I bought the whole video and omg!! Best money I’ve ever spent!! It’s nice to see we agree on lots of ideas!! I guess I didn’t waste my time getting my masters degree in piano performance and composition after all!💕❤️Bless you! And thank you so so much!! I can’t wait to revive this piece now and play it better than ever before!! I played it for my graduate recital a long time ago and I’ve wanted to revive it since 2004!! You gave me the impetus! So grateful to have found you!!❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
YO JOSH! this too is my favourite piece ever written! You deserve more subscribers and views on your videos, your tips are very helpful for anyone trying to play the piano, experienced or not. Keep it up!
eFuss Tacos Thank you so much. Isn't this piece the best?! I'm playing all of the Ballades this Friday for my last doctoral recital...I think they are some of the finest pieces ever written
6:30 gold! Absolutely appreciative that you brought this up that you can play differently and that Chopin himself changed his style time to time- it was in the book of Chopin life (I will find the author name). I JUST posted similar vlog about "hidden melodies" in the Ballade gminor. It was part of my 100 day challenge and at day 10 mark.
These are great lessons for those that are learning new pieces or want to refine old favorites. With most private lessons running around $1 / minute, an hour lesson for a few dollars is well worth it! Thanks Josh for all your existing free videos on technique as well as this new more in-depth performance series. This piece is one of my favorites and I have some new drills and interpretive ideas to try out.
I'll definitely check out at least 4 of these ProPractice videos (including this one, of course)... I can't do it right now, but I'll do it in a couple days.
Have you played it? That last movement!!! I played that sonata for my graduate recital and I got soooo nervous before the last movement, I thought I might have to improvise the ending lol!! Loooove that piece!! Played both the ballade and the sonata in a recital and my god, I would never do both in the same recital, even though they are soooo gorgeous!!♥️
Just bought this video yesterday. I've found it very helpful (with all the tips) especially your suggestions on pedalling for different passages. I hope I'll be able to "master" this piece soon. Thank you (from Thailand)!
This has been at the top of my list of Chopin as well! I had the excruciating pleasure of being able to play this in a master class with Gyorgy Sandor while at U of M many moons ago!
@@aritina8379 Are you suggesting these details don't matter? Because they do. I've only played the 4th Ballade, not the 1st, so I can't answer your other question, which isn't relevant anyway so I don't know why you brought it up.
He misspoke- I’m sure he knows what a neopolitan chord is. But it bothered the crap out of me that you thought it was necessary to be a smart ass and correct him. As if! Good for you that you know your theory! I have 10 year olds students who know what a Neapolitan chord is but that doesn’t mean they can play like this man! Instead of correcting, why not pay him a compliment? Or do you feel better about yourself when you correct someone like him? THAT is what pissed me off if you must know. Well... maybe pissed is going too far. Annoyed is more appropriate. I have students like you- and I welcome corrections in a classroom setting but here... it’s just a tiny douchy sorry to say (the comment, NOT you!)
@@aritina8379 If a simple comment like this makes you think someone is a massive "smartass", then all I can say is that you really need to calm down and stop overreacting. Otherwise this will come up again. For you, not for me.
@@aritina8379 He never said that Josh doesn't know what a Neapolitan II is, nor did he say that it annoyed or bothered him or that he wanted to prove himself or whatever, he just corrected his (surely accidental) error in speech, I just think it's innappropriate to presume OP's intentions/emotions and criticise him on the basis of an assumption
yonanz Dear Yonanz - I just fixed a bunch of organizational issues on it yesterday and it's up and running again :) Let me know what you think of the Lessons and Store page (those are the ones I redid). Hopefully it's easier for you to locate what you're looking for. www.joshwrightpiano.com/lessons
Hold on! We barely got through page one! As a ham fisted keyboard disaster, I can derive what I need here from recordings by the real pianists. Where I need help is in the technical difficulties that come later. Josh--where in your fine tutorials can I find this?
There are a couple of things I don't understand that I'm hoping someone can enlighten me: 1) the same notes are tied in the eg. bars 9 onwards, but each note is played... I thought we are supposed to hold notes that are the same if they are tied? 2) the notes in that same section is marked stacatto with no pedalling and rests everywhere, but all the pro pianists I've ever listened to (including Josh and Rubinstein) play it with pedal and not staccato, why is that? Thanks for any insights.
Honestly great video until it ended 8 bars in. Please put warnings at the beginning that you're only covering the easiest part of the piece so folks don't waste their time, thanks
3:30: "My way isn't the right way, its simply one way"
the Wright way :)
Maybe you could help me brand my next series...The Wright Way To Warm Up or something haha
+Josh Wright HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hahahahahahahaha nice one
ahahahahahahahahahhahahahah
I bought the whole video and omg!! Best money I’ve ever spent!! It’s nice to see we agree on lots of ideas!! I guess I didn’t waste my time getting my masters degree in piano performance and composition after all!💕❤️Bless you! And thank you so so much!! I can’t wait to revive this piece now and play it better than ever before!! I played it for my graduate recital a long time ago and I’ve wanted to revive it since 2004!! You gave me the impetus! So grateful to have found you!!❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
YO JOSH! this too is my favourite piece ever written!
