It's the 2nd one i watch and i'd say this is more in depth while the first provided some good elements but was insufficient not covering important psychological aspect in practicing and ignored how to overcome difficult bars which is covered here.
Who are you to discriminate? There are plenty of excellent tutorials by very experienced pianists and teachers on this etude. To dismiss the work and efforts of others as"nothing" shows only your mediocre and biased mindset. Also the fact that the owner of this channel gave a "heart" to your asinine comment speaks volumes about HIS mindset.
@@thepianocornertpc Why my opinion bothers you so much! If I think it is the best and I think the other tutorials nothing, it is my right to say. Again, this is the best and the others are nothing compare to this. In addition, I did buy many of his paid tutorials. I do not just talk, I did spend my money on his products. The channel owner has more credibility about piano matters than you, you just a piano video uploaders on TH-cam, you have no products yourself!
@@rothschildianum My products are on a website. Not accessible to complete assholes like yourself. And there is nothing you can do about it. I am sorry to see your less than mediocre mindset taking high flights again. Have a nice day.
I've learned a few bars of this to practice as a warm up exercise, and when I started I almost instantly gave up because I couldn't imagine how anyone could stretch those arpeggios, especially at tempo. But then after a couple weeks of 5-10 min a day practicing the arpeggios as chords I'm nearly up to tempo. It's almost like magic how you can "trick" your hand into playing things that seem impossible.
Grazie per la passione, la competenza e l'amore che ci metti per far arrivare a noi il frutto dei tuoi sacrifici! Ma la sensibilità che hai tu è rara, è qualcosa che solo quando arriva al tuo livello può dialogare con Chopin entrando ne profondo dei suoi segni e delle sue note e tradurre l’intensità di quel momento. Non è da tutti e tu sei uno dei pochi !!! BRAVO 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I love your idea to support learning of piano music also for non professionals. As a senior who gave up piano for singing many years ago I am trying to get back on track now and so happy about professional advice.
Dear Mr. Niemczuk, your tutorial with a lot of hints in practicing this extremely difficult piece will help me a lot. As a piano learner, I am grateful for the prominent professional pianist, like you, generously giving us the valuable advices for free. Looking forward watching the other videos by you. Dziękuję bardzo.
This is such an awesome tutorial video!!! 🤩 You are not only a great pianist but you have an incredible talent to teach and to explain. I am sure that this etude is very difficult to play/learn but you made it so easy to understand and showed how we can approach it with small steps. I am definitly going to try to learn this etude in the future. Therefore I will watch this video many many times for sure ^^. I already watched your introduction video about practicing and I think I already made some progress after using it a few days only. Especially I used your method of repeating small sections and not to rush while practicing. Also your advice with the coffee for a better sound quality was great. My punisment for playing wrong notes was not as big as you said in this video 😅 (repeating 100 times) so I will increase the amount in the future even more and try it. Your explanation about practicing without the piano was very interesting in this video. I have to try that aswell. Do you only think about your fingers and how they move while playing or do you also imagine how the score looks like? It feels very difficult to even imagine my hands only. Thank you very very much for all of your videos! 🙏💖
Thank you Greg, all of this love for music just makes me happy, seeing how happy you are talking about it, thank you for making these videos keep them up!
As well as a great pianist, dear Greg, you are a very generous person in sharing with us the secrets of piano technique and Chopin' s interpretation that would take an entire lifetime to acquire without your precious help. Thank you with all my heart Greg!
mil gracias! Me has ayudado muchísimo!! tendré paciencia porque tengo una mano pequeña aunque ágil...es mi estudio favorito y nunca me atreví a tocarlo. Creo que ha llegado el momento...gracias a ti🤩
I have watched tons of videos on playing piano pieces. You offer something unique. I have never seen a video be so precise on the technique. Great job. I will look for other videos of yours.
Haha it’s hard to be amateur pianist, it’s like fumbling in the dark. Did not know how to achieve clarity, especially in this etude, your simple tip applies to everything - it makes such a difference ! Playing without wrong note is like a dream come true. Actually that’s how I started this etude, years ago, although it was way above my level, I dreamt I played it flawlessly without effort, the dream was so vivid I thought I should learn this etude. Thank you so much for pushing us to the next level:) 🙏😊
Thank you so much. I watched hundreds of videos and your analysis videos are the most enjoyable as your passion and personal stories shine through. I have a goal to be able to play all the etudes so this series will be especially helpful.
It is now August 2024-in my 90th year! thanks for opus 10,will use your advice.INFACT Brahms op 117 no 2 that I have come back to,will have the same approach as placing hand/fingers ready.Yes memorize is the key too.And use it in scherzo no 1!!!
Seriously, the most useful tutorial I've ever seen! The punishment trick is gold! Thank you for helping me on my journey, I'm almost a year into learning it. Probably another 6 months but after using this video maybe sooner.
@@lukedec5714 , Thanks for asking. I'm not focusing as much on speed but more about accuracy, phrasing, accents and dynamics. I'm at about 92bpm per 16th note so I still have probably at least another year to go if not 2 years. Ravel's Pavane has slow me down as I started working on it because I got tired on working so much on this etude.
