodology that's gonna teach us the language of music,

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At 00:03:42,580, Character said: not just how to read out something someone else has written but f***k me a methodology that teaches

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At 00:03:48,020, Character said: language and syntax and all the technical s***t that's gotta sound technical and super soul crushing

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At 00:03:53,380, Character said: right? Actually no. No it doesn't. It's jazz. Now I know what you're thinking oh my god I've heard

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At 00:04:06,280, Character said: jazz is super difficult I'm never gonna be able to play that relax I'm not a jazz musician. What

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At 00:04:11,240, Character said: I'm gonna talk about is the absolute basics it's all I've needed to make the best music I've ever

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At 00:04:15,320, Character said: made. If you weren't thinking that you're probably thinking,

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At 00:04:18,680, Character said: Sir, I like pop music, I f***g hate jazz. Relax. In the same way you can divide

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At 00:04:23,000, Character said: classical music and classical training as like a method for learning an

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At 00:04:26,120, Character said: instrument, we're going to divide the sound of jazz and the jazz methodology

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At 00:04:29,960, Character said: and way of learning an instrument into two separate things. The method is what

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At 00:04:33,880, Character said: we are going to focus on. Now why is the jazz method the solution to all my

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At 00:04:37,400, Character said: problems? Well, before jazz was invented in the late

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At 00:04:40,280, Character said: 19th century, pretty much the only way to learn an instrument was through classical

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At 00:04:43,880, Character said: training which had one clear goal. Get good enough to be able to read and play the stuff

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At 00:04:47,880, Character said: that all dead white guys had written hundreds of years ago. The musician was just the vessel

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At 00:04:52,600, Character said: through which the composer was heard. And it kind of mirrored the times, like this was

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At 00:04:56,120, Character said: the time of kings and queens and s***t. Like you were just an atom in the world of a monarch

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At 00:05:00,120, Character said: and as a musician an atom in the world of a composer. Fast forward to when jazz came out

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At 00:05:04,480, Character said: and it wasn't just the sound of it that caused riots, it was the fact that the musicians

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At 00:05:08,320, Character said: were literally making s***t up as they went and not relying on what composers had written.

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At 00:05:13,200, Character said: to mention that it was black people making this also music.

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At 00:05:16,080, Character said: Since the musicians understood the language of what they were playing, they didn't have

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At 00:05:19,040, Character said: to rely on the composers, and for the first time in western music history, the musicians

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At 00:05:23,360, Character said: were the composers.

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At 00:05:24,360, Character said: Now this is perfect for us producers and artists because it means that we don't need to reinvent

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At 00:05:27,840, Character said: the wheel when we're trying to learn the piano.

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At 00:05:29,440, Character said: We can just take the basic foundations of the jazz method and apply it to any type of music

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At 00:05:33,800, Character said: that we like.

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At 00:05:34,800, Character said: It can help us understand why the chords and melodies in a specific genre or from a specific

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At 00:05:39,160, Character said: to sound the way they do and then help us to write stuff like that. There's an

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At 00:05:43,600, Character said: entire side of YouTube with musicians who talk about this s***t all the time but

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At 00:05:46,800, Character said: I think one of the reasons that the producers have a lot of the time never

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At 00:05:49,960, Character said: heard of this is because everyone's so petrified of music theory and spoilers

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At 00:05:54,320, Character said: if you want to make it to the promised land you're gonna have to learn some

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