Bach: Prelude In C Minor, BWV 847 2 year and 4 month progress
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- I have been playing the piano now since January 2019 and started off by teaching my self through TH-cam and other apps. Since august 2020 I have finally been learning with a great teacher and have made allot of progress and I hope I keep moving forward. Thanks for watching :)
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Plot twist: he used Simply Piano
not much of a twist, how else could you do it?
With simply piano, this is 2 days piano progress
Absolutely fantastic playing of this Bach piece - perfect evenness at a fast tempo! Sounds like someone who has been playing much longer than 2 1/2 years!🌹🎹🎵
That's because it is. He's Making it up about the length of playing time
He's probably played since a kid
Mark my words if he starts alkan or sorabji to a decent level in a year I'll. Eat my words
@@ciararespect4296 if you look at my progress through out my videos you can see constant improvement, actually do research before you accuse me of lying
@@ciararespect4296 Not everyone has talent my boy. Dont be jealous, its doable, trust me.
@@ciararespect4296 You said in one of his videos, that you are far better than him. You shouldn't comment on that. You're pretty conceited and think you're the best. He probably trains more in one day than you do the whole week and yet you give him so little respect? Pathetic
@@ciararespect4296 You can upload some videos and show us what YOU got
I've personnally been playing the piano for 10 years + (although I've only recently started taking it seriously) and I have to say, for a bit over 2 years, your progress is unbelievable. Keep up your hard work, it's really paying off!
@@Lobstrominous Oh, his progress is definitely possible, if he works as much as he says he does... I've seen incredibly fast progress from my own eyes: one of my friends placed 4th at the Canadian Music Competition after only 5 years of piano (he was 16 at the time).
@@a23oj28 that's an exceptional case of someone born with huge talent. And no doubt being highly trained. It's not normal. we shouldn't expect that of most people.
@@a23oj28 He says he practices that long... it's unlikely anyone can keep that up for a variety of reasons, one being it would probably lead to strain and damage to hands and wrist tendons. Also I don't think simply practicing insane hours equates to continuous improvement. I have played classical guitar for a very long time I can state for a fact that practice involves rest as well. things we practice need time to be assimilated and processed by the brain. practice ->rest->practice will show a greater improvement at getting a new technique or a difficult passage 'under ones fingers' than endless bashing away etc
@@a23oj28 how old r u and how long u been playing
@@a23oj28 i go to a music highschool type of thing so i just pay a little bit more then you would for a normal highschool but i still get 2 hours a week with a teacher and a great practice facility, this is all recorded in my school but up until recently i didnt even have a piano. 1 month ago i baught my first piano, its a Kawai K-300 ATX-3 upright :)
You have the musical maturity of someone who's been playing for far longer! I would normally be suspicious of playing something as exposed as Bach that early, but impressively well done here!!!
This is totally wrong, i'm musician since my 6 years old, i'm 27, i was at conservatory. It lacks respiration, accents, slowing down. Too mechanical, not enough phrasing. But that's not totally bad for 2 years :p. Keep training. Bach is the best.
@@alexandresironneau6968mechanical? i thought bach is supposed to be mechanical and no accents..
Dont look at his fingers, look at his back! Great bridge work.
try to play that song
@@gunialexander3408 piece*
@@gunialexander3408 easy as shit
@@authenticmusic4815 I challange you to show us how you play it
@@jacku6193 th-cam.com/video/Pnog-X56PhA/w-d-xo.html here you go😉
Awesome!!
Great to see the long time practice pays the reward!
I am very amazed and speechless… Well doneeee
That's fantastic piece and fantastic played👍🏻👏🏻
great job man !
Wow..breathtaking :')
What a TALENT
Amazing ❤❤❤
BRAVO...!!!! GREAT teacher...!!!!! keep going with this teacher... they know what they're doing!!!!
WOW you keep hitting these pieces bro oh my god
Super Erfolg !!! Super Spiel und Interpretation. Grüße aus Deutschland :-)
Myyy guyyyy, congrats. I've been playing for four years and I'm not nearly to play like this ksksksks. Go ahead, I'm sure u will be a one of the greatest concerts We ever had in the world!!!!!
Wow...fantastic!
thank you :)
👏👏👏bravissimo
You did your accents and the melody correctly and beautifully, great job❤
That's so cool. I feel like I'm not really motivated to get that good!
