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Nolan Miller
United States
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I post piano recordings and other music-related videos.
Technique Tips: Efficiency · Gestures · Momentum
My first piano technique tutorial in a while! In this video I cover some basic principles, then build on those ideas to show how I would tackle a passage from Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu. I cover topics including: efficiency, choreography, hand position, playing gesturally, harnessing momentum, and fingering choices.
Timestamps for specific topics:
00:00 Intro
00:08 Efficiency
00:52 Choreography
01:32 Gestures + Hand Position
01:58 Combining Gestures
02:27 Momentum
02:56 Applying these principles in a piece: Fantaisie-Impromptu
04:52 Conclusion
Timestamps for specific topics:
00:00 Intro
00:08 Efficiency
00:52 Choreography
01:32 Gestures + Hand Position
01:58 Combining Gestures
02:27 Momentum
02:56 Applying these principles in a piece: Fantaisie-Impromptu
04:52 Conclusion
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Feux Follets Progression: Week 1 - Week 72.5
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Here's a little progress video I stitched together from 73 separate recordings of Feux Follets I've made over the past 17 months. A few notes on the project/process: (1) It took me 6 days to learn and memorize the notes, and another 502 days to get a recording I liked well enough to post. Contrary to popular misconception, memorizing notes to Romantic-era etudes is rarely the hard part. (2) Eve...
Liszt - Feux Follets
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After 72.5 weeks and 1000 practice hours, here is my recording of Feux Follets. I won't go so far as to say that this is the hardest piano piece ever written, but it's certainly the one that has challenged me most. With this project, I wanted something that would push me to become a better pianist, and force me to rethink all my preconceptions about technique. I picked Feux Follets because (1) ...
Nolan Miller - Acceptance
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Hi folks, sorry to go so long without uploading anything. I've been busy with non-piano things, and also working on a large-ish piano project that I hope to finish up in a couple months. So, hopefully I'll have some new videos to post before too long. Meanwhile, here is another original composition that I wrote over the last few weeks.
Nolan Miller - sadsimplesong
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A short, simple piano piece that I wrote this week. I've been feeling creatively blocked for the last eight months, so it feels good to make something again. Hopefully I can ride this momentum and compose more soon, but creativity can be awfully elusive, so no promises.
Chopin: Winter Wind (Op. 25 No. 11)
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After practicing so much Liszt and Rachmaninoff lately, it feels good to play music by a composer with average-sized hands.
How to Practice Systematically (Winter Wind Practice Breakdown)
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In this video, I break down a systematic practice session I did on Chopin's Winter Wind, explaining my goals and how I'm choosing my practice methods, and summarizing everything I did in a ~2.5 hour practice session. All playing samples are recorded by me, using a Yamaha P-515 with the onboard CFX Grand sound samples.
18 Ways To Practice The Piano
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A by-no-means-exhaustive compilation of practice methods I use regularly when playing the piano. Although I made this video with piano in mind, I would guess many of these methods could be applied to other musical instruments as well. 00:00 Add a beat at a time 00:13 Add a hand position 00:27 Dotted rhythm 00:36 Dotted rhythm (reverse) 00:44 To the beat 00:52 Beat to beat 01:01 Offbeat to offbe...
Rachmaninoff: Moment Musicaux Op. 16 No. 4 in E Minor
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Rachmaninoff: Moment Musicaux Op. 16 No. 4 in E Minor
Nolan Miller - Chaos Bun Considers His Misdeeds
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Nolan Miller - Chaos Bun Considers His Misdeeds
Für Elise in the Style of Frederick Chopin
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Für Elise in the Style of Frederick Chopin
Rachmaninoff: Étude-Tableau Op. 39 No. 5 in E-flat minor
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Rachmaninoff: Étude-Tableau Op. 39 No. 5 in E-flat minor
Rachmaninoff: Étude-Tableau Op. 39 No. 1 in C minor
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Rachmaninoff: Étude-Tableau Op. 39 No. 1 in C minor
Chopin: Nocturne in G Major, Op. 37 No. 2
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Chopin: Nocturne in G Major, Op. 37 No. 2
How Do Pianists Remember So Many Notes?
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How Do Pianists Remember So Many Notes?
Excellent 👌🏼I don't understand who can give it a dis like
the summer camp anecdote was the best part for me
Ur slow motions are so fast
10:55
Bravissimo!
