I agree, your teaching style is wonderful. I could only imagine having such a teacher as you in real life. Last year I purchased your sheet music of Bach's prelude in C Major and have played it hundreds of times. The block chords were the best. Thank you.
Hello Gladius, thank you very much for your kind and generous words. I am very touched by what you have said about my teaching style. I'm also so happy to know that you have played from your blocked chord chart so many times over the last year. This is music to my ears! I wish you the very best and much joy on your musical journey. 🎵
Dear Sally, SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS!!!!! Thank you for my favourite Bach in an excellent rendition and for your great tutorial, your video will be helpful for many pianists, congratulations for over 18.700 subscribers to your great channel, you deserve more and more...,again my best wishes from quite warm Poland to San Francisco, have a happy sunny week. Joanna
Hello Joanna, it is always so nice to hear from you! Thank you for your kind and supportive words about these tutorials. I do hope they will be useful and informative for pianists and non-pianists alike. 😊 I wish you all the best from our cool and crisp San Francisco to your warm and sunny Poland! ☀
Hello Jp Charland, thank you for your kind and supportive words! I appreciate hearing that you are enjoying the lectures. Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎵
Thank you James! Yes, this is a most joyful and uplifting piece! I always appreciate hearing from you, and send all best wishes to you and your students! 🎵
Hello Amber, thank you for your wonderful and warm "reception" to this new posting! You are very kind, and I appreciate hearing that you are enjoying the lectures! With all best wishes to you. 🎵
Virtuosity not only in performance but also in analysis and instruction. Your expert guidance leads us into Bach’s compositional mind and craft. Brilliant! Revealing the jollity of skipping up and down the relevant scales is such a bonus. Thank you, Sally, for such uplifting revelation, facilitating pianistic development through understanding.
Hello Stephen, once again, I am so touched by your eloquent acknowledgements about this lesson and performance! 🎉Thank you for your wonderful words of support. 🙏I especially appreciate that you resonated with the skipping up and down the scale as one of the ways Bach creates the jovial and uplifting character of this piece! I hope the technical tips and the analysis will be helpful in learning this wonderful sinfonia. With blessings and best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎵
Just amazing ♥️ Thank you very much for taking us to the Bach era and the world of his music. A beautiful performance of this piece. The day will be more beautiful. I also practice a Bach piece now. Very "easy" menuet. I'm starting to play it smoothly and it gives me great pleasure. Yours sincerely 🥰 ♥ ️
Hello Robert, thank you for another wonderful and much appreciated comment! Your words are like a sweet fragrance in the room spreading beauty and feelings of well-being. 💕I am very happy to hear that you are playing your Bach Menuet smoothly, and that it is nourishing your soul! With continuing best wishes to you! 🎵
Hello Janet, thank you for your warm, wonderful, and generous words about the playing and teaching! You are welcome, it is my privilege and pleasure to make these videos. With very best wishes to you. 🌺💕🎵
It's wonderful to see new content as educational as always! I love your piano and it is a beautiful one for sure. What size and model is it? Dream instrument!
Hello Lauren, thank you so much for your warm acknowledgements about the tutorials! I appreciate hearing that they continue to be an educational resource for you. The piano I am playing is a 9 foot 6 inch Bösendorfer Imperial Concert Grand. It is indeed a dream instrument and a dream-come-true for me to have and to play. 🙏 BTW: I enjoyed your sensitive playing on your new video of the Liadov Prelude in B minor. Best wishes to you and much joy on your musical journey. 🎵
@@SallyChristianMusic wow thank you so much!! An imperial 🤩🤩 wow, living the dream. Thank you for hearing my short, which is clipped from a full version on my channel! Thank you again for the comment, I am so flattered!