You are totally correct when you say there are a lot of videos and books about practicing this Etude, but yours is without any doubt the very best one! You have shown us some genuinely brilliant advice for practicing, I almost feel like a magician has just shown me the secrets of their craft. But you make it so clear that the “secret” is really hard work, focus and patience. You are inspiring.
Thank you a lot, Greg. We can easily see that you are are deeply concerned in what you are doing. Your tips are really helpful and you express them with a such passion and authority! God bless you for your beautiful work. Hugs from Paris. When you will play here ? I would love to see one of your concerts.
Forget the etude, this is one of the most useful piano playing tutorials anyone can ever watch. Never playing a wrong note is absolute gold. Achieving this by not chaining yourself to the score and looking at the keyboard to drill in phrases, is also absolutely golden advice.
Like you, I also have a bust of Chopin on my piano. The difference is mine weeps when I play his music! I started playing piano around about forty years ago. I had a couple of years of lessons before being dismissed by the teacher for playing too fast. Since then I have played most days always with sheet music. When you said to ignore the score I was a bit stunned. I can assure you, I am no genius but I have always been able to play most pieces by sight. Not knowing any other pianists I thought this was the norm. Of course the downside to being able to read this way is that I do not analyse the music. I was genuinely dumbfounded when you pointed out that practically the whole piece is built on triads. It is so obvious. I heard this piece played on BBC Radio 3 yesterday and it sounded so complicated that I wanted to see it performed and that led me to this wonderful lesson. Some years ago I heard an interview with a concert pianist where he said that seemingly simple pieces like Mozart's sonatas were harder to play than all of the flashy pieces like this. At the time I thought this very unlikely. Your tutorial has made me see what he meant. I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to making my Chopin bust a little bit happier! Thank you.
Panie Grzegorzu, po raz kolejny zaskakuje mnie Pan swoimi niesamowitymi materiałami! Zamierzam obejrzeć cały ten materiał, z uwagi na to, że ta etiuda jest również jedną z moich ulubionych, a dodatkowo interesuje mnie sposób jej wykonywania. Bardzo dziękuję za ten materiał!
Thank you for this excellent insightful tutorial ! It's been almost two weeks since i started practicing this etude and after watching your video about it, it opened my mind on so many things i didn't really pay attention to while practicing different pieces in the past.
Thankyou Sir for your wonderful video. I'm taking my notes on the video here as it will help more people here than on a piece of paper on the piano...: -No wrong notes, preparing finger above the centre of note before playing the key. -Using the wrist. -Impulse of finger, plucking staccato action on each note, no wrist. -2 note chords. -1 note followed by 3 note chord. -3 note chord followed by 1 note. -1 note, followed by 1 note followed by 2 note chord. -Any other variations of chords you can think of. -Stop on each thumb ascending and stop on each 5th finger descending and prepare fingers above keys depending on hand size. -Never practice without thinking, you have to know why you are doing something -2 note rhythms. -4 note rhythms. (thinking about wrist, make sure you practiced playing clean as prepatory) Pinching or scratching action while also using the wrist. -.Think about every 2nd note. Accent them. Tell yourself G E G E and connect this with the keys it helps so much. -Stop before the strange D# and prepare the finger and don't play it, repeat this 100-300+ times. -Practice away from the piano, close eyes, imagine the keyboard, imagine every single finger onthe key that you play, without speaking you must touch every single note. Spend a lot of time like this, it helps with speed.I notice he also thinks rapidly in solfege verbally when doing this in 4 note groups. He practices all the etudes like this. -8 note speed groups using wrist. -9 note groups. Say the notes in solfege mentally and visualising the keyboard away from piano too. -For that very difficult descending arpeggio starting with Eb, he starts close to the lid of the piano and moves out, and uses scratching/pinching, the thimb has to go out and the wrist is helping, every hand is different so experimentation is needed. -In all the wide passages where you think your hand's too small, you use the wrist and have a very subtle hand, you don't have to play legato, you can let go to avoid too much stretching, practice these arpeggios staccato with the fast impulse of the finger. You can experiment with different fingerings. -A major, stop on 4th finger prepare 5 on C# and stop before playing. Practice in chords. -Elbow pain, relax elbow let it flop down like a bird with arms hanging, then try relaxing elbows with hands on lap, then try with a chord cluster relaxing elbow.Elbows hanging from shoulders and dropping. Practice relaxing arm at the top and bottom of each arpeggio by stopping and dropping arm to the side or to the lap. -Master making phrases and singing with left hand, playing legato changing finger with left hand, always join legato with left hand. Thankyou so much, now time for practice.
@@gregniemczuk You're welcome, it's just note taking, your teaching is excellent and it helped me to memorise some of your ideas so I can apply it when working on this and other etudes/pieces.
Absolutely wonderful Maestro Greg thank u so much for your wonderful experiences as a performer makes this video and video series so valuable. I was so excited to know u were doing this so much information and insight you are so inspiring
I feel like i've learnt a lot despite the fact that i am aware of almost everything he said. But i found him reliable and this video gives me hope that my work is going to be worth it. Thank you!!
Thank you very much for your insights in this video.After watching the previous analysis video of this etude, learning and memorizing based in the phrases and tips to play cleanly are so much easier 👍
Tego filmu bardzo potrzebowałem. Oczywiście również z powodu wskazówek i technik ćwiczenia, ale do tej etiudy robiłem kilka przymiarek. Pana film pomógł mi podjąć decyzję - robimy, nawet jeśli będzie to pól roku. Ukłony!
