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I love your videos. I like how you explained this tricky topic 😁

Amazing video!!! Thank you for the precious lesson

This is excellent. Many thanks.

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Brilliant video! Since you mentioned the Rach prelude... How would you practice the cadenza?I'm struggling getting it clear and loud😢

1:35 Silly thing is that my middle name is Emperatriz 😅😅😅😅😅so I won’t forget your advice! Thank you 😊 ❤❤❤❤❤

1:28 Sit back like an Emperor on your throne, overseeing your whole empire! Excellent!! Great advice!!,😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

Another brilliant, educational video. Thank you so much! 🙏

My piano teacher told me yesterday during my piano course that I don't play loud enough! I have this bad vision that when a part of a piece needs to be played Piano I have to sound softer...lol! But it's a bad vision that I have to change in my mind. I will because I will work on that and I will change my mind about that wrong thinking. Thank you for this video, it will help me to understand even more this technic.

Valuable free tips that you wouldn't get with an expensive teacher. Thank you for this help bro.

Have you ever used any of these secrets? ⬇⬇

Hi, Manuel. I asked my piano professor if I can learn this piece this spring instead of Albeniz's El Puerto. She's agreeable. I'm not able to download the Learning Guide. All kinds of red flags come up--security risks, malware, etc. Is there another PDF link for this?

#1 keep hands closed #2 play near the edges #3 breathe slowly From comments: #4 keep fingers close to keys #5 practice very slowly until passages gets into your brain #6 memorize your music so you don't need to look at it #7 memorize blocks of music instead of each note Etc

Oh man I love those kind of weirdly but very carefully complicated ideas, I don't think I've heard it before (at least not in a very conscious way). Loved how you delicately added in the "ingredients" one at a time 👨‍🍳👌I will most likely never be able to play such a piece with that level of finesse. But that will never affect my love for practicing this beautiful instrument (nor my addiction for hot peppers 🤤🌶)

I think I had an epileptic seizure listening to the Rach 3 cadenza….

One of the best finales written in piano history, superb artistry!

Fabulous . Extremely informative and very beautifully demonstrated. I was ready imoressed by the breathing "secret". I will be using all 3 "secrets". Thank you Maestro

I absolutely LOVE playing Bach... but there are definitely super frustrating/hard pieces! (Part of why I love Bach is that I have small hands, and most of the time I can actually play his notes. Plus I really connect with his music both intellectually and emotionally. Of course, the Chopin Ballades are also amazing, but... my small hands don't always have fun.)

Manuel I just Bought this we your guide , very useful! But I have HUGE doubt about beats 5 ( 9 same) : you always suggest the same fingering scheme for botta beats: before struggling hard: NEVER a 4 finger? always same repeated scheme ? That s bcs i find different scheme on other edition and i want to be assolutamente sure that is the best solution..thanks

Something I've always wondered: What does it feel like to play two voices at once, as in a lot of Bach's music? When practicing just one hand I find it somewhat easy to flow along with the melody because I can hear it internally with ease and my fingers just follow suit - but with two voices that's much harder. When you're playing two voices so fluidly are you hearing both voices consciously? At the same time? Only one or the other? Is it purely muscle memory?

I'll add this to the list! I've been working on the 2 part inventions for what feels like years at this point but I still don't feel like it's clicked into place yet for me. Maybe this will do the trick!

The score behind him, looks like Scarbo.

Well in my opinion this is sometimes true and sometimes isnt. For me I started with chopin's nocturne, then went down to a waltz, then learned la campanella, liszts liebestraum, listzs etudes(also transcendentals) and more. Most of these were just by watching rousseau, kassia, and basically any other famous piano youtubers, and I was able to learn the correct techniques by myself. I did get a beginner level piano lecture when i was super young but I forgot most about it. Basically, if youre a semi beginner who just knows only the basics, go for it. If youre a true beginner who have never touched a piano, learn the basics and follow what this guy said. My say, is that experience is KEY. Play it everyday, at least 30 minutes, and finish one song. Even if the road is bumpy, the end product gives you that sense of euphoria. And to avoid injuries, when you see new techniques, don't try to immediately focus on that. Give it time. Try to slowly understand what it does and incorporate it into your song that youre playing.

guys, as a self taught who played 4/5 of the pieces, i suggest sticking to simpler classical pieces like fur elise and Turkish march, pop songs or simple jazz

Excellent teaching and advice! As a veteran teacher, I am always looking for new ways to present valid techniques and strategies, and you do not disappoint! I like the Michaelangelo concept. For myself, I'm currently revisiting the Bach e minor Toccata, BWV 914, and I appreciate the reminder about eighths and sixteenths. I am so glad you're accessible to us all!!! Thank you!