Hi Sally, congratulations on another fantastic tutorial and performance. I always get excited about the pieces listening to you dissect and explain them. There is so much in this one. I had no idea. Its not evident on first, or even second or third listening for me. But now that I've gone on this journey with you, i have a new appreciation and love for nthis sinfonia. Gina
Hi Gina, oh, thank you for your beautiful, thoughtful, and meaningful words! You have made my day with your responses to the lesson. 🎉 I think this is one of my favorite Bach pieces. It was amazing for me finding so many patterns and overlapping motives! I'm so happy you appreciated exploring Sinfonia No. 12 and now love it! It's a must for you or one of your students! 💖🎵
This is such a lovely piece and I love how instructive your videos are. Sadly, I don't have a piano anymore, but I find your lectures so calming and wonderful to listen to. Can feel how passionate you are in each video.
Hello David, thank you for your wonderful and very appreciated words about the videos! I so appreciate knowing that the lectures are calming and have value for you even though you do not have a piano anymore. I do love this music and sharing what I have learned in the process of preparing each lesson, performance, and chart! 💫 With all best wishes to you. 🎵
I hope to see vids with your insights on Bach's Partitas and Goldberg variations..... Some parts of them are magical and I think will be picked apart lovingly with your artistic and deep insights.😊💗
Hello Joe, thank you for your lovely comment and kind words about what I might reveal about these great works. 💖While a teaching video and chart would be a long shot, you can hear my interpretation and ideas about the Goldberg Variations by listening to my 2004 CD recording available on such streaming services as Pandora or Spotify. Thank you for your interest and support of my work! Happy New Year 2023 and best wishes to you. 🎵
Wow! I Just love your enthusiasm. You are such a great teacher. I think I get more enjoyment in this piece watching you teach it than hearing you play it. I love both, and anything you play and teach is such an experience and education in music. Life's challenges has moved in a bit closer in these past few months but I continue to practice your charts regularly. They always feel so fresh to play and challenging for my intermediate level. Thank you Sally for your faithfulness to your calling and to us. YSFA! ❤
Hello Jim, thank you for your beautiful and generous words! It is such a lovely thing to say that watching the lesson brings enjoyment as well as education. 💖 I'm glad my enthusiasm and love for this piece was communicated! Your very kind acknowledgement about "faithfulness to my calling" means a great deal to me. 🙏 You are so welcome, it is my privilege and pleasure. I'm sorry about the challenges you are facing now, and hope your practicing brings you joy, comfort, and peace. YTFA ❤
That is really a great piece as you told us, but is better when you play it ... thank you Master; it has been a long long looong time of 2 months since you gave us another one amazing
Hello Nelson, thank you for your wonderful words about this video and performance! I love hearing your enthusiasm for each new posting! 😊Yes, it's been 2+ months since the previous posting. Just to let you know, I often work by preparing groups of pieces by the same composer. During 2021-2022, I made the charts, performances for memory, and tutorials for 5 Bach Inventions and 3 Sinfonias. I was able to post a new video every month or so, which is a very fast pace for the work that goes into each video. After the last video for 2022 is uploaded, I will be focused on learning and memorizing some new repertoire as well as making the companion charts. I anticipate many months with no uploads before the group of 2023-2024 videos are ready. Thank you for your happy anticipation and for your patience. Know that I am hard at work in the practice room working on the next series. 🎵With all best wishes to you.
