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  • Sight-reading a variety of pieces selected from your requests and walking you through a bit of my process. Hope you find this interesting!
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  • @TiffanyPoonpianist
    @TiffanyPoonpianist  Před 6 lety +896

    I forgot to explain the mysterious 5th blue book that I didn't open to play. I realized in the middle of editing that I have played through Haydn Sonata No. 20 in C minor as recent as last year, so I had to cut it out 😅

    • @BeJIuKuu1
      @BeJIuKuu1 Před 6 lety +19

      you also forgot to sight read "Faerie's aire and death waltz" :>
      p.s. i found, that you never look at keyboard while sight-reading. How does it possible?

    • @PRINCESORH
      @PRINCESORH Před 6 lety +1

      Please! For the love of Bob! Am I invisible?! Chopin "Raindrop" Prelude Op.28 No.15! I will upload a video of myself...idk, doing something embarrassing (I know not much of a tradeoff)! If you finally just play iiiit *sobbing*.

    • @frankie6490
      @frankie6490 Před 6 lety +1

      Love Haydn Sonatas!!

    • @souny1372
      @souny1372 Před 6 lety +4

      habits, im actually learning sight reading and from the beginning of learning you have to don't look back the keyboard while playing

    • @josiasdiazarvelo7292
      @josiasdiazarvelo7292 Před 6 lety +1

      Make a video about the ability of your ear... Please :D

  • @madelinelui175
    @madelinelui175 Před 6 lety +2828

    If you’re “bad” at sight reading then there will no words to describe how bad I am

    • @liloruf2838
      @liloruf2838 Před 5 lety +17

      Me too!

    • @lunaeaqua4339
      @lunaeaqua4339 Před 5 lety +15

      Count me too.

    • @biffii5568
      @biffii5568 Před 5 lety +72

      It's relative. Think she means bad, compared to some of her peers, (other professionals).

    • @gabriellasplanner5667
      @gabriellasplanner5667 Před 5 lety +8

      Truly! The sight reading portion of the KPE is terrible. I’m so bad at sight reading, not even close to being as good as her “bad”.

    • @isabellllee
      @isabellllee Před 5 lety +24

      Oh no, you guys will be shocked if you compare her sight-reading with me practicing for 3 months.

  • @geraldromanow4576
    @geraldromanow4576 Před 6 lety +2204

    Tiffany, it takes a gutsy gal to air your dirty laundry, so to speak, on CZcams. Most performers want the public to see (hear) only the finished product, not how they got there. But you are willing to suffer the awkwardness of allowing your followers to see you struggle a bit in the beginning stages of learning a new piece of music. You have given great insight to those who might think that what you do during a performance simply “falls out of your pocket,” as it were. I have the greatest respect and admiration not only for your talent, but for your openness and sincerity as well. All the best.

    • @TiffanyPoonpianist
      @TiffanyPoonpianist  Před 6 lety +332

      Ahh I wish there was a way to pin your comment because I appreciate it so much! The whole point of these talking videos is to show that I'm a living person before and beyond the finished music video. Thank you for recognizing what I do!

    • @chanelw9408
      @chanelw9408 Před 6 lety +6

      Gerald Romanow I second this

    • @moonrise458
      @moonrise458 Před 6 lety +12

      Ok Gerald Romanow, I appreciate your comment but I'll say Tiffany "struggles" with sight-reading; we need inverted commas there :) ! Beautiful playing, from the first attempt. Of course only an idiot woudl imagine that a pianist opens a book of partitions and plays the way we see them perform on stage. That does not exist. Players of her calibre can be "bad at sight-reading" as she humbly declares, but have a gift and work hard on that gift. Chapeau bas for your work Tiffany.

    • @studentoftheword6115
      @studentoftheword6115 Před 6 lety +27

      Yah but her dirty laundry is so clean compared to mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @jessicachen9114
      @jessicachen9114 Před 5 lety +18

      Tiffany, thank you for being so honest. This makes me feel want to practice and get better and learn more songs. A lot of prodigy make me feel that I am hopeless and should just give up learning or something. But your video and advice is very real to me and make me want to practice and get better. So thank you so much for posting this.

  • @advogado3118
    @advogado3118 Před 5 lety +414

    Your sight reading is my refined product🙄

    • @Lea-gd7zl
      @Lea-gd7zl Před 4 lety +11

      Figa Zumbi right!! it takes me months to reach the level she's at by simply sight reading it!!