Shredding
Great job, Jakob! Perfect in terms of intonation and speed. IMHO one of the best recordings of BWV 847 here on TH-cam. I'm trying to learn this piece by myself for 3 month but sill struggeling with it on my piano. I hope one day, I'm able to play it as smooth as you do here! :)
thank you so much :) i reccomend listening to vikingur heiðar when he plays it, thats my favorite recording, tell me shat you think :)
@@JakobArnar Of course I know the recording of Víkingur Heiðar Ólafsson, and its also very good. But, maybe, a little too fast. Your version is sligtly slower but with more tension, which I like a lot. By the way: You really need to play, record and show us the fugue as well. ;)
When you go up the arpeggio before presto, lift your wrist so your fingers don't strain. You'll lose less speed, and you'll keep your hand relaxed.
thank you :)
Muito legal eu estudo música mas ainda não estou nesse nível deve ser bastante satisfatório poder ouvir depois esse vídeo 🤩🐱🎻
Great work! This was one of my first Bach pieces. I look forward to hear the fugue soon. Keep up the great work!
@@Andras_Schiff Yeah, it's great. First fugue I ever learned.
Fingers dancing movements on piano keys>>>>
Bach is not a speed contest and will never be.
I wanna cry 😭 it’s so incredible, I started play on piano nearly 3 years ago and only recently I’ve found a teacher who helped me with a progress. My dream is to become a virtuous pianist and write new compositions
Thank you so much for motivating ❤️
Maybe soon I’ll create channel)
please do! i’d love to see your progress :)
Incredible!!!!! I understand that long hours practicing + will + good teacher + god talent could make impossible! I have played this piece after 6 years, unfortunatelly my teachers were afraid to give me something like that sonner beacause of old pedagogical scheme which maybe was prescribed. Later I was tormented by Smetana, Dvorak and nothing progress. :-)
This is some incredible playing for the time you’ve been at it
Prelude no. 2 is one of my dream pieces. But I’m still in the Notebook for Anna lol
if you go slowly through it i have no doubt you can learn it :)
Great job! Few comments would be sometimes at the start of a new phrasing when you're playing that 1 2 1 2 back and forth it feels like a few of the subjects get lost. At times it also sounds like the right hand could be a little louder in dynamic than the left. But you probably already identified these and worked them out. Keep it up!
완벽..
Мне 59лет и я то же играю её вместе с фугой.у вас прекрасная скорость.выучите фугу👏👏👏👏👏👏💐
Excellent. Don't forget the fugue!
미친 들어오는 햇살마저 아름답다, ,,,,,,, 당신 혹시 천사 미카엘 아님?
My teacher have me this piece, it was too challenged for me, I gave up on it. You played well though.
thank you very much :) i spent allot of time practicing it slowly and evenly
@@JakobArnar Very aspiring, keep going. Love to watch your future uploading
@@JakobArnar great job... why bother having the sheets in front of you, it looks like you have it memorized.
@@chainrection774 i was practicing another piece lol
wow. wish we can see more
im gonna post more regulearly from now on :)
Good job on the voicings.
El tiempo no es regular y las semicorcheas no están parejas. Le falta más trabajo, pero sin duda va muy bien!
Amazing job, even tempo, however I think you should learn the fugue as well, as the fugue is a great piece.
this prelude-fugue no difficult , very good exercice for egality strength of five fingers : many preludes of book I are better than several Czerny
Unfair! I try learning this in this accuracy for at least a year now and can't compare (I've been playing for 8 years)
Don't worry it's not a 4 months play ;)
what helped me to learn this so accurately is by practicing it with staccato, also to play it with a metronome and playing around with the dynamics :)
@@JakobArnar 4 months and you talk about dynamics ? Lol
@@brunonogues5128 i dont know what you are talking about, ive been playing for 2 years and 4 months. even if you have been playing for 4 months you stull have to experiment with dynamics
Practising this rn been playing for 6 months tho
This is insane for 2 and a bit years. How do you practice your pieces? I’ve been playing for about 1 and a half years and I’m interested in how you achieved such a high level in a short amount of time
Look at his technique, especially his back. He clearly works with a fantastic teacher who taught him meticulously. His hands are in the classic "dome" position that is recognizable from Rubinstein and Richter. Contrary to popular belief, most of what makes for virtuosic technique has nothing to do with developing muscles and everything to do with using the body in the most efficient way possible, starting with a combination of finger action and forearm rotation, going to the bridge structure in the shoulder and back, to the small but necessary movements of the head and neck while playing certain passages, and of course the heels must be placed on the floor when possible to ensure proper alignment of the spine. Read Heinrich Neuhaus, as I suspect he was like an influence on the teacher of this young player. But also, understand that talent is not manifested a a brain that can easily to tasks that others find difficult, but rather as a mind that is endlessly passionate about the subject at hand and tackles challenging elements head on rather than avoiding them.