@@SallyChristianMusic Master is a gift given by God, that commitment so admirable and of such excellence as we see in each of your videos; I want you to know that no matter how much time passes, I will be waiting for your very useful videos to advance my learning.... thank you very much for taking the time to tell me about your job, I wish God continue to bless you
My favorite Sinfonia, yet the least like the others (and relatively incredibly challenging) in its most fugal-like writing. I’ve been revisiting these pieces myself after decades of playing very modern music. 😆 I appreciate you talking about the technical aspects of the voices. So many people (I’m talking about the pros) take shortcuts because they know the masses won’t notice, but if you watch their hands or listen closely, they cheat in so many ways. 😆 (I also used to be a pro page turner for awhile; don’t get me started on the tricks and smoke-n-mirrors the big pros use!) 😐 Your Bosie sounds impeccably dialed in. Wow. Is it in your living room or a studio? I’d love to hear how you acquired it after your Yamaha from years’ past! I finally got my PETROF dialed in precisely after a few years. It’s in my dining room and sounds amazing, but it drives my family a bit nuts. Bummer. 😅
Hello Sean, thank you for your kind words about this video, the content, and the Bösendorfer! The room is my piano studio. The Yamaha is at one end of the room and the Bösy is at the other. The Bösy was purchased privately many years ago. I was very lucky to have found it when I did! 😊 I wish you all the best with your playing on your wonderful Petrof! 🎹
Hello Ada, thank you for your kind acknowledgements about my playing this piece for memory! In all of the Bach Two and Three-Part Invention videos I have made, I perform the pieces without the music. While memorizing each one takes months (and years!) of work, I find that only then do I really understand and thoroughly know the pieces! Best wishes to you. 🎵
Hello Sally, your videos have been guiding me through my Bach journey over these last few years, thank you. I have a question about bar 12. I learned the b, c, d bass pattern (starts on beat 3) originally from my schirmer edition, where it is written ending the sequence very satisfyingly with a b#, C#, d#. But I have noticed that many people on the internet play a b natural, C#, and D natural which creates a very different harmony, and I have recently noticed that it is written this way in my HENLE edition, as well as in the klavier buchlein for WF original manuscript. This pattern creates very different color beneath the melody and for so long it sounded very incorrect to my ears as my original reference recording used the schirmer pattern. I am very torn with which one to use, because the original version I learned sounds very satisfying as the end of the sequence, but I am beginning to think the Klavier buchlein version sounds very interesting but more ambiguous, and somewhat chromatic, unexpected, in a way less pleasant to the ears, I am slightly paranoid that it is some kind of mistake made in the original manuscript. Then again Bach does have very strange harmonies in his music, but this one took me some getting used to. I would appreciate your opinion on this conundrum, THANK YOU Lol!
Hello Party Grotto Learns Music, thank you for your kind words about the Bach videos I have been making. I’m very happy to hear they have been guiding you over the years. You ask a very good question about the left hand notes beginning on beat three of measure 12. You are correct that the Schirmer Edition, copyright 1894, shows the notes B#, C#, D# here, and all of the other subsequent editions show the B natural, C# and D, including the manuscript. I have chosen to follow the notes of the newer editions, and not the notes from Schirmer. Throughout the decades, we are fortunate to have many more modern editions which are supported with thorough and extensive research. I think these editions are accurate and should be followed. It is true that we become comfortable with the harmonies we first hear and learn. I can see why you felt such a level of satisfaction with the notes in the Schirmer Edition in measure 12. As you said, this is the concluding measure of a four measure sequence, beginning on beat three of measure 9. The Schirmer progression has modified measure 12 so it maintains a series of four Major triads, making this progression: C# Major, B Major, A Major, & G# Major. All of the other editions show a sudden and unexpected G# diminished chord in the concluding measure 12. You are correct that on a first listening, this could sound ambiguous, unexpected, and perhaps a little bit unsettling. Once we get used to hearing this diminished chord tonality at the end, it becomes very rich and meaningful. It supports the surprise and unexpected harmonic changes we often find in Bach. I hope this is helpful!
@@SallyChristianMusic I am very grateful for your reply. I will now apply only the diminished chord to that part of the sequence. I have one more question, I was curious if you had interests in improvisation of these Bach/late baroque styles, and if we might see videos on this? Also I was curious if you were interested in partimento improvisations?
@@will.sagastume You are welcome, it is my pleasure! 🎵 In answer to your questions, I do not do any improvisations in partimento or late Baroque styles.
I agree, your teaching style is wonderful. I could only imagine having such a teacher as you in real life. Last year I purchased your sheet music of Bach's prelude in C Major and have played it hundreds of times. The block chords were the best. Thank you.
