Here's a small strategy a student and I used in a recent lesson - I hope it helps you if you're playing this piece, or any other piece with similar textures or challenges. Have a great week of practicing!
Thanks, Josh. I was really struggling with this about a month ago. Took a week's break, came back to slow and relaxed practice, finding Pat T long forgotten ease with rotation. Found this tip, and am off and running.
I was just thinking on learning this piece! I will save this video for later lol. P.S: I love the audio improvements. Your voice is crystal clear and the piano sounds awesome.
That's fantastic, thank you Josh. I tried to learn this piece about 25 years ago and never felt fully comfortable with the right hand. Time to get back to it using your advice!
Thank you again for your great work on this channel ! I noticed in the last few videos that your sound is a lot better ! I mean, your voice is clear and sufficiently loud, but not at the expense of the sound quality of the piano, and that has a huge impact on how comfortable it is to watch and listen to your videos.
Great advice once again, Josh! Here's one big Schubert fan, and I was never quite happy with my version of this wonderful piece. Can't wait to try your suggestions later at the piano later! Thanks from Hamburg/Germany!
These tips are great. I am a piano teacher and one of my students is having a hard time with this piece. Thank you very much. I suscribed to your channel. It will be very helpful.
Josh, do you use the Philipp Finger Independence exercses? Edna Golandsky warns that they cause injury, but I don't see how to do without them. What is the alternative?
Hey Josh just found your channel! i really enjoy it! you got yourself a new subscriber! I got a question: I'm 15 and have played the piano for a while. I have played some difficult pieces, but there some things that hits me everytime! I think it takes a lot of practice to "master" a piece, almost to much after my opinion. Often because I have to really practice the transitions from one difficult chord to another. Sometimes it takes almost hours to really get that timing, when it comes from switching between chords fast! "What is your suggesting for me to learn a piece faster and more efficient ?" by the way, I tend to look at my hands way to much. Its just hard to not when you literally are switching in a 2 octave distance. i try my best to don't (-: Question 2: "I often tend to learn a piece so I can play it only by muscle memory, but is that a bad idea?" When I watch people play a "insane" pice here on youtube do the then play after muscle memory or are they just insanely fast at reading notes?! I'm currently practicing this piece: ruclips.net/video/Iq6g_4AwUWs/видео.html I have to really practice the "down scales" and the fast chords that comes after each other, before i can play it like the person in the video. I just can figure out how they can learn (and make an arrangement) of so quickly! "When do you "learn" a piece? Am i just overthinking it?! Love the vids!
Hey, I love your vid. There all very helpful. Do you know amy jazz, if so can you make videos of jazz chords because am having trouble with that. For example there is a C7 and it has a weird inversion with the left hand playing C or 3rd and 7th. Please make a vid explaining this.........
@@joshwrightpiano Okidoki, thank you really appreciate everything you do. I've been wanting to learn piano since I was a kid and started a year ago and since I've never been thought how to play anything, youtube has been one of my favorite sources. I am currently a freshman struggling to read music and chords. Thank uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Hello Josh! I don’t know if it’s okay to ask a non technical question but... Can you make a video on how do I connect with the audience? How do I bring them into an experience of being immersed in the music?
Hey Josh, thanks for your advice :) Could you possibly do a video/pro practice on Love's Sorrow by Kreisler/Rachmaninoff in the near future? I have trouble keeping that control, while playing it in a nice/faster tempo in those large chord passages with the left hand (in the beginning) and especially with those runs in the middle section of the piece. It sounds rather rushed instead of smooth. Either way thank you, your videos really help me out :D
Hello Josh. I have been following you for a year and a half now. I know you are a very busy man and can’t answer every question but I really would like a solution to seizures at the end of a performance. I am not an epileptic but lately when I play a hard piece like Un Sospiro or the Blessing of God in Solitude, after jumping successfully through all the technical hoops, my legs (and sometimes my hands) start giving out at the end. It’s very depressing and I wish I knew what to do about it.
@@joshwrightpiano, it’s probably just nerves because it usually happens when I record or video myself. I’ll just have to review your videos in reducing tension again.
It was great thank you... I’ve found your videos and tips very useful and I have slight request though, I [and a pianist friend of mine] have been struggling with a piece for two Pianos, “Lutoslawski’s variations on a theme by Paganini for two Pianos” Could you do a video on that piece? That would be a game changer for us... thanks.
It’s physically impossible for me to hold the high key in some bars. My pinkie just doesn’t open that much. If I force myself to do it, the whole hand is too tense. I just release it during those problematic bars.
Here's a small strategy a student and I used in a recent lesson - I hope it helps you if you're playing this piece, or any other piece with similar textures or challenges. Have a great week of practicing!
Thanks, Josh. I was really struggling with this about a month ago. Took a week's break, came back to slow and relaxed practice, finding Pat T long forgotten ease with rotation. Found this tip, and am off and running.
I was just thinking on learning this piece! I will save this video for later lol.
P.S: I love the audio improvements. Your voice is crystal clear and the piano sounds awesome.
Me too, I feel so lucky
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Good luck with the piece
Reducing tension is always such an important part of practicing, great tips!
Thanks Anna!
That's fantastic, thank you Josh. I tried to learn this piece about 25 years ago and never felt fully comfortable with the right hand. Time to get back to it using your advice!
Good luck 😉
I wish you all the best
@@joshwrightpiano Thank you for the encouragement, Josh 👍
Thank you again for your great work on this channel ! I noticed in the last few videos that your sound is a lot better ! I mean, your voice is clear and sufficiently loud, but not at the expense of the sound quality of the piano, and that has a huge impact on how comfortable it is to watch and listen to your videos.