@@fink7968 to be honest the bridge work and posture is just something that i learned on my own neturally, i actually had no idea i sat like that until i saw this recording of myself. ive never heard of Neuhaus but i will deffineatly check him out :)
LEGIT
Straighten your back if you are still playing with this posture. Great playing. I know it’s an old video.
very good, the prelude n2 of the "well tempered harpsichord" is the simplest of the collection, but I have to congratulate you, for being 2 years of progress, not bad. at the next video also fugue n2 plays together with the prelude to see the skills in the polyphonic field.
It’s the easiest?! Lol I thought it was like really hard (it’s also my favorite of the set haha)
@@eibyzelnik here in Italy we call it "well tempered harpsichord o clavicembalo ben temperato", sorry. aniway, even if I doubt it is for all types of keyboard instruments, I think only for piano, harpsichord and clavichord, because for organ it is impossible, organ scores have 3 staves and the technique used in the book is mainly harpsichord, we can confirm this (for example) with the fingerings used, in fact, the turn of the thumb is unused. and at that time the only technique most developed for keyboard was the harpsichord. but of course you can call it whatever you want nowadays especially because we have different keyboard instruments.
@@thibomeurkens2296 undoubtedly the piece is of medium difficulty, but compared to the entire collection it is the simplest both for technique and for the type of musical writing, in fact we do not have the polyphonic complexity that we find in the English or French suites, or in the bach games, but we have few voices among other things very linear, think that if you go to the last bar, the note that fell on the little finger should have been kept but it did not, trust me that I am at the 7th year of piano at the conservatory;)
@@pianodavidecastelluccio845 i didn’t understand most of that for I am not very familiar with the elements of music amd different patterns and stuff like that but I trust you 😂 and from what I did understand it makes a lot of sense thanks for explaining!
@@pianodavidecastelluccio845 Must agree with @eiby zelnik here. Not that it mattered, but this is certainly not the easiest in The Well-Tempered Clavier. Also it is definitely not impossible on organ, many have already played it. Besides, many organ pieces were written on two staves or in tablature during Barock. Andras Schiff, for example, argues that the fugue in a minor bwv 865 is explicitly designed for organ because the final passage is not be playable as notated without pedal.
Great job, I would recommend to work on posture though 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
if you look at my other videos i usually have very good posture, its just that this piece is very demanding in technicality so i just bend down automatically :)
@@JakobArnar yes haha, I’ve played it. 👌🏻
The posture is actually great aside from the bending of the neck close to the piano and sometimes the shoulders are raised a little to high. Playing with relaxed shoulders is a weakening myth.
@@fink7968 thats what i mean haha
Some advice, during allegro try to use your elbow on each and every first beat. It will increase your touch and the sound will be much richer.
Awesome job bro. How much time a day do you usually spend on the piano?
when i have the time usually 6-8 hours
@@JakobArnar Awesome
すごい！！
ありがとう！！
@@JakobArnar がんばって！！！
@@user-ls1tw5yw5z うん！毎日練習するよ！
@@JakobArnar おお！
いつからピアノ始めたんですか？？？
@@user-ls1tw5yw5z 2年半からだよ
Good for you! You say that it is your 2 year and 4 month progress, but how many days a week and how many hours a day do you play the piano?:-))
it depends on if i can practice or not but lets say that im on vacation and my school is open, then im probably there every day for 8-10 hours :)
@@JakobArnar, I see now it must be thus:-))
What tips do you recommend to make this piece clear as you play it and have a good finger position ( i already do dotted rythme in my practices sessions and i practice in slow tempo but my fingers are in weird position especially in my left hand)
I have very large hands which really helped me with this but i recommend studying the "Taubman approach" if you want to :)
simply piano works guys
no it doesnt hahah
Bravi, Jakob!! Have you considered learning any pieces by Scriabin? His Op. 8 No. 12, I think, would be a great piece for you to learn! Subscribed!
i will defineatly, im in love with hos fantasy op 28 :)
@@JakobArnar That's a tough one! Fun fact, Scriabin allegedly forgot that he wrote that Fantasy after his friend played one of the melodies on his piano. Good luck!
