Thanks for your videos, I think the combination of the three techniques is useful: intonation technique, pedal and different degree of overlap (much, little or nothing but with a continuous sound).
You make some good points and thanks for sharing your ideas. However there is more to legato than black and white. I can play legato with the same finger on all 88 keys... How? Play with the 3, then immediately put the 4 on the same note, then the 3 is free to play the next note, and repeat, this type of technique is common. The problem with only using the pedal for legsto is when you want tones applied separately. Look at the first few bars in the urtext of Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune, for and example. U dont even need the pedal until bar 10, when it holding bass notes.
Thank you, that was helpful. It would have been nice to see and hear you play more examples though, especially since you can't hold the pedal down for everything you play.
Trish Meyer The art is to know when to lift the pedal. But it will differ from piano to piano and from one room to the next how to utilize it. Because if you have a very powerful sustain, there will be more pedal changes than if the sustain is shorter. If you want a legato, but don't want to sustain the older hit notes, you need to lift the pedal just after each hit note. But often you want the notes to blend, and the pedal is held down for several notes. And only change pedal when the harmony change.
Wow...what a mind blower. This goes against everything I've been told.
Thanks for your videos, I think the combination of the three techniques is useful: intonation technique, pedal and different degree of overlap (much, little or nothing but with a continuous sound).
Such a simple concept but one can spend the whole life without discovering it. Thank you!
Love the Chopin quote
Thank you, that was very insightful.
So how do you work the pedal? Like a demon? Or hold it throughout and risk dissonance?
You make some good points and thanks for sharing your ideas. However there is more to legato than black and white. I can play legato with the same finger on all 88 keys... How? Play with the 3, then immediately put the 4 on the same note, then the 3 is free to play the next note, and repeat, this type of technique is common. The problem with only using the pedal for legsto is when you want tones applied separately. Look at the first few bars in the urtext of Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune, for and example. U dont even need the pedal until bar 10, when it holding bass notes.
Thank you, that was helpful. It would have been nice to see and hear you play more examples though, especially since you can't hold the pedal down for everything you play.
Trish Meyer The art is to know when to lift the pedal. But it will differ from piano to piano and from one room to the next how to utilize it. Because if you have a very powerful sustain, there will be more pedal changes than if the sustain is shorter. If you want a legato, but don't want to sustain the older hit notes, you need to lift the pedal just after each hit note. But often you want the notes to blend, and the pedal is held down for several notes. And only change pedal when the harmony change.
4:58 "Legato has killed more pianists than anything else."
OMG :O I hope I'm not one of them. :O
Thank you for this important lesson!
Why did I expect to hear that piano? ZZZZzzzzzzZZZzzz