How to Do Magic Tricks & Easy Card Tricks for Beginners

Welcome to the Online Magic Course. This video explains what you'll be learning in the course and what you'll need to get started.

A few guidelines to making your magic more powerful before we begin. Here you'll learn how and why keeping the secrets is so important.

Why it's so important to practice when learning Magic tricks. How practice will help you build confidence and improve the experience for you and your audience.

With this easy magic trick, You'll earn how to make hair bands jump form finger to finger.

Learn to perform an an amazing magic trick with only two paperclips, an elastic band and a note.

Learn the secret of the Linking Paperclips magic trick! Even when you learn the trick, you probably still won't understand why it works!

In this Magic Trick, you'll learn how to make two hairbands impossibly link together then unlink in a flash. Grab two hairbands and let's get started!

Learn the secret of the linking hairbands magic trick.

Now you've learned a few magic tricks, it's best to master these before you move on. This video explains why the best way to get the most from this magic course is by moving through it slowly, taking your time to really master a few tricks at a time.

In this Magic trick, you'll learn how to create the illusion that you bend a spoon almost in half! Much to the panic of the restaurant staff!

Learn how easy it is to create an amazing optical illusion where it looks like you bend the spoon completely in half!

Learn a classic magic trick, the cut and restored rope... You'll never guess what happens!

How to do the classic magic trick, the Cut and Restored Rope. This is a great effect for larger audiences and could be considered your first piece of stage magic. Grab a rope (or your mums washing line) and follow along.

This is a great magic trick to do in a bar or classroom. The effect of this trick is so strong because the magic happens right in the spectators hands. All you need is a piece of chalk and your good to go!

Learn how to do this incredible magic trick where chalk magically jumps from your hand into a spectators. This trick is very simple to do but gets absolutely amazing reactions, Don't believe me?  Just wait until you try it!

Here I'll let you know what skills basic card skills you'll learn in this section.

The best way to hold a deck of cards and make later card techniques easier to learn.

Another way to hold a deck of cards. This is how hold to hold the deck of cards from above with your opposite hand. Again this will make learning techniques later in the course a lot easier.

Can't even shuffle a deck of cards without them going everywhere? Here you'll learn to master a basic overhand shuffle. You'll probably be doing this move more than any other, so get this and your well on your way. Grab a deck of cards and go for it.

Here you'll learn a new way to shuffle a deck of cards. This is a very powerful technique and is a very versatile as it can also be used as a card force and card control. It will also be the key technique for a show-stopping colour changing deck routine later in the course!

Learn how to spread the cards on the table like a pro. You'll even learn a few different flourishes to flip the whole deck of cards over in a fancy way. This will make you look like a master card handler in the eyes of the audience.

Ready for your first card trick? This is a classic card trick where the spectator picks a card and then you find the card, but with your hands behind your back and without even looking at the cards!

Learn how to do the reversed card trick!

Can you tell if someones lying? Well in this card trick, not matter how much the spectator lies to you, you'll always find their card!

Learn how to do the Lie Detector Card trick.

Have you mastered the Hindu Shuffle? Because now we are going to use it to learn on of the most amazing card tricks in the course so far, the colour changing deck!

Learn how to do the colour changing deck trick. Your going to love this one!

A classic card trick in magic where your secret assistant helps you find the spectators card in a very magical way.

With this magic trick you'll learn some new sleight of hand that will allow you to make a card change whilst it's under the spectators hand. It an easy card trick that gets amazing reactions.

An amazing card trick where the cards are shuffled into a huge mess of face up and face down cards. In the end all the cards face the same way apart from one, the spectators card.

Learn how to do the slop shuffle card trick. You'll also learn a card control that will allow you to control a selected card whilst it's apparently being shuffled into the deck.

This could easily be not only one of the strongest card tricks in this course, but ever! An amazing magic trick in which the spectator manages to separate all the red cards from all of the black cards and has no idea how they have done it! You need to learn this one now!

Learn the secret of this amazing magic trick. The bonus is it's also one of the easiest card tricks in the whole course. But don't let the fact that its a simple card trick fool you, this is easily one of the strongest tricks you can do with a deck of cards!

Here we discuss what you'll learn in this section and you'll see a cool way to make money appear from nowhere!

How to do one of the coolest coin flourishes. This is something you can practice whilst you watch TV, or the rest of this course! This coin flourish will help you to build dexterity and co-ordination in your fingers and is also very eye catching.

In this video you'll learn one of the most fundamental palms when it comes to learning magic, the finger palm.  The finger palm is probably the most used sleight of hand technique in coin magic and a foundation skill that is important to master. The good news it's also very easy, so grab a coin and get cracking.

Do magicians use their sleeves when performing magic tricks? The answer is yes, but maybe not how you think. Here you'll learn a brilliant way to show both your hands empty  and then make a coin appear from nowhere.

Time to put everything you've learnt so far to use in your first magic tricks with coins. Here you'll learn how to make a coin disappear and reappear inside a pen cap!

Learn how to do the coin in pen magic trick. With a little practice, this is a great trick you can do anytime, anywhere!

This is one of the all time classic magic tricks, in which you make a handful of coins penetrate a solid table top. You'll need four identical coins and a ring to get started. and a table, that will probably help as well!

Learn how to do this classic magic trick. You'll also learn two new sleight of hand techniques to make this trick happen. Master this magic trick and you'll always be a hit at dinner parties!

This could be one of the best magic tricks in the entire course. A brilliant trick in which it look like you push a pencil straight through a spectators note/bill. I know this is probably going to be one of your favourite  magic tricks to perform with money!

Learn how to do this awesome magic trick where is really looks like you destroy someone else's money! You'll need a post-it-note, a pencil and some folding money. Grab everything you need and follow along.

Card flourishes are very eye catching techniques that you can use to enhance your magic. Adding flourishes to your card tricks will make them look even better. Better yet, they will make you look better. Flourishes make you look more skilful and subtly let your audience know that you are worth watching!

Learn how to do a professional in the hands  Riffle Shuffle. We will break this down into simple steps and i'll show you an easy technique which means you won't be picking cards up off the floor every five minutes!

Learn this simple but elegant way to cut a deck of cards in the hands.

Mastered the swing cut? Ok, let's step it up a notch. Here you'll learn how to cut a deck of cards with just one hand!

This is the one you've been waiting for! Learn how to spring the cards from hand to hand like a pro card hustler!

If there is one thing I wanted to master more than anything when I first got started in magic, it was the thumb fan. Here i'll break it down and show you  how you fan a deck of cards like a professional magician.

Mastered the Thumb Fan?  Here's an alternate way of fanning a deck of cards when having a card selected during a card trick. It's a bit more challenging, but usually creates a more even spread and just looks a bit nicer!

Learn the secret of this awesome magic trick where you can tell someone a word they are simply just thinking about!

A classic Mentalism stunt in Magic. You ask someone to think of a word in a book, and then tell them the exact word they are thinking of. One of the most powerful Mind Reading Magic Tricks you can do.

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