You deserve so much more views
😂😂😂😂
This comment is going to seem like a Simply Piano add 😂 but for your tutorial. But As a CZcams taught beginner (not intermediate at all but able to play some intermediate pieces ) I never even dared to look up tutorials for La campanella. But I am glad I listened to my intrusive thoughts and did anyway 😂 your tutorial feels like a cheatcode. I am already flying over that keyboard and hitting those notes without any tension or issue in 2 days thanks to your video. By the way.. I am not aspiring to become a professional pianist. I want to play this piece because I love it. Complete mastery isn’t my goal. My audience is me, my friends and family (who are already extremely impressed when I play River flows in You) Thank you so much 🙏🏻
The press!!
hey nolan, i am learning la campanella thru your videos and i owuld like to ask how you do right movement in the theme? I cant get there in final speed
You've really hit the nail on the head here. The details vs. big picture shift of focus during practice is great advice!
You deserve a grand piano man
Maybe the best tutorial ever!
brilliant playing!!!
I perform this fantasie and "Les Rameaux". Love I.Leybach piano pieces. Hard to get scores.
Playing this study on that keyboard (especially the double notes) may be a little advantageous because the keys are much lighter, however when it comes to not missing jumps it can be a drawback since this type of keyboard is much more sensitive to the friction of incorrect notes than an acoustic piano. Getting used to playing a piece of this difficulty on a keyboard like this has a lot of merit, added to how well you play it!
Thanks! I actually picked this particular keyboard because the action is fairly heavy. I find that it doesn’t feel too different from playing on an acoustic piano.
Lovely. Great skill.
Very late comment, but you’ve been an extremely large help in my journey of learning this hellish piece. Thanks so much for all you did. ❤❤
0:28 The child in the car going through his house: Dad I want Liszt Dad: We have Liszt in our neighborhood. The Liszt in our neighborhood:
Nolan you're awesome
Great graphics. How do?
Yes it’s knowing the patterns - melodic, harmonic, the progressions. Still, where I’ve analyzed the patterns in Chopin Scherzo 2, memorization is coming slowly
Regarding @5:50, the tricky F#-E#-D## turn, I was thinking of doing 4-3-2-4-(1). Using 4 instead of 3 makes it easier for me to reach down with my thumb. I'm just starting this piece so not 100% sure about that, yet... (maybe I should add that I use 2-4 a lot more than most others, apparently - based on editors' fingering. I also prefer to trill on 2-4). BTW, so happy to find this tutorial, I can see right away that you are an excellent pianist and "teacher". Subscribed.
The perfect tutorial ive come across so far in CZcams! Please keep it up, it helps a lot:)
In my view, Rachmaninoff's prelude in E flat minor and Scriabin's etude in D flat Op. 8 are even harder than this piece. Never have I seen any pianist tackling those pieces live.
I have and those works are not even close in terms of the difficult of this beast of a etude
holy shit dude this is good, you should get an acoustic piano; it already sounds good on a digital piano. congrats on conquering this absolute finger breaker
Great video Nolan. Would you consider making such a video for Rachmaninoff's moment musicaux no 4?
I thought i could learn from u but i domt know how to read noted yet i thought u were gonna teach me each note im disliking
(this is hilarious!)
this some good shit, keep it up
muto bom cara, eu te invejo
I've been doing the beginning part with my 4th finger for a while and I'm having trouble switching to pinkie now ._.
This is really good
This has helped me so much!! Thank you! Please do more tutorials like these!
waw
You're so great. Bravissimo. I really like the attention to dinamiche (forte, piano, rallentando and so on). Your explaining videos about this piece are just amazing. Please keep sharing your knowledge with us
this sounds so amazing, great job!
As someone trying to learn Feux Follets, I can confirm this is 100% accurate
good for you, harder to make good piano music sound anything like an acoustic.
Magnifique, merci.
Bravo!!!👏👏👏👏👏 from JAPAN
Nolan!!! It's a great job!!!!
Wonderfully edited, funny, and extremely useful! You must have the most underrated channel I've come across in a while.
Thank you! I’ve been playing for 15 years and my friends ask me how I do it. I have no explanation. I don’t know how my brain can remember multiple songs by memory and I barely have to think. Sometimes if I over think I get lost at where I’m at.
Whaat this is actually a vert good video, didn't realize that it has soooo few views...
Hey, not sure if you'll see this, but what's the best way to practice voicing in the chords at then black key measures, and at the end andantino?
For voicing to the top note, I often find it helps to slightly rotate my forearm towards the pinky end of the hand, and then keep whichever finger has the melody note fairly firm. A voicing exercise I sometimes like to do is to play the whole chord I'm trying to voice, but then immediately release all the notes I want to make quieter, while continuing to hold the note I want to make louder. This helps me separate the layers and find the hand shape and movement that will get me the sound I want. Hope this helps.
Quite curious,how should I handle this part's pedal? 3:20 These consecutive octaves are making my sound so dirty :(
I think I mostly changed pedal every 8th note beat, unless the harmony doesn't change for a few beats, in which case I might hold it out the whole time.
This helped
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This is gold