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Quick question Kate, can you use this technique for broken octaves as well? I have started using your suggestion for my trills and I can see some noticeable improvement. Thank you very much.

"Evolved"--LOL! Sure, time and chance caused perfectly designed nerve systems to just happen--like a phone book could just happen to drop out of heaven if given enough time and chance!

Sensory memory😭 AP Pysch really pushing it rn

Do you have any suggestions for playing on the harpsichord? Obviously, no difference in volume available. I no longer own a piano, just a harpsichord!

this explains why after each final examination I forgot every single thing i memorized before test 😅

Thank you so much. Your example is for a chord with all white notes. What do you recommend if there are two white notes between the two black notes in the upper part of a four-finger chord: Do you still use the 3rd finger or do you use the 4th finger since the distance is a little smaller? Example chords in the piece I'm playing are G flat, C, E flat, G flat; and D flat, G flat, B flat, D flat.

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Thanks!

What words do you use for 3 against 4? 😀

Thank you for your generous advice ❤

Thanks, I love Bach but play so much different stuff I have a hard time remembering these ornaments. Your explanations are clear. I love that Bach invention no. 4, a great example!

Thanks for the video! I was wondering, what about when the right hand is playing chords with the melody built into the chords? Should we try to emphasize certain fingers of the right hand? If that's possible.

I appreciate you making these videos and sharing your precious knowledge very much. I’ve been having problems with wrist movements, specifically taking my fingers with me which would cause in tense looking hands and I couldn’t even find out what the actual problem was until I came across your videos. I would feel so lucky to be your student❤

One of the worse instru tors I have seen in a while.

Chopin Polonaise in C minor? An exercise in the lightning-fast finger switch to produce the bass legato octaves. Thankfully I can handle octaves between my thumb and middle finger.

Just what I needed to study today 😂❤❤❤

Thank you Dr. Boyd! Perfect timing for me, I am working on this 1st invention! I have the Alfred Intro to Bach Keyboard works as well as the other book for Inventions (they all have the ornament details that you mention being in the WTC book). If you are searching for video topics I would love to hear your take on how to play and read a 3rd voice in pieces. I'm playing almost entirely Baroque music (I'm obsessed) but when I see that 3rd set of stems I get a wave of hopelessness... Perhaps the shifting of the 2nd voice between hands in these Inventions will move me along in understanding.

I don't love Bach music!

I have that same edition of the well tempered clavier and enjoyed their extra details beyond the sheet music itself. Great video.

Wonderful

I have 6 partita and overture in French style by Kalmus. It has a table of embellishments. Two-part inventions has a huge chapter on embellishments. I found those at a thrift store. Guess it was time to give the contrapuntal thing a go.

Why not write the appoggiatura in as an accented note if it takes half the value of the main note?

This is exactly what I needed, Dr. Boyd!

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No problem for me😂

Exactly what I need! Thank you.

Dear Prof your videos are heavier than gold

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thank you for these tutorials you are providing !

Excelent video and excelent summary!

OK what is the fingerings for g with b flat g octive Because I feel like my fingers are literally hurting when I play g with a b flat g octive.

Love your lessons. So clear and informative. Thank you.

thank you so much, you have no idea how stressful it has been for me learning chopin etudes and polonaise op53, i felt like giving up, this really helped

Thanks Professor!

Thank you for teaching me this. It helps a lot. Now I can play it really fast now :)

The second version of Happy Birthday was the Schoenberg version 😂😂😂

Thanks for the video, the PDF link is not working for me.

Fascinating. I did not fully understand the meaning of Legato, and with these examples I feel prepared to practice it properly and with confidence. This is the type of information that is difficult to capture or convey in a textbook or book tutorial, so it really helps. Thanks!

Thanks a lot Prof. Boyd for this intro video to the Dohnányi's Essential Finger Exercises. In a short period of time you gave some really wonderful insights especially on things not to do when it comes to finger exercises. I am really glad and grateful that I have found your YT channel and looking forward to watch all the following Dohnányi's Essential Finger Exercises. Best regards, MaxT 🙏

Very useful information

Thanks for this great video Balance is what I m working on with my teacher It is challenging Every time I crescendo in my melody hand my other hand gets loud too🤪🎶

Thank you, very nice that you talk about struggles, I find them many times,though I am a retired piano teacher,thank you so much❤

Thank you so much, ❤🙋‍♂️

Hello dear Kate. I wrote a question for you in the video "The Thumb in Piano Technique." You probably haven't seen it because it was published years ago. If you could see it, I would greatly appreciate your response; I have high expectations and am waiting to reorient my studies. Thank you very much, once again. @lepatsantisteban

Wow - this is fantastic! I'm learning to play scales, and I'm discovering while doing it that I'm developing an intuitive feel for the shapes of the scales under my fingers on the keyboard, and how to move across the keyboard in those shapes, and this seems like a great way to combine those two things using the transposition method. Also, I find it very interesting that when applying these variations to Hanon (or other exercises involving repeating patterns), I'm much less likely to start daydreaming, or to become focused on speed over quality, I think because the additional demands don't leave room for that to happen (as much). Also, I prefer to practice these with a metronome whenever possible, and I'd like to share personal anecdote about that, since it seems related. I used to hate the metronome, and it felt like a relentless taskmaster, but one day, I decided to think of it as the rhythm section of my own band, and instead of badgering me, it's providing the groove, and it's my choice to either play straight on the beat, or maybe swing it a bit, depending on the music, and that really helped - it feels like a partner now, instead of an adversary .😊 Thanks so much for all of your excellent videos. They continue to be a source of education and also inspiration.

Thank you

Always helpful! I'm working my way through Bartok's Mikrokosmos book 2, which has several pieces emphasizing this skill.

Very helpful! Most online lessons make exercises for balance that are so simple that I've had trouble translating to actual music. Your ideas will better help me I think.

Informative.

Thank you for this! Very helpful as I'm trying to cultivate and control my sound!!!