How to FINALLY Memorize that Damn Fugue | Pro Learning Strategies
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01:25 How to understand a fugue
03:39 How to use phantasy in polyphony to your advantage
08:18 Highlighting Subjects throughout the Fugue
09:17 Sing everything
10:00 Max-Depth Practicing Strategy
10:54 Vertical VS Horisontal Dimension
16:21 Transposing
17:29 Two More Important tips from my personal experience
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I'm so lazy! I only transpose the fugue in 4 other keys instead of all major, minor, pentatonic, indian and dodecaphonic scales! 😜Excellent tips! Thanks
You successfully made the dense content pretty entertaining to watch 💛 I do find that working out the fingering for fugues is pretty hard, and many times awkward and tension inducing so would love to hear any tips from you on this topic maybe in the future vdo - thank you 😊
"why me, why me, no, go to hell" had me CACKLING at my computer 🤣🤣🤣
Don’t try it at home with family members, may be lethal, lol
I always make up stories to help me with rhythm. This was another inspiring video. Thank you!!!
your channel is truly underrated every single one of your videos is a hidden jem
Thank you so much 😊
That damm fugue lol
I am a 14 year old student and I would like to try to get into a conservatory this year, though my technique is quite lacking in my opinion and I experience quite a lot of tension, even when just playing scales at around 120 bpm. Would you recommend me any of your courses? I was thinking about getting the hanon or czerny courses of yours, but I don't really know which is better. Have a great rest of your day, love from Czechia ♥
Hi, I think Czerny course will be more suitable for your level. I will also release a complete technique re-building course this year, stay tuned and good luck with your music career!
Wonderful. Reminds of the Neuhaus'advice... create an artistic image on top of analysis, verbalize as mush as possible
Suggestion for another topic: how on earth do you manage fingering when sight-reading, and also when not sight-reading, but preparing to learn a piece...especially Bach ( Fugues and other complex works for example....)
Fugue practicing = First two voices primavista mostly a tempo, confidence rises. Third voice: First slowdown, what's happening? Fourth voice: more slowdowns, gotcha. Especially this D-major fugue... the horrors of "Engführung". Learn to start at any point = best tip for me.
This might be your best informative video to date (to someone like me who tackles piece like Chopin ballades but struggles when any musical theory is truly tested, like in fugues).
I'm currently studying music theory through books, and while it does work, it makes much more sense when you see it visually, and especially audibly, applied!
Don't forget inversions, augmentations, and diminutions of the subject(s). Highlighting a Fugue can be very colorful. LOL this old brain can barely remember why I walk into a room, let alone memorize a fugue or any other form for that matter. nonetheless it is still worth the effort because one really learns when trying to memorize. thank you for all you do.
You rock so much! Thank you so much for the content I forgot I needed! Your last tip hit hard with me. I'm the kind who with most pieces have to start from specific places, so I will definitely learn to fix that. Thanks for the tips!
Great advices! Thank you. Best regards from Germany.
hahaha, 11:55 motif sounds like Messiah A Child is born....
Another brilliant video! Thank you!
Dux and Comes. My teacher used the original Latin to teach these to me.
Brilliant and generous, as you are! Thanks for sharing
SUPER B Content . Thank you .
Very helpful! Thanks!
Your analogies are hilarious! 🤣
👍♥️♥️♥️ Thank you 😃
This is great! Thanks!
Hi Denis , even though I am not at the level to follow all that you were saying, I really loved the way you explained how to memorise the different sections . Thank you so much .
Thanks for watching! These strategies work for any difficulty level pieces!
Excelent video! Succint and to the point, no nonsense. Thank you for sharing this!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks! Great video and great tips!
Glad it was helpful!
Спасибо
Casual wear? Blasphemy!
I had my best silk concert thong underwear with gold cufflinks on me. You couldn't see them, because it's for paid Patreon subscribers only.
@@DenZhdanovPianist Hah! in that case, i'll let it slide.
