Excelente interpretación de una conocida canción navideña y lo has hecho con tu acostumbrada calidad, me ha gustado mucho Elena, felicidades y hasta pronto, like 3
I love the variations on the main theme. This is a really fun piece. I will add something more on it tomorrow to add another aspect of harmony-jazz as differentiated from traditional harmonic structure. I've had cold for the last week since I got back from my daughters. Lights out here. Will make the note tomorrow, something to belabor a little. You did a great job again. Love watching the eye and hearing the ear candy. Oh, and your hands are not awkward at all, they seem quite smooth to me. You are quite a musician. Later.
Hope you feel better soon! When it's dark so early, I just want to sleep all the time. I did like this version too! Very "swing-y"! My joints sometimes do awkward things--my ring finger sometimes randomly locks, I've never figured out why!
@@elenafortinmusic Feeling much better, not 100% but probably 95%; long slog. I noticed that on R 4. From your camera angle I can't see LH as well. We are a different, unique snowflake design from the Chief Designer. I have something unique about my hands. I have a congenital condition called "clinidactyly"-one or more fingers curve toward the pinky, in my case both RL 2 and 3, not extreme but very apparent, only on each hand, like a mirror image. Discovered it about 3-4 years ago when basic technique remake caused me to watch my hand action closely on scales, arps, some passages, etc. It does come into play: as I attempt to raise my fingers straight up and straight down, they curve off toward the pinky with arm weight; hook into the next key going toward the pinky and trail on the tip side going away from the pinky. Fingers are slender so it really shows. I've adjusted to it. Everybody has someting if you look close enough. It's why I celebrate diversity on all levels. Horowitz' last finger joints turned upward, making him appear to be playing more on the pads than he really was. People don't generally celebrate diversity as strength of humanity and our lives together. Side bar: I love Ottawa's stance on the incoming pOTUS.
@@DavidMiller-bp7et It's why I think there isn't one technique that fits all... I do find the RH locks if I have a lot of very wide-spread chords or if I've been playing organ for a bit. Sometimes when it locks during live performance, I end up playing with 4 fingers! My left hand doesn't do it. My pinkie actually bends TOWARDS the rest of the fingers. I love watching Horowitz play! (His Carmen Variations are one of my favourites) As for watching Ottawa politics--a little less love... lol.
@@elenafortinmusic It's why we see such differing styles even among the top tier world stars. Denis Zdanov is not a brilliant and fun teacher, he plays brilliantly, yet, and I have told him so, he plays with more ulnar deviation than any great player I have ever seen; I couldn't do it. That much deviation with wide web between 1 and 2 gives me a lot of tension; he doesn't flinch or explain it. I think it has to do with releasing all tension as soon as the hand starts to lift off the board. He can play with such velocity. all with his hands cocked outward. Remarkable. His wife, Elina Akselrud, has a completely different look, virtually no noticeable ulnar deviation, always aligned thru the middle knuckle to the finger tip of 3; she is with him as he is on the piano faculty at Graz. There is such incredible deviation between great players throughout history, like fingering, it's an individual thing after the very basics. Amazing in all things how people get to great results via different pathways.
@@DavidMiller-bp7et It's a amazing how much we can learn from each other. I love that TH-cam gives us access to so many performers! You are really good at observing and analyzing!
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Excelente interpretación de una conocida canción navideña y lo has hecho con tu acostumbrada calidad, me ha gustado mucho Elena, felicidades y hasta pronto, like 3
¡Me alegra que hayas disfrutado este! ¡Siempre es divertido encontrar un buen arreglo de un viejo clásico!
I love the variations on the main theme. This is a really fun piece. I will add something more on it tomorrow to add another aspect of harmony-jazz as differentiated from traditional harmonic structure. I've had cold for the last week since I got back from my daughters. Lights out here. Will make the note tomorrow, something to belabor a little. You did a great job again. Love watching the eye and hearing the ear candy. Oh, and your hands are not awkward at all, they seem quite smooth to me. You are quite a musician. Later.
Hope you feel better soon! When it's dark so early, I just want to sleep all the time. I did like this version too! Very "swing-y"! My joints sometimes do awkward things--my ring finger sometimes randomly locks, I've never figured out why!
@@elenafortinmusic Feeling much better, not 100% but probably 95%; long slog. I noticed that on R 4. From your camera angle I can't see LH as well. We are a different, unique snowflake design from the Chief Designer. I have something unique about my hands.
I have a congenital condition called "clinidactyly"-one or more fingers curve toward the pinky, in my case both RL 2 and 3, not extreme but very apparent, only on each hand, like a mirror image. Discovered it about 3-4 years ago when basic technique remake caused me to watch my hand action closely on scales, arps, some passages, etc. It does come into play: as I attempt to raise my fingers straight up and straight down, they curve off toward the pinky with arm weight; hook into the next key going toward the pinky and trail on the tip side going away from the pinky. Fingers are slender so it really shows. I've adjusted to it.
Everybody has someting if you look close enough. It's why I celebrate diversity on all levels. Horowitz' last finger joints turned upward, making him appear to be playing more on the pads than he really was. People don't generally celebrate diversity as strength of humanity and our lives together.
Side bar: I love Ottawa's stance on the incoming pOTUS.
@@DavidMiller-bp7et It's why I think there isn't one technique that fits all... I do find the RH locks if I have a lot of very wide-spread chords or if I've been playing organ for a bit. Sometimes when it locks during live performance, I end up playing with 4 fingers! My left hand doesn't do it. My pinkie actually bends TOWARDS the rest of the fingers.
I love watching Horowitz play! (His Carmen Variations are one of my favourites) As for watching Ottawa politics--a little less love... lol.
@@elenafortinmusic It's why we see such differing styles even among the top tier world stars. Denis Zdanov is not a brilliant and fun teacher, he plays brilliantly, yet, and I have told him so, he plays with more ulnar deviation than any great player I have ever seen; I couldn't do it. That much deviation with wide web between 1 and 2 gives me a lot of tension; he doesn't flinch or explain it. I think it has to do with releasing all tension as soon as the hand starts to lift off the board. He can play with such velocity. all with his hands cocked outward. Remarkable. His wife, Elina Akselrud, has a completely different look, virtually no noticeable ulnar deviation, always aligned thru the middle knuckle to the finger tip of 3; she is with him as he is on the piano faculty at Graz. There is such incredible deviation between great players throughout history, like fingering, it's an individual thing after the very basics. Amazing in all things how people get to great results via different pathways.
@@DavidMiller-bp7et It's a amazing how much we can learn from each other. I love that TH-cam gives us access to so many performers! You are really good at observing and analyzing!