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1:48 Any tips on how to practice and play these turns at the correct tempo, with weak and disobedient fourth and fifth fingers? 🥲

What sets this tutorial apart is the section on musicality, I really appreciated the guidance on playing with rubato, the emphasis on beats 1 and 3, and ensuring the right hand is louder than the left as well as the exhortation to play with correct pedaling ❤❤❤❤❤

Excellent daily exercice more than cadence , playing scale first, chords ( including 7th.) and initiation to circle of fifths. At 2:50 -51 shouldn’t it be C first inversion instead of root position? Good work combination Thankfully NBG

Has a pianist i perfectly agree with you

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Im 50 and in between beginner and the next level. What id love to do is sit at any street piano and impress people by playing music I love

“We’re just gonna get on board, hold hands and sing Kumbaya? Sit down and buckle up!”

A peça de bach é linda e fácil o que dificulta são os inúmeros acordes diferentes essa é a maior dificuldade

Ty for the help ur so good and I hope i get as better as u

I've been using Synthesia for 1 year, and for serious musicians, it's just not worth it. But, as many say, for just playing pieces you like, it is really good. With years of experience in rhythm games, Synthesia was very intuitive for me. My goal was to sight-read pieces with Synthesia, which I achieved after months of daily practice. My muscle memory developed to react quickly to sight-read any note. I also turned on the note names (A-G) on both the falling notes and the piano keys, which improved my reading and reaction time further. Additionally, I used a custom background with lines to help recognize the portions of the piano on the screen faster. All these factors combined helped me develop a fast muscle memory to sight-read most basic to medium and some advanced pieces. It even helped me learn parts of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Nos. 2 and 3, Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Liszt, Liebestraum by Liszt, Clair de Lune by Debussy, etc. However, Synthesia has clear limitations. First, you need to learn hand and finger techniques from videos to understand the fundamentals. Once you have a strong base, you can guess most finger positions based on intuition and comfort, practicing slowly if there are complex passages. Rhythm and dynamics are aspects you can only grasp by listening to other interpretations of the piece. With experience, you learn to improve the sound every day, reinforcing it with music theory. In the end, Synthesia worked really well for me because it motivated me, was intuitive, very fun, and felt like a game, so I could use it every day. I have around 1000 hours with Synthesia, so I know what I'm talking about. After some time, you reach a level of sight-reading where you can play any piece on the first try, as long as it is 1 or 2 levels below the hardest piece you can play. For example, I retried Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 once a day about 25 times over 5 months. Even though there are many more songs or pieces in sheet music, MuseScore has enough MIDI files for at least 99% of the pieces I want to play. I have 2000 pieces in MIDI files in my Synthesia. It was a good starting point, and I'm now considering learning to read sheet music and improvise. Synthesia got me going, helped me develop a good connection with the piano, and gave me a lot of musical knowledge and creativity.

Imagine that the only way for some people to play emotionally is by reading notation instead of using your own ear and feelings for intepreting how it should sound.

i cant read sheet so synthesia way always my go to can you do a video that goes through the sheet basics and maybe do a tutorial on some music chopin ballade 1 would be cool, since im learning that right now

It's those fuck-me-pumps that are throwing her off. Those ridiculous heels force her bumper to be six inches farther away than it should be, causing the awkward angle between legs and torso.

you forget the fact that people have different needs. people with cognitive disabilities tend to learn faster using visual cues. reading sheet music is simply not an option for them.

"its like listening to an audiobook on algebra". you are a true artist lol, this is perfect

I know these falling bars only from some YT pianists and they look funny, but I would have never imagined that there are people out there that would learn pieces like this and think this is superior to normal notation? This is mindboggingly stupid to think that slowly falling bars a better than a piece of paper (or maybe a tablet nowadays) where you can jump immediately where ever you want.

Those videos are cool visualizations that definitely attract attention. But since they are basically Tetris with music, I don't understand how they are supposed to be "tutorials" for actually playing the piano 😅

Some comments from a heavy Synthesia user. First, I agree with you that Synthesia is not a very good use of time for someone who wants to seriously learn piano. I also agree that many of the available Synthesia learning materials are bad and will teach bad habits. That said, Synthesia can be a lot of fun, and an engaging game in a way that normal piano practice generally isn't, particularly for beginners. For people who are not serious about piano, and just want to learn to have fun playing their favourite pieces, I think it has its place. The main area that I think Synthesia might be useful for someone seriously learning piano is in practising scales and arpeggios. The Synthesia falling notes notation, combined with finger hints, works really well for seeing where to put your fingers for playing scales. Many of the problems with Synthesia highlighted in the video don't really apply to scales. Further, playing scales in Synthesia, trying to beat your high score and play them as fast and smoothly and accurately as possible, makes what is otherwise one of the more boring parts of piano practice into an engaging, fun and effective practice routine. So I would encourage people not to reject Synthesia entirely - it may have its place along other learning methods.