Great advice once again, Josh! Here's one big Schubert fan, and I was never quite happy with my version of this wonderful piece. Can't wait to try your suggestions later at the piano later! Thanks from Hamburg/Germany!
Viel Spaß beim üben Nicola! :)
@@AnnaKhomichkoPianist Danke! Bei Schubert immer! :-)
Glad you enjoyed it - good luck with the piece!
Thank you so much for these tips. I have the same problem on this piece, so this should help!
Thanks for the tip. I've started experiencing this same clumping issue with this piece and did not think about this. Will work on it and let you know
Wow thanks josh. I am starting this piece right now and figured this problem would come up.
Sir.. Now the volume of the mic is perfect.. thank you 😊
Glad you enjoyed it
These tips are great. I am a piano teacher and one of my students is having a hard time with this piece. Thank you very much. I suscribed to your channel. It will be very helpful.
Very interesting, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it Daniel
Wow this is exactly the piece of advise I needed right now, thank you so much!
The fourth is his most famous would suggest? (The webinar is very good btw if youv not had it). Thanks!
So helpful, thank you!
Josh, do you use the Philipp Finger Independence exercses? Edna Golandsky warns that they cause injury, but I don't see how to do without them. What is the alternative?
Thanks for sharing this. What is difficulty level of this piece compared to Chopin nocturne op. 9, no. 2 or Claire de lune?
Chopin op.9 no.2 is RCM level 9 piece while Clair de lune is level 10. This piece is diploma level with ABRSM.
Hey Josh just found your channel! i really enjoy it! you got yourself a new subscriber! I got a question:
I'm 15 and have played the piano for a while. I have played some difficult pieces, but there some things that hits me everytime! I think it takes a lot of practice to "master" a piece, almost to much after my opinion. Often because I have to really practice the transitions from one difficult chord to another. Sometimes it takes almost hours to really get that timing, when it comes from switching between chords fast!
"What is your suggesting for me to learn a piece faster and more efficient ?" by the way, I tend to look at my hands way to much. Its just hard to not when you literally are switching in a 2 octave distance. i try my best to don't (-:
Question 2:
"I often tend to learn a piece so I can play it only by muscle memory, but is that a bad idea?" When I watch people play a "insane" pice here on youtube do the then play after muscle memory or are they just insanely fast at reading notes?! I'm currently practicing this piece: ruclips.net/video/Iq6g_4AwUWs/видео.html
I have to really practice the "down scales" and the fast chords that comes after each other, before i can play it like the person in the video. I just can figure out how they can learn (and make an arrangement) of so quickly!
"When do you "learn" a piece? Am i just overthinking it?!
Love the vids!
Hey, I love your vid. There all very helpful. Do you know amy jazz, if so can you make videos of jazz chords because am having trouble with that. For example there is a C7 and it has a weird inversion with the left hand playing C or 3rd and 7th. Please make a vid explaining this.........
I will be interviewing my previous jazz teacher (I was a terrible jazz student haha) on the channel soon
@@joshwrightpiano Okidoki, thank you really appreciate everything you do. I've been wanting to learn piano since I was a kid and started a year ago and since I've never been thought how to play anything, youtube has been one of my favorite sources. I am currently a freshman struggling to read music and chords. Thank uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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Hello Josh! I don’t know if it’s okay to ask a non technical question but...
Can you make a video on how do I connect with the audience? How do I bring them into an experience of being immersed in the music?
Hey Josh, thanks for your advice :)
Could you possibly do a video/pro practice on Love's Sorrow by Kreisler/Rachmaninoff in the near future? I have trouble keeping that control, while playing it in a nice/faster tempo in those large chord passages with the left hand (in the beginning) and especially with those runs in the middle section of the piece. It sounds rather rushed instead of smooth.
Either way thank you, your videos really help me out :D
Okay, forget it, i've found some videos that might help me with those problems, but a pro practice video on the whole piece would still be cool ;D
I’ll keep it in mind for a future tutorial :)
How do you reduce tension in playing octaves ? Thank you for the tips.!
I have a few octaves tutorials here on RUclips
Hey josh I love these pro practices! I was wondering if you could Etude Tableaux op.39 no.8
Sickest intro ever
How difficult is this piece to play? I can play Liebestrqum No.3 if that helps give an answer
I can imagine you’ll definitely manage it if you already play Liebestraum!
I agree with Anna - you should be just fine with this if you play Liebestraum no.3 well
brilliant lesson 👌🏻
Hello Josh. I have been following you for a year and a half now. I know you are a very busy man and can’t answer every question but I really would like a solution to seizures at the end of a performance. I am not an epileptic but lately when I play a hard piece like Un Sospiro or the Blessing of God in Solitude, after jumping successfully through all the technical hoops, my legs (and sometimes my hands) start giving out at the end. It’s very depressing and I wish I knew what to do about it.
I haven’t encountered that issue before
@@joshwrightpiano, it’s probably just nerves because it usually happens when I record or video myself. I’ll just have to review your videos in reducing tension again.
It was great thank you... I’ve found your videos and tips very useful and I have slight request though, I [and a pianist friend of mine] have been struggling with a piece for two Pianos, “Lutoslawski’s variations on a theme by Paganini for two Pianos”
Could you do a video on that piece?
That would be a game changer for us... thanks.
I haven’t played it. I do love that piece though!
It’s physically impossible for me to hold the high key in some bars. My pinkie just doesn’t open that much. If I force myself to do it, the whole hand is too tense. I just release it during those problematic bars.
Talk about the sound quality here!! I mean you should just play different pieces at your piano hear and post it it sounds great
Glad you like it. Two AKG 414s inside the piano, and one Neumann TLM103 for my voice - only took me a decade to figure it out haha
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