One Scale, Thirteen Ways to Play it: Articulation Types Road Map
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2024
- There are much more ways to produce the sound, especially when it comes to extreme loud and soft playing. But types that I mention here, including different types of legato, staccato, non-legato, portato, tenuto, and leggiero, are the most common in piano playing, and will allow you to produce enough expressiveness for the waste majority of pieces, and therefore worth refreshing.
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#staccato #legato #tenuto
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My summary and what I understood:
--- Time: 00:00
Pianist Denis Zhdanov: This is not a conclusive presentation of all ways of articulation. It is also a very personal view.
(1) --- Time: 00:21--- Non-Legato
Release the finger before you hit the next key. Try to hit key vertically, motion goes down straight to the bottom of the key.
(2) + (3) --- Time: 01:02 --- Portato (pull and push)
Portato is indicated in the score as a slur over a group of notes with staccato dots under the slur.
Portato Pull: Fingers are moved towards the body, hit the key and slide on it, but it is an almost not noticeable movement. Always the wrist bounces a little bit.
Portato Push: You slide on the key with a movement away from the body. Also, this movement is not noticeable in the end.
The difference of Portato and Non-Legato is that more weight is applied, and the key is kind of "massaged".
(4) --- Time: 02:24 --- Tenuto
Tenuto is like portato, but fingers are released in a very controlled manner. Instead of releasing the finger as in portato, the wrist is pulled away while the finger wants to stay on the key a bit longer. There is a smoother end to the sound. There is a kind of diminuendo at the end of each sound. The damper covers the strings a bit slower.
(5) --- Time: 03:28 --- Tenuto and Legato
Same as tenuto but release the key only when the next key is hit.
(6) --- Time: 03:42 --- Classical Legato
Appropriate for Baroque and Classical music, Bach, Mozart, Haydn, ... Release the finger exactly when hitting the next key.
(7) + (8) --- Time: 04:07 --- Romantic Legato (push and pull)
More appropriate for Chopin, Debussy, Brahms, etc. Release finger later so that the sounds slightly overlap, but not for too long. Legato also can be divided into Legato Push and Legato Pull. Usually, it helps to flatten the fingers a bit. In classical legato they are more curved.
(9) --- Time: 05:54 --- Finger Staccato
There are many ways to play staccato. Most important is to release fingers immediately. For Finger staccato hold fingers in a flattened way, curve fingers quickly.
(My remarks from Elina Akselrud lessons: "As if a cat wants to scratch a surface quickly".)
(10) --- Time: 06:35 --- Wrist Staccato
This gives a stronger sound. But it is not just a down-up movement of the wrist, but has a rotational movement included. For fingers 1-3 hand rotates a bit to the right and rotates back. Weaker fingers 4 and 5 and in comfortable position might rotate counterclockwise. Fingers have a stable position using the wrist to hit the keys.
(11) --- Time: 07:56 --- Forearm Staccato
A more powerful staccato used in more modern music, Prokofiev, Ligeti, etc. It might sound very rough. For scales it does not work as well, but for chords.
(12) --- Time: 08:25 --- Baroque Staccato
Baroque staccato is a special topic which is not discussed here in depth. Mainly, the duration of a note is cut shorter (into half). The tone ends in a precise way. The damper covers the string immediately after the note is finished. The sharp ending of the note gives and impression of staccato.
(13) --- Time: 09:47 --- Light Glissando-like playing
With light glissando we do not reach the bottom of the key. In Debussy's music there are a lot of such ways of playing. Or there are leggiero marks in Chopin's scores, or he wrote "small notes". Here we need to find a special and light touch. A lot of sensitivity on fingertips needs to be developed. The hand is moving more horizontally.
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This your video is a condensed lesson with lots of information. It is a very good lesson with perfect video shots of details. For my memory it is helpful when I also write about it and reference it... I know how much time goes into such tutorials. Thank you...
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Wow. 10 years of piano study in only 11 minutes. A reference video to bookmark and come back to often.
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I'm a beginner and I"m just stunned by the depth of this topic. Absolutely phenomenal demonstrations.
4:12 ohhhh my heart is melting 🥺
The smile you had when you mentioned romantic composers 😊
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I guess that because I felt hurt, I ended up staying away completely from music and now I'm trying to catch up and also heal a truma with music.
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A great explanation of the techniques!!! Thank you‼
Thank you very much!
You are a gifted teacher. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Excellent and extremely valuable tutorial. Clear explanations.
I don't understand how you reach such a speed for the glissando technique.
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Thanks so much, this was an amazing explanation that I couldn’t find anywhere else until I found this video!!
Love these but this one needs louder audio
Thanks very much for this detailed lesson about piano touch. I wish I have the time to be your student.
Very interesting, thank you!
Super helpful! Thank you!
Thanks! Great explanations!
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Excellent video, as always ❤👏🫶🏻
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Fabulous content! I’ve watched several videos of yours. The instructions are concise and full of humor. Thank you for the great work.
Perfect summary of piano touching tecniques. Great job! So helpful for all piano students. I love it! Thank you so much! You are a great teacher!
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Can you do a video with exercises for piano dynamics? Like passages that have crescendos and so on
Good idea, thanks. There some hints here and there in my tutorials, especially in later videos with pieces tutorials, but probably I should do a separate video sometime.
Thank you for the very helpful tutorial. I wonder if I misunderstood that part, the wrist staccato actually becomes the forearm staccato, because the movement takes place from the elbow with rotation. Since the wrist is released, it moves in the form of a reaction to movement. Is not it?
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Wow amazing video! Which touches are appropriate for playing fast passages?
Depends on how you can minimize your movements and what is fast. Of course there might be no time to make broad movements like arm staccato, but all the other types might work in a pretty rapid tempo, if motions are well coordinated and there is no unnecessary tension. But for extremely fast ones a glissando style light playing and normal legato work best
Mr. Zhdanov, your videos are excellent ! I think the mic has some contact with the piano and it is generating noise! Thank you for your lessons.
Yes the older videos are not great technically.
When and how to practically used these techniques? So many variations but the application is hard to decide where to apply each.
At the professional level we use a combination of common rules, tradition, and personal taste to decide on articulation of the spot in case there are no composer’s marks. For piano learners however there are many learning editions where an editor suggests how to play the piece, in case there are no composer’s suggestions like in Bach
Hey... When to use portato push and pull in a piece? Theres some indication in the sheet music for each one? Thank u
There is no official rule, it depends on physiology and comfort mainly, and can vary from player to player. I treat it as two different touches because I actively use what is called -in and -out motions for achieving a more efficient playing experience.
What kind of effect, sound-wise, is one trying to achieve with portato marking? Detached but not percussive?
It adds also to the gestural / body-language impression when you look at a player. Think of dropping Yoga balls (portato) vs gail (staccato)
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Thank you, but there are plenty of amazingly masterful folks in every country!
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