I've never actually used Synthesia so I'm not here to argue for or against it. What I will say is that our arcane, centuries old system of reading music as dots on a staff or ledger line is extrordinarily complex. I'm glad you found it easy. Or perhaps you've forgotten your years of struggle as a child, trying to make sense of key signatures, accidentals, sharps, flats, double-sharps, and double-flats, trying to figure out which accidental went with which note in a dense cluster. And the rule that through the length of possibly long measures, each accidental stays in effect till the measure ends. I still struggle with it and I've been playing since I was 8. I'm now 67. I don't have dyslexia yet I still struggle. Pity the poor sap who does. I LOVE the idea of a piano TAB. On guitar, for instance, I LOVE that I can play from TAB. Far more intuitive, and no confusion as to which note goes on which string.I hear your complaints of Synesthesia but I don't know of a single one that couldn't be addressed. If you were consulting with the company, I bet they could fix all those things. A prospective piano student faces two huge hurdles. The first is our music notation system. The other is how to play the actual instrument. Why not give that student a break by at least making the first part easier?

Im learning to read, if i come across a rhythm i cant count i throw it on my daw and might use synthesia to practice it if im struggling.

It's quite a lot of fun playing a bass drum in time to your hand movements.

I don't get synthesia. It is so frustrating to learn from, especially those youtube videos. You need to constantly adjust playback speed and rewind the video. You basically can't tell what is coming up, so you end up constantly pressing play and pause on repeat. With sheet music even displayed on video, you can pause the video and work on the phrase on your own pace. Good luck doing that with synthesia, where you see just a couple of notes at one time, and it is really hard to tell from those incoming notes, where they will land. Okay rant over, I will now watch the video :D

Have to agree. As a guitarist who can't read sheet music to save my life I think quick and dirty synthesia notation has given me quite a few bad habits when I first tried learning the piano. Would have been better off just learning to read sheets in the first place! (not that I can even do it now haha)

I’m 56. So far I have been learning piano for 14 lessons. I enjoy playing it very much.

I agree 1000%! Reading music is so much easier than trying to figure out Synthesia "notation." 🙈

Thank you so much.

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He’s doing it flat because if it’s flat, it’s more easier to play

Хочу познакомиться с твоим Отцом. Артëм

Holy shit they're huge!

wow

Very helpful, thank you!

Estou aprendendo, muito linda essa partitura

This is why I get confused playing it sometimes. Lol

Excellent. The dark side of the force is at the root of the evil empire. It sounds as bombastic and pretentious as any real empire is.

Wow, it's almost like some of the notes in one scale can also be found in other scales. I wonder if any other tunes can also be played on just the 12 notes on this "piano keyboard"? That would be amazing.

Chromatic mediants as well

Thanks!

So clear.

Wow incredible

Das will ich bald auch auf dem Keyboard spielen, mal gespannt. Du machst das auch gut.

keep it up!!!

Excellent to practice hands coordination and large number of chords . Not so easy to me but definitely possible. I'm starting to practice.❤❤❤

Vivek hasn't had time to be great at everything.....JUST MOST THINGS. Vivek was too busy with his career becoming a billionaire to be a pro piano player. Vivek Ramaswamy, once a nationally ranked junior tennis player. Vivek Ramaswamy is a biotech entrepreneur and investor. He worked as a hedge fund investor and made millions before graduating from Yale. He founded Roivant Sciences in 2014, a company that bought patents for drugs that had not been fully developed and marketed. He resigned as CEO in 2021 and became the executive chairman. He is also the co-founder of Strive Asset Management.

Op 118 no2 has been my favorite piece of music for over 25 years. Incredibly beautiful! Well played! Thank you.

Knowing vivek he will probably take ur advice in good spirit if he ever watch you video. Keep up the good work

What do _I_ think about Vivek's piano playing? I think that the fact that someone who has risen from rather meager beginnings to have started several multi billion dollar companies, one of which has provided life extending therapies for people suffering from otherwise hopeless maladies, written several books that have moved the needle on the conversation on several important social topics, has risen from obscurity to garnering a significant number of promoters of the prospect of him becoming the holder of perhaps the most significant office on the planet, and even being a nationally-ranked tennis player in the meantime, the fact that he has had time to learn any more than Chopsticks on the piano is remarkable in and of itself.

Go watch the video of Vivek scoring a point against a tennis pro. Now, what everyone wants to know is can he dance?

Most impressive is finishing the piece while snowballing. He might have lost some notes, but he gained Dynamics 😊. Pretty safe to say musicians that perform at high levels aren't billionaires! I'm impressed by the guy regardless of his views. I'm glad I stumbled upon this, thanks!

Don’t know why there’s so many negative comments. This is a great, insightful commentary. I do like Vivek politically while that does not hinder me from thinking he can do better at piano.