This "How to Sound Like..." series is really amazing. Made even more enjoyable for me personally in that you are illustrating some of my favorite composers. Thank you.
I just heard Arabesque just the other day. The first opening lines of cascading notes put a lump in my throat. Never heard anything so beautiful and overwhelming. I was checking out classical composers but never expected to be so overwhelmed with such beauty like that. Claude Debussy thank you:)
Debussy is the line of demarcation. There is before Debussy and after Debussy. He changed the game completely. He is probably my favorite composer next to Bach. This video is awesome.
Yes, and if you listen to a lot of "new music," normally by second-rate composers, you'll notice that they are essentially writing copies of Debussy 100 years later. Very annoying.
Maestro_T actually there are few of them but plenty of Philip Glass copiers, Debussy´s music should be interpreted with caution and only magnificent, versatile composers and musicians like Jonny Greenwood and one and only Nahre Sol as in this case could interpret it wonderfully and as in Greenwood´s “For the Hungry Boy” in Phantom Thread soundtrack, it is very reminiscent of Debussy with unique touches as well.
I am blown away by your ability to break everything down and explain in a clear manner! Thank you for a very, very good and interesting video! Keep them coming!
I love it it. I actually don't really know much about classical music and a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go to a concert of a really good pianist. She is doing the (I think) equivalent of a PhD. in music at a university nearby and they had a little concert for students from my technical university. At first she played some Beethoven, which was impressive and sounded nice but I think I was just too uneducated to hear any fine nuance in these pieces. It sounded 'just' like classical music to me. Then she played a few pieces of Debussy and I was just blown away. The sound just filled the room and painted a picture. Thanks for creating this piece. It was very nice.
If classical music doesn't do it for you it doesn't mean you're dumb. Familiarity will make you appreciate it more, as with (almost) any other genre. I'm about to get my head bitten off by a bunch of posh nerdy elitists, you should pay them no mind.
@@BibleStorm you describe my experience with classical music. It was very difficult for me to distinguish interpretation between musicians, Everyone just sounds the same. I just started to understand the subtle differences between interpretations recently.
Hey Nahre, even though it's a pain for me to write this comment right now cause I just cut my finger with a grater (yes really dumb) I still wanted to say how awesome this video is. I think you gave the average piano player a good overview about debussy's style of playing and created an awesome piece what showes the main ideas and techniques of his style. Really love how deep and mystical it sounds. Keep it up you are really talented (way more than me haha)
I just cut my finger on a grater too! We can be dumb together by writing long comments and flinching every time our finger hits a key. *ouch ouch ouch*
Rhythmic ostinato with pedal points(which more often than not coincide with when the pedal is pressed), almost operatic melody, lots of trills and other ornaments, triplet rhythm, avoiding using forte for a long passage unless it is supposed to be dramatic, that is like the essence of Chopin's style. As for that dynamic thing i wrote down, Chopin was good at knowing where the line is between drama and melodrama.
"Sparkly stuff", and a "noble afterthought"! You are too funny. And you are freakishly talented; it is fascinating to watch and just so lovely to hear. Claude would smile, I'm sure.
What's amazing is that we are all aware that composers have unique styles, but just can't put it into words, but you can actually explain it in such technical terms and reproduce the style so seamlessly. These composer style videos are amazing! I would be interested to see your take on Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich. And Prokofiev for that matter. Actually, all mainstream composers.These videos are so interesting, unique, and amazing!
This series is amazing, not only your playing is beautiful but the way you explain the techniques and approaches used is very informative both breaking down the composers' styles and showing how to achieve similar results. Awesome!
Melodic tips: Add long space space between notes. Add arpeggiated harp-like cascades. (repeated shown 5ths here) Add a resonant bass line that accentuates a perfect fifth in the base line. Move chords and gestures in parallel movement. Add bell like rings Harmonic tips: - Don't use a typical cadence such a perfect cadence (I-IV-V-I) - non-functional harmony (use dominant chords for example, don't resolve them; the tritone makes them tonally ambiguous) - Follow unstable chords followed by other unstable chords. - Use whole-tone and pentatonic scales and different modes. Rhythmic devices: - Use tremolos to add tension - Rhythmic variation in a rhythmic manner. - Use spaced out syncopated lines to give an ambiguous sense of pulse.
