A sign of a true professional, sitting at the piano on a piano bench not a swivel chair or Lazy-boy recliner : ) It may seem silly but as a traditionalist player I appreciate that detail. Georgia thank you for your excellent tutorial.
@pianowithgeorgia I'm happy to see your Channel continues to grow. Aspiring piano players need to hear from you, you're an excellent teacher. I have a feeling you have a lot of experience teaching children because of you're kind and gentle style but adults appreciate that too.
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I have heard some guitar arrangements of this piece, and I think it sounds so beautiful on guitar as well. I'm glad that my descriptions for the piano are helpful for you.
I accidentally stumble upon your channel ! My first question was “how did I miss this content before”? My last question was; “where have you been all my life”?
@pianowithgeorgia You are most welcome. I absolutely enjoyed every moment of this video, and even though I've played this composition for years, this video gave me new and fresh insights. Thank you for doing this.
I happened upon your channel. You're great! I've taught piano and enjoy your openness and approach to teaching piano. Have a degree and seen lots of piano teachers, but you're the best!
Thank you SO much! I'm glad that you happened upon my channel!! I appreciate your kind words and encouragement. Let me know if there are any other topics or pieces that you would like to see! As a fellow teacher, your comment means a lot to me!
Hello Georgia and Merry Christmas! I have viewed a few of your videos this morning including this Guide on Gymnopedie and I love the way you approach teaching. Where can I find the version of the piece you are playing? I also watched and enjoyed your video on pedaling. I have been working on trying to use the pedal for quite a while and have not been able to coordinate my foot with my hands and ears. Not an easy task for me. Thank you for your videos, I am sure they are not easy to produce.
Hello and Merry Christmas to you!! I am so happy that you landed on my videos and that they are helping you. You are not alone in having trouble getting hands and feel to cooperate. I hope those little exercises will help coordinate them together and lead you to adding pedal to more of your music. The exact version of Gymnopedie that I'm playing from is from a series called "Piano Literature" by Bastien. This piece is in volume 4 (the brown one) It's a great collection of pieces, and it's quite affordable! There is one that has a spiral binding instead of the standard, and WOW it is great. The book stays open easily from day one.
Don't forget your aural memory sing the melody line without playing it on the keyboard. Label all chords and play and sing them from bass up through the chord structure and actually sing the actual notes contained in them. Know what chord they are in the scale they are derived from. Root movements and chord qualities such as major, minor, diminished, augmented and know what 7th chords are uses in this piece. 😢🎉😂
This is great advice! Being able to generate the sounds without the aid of an instrument in all the layers is evidence of extremely thorough knowledge of the piece in a completely different way than is attained by the visual patterns on the score or on the piano. A true theoretical analysis of any work is well worth the time. Certainly for anyone who aspires to compose - there are so many ideas for sounds and combinations to take away.
Thank you for your perspective. I always recommend that anyone learning a piece of music listen to as many different professional artist recordings as possible. Each performer has their own unique interpretations to add which can give you ideas and inspiration.
A sign of a true professional, sitting at the piano on a piano bench not a swivel chair or Lazy-boy recliner : ) It may seem silly but as a traditionalist player I appreciate that detail. Georgia thank you for your excellent tutorial.
Hi! Nice to hear from you again! You are very welcome! Thanks so much for continuing to watch and comment. :)
@pianowithgeorgia I'm happy to see your Channel continues to grow. Aspiring piano players need to hear from you, you're an excellent teacher. I have a feeling you have a lot of experience teaching children because of you're kind and gentle style but adults appreciate that too.
An excellent tutorial. Many thanks Georgia.🎼🎶❤
You are very welcome!! I'm so glad that it helped you! Thank YOU for taking the time to watch and leave me such a nice comment. :)
@@pianowithgeorgia My pleasure Georgia. Thank you for your reply and Merry Xmas to you. ❤💛💚
Im a guitarist of a few decades i like this piece so stimulating to hear your analysis
Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to comment! I have heard some guitar arrangements of this piece, and I think it sounds so beautiful on guitar as well. I'm glad that my descriptions for the piano are helpful for you.
I accidentally stumble upon your channel ! My first question was “how did I miss this content before”? My last question was; “where have you been all my life”?
Well, I am so glad that you found my videos! It's always so nice to receive such an encouraging comment! You keep playing and I'll keep posting!
What a lovely way of teaching.
Thank you so much! I appreciate your kind words and the time you spent watching and commenting! :)
@pianowithgeorgia You are most welcome. I absolutely enjoyed every moment of this video, and even though I've played this composition for years, this video gave me new and fresh insights. Thank you for doing this.
I happened upon your channel. You're great! I've taught piano and enjoy your openness and approach to teaching piano. Have a degree and seen lots of piano teachers, but you're the best!
Thank you SO much! I'm glad that you happened upon my channel!! I appreciate your kind words and encouragement. Let me know if there are any other topics or pieces that you would like to see! As a fellow teacher, your comment means a lot to me!
Thank you for this,
You are very welcome! I'm so glad you find it helpful!
Great video. Thanks, from Chile
Wow! Thank you so much! It's an amazing thing to be reaching someone in Chile! I love when people tell me where they are from. Happy playing!
Hello Georgia and Merry Christmas! I have viewed a few of your videos this morning including this Guide on Gymnopedie and I love the way you approach teaching. Where can I find the version of the piece you are playing? I also watched and enjoyed your video on pedaling. I have been working on trying to use the pedal for quite a while and have not been able to coordinate my foot with my hands and ears. Not an easy task for me. Thank you for your videos, I am sure they are not easy to produce.
Hello and Merry Christmas to you!! I am so happy that you landed on my videos and that they are helping you. You are not alone in having trouble getting hands and feel to cooperate. I hope those little exercises will help coordinate them together and lead you to adding pedal to more of your music.
The exact version of Gymnopedie that I'm playing from is from a series called "Piano Literature" by Bastien. This piece is in volume 4 (the brown one) It's a great collection of pieces, and it's quite affordable! There is one that has a spiral binding instead of the standard, and WOW it is great. The book stays open easily from day one.
Georgia, Happy Christmas, thanks for this great video. I have ordered the book just, love your videos.
Don't forget your aural memory sing the melody line without playing it on the keyboard. Label all chords and play and sing them from bass up through the chord structure and actually sing the actual notes contained in them. Know what chord they are in the scale they are derived from. Root movements and chord qualities such as major, minor, diminished, augmented and know what 7th chords are uses in this piece. 😢🎉😂
This is great advice! Being able to generate the sounds without the aid of an instrument in all the layers is evidence of extremely thorough knowledge of the piece in a completely different way than is attained by the visual patterns on the score or on the piano.
A true theoretical analysis of any work is well worth the time. Certainly for anyone who aspires to compose - there are so many ideas for sounds and combinations to take away.
Step one: play the piece of music so we know what you are going to teach us. Where we are going. What our goal is.
Thank you for your perspective. I always recommend that anyone learning a piece of music listen to as many different professional artist recordings as possible. Each performer has their own unique interpretations to add which can give you ideas and inspiration.