    • @SeaTurtlee
      @SeaTurtlee Před 4 lety +3

      True struggle

    • @saber252
      @saber252 Před 3 lety

      I felt so disappointed while watching this you can hear how light and bright her touch is it’s amazing

  • @EnchantedSleepStories
    @EnchantedSleepStories Před 5 lety +611

    Impressed not only with your technical sight-reading skills but also with the emotion you are able to infuse into your playing, especially with a piece you are completely unfamiliar with! Lovely, thank you so much for sharing :-)

    • @galliumarsenide
      @galliumarsenide Před 5 lety +1

      That's why I love Mendelssohn. It's often not too hard and one can start putting in emotion quite early. :)

    • @Ursaminor31
      @Ursaminor31 Před 4 lety +1

      Totally agree

  • @pianpiano
    @pianpiano Před 6 lety +333

    Actually I was flattered with your attempt with Scriabin, I was thinking "is she really gonna sight-read that?". Of course it's quite impossible to sight-read it perfectly, but actually you immediately understood what was going on with the melody and understood the right tempo. Nice video, and as everyone said, no, you're aren't bad at sight-reading...at all!

  • @musicofjan1076
    @musicofjan1076 Před 6 lety +467

    I'd be satisfied if i ever reached this level of sight reading :D

    • @TiffanyPoonpianist
      @TiffanyPoonpianist  Před 6 lety +87

      You can do it! And be better than me :D

    • @musicofjan1076
      @musicofjan1076 Před 6 lety +12

      Thank you for the reply :) May i request you to sight read or just play some Sibelius?

    • @zain4019
      @zain4019 Před 5 lety +4

      Music Of Jan
      You’ll get there one day:) Practice!

  • @eriksatie877
    @eriksatie877 Před 6 lety +747

    I’m crazy about that Julliard library... 💜💜💜

    • @amigosXcorrespondenc
      @amigosXcorrespondenc Před 5 lety +29

      me too, it's like heaven :)

    • @CosmodromeNostalgia
      @CosmodromeNostalgia Před 5 lety +107

      And practice room with grand pianos. Omg..a perfect world.

    • @yoshi_drinks_tea
      @yoshi_drinks_tea Před 5 lety +1

      Erik Satie ❤️❤️

    • @dibaldgyfm9933
      @dibaldgyfm9933 Před 4 lety +5

      Erik Satie? Yourself a composer and what a composer! Died with two grands stacked upon each other. You of all? Would you play other composer's music?

    • @orangeswalnuts7861
      @orangeswalnuts7861 Před 4 lety

      Yeah, I'd love to be there!

  • @BrunaBorgesA
    @BrunaBorgesA Před 4 lety +37

    And here I am counting the lines to make sure I am reading it right

  • @yoinkyyoink
    @yoinkyyoink Před 5 lety +292

    Meanwhile, me, struggling to find where the middle C is.

  • @kpunkt.klaviermusik
    @kpunkt.klaviermusik Před 6 lety +511

    Wow, thank you so much for playing the Wild Rose from MacDowell! This was so perfect on the first take - it's almost unbelievable for me how this is possible. There are quite a lot of videos with this piece on youtube - but your version is by far the best of them! And I'm really impressed how you sightreaded the beginning of Scriabin's op 42 no5 - one of his hardest pieces.

    • @batlin
      @batlin Před 6 lety +17

      I was amazed at how well she brought out the feeling of To a Wild Rose on the first go. Really, really nice.

    • @shiningyoonie
      @shiningyoonie Před 5 lety +7

      other versions tend to be a little too fast for my liking. Tiffany's tempo here is just perfect!

  • @YSFmemories
    @YSFmemories Před 6 lety +1013

    It's so depressing when you see people who can sight read these pieces at a level that would take you at least a month or even more of practise to achieve.
    amazing.
    edit: now that I watched more of the video... I really liked the bach part! :D Makes you feel more human.

    • @TiffanyPoonpianist
      @TiffanyPoonpianist  Před 6 lety +139

      Noooo don't be depressed!! Haha I'm sure the latter parts of the video made you feel better :p

    • @cupofcoffee5526
      @cupofcoffee5526 Před 6 lety +19

      Indeed, let us partake in satisfaction in knowing that someone can still make mistakes, but in the end it wilk never really hide the fact that you can't even sight read elementary grade pieces, I'm gonna just cry on my piano

    • @joycechahinepiano
      @joycechahinepiano Před 6 lety +16

      Practice practice practice! That's all it is :)))

    • @MichaelAlexander1967
      @MichaelAlexander1967 Před 5 lety +20

      I actually wonder how many years of playing & how many of hours of practice per day along with the quality of teaching is required to the sight read like Tiffany. It really is so amazing for those of us who have no clue as to how a player can actually see all those notes on both stave at the same time. Wow.

    • @controversy4987
      @controversy4987 Před 4 lety +1

      The first wasn’t bad, trust me read the sheet music!

  • @zhangchris1120
    @zhangchris1120 Před 6 lety +193

    11:30 I laughed when you said I'm not even going to continue this 😂😂 it's hard to sight Read Bach's work

  • @basspig
    @basspig Před 4 lety +62

    What a refreshing personality you have. No ego or guile, just a child like innocence that I find so charming.

  • @brandonbaltodano8058
    @brandonbaltodano8058 Před 6 lety +182

    Says 'terrible at sight reading'...
    Sight reads everything perfectly...