This is my favorite video on RUclips. “Arpegiated cascades with a baseline that accentuates a perfect fit hat the bottom” omg that perfectly describes the Chorus of arabesque 1! The right hand is playing that progression that is just filled with notes that moves in such a fluid manor and that broken E major chord in the bass definitely accentuates a perfect fifth.
Debussy really loves those unresolved whole tone scales. Cloches a travers les feuilles is one of my favorite pieces of his. He had a huge influence in the jazz world as well, Bill Evans, the legendary pianist who accompanied Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue, was heavily influenced by Debussy.
Beautiful! Your analysis of Debussy captures his style so perfectly it's almost comical, yet you manage to do this without taking away *any* of the magic of the music.
After that you have to listen to some of Bill Evan's Jazz ballades, for example "Peace Piece". Claude debussy had big influence on Bill Evans and you can really hear that.
This is possibly the best analysis of Debussy's musical style that I have ever seen. Beautifully articulated critique. Thank you for your ability to express his style so eloquently. Subscribed.
As a 26 year old who has only begun to learn the piano in the last year I can safely say that what you are doing with this channel truly inspires me to become a better musician! Keep it up Nahre! Love from Ireland
One thing I really like about this "sound like" series is the accompanying mood visualizations you include above the piano. I just watched the Erik Satie video and they were so fitting, haunting and somehow joyful. Great videos Nahre, thanks for sharing your experience.
I love listening to your re-arrangements of happy birthday. To me the original has always felt like a "dumb" song. And yet you always manage to turn it into a rich, intriguing, emotional and ultimately appropriately celebratory piece of music. Gosh you're good!
Chère Nahre, La leçon que vous donnez ici est fantastique! J'adore votre chaine, quel niveau! Tout ce que vous faites respire la musique, vous êtes trop rare. Love from France.💞
I don't go out of my way to comment usually, but I really appreciate your sincerity and approach of someone who simply wants to learn from his music and try to understand it (acknowledging its complexity) and share that rather than someone who is condescending and thinks they know everything.
Medio me hizo llorar porque busqué esto pero creí que nadie se tomaría la delicadeza de meterse de lleno en algo tan etérico como descifrar en un tutorial algo de las armonías hermosas de este creador. Y acá está Nahre Sol, la capa. Thank you but a LOT!! :)
After finishing my masters in 2013 in composition I went into a very negative place, physically but also emotionally and that was the hardest as it took me a while (years) to get out. One of the fears that came to surface was that I would refuse to read a piece of music and play it, with some exceptions here and there that fear still comes up. I turned to free improvisation but you know, sometimes you need a bit of structure, commitment... I'm working on a folk melody that I am playing with for some months now, never actually getting it right. After watching this series I'll try it again, more confident in writing, reading and playing from a piece of paper. I agree with you that the Internet can be an amazing place for sharing All the best!
I almost feel like Debussy was doing sound design before sound design was even a thing, waaaay before synthesisers were even close to existing he already had his mind set on creating beautiful textures through musical devices which allowed him to make very beautiful music. Definitely going to check him out.
Genius. For more than 40 years Debussy has been a favourite of mine to play and listen to (also good to celebrate his Happy Birthday as he's exactly 100 years older than me) - but this is the clearest I have ever heard his 'magic' explained. Thank you for a great public service here. More please. (Ravel?)
Now that you've done Debussy, there's really no excuse to put off Messiaen any longer :-) Unless you want to go via Dukas first. (Birthdays: Messiaen 10 Dec, Dukas 1 Oct)
Tomorrow 6/9 is my birthday and one present to myself is listening to your breakdowns, descriptions and visual accompaniments of the great composers styles though your renditions of Happy Birthday. You've given me sparkles, and drama, and ringing and rippling and on and on. Creativity and love...
You do more to make people (me) want to learn piano than any presentation I have ever seen. I happily share this on my Facebook newsfeed, with friends and family. Super quality content. Thank You.
Happy Birthday Mr. Debussy! What a great video, thanks for these insightful moments. I hear musical whispers of Paris in the moonlight. A toast to your musical respect of this formidable composer with bowls of coffee and croissants. Happy musical days. 🎉🙌
Ms. Sol, thank you. That was simply amazing and enlightening. I'm neither a piano player (guitar) nor classically trained (self taught) but I have always been captivated and enraptured by Debussy's music. Seeing it his piano techniques broken down by you in an entertaining way made it all the better as a musical experience. I am a bit wiser, Debussy-wise, after watching this.