You deserve more subscribers and views on your videos, your tips are very helpful for anyone trying to play the piano, experienced or not. Keep it up!
eFuss Tacos Thank you so much. Isn't this piece the best?! I'm playing all of the Ballades this Friday for my last doctoral recital...I think they are some of the finest pieces ever written
Good luck! And yes, Chopin was a genius, his music brings tears to my eyes every time (in a good way)!
THIS BALLADE WAS CHOPIN'S FAVOURITE AS WELL
6:30 gold! Absolutely appreciative that you brought this up that you can play differently and that Chopin himself changed his style time to time- it was in the book of Chopin life (I will find the author name). I JUST posted similar vlog about "hidden melodies" in the Ballade gminor. It was part of my 100 day challenge and at day 10 mark.
These are great lessons for those that are learning new pieces or want to refine old favorites. With most private lessons running around $1 / minute, an hour lesson for a few dollars is well worth it! Thanks Josh for all your existing free videos on technique as well as this new more in-depth performance series. This piece is one of my favorites and I have some new drills and interpretive ideas to try out.
L Chip Thank you so much for the kind words. I really appreciate it
I'll definitely check out at least 4 of these ProPractice videos (including this one, of course)... I can't do it right now, but I'll do it in a couple days.
Thank you for the support :)
Josh Wright Just bought 5 videos. Thanks for the amazing lessons I'm just about to watch :)
This and the Sonata in Bb minor funeral are my favorite as well.
Have you played it? That last movement!!! I played that sonata for my graduate recital and I got soooo nervous before the last movement, I thought I might have to improvise the ending lol!! Loooove that piece!! Played both the ballade and the sonata in a recital and my god, I would never do both in the same recital, even though they are soooo gorgeous!!♥️
Hey Josh, any chance you could do a pro practice video for La Campenella?
Just bought this video yesterday. I've found it very helpful (with all the tips) especially your suggestions on pedalling for different passages. I hope I'll be able to "master" this piece soon. Thank you (from Thailand)!
Bordin Chinda I'm so glad to hear that Bordin. I appreciate your support very much
This has been at the top of my list of Chopin as well! I had the excruciating pleasure of being able to play this in a master class with Gyorgy Sandor while at U of M many moons ago!
David Marcum That guy really knew his stuff. I would have really liked to see that
that 3 people disliking this pro practice is either cant play the piano or doesnt speak english
Sandor was in a league of his own and had the last room down at the end of the hall!
In G minor, the Eb major triad isn't the Neapolitan II chord, it's chord VI. The Neapolitian II would of course be Ab major.
Well good for you. Does the theory knowledge also help play like him?
@@aritina8379 Are you suggesting these details don't matter? Because they do. I've only played the 4th Ballade, not the 1st, so I can't answer your other question, which isn't relevant anyway so I don't know why you brought it up.
He misspoke- I’m sure he knows what a neopolitan chord is. But it bothered the crap out of me that you thought it was necessary to be a smart ass and correct him. As if! Good for you that you know your theory! I have 10 year olds students who know what a Neapolitan chord is but that doesn’t mean they can play like this man! Instead of correcting, why not pay him a compliment? Or do you feel better about yourself when you correct someone like him? THAT is what pissed me off if you must know. Well... maybe pissed is going too far. Annoyed is more appropriate. I have students like you- and I welcome corrections in a classroom setting but here... it’s just a tiny douchy sorry to say (the comment, NOT you!)
@@aritina8379 If a simple comment like this makes you think someone is a massive "smartass", then all I can say is that you really need to calm down and stop overreacting. Otherwise this will come up again. For you, not for me.
@@aritina8379 He never said that Josh doesn't know what a Neapolitan II is, nor did he say that it annoyed or bothered him or that he wanted to prove himself or whatever, he just corrected his (surely accidental) error in speech, I just think it's innappropriate to presume OP's intentions/emotions and criticise him on the basis of an assumption
mr wright can u pls post the full tutorial of this piece ..plz
He wants you to buy the rest of it!
Hey Josh. PLEASE do a Pro practive video of Toccata from Pour le piano by Debussy. PLEASE
this is brilliant. love from israel
Dear Josh,
Great preview. I wanted to purchase the full video on your website but your website is down. Could you fix that? Thank you.
yonanz Dear Yonanz - I just fixed a bunch of organizational issues on it yesterday and it's up and running again :) Let me know what you think of the Lessons and Store page (those are the ones I redid). Hopefully it's easier for you to locate what you're looking for. www.joshwrightpiano.com/lessons
Hold on! We barely got through page one! As a ham fisted keyboard disaster, I can derive what I need here from recordings by the real pianists. Where I need help is in the technical difficulties that come later. Josh--where in your fine tutorials can I find this?
There are a couple of things I don't understand that I'm hoping someone can enlighten me: 1) the same notes are tied in the eg. bars 9 onwards, but each note is played... I thought we are supposed to hold notes that are the same if they are tied? 2) the notes in that same section is marked stacatto with no pedalling and rests everywhere, but all the pro pianists I've ever listened to (including Josh and Rubinstein) play it with pedal and not staccato, why is that? Thanks for any insights.
1) All the held notes end before they're replayed. 2) My score is marked with pedal, no staccato notes there.
hello Josh if i click on the link i can not go to your site cookies ???
Honestly great video until it ended 8 bars in. Please put warnings at the beginning that you're only covering the easiest part of the piece so folks don't waste their time, thanks