Hello Gladius, thank you very much for your kind and generous words. I am very touched by what you have said about my teaching style. I'm also so happy to know that you have played from your blocked chord chart so many times over the last year. This is music to my ears! I wish you the very best and much joy on your musical journey. 🎵
Dear Sally, SO WONDERFUL AS ALWAYS!!!!! Thank you for my favourite Bach in an excellent rendition and for your great tutorial, your video will be helpful for many pianists, congratulations for over 18.700 subscribers to your great channel, you deserve more and more...,again my best wishes from quite warm Poland to San Francisco, have a happy sunny week. Joanna
Hello Joanna, it is always so nice to hear from you! Thank you for your kind and supportive words about these tutorials. I do hope they will be useful and informative for pianists and non-pianists alike. 😊 I wish you all the best from our cool and crisp San Francisco to your warm and sunny Poland! ☀
I've enjoyed these lectures very much!
Hello Jp Charland, thank you for your kind and supportive words! I appreciate hearing that you are enjoying the lectures. Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎵
I'm always enjoying the music of bach. And Thank you for your classical music tutorial♥️♥️.
Hello 128 Titanic, thank you for your lovely comment about this tutorial and for your words about enjoying Bach! 🎉
Best wishes to you. 🎵
I thank for your welcoming!♥️
😊🎵💕
Ver y nice Sally as always. Regards.
Hello Eduardo, thank you for your kind and warm words. I appreciate your support, and wish you all the best. 🎵
What a joyful piece!
Thank you James! Yes, this is a most joyful and uplifting piece!
I always appreciate hearing from you, and send all best wishes to you and your students! 🎵
Finally ❤ love you lectures 😊
Hello Amber, thank you for your wonderful and warm "reception" to this new posting! You are very kind, and I appreciate hearing that you are enjoying the lectures! With all best wishes to you. 🎵
Thank you so much for your videos!
Hello Made Oro, thank you for your warm and very appreciated words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure! Best wishes to you. 🎵
Virtuosity not only in performance but also in analysis and instruction. Your expert guidance leads us into Bach’s compositional mind and craft. Brilliant! Revealing the jollity of skipping up and down the relevant scales is such a bonus. Thank you, Sally, for such uplifting revelation, facilitating pianistic development through understanding.
Hello Stephen, once again, I am so touched by your eloquent acknowledgements about this lesson and performance! 🎉Thank you for your wonderful words of support. 🙏I especially appreciate that you resonated with the skipping up and down the scale as one of the ways Bach creates the jovial and uplifting character of this piece! I hope the technical tips and the analysis will be helpful in learning this wonderful sinfonia. With blessings and best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎵
Just amazing ♥️ Thank you very much for taking us to the Bach era and the world of his music. A beautiful performance of this piece. The day will be more beautiful. I also practice a Bach piece now. Very "easy" menuet. I'm starting to play it smoothly and it gives me great pleasure. Yours sincerely 🥰 ♥ ️
Hello Robert, thank you for another wonderful and much appreciated comment! Your words are like a sweet fragrance in the room spreading beauty and feelings of well-being. 💕I am very happy to hear that you are playing your Bach Menuet smoothly, and that it is nourishing your soul! With continuing best wishes to you! 🎵
@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you very much Lady Sally 🥰
Love love love your playing and clear teaching! Thank you for sharing your gifts💖🌹🎶🥰.
Hello Janet, thank you for your warm, wonderful, and generous words about the playing and teaching! You are welcome, it is my privilege and pleasure to make these videos. With very best wishes to you. 🌺💕🎵
Hello, I'm Sokwon kim, I thank you for your video about the bach music.♥️♥️.
Hello Sokwon kim, thank you for telling me your name! I appreciate your kind comments about this video and the music of Bach! 💕Best wishes to you. 🎵
Hello Sokwon, if you saw a thumbs down briefly, this was an error. I appreciate your kind words, and clicked on thumbs up! 😊
I really enjoyed your performance.
Hello Bradley, thank you for your kind and very appreciated words about the performance! Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎵
It's wonderful to see new content as educational as always! I love your piano and it is a beautiful one for sure. What size and model is it? Dream instrument!
