i'm just sitting here doing nothing, and i then i click on a device that teleports me in all kinds of weirdly wonderful places. what a time to be alive, like truly. you da man dude
Hi, Pur! I recently stumbled upon your channel and I wanted to thank you. Your videos are truly a breath of fresh air. I've been playing for quite a while now and I've been feeling stuck these past weeks. I had a great piano teacher when I was young and safe to say all the theory I've learned is buried deep in my unconscious. You can only get so far without going back to the basics. Amongst all the "2 years of piano progress" and "learn these 36828 chords to never learn chords again" videos that the algorithm brings up incessantly I feel blessed to be able to listen to your nonchalant, super chill and insightful stories, I should call them, about music. Keep it up!! Much love from Bulgaria 🤍💚❤️
This was an excellent video and perfect timing for my musical journey. Played guitar for almost 15 years then stopped. Picking it back up and now trying finding bearings again. This video really hit it home. Thank you
Thank you very much! I began to be interested in composition half a year ago, but I have to admit that online there’re very few pieces of content actually useful. But you, instead, gave us actually useful advices in just a couple of minutes!! I’m looking forward for you future video about composition!!!
this is brilliant!! i’m so glad youtube recommended it to me! thanks for sharing all this information freely. the way you explain things is very accessible and you seem both a humble and wise teacher. very encouraging for a beginner like me. its very much appreciated!
15:12 I was taught the opposite of this - if you're playing rubato, don't rob from Paul to pay Peter... just make up time as if you're the Federal Reverve Bank of time! 2 problems with that: 1 - I'm no authority on romantic piano, and 2 - in my own musical ramblings, I'll do both, but I prefer if it keeps a steady pulse behind it... IOW, I do your suggestion much more, in practice, myself. But I always thought romantic piano wasn't as strict about keeping a rigorous pulse.
Interesting, i think i took the ''else you're a thief'' idea from Nauhaus, maybe it comes from a more russian/german school of piano, which suits my style of playing. Another great idea on the subject is from Glenn Gould, he said something along the lines of : the piano is the poor man's orchestra. So it's not because the pianist CAN slow down and accelerate at will, that he should do it, much like an orchestra that is bound by it's own inertia
I applaud this absolutely fantastic video. As a guitarist with 40 years of 'experience', I think the 5 pillars presented and elaborated on cover all the essential elements a student needs to discover / rediscover the path to musicianship. The equation towards musical greatness is a complex one but if one can improve on (or even control) some of its variables like these 'pillars', then surely reaching the ultimate aim is made much easier.
Pur, your videos have helped me so much. I’m a classically trained pianist and I’ve been having a musical breakthrough for the past year - basically, I’ve been learning to improvise after years of only working on repertoire. Your channel is one of the only sources I’ve found that have put these concepts into easily digestible terms. Please keep up the good work, I’m obsessed with your channel!!! PS: If you could do a video on how to be a better improviser (specifically for classical musicians), I would be over the moon!
Super glad to be of help!! I feel a little bit of impostors syndrome to be talking about improv, as i am classically trained as well. But maybe it would be an interesting angle. Thank you for the comment
Hi, I am a guitarist and I got a lot from your modes video though have a lot of work and experimentation to do before I really get best use of it. Thanks!
Great Pur, really enjoyed this. I’ve been involved with music most of my life and feel now (at 55!) that 2 further pillars I might have benefited from looking into more deeply are music technology/recording, and music business/career administration. Though these fall outside the instrument-based practice you are analyzing so skillfully and clearly, I feel these meta-skills are now necessary accompaniments to any serious musical development program. Thanks again and keep up the great work!
This is so true, when I was studying tremolo on classical guitar, I would naturally make up my own exercises to work on balancing the finger strength between all fingers. Or, when I was studying theory I made up my own chord exercises to cover my understanding of diatonic major and minor triads across the neck. It's literally making the exercise that is the studying more than the exercise itself. Sure drilling the exercise is good, but constructing it forced you to run through the concept thorough enough to be able to make the exercise in the first place. The exercise is greatly lacking when you don't have the context of the composer's experience. 100%
I think you've hit on a lot of stuff there. I teach guitar and sadly most of my students want little more than to learn their favourite songs so we use that as a type of path to learn the skills they need. Nonetheless, I do push one key skill without which no one can really perform well and that is the ability to internalize and hear the music. I think it's what elevates our ability to perform with confidence. Students who for example always need to have a sheet of paper infront of them to guide them and remind them rarely achieve the ability to perform without one and thus start to own the music in the way they need to. I tell them if you wake up in the middle of the night and the music you are learning is echoing through your brain, then you are getting it. I have my students sing as much as possible. It helps. Currently I am trying to develop my sight singing skills to help me accelerate learning from scores and with arranging and composition. Thanks for sharing your concepts. All good.
