Shadowing Practice: Easy First Piano Lesson - For Kids! - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I love the piano!
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Hey friends, welcome back.
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I'm really excited because we're going to start learning to play the piano today.
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Now let's take a look at a piano.
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Do you see it?
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It's a beautiful acoustic instrument and an acoustic instrument is one that we don't have to plug in.
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It plays nice, instrument called the keyboard and the keyboard's like a computer.
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It's not an acoustic instrument and needs electricity to work.
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But the cool thing about a keyboard is you can change the volume, you can turn it up or turn it down, and you can change the sounds that it plays too.
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It can play all sorts of sounds.
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Now I want to show you the piano again.
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Take a look.
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Do you know something really cool about the piano?
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When you open up the lid on top, Do you know what you find inside?
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There are actually strings inside a piano.
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When we push on the keys, there are little hammers inside that hit the strings, and that's how the piano works.
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So, let's take a look at the part of the piano that we actually put our hands and fingers on.
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It's called a keyboard, just like that instrument we learned about.
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That's the keyboard.
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And take a look.
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What color are the keys on the keyboard?
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They are two different colors, white and black, right?
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pattern and it's easy to see when we look at the black key.
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Let's look closely at those black keys.
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Look at the pattern.
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What do we see?
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The first black keys are a group of three together, right?
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There are three black keys together.
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And then the next little group that are next to each other are two black piano keys.
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And then it goes to three again, and then two two
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and then three and then two
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and it keeps going three two three two three two is our pattern of black piano keys
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so you're gonna want to know that when you learn to play the piano
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okay
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and i want to teach you something really fun about those
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piano keys look at where there are two black piano keys those look a little bit like ears
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but not my ears and probably not your ears they ears we find the doggie's face.
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Do you see that?
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Now what letter in the alphabet does dog start with?
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It starts with d -d -d.
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D. And on the piano, we name all the white keys after letters,
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and the white key in between the two black keys that are like doggy ears is called the D for doggy.
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you Alright, we learned a lot about the piano.
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We're gonna learn more in the next part of the lesson.
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See you there!
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Hey friends, we are going to use the letters and the keys
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that we just learned to play our first pattern on the piano.
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Are you ready?
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- Woo -hoo!
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- Okay, these are the keys that we'll use.
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We're gonna use the C, the D and the E underneath the doggy ears to play this pattern.
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And we're going to use our right hand.
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Okay.
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But I want to show you something about our right hand when we play piano.
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Each finger gets a number.
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The thumb gets number one, pointer finger number two, middle finger gets three, ring finger is number four, and the pinky is number five.
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So we'll use numbers one, two, and three for this.
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Okay.
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Watch the pattern first, then we'll play it together.
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Hey friends,
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did you see how we used our right hand to play C, D, and E for that pattern?
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Okay, now let's learn about the reading music part of this.
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There are three notes and then a rest when we play this pattern.
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There are three quarter notes and then a rest.
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And if you remember the rest from the resting baby story, it looks like a lightning bolt, but that is a
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Quarter note rest so we rest for one count
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and the first quarter note is down low and it has a line through it It's eating the line.
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That's our C The next one is a little higher
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because the sound is higher the pitch is higher and
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that one Bumps its head on that line in the staff doesn't it and the next one Gobbles the line again,
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and that's our E and the E is higher than the D isn't it?
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Then we have our rest.
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So it's C D E rest.
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C D E rest.
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Okay, I want you to see something else too.
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Do you see the little dots?
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Those are our repeat signs.
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And you might have learned about that in the story
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and lesson that we did called the repeat sign in the magic tunnel.
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Now the repeat signs, they tell us to do the music or play the music again.
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And this time we're going to do it eight, Thank you times.
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Wow!
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Okay, are you ready to practice with me?
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Now practice makes us better.
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Each time we practice we get a little bit better at our pattern.
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Let's do it eight times together.
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I'm really excited.
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Here we go.
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You can do it!
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you you you you you
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you you Hey friends, did you have fun playing that pattern with us?
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Now, if you couldn't do it perfectly, that's okay.
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Just go back and try it again, and try it as many times as you need to until you feel comfortable.
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Learning an instrument takes practice, and you've got to keep practicing to get better.
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That's a fun thing to do also.
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Hi parents, we hope you and your child enjoyed that music lesson.
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Hey, if you did, please consider giving us And also we've got a ton more lessons at MyMusicWorkshop .com.
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Hope to see you there!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This A2 speaking lesson is built on the video “Easy First Piano Lesson - For Kids!”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: piano, key, pattern, rest, instrument. This video has 98 sentences and 990 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:27. The speaker talks at a natural 154 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 15 of its 98 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| piano noun | /piˈænɪː/ | A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers… |
| ear noun | /ˈɪə̯/ | The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea. |
| instrument noun | /ˈɪnstɹəmənt/ | A device used to produce music. |
| finger noun | /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ | A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other… |
| keyboard noun | /ˈki.bɔɹd/ | A set of keys laid out in a gridlike pattern, used for typing on a typewriter, computer, etc. |
| lesson noun | /ˈlɛs.ən/ | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| string noun | /stɹɪŋ/ | A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together. |
| electricity noun | /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/ | Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now… |
| pitch noun | /pɪt͡ʃ/ | A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand. |
| tunnel noun | /ˈtʌn(ə)l/ | An underground or underwater passage. |
| lightning noun | /ˈlaɪt.nɪŋ/ | A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth. |
| hammer noun | /ˈhæmɚ/ | A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding. |
| plug noun | /plʌɡ/ | A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. |
| underneath adverb | /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/ | Below; in a place beneath. |
| dot noun | /dɑt/ | A small, round spot. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| open up verb | To open. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Do you see it?
- Do you know something really cool about the piano?
- Let's look closely at those black keys.
- What do we see?
- Do you see the little dots?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Verb + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — verbs that are followed by the -ing form | start learning · keep practicing · consider giving |
| Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming | we're going to start · gonna want · gonna learn |
| Future with “will” will + verb — a decision, promise or prediction | we'll use · we'll play |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | have to plug · need to until |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 20 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, gonna, we'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, thumb /ˈθʌm/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like piano, ear, instrument.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.