Great advice about practice techniques. Totally agree that true practice is about Problem Solving at the core. Also, my theory for why some people excel in piano or other instruments so naturally is because they automatically use "mental practice." It's actually hard to hold a conversation for these people sometimes, because they're practicing movements all the time with part of their brain...
Warm regards from Germany! The last week I used all the basic data you give in the last two videos and today I had my weekly piano lesson and it was much better. First part of Scherzo Nr. 1 without mistake, the second part not, but much better. You set the level very high and you give me a professional viewpoint, although I am not a profi. It helps a lot to get lessons from you. Thank you very very much and all the best to you .🙋♀️
Thanks, I am very happy. I studied piano 1987-1990 and then I skipped the whole thing, because of memory troubles and stage fright like hell. And after all this years I found back to my love playing piano . Last year I followed the Chopin Competition and after that I am now following you. And after your last videos I recognized that the biggest mistake during my study period was not to practise enough and that is all - very easy and no mystery at all. So thanks a lot for this cognition. If I ever can help you, let me know. 🙋♀️
@@kerstinl.1860 I also had these problems but instead of giving up I tried to find the solutions. I was reading books about memory and experimenting with many different ways of practicing. My love towards the music was too strong to give up!! Thanks, I'd love to perform more concerts in Germany. I hope it will be possible soon. Best wishes again!
Merci beaucoup Greg , je trouve ta façon d'expliquer et ta technique vraiment intéressante et en la suivant je vois le changement, mille mercis de France Nantes
After watching this tutorial, I am eager to try it on my own. I have never played any Chopin etude. Always regard them to be too difficult, above my level. Thanks a lot for the video. It is so clear and simple. Just a lot of practice. Right ? Hope it works.
Love your channel. It took me 3 months to clean up my runs on Chopin's Berceuse. Now thanks to your tutorial, I am working on Opus 10. No. 1. Am finding out that slow, soft but accurate practice is helping. Plus deliberate staccato. Thankyou for all your teaching pearls ❤
I second that, that was a brilliant insight into a professional pianist practice away from keyboard. I know it's important, i almost never do that, i guess it has to become your profession to start doing that.
Hi! Thanks a lot for this very great explanation. I practise this etude for two months, i have it at 110 clean, but at 130 it is dirty, so i will take it with your precious advice, i have to present it at an exam in two months (so short time) at 130 clean… thanks for this, it is precious to me! You are great!
Great videos. To have for a piano would be a true blessing from God' I am starting to play the piano again after giving it up as a child. Thanks so much I can't believe how much I am learning.
This is the best lesson I've ever had!!! I know that I will not speed up in this piece, but at least I will try to play it clean and in different ways. Thank you so much!!!
Muchísimas gracias por este tutorial. Tu canal es un regalo. Soy afortunada de haberlo encontrado. Es sin duda el mejor tutorial de este estudio. Lo estoy practicando y ya empecé a ver progresos. Después quisiera practicar el estudio del Océano de Chopin. ¿Crees que este estudio es más fácil o más difícil que el número 1? Ojalá llegues a tener millones de followers porque te los mereces. Con tu tutorial nos das esperanza a todos aquellos que soñamos con llegar a tocar estos estudios a un buen nivel.
Merci professeur ! De France en Auvergne. J'avais un prof de piano, quand j'étais jeune, qui m'expliquait bien la façon de jouer... J'avais oublié ! Merci pour votre aide et vos suggestions. Vous me donnez l'envie d'étudier cette étude !
This must be the hardest from Chopin's etudes. Even Richter hit wrong notes except he made it flow flawly either way. Best tutorial. I also agree with the wrong notes strategy..
I never saw a pianist of this caliber so humble so positive soo down to earth with approachable practice techniques. You are lightyears ahead of other smug condescending types in TH-cam. And you immediately had me by saying "don't play while looking to score". Expressing the importance muscle of memory. AND you are Polish!!! What better way to learn Chopin! I am practicing easier pieces like 34-2 waltz and 37-1 nocturne but enjoyed your video so much. Subscribed!
I'm a Piano Teacher at Music Institute of Roseville in California USA. I studied Op. 10 N. 1 for almost a year, but I have mostly beginning students, a few intermediate so I left the practice aside. Truly you inspired me this Evening to get back to it, and work on a faster tempo. Thank u so much for your demonstration. I will keep watching your tutorials. Let me know if it's a way to send you my email.😊❤
@@gregniemczuk Con estos magníficos videos tuyos y con mucha paciencia mejorará día con día. Estoy seguro! Nuevamente, muchas gracias Greg, que estés muy bien!
Very great tutorial and thanks for the slow practice suggestions. What do you think about these alternative fingerings? They helped me quite a lot: - 25:08 (bar 21) I use 5431 instead of 5321. - 27:31 I always found this extremely uncomfortable until I discovered the fingering 5213 5213 5213 5213. The grouping essentially becomes 521 3521 3521... - 27:53 Instead of 1235 (or 1245) I use 2313, making the grouping become: 23 1323 1323...