Do you have any website or apps for ear recognition for orchestral timbres of different instrument and doublings as I am practicing to be an orchestrator ??
In my very humble opinion the one great skill needed by a musician - and certainly a performer in the widest sense of the word - is a stellar musical apophenia: the ability to quickly 'patternize' multisensory inputs, and store, retrieve and decode them. Without this skill, learning any or all of the video's five skillsets will be slow and of limited success and utility.
how does it apply to someone who is a singer/songwriter and arranges their own music? I can read and write music but I'm not an excellent sight-reader, instead my ears are really good as it's more useful to me.
It’s funny how the body unconscious improves your ability without knowing, I am struggling with reading at first sight please help with a video on that being a saxophonist
I'm working through the Piano Marvel online course with my two children. (We are out in Peru, far from good teachers.) It's interesting to see this from the other side, from the teacher's side, how a course is designed. I can see how Piano Marvel is attempting to cover four of your pillars, and I am appreciating the design of it it more and more. Just that the last pillar is completely missing! My biggest concern is that my children do not end up like me: a machine to play sheet music, which whilst fun is also rather limiting. So the tips in the composition section were really interesting, and maybe we can try that. Also, in the technical section, the idea about designing your own exercises was a tip I plan to make use of with them. I also am a fan of learning by doing (a bit like the direct method for language learning). I can support them with little tips to improve their technique or to get them back on track if they're getting lost, but letting them find their own ways to reach the end goal is also interesting. Watching them develop their concentration and the whole psychological side of practice (e.g. each learned error requires ~twice as much effort to correct, so putting in the concentration early pays off) over the last few years has been amazing! Thanks for these videos!
It’s funny how the body unconscious improves your ability without knowing, I am struggling with reading at first sight please help with a video on that
This is great, thank you! I share a free, bite by bite “learn to read music” course on my TH-cam channel in the hopes of making music literacy accessible to all.
Start from ear training. Learn songs by ear. You need as much technical abilities as required to play as much as you can actually hear. Transpose. Then the rest.
Man all of these precautions… count every song because you’re afraid of having a 4/4 feeling in your mind without knowing it, practice everything outside of the context of practical playing because practical playing won’t train you well enough to play practically… classically trained musicians are so neurotic. Guthrie govan learned guitar by playing what he wanted to play, he didn’t sit there and play nonmusical practice exercises
Please never stop making these videos
i'm just sitting here doing nothing, and i then i click on a device that teleports me in all kinds of weirdly wonderful places. what a time to be alive, like truly. you da man dude
✨🪐
Please we need a composition course from you
Best music related video on TH-cam!
Pillar 1: Wear a Frog and Toad sweater.
Hi, Pur!
I recently stumbled upon your channel and I wanted to thank you.
Your videos are truly a breath of fresh air. I've been playing for quite a while now and I've been feeling stuck these past weeks. I had a great piano teacher when I was young and safe to say all the theory I've learned is buried deep in my unconscious. You can only get so far without going back to the basics.
Amongst all the "2 years of piano progress" and "learn these 36828 chords to never learn chords again" videos that the algorithm brings up incessantly I feel blessed to be able to listen to your nonchalant, super chill and insightful stories, I should call them, about music.
Keep it up!! Much love from Bulgaria 🤍💚❤️
The pleasure is mine. Best of luck with the music !
Your account is a hidden goldmine for musicians keep up the amazing work!
This was an excellent video and perfect timing for my musical journey. Played guitar for almost 15 years then stopped. Picking it back up and now trying finding bearings again. This video really hit it home. Thank you
Wishing you the best!!
Thank you very much! I began to be interested in composition half a year ago, but I have to admit that online there’re very few pieces of content actually useful. But you, instead, gave us actually useful advices in just a couple of minutes!! I’m looking forward for you future video about composition!!!