  • @danielgloverpiano7693
    @danielgloverpiano7693 Před 2 lety +8

    Hi Tiffany, as a Juilliard graduate, it was great to revisit the library and practice rooms! I remember taking a keyboard class with a very demanding teacher there. She usually got people upset and it often ended in tears because she could be so mean. You obeyed one of her tough rules and broke another:
    1 when sightreading, never look at your hands (you did great with that)
    2 never stop the rhythm under any circumstance. She said playing wrong notes was preferable to wrong rhythms. She didn’t care how slowly we went, and how many wrong notes we played and we had to count aloud. If someone stopped to correct a wrong note, she went ballistic! I use her method to this day and she was right. I often have students play on one note only with the correct rhythms. It helps a lot.
    By the way, MacDowell was a great American Romantic composer and his Second Concerto was once standard repertoire. Andre Watts and Van Cliburn both recorded it. Worth investigating. The form resembles Saint-Saëns No. 2. He also wrote four large sonatas.
    Well done!

  • @ronagreenfield9545
    @ronagreenfield9545 Před 6 lety +1307

    You are way too modest when you say you are not a good sight reader!

    • @quinto34
      @quinto34 Před 5 lety +12

      like many things, it's relative..

    • @bothieGMX
      @bothieGMX Před 5 lety +2

      Yea, you can sight-read 100 times better than me (i.e. I can't do it at all).

    • @camilloflaim8933
      @camilloflaim8933 Před 5 lety +2

      You forget that you are one queen of the piano. When you will play Mephisto valzer?

    • @snickydoodle4744
      @snickydoodle4744 Před 5 lety +2

      LOL tbh for majority of us, our sr is underlevelled for our technical skill, her skill is just too good

    • @MrClassicalMusic1
      @MrClassicalMusic1 Před 4 lety +4

      A lot of great pianist aren't good sight readers. Alfred Brendel for one.

  • @nathanielberger1595
    @nathanielberger1595 Před 5 lety +119

    To a wild rose is a grade 5 piece. I learnt it. Took me about 2 months. She played it perfectly by sight reading it. I'm amazed by it. Well done! Sounds more beautiful

    • @dankruvand4937
      @dankruvand4937 Před 5 lety +16

      Yes. I had this in a summer adult piano class about 20 years ago. Same 2 months for me, and she played it much better than I ever did on the first time through! But I'm just a home hack hobbyist, and she has devoted her considerable talent and her life to her artistry. Much respect to the dedication and discipline and plain hard work it takes to get to this level.

    • @millygd955
      @millygd955 Před 5 lety +9

      To a wild rose is not grade 5 anymore. I think it is about grade 4 but it's still amazing that she can sight read it! It took me 3 weeks to get it right!
      Edit: I spelt something wrong 😂

    • @jassskmaster7575
      @jassskmaster7575 Před 4 lety +3

      That piece is grade 5??
      I would think something like grade 1

    • @squodge
      @squodge Před 4 lety +3

      @@jassskmaster7575 - lol. I'd never heard of the piece, but it didn't sound like a Grade 5 piece, more a Grade 3 piece.

  • @ZL54JK8
    @ZL54JK8 Před 6 lety +343

    Hi Tiffany....I want to say your first piece, MacDowell "To a Wild Rose", was played to perfection! Just the right tempo. Over here in the UK it's a well known piece (at least I think it is). I so enjoyed hearing it on this video, and it was really lovely. Thank you.

    • @ZL54JK8
      @ZL54JK8 Před 6 lety +7

      How about that! If you have found a recording of someone on the Naxos label playing the piece at a different tempo who could possibly argue? Well, Alfred Brendel for one! I have a recording of Brendel speaking at some length about the adherence to metronome markings. He holds that it is wrong to view them as an absolute and rigid direction as to tempo. Musical judgment is paramount. Indeed he gives examples to prove his point, and I can think of many other examples myself. In this case, although Tiffany was playing the piece at sight, I think her instinctive musical sense dictated the tempo she chose, and I think it was the right one. I would add that clearly Tiffany's abilities are such that if someone had told her at the outset to play the piece much faster she could easily have managed to do so.

    • @ckmate23
      @ckmate23 Před 5 lety +2

      You played it well....I was kinda shocked that you were not aware of him as a composer....i mean, he's not a BIG name, but he's not super obscure....Van Cliburn was a big champion of his work

    • @monkberrymoon3999
      @monkberrymoon3999 Před 4 lety +3

      @@ckmate23 Yeah, I was shocked too. Then I thought that probably says more about changes (in fashion?) in places like Julliard. It's difficult to imagine a student at Julliard in the fifties or sixties never having heard of MacDowell -- after all, he was (and is) the most important romantic era American composer. But if someone can attend now and never hear of him, well that says a lot about how far out of favor he is. I'm not a young guy, and it doesn't seem that long ago that his second piano concerto had at least a minor spot in the general repertoire. Kinda sad, i guess, but not unexpected.