Gosh - now i know 'why' I love Debussy pieces so much, thanks to Nahre to bring the thinking behind my feeling I have never really been able to explain ....to myself.
I love your videos ! I am French and studied music styles in Paris Conservatory. Your work is intensive, complete, and very well presented, clear and sometimes uneasy
Debussy has been my favorite composer ever since I discovered clair de lune, and this just put a big fat smile on my face from start to finish even though I didn't understand a thing
This was fantastic - thank you so much for making this. I have been listening to a lot of Debussy's orchestrations for inspiration in my own work. The use of whole tone and pentatonic was especially helpful as a point of reference.
Most comprehensive video I've even seen upon explaining the style of a composer. You totally captured his style. And you explained all that with such an ease.
1:54 and 4:09 sound like they're straight out of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I wonder if the composers for that game took some inspiration from Debussy.
Debussy is one of my favorite composers. You really nailed it with a lot of the leitmotifs that he incorporated across his music,especially his piano works. Very well done!
I was hoping I'd see this ever since you made the Satie one. Awesome work, thank you so much! P.S. the amazon link for your keyboard points to one that's not available, you might want to add a new one, you're probably losing money as we speak.
Not usually one who posts much, but thanks so much for your videos. My 9 year old loves to watch your hands move along the keys and the editing you do keeps her entertained as well. The visuals along with the playing is great. I can't wait to watch this with her this evening!
I'm sure. :-) Grossly underrated in many ways, it is true that he deserves to be much better known, a true Virtuoso. Would be tough to do but I think his staccato in particular is distinctive whether it is his Saltarelle Op.23, Quasi Faust, or his Concerto for Solo Piano Op.39 No.10. He was all over the place intervallically! Quite brilliant. Would love to see what Nahre would have to say on him.
also some of his preludes, railway, barbaro etc. People made excuses he isnt as popular because of his musicality is weaker than the competitors but i disagree tbh
This was absolutely amazing. Currently Debussy is my favorite composer. I was so excited to play Debussy Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet this past year for state and district solo festivals. I’ve since fallen even more in love with his music, to the point that I shelled out 35 dollars for the complete orchestral works of Debussy.
This was such an awesome video. I loved how you annotated all the parts when you played the full song, it really drove all the points home. You're awesome.
Nahre, you inspire me so much to practice the piano - I dream of being as fluid and expressive as you. Thank you for sharing this. As a beginner, just starting to look at composition, this was really helpful! So beautiful too - wow!!
Im calling it right now, we need a Nahre Sol solo album.
Yup yup yup!
Its settled!
I wanna buy a Nahre Solo now...
😊🙌 hey Rhett!!
She should call it, "how to sound like Nahre Sol"
It´s so hard to be unique on RUclips these days. This channel is game changing.
Thank you!!
Nahre Sol you're welcome. Bravo maestra!
For sure!
Awesome!
Love your videos Rick keep it up !!
Wow! Didn’t expect you in comments
Thank you Rick!! 🙏🙏🙏
Rick you need to do some in the style of videos.
Chris Garner he does, mostly for orchestra though
How to sound like Nahre Sol?
Watch those fingers and practice.
Pat Hug I’m practicing 40 hours a day🌚🌝
Ling Ling is that you ?
Anaël Gomes I wish...but on piano...because piano is better than violin 😏
PIANO LING LING OMG!
This "How to Sound Like..." series is really amazing. Made even more enjoyable for me personally in that you are illustrating some of my favorite composers. Thank you.
Thank you-!!
I just heard Arabesque just the other day. The first opening lines of cascading notes put a lump in my throat. Never heard anything so beautiful and overwhelming. I was checking out classical composers but never expected to be so overwhelmed with such beauty like that. Claude Debussy thank you:)
That sounds close to how I felt or even still feel when I listen!
Debussy is the line of demarcation. There is before Debussy and after Debussy. He changed the game completely. He is probably my favorite composer next to Bach. This video is awesome.
Yes, and if you listen to a lot of "new music," normally by second-rate composers, you'll notice that they are essentially writing copies of Debussy 100 years later. Very annoying.
+uneedtherapy42 Agree completely with every word :|
Maestro_T actually there are few of them but plenty of Philip Glass copiers, Debussy´s music should be interpreted with caution and only magnificent, versatile composers and musicians like Jonny Greenwood and one and only Nahre Sol as in this case could interpret it wonderfully and as in Greenwood´s “For the Hungry Boy” in Phantom Thread soundtrack, it is very reminiscent of Debussy with unique touches as well.