I don't say that this invalidates your method of teaching this piece, but I notice that you (or whoever) play(s) the slurred eighth notes with staccato rather than legato. (Actually, I see that, at 0:28, these notes are slurred in the score, though played staccato and that at 11:15, the same notes are staccato in the score as well as in the performance. Bach's scores are of course often subjected to editorial speculation in this regard, as he often does not make his intentions clear.

Manuel just found your channel and I'm glad I did. Really enjoyed this video. I love Bach but as you say I never liked playing his pieces when I had a teacher many years ago because unfortunately it is true, I like most humans wanted instant gratification, response and reward. Now that I am much older and long without a teacher, I am really wanting to get back to my Classical roots and am ready to tackle this great composer - thankfully with age, not wisdom appears but hubris and kudo rapidly dissipate lol! I shall be getting this copy as soon as I can. Can't wait to watch your other videos.

Excellent teaching Manuel. I hope your channel becomes very successful as your thoughts on teaching piano are brilliant.

Eccellente y super useful!! Bravo! Que viva siempre Espana y Italia

You provide some good tips here, but I think your fast tempo makes the piece sound silly or superficial.

Rachmaninov ...... Rachmaninov ...... Rachmaninov ...... Rachmaninov ...... Rachmaninov ...... When did people stop regarding Radchmaninov as a 10th rate composer who should have stuck to playing?

Totally bad ass ! Thank you so much !

Should this piece be played fast? I hear that F1 racing piano is a 19th century development and may not have been the intent of Beethoven or Chopin.

Loved this!!! I'm 2 years into piano and have just bought The Well Tempered Clavier and started with Prelude in c Major. Now I know which one to go to next. New subscriber now. Thanks.

0:45 OK no offense, I am enjoying your videos Manuel, but right here when you're telling self-taught or beginner pianists that polyrhythms need to be on point, you show yourself playing the 3 against 4 slowly with uneven triplets!

Tremendous!

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3 pillars?? You forget dynamics! And by the way, this is all old hat for jazz musicians.

Those repeated 16th-notes of the right hand in measures 13-16 are very hard to play evenly😢

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2:18 lost tambourine right there

Looking forward to checking out the learning guide!

Manuel - I tried to place this message as a comment to your video with the life hack about temporary fix of “tuning” piano with toilet paper! It did work for me when I noticed on of keys on my Yamaha U3 is making long “meow” aftertone.)) Your life hack worked like a champ, so I could finish learning something I was working on before I could secure appointment with professional! Thank you for sharing it, Manuel! 🙏🙏🙏

You are an excellent teacher.

Nice tutorial! 7:00 why hating forearm rotation though? This movement is part of an exercise, it isn't really used like that in real playing, and if you know some ideas of Taubman approach then you'll see that correct forearm rotation helps with the problem discussed on 6:15, it helps to support the finger with the arm weight (when you do the forearm rotation correctly, but then you can say that whatever piano school you use to study piano technique, you have to apply the movements of that school correctly)

I used to play Bach on the piano. Fortunately I now have a harpsichord and the piano is gone. It would be nice if Mr Casares would not stop being smug and dismissive about the simple reality that many people DO have harpsichords and consequently play Bach on the harpsichord.

When the music teacher is tittering out the song you think why is this guy teaching music 😅

I'm struck by what a beautiful passage this is, and how usefully it illustrates these crucial and foundational concepts of what beauty in music actually means. I've strangely spent my life loving music but feeling afraid to try playing piano, maybe because notation frustrates my ADHD brain whereas I can learn popular guitar music by ear almost effortlessly. But ever since I saw the film "Seymour: An Introduction" I've been drawn into Piano TH-cam and your videos seem uniquely helpful. This is great stuff.