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I love your vibes u really funny (attractive) 😊

Burnt orange is a real color (just ask the folks at Crayola). Side question: how often should TH-camrs tune their pianos? Depending on how often you post new videos it can get expensive!

Your are so funny. We must be a like mixed nuts.

Thanks for your great tips. You're graphic editing is really good!

Well, let's see how this is going in a few years. I understand your own positive experience influences your view of this parent. I suppose it's a bit like actually being taught by a pianist parent, which is a big advantage.

On the subject of "sleeping on it," does this still work if I go on to practice other music?

I have often thought that sometimes talent is simply the desire to do.

Thanks for another great process video. If I’ve missed it, sorry. I don’t think I’ve seen a video about how you discern the chords. I’m still wrangling with that.

Very unexpected and fresh point of view on the memorizing issue! Very motivating and taking away all that stress associated with memorizing and recalling. Thank you!

Every morning I wake, and go to TH-cam music. It’s not long until inspiration has hit. As I have listened so much more with the kids grown and gone, I find playing be ear has vastly improved as well as singing. We were in church Sunday and I was stunned to be singing all around the key, like my own jazz pattern. I always had the ability to sing harmony but it was sometimes hard to hear. Listening makes an incredible difference! By the way, my fav pianists to listen to are Emile Pandolfi and Beegie Adair.

Very instructive.

Fascinating story! I suspect being passionate about teaching is what makes a great teacher, not musical talent or virtuosity. I had opportunities to make money teaching in two of my careers and I hated every minute!

I love this and thank you so much! I’m new into classical, and will be attacking this asap! Really appreciate your videos on it!!!!

Wow, does that resonate with me! I think you learn so much by teaching. I have my first student soon. She’s an adult waitress at a restaurant we like. We’ve chatted as she seemed to wait on us weekly. She is buying a keyboard over the Christmas holiday, and we start lessons in a few weeks. I have no idea where to begin. I kinda of think theory first. How to play the piano with no music. But reading music is such a valuable skill. I was so excited that she wanted to learn, I said I would do it for free. Already learned my first lesson; never say that! Congratulations on doing what you love!!

Excellent advice Alyson! Thank you.

Dynamite video! How do analyze your pieces harmonically--or do you?

Thanks for your excellent video!

Thanks for your informative demonstration!

Now play Sorabji.

Impressive video, Alyson's Piano Studio. Looking forward to your next upload. I hit the thumbs up symbol on your content. Keep up the fantastic work. Your insights on the forgetting curve and its implications for musicianship were truly enlightening! How do you suggest balancing the need to memorize pieces with the understanding that forgetting can be beneficial in the learning process?

You mentioned Amazing Grace. I will never forget Amazing Grace along with thousands of other songs because I would never be intetested in playing an exact arrangement of Amazing Grace or even an exact set of chords even though the 1 4 1 5 is pretty standard. The melody is etched in my mind much deeper than anything I’ve ever memorized and even though I couldn’t tell you the exact notes from memory I could tell you the exact notes by sounding them out using relative pitch and then I could improvise harmony based on the melody. When a song doesn’t have to be exact it can easily be unforgettable using the skill of relative pitch and improv

All good. But I want a 10h video of the cat relaxing

What a fun video! I think the key word is maintenaince. By the end of my first two years I learned that I could have eight pop songs going, IF I practised each one for half an hour a day, seven days a week. My reading wasn't good enough to keep my eyes on the score as I played, so it was mostly muscle memory. I never got one piece hesitation-free. So that motivated me to try the fluency training I spent four years on. Now sight-reading is my top priority. I'd rather play lots of short new pieces than have a big impressive one forever. Performing flawlessly for others is off the table. At 73 my memory in everyday life sucks, so when I'm learning a piece I think about familiarity, understanding, clarity. The better I see the big picture, the similarities and variations in sections, the easier this forever reading becomes. My goal is always to know where my fingers are and have my eyes there on the score. I do not want to 'relax and play automatically'.

