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Can I check something. I have looked at the ABRSM G8 2025-26 syllabus on their website and it lists the 1st Movement not the Rondo as G8. Have I missed something?

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I took dipABRSM in 2022, and I am preparing LRSM. After watch this video, I am thinking to switch to other system. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you!

I don't usually listen to long videos, but I found this very interesting. I am starting to learn piano as a mature student, just for pleasure, so no stress involved for me!!

Technique is a means to expression, the mechanism to music. Yes, you can play wonderfully without orthodox techniques but if you don’t have to fight yourself you free yourself up to express yourself. To title this video as he has is quite simply a dog whistle aimed at those who are looking for short cuts. His analogy with a beginner taking tennis lessons from a pro coach is flawed. Teaching a basic grounding, both technically and musically, is a high skill and very, very rarely found in high level teachers. Flip it round and I wonder what I could teach Roger Federer…hey Roger, it’s round and yellow and you hit over the net thingy.

Great playing, please repeat on a grand piano !!! Seems as you are totally underestimated, just detected your channel !!!

Wonderful playing and the piano tone is beautiful, rounded and warm .

Hi , where are you based? I need classes

In my opinion I think AMEB the Australian board is now the premiere music board for music exams. 🎉

Well said bro ❤. I support you totally on the de-colonising of classical music by Abrsm and Trinity. It’s silly and ridiculous, in my opinion! The only reason is business and money 💰 💰. Abrsm n Trinity do not care about the ‘death’ of classical music, their main goal is their bank accounts go up. How sad 😞 😢

This is a gem, thank you for this great tutorial! It finally dawns on me what exactly happenned in my mind whilst playing for others. Would also love to hear if there are strategies to reduce nervousness during performance🙏

great stuff ! useful !

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Sorry, but you have no awareness of diversity and people with Aphantasia and/or Autism. I have no minds eye, or minds ear! So I ‘fail’ on your first assumption about Audiation. With my autism I am unable to ‘feel’ in the sense you talk about. I can agree about listening to lots of music, which I do encourage my students to do. Please research Aphantasia and Autism.

Technique is the first thing you teach on the piano, it starts with correct posture, arm and wrist relaxation, exercises for finger independence- these are just the fundamental piano skills aka technique, which are crucial in playing piano! With those set correctly scales and arpeggios won’t be a problem. There is no way avoiding learning proper technique and expect to play good because you can even teach a monkey to press the keys but to play beautifully you need technique! Just like the tennis example, if you want the ball to shoot at a certain angle and distance- you need the technique to achieve it! Otherwise there is no control of the ball, no control in the music you’re playing, no control of your hands and fingers.

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Great job 👌👌👌

I took DipABRSM teaching It was quite rigorous. Now its all dumbed No QS no Written Submissions. And I don't get an Associate Title . Fuck !!

Please kindly show us a visual display of your keys played so that we can see and learn

Buddhists, yes is no, no is yes. Emptiness. 😊😊

Not related to any beginner. Will do nothing for me.

Citando a Vangelis: "Cada uno de nosotros, es una galaxia única"... Más o menos.

I think in pictures. I play by ear, if I hear it, and plink plonk for a bit I can find the basic tune. Even before I could read music. I hear where you, are coming from, sports psychology and viualization. Love this, recently found out I'm neurodivergent, if you want to say, are you also neurodivergent too. You discuss things in ways I do too. Sports psychology wise, visualisation lead what you are trying to do, then turn that but if your brain off and 'just run programe'. Like learning to drive at first you are focused on every action and step. At some point, it takes less conscious focus on individual actions, you know what does what and where stuff is, muscle memory.

This video is from a psychiatric hospital for patients.

To much talk sorry

Is this a real sheet or an electronic sheet

Your video just popped up on the phone. Learning to play the piano, without a piano; in some part, is a space not really addressed. Playing the piano in the mind, and bringing your mind and consciousness to the piano, is another dimension I am going to explore. Thanks

What a stupid way of introducing your podcast....! yes I immediately moved on to some more uplifting advice....ie..after I watched Horowich the great pianist...a very humble man born in Kiev by the way.A Jew with impeccable finger technique....here you come telling "you wasting your time"..silly

Without technique you can’t play harder pieces. No technique will keep you at a very basic level. Shaking my head in disbelief.