    • @squodge
      @squodge Před 4 lety +1

      @@monkberrymoon3999 - I've been playing piano since 1993... and I've honestly never heard of MacDowell.
      I don't even know the piece, "To a wild rose". For what it's worth, I'm in the UK.

    • @monkberrymoon3999
      @monkberrymoon3999 Před 4 lety

      @@squodge Yeah, I think that's completely normal. An American in the 1970s, however, would have come across MacDowell -- especially students (as you can guess, he was a big composer of miniatures). My only point was that even an American school like Julliard doesn't bother with him any more.

  • @awndlr
    @awndlr Před 4 lety +21

    God, it is so great to see somebody so talented and yet so humble. You’re a genius in my eyes.

  • @peterkovacs9951
    @peterkovacs9951 Před 6 lety +289

    I really want a part 2 of this

    • @TiffanyPoonpianist
      @TiffanyPoonpianist  Před 6 lety +21

      Not sure what else I would do though. Any specific questions?

    • @justelynnnjoelle
      @justelynnnjoelle Před 6 lety +8

      Tiffany Poon How to sight-read rhythms and subdivisions?

    • @jodel_3698
      @jodel_3698 Před 6 lety +2

      I do as well

    • @jodel_3698
      @jodel_3698 Před 6 lety +6

      Tiffany Poon You should try Etude Op. 39 no. 6- Rachmaninoff

    • @sebastianzaczek
      @sebastianzaczek Před 6 lety +2

      Joel Del Rosario "Sight read Rhythms and Subdivisions"
      *Takes out score of Brian Ferneyhough's "Lemma Icon Epigram"*

  • @pianist7137
    @pianist7137 Před 5 lety +113

    How to get good at sightreading:
    Sightread pieces for hours EVERYDAY!!
    There's no shortcut to it.

    • @meszian
      @meszian Před 4 lety +15

      Actually you would be better off learning to analyse the structure, practicing scales in every key, complex arpeggios in every key, and concentrating hard on absorbing phrase structures and dynamics on the fly. But yes practice will help but I dont think many professional pianists practice sight reading that much, it's more worthwhile practicing to perfect something.

    • @josephuriarte2507
      @josephuriarte2507 Před 4 lety +3

      This is true! Most of us skip sight reading practice yet we want to reach a comfortable level of sight reading skills. There are plenty of sight reading books out there, it is not shameful to start over and play simple piece with at least 6-10 measure for beginner sight reading from czerny, beyer, g.scharfer, faber and faber, cornelius gurlit, a.e muller, notebook for anna magdallena, first lesson from bach, and other books. No effort = No progress.

  • @dasteufelhund
    @dasteufelhund Před 5 lety +169

    It is almost as if MacDowell wrote that piece for someone special, and it just found you.

    • @snickydoodle4744
      @snickydoodle4744 Před 5 lety +5

      unpopular opinion: it was not perfect yet (just being honest), but if she executes it this well on first try, she should master it and perform as encore repertoire

    • @drmgw7404
      @drmgw7404 Před 4 lety

      I hope she preforms McDowell's "keltic" sonata.

  • @shostyappreciater3613
    @shostyappreciater3613 Před 6 lety +39

    I love ravels pavane its so pretty

  • @carlhopkinson
    @carlhopkinson Před 6 lety +41

    Thanks for the effort on the Scriabin Etude.....I hope you would learn this.....I think you find it very rewarding, it's a fantastic piece and a real audience pleaser!!!

  • @Bmayo27
    @Bmayo27 Před 6 lety +65

    I had a pompous Uncle criticize me for being a music major. He was a simpleton business major that could never hold a job. It takes sooo much work complete a music major! Especially Juilliard! Good on you. You are an extreme talent. I wish you all the success in the world.

    • @PreservationEnthusiast
      @PreservationEnthusiast Před 5 lety +1

      @@goldiel2435 Science/Eng Major >>>>> Business Major >>>>>> Music Major >>>>>> Arts Major

    • @harrisons62
      @harrisons62 Před 4 lety +2

      But do you have a job?

    • @zeropr0ductions631
      @zeropr0ductions631 Před 3 lety

      was your uncle willy loman

    • @Bmayo27
      @Bmayo27 Před 3 lety

      @@zeropr0ductions631 - No. But that is a great reference!

  • @davidhertzberg
    @davidhertzberg Před 5 lety +13

    Madam, you are brilliant... I've never heard a more beautiful "Irish Rose" in my life and I've heard thousands!

    • @user-dq6bd5nt5t
      @user-dq6bd5nt5t Před 5 lety +1

      It's a relatively easy piece but she played it like a master at the first time that she did. On the other hand, she, who has played in public since about the age of four, said that she had never heard of its composer Edward MacDowell. She needs to know that he is a major American composer.