This was an incredibly well made and edited video. Congrats. You keep this up and hopefully your viewership will skyrocket.

I am here posting my comment again. I finished my first Piano Book Piano Notion by Bobby cyr! I started learning piano few months ago! I ordered The Adult Piano Adventures All-in-One Piano Course Book 1 (SPIRAL BOUND) to be able to open the pages better! 😁 Other comment was Make a video of myths about learning piano for example, I have heard many times you cannot learn piano as an ADULT! MY comments were removed because I changed my Gmail to upload ESL (English as a Second Language) content well I AM NEW on this hahaha.. only if you wonder why my messages were deleted xd

I started playing piano 6 years ago I am 64, I can remember most of the songs I am playing now but I find that I don't remember like some songs in the middle of the music even if I play it over and over but it's not all. You talk about remembering things well my son will tell me oh we seen or that happened at such and such a time and place when he was 3 and up and he's 25, I wish he would try piano but he rather quiz me and his mom on history and movies, by the way Alyson I love your videos and especially the one on site reading. I had two piano teacher that never said anything about sight reading scales or other thing just wanted me to play songs out of piano adventures, left them and been self teaching with all the videos on youtube and i really lover yours, so keep up the good work.

May have to something with entropy?

Hi friend, thanks for the Vid! 😊

As an aside, do you benefit from the ads? I usually skip them but won't if you get revenue from them.

Found you a few weeks ago and mesmerized! You look like a mini me, you talk like a mini me, and your passion is like old me. The way you break this down gives me such hope! I wish you were my neighbor! We would definitely get along on my two pianos! (Benefits to a life long love of piano.). This is so beautiful in so many ways! Working on Chopin Valse #10, pretty new into the classical world. I have the piano, the time, and the passion. Your videos are awesome! Thank you!!!

Thanks for your video Alyson but way too much information about cutting down trees with spins or anything else. I was really interested in the scientific part though.

How does a person remember a piece a year after learning it without playing it occasionally?

Love Gershwin. Thanks for playing his music.

When she said, "Everybody knows what an A major chord is..." I looked at my wife, she looked at me and we just smiled. Lol

She would be an excellent trial court attorney.

Nahre Sol is terrific.

Now Im sure what only the aliens can remember any piano concerto in several hundred pages.

thank you! i never knew what the middle one was for, and i always thought the left was simply the "softer pedal for practice". both memorization videos were fantastic, and i can't wait to see more uploads. only question i have: how often do you write down what you've learned onto physical manuscript paper? i find it extremely helpful when memorizing music, i wonder if it's the same for you.

Oh Jesus .. Christ ... Please ..don't play games with people's minds you need to study the notes to learn the chords and scales get your butt on the stool and practice songs as fast as you can . Every day for a while it's a journey ..

Well, I don't read music and have no interest in learning at this point so I have no option other than to memorize. I do have notes that I jot down that only I understand, but it's mostly just memorizing.

Hi Alyson, great lesson. You're really good at this teaching stuff. 👍 I just subscribed. You know, it's a funny thing for me (funny as in "curious and interesting" not funny "ha ha") how Chopin's music goes. Some of his pieces (Etude in E Major, for instance. Opus 10-3) are so hauntingly beautiful that they regularly give me goose bumps when I play certain passages. It happens almost every time. Music has the ability to instantly bypass all your conscious defenses and cut straight to the core of your soul. It's really something!!

Your piano is out of tune 😞

Thanks. I'll slow down.

You'll have ten million subscribers in no time.

Very interesting content!

Thank you very much for a very detailed and useful explanation 👍 .

I'm now inspired to attempt this piece. I've never analysed music to the level that you do which probably accounts for my poor sight reading skills. I'll make it my New Year's resolution 😊

I know you meant well but this is just too much science for most piano players. Simple is good

Another great and practical lesson! Thank you! May I ask what piano model is that, that you have, please?

She seems concept-oriented which is a good quality.