Yes! U have to be SMART! After 15 years of trying this etude a teacher told me to always think of the direction(the speed came immediately and over time suppleness &arm connection,breathing came to me ) & knowing where the thumb needed to be and having the form in the hand . Horowitz used to say "just fingers " and thats all most of us have . No ideas , no style-flair or communicative genius or worst of all no real taIent .I discovered this etude before I was ten [I loved music and wanted to hear and knowand have everthing in my fingers.I loved music .Going to the university library after highschool was like touching gold to see the music I had only heard and now could see how it was made or so I thought -till i discovered the notes as Maria Pires says are only the slightest ,very beginning ;and though i could play scales quickly I never Made Music even in the simplest minuet. Mozart till this day now 50 years later is still impossible. I can sit down and do Prok34d Sonata or List Mephisto but not a halfway decent Mozart Sonata yet I want to play Hammerklavier all day. As a young student I was not told what to strive for or made to hear the difference taste in music didn't happen until after 20 years or reading critiques and other pianits I finally learned how to LISTEN.This should be every teacher's FIRST DUTY TEACH HOW TO LISTEN ! My ear was not good enough to notice evenness of dynamic only the evenness in time . Noone taught me how to think! You need to know how to look at harmony to memorize then look at structure of THE MUSIC. I didn't get a teacher till 13or14 and didn't stay or try to perfect each level .I wa always looking at difficult music beyond me.Bach Chromativ antasy,SaintSaens2nd concerto,Beethoven early DMSonata finale of Aflatop.26 Marvcia Funebre.I could play fast but I knew nothing of classical or Romantic or Baroque style so only other ignoramuses thought I was making music.I'll never forget playing op.@5 no,11 and this young highschooler telling me I didn't know how to play Piano! It took me over 25 years to finally figure out what she meant 1 my first instrument was violin. Unfortunately I had bad habits. I was always trying it and no.5 and no.8 .I didn't have common sense .Preparation and arm distance going up and how to go from right to left . Connection with the instrument ,its key bed -one needs to hear the kind of sound they want before t e first attack. Godowsky somehow figured out everything and went beyond without real training , Walter Gieseking was another exceptional artist who besides Leimer never had real systematic training .They were geniuses ! Few can do this.
This is the best Op. 10 No. 1 Tutorial ever been made! Other tutorials on this etude is nothing compare to this one.
It's the 2nd one i watch and i'd say this is more in depth while the first provided some good elements but was insufficient not covering important psychological aspect in practicing and ignored how to overcome difficult bars which is covered here.
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Who are you to discriminate? There are plenty of excellent tutorials by very experienced pianists and teachers on this etude. To dismiss the work and efforts of others as"nothing" shows only your mediocre and biased mindset. Also the fact that the owner of this channel gave a "heart" to your asinine comment speaks volumes about HIS mindset.
@@thepianocornertpc Why my opinion bothers you so much! If I think it is the best and I think the other tutorials nothing, it is my right to say. Again, this is the best and the others are nothing compare to this. In addition, I did buy many of his paid tutorials. I do not just talk, I did spend my money on his products. The channel owner has more credibility about piano matters than you, you just a piano video uploaders on TH-cam, you have no products yourself!
@@rothschildianum My products are on a website. Not accessible to complete assholes like yourself. And there is nothing you can do about it. I am sorry to see your less than mediocre mindset taking high flights again. Have a nice day.
I've learned a few bars of this to practice as a warm up exercise, and when I started I almost instantly gave up because I couldn't imagine how anyone could stretch those arpeggios, especially at tempo. But then after a couple weeks of 5-10 min a day practicing the arpeggios as chords I'm nearly up to tempo. It's almost like magic how you can "trick" your hand into playing things that seem impossible.
Greg, you teach so well. I feel fortunate to be able to watch a real professional teach the Chopin etudes. Everyone here is grateful for you.
Thank you so much!!!!
Grazie per la passione, la competenza e l'amore che ci metti per far arrivare a noi il frutto dei tuoi sacrifici!
Ma la sensibilità che hai tu è rara, è qualcosa che solo quando arriva al tuo livello può dialogare con Chopin entrando ne profondo dei suoi segni e delle sue note e tradurre l’intensità di quel momento.
Non è da tutti e tu sei uno dei pochi !!! BRAVO 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I love your idea to support learning of piano music also for non professionals. As a senior who gave up piano for singing many years ago I am trying to get back on track now and so happy about professional advice.
Dear Mr. Niemczuk, your tutorial with a lot of hints in practicing this extremely difficult piece will help me a lot. As a piano learner, I am grateful for the prominent professional pianist, like you, generously giving us the valuable advices for free. Looking forward watching the other videos by you. Dziękuję bardzo.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad to hear that!
Sir, thank you for this informative, engaging, and entertaining video!this is an excellent lesson in patience endurance ;)
Very helpful tips on practices this piece! Great teaching! Thank you very much.
This is such an awesome tutorial video!!! 🤩 You are not only a great pianist but you have an incredible talent to teach and to explain. I am sure that this etude is very difficult to play/learn but you made it so easy to understand and showed how we can approach it with small steps. I am definitly going to try to learn this etude in the future. Therefore I will watch this video many many times for sure ^^.
I already watched your introduction video about practicing and I think I already made some progress after using it a few days only. Especially I used your method of repeating small sections and not to rush while practicing. Also your advice with the coffee for a better sound quality was great. My punisment for playing wrong notes was not as big as you said in this video 😅 (repeating 100 times) so I will increase the amount in the future even more and try it.