  • @RuthHV5
    @RuthHV5 Před 6 lety +3

    To a Wild Rose is a lovely piece -- I played it in a competition when I was a little kid. And you don't need to apologize. By letting people see that even an accomplished pianist like yourself can struggle a little with sight reading, you give courage to others who may struggle with it and want to give up. That takes both courage and humility. Good job! Thanks...

  • @cbdpianist
    @cbdpianist Před 6 lety +7

    Fun fact: I clicked on the video because I instantly recognized the Scriabin Etude Op. 42 No. 5 Music. So yes, I’m glad I watched it!

  • @MrTedflick
    @MrTedflick Před 6 lety +56

    Your brain works fast!

  • @evanofelipe
    @evanofelipe Před 5 lety +1

    I’ve been following your vlogs for many months and just recently came across this particular one ‘out of the blue’ and found it very interesting to see your honesty shine forth. It’s to your absolute credit that you are willing to share your ‘perceived’ weaknesses, that in fact proves to be your ‘strengths’ as a specially gifted person and so it’s not surprising to me why you attract so many subscribers. Not many such talented people would be so willing to be as open. Thanks, we are all captivated by your willingness to share your abilities and reach out to us.

  • @kaelonisthe
    @kaelonisthe Před 6 lety +7

    it's incredible to me you can play so naturally to pieces you haven't even heard before, let alone practiced. really well done!

  • @clamayaceo
    @clamayaceo Před 6 lety +6

    Thanks for doing this piece on sight reading. Believe it or not, you actually gave helpful information on how to approach different composers depending on the music. To a Wild Rose was played beautifully. My teacher taught it to me when I was 9. It was within a collection of music from different composers. When you mentioned the title, fond memories came. Well done on the Scriabin! I was looking at that page of notes-wow.

  • @NWS189
    @NWS189 Před 6 lety +65

    This video concept is new. I don't think anyone else is doing it. Great video.

  • @woolneckii2395
    @woolneckii2395 Před 4 lety +2

    That first piece was supposed to be faster but your version was waaaaaayyyyy so much more better for me.

  • @cyalinechoi892
    @cyalinechoi892 Před 3 lety +2

    "To a wild rose" is my first song after 10 years of not touching piano.. it's such a lovely song that I immediately fell in love with the piano again

  • @seiji6855
    @seiji6855 Před 6 lety +80

    SAY WHAAAAT YOU'RE NOT EVEN LOOKING AT THE KEYS WHILE SIGHTREADING OMG OMG YOU'RE SO TALENTED AAAAAAHHHHH

    • @masonhmusic
      @masonhmusic Před 5 lety +30

      seulgi's bangs I’ve actually heard that’s a major part of sightreading a piece. It helps you to not get lost and you can focus on more if you aren’t constantly looking up and down

    • @PassionJo777
      @PassionJo777 Před 5 lety +1

      Yes she is .

    • @dominikclarke6545
      @dominikclarke6545 Před 4 lety

      Once you get to a certain level it’s just second nature

    • @conorshields6538
      @conorshields6538 Před 4 lety +11

      She's not talented, she's an incredibly focused and hard worker. Her passion, focus and hard work are way more impressive than talent

    • @fatbrother8283
      @fatbrother8283 Před 4 lety +5

      @@conorshields6538 she's talented too.

  • @walterchin8832
    @walterchin8832 Před 6 lety +7

    My goodness. I love to play this piece by McDowell's To A Wild Rose. It's so calming and peaceful.

  • @lufebr
    @lufebr Před 4 lety +1

    Your sight reading is so awesome! I really enjoy the truthfulness of risking yourself to sightread on video. You also show how much we can learn and improve. Makes me motivated to keep practicing. Thanks!

  • @moonrise458
    @moonrise458 Před 6 lety

    Wonderful Tiffany. Thank you for bringing us such beauty in our lives. God bless you!

  • @meletispix
    @meletispix Před 6 lety +435

    3 years I've been playing piano now and it takes me an hour to read a single page 😭😂

    • @TiffanyPoonpianist
      @TiffanyPoonpianist  Před 6 lety +155

      Never give up!!!

    • @meletispix
      @meletispix Před 6 lety +17

      Tiffany Poon hehe I never quit 😎✌🏼

    • @androidkenobi
      @androidkenobi Před 6 lety +37

      i was like that too just last year. I had to read note per note, counting from one of my reference points. Took F O R E V E R. finally spent a week drilling on the site: sightreading.training and I got a little better. Then something clicked about recognizing the patterns in perfect triads and inversions and it feels like I am going 1000% faster (it also helps to know that the first 3 ledger lines above the treble and below the bass spell A-C-E)

    • @meletispix
      @meletispix Před 6 lety +1

      Android Kenobi thanks for this! I’ll give it a whirl 😎🙏🏼

    • @mzhou2727
      @mzhou2727 Před 6 lety +9

      The Tempest
      Tiffany: 1 week
      Me: (I’m a 10 year old) 4 months
      Ode to Joy
      Tiffany: 1/2 minute
      Me: 10 minutes
      Tiffany ur sooo good how

  • @alylyshua74937
    @alylyshua74937 Před 5 lety +3

    The Ravel piece had a lot of ambivalence, it was really refreshing! Congrats on your playing too, it is excellent!