This is great, thank you for watching :)
“Rubato-stealing that creates an imbalance in the force” ❤❤❤😂
Really superusefull
My weaknesses are many! I’m slow, slow and slow. Having poor vision and an arthritic left thumb do not help. But, I love music and learning!
well thought out and well spoken, subscribed and wishing you well
Thank you
this is brilliant!! i’m so glad youtube recommended it to me! thanks for sharing all this information freely. the way you explain things is very accessible and you seem both a humble and wise teacher. very encouraging for a beginner like me. its very much appreciated!
Thank you for watching and commenting :)
BEST Channel in yt
Sigh, thanks for this great video. I wish I ran into your channel 30 years ago.
These videos are sick. Thanks!
15:12 I was taught the opposite of this - if you're playing rubato, don't rob from Paul to pay Peter... just make up time as if you're the Federal Reverve Bank of time!
2 problems with that: 1 - I'm no authority on romantic piano, and 2 - in my own musical ramblings, I'll do both, but I prefer if it keeps a steady pulse behind it... IOW, I do your suggestion much more, in practice, myself. But I always thought romantic piano wasn't as strict about keeping a rigorous pulse.
Actually it depends.... with blues, I'll stretch time out too
Interesting, i think i took the ''else you're a thief'' idea from Nauhaus, maybe it comes from a more russian/german school of piano, which suits my style of playing. Another great idea on the subject is from Glenn Gould, he said something along the lines of : the piano is the poor man's orchestra. So it's not because the pianist CAN slow down and accelerate at will, that he should do it, much like an orchestra that is bound by it's own inertia
Such great tips! Imagine you are singing the notes.....😊
u provide really good content dude, keep doing it how u are cus no one else really is
I applaud this absolutely fantastic video. As a guitarist with 40 years of 'experience', I think the 5 pillars presented and elaborated on cover all the essential elements a student needs to discover / rediscover the path to musicianship. The equation towards musical greatness is a complex one but if one can improve on (or even control) some of its variables like these 'pillars', then surely reaching the ultimate aim is made much easier.
Thank you, wise words :)
Another gem for me to digest slowly
your channel is so wonderful im incredibly stoked i found it !!
Fantastic video man 👍
Thanks, will try to aplly this thoughs on guitar
Great video. Also very impressed with your delivery, word choice, and tone.
Pur, your videos have helped me so much. I’m a classically trained pianist and I’ve been having a musical breakthrough for the past year - basically, I’ve been learning to improvise after years of only working on repertoire. Your channel is one of the only sources I’ve found that have put these concepts into easily digestible terms. Please keep up the good work, I’m obsessed with your channel!!!
PS: If you could do a video on how to be a better improviser (specifically for classical musicians), I would be over the moon!
Super glad to be of help!! I feel a little bit of impostors syndrome to be talking about improv, as i am classically trained as well. But maybe it would be an interesting angle. Thank you for the comment
This is an amazing video! Thank you!
Awesome video, man! Cheers from Brazil! ❤
your vids are awesome man please keep making content 🤘🏽
Hi, I am a guitarist and I got a lot from your modes video though have a lot of work and experimentation to do before I really get best use of it. Thanks!
Amazing glad to help and keep it up
Great Pur, really enjoyed this. I’ve been involved with music most of my life and feel now (at 55!) that 2 further pillars I might have benefited from looking into more deeply are music technology/recording, and music business/career administration. Though these fall outside the instrument-based practice you are analyzing so skillfully and clearly, I feel these meta-skills are now necessary accompaniments to any serious musical development program. Thanks again and keep up the great work!
This is so true, when I was studying tremolo on classical guitar, I would naturally make up my own exercises to work on balancing the finger strength between all fingers. Or, when I was studying theory I made up my own chord exercises to cover my understanding of diatonic major and minor triads across the neck. It's literally making the exercise that is the studying more than the exercise itself. Sure drilling the exercise is good, but constructing it forced you to run through the concept thorough enough to be able to make the exercise in the first place. The exercise is greatly lacking when you don't have the context of the composer's experience. 100%
Very comprehensive. Thanks
These are valuable pespectives that should teach more instead of predefined old concepts
Hell yeah bro. I haven't watched it yet but this is the exact video i need
Yet another inspirational video, bravo!! 🎉 And your web-page is very nice too 😊
Merry Christmas from Finland! 🎄🕯️💚
Great video. Exactly what I needed to hear. Subd.
Your videos are incredible, thanks so much! I wish so badly that I had been told to write music earlier. At least I am now!