Your explanation about practicing without the piano was very interesting in this video. I have to try that aswell. Do you only think about your fingers and how they move while playing or do you also imagine how the score looks like? It feels very difficult to even imagine my hands only.
Thank you very very much for all of your videos! 🙏💖
Thanks!!!
I mostly think about the fingers and their movements, but sometimes thinking about the score can help
@@gregniemczukyou are handsome!😅
Большое вам спасибо ! Шикарный канал ! Нигде не встречал такого подробного урока над этюдами Шопена !
Thank you Greg, all of this love for music just makes me happy, seeing how happy you are talking about it, thank you for making these videos keep them up!
Thanks!!
As well as a great pianist, dear Greg, you are a very generous person in sharing with us the secrets of piano technique and Chopin' s interpretation that would take an entire lifetime to acquire without your precious help. Thank you with all my heart Greg!
I really hope it is and will be fruitful and helpful for you!
mil gracias! Me has ayudado muchísimo!! tendré paciencia porque tengo una mano pequeña aunque ágil...es mi estudio favorito y nunca me atreví a tocarlo. Creo que ha llegado el momento...gracias a ti🤩
I have watched tons of videos on playing piano pieces. You offer something unique. I have never seen a video be so precise on the technique. Great job. I will look for other videos of yours.
Thank you so much!!!
Haha it’s hard to be amateur pianist, it’s like fumbling in the dark. Did not know how to achieve clarity, especially in this etude, your simple tip applies to everything - it makes such a difference ! Playing without wrong note is like a dream come true. Actually that’s how I started this etude, years ago, although it was way above my level, I dreamt I played it flawlessly without effort, the dream was so vivid I thought I should learn this etude.
Thank you so much for pushing us to the next level:) 🙏😊
My pleasure! Good luck with this!
You are a brilliant teacher!! End of story!!!
Thank youuu
Thank you so much. I watched hundreds of videos and your analysis videos are the most enjoyable as your passion and personal stories shine through. I have a goal to be able to play all the etudes so this series will be especially helpful.
Wonderful!!! Good luck to you!!
@@gregniemczuk Thank you, I cant wait for the next one!
As someone who doesn't play piano I LOVED to watch how you begin to work in such a piece like this. Thank you for your generosity!
It is now August 2024-in my 90th year! thanks for opus 10,will use your advice.INFACT Brahms op 117 no 2 that I have come back to,will have the same approach as placing hand/fingers ready.Yes memorize is the key too.And use it in scherzo no 1!!!
Seriously, the most useful tutorial I've ever seen! The punishment trick is gold! Thank you for helping me on my journey, I'm almost a year into learning it. Probably another 6 months but after using this video maybe sooner.
I hope so!! Good luck!
And thank you for your words!
How is the progress?
@@lukedec5714 , Thanks for asking. I'm not focusing as much on speed but more about accuracy, phrasing, accents and dynamics. I'm at about 92bpm per 16th note so I still have probably at least another year to go if not 2 years. Ravel's Pavane has slow me down as I started working on it because I got tired on working so much on this etude.
You are totally correct when you say there are a lot of videos and books about practicing this Etude, but yours is without any doubt the very best one! You have shown us some genuinely brilliant advice for practicing, I almost feel like a magician has just shown me the secrets of their craft. But you make it so clear that the “secret” is really hard work, focus and patience. You are inspiring.
Your comment is almost overwhelming. Thank you so much!!!!!
Thank you a lot, Greg. We can easily see that you are are deeply concerned in what you are doing. Your tips are really helpful and you express them with a such passion and authority! God bless you for your beautiful work. Hugs from Paris. When you will play here ? I would love to see one of your concerts.
Not sure! But I'll try!
Forget the etude, this is one of the most useful piano playing tutorials anyone can ever watch. Never playing a wrong note is absolute gold. Achieving this by not chaining yourself to the score and looking at the keyboard to drill in phrases, is also absolutely golden advice.
Thank you Jack!
This is the best tutorial I’ve ever seen on this Etude! Makes so much sense and I relate to what you say! Well done! Gives my confidence!
Thank you Michael! Good luck 🤞
@@gregniemczuk thanks Greg! I’ll be working on it tomorrow!
Like you, I also have a bust of Chopin on my piano. The difference is mine weeps when I play his music!
I started playing piano around about forty years ago. I had a couple of years of lessons before being dismissed by the teacher for playing too fast. Since then I have played most days always with sheet music. When you said to ignore the score I was a bit stunned.
I can assure you, I am no genius but I have always been able to play most pieces by sight. Not knowing any other pianists I thought this was the norm.
Of course the downside to being able to read this way is that I do not analyse the music. I was genuinely dumbfounded when you pointed out that practically the whole piece is built on triads. It is so obvious.
I heard this piece played on BBC Radio 3 yesterday and it sounded so complicated that I wanted to see it performed and that led me to this wonderful lesson.
Some years ago I heard an interview with a concert pianist where he said that seemingly simple pieces like Mozart's sonatas were harder to play than all of the flashy pieces like this. At the time I thought this very unlikely. Your tutorial has made me see what he meant.
I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to making my Chopin bust a little bit happier!
