I have watched a lot of your videos, and this one was very informative and easy to understand. You gave plenty of examples and the reasoning behind each one. Please do more of these.
I keep stumbling onto bits and pieces of these ideas over months, when I should have started here. Live and learn. Liked Josh’s concept of pulling notes here which I’ve read is similar to Horowitz.. Probably going to check out the earlier videos and try to get up to date on all this. So far every one of Josh’s videos have helped me. 🎶🎶
This is the best video on scales, Josh! I know the importance of scales in classical music and I practice them everyday but I missed those little tips. Thanks so much. Yoan
Very good, thanks. I'm by no means an advanced player, but what is helping me a lot is something similar to the finger staccato you mention. It is playing scales (or be it some simple patterns) really slow (1-2 notes/sec), focusing on pure finger independence. The motion of each finger should be swift, followed by a gap before the next finger starts its move. And you try to move just one finger, and wrist should be still. Anyone tried that?
Great teacher. Thanks a lot for giving us your time. More Burgmuller please. Lessons on Shostakovich's Dances of the Dolls, Bartok's Mikorkosmos and Dussek's sonatinas would be nice!
As I stated in my comments to another presentation you gave, you demystify the technique. Now the dilemma is, how to make it my own or to put it into practice.
Very useful. Thanks Josh. When you do c major scale with high fingers, how do you switch 3(E) to 1(F), and 4(B) to 1(C)？ In China, high finger exercise is very important. Wo do this every day. Hope you can give us more details.
Omgosh you are super fantabulous at playing the piano!!!!! I'm just beginning and I have no idea what I'm doing all I know is C scale and some of the B flat scale
What I've never seen directly addressed in teaching art are the mind (which gets distracted and goes blank, and which must be dealt with - using effective techniques - you witness this when you play a passage wrong - your mind was not adequately focused to think ahead) and the nervous system (which does the habit acquiring - in the case of making a mistake, your nervous system had developed the correct 'habit' yet). I've explored them (on the frontier of art, thank you) and I've summed it up in a column, offering specific techniques that can be taught (and best of all, you can read it for free) (I have a day job).
Hi Josh! First of all thanks for your generosity, you are a great player and a great teacher! Could you tell us about that thumb under- thumb over theme? Thank you!
Hi Josh - thank you for all your lessons. I am finding them all so helpful. I am 66 and have returned to practice during lockdown. Great to be playing without guilt! Can just relax and enjoy without worrying about things that need to get done. Please help me with something I just can't remedy. When I start a scale or running passage hands similar motion my hands get out of sync right at the beginning of the scale. I have tried slow practice, watched hand position and tension etc. Once I get going I can keep going at speed completely perfectly out of sync. It is driving me insane! Could this just be age and flexibility in the tucking under and over? My left hand is quite flexible. I am trying all your scale practice exercises. Any short comment would be a great help. Perhaps you have come across this phenomenon before. Many thanks
So happy that I have discovered you. You're a good teacher.
Instablaster.
Best video on scales ever
Thanks for the videos Josh.You are a very good teacher.
I have watched a lot of your videos, and this one was very informative and easy to understand. You gave plenty of examples and the reasoning behind each one.
Please do more of these.
I keep stumbling onto bits and pieces of these ideas over months, when I should have started here. Live and learn. Liked Josh’s concept of pulling notes here which I’ve read is similar to Horowitz.. Probably going to check out the earlier videos and try to get up to date on all this. So far every one of Josh’s videos have helped me. 🎶🎶
This is the best video on scales, Josh! I know the importance of scales in classical music and I practice them everyday but I missed those little tips. Thanks so much. Yoan
Very good, thanks.
I'm by no means an advanced player, but what is helping me a lot is something similar to the finger staccato you mention. It is playing scales (or be it some simple patterns) really slow (1-2 notes/sec), focusing on pure finger independence. The motion of each finger should be swift, followed by a gap before the next finger starts its move. And you try to move just one finger, and wrist should be still.
Anyone tried that?
I love your videos they help me a lot with playing the piano, thank you for doing that.
Love that "Russian technique" bit, especially the first time you did it!
Thank you Josh.
Great teacher. Thanks a lot for giving us your time. More Burgmuller please. Lessons on Shostakovich's Dances of the Dolls, Bartok's Mikorkosmos and Dussek's sonatinas would be nice!
That was awesome, thank you so much Josh!!
Thanks Josh. Some very useful info!
As I stated in my comments to another presentation you gave, you demystify the technique. Now the dilemma is, how to make it my own or to put it into practice.
Very useful. Thanks Josh. When you do c major scale with high fingers, how do you switch 3(E) to 1(F), and 4(B) to 1(C)？ In China, high finger exercise is very important. Wo do this every day. Hope you can give us more details.
Omgosh you are super fantabulous at playing the piano!!!!! I'm just beginning and I have no idea what I'm doing all I know is C scale and some of the B flat scale
Haha this quality is cracking me tf up, love the vids tho Josh!
Dude! You're on Fire!
A higher quality than 360p could really help because of the distance to your hands from the camera.
What I've never seen directly addressed in teaching art are the mind (which gets distracted and goes blank, and which must be dealt with - using effective techniques - you witness this when you play a passage wrong - your mind was not adequately focused to think ahead) and the nervous system (which does the habit acquiring - in the case of making a mistake, your nervous system had developed the correct 'habit' yet). I've explored them (on the frontier of art, thank you) and I've summed it up in a column, offering specific techniques that can be taught (and best of all, you can read it for free) (I have a day job).
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Thank you very much..Your videos are helping me soo much!! :)
Very useful. Thanks!
Hi Josh! First of all thanks for your generosity, you are a great player and a great teacher!
Could you tell us about that thumb under- thumb over theme?
Thank you!
Excellent stuff! Out of curiosity, should scales in thirds and sixths also be practiced in contrary motion?
Hi Josh - thank you for all your lessons. I am finding them all so helpful. I am 66 and have returned to practice during lockdown. Great to be playing without guilt! Can just relax and enjoy without worrying about things that need to get done. Please help me with something I just can't remedy. When I start a scale or running passage hands similar motion my hands get out of sync right at the beginning of the scale. I have tried slow practice, watched hand position and tension etc. Once I get going I can keep going at speed completely perfectly out of sync. It is driving me insane! Could this just be age and flexibility in the tucking under and over? My left hand is quite flexible. I am trying all your scale practice exercises. Any short comment would be a great help. Perhaps you have come across this phenomenon before. Many thanks
Great videos Josh, thanks, tune that 2nd F above middle C though lol :-)
Hey Josh, the use thumb of the thumb has been send a little to ones imagination. Can you maybe make a video on correct thumb usage?
Thank you :-)
Useful.
Hello Josh, Thanks for the great videos. Can you tell me the fingering for the scales you play up the 2 octaves?
Chopin book on the piano? :)
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