I think you've hit on a lot of stuff there. I teach guitar and sadly most of my students want little more than to learn their favourite songs so we use that as a type of path to learn the skills they need. Nonetheless, I do push one key skill without which no one can really perform well and that is the ability to internalize and hear the music. I think it's what elevates our ability to perform with confidence. Students who for example always need to have a sheet of paper infront of them to guide them and remind them rarely achieve the ability to perform without one and thus start to own the music in the way they need to.
I tell them if you wake up in the middle of the night and the music you are learning is echoing through your brain, then you are getting it. I have my students sing as much as possible. It helps. Currently I am trying to develop my sight singing skills to help me accelerate learning from scores and with arranging and composition.
Thanks for sharing your concepts. All good.
Yes I doubt many of my students hear the music in their mind at night, but so many good ideas come from there. on point!
Do you have any website or apps for ear recognition for orchestral timbres of different instrument and doublings as I am practicing to be an orchestrator ??
I don’t unfortunately, but I’d love to find one
@@purpasteur oh ok thanks for replying Merry Christmas
In my very humble opinion the one great skill needed by a musician - and certainly a performer in the widest sense of the word - is a stellar musical apophenia: the ability to quickly 'patternize' multisensory inputs, and store, retrieve and decode them. Without this skill, learning any or all of the video's five skillsets will be slow and of limited success and utility.
Very interesting, never heard this word
how does it apply to someone who is a singer/songwriter and arranges their own music? I can read and write music but I'm not an excellent sight-reader, instead my ears are really good as it's more useful to me.
However you find it useful to apply it :) this is just my own perspective
It’s funny how the body unconscious improves your ability without knowing, I am struggling with reading at first sight please help with a video on that being a saxophonist
I'm working through the Piano Marvel online course with my two children. (We are out in Peru, far from good teachers.) It's interesting to see this from the other side, from the teacher's side, how a course is designed. I can see how Piano Marvel is attempting to cover four of your pillars, and I am appreciating the design of it it more and more. Just that the last pillar is completely missing! My biggest concern is that my children do not end up like me: a machine to play sheet music, which whilst fun is also rather limiting. So the tips in the composition section were really interesting, and maybe we can try that. Also, in the technical section, the idea about designing your own exercises was a tip I plan to make use of with them. I also am a fan of learning by doing (a bit like the direct method for language learning). I can support them with little tips to improve their technique or to get them back on track if they're getting lost, but letting them find their own ways to reach the end goal is also interesting. Watching them develop their concentration and the whole psychological side of practice (e.g. each learned error requires ~twice as much effort to correct, so putting in the concentration early pays off) over the last few years has been amazing! Thanks for these videos!
Thank you for this great input. Wishing you and your kids the best.
It’s funny how the body unconscious improves your ability without knowing, I am struggling with reading at first sight please help with a video on that
Good going
This is great, thank you! I share a free, bite by bite “learn to read music” course on my TH-cam channel in the hopes of making music literacy accessible to all.
Hey been digging the videos! As a viewer it could be helpful if you added time stamps! Happy holidays this channel is sick thanks
True I forgot thanks :)
Ruisseau de sagesse, thx
Start from ear training. Learn songs by ear. You need as much technical abilities as required to play as much as you can actually hear. Transpose. Then the rest.
Totally valid approach
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My Brain hurts, Thank you, LOL.
being able to jam with others, improvisation, recording, playing live, publishing, marketing.... also, i love Ultimate Guitar App
Ps. Can you hear the song in your head? Important skill!
Can do the first 2 but not the rest and a lil bit of live play but not good at it
@@almightyminataur4000 persistance is the ultimate skill:)
1 of the 3 p’s
Persistence
Passion
Practice
Man all of these precautions… count every song because you’re afraid of having a 4/4 feeling in your mind without knowing it, practice everything outside of the context of practical playing because practical playing won’t train you well enough to play practically… classically trained musicians are so neurotic. Guthrie govan learned guitar by playing what he wanted to play, he didn’t sit there and play nonmusical practice exercises
To each his or her own approach to music making. Wishing you well on your own journey
Wheres my coffee cup?
What about me T shirt.
Sleeveless
Lol
Cool merch coming up in 2024 actually :)
Et cetera. You’re adding an h.
I'm saying a french version
@@purpasteur there is no h in the French version either. You’re mispronouncing the word.
@@purpasteur it’s a Latin word. No h.
you lost me at “practice”
It's gone from the title now ;)