Thank you.
Really appreciate your tutorials. I ardently study your lessons which has helped me improve my playing. Thank you very much
I'm really happy to hear that!
You are such a wonderful and kind teacher! I feel so lucky to have found you online.
Thank you!!!
Panie Grzegorzu, po raz kolejny zaskakuje mnie Pan swoimi niesamowitymi materiałami! Zamierzam obejrzeć cały ten materiał, z uwagi na to, że ta etiuda jest również jedną z moich ulubionych, a dodatkowo interesuje mnie sposób jej wykonywania. Bardzo dziękuję za ten materiał!
I am really enjoying your videos, thank you. I am starting to re-study piano after 20 years of inactivity! ...
Good luck!!! Thank you!
You are not only helpful but also interesting and comical with personal comments. Thanks!
❤ thank you the stop at thumb method solved my problem 100 % now I can finally master this fabulous etude. Thank you so much
Wow!!! So glad to hear that!!!! Congratulations!
Thank you for this excellent insightful tutorial ! It's been almost two weeks since i started practicing this etude and after watching your video about it, it opened my mind on so many things i didn't really pay attention to while practicing different pieces in the past.
Wonderful! Good luck!
Thankyou Sir for your wonderful video. I'm taking my notes on the video here as it will help more people here than on a piece of paper on the piano...:
-No wrong notes, preparing finger above the centre of note before playing the key.
-Using the wrist.
-Impulse of finger, plucking staccato action on each note, no wrist.
-2 note chords.
-1 note followed by 3 note chord.
-3 note chord followed by 1 note.
-1 note, followed by 1 note followed by 2 note chord.
-Any other variations of chords you can think of.
-Stop on each thumb ascending and stop on each 5th finger descending and prepare fingers above keys depending on hand size.
-Never practice without thinking, you have to know why you are doing something
-2 note rhythms.
-4 note rhythms. (thinking about wrist, make sure you practiced playing clean as prepatory) Pinching or scratching action while also using the wrist.
-.Think about every 2nd note. Accent them. Tell yourself G E G E and connect this with the keys it helps so much.
-Stop before the strange D# and prepare the finger and don't play it, repeat this 100-300+ times.
-Practice away from the piano, close eyes, imagine the keyboard, imagine every single finger onthe key that you play, without speaking you must touch every single note. Spend a lot of time like this, it helps with speed.I notice he also thinks rapidly in solfege verbally when doing this in 4 note groups. He practices all the etudes like this.
-8 note speed groups using wrist.
-9 note groups. Say the notes in solfege mentally and visualising the keyboard away from piano too.
-For that very difficult descending arpeggio starting with Eb, he starts close to the lid of the piano and moves out, and uses scratching/pinching, the thimb has to go out and the wrist is helping, every hand is different so experimentation is needed.
-In all the wide passages where you think your hand's too small, you use the wrist and have a very subtle hand, you don't have to play legato, you can let go to avoid too much stretching, practice these arpeggios staccato with the fast impulse of the finger. You can experiment with different fingerings.
-A major, stop on 4th finger prepare 5 on C# and stop before playing. Practice in chords.
-Elbow pain, relax elbow let it flop down like a bird with arms hanging, then try relaxing elbows with hands on lap, then try with a chord cluster relaxing elbow.Elbows hanging from shoulders and dropping. Practice relaxing arm at the top and bottom of each arpeggio by stopping and dropping arm to the side or to the lap.
-Master making phrases and singing with left hand, playing legato changing finger with left hand, always join legato with left hand.
Thankyou so much, now time for practice.
Wow. Thank you!!!! Impressive work. Thank you!!!!
@@gregniemczuk You're welcome, it's just note taking, your teaching is excellent and it helped me to memorise some of your ideas so I can apply it when working on this and other etudes/pieces.
what an excellent video. Djenkuje, Greg!
I love it that you show the repeats in the same octave, made me think it is possible to play, having no piano lesson at all.
Yes!!!!!
Absolutely wonderful Maestro Greg thank u so much for your wonderful experiences as a performer makes this video and video series so valuable. I was so excited to know u were doing this so much information and insight you are so inspiring
Thank you dear Dan!!
I feel like i've learnt a lot despite the fact that i am aware of almost everything he said. But i found him reliable and this video gives me hope that my work is going to be worth it. Thank you!!
Thank YOU 🍀💖💎
The best site for learning piano playing!Thank you!
Thank you so much
I joined. Thank you. I’m getting so much out of your videos.
Thank you Greg. As always great information. Exactly what I was looking for.
Dziękuję Panu bardzo, bezcenna wiedza.
Cieszę się!
Thank you very much for your insights in this video.After watching the previous analysis video of this etude, learning and memorizing based in the phrases and tips to play cleanly are so much easier 👍
One can see your love for music in your eyes! Thx so much for the golden advises.
Aww..thanks!!
Such a helpful video. None of the teachers at my conservatory would give such a high quality lesson.
Wow! Thanks for these words!
Tego filmu bardzo potrzebowałem. Oczywiście również z powodu wskazówek i technik ćwiczenia, ale do tej etiudy robiłem kilka przymiarek. Pana film pomógł mi podjąć decyzję - robimy, nawet jeśli będzie to pól roku. Ukłony!