There's BACH, Debussy, and Satie. Does anyone remember George Winston?
Hmm. Be careful to become un Ravelled!
I am blown away by your ability to break everything down and explain in a clear manner! Thank you for a very, very good and interesting video! Keep them coming!
Thank you!!
I love it it. I actually don't really know much about classical music and a few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to go to a concert of a really good pianist. She is doing the (I think) equivalent of a PhD. in music at a university nearby and they had a little concert for students from my technical university. At first she played some Beethoven, which was impressive and sounded nice but I think I was just too uneducated to hear any fine nuance in these pieces. It sounded 'just' like classical music to me. Then she played a few pieces of Debussy and I was just blown away. The sound just filled the room and painted a picture. Thanks for creating this piece. It was very nice.
If classical music doesn't do it for you it doesn't mean you're dumb. Familiarity will make you appreciate it more, as with (almost) any other genre.
I'm about to get my head bitten off by a bunch of posh nerdy elitists, you should pay them no mind.
@@BibleStorm you describe my experience with classical music. It was very difficult for me to distinguish interpretation between musicians, Everyone just sounds the same. I just started to understand the subtle differences between interpretations recently.
Your composer 'How to' videos are the best on the internet.
Thank you so much!!
Hey Nahre, even though it's a pain for me to write this comment right now cause I just cut my finger with a grater (yes really dumb) I still wanted to say how awesome this video is. I think you gave the average piano player a good overview about debussy's style of playing and created an awesome piece what showes the main ideas and techniques of his style. Really love how deep and mystical it sounds. Keep it up you are really talented (way more than me haha)
I just cut my finger on a grater too! We can be dumb together by writing long comments and flinching every time our finger hits a key. *ouch ouch ouch*
Thank you so much! And please take care of that finger-!! 😱
A video on how to sound like Chopin would be awesome!
YES
Agreed
Haha I don't think you can describe Chopin.. Sadly
Rhythmic ostinato with pedal points(which more often than not coincide with when the pedal is pressed), almost operatic melody, lots of trills and other ornaments, triplet rhythm, avoiding using forte for a long passage unless it is supposed to be dramatic, that is like the essence of Chopin's style. As for that dynamic thing i wrote down, Chopin was good at knowing where the line is between drama and melodrama.
There is already one.
"Sparkly stuff", and a "noble afterthought"! You are too funny. And you are freakishly talented; it is fascinating to watch and just so lovely to hear. Claude would smile, I'm sure.
ty this is probaply the only classical composer i listen to for fun
What's amazing is that we are all aware that composers have unique styles, but just can't put it into words, but you can actually explain it in such technical terms and reproduce the style so seamlessly. These composer style videos are amazing! I would be interested to see your take on Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich. And Prokofiev for that matter. Actually, all mainstream composers.These videos are so interesting, unique, and amazing!
Bravo!!! Is all
*Debussy:* plays
*Dominant function:* I'm a Joke to you??
Dominants can’t function with Debussy
@@nghiavan8952 Well, what about Tristan? How long do we have to wait for a perfect (dominant) cadence? Bloody ages, I tell you!
Awesome as usual!
I hope Adam Neely is watching this series, he could make a video showing how all the jazz greats would play the lick.
omg yes please.
Not the hero I wanted but the hero I needed
This series is amazing, not only your playing is beautiful but the way you explain the techniques and approaches used is very informative both breaking down the composers' styles and showing how to achieve similar results. Awesome!
If u can Debussy slowly, then u can Debussy quickly. Good teacher here. Loved the Happy Birthday in Debussy version.
Melodic tips:
Add long space space between notes.
Add arpeggiated harp-like cascades. (repeated shown 5ths here)
Add a resonant bass line that accentuates a perfect fifth in the base line.
Move chords and gestures in parallel movement.
Add bell like rings
Harmonic tips:
- Don't use a typical cadence such a perfect cadence (I-IV-V-I)
- non-functional harmony (use dominant chords for example, don't resolve them; the tritone makes them tonally ambiguous)
- Follow unstable chords followed by other unstable chords.
- Use whole-tone and pentatonic scales and different modes.
Rhythmic devices:
- Use tremolos to add tension
- Rhythmic variation in a rhythmic manner.
