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i prefer my melody buried usually. y is every pianist so obsessed w this concept yall r lol

Merci!

Could you please make a video on HOW often to revisit pieces. After a while it does get old just playing through older pieces.

One of mentors had me memorize sections of the score before going to the piano to peactice. Yes, ALOTS of work forbthe brain, but much less time "note bashing" at the keyboard!

I do not read amy music HT due to vision, but I DO MEMORIZE everything!! But I have a hard time keeping it in my head. My good mentor told me to review pieces at least once a week, and I have failed here as well. Great tips!

What is the music you are playing in the video?

Thank you Sir🎹

an awesome song to play and get this down would be Radioheads daydreaming!

Cheers mate ! Thanks You for your video! Might I ask the name of the piece on the background? Is it Schuman?

Good points but I would say the part about hands separate is much more controversial than the part about sight reading. Some teachers swear by learning everything HS, some are adamant that you have to start HT and only do HS practice when needed.

I'm currently learning the most difficult Chopin Nocturnes (there's some incredible challenges in those pieces) and aside from harmonic analysis and practicing the technical aspects, to memorize them permanently, I try to keep in mind - Chopin wrote every note with intention, and I practice that way, trying to breathe life into every detail. It's the emotive effort that helps me remember the piece forever. I must never take a single detail for granted, I must make sure that I never fail to correct an error in the moment, with the fervor of a man possessed.

You are a good pedagogue! Thank you for putting this into the arsenal of autodidacts everywhere.

I find the interpretation inspiring, but a little too wild. It is a melancholic piece.

Some excellent quality uprights are better than average grands. If you buy a small grand, for example, versus a professional calibre upright, you'll just have a lesser instrument in a fancier cabinet. I've just made this decision comparing a Kawai G-10 with a Kawai K600. The K600 has a far better bass quality. And the Kawai K800 substitutes in recording studios -- upright in place of a grand -- all the time.

There is no such thing as muscle memory!

Pedagogy from the Fundamentals of Piano Practice. Great book!

It's a pleasure to see piano technique and pedagogy videos from someone who knows what they're talking about! Kudos! Keep up the good work!

Very nice video, merci beaucoup.

Thank you😊

I pulled up your account because I didn't want to forget to thank you for a great tip that I hadn't seen anywhere else... I have to go to work and don't have time to watch this one now... I've seen read so much about moving my arm to aid in all sorts of technique improvements BUT not to help me play notes will a p or pp dynamic. I was having a lot (!) of trouble playing softly in the stiffer lower registers of my vertical. I was already pressing the keys with a angle towards me but adding just a bit of arm made it really work!

I can't sing a note. But I gave excellent aural capacity and and Hear all the melody/sounds in my head.

What practical advice. This is really appreciated! Thanks!

Thank you! Just what I need!❤

Thanks

I can't believe you only have 4k subscribers. Your insight is invaluable and so well explained. Congratulations on a brilliant and insightful series of videos which I will surely come back to time and again.

As if any other composer before and since Chopin can create something like this... Of course it is him.. When you play it when you hear you just know it. We can fly helicopters on Mars; but humanity is unable create a 30 seconds piece without Chopin.

I had a Bechstein model c; was doing a k595, got the second movement opening 'just right, similarly, THAT movement in Schubert, D960; played the former initially on a Bluthner and the latter on a Steinway! Of course it is about consistency. Only on a few occasions was it quiet enough; eventually, I learned! Once again, I Where were you fifty years ago! You really are good!

Merci, informative video.

This video was about a lot more than 'fixing silent notes'! You reminded me of a bunch of other things I've been ignoring. After a bit of practice with these reminders, I can tell I'm about to leave the plateau I've been on.

If you can't play softly, your piano is probably in need of regulation. Many are.

Let me just say this. I spent a significant amount of time, when I had an a Kawai RX-7, without pedal I would practice in such a way where I could hear the dampers lift off the strings, but never let the hammer hit the string. And now, I can play extremely rapid pieces pp, without any effort.

But what about leaps in two different directions such in Philip Glasses Etude 6? Where do I put my eyes? I'm fine slow but when i get the tempo up to where i want it (around 70bpm) I am not accurate.

The most obvious possibility to what exactly this is, jumps out to me, from the list of facts given, and another thing known about Chopin. First you say that experts say the sheet music manuscript writing is consistent with other known sheet music in Chopin's hand. Next it's a waltz, and the chord progressions and style of this waltz sound typically like Chopin. Third it's dated to the early 1830's, and this is consistent with when he was active as a composer and penned other waltzes. And it has his name on it. What you didn't mention is that Chopin's waltzes typically have at least two contrasting themes in their course. This does NOT have that, and is quite short. So, the most obvious guess? Chopin simply started a waltz or mazurka, and simply never finished this one. (i.e. it was a section of a waltz or Mazurka he intended to write and publish-- a melody before a second other melody-- perhaps in A Major? -- could be composed or added to it then possibly the original tune restated, transformed ). The poor man likely may have mislaid the paper before it got mixed up with a morass of other papers. Composers lose things, as do the rest of us.

Very helpful, thank you

Good theory. Wish there was less talking and more of a slow demonstration.

Brilliant! Thank you.

Brilliant! Thank you.

Excellent information that I need, thank you very much!!!

felling proud of myself, because I usually to do most of these techniques! Btw love the Proud and Prejudice piano theme ❤ the urge to play it rn haha

0:25 - Liszt - Paraphrase de concert sur Rigoletto💕😍 Also I'm thankful for sharing tips about technics❤🤩🫡

Thanks danke obrigada❤😊

Truer words were never spoken. I'll be coming back to this video often. Merci

My piano teacher used to tell me to make the note sing.

What is that piece

The ocean and the voice.

Really enjoy watching your video. Your sharing has helped improve my practice 😊

what model of yamaha piano is that? Sounds lovely. Great playing.

It is not dissimilar to the work of Julian Fontana, Chopin's friend & copyist. Fontana was also chosen by Chopin's family to go through his work with a view to them being published posthumously, which has always seemed rather like a betrayal to me as it goes completely against Chopin's wishes. Fontana also lived in New York for a number of years & it is known that several copies of Chopin's compositions written out by Fontana have been erroneously displayed as original Chopin manuscripts in America. The signature isn't in Chopin's handwriting but it is not unlike Fontana's, the way the manuscript is written would have much to do with how the school determined it should be & Fontana & Chopin were at school together. Fontana's manuscripts are very similar in appearance to Chopin's (but neater with few erasures), so although it would be wonderful to have a new Chopin composition to enjoy, there needs to be a lot more investigation & less wishful thinking done yet.

The only mystery I see is it being called a Waltz. It sounds like a Mazurka to me and I do think it is Chopin

Looking back on 12 years ago, how satisfied are you of the path you took, Charlie?