So, you want to write a fugue?
🤣 im no gould😊
@@DenZhdanovPianistnice one!
Why do you hate Sir Adnras Schiff? 0:30
Self irony, no hate. He is amazing, and famous for his phenomenal memory.
@@DenZhdanovPianist Ohh got it.. Silly me hhh.. Thanks. I really liked this video.. You make the most difficult simplified and manageable.
@@davidguitarchannel3963 while he has phenomenal memory, I don't think Schiff has a photographic one. He was talking about learning the art of fugue in an interview and only performed it many months later.
What Denis is referring to is people like Richter. He learned the WTC2 by heart in a month, so about one p&f per day. Absolutely mindblowing
Andras Schiff has memorized a ton of repertoire.. including pretty much all Bach..
Great video, Denis, as usual!
2 questions.
1. How do you approach performance of a fugue? When listening to most of the recordings, i usually find myself completely lost. That's probably because the performer knows the fugue so well that he really can process everything happening there in real time, while a listener needs more time to grasp what's going on, otherwise they will just fall asleep. What do you do to keep your listeners engaged in complex music?
2. About this specific prelude - it goes on triplet rhythm, so I find it very awkward and foreign when people play straight eights (only) in the beginning. I can't force myself to do it, i always play the dotted triplet rhythm. What's your view?
1. As shown in video, I try to fill anything I play with an emotionally clear content, where every element or section would have a specific color and idea. But truth be told, it’s not possible to always perform at the top of your charismatic abilities, and no matter how you play there always be enough people who will be bored, because attention is a limited asset, and complex music is really tough. Here, you tapped into the biggest “problem” of classical music industry: if you care about entertaining too much, you end up with tasteless profanity, if you care about The Art too much - you end up with a product, in which very few people would be interested in, because it needs the whole education to comprehend, enjoy, and appreciate it. Strictly speaking, you’d be able to truly enjoy and comprehend only those fugues which you have studied yourself following the strategy I explained: understanding it on the intellectual level, and empathizing to a material on the emotional level.
2. Train an ability to feel the quarter notes (metronome beat) but switch from filling those beats with triplets to duplets.
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Thanks for the reply, Denis!
1. Yes, I have no problem following the fugues I learned myself :) But the non-musicians don't usually have this luxury. And it's not just about entertaining meaning "having fun", it's more about conveying the meaning and showing the beauty of the composition for maybe someone who listens to it for the first time. I also play organ, and there (and also on harpsichord, where you don't have the dynamics like on piano) you use the tempo and "breath" much more freely and prominently than on piano which is usually played metronomically, and any deviation from the extremely steady tempo is frowned upon. To me, it reduces the approachability and results in a kind of gatekeeping. But maybe the genre of fugue is really just a musician's music.... :)
2. I probably phrased it badly. I don't have any technical problem playing straight eights there (I also play jazz, odd signatures etc). What I mean, those straight eights only appear in the beginning of each section and are not recapitulated nor developed as straight anywhere else, which feels weird. I just don't see any logic behind it, it feels like a copyist error.
@@DenZhdanovPianist Actually, Richter plays the dotted triplets instead of the straight ones :) I know, his playing of Bach is commonly criticized (usually for the pedaling), but still can't be ignored I guess... What's your view?
@@maximyanchenko3780 maybe he was inspired by jazz swinging😅, honestly I don’t know.
There could be also a tradition to play it like that as well at some point in some circles, many traditions are rising and then are lost. I don’t exclude that it was appropriate to play that way in Bach’s times, I just don’t know for sure, so prefer to keep to a widely spread approach. If you want to dig really deeply into what has been discovered about those forgotten styles of last centuries, you have to study from a historically informed approach with people who specialize on Baroque, play on periodic instruments, and research every little detail.
All those teachers: don’t start about your students this, my students that…. yes, you have students. Very interesting.
I bet you are Guru of influencing with a huge following, since you know better how to start videos.