- Use spaced out syncopated lines to give an ambiguous sense of pulse.
This is my favorite video on RUclips. “Arpegiated cascades with a baseline that accentuates a perfect fit hat the bottom” omg that perfectly describes the Chorus of arabesque 1! The right hand is playing that progression that is just filled with notes that moves in such a fluid manor and that broken E major chord in the bass definitely accentuates a perfect fifth.
The way you play, the way you explore, how you explain all those thing, the way you talk and all about this channel is simply lovely.
Debussy really loves those unresolved whole tone scales. Cloches a travers les feuilles is one of my favorite pieces of his. He had a huge influence in the jazz world as well, Bill Evans, the legendary pianist who accompanied Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue, was heavily influenced by Debussy.
Beautiful! Your analysis of Debussy captures his style so perfectly it's almost comical, yet you manage to do this without taking away *any* of the magic of the music.
Absolutely loved this. My favourite composer. My Dad used to crank out Clair De Lune, brings back very fond memories of him. Thank you so much .
Thank you!! What a cool dad to play Clair de lune!!
Never did I ever think I could nor would cry to a rendition of _Happy Birthday_ ... but today I have. I am blown away by your talent.
After that you have to listen to some of Bill Evan's Jazz ballades, for example "Peace Piece". Claude debussy had big influence on Bill Evans and you can really hear that.
i was thinking the same thing lol.
Jakob and monk definitely with the excessive use of whole tone scales and dominant 7 #11s lmao
Thanks Jakob for this! I'm looping it and playing along right now on the piano. :)
The gush of color at 6:03 after the tremolo section was gorgeous
how to sound like Lizst: sound like all the other composers and musicians who have ever lived simultaneously and with severe grandiosity.
Or just do crack while composing
Or summon the devil himself
How to sound like Liszt: 1, buy big hands
2, learn to play octaves
3, sell your soul to Ling Ling
This is possibly the best analysis of Debussy's musical style that I have ever seen. Beautifully articulated critique. Thank you for your ability to express his style so eloquently. Subscribed.
you are amazing! one of my favorite youtubers
As a 26 year old who has only begun to learn the piano in the last year I can safely say that what you are doing with this channel truly inspires me to become a better musician! Keep it up Nahre! Love from Ireland
Fantastica!
Thank you!!
Oddio, ciao fabio! Non mi aspettavo di vederti qui
@@mzadro7 nemmeno io...
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One thing I really like about this "sound like" series is the accompanying mood visualizations you include above the piano. I just watched the Erik Satie video and they were so fitting, haunting and somehow joyful. Great videos Nahre, thanks for sharing your experience.
I love listening to your re-arrangements of happy birthday. To me the original has always felt like a "dumb" song. And yet you always manage to turn it into a rich, intriguing, emotional and ultimately appropriately celebratory piece of music. Gosh you're good!
I love the way your hands just float about the keys. Simply masterfull. Thank you...
Chère Nahre,
La leçon que vous donnez ici est fantastique! J'adore votre chaine, quel niveau! Tout ce que vous faites respire la musique, vous êtes trop rare.
Love from France.💞
Merci beaucoup 😊🙏🙏🙏
This is an excellent demonstration. It gives me chills. I love the unresolved chords/harmony. It adds so much depth.
A highly imaginative breakdown and overview of a highly imaginative composer. Well done!
Thank you!!
These videos are absolutely GENIUS, you have really really studied how these composers, well, compose. It’s so interesting.
Debussy: greatest of all time
This is Bach
Masashi Hamauzu
Vicente Alejandro Montequin ..nope
Sunday 31st May 2020.
First time RUclips uploaded you for me.
Shame youtube.
Came here from your amazing Happy Birthday Video.
My favourite composer, and posted just a few days after my birthday too :)
Borders of Elmet Happy Birthday.
I don't go out of my way to comment usually, but I really appreciate your sincerity and approach of someone who simply wants to learn from his music and try to understand it (acknowledging its complexity) and share that rather than someone who is condescending and thinks they know everything.
Medio me hizo llorar porque busqué esto pero creí que nadie se tomaría la delicadeza de meterse de lleno en algo tan etérico como descifrar en un tutorial algo de las armonías hermosas de este creador.
Y acá está Nahre Sol, la capa.