  • @JeremySee
    @JeremySee Před 6 lety

    Wow! It gives me tingles under my skin when the 1st video I'm watching of you shows you playing the "Wild Rose". It is one of the songs I learnt when I was a beginning student. Lovely.

  • @edualbertino
    @edualbertino Před 6 lety

    You are really great, Tiffany! Thanks for sharing such things! I love all of your videos!

  • @gwardell2
    @gwardell2 Před 6 lety +3

    I would say if it's something you know, just play it. Don't worry about sight reading it. I love hearing you play.

  • @jasmineyeo9697
    @jasmineyeo9697 Před 6 lety +11

    I think the Mendelssohn piece you sight-read was really in the rhythm! Really impressed by how you can sight-read without the metronome beat :D

  • @6stringwood
    @6stringwood Před 6 lety

    Tiffany, You are a breath of fresh air. Thanks for being who you are and for sharing your amazing musical talent.

  • @danieleverton9227
    @danieleverton9227 Před 6 lety +2

    Beautiful Tiffany!!! thankyou for your videos!

  • @howardzimmer6452
    @howardzimmer6452 Před 6 lety +20

    That's why you are in Julliard !

  • @kamiko8021
    @kamiko8021 Před 6 lety +25

    i chose ravel😍 i'm overjoyed you played it. sounded good im currently struggling with it although I'm an amateur makes things more harder. Also be more confident with your videos there are people who still watch and like it regardless of whatever flaws you think it has

  • @PieInTheSky9
    @PieInTheSky9 Před 6 lety +2

    Glad I'm not the only one who feels like they struggle to sight read as soon as a bunch of accidentals show up! Great video, Tiffany, and thank you so much for the content you've been putting out! I really really enjoy it.

  • @SuperDoublebogey
    @SuperDoublebogey Před 4 lety

    To a wild rose was always one of my favorite pieces to play. It was simple and beautiful. Thank you Tiffany!

  • @yongsoon4223
    @yongsoon4223 Před 6 lety +25

    The Scriabin etude( 42 no. 5) is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written. I need you to play it!!!

  • @Annieggie
    @Annieggie Před 6 lety +3

    loved this video ❤️

  • @stephensewell4788
    @stephensewell4788 Před 5 lety +2

    Thank you for playing to a wild rose. This is one of my favourite classics.

  • @jimcarter9330
    @jimcarter9330 Před 6 lety

    You are much better than you say. Well done for playing those pieces for us. Your cheery way of approaching a difficult skill makes me want to learn more thanks again Jim.

  • @HermanPianist
    @HermanPianist Před 6 lety +12

    tiffany, thank you for this video =) i feel encouraged to know that it is not just me who finds it hard to sight read bach etc.

  • @sawj100
    @sawj100 Před 6 lety +10

    *Notification Squad!*
    Thank you for the video!

  • @TheSIGHTREADINGProject

    Thank you for showing this! Such an inspiration. Sight reading is a major push for me right now. I liked what you said about being able to apply chord knowledge and knowing their inversions at sight too. I’ll be working on that side of things at the same time. Loved this video and the previous one

  • @HidekazuOki
    @HidekazuOki Před 6 lety +2

    You sightread very well, and your appreciation and enthusiasm for music is contagious!! :)

  • @justadude641
    @justadude641 Před 6 lety +5

    You are an excellent pianist.

  • @Dominique632
    @Dominique632 Před 4 lety +43

    Tiffany: I not good at sight reading
    Also Tiffany: Sight reads like a pro

    • @kensmith1913
      @kensmith1913 Před 3 lety +3

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
      It’s coming from the sight reading pro so that’s saying a lot.

  • @richardg7445
    @richardg7445 Před 4 lety

    Wonderful Tiffany! It gives encouragment to the struggling student to know that someone of your caliber struggles sometimes. There is much insight to be gained here for the casual listener and students. Thankyou for doing this. Good selection of pieces.

  • @aster584
    @aster584 Před 6 lety

    Hey Tiffany, I just found your channel and I just wanted to let you know that I LOVE your videos! They cheer me up and are quite useful as well! You're so adorable too!! Please keep up the good work!

  • @Edward-W
    @Edward-W Před 6 lety +3

    This definitely made me want to subscribe immediately

  • @frankie6490
    @frankie6490 Před 6 lety +3

    Music is so good for the soul :)

  • @joeykeys2003
    @joeykeys2003 Před 4 lety

    Such a beautiful piano. Thank you for this vlog. I look forward to seeing more with this Spirio! Safe travels.

