I'm very glad you're enjoying the lectures! I plan on doing all of them, but unfortunately within the next month I will not be able to work on them at all. But I will begin again this summer. Thanks for stopping by, Nick! ❤️🎶 In the meantime, you may enjoy this set of lectures by Bruce Adolphe. There is no sheet music, but they are fantastic! czcams.com/play/PLcNcB_kv1ai3bOlba_oodO5ZKeazBC6gH.html
I'm here leaving a comment as well for you to gain a few more traction points for the Google robot and the algorithm to find you. I've listened to a good number of these lectures before. Your work on making the lectures more informative with the sheet music is immensely helpful, I especially appreciate the annotation to highlight the parts of the music Schiff is describing. I don't study music but I am slowly working my way through the expected curriculum most academia use to teach music (I'm about a quarter my way through Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 at the moment) in the hopes that I might one day get to play works like Beethoven's on a comfortable level. I have a long way to go but I am enjoying the journey. Thank you for your efforts.
Thank you Lauri, that is sweet of you :) And I'm glad these are helpful to you; I would like to do more sometime. That is certainly a noble task you are undertaking. And Bach's WTC are certainly not easy pieces, so your technique will be quite formidable after learning them! If you are looking for more stepping stones to Beethoven's sonatas you could consider Scarlatti's sonatas or perhaps Haydn :)
@@ErikaWeiss I actually just started practising Haydn's Andante with Variations in F minor and have been enjoying it immensily. My pace is slow but to be honest I'll rather have it this way; I want to pay very close attention to the way I apply pressure and how I apply technique in general because even at this level I've noticed I still have a lot of fear and doubt even with pieces I've already memorized. A good legato technique for instance seems like one of the basics of learning to play an instrument, but to master it at a level so it's second nature and strong regardless of the piece is a surprisingly high bar to reach. Taubman approach has also been a great help. More power to you and I hope you keep producing content like this!
@@Zhinarkos Ah that's a beautiful piece, thanks for sharing. I think slow careful practice is much better than fast, sloppy practice, which I am definitely guilty of sometimes. You will be sure to not stretch your fingers unnecessarily then, which can wreak havoc on the fingers, wrists, and forearms. Taubman truly was a pioneer! I think using arm weight and quick forearm rotations to practice scales and fast passages will help with legato and smoothness. Josh Wright has a great video about nailing these fast passages. czcams.com/video/uYVcypv8Gtw/video.html Another great online teacher is John Mortenson from cedarvillemusic who has some great videos about tension and piano technique (centering, grouping, surfacing) which seems to be Taubman adjacent. czcams.com/play/PLpyMjpj5yGK3qE9nw0dHeC_rbGqpOzl_p.html czcams.com/play/PL753730BB176690A0.html And now that I'm thinking about it Mortensen has a video about legato, in which he says legato is not necessarily about holding down the keys to create a smooth melody but about using touch, articulation, dynamics etc. to distinguish a melodic line from other non-essential harmonic tones. If we think about legato only in terms of continually holding keys down in melodies, we are sure to stretch or strain our fingers. I think the video was called legato cat if you are curious :)
I cant tell how many times I have listened to these lectures and I like them more and more
I can't thank you enough for putting these together. Needless to say, more would be equally appreciated.
I'm very glad you're enjoying the lectures! I plan on doing all of them, but unfortunately within the next month I will not be able to work on them at all. But I will begin again this summer. Thanks for stopping by, Nick! ❤️🎶
In the meantime, you may enjoy this set of lectures by Bruce Adolphe. There is no sheet music, but they are fantastic! czcams.com/play/PLcNcB_kv1ai3bOlba_oodO5ZKeazBC6gH.html
Erika Weiss thank you
I have been searching for this since ages. Thanks a million!
You're welcome!! 😁
thankkkk youuuuu!!!!! I've been searching for these for years yo!
you are welcome! :)
Thanks! Great work! I have listened to these lectures at least a dozen times so far - your augmentation of the material is superb.
Hi Randy! You are quite welcome. And thank you for the kind words. I'm happy this is of use to you!
Insightful! Thank you for uploading 😊
Glad you enjoyed, Stephen! :)
Gracias ☺️
I'm here leaving a comment as well for you to gain a few more traction points for the Google robot and the algorithm to find you.
I've listened to a good number of these lectures before. Your work on making the lectures more informative with the sheet music is immensely helpful, I especially appreciate the annotation to highlight the parts of the music Schiff is describing. I don't study music but I am slowly working my way through the expected curriculum most academia use to teach music (I'm about a quarter my way through Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 at the moment) in the hopes that I might one day get to play works like Beethoven's on a comfortable level. I have a long way to go but I am enjoying the journey.
Thank you for your efforts.
Thank you Lauri, that is sweet of you :) And I'm glad these are helpful to you; I would like to do more sometime. That is certainly a noble task you are undertaking. And Bach's WTC are certainly not easy pieces, so your technique will be quite formidable after learning them! If you are looking for more stepping stones to Beethoven's sonatas you could consider Scarlatti's sonatas or perhaps Haydn :)
@@ErikaWeiss I actually just started practising Haydn's Andante with Variations in F minor and have been enjoying it immensily. My pace is slow but to be honest I'll rather have it this way; I want to pay very close attention to the way I apply pressure and how I apply technique in general because even at this level I've noticed I still have a lot of fear and doubt even with pieces I've already memorized. A good legato technique for instance seems like one of the basics of learning to play an instrument, but to master it at a level so it's second nature and strong regardless of the piece is a surprisingly high bar to reach. Taubman approach has also been a great help.
More power to you and I hope you keep producing content like this!
@@Zhinarkos Ah that's a beautiful piece, thanks for sharing. I think slow careful practice is much better than fast, sloppy practice, which I am definitely guilty of sometimes. You will be sure to not stretch your fingers unnecessarily then, which can wreak havoc on the fingers, wrists, and forearms. Taubman truly was a pioneer!
I think using arm weight and quick forearm rotations to practice scales and fast passages will help with legato and smoothness. Josh Wright has a great video about nailing these fast passages. czcams.com/video/uYVcypv8Gtw/video.html
Another great online teacher is John Mortenson from cedarvillemusic who has some great videos about tension and piano technique (centering, grouping, surfacing) which seems to be Taubman adjacent.
czcams.com/play/PLpyMjpj5yGK3qE9nw0dHeC_rbGqpOzl_p.html
czcams.com/play/PL753730BB176690A0.html
And now that I'm thinking about it Mortensen has a video about legato, in which he says legato is not necessarily about holding down the keys to create a smooth melody but about using touch, articulation, dynamics etc. to distinguish a melodic line from other non-essential harmonic tones. If we think about legato only in terms of continually holding keys down in melodies, we are sure to stretch or strain our fingers. I think the video was called legato cat if you are curious :)
You did a precious work. Thanks
You're welcome, Valerio! 😄
Thanks for sharing and putting the video together for this lecture.
You are very welcome, Ben! I am glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for commenting! :)
I play this piece and this video helped me to understand it more!
That's great to hear, Luka! Best of luck with your piano studies :)
Great work. Bravo!
Thanks Jonas! 💜💜💜
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