Hello Lauren, thank you so much for your warm acknowledgements about the tutorials! I appreciate hearing that they continue to be an educational resource for you. The piano I am playing is a 9 foot 6 inch Bösendorfer Imperial Concert Grand. It is indeed a dream instrument and a dream-come-true for me to have and to play. 🙏 BTW: I enjoyed your sensitive playing on your new video of the Liadov Prelude in B minor. Best wishes to you and much joy on your musical journey. 🎵
@@SallyChristianMusic wow thank you so much!! An imperial 🤩🤩 wow, living the dream. Thank you for hearing my short, which is clipped from a full version on my channel! Thank you again for the comment, I am so flattered!
@@Bigblackpiano Hi Lauren, you are welcome, it is my pleasure! 🌺
Beautiful!
Thank you so much! Best wishes to you and with your playing! 🎹🎵
Hi Sally, congratulations on another fantastic tutorial and performance. I always get excited about the pieces listening to you dissect and explain them. There is so much in this one. I had no idea. Its not evident on first, or even second or third listening for me. But now that I've gone on this journey with you, i have a new appreciation and love for nthis sinfonia.
Gina
Hi Gina, oh, thank you for your beautiful, thoughtful, and meaningful words! You have made my day with your responses to the lesson. 🎉 I think this is one of my favorite Bach pieces. It was amazing for me finding so many patterns and overlapping motives! I'm so happy you appreciated exploring Sinfonia No. 12 and now love it! It's a must for you or one of your students! 💖🎵
This is such a lovely piece and I love how instructive your videos are. Sadly, I don't have a piano anymore, but I find your lectures so calming and wonderful to listen to. Can feel how passionate you are in each video.
Hello David, thank you for your wonderful and very appreciated words about the videos! I so appreciate knowing that the lectures are calming and have value for you even though you do not have a piano anymore. I do love this music and sharing what I have learned in the process of preparing each lesson, performance, and chart! 💫 With all best wishes to you. 🎵
I hope to see vids with your insights on Bach's Partitas and Goldberg variations..... Some parts of them are magical and I think will be picked apart lovingly with your artistic and deep insights.😊💗
Hello Joe, thank you for your lovely comment and kind words about what I might reveal about these great works. 💖While a teaching video and chart would be a long shot, you can hear my interpretation and ideas about the Goldberg Variations by listening to my 2004 CD recording available on such streaming services as Pandora or Spotify. Thank you for your interest and support of my work! Happy New Year 2023 and best wishes to you. 🎵
Wow! I Just love your enthusiasm. You are such a great teacher. I think I get more enjoyment in this piece watching you teach it than hearing you play it. I love both, and anything you play and teach is such an experience and education in music. Life's challenges has moved in a bit closer in these past few months but I continue to practice your charts regularly. They always feel so fresh to play and challenging for my intermediate level. Thank you Sally for your faithfulness to your calling and to us. YSFA! ❤
Hello Jim, thank you for your beautiful and generous words! It is such a lovely thing to say that watching the lesson brings enjoyment as well as education. 💖 I'm glad my enthusiasm and love for this piece was communicated! Your very kind acknowledgement about "faithfulness to my calling" means a great deal to me. 🙏 You are so welcome, it is my privilege and pleasure. I'm sorry about the challenges you are facing now, and hope your practicing brings you joy, comfort, and peace. YTFA ❤
What a beautiful girl! 😍
Thank you!! 🌸
That is really a great piece as you told us, but is better when you play it ... thank you Master; it has been a long long looong time of 2 months since you gave us another one amazing
Hello Nelson, thank you for your wonderful words about this video and performance! I love hearing your enthusiasm for each new posting! 😊Yes, it's been 2+ months since the previous posting. Just to let you know, I often work by preparing groups of pieces by the same composer. During 2021-2022, I made the charts, performances for memory, and tutorials for 5 Bach Inventions and 3 Sinfonias. I was able to post a new video every month or so, which is a very fast pace for the work that goes into each video. After the last video for 2022 is uploaded, I will be focused on learning and memorizing some new repertoire as well as making the companion charts. I anticipate many months with no uploads before the group of 2023-2024 videos are ready. Thank you for your happy anticipation and for your patience. Know that I am hard at work in the practice room working on the next series. 🎵With all best wishes to you.
