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This is super helpful for coordinating hands! Thanks for breaking it down step by step 👍

Interesting. Couldn’t download the link! Please advise. Thanks

I have my sound high, but still can't hear a word of this, yet I hear the piano when you play it.

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Nice content. Thank you. Note: Separation spelled with an 'a', at 2:00 to 2:09 ....

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Good one.

You made my day! Thank you - I play them all 😊

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Oh, this is soooooo helpful! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 Thanks so much for this video, Dominic! 😊

Thanks!

Always glad to hear a teacher admit muscle memory is unreliable.

I call 'over before you play' a 'soft landing', where I feel the structure of the black keys.

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Excellent video!

Great set of tricks, thank you so much .

As a self taught pianist of some virtuosity, when I was first learning the piano, I fell quite firmly into the habit of not doing anything until I understood why I was doing it. The amount of forethought necessary to reach understanding, was mind-bendingly tedious, but I somehow fell in love with the process. I think the greatest challenge to learning the piano one must overcome, is the realization and acceptance of just how difficult doing it correctly is.

If you continue this type of video instruction, your channel will definitely grow. It will take time, of course, and self promotion... but excellent pedagogy like this is golden! Thank you! You are appreciated!

Very nice instructions.

If you recognize the chords, you can just improvise around it if you blank out during performance. That's the reason improvising pianists are more interesting to listen to and they will always surprise you even if they play the same piece over and over. It's a lost art these days but back in the day all major composers and performers improvised on their own works and works of their contemporaries. There were also fun musical duels.

Just because I doubt I will ever get to write this sentence again 😂 the book Betsy, Tacy and Tib brought me here! They are little girls from I believe the 1890s if my historical detective work is correct. They go to a circus show to see a Flying Lady, and Narcissus is playing 🙂. For all the griping I may do about the internet ruining society, I cannot deny the miracle of being able to search for the piece and actually here it here 😊. I could not do that when I first read the series as a child. Thank you so much for putting the music to the page for me and my daughter as I read the books to her today! ❤️

Thanks for your clear advice, much appreciated. The index finger method is a new one for me looking forward to trying it.

There is a book by Walter Giesekin that is all about this type of practice. For me, after learning the text, there are three things that help me get the memory really solid. First is to practice the pieces I know without the score and only searching for the score when I have a doubt, so I am always challenging my information retrieval, as a lot of practicing a piece has to do with solving technical challenges, the fact of working by memory to begin with helps it to become second nature. Then, another thing I began to do last year was mental solfege, to always follow some line when I am playing, in order to activate focus and to improve musicality, it feels just like waking up your mind, as one tends to play mindlessly or passively, mental solfegge gets you musically active and lets you think what is coming next. Lastly, I practice my repertoir in spaced repetition, I use flash cards in order to organize which pieces I will study and rotate them according to the level of security I have with each, so that from a practice sesion to the next, I am not always playing the same piece and I can regulate preciselly which piece needs work. Great video, keep it up! 💪

I've been playing for 30 years. I don't know if I would have understood or appreciated any of this even 5 years ago. Interesting stuff. Well said.

I learned an extremely complicated konnakol piece by ear. It took me one year and it's up on my channel. I learned a huge amount about memory And process on the way. I'm currently learning to sing the Bach cello 1 prelude. Specifically by slowing down and looping section by section of rostropovich. Music is a language. Treat it like such. Doing it this way allows me to absorb more than just the order of notes but the phrasing and interpretation of this great performance.

Hi Could I ask you for a description of the microphone you are speaking in to and where it can be purchased? The quality is perfect. Thank you for describing the forms of memory and how to study the score. It is so useful. Brian King

This is good stuff, bro. I'm a pianist and have always had a lingering problem of the sight-->mind-->finger connection when sightreading. I know this is happening and would like to be able t make the sight to finger muscle memory faster. Any thoughts on this? Thanks! Subbed.

I got confused with the title, because in my mind music is what you hear, not what's written on the page. In that sense, you could do the exact same exercise but the auditory version instead: you listen to the music until you are able to 'sing' every note of the melody (aloud or in your head), and have a clear picture of every individual note or chord in the accompaniment. It's basically transcribing, like you would do in jazz for example, but away from your instrument and sheet of paper, until you have memorised the whole thing and are ready to give it a try.