Thank you but a LOT!! :)
After finishing my masters in 2013 in composition I went into a very negative place, physically but also emotionally and that was the hardest as it took me a while (years) to get out. One of the fears that came to surface was that I would refuse to read a piece of music and play it, with some exceptions here and there that fear still comes up. I turned to free improvisation but you know, sometimes you need a bit of structure, commitment... I'm working on a folk melody that I am playing with for some months now, never actually getting it right. After watching this series I'll try it again, more confident in writing, reading and playing from a piece of paper.
I agree with you that the Internet can be an amazing place for sharing
All the best!
I almost feel like Debussy was doing sound design before sound design was even a thing, waaaay before synthesisers were even close to existing he already had his mind set on creating beautiful textures through musical devices which allowed him to make very beautiful music. Definitely going to check him out.
And Tomita Snowflakes cassette was a dedication of interpretation that got played until worn out in 1980.
I know it has been said a hundred times before, but your mimics of these composers' styles is truly as good as the originals... they are beautiful.
Absolutely adore your creative interpretations. This speaks to my sensibilities. Thank you!
Genius. For more than 40 years Debussy has been a favourite of mine to play and listen to (also good to celebrate his Happy Birthday as he's exactly 100 years older than me) - but this is the clearest I have ever heard his 'magic' explained. Thank you for a great public service here. More please. (Ravel?)
Now that you've done Debussy, there's really no excuse to put off Messiaen any longer :-) Unless you want to go via Dukas first. (Birthdays: Messiaen 10 Dec, Dukas 1 Oct)
Why would anyone want to sound like Dukas? lol
He was Messiaen's teacher, so it could be an necessary step.
@@MaestroTJS why would anyone want to sound like messiaen
Man yesssss, we need messiaen!
Tomorrow 6/9 is my birthday and one present to myself is listening to your breakdowns, descriptions and visual accompaniments of the great composers styles though your renditions of Happy Birthday. You've given me sparkles, and drama, and ringing and rippling and on and on. Creativity and love...
Happy early birthday Margaret!!! 😍
An entire album consists of happy birthday in different style
@W 9797 Nahre should just make an album of these stylistic happy birthday variations. I would listen! :)
You do more to make people (me) want to learn piano than any presentation I have ever seen. I happily share this on my Facebook newsfeed, with friends and family. Super quality content. Thank You.
Happy Birthday
Mr. Debussy! What a great video, thanks for these insightful moments. I hear musical whispers of Paris in the moonlight. A toast to your musical respect of this formidable composer with bowls of coffee and croissants.
Happy musical days.
🎉🙌
Thank you!!
Ms. Sol, thank you. That was simply amazing and enlightening. I'm neither a piano player (guitar) nor classically trained (self taught) but I have always been captivated and enraptured by Debussy's music. Seeing it his piano techniques broken down by you in an entertaining way made it all the better as a musical experience. I am a bit wiser, Debussy-wise, after watching this.
Beautiful lesson. The only thing missing was a little white maltese hanging around.
I'll be reunited with him very soon :))
Gosh - now i know 'why' I love Debussy pieces so much, thanks to Nahre to bring the thinking behind my feeling I have never really been able to explain ....to myself.
How to sound like Tchaikovsky would be a great one.
Yes! That would be so great!
Purple_Painting_Productions I was learning Waltz of the Flowers on piano. Love that song.
How to sound like Tchaikovsky
Step 1: *ACQUIRE CANNONS*
Step 2: *FIRE SAID CANNONS*
Max Himbigger I had no idea he did the 1812 overture.
@@MaxHimbigger lol
Nahre, I'm a 64-year old fiddler and beginning pianist. You are the music teacher I needed 30 years ago!
Rachmaninooooof, pleeease
Стас Көваль yes omg PLEASE
Oh yes!
We're gonna need -a- bigger -boat- hands
Playing sweeping legato lines with your hands stretched out as much as possible.
oof
I like seeing the elements in text during the final playthrough it makes it easier to pick them out and see how they are applied
Nahre, you are a genius
Need to nail that cascade technique. Love Debussy's music. Great video, thanks!
"Happy Birthday in the style of..." always makes me think of Victor Borge
Such gentle and effortless playing on your part. Debussy is perhaps my favorite pianist.
Debussy always conveyed the uncanny and sublime, this is why I am a fan. Thank you for this video.