@@SallyChristianMusic Master is a gift given by God, that commitment so admirable and of such excellence as we see in each of your videos; I want you to know that no matter how much time passes, I will be waiting for your very useful videos to advance my learning.... thank you very much for taking the time to tell me about your job, I wish God continue to bless you
@@nelsonjorge5798 Thank you Nelson for your dear words! 🙏
My favorite Sinfonia, yet the least like the others (and relatively incredibly challenging) in its most fugal-like writing. I’ve been revisiting these pieces myself after decades of playing very modern music. 😆
I appreciate you talking about the technical aspects of the voices. So many people (I’m talking about the pros) take shortcuts because they know the masses won’t notice, but if you watch their hands or listen closely, they cheat in so many ways. 😆 (I also used to be a pro page turner for awhile; don’t get me started on the tricks and smoke-n-mirrors the big pros use!) 😐
Your Bosie sounds impeccably dialed in. Wow. Is it in your living room or a studio? I’d love to hear how you acquired it after your Yamaha from years’ past! I finally got my PETROF dialed in precisely after a few years. It’s in my dining room and sounds amazing, but it drives my family a bit nuts. Bummer. 😅
Hello Sean, thank you for your kind words about this video, the content, and the Bösendorfer! The room is my piano studio. The Yamaha is at one end of the room and the Bösy is at the other. The Bösy was purchased privately many years ago. I was very lucky to have found it when I did! 😊 I wish you all the best with your playing on your wonderful Petrof! 🎹
you even don’t need to look at the sheet?! wow
Hello Ada, thank you for your kind acknowledgements about my playing this piece for memory! In all of the Bach Two and Three-Part Invention videos I have made, I perform the pieces without the music. While memorizing each one takes months (and years!) of work, I find that only then do I really understand and thoroughly know the pieces! Best wishes to you. 🎵
Hello Sally, your videos have been guiding me through my Bach journey over these last few years, thank you.
I have a question about bar 12. I learned the b, c, d bass pattern (starts on beat 3) originally from my schirmer edition, where it is written ending the sequence very satisfyingly with a b#, C#, d#. But I have noticed that many people on the internet play a b natural, C#, and D natural which creates a very different harmony, and I have recently noticed that it is written this way in my HENLE edition, as well as in the klavier buchlein for WF original manuscript.
This pattern creates very different color beneath the melody and for so long it sounded very incorrect to my ears as my original reference recording used the schirmer pattern. I am very torn with which one to use, because the original version I learned sounds very satisfying as the end of the sequence, but I am beginning to think the Klavier buchlein version sounds very interesting but more ambiguous, and somewhat chromatic, unexpected, in a way less pleasant to the ears, I am slightly paranoid that it is some kind of mistake made in the original manuscript. Then again Bach does have very strange harmonies in his music, but this one took me some getting used to. I would appreciate your opinion on this conundrum, THANK YOU Lol!
Hello Party Grotto Learns Music, thank you for your kind words about the Bach videos I have been making. I’m very happy to hear they have been guiding you over the years.
You ask a very good question about the left hand notes beginning on beat three of measure 12.
You are correct that the Schirmer Edition, copyright 1894, shows the notes B#, C#, D# here, and all of the other subsequent editions show the B natural, C# and D, including the manuscript. I have chosen to follow the notes of the newer editions, and not the notes from Schirmer. Throughout the decades, we are fortunate to have many more modern editions which are supported with thorough and extensive research. I think these editions are accurate and should be followed.
It is true that we become comfortable with the harmonies we first hear and learn.
I can see why you felt such a level of satisfaction with the notes in the Schirmer Edition in measure 12.
As you said, this is the concluding measure of a four measure sequence, beginning on beat three of measure 9. The Schirmer progression has modified measure 12 so it maintains a series of four Major triads, making this progression: C# Major, B Major, A Major, & G# Major. All of the other editions show a sudden and unexpected G# diminished chord in the concluding measure 12. You are correct that on a first listening, this could sound ambiguous, unexpected, and perhