THE pioneer of piano videos!! Thanks BachScholar. You deserve the sabbatical. As a fellow church pianist this helps a lot, I’ve had to guess the fingerings when starting out.
Dear Professor Cory. Thank-you for divulging this invaluable video lecture ,worth more to me than all the gold in Fort Knox!!!For years I have been trying to figure out best fingerings for the Bach Harmonized Chorales without any real success. Now after having watched this superb lecture,I now have found a logical method...thanx all to you!!!I owe you so much gratitude for this info and feel that you have just given me the secret golden key that will allow me to understand and play these great chorales with greater ease and fluidity. Now I will go back to these chorales and start again anew with a new frame of reference. Thank-you Professor Cory!!! You have probably just given me the best ever Christmas present that I could have ever wished for!!!! Big Thanks!!!
I just watch the video and that was the best way that it has every been told to me. Thank you very much!!!! now off to the piano and my many hymnals to practice this technique.and your book thanks again
hi - is this not why eg Bach and Rachmaninoff have diagonal lines between the two clefs ? To make it clearer which hand to use (that's what i think my Beethoven-lineage teacher was telling me)?
Just think how much simpler this is on an organ. The pedal board takes the bass, that only leaves 3 parts to divide between the 2 hands. (Or if your name is Johann Sebastian you can tackle music with more than 4 parts.)
Bach's Two-Part Inventions are very far from "beginning" pieces. I think all beginners should stay away from them. Bach's Invention are actually "advanced" pieces, contrary to common belief.
I guess it all comes down to how you define "beginner". I define "beginner" as someone hasn't learned at all to read notes on the staff and doesn't know what whole, half, quarter notes are and doesn't know what 4/4 time is, etc. Putting a Bach Invention in front of a student who knows absolutely nothing yet, and to expect them to understand all of what is on the page, is like making a beginner of a foreign language read and understand advanced writing and poetry in the foreign language.
@@BachScholar the first five are very easy to the intermediate and above player. Id say 5 is high intermediate. The counterpoint action in 2 is extremely useful for piano pedagogy
it's not a mistake, he assumed right hand+left hand, you assumed left hand+right hand. everybody knew what he might though, since he explained you only rarely play 3 notes left and 1 right
A superb account of how to approach playing chorals and hymns. All us piano players are grateful!
Cory, I followed your advice and learned to play piano by sight-reading hymns and chorales. I'm so grateful to have done so 👃👃👃 Thank you 😃
Wonderful!
THE pioneer of piano videos!! Thanks BachScholar. You deserve the sabbatical. As a fellow church pianist this helps a lot, I’ve had to guess the fingerings when starting out.
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Dear Professor Cory. Thank-you for divulging this invaluable video lecture ,worth more to me than all the gold in Fort Knox!!!For years I have been trying to figure out best fingerings for the Bach Harmonized Chorales without any real success. Now after having watched this superb lecture,I now have found a logical method...thanx all to you!!!I owe you so much gratitude for this info and feel that you have just given me the secret golden key that will allow me to understand and play these great chorales with greater ease and fluidity. Now I will go back to these chorales and start again anew with a new frame of reference. Thank-you Professor Cory!!! You have probably just given me the best ever Christmas present that I could have ever wished for!!!! Big Thanks!!!
Very helpful and insightful. Thanks!
This was awesome. I am learning how to play hymns and im having trouble with my fingering. This is the best advice i have heard. Thank You.
This video was very helpful and exactly what I needed to improve my chorale sight-reading!
I just watch the video and that was the best way that it has every been told to me. Thank you very much!!!! now off to the piano and my many hymnals to practice this technique.and your book thanks again
Brilliant ultimate video.really very helpful
So grateful for this ❤️
Thank you for this!
Wonderful lesson. Wish I could have watched this some years ago.
Thank you sir, it assists me alot...
thank you, ive been having trouble with what fingers to put where on a hymn ive been learning
I included a link to this video in my hymn playing course.
thanks a lot! 🙏🏻
hi - is this not why eg Bach and Rachmaninoff have diagonal lines between the two clefs ? To make it clearer which hand to use (that's what i think my Beethoven-lineage teacher was telling me)?
I want to know fingering playing hymn please
Just think how much simpler this is on an organ. The pedal board takes the bass, that only leaves 3 parts to divide between the 2 hands. (Or if your name is Johann Sebastian you can tackle music with more than 4 parts.)
I teach my beginners Bach Invention 1 as it's a nice beginner piece. Find that it seriously strengthens foundational finger technique
Bach's Two-Part Inventions are very far from "beginning" pieces. I think all beginners should stay away from them. Bach's Invention are actually "advanced" pieces, contrary to common belief.
I guess it all comes down to how you define "beginner". I define "beginner" as someone hasn't learned at all to read notes on the staff and doesn't know what whole, half, quarter notes are and doesn't know what 4/4 time is, etc. Putting a Bach Invention in front of a student who knows absolutely nothing yet, and to expect them to understand all of what is on the page, is like making a beginner of a foreign language read and understand advanced writing and poetry in the foreign language.
@@BachScholar the first five are very easy to the intermediate and above player. Id say 5 is high intermediate. The counterpoint action in 2 is extremely useful for piano pedagogy
I found a mistake it shouldn’t be 2+2, 3+1; it should be 2+2, 1+3. LOL
Other than that great video, thank you for sharing Mr.
it's not a mistake, he assumed right hand+left hand, you assumed left hand+right hand. everybody knew what he might though, since he explained you only rarely play 3 notes left and 1 right