  • @MinhNguyen-es3fy
    @MinhNguyen-es3fy Před 6 lety

    it's a complete understatement when you say you're bad at sight-reading. I really love what you convey through the way you play the piano...

  • @maybudha
    @maybudha Před 6 lety +12

    You are just so adorable.

  • @7pianoforte
    @7pianoforte Před 6 lety +4

    Thank you Tiffany. I loved your rendition of the Chopin Concerto in E minor. Perhaps you can give us some needed tips about learning concertos, and about putting the second piano (orchestra) together with the first piano. Thank you very much.

  • @john-giovannicorda3456

    Tiffany- Just watching your fingers going to those keys and hearing the good tone from those notes is an inspiration.

  • @watkinder8288
    @watkinder8288 Před 5 lety +1

    Congratulations to you for presenting such an honest video on sight reading. This will really help people because it is genuine. What you could have done was practised all the hardest pieces like mad and pretended you were sight reading them, but you didn' t! You are obviously a " real" person as well as a superb musician.

  • @kittenmimi5326
    @kittenmimi5326 Před 5 lety +5

    "Not good at sight reading" eh...
    What a joke.
    Her playing was amazing! And what is not good to her, to me is expert level XD

  • @erfanshekarriz4707
    @erfanshekarriz4707 Před 6 lety +9

    Tiffany just wanted to thank you and tell you how much I appreciate your hard work and effort into sharing you private space and love of music with aspiring younger musicians like me! I wanted to suggest a series you could start where you can dedicate videos to brilliant female composers that were neglected at the era and shed light on their complex compositions! I would LOVE to hear some more recordings of Fanny Mendelssohn's sonata in G minor (It's one of my favorite pieces of all time!) and of course some Clara Schumman! Just a suggestion I'm sure lots of people would appreciate :) Thank you!

  • @MrZeekbird
    @MrZeekbird Před 5 lety +1

    Love your videos! So much talent and humility. Beautiful.

  • @drhams6456
    @drhams6456 Před 5 lety

    Wow! That first piece by Macdowell was so sweet. I've never heard that piece before so i'm pretty excited to go learn it now. Thank you to whomever recommended that, and lovely playing :).

  • @bigollameo
    @bigollameo Před 6 lety +5

    "It might not sound good because, again, I'm not very good at sight-reading."
    **Proceeds to sight-read with brilliant, spellbinding accuracy**

  • @annelysecombitsis7553
    @annelysecombitsis7553 Před 6 lety +3

    YAY THANK YOU OHYES

  • @berangle
    @berangle Před 4 lety

    I enjoy reading all this, and most of all, the playing. Thank you Tiffany. Such beauty of arm movements.

  • @helenamarie4337
    @helenamarie4337 Před 5 lety

    incredibly talented. what amazes me is how you get the emotions right, right from the start!

  • @kresentiaaiko5238
    @kresentiaaiko5238 Před 5 lety +13

    Omg i wanna go to that libraryyy 😭🙌🙌

  • @Mariofockinggalaxy
    @Mariofockinggalaxy Před 5 lety +4

    Just amazing. 100% jealous

  • @kalolainetuipulotu4450
    @kalolainetuipulotu4450 Před 2 lety +1

    This is so cool how you play all the requested pieces. Watching from New Zealand.

  • @rongrosstube
    @rongrosstube Před 3 lety

    Wow. The short first song you played with absolute perfection. Your dedication to study, practice and sharing are incredible. My sight reading is quite poor, not a product of my Mom who was a good sight reader and played piano and pump organ in the 20's and 30's for silent films. You are a true inspiration.

  • @blackburn1111
    @blackburn1111 Před 4 lety +5

    Hearing that someone might not have heard of someone like MacDowell by the time they are well into a place like Julliard suddenly makes me feel like I can actually relate to them and it's very relieving (not in a competitive way though). In my mind I tend to place musicians who make it into prestigious conservatories on a pedestal that's too high cuz I'm honestly a bit too insecure about myself as a pianist. I don't mean to speak downward towards Tiffany at all, but it's very relieving to be reminded that we are all learning and experiencing new things and making mistakes etc in the practice room in the same boat whether we are Argerich, Kissin, Poon, or Blackburn.

    • @cynthiamccaleb2816
      @cynthiamccaleb2816 Před 4 lety

      Blackburn11: Amen, and very graciously stated.

    • @sjpbrooklyn7699
      @sjpbrooklyn7699 Před 4 lety

      You can't find much better pianists that Juilliard faculty, yet I have been studying in the adult division at Juilliard for 4 years and have often been surprised by 20th century composers and pieces the instructors haven't known. Examples: Dohnanyi rhapsodies and Winterreigen, Griffes Fantasy Pieces & Barcarolle, Villa-Lobos Floral Suite, a scherzo by Borodin, Grainger's Handel in the Strand, and more. However, once we got started on any of these the quality of instruction was astonishing - as if they had known these pieces inside out from childhood.