Oh heavens! There is no music in my head. One of my biggest irks. I can play advanced pieces but memory; not a thing. I took a look at Minuet in G Major at the kitchen table. The patterns, the chords, the structure. Went to my piano, and sure hit and miss a few times, but then it came. Partly of course because it’s a well known melody, but to do it with no music, wow!!! Thank you is not a big enough word!

This is fantastic. The chords as words is a thing I discovered for myself that made music notation make sense - as a self-taught guitarist, I never learned how to properly read music and that insight has helped a ton. Great video - I’m halfway through but subbed in the first 20 seconds because the sound and video quality are fantastic. Great editing so far as well.

Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. Your work is so helpful - it gives me new things to think about and apply to my learning to play piano journey.

aah great arrangement at the end. Very elegant.

The cognitive guidance is SO HELPFUL THANK YOU!

Just started improvising….what really helped was understanding of circle of fifths…I got familiar with the f major scale and its chords and was able to improvise for the first time without making odd sounds

Appreciate your clarity! Great video and thank you!

Excellent advice. With technique practice, I usually work through the scales and arpeggios first, but not necessarily in the same order (C, then working up through the sharps; F, then working up through the flats). I'll vary them, with a mixture of easier ones and harder ones. Some days, depending on time, I'll just pick 3 or 4 major scales and practice those, then the same with the minors. I'll also practice the minors in natural, harmonic and melodic forms. I like to do arpeggios using inversions. Learning the circle of 5ths is important, and once it's set in your head, and you can naturally see the relation between all the keys, it makes everything else so much easier. If I'm learning a specific piece, I'll give particular attention to practicing the scale for that piece, plus argeggios. For instance, I'm currently learning Chopin's 'Le Militaire' Polonaise - so it's a lot of focus on the A major scale as a warm-up. Sight reading and improvisation are both areas I need to improve upon - but they become easier once that essential groundwork with scales is done. One mistake I always used to make was trying to play a newly-learned piece at the correct tempo - ignoring any mistakes made. I've learned to slow it right down and focus on those 'mistake' areas to iron them out.

As an older person (over 60), getting back into playing the piano, this was an EXCELLENT video. I have downloaded the content, and, will be using this to help in my practice sessions. I do most of what you have in this video already, but, I believe this will help me out in my upcoming practice sessions starting today. Your videos have helped me tremendously, and, I thank you. Keep up the great work!!!!!!

Good advice. Merci

Also you have to have a good piano Mine is the opposite of good

Thanks for these great tips. You are now also on my favorites list.

Really helpful. Thanks!!!!!!!❤

It’s not all bad thing looking at your hands if you know what to look for, looking at your hands actually also help figuring out technical problem, unneeded tensions, eliminating extra useless movements, alignment of the finger/forearms, wrist positions.

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Thank You for your good understanding explaining. A complete different question - What chair Do You Use?

This is helpful! Thanks!

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Fantastic informational video. I have always wanted this information and no one talks about this properly like you have done. I am an adult learner.

Perfect pitch isn’t in the ear it’s felt in the brain. There’s someone who cracked the code for how adults can feel the sensations in the brain. Understanding auditory pathway physiology, which is the process of sound travel through the ear to the brain. Sound information is processed in the auditory cortex, which is organized in tonotopic order (by frequency). They are neurons that respond to specific frequencies/notes. Understanding these sensations in the brain is how one can plan a perfect pitch journey based on feeling the tones in the brain. Feeling the tones on a daily basis teaches the brain how to recognize specific notes by matching the tones with specific resonances in the brain’s tonotopic map. For adults this is a slow process of ear development, but there’s absolutely no way the inner ear won’t be able to perceive pitch if the listening is “brain focused.” In other words play a tone and focus on the brain while allowing the sound to travel through the ear. This is the beginning to a new journey. The ear has the ability to name pitches just like the eyes can pick out colors. In fact, all 5 senses have identification parameters. But we’ve misplaced our focus for decades as it pertains perfect pitch. There is a way to identify pitch. Let’s stop acting like it’s impossible because “how” to discover it isn’t widely known yet, mainly due to unbelievers.

In The Tradition (Liszt, Chopin, Brahms, Russian 19th century Rubinstein, Jozef Hoffman, Benedetti Michelangeli, Horowitz, Volondat) it is taught that the lower you practice something, the faster you van play it. I had to experiment that with Gradus ad Parnassum. Horrible but afterwards I could play it at any speed.

Gracias.