I love your videos ! I am French and studied music styles in Paris Conservatory. Your work is intensive, complete, and very well presented, clear and sometimes uneasy
Why ain't he got a party hat? :c
Didn't want to ruin his hair
it would give the wrong impression
Debussy has been my favorite composer ever since I discovered clair de lune, and this just put a big fat smile on my face from start to finish even though I didn't understand a thing
4:08 lol... isn't that the old sony ericson thing in the background
it is, im absolutely sure. screensaver from the time when sony made massive case phones.
It is, I remember it very well from my youth
@@Max-nk9xg w810i gang
This was fantastic - thank you so much for making this. I have been listening to a lot of Debussy's orchestrations for inspiration in my own work. The use of whole tone and pentatonic was especially helpful as a point of reference.
Thank you!!!
Wonderful video!
Would you ever be willing to do one for Maurice Ravel as well?
@@michelesalvemini6195 agreed
Most comprehensive video I've even seen upon explaining the style of a composer. You totally captured his style. And you explained all that with such an ease.
Those technical terms Im totally clueless. I loved to listen to Debussy,Chopin,Satie as long its sound good and reach to my heart I am cool. :D
Wow, that was spot on! Sounds like a mix of "The little shepherd", "reflects dan l'eau", "Voiles" and "Reverie"
1:54 and 4:09 sound like they're straight out of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I wonder if the composers for that game took some inspiration from Debussy.
Debussy is one of my favorite composers. You really nailed it with a lot of the leitmotifs that he incorporated across his music,especially his piano works. Very well done!
I was hoping I'd see this ever since you made the Satie one. Awesome work, thank you so much!
P.S. the amazon link for your keyboard points to one that's not available, you might want to add a new one, you're probably losing money as we speak.
Thank you-! Also for the pointer-!
Not usually one who posts much, but thanks so much for your videos. My 9 year old loves to watch your hands move along the keys and the editing you do keeps her entertained as well. The visuals along with the playing is great. I can't wait to watch this with her this evening!
Thank you so much!! 😊🙌
This felt more like Ravel to me :
Breathtaking! My favorite composer is alive and well in the 21st century...Well done Nahre.
woah this helped
This is best explanation for impressionism style that I have found so far. We love your videos, Nahre.
Lol I’m learning Arabesque no. 1 by Debussy right now, perfect timing with this video 😆
I am no musician but really enjoy your videos. They really help me understand music better 😊
how to sound like Alkan
Agreed, I'd love to see an Alkan video, amazing!
James Anderson I hope she knows who he is
I'm sure. :-) Grossly underrated in many ways, it is true that he deserves to be much better known, a true Virtuoso. Would be tough to do but I think his staccato in particular is distinctive whether it is his Saltarelle Op.23, Quasi Faust, or his Concerto for Solo Piano Op.39 No.10. He was all over the place intervallically! Quite brilliant. Would love to see what Nahre would have to say on him.
James Anderson i love his music more than Liszt. Scherzo Diabolico is so gorgeous, Chopin quality but Alkan signature sound, love that piece so much
also some of his preludes, railway, barbaro etc. People made excuses he isnt as popular because of his musicality is weaker than the competitors but i disagree tbh
I love Debussy's music. For me, it evokes a dreamy, otherworldly sensation.
Thank you, miss Nahre. Your technique is flawless as always.
Thank you!!
Full version of Claire De Lune, please...
Gt Sukma I prefer images. Or the whole suite bergamasque.
Anything Debussy
This was absolutely amazing.
Currently Debussy is my favorite composer. I was so excited to play Debussy Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet this past year for state and district solo festivals. I’ve since fallen even more in love with his music, to the point that I shelled out 35 dollars for the complete orchestral works of Debussy.
Yes yes yes
I just discovered you less than a half hour ago, listening to Satie and Debussy and, oh, do I love your videos !
Tag yourself, I'm chromatic wilt.
These videos are always so thrilling and inspiring
Dude how do you know how to sound like him, there were no recordings of his voice smh
Interesting video, Nahre! Thank you for sharing this :)
Beautiful presentation, the style and graphics kept my attention without pause.
This was such an awesome video. I loved how you annotated all the parts when you played the full song, it really drove all the points home. You're awesome.
Nahre, you inspire me so much to practice the piano - I dream of being as fluid and expressive as you. Thank you for sharing this. As a beginner, just starting to look at composition, this was really helpful! So beautiful too - wow!!
Wow, this was incredible to watch. Thank you for creating this!