  • @happypiano4810
    @happypiano4810 Před 3 lety +5

    Her: Ooh! Mendelssohn.
    Me: Awesome, I hope it’s songs without words.
    Her: op 30.
    Me: Yes! I hope it’s number 1 or 6.
    Her: *Plays op 30 no. 1*
    Me: Well that went better than expected.

  • @jonathanbush6197
    @jonathanbush6197 Před 4 lety +2

    It was particularly brave of you to play that Scriabin piece. I loved your comment "too much stuff in the middle."

  • @marctaras9455
    @marctaras9455 Před 4 lety +1

    Very educational. Thanks for sharing this. I don't consider it embarrassing. I like that you speak and are very natural and humble because you are an excellent pianist.

  • @AntarioPiano
    @AntarioPiano Před 6 lety +89

    How about a tutorial on how to not look at your hands while sight reading 😀

    • @mashmax98
      @mashmax98 Před 6 lety +28

      DanPocketMiner practice will do

    • @pianoonparade
      @pianoonparade Před 6 lety +46

      it's like touch typing on a computer keyboard. you just practise.

    • @Lizhi荔枝
      @Lizhi荔枝 Před 6 lety +1

      I did this when I was young... but maybe try to cover your hands with the lid or cover (I don't know what it's called) if your keyboard or piano has it, while reading or looking at the music sheet. It can be the sliding ones, but that's kinda hard. I've tried that and I couldn't lift my hand when I'm supposed to. This is just a fun thing to try.

    • @keescanalfp5143
      @keescanalfp5143 Před 5 lety +4

      @Antario,
      Here are some ideas: 1. Never forbid yourself to look at hands and keys. Doesn't serve any aim. For kidding ends, take a shawl or so.
      2. Try to play a scale you know very well in contrary movement, that's from central C with both thumbs, lh. down, rh. up at once. First couple of times only one octave, slowly but perfectly and relaxed, outward, then outward and back to the middle. You leave the pedal consequently unused.
      Choose it sounding p, mf, f, mf, p, totally smooth, equalized. Do it staccato too, p,mf,f,mf,p, slowly and elastically jumping, relaxing after each touch.
      3. Next day two octaves, outward and inward. The fourth day, not earlier, three octaves. Sixth day, if possible, three octaves but departing from two different C's. See that you'll need eight C's.
      4. The seventh day gather the new experiences and own discoveries in this, and describe them (as if) in a short message to a best friend.
      *:*:* (5 - 8) *:*
      9. Congratulations to your growing in getting the overview on what your hands are doing in different corners of the manual. With all control of the dynamics, movements, and articulation. Without crossing eyes. Without forbidding yourself to look at keys or fingers. And, remaining important for this exercise ideas, without using the pedal - being permitted only on Sundays. For the triads.
      * * *

    • @jocarcorpuz7210
      @jocarcorpuz7210 Před 5 lety +2

      It's muscle memory hahaha lots of practice

  • @tobiasschenk5799
    @tobiasschenk5799 Před 6 lety +7

    Wow well done. Specially The scriabin

  • @homesweetcooking939
    @homesweetcooking939 Před 4 lety

    This is why i like you more than any other pianist...your humility and honesty ❤️

  • @therainforest4314
    @therainforest4314 Před 4 lety

    Tiffany Poon, you are a breath of fresh air. Thank you for sharing so generously with us. :)

  • @chintarou1150
    @chintarou1150 Před 5 lety +6

    She’s so uwuingly humble it’s crazy, like how tf XD

  • @BPK4699
    @BPK4699 Před 4 lety +4

    I love To a Wild Rose.

  • @mal74
    @mal74 Před 5 lety

    That first piece was beautifully done. It's very courageous to put yourself out there and let people see the struggle of learning a new piece. Bravo!

  • @JohnSmith-te4xf
    @JohnSmith-te4xf Před 4 lety +2

    The MacDowell was beautiful and exactly the right tempo. Thank you so much

  • @MrGrey1997
    @MrGrey1997 Před 4 lety +5

    Okay low key jealous of your sight-reading ability. It looks like you were playing pieces you had practiced before. That first piece To a Wild Rose. I played that for my piano grade 5 exam and you sight-read that as if you have been practicing for ages. How did you get so good at sight reading. Cause I'm the type of person that hates sight reading as I feel overwhelmed and unprepared as I've never played the piece before. I feel as though I'm expected to play it perfect without ever seeing it before. I wish I could be better as sight reading.

  • @mlsocodex3586
    @mlsocodex3586 Před 4 lety +3

    Tiffany : "I'm not good at sight reading"
    Tiffany : *plays better that I would with 500h of practice*

  • @anastasinscreed
    @anastasinscreed Před 4 lety

    It takes my brain so much time just to process the information when playing and you make it look so easy. Goals.

  • @cemooney48
    @cemooney48 Před 4 lety

    That first piece was beautiful. Thank you. Just found your channel and I love it. I subscribed and am looking forward to your posts.