Hi. New viewer here. You have a lovely manner, but I’ve watched for 11 minutes and you’ve barely said anything - just telling people to go and watch this or that other video. Life’s too short, sorry.

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Get to the point, god lord

He's on the right track, but spinning his wheels trying to get the point across. People don't and won't have the time for him to get to what he is tryung to explain. He's right! He's not good at making short videos

Thank you for sharing your love of music ...

This is a wonderful explaination what it's about to play piano (or any other instrument)! The main attention should be put in the music - which has a lot more dimensions than just the sound aspect (adding single notes on a thread).Music is sort of a philosophy. You can't learn philosophy by making a typewriter course. The term 'technique' is misleading in itself. It always reminds me to the german word 'Seelenklempner' for a psychiatrist, who tries to solve complex mental problems by prescribing drugs (or even worse).

Very funny: he tells you that you should play and not theorize first and then he doesn't play a single note.

you're putting the finger 👇🏻 on why many people - mostly adults - find it very hard to master a musical instrument. i'm a chromatic harmonica player and i recently bought a piano 🎹 to improve my musicality, in general and for my harmonica playing. so now i can learn to play chords and a bass line with my hands 👐 while i can see 👀 what i'm doing - not an option playing harmonica - and link what i'm doing and seeing to what i'm hearing 👂. i started my harmonica lessons with a big focus on technique - indeed, learning to play the harmonica is not easy - and i got so frustrated it took me about 18 months to master my breathing and embouchure so i could finally play a few bars of clean single notes. i changed to a different music teacher, a sax player who doesn't now anything about the harmonica. he thought me to learn by listening to the music and to play through feeling the music. he's also tough on scales and technical exercises, but he helped me to learn and grow a lot. so much of playing music happens in the mind 💭 and through the heart 💕.

I am here because I play classical guitar

Hi Let me know about online lessons, thanks, Giuseppe.

I am a musician who recently started taking piano lessons. I understand all your points. I realize that my fingers need to be trained to move like a pianist, which will take time, but I also realized that I can be extremely musical with any piece on the piano because that is what I usually only think about when I play on my other instrument. However, when I watch many amateur pianists and street piano playing, most of them are just showing off and not musical. I guess that is very difficult to teach because I had no clue when I was a kid learning my instrument. I only understood when I reached very high levels.

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Your videos (and podcasts) have helped me in numerous ways. I no longer sit at the piano bashing out the ( mostly) correct notes; I am now beginning to hear music coming from my instrument! Tension has decreased, awareness has increased, and a sense of calmness is creeping in. You are speaking of more intangible, powerful instruction which isn’t taught in a weekly hourly lesson. Thank you, it’s much appreciated.

❤ 🎹 😊 Thank you for making these points 👉 👈 👇 Yes, awareness is everything 🙌 😊

Really helpful! Thank you for this, will be trying the shifting accents

Where is chapter 5

Took the DipABRSM then FRSM piano many many years ago… this is unbelievable how it’s been dumbed down 😕

I’ve also been sight reading through all of the books this summer. I actually quite like the selection up to grade 5, but the grades 6&7&8 I do agree that the syllabus should perhaps be more “traditional” in the lists A&B. I’ve always liked the fact that if you look at ABRSM grades from decades ago, there was a consistency (I have my sister’s books from the 1970’s!). Compare that to having taught alevel & gcse, where there is no consistency 😂 I appreciate the need to update the syllabus but I agree with what you’re saying - list C is the place to do this 👍🏼

as a jazz pianist, I agree with the distinction between chord and voicing. now, we just need a word to distinguish voicing from voicing!

Amazing bro!

Thank you very much for this, it’s fascinating how this all fits together. Do you think slowing the tempo down to the extent that you can move the hand into position in a relaxed movement well before the beat on which the notes should be played, then playing on the beat at this slowed down tempo so that it is easily played with no mistakes encapsulates some of these techniques?. I think your idea of hearing and singing the notes before hand is something that will be very useful going forward.Thanks.