Świetnie!!!! Powodzenia i cierpliwości!
Great advice about practice techniques. Totally agree that true practice is about Problem Solving at the core. Also, my theory for why some people excel in piano or other instruments so naturally is because they automatically use "mental practice." It's actually hard to hold a conversation for these people sometimes, because they're practicing movements all the time with part of their brain...
Warm regards from Germany! The last week I used all the basic data you give in the last two videos and today I had my weekly piano lesson and it was much better. First part of Scherzo Nr. 1 without mistake, the second part not, but much better. You set the level very high and you give me a professional viewpoint, although I am not a profi. It helps a lot to get lessons from you. Thank you very very much and all the best to you .🙋♀️
Wonderful!!! I'm so happy to hear that!
Thanks, I am very happy. I studied piano 1987-1990 and then I skipped the whole thing, because of memory troubles and stage fright like hell. And after all this years I found back to my love playing piano . Last year I followed the Chopin Competition and after that I am now following you. And after your last videos I recognized that the biggest mistake during my study period was not to practise enough and that is all - very easy and no mystery at all. So thanks a lot for this cognition. If I ever can help you, let me know. 🙋♀️
@@kerstinl.1860 I also had these problems but instead of giving up I tried to find the solutions. I was reading books about memory and experimenting with many different ways of practicing. My love towards the music was too strong to give up!!
Thanks, I'd love to perform more concerts in Germany. I hope it will be possible soon. Best wishes again!
Merci beaucoup Greg , je trouve ta façon d'expliquer et ta technique vraiment intéressante et en la suivant je vois le changement, mille mercis de France Nantes
bardzo wartościowy i pomocny materiał! dziękujemy!!
am already playing so much cleaner at max tempo after learning from your video
Brilliant! What a great news!
After watching this tutorial, I am eager to try it on my own. I have never played any Chopin etude. Always regard them to be too difficult, above my level. Thanks a lot for the video. It is so clear and simple. Just a lot of practice. Right ? Hope it works.
Hahahahah, yes!
Love your channel. It took me 3 months to clean up my runs on Chopin's Berceuse. Now thanks to your tutorial, I am working on Opus 10. No. 1. Am finding out that slow, soft but accurate practice is helping. Plus deliberate staccato. Thankyou for all your teaching pearls ❤
Your comment gave me a lot of joy and satisfaction. Thank you!
❤
I love you so much Greg
Wonderful! Thank you! Especially, about practicing on airplane -absolutely true!
Thanks for watching!!
I second that, that was a brilliant insight into a professional pianist practice away from keyboard. I know it's important, i almost never do that, i guess it has to become your profession to start doing that.
Hi! Thanks a lot for this very great explanation. I practise this etude for two months, i have it at 110 clean, but at 130 it is dirty, so i will take it with your precious advice, i have to present it at an exam in two months (so short time) at 130 clean… thanks for this, it is precious to me! You are great!
I hope you can do it! Especially thinking every second note should help you a lot! Good luck!
Thanks for your important worlds.
Very good tutorial, helps me lot. I fighting with (Bar 11) C F C F, C F C F part... my 5th finger always reach the E mostly, I have usual hand size.
Try to practice staccato between the last to notes and use fingers 1,2,4,5
Very good piano lesson. Thank you so much !
Great videos. To have for a piano would be a true blessing from God' I am starting to play the piano again after giving it up as a child.
Thanks so much I can't believe how much I am learning.
This comment made me so happy!
You are a top class teacher fantastic tutorial
Thank you so much!
Great video!! More tutorials:)
Thank you you are so accomplished, I appreciate you!!!!
Thank you for that Greg! From India 🙂You got me in restarting on this Etude again! God bless.
I'm so happy to hear that!! Thanks! Best from Poland!
amazing tips! great videos, very detailed and pinpoint all the parts that we need to pay attention to
Thank you!
Wspaniałe wskazówki! A zebrane w jednym miejscu - bezcenne!
Dziękuję!
This is the best lesson I've ever had!!! I know that I will not speed up in this piece, but at least I will try to play it clean and in different ways. Thank you so much!!!
Wonderful!!! I'm so happy to hear that!
Muchísimas gracias por este tutorial. Tu canal es un regalo. Soy afortunada de haberlo encontrado. Es sin duda el mejor tutorial de este estudio. Lo estoy practicando y ya empecé a ver progresos. Después quisiera practicar el estudio del Océano de Chopin. ¿Crees que este estudio es más fácil o más difícil que el número 1? Ojalá llegues a tener millones de followers porque te los mereces. Con tu tutorial nos das esperanza a todos aquellos que soñamos con llegar a tocar estos estudios a un buen nivel.
Hola Maite! Muchas gracias! Me alegro mucho! Suerte con este estudio! Saludos desde POLONIA
Nice tutorial. Very thoughtful. Thanks Greg. Greetings from Israel
Thanks for watching and for the comment dear Amir 🇮🇱❤️ greetings from Poland
The best tutorial ever❤ so well explained thank you so much professor❤
My pleasure!
Merci professeur ! De France en Auvergne. J'avais un prof de piano, quand j'étais jeune, qui m'expliquait bien la façon de jouer...
J'avais oublié ! Merci pour votre aide et vos suggestions. Vous me donnez l'envie d'étudier cette étude !