@@NoahSpencer008 hahaha, thank you very much ;)
Ik how to play this song :D
It is my section A for rcm 9
very impressive my dude . where are you from?
im from iceland 🇮🇸
@@JakobArnar that's pretty cool! I'm a huge fan of Vikingur Olafsson
@@alex7633 his mom was teaching me last year :)
Im just learning this piece now. Its fun but a long way to go yet. Hope to get as quick as you but right now im just focusing on the changes in position/chords. I notice you dont look at the sheet music too much so you memorised it mainly?
Yes I memorise everything i play
LEAVING EARTH!!!!!
ikr ;)
@@JakobArnar play An End once and for all
@@siggiriggi8988 what if i dont want to
@@JakobArnar then i cry and i will whisper to your hear next time we meet and say
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
@@siggiriggi8988 well, then ill never meet you again lúði
I don't know but to me you resemble Glenn Gould a bit. Your posture, the way you play. Great work.
Hi, your performance is amazing. But im little bit confused. You wrote that, after 2 years progress. That you meant, practice only this piece 2 years? Or, this is your performance that you started piano. How long have you been playing piano?
2 years of playing piano, not just this piece
What are some intermediate pieces you played before you moved on to advanced repertoire?
i started by playing chopin nocturnes and waltzes so i didnt realy play any intermediate pieces unless i was learning how to read :)
I started by Nocturno op 9 no 2, then Arabesque no1 and know Liebestraum no3
@@reverse9303 its the same for me but indidnt learn Arbesque 1
@@JakobArnar hahah, me learning chopin etude op 10 n4 as my first piece ever without even knowing how to read a single note 😂😂😂😂
*and now i'm learning moment musicaux op16n4 by my comarade rachmaninoff. Is that NORMAL? xd
@@xmedian003x9 I wouldn’t start with something that complicated without knowing how to read music well Bc it will take you much longer to read all the notes and play
Awesome! Also really cool and inspiring to see the progress!
Are you planning to study piano and become a professional pianist?
that’s the plan :)
@@JakobArnar Exciting, I'm sure you are going to be a great one!
Glad YT suggested your channel xD Hope for future uploads and to meet you someday. :)
Impressive indeed, but why so fast? On the harpsichord this would sound like noise, and at such a tempo there is not enough contrast between the main prelude and the presto.
its just my preferred tempo, this is my favorite recording
th-cam.com/video/CGVL5j6BEKs/w-d-xo.html
Be sure that you have a good posture, it doesn't look healthy at all... I mean, I don't know of your body takes it without pain and those, but watching the video it looks like a painful posture.
Good job with the piece and I am so proud of your evolution!!
thank you! i have no idea why my posture was like that, i had never noticed it before i made this recording lol
@@JakobArnar You should read about alexander technique (apploed for pianists)😊
Whose your role model at this point for music or piano 🎹 🤔
its Lang Lang and has been since the beginning. not necessarily because he’s good at playing but because if how free he is on the piano and also because of his mindset and positivity :)
@@JakobArnar 😇.
@@JakobArnar try me:
th-cam.com/video/1UgoEHY6CHQ/w-d-xo.html
on 15.07.21 1am chopin intern. piano #18
@@robertflynn6686 what is this?
@@JakobArnar the 18th Chopin international competition streamed live in various segments. Its on youtube on going now over 5 days , and i think 4 stages and many initial contestants. They each play about 1 hour in each segment.
The one I sent you starts on stream live for July 15th I believe but won't come up online till then.
Just fun internet going on in piano for only Chopin here.
I assume you look at youtube. If not you can search it for yourself.
i have an absolute crush
on me or the piece hahah
@@JakobArnar OBVIOUSLY YOU
@@teddybearcloud ty🥰
have you played another instrument before piano?
i played accordion for one year when i was 8
@@JakobArnar nice. I play accordion too😃
So sad music😢😢
not sad lmao
Lower your shoulders a little more comfortably and try to relax.