Awwww, Merci beaucoup!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for the great tutorial!
Thank you!
you’re so charismatic
Congratulations, Greg, very useful, nice Hard job, go a head, bravo!!!
Thank you Greg. So good to see how you do this!! Will be helpful to work at this etude in a somewhat different way.
Thanks for sharing. Very useful tips.
It was an excellent explanation. Thank you very much.
It was very helpful! Thank you!
This must be the hardest from Chopin's etudes. Even Richter hit wrong notes except he made it flow flawly either way. Best tutorial. I also agree with the wrong notes strategy..
Thank you!
Querido professor adoro o seu trabalho bjs
Obrigado!
This is amazing! 😆
Great tutorial. Thank you very much.
Thanks! Good luck with that!
Thanks a bunch for that. Very useful.
Thank you so much!
Wow thank u sooo much, this tutorial can apply to so many other pieces! And yes how important is to practice clean, I may even try this etude
Thank you for watching!!!
Thank you!
From Aguascalientes, México!!
Very interesting ❤ advices. Will try
I never saw a pianist of this caliber so humble so positive soo down to earth with approachable practice techniques. You are lightyears ahead of other smug condescending types in TH-cam. And you immediately had me by saying "don't play while looking to score". Expressing the importance muscle of memory. AND you are Polish!!! What better way to learn Chopin! I am practicing easier pieces like 34-2 waltz and 37-1 nocturne but enjoyed your video so much. Subscribed!
As always great to listen to your advices, it improves my ballet teaching, believe me.or not!
It means so much to me!!
Many good advices I can use in general for practice, thank you 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
You are so good inspiration💎🙏
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Thank you so much!!!!
Thank you very much.❤
I'm a Piano Teacher at Music Institute of Roseville in California USA. I studied Op. 10 N. 1 for almost a year, but I have mostly beginning students, a few intermediate so I left the practice aside. Truly you inspired me this Evening to get back to it, and work on a faster tempo. Thank u so much for your demonstration. I will keep watching your tutorials. Let me know if it's a way to send you my email.😊❤
Hello! Thanks for your comment. I'm very happy that my video motivated you. Sure, my email is: gnpiano@aol.com
Thank you sir.
Thank you very much
amazing class!!
Bravo Greg! Excellent work!
Gracias Cristián!! Que tal este estudio??
@@gregniemczuk Con estos magníficos videos tuyos y con mucha paciencia mejorará día con día. Estoy seguro! Nuevamente, muchas gracias Greg, que estés muy bien!
Very great tutorial and thanks for the slow practice suggestions.
What do you think about these alternative fingerings? They helped me quite a lot:
- 25:08 (bar 21) I use 5431 instead of 5321.
- 27:31 I always found this extremely uncomfortable until I discovered the fingering 5213 5213 5213 5213. The grouping essentially becomes 521 3521 3521...
- 27:53 Instead of 1235 (or 1245) I use 2313, making the grouping become: 23 1323 1323...
Very good teaching❤amazing！
Yes! U have to be SMART! After 15 years of trying this etude a teacher told me to always think of the direction(the speed came immediately and over time suppleness &arm connection,breathing came to me ) & knowing where the thumb needed to be and having the form in the hand .
Horowitz used to say "just fingers " and thats all most of us have . No ideas , no style-flair or communicative genius or worst of all no real taIent .I discovered this etude before I was ten [I loved music and wanted to hear and knowand have everthing in my fingers.I loved music .Going to the university library after highschool was like touching gold to see the music I had only heard and now could see how it was made or so I thought -till i discovered the notes as Maria Pires says are only the slightest ,very beginning ;and though i could play scales quickly I never Made Music even in the simplest minuet. Mozart till this day now 50 years later is still impossible. I can sit down and do Prok34d Sonata or List Mephisto but not a halfway decent Mozart Sonata yet I want to play Hammerklavier all day. As a young student I was not told what to strive for or made to hear the difference taste in music didn't happen until after 20 years or reading critiques and other pianits I finally learned how to LISTEN.This should be every teacher's FIRST DUTY TEACH HOW TO LISTEN ! My ear was not good enough to notice evenness of dynamic only the evenness in time . Noone taught me how to think! You need to know how to look at harmony to memorize then look at structure of THE MUSIC.
I didn't get a teacher till 13or14 and didn't stay or try to perfect each level .I wa always looking at difficult music beyond me.Bach Chromativ antasy,SaintSaens2nd concerto,Beethoven early DMSonata finale of Aflatop.26 Marvcia Funebre.I could play fast but I knew nothing of classical or Romantic or Baroque style so only other ignoramuses thought I was making music.I'll never forget playing op.@5 no,11 and this young highschooler telling me I didn't know how to play Piano! It took me over 25 years to finally figure out what she meant 1 my first instrument was violin. Unfortunately I had bad habits. I was always trying it and no.5 and no.8 .I didn't have common sense .Preparation and arm distance going up and how to go from right to left . Connection with the instrument ,its key bed -one needs to hear the kind of sound they want before t e first attack. Godowsky somehow figured out everything and went beyond without real training , Walter Gieseking was another exceptional artist who besides Leimer never had real systematic training .They were geniuses ! Few can do this.
Fantastic comment. Thank you for your story and bringing up so many great pianists. It's all so true.