Try to make the notes other than the first note a little smaller.
Relax and don't be nervous and play.
Then the sound will be better.
Have I fixed these in my newer videos? this is old hahaha
How much do you practice a day?
Interesting ?
@@alainspiteri502 why not
6-8 hours
@@JakobArnar 😳I wish I could that to😳🥲
we listen too hight note of the right hand good tempo j think Richter plays too fast ( Landowska better )
You play fantastic and without any errors and fast at the same time. But it seems to me that you miss the emotion in this piece. My advice for you would be to Listen to other players who have played this piece. You will very fast recognize what i mean. If you master the emotion i'll be an excellent player :-).
i just dont really understand bach yet, i think it is something that comes with age and maturity but right now i dont like him hahahah, but my favorite recording is from vikingur heidar if you wanna check him out :)
excellent!
How old are you???
19
You have 2 pianos at home ?
no this is my school, i dont have a piano at home
How old r u?
18
@@JakobArnar so u start when you 16 or 15 that’s crazy congrats
not sure if the timeline matters, only if you want to excuse yourself after uploading this
what do you mean?
@@JakobArnar from my POV you ether upload a music, or curcustry denoting the time it had taken to learn. Sorry for my harsh wording, I just don't think that any mention of learning time is nessessary
@@stepanru4516 i have no way of proving that this is real or not, so many people are doubting me hahah. but the only thing i can say is look at the time its uploaded, i think noone in their right mind would put this much effort into lying to some strangers online. other than that theres nothing i can do to prove it except to tell people to follow my progress and see how far i can go. im on summer vacation now but other than that i still practice allot every day and am uploading regularly (i will upload more now since i have a bigger following) and i can just advise people to follow my progress lol. now im practicing liebesleid and will post it in august. (btw if you just look at how i look in all the videos you can see that im not that much younger in my older videos that i am in my newer ones)
@@stepanru4516 but i can promise you that this is real and its just up to you if you want to believe it or not :)
Where's the fugue?
i havent had the time to learn it yet, i only had to learn one baroque piece for this test i was taking :)
Hey I have a question did you use the pedal during this piece
a bit yes, during the final part
@@JakobArnar so at the start no pedal ?
@@Qxzexify i think so yeah
@@JakobArnar thanks
It’s not a race.
i just like it like this
you probably practise 40 hrs a day
i do lol
Не горбись
Now play the fugue lol xD jk
im learning it :)
Speed isn't the same as musical expression. Much too fast - no chance for any meaningful articulation, not to mention the intended differentiation - by the composer himself - into a Presto. It's music - not sport!
i know but this is just how i like it :) i listened to tons of recordings but i inly really liked the fast ones. i personally dont really understand baroque music so i couldnt have made it sound good slowly either hahahah
@@JakobArnar Listen: th-cam.com/video/fWlTO93ZJf8/w-d-xo.html // I prefer 4., 6. & 7. // I know, Glenn Goulds interpretations are always "very special". // I myself as an Organist - I'm very keen in historical sources, so my litte "self-deprecating" advice: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_inégales
@@JakobArnar ps: Goðan daginn! Hvað þegir þú gott? Hahaha - I've just recognised, that you're frá Íslandi! A friend of mine, Hlín Pétursdóttir Behrend, she is just organizing some concerts with me next summer - maybe in Skálholt.
@@wolfgangknuth104 oh thats awesome, maby you can come to one of my concerts in the future :)
btw my favorite recording of this piece is by the icelandic pianist vikingur heiðar olafsson :)
This tempo is blatantly too fast!
it sounds really good to me hahah, i dont like the slower tempos
I don't buy it... it's not real
its is :)
Lies. You have been playing piano for a long time since you were a child. And now you started to study under better teachers. Stop pretending to be some kind of wonder child who just 'picked up piano 1 year ago'. Even the greatest piano players haven't had this kind of progression. People, it takes years of training to even train the fingers and muscles. Then comes musicality. To act to have just started. Is a slap in the face of every people who are studying piano. It's simply not realistic so don't be discouraged by this. All his videos are with grand piano, professional recordings. Lies, lies, lies.
you’re wrong, i started playing in january 2019 :)
seethe bro, its a very high guideline dedicated people should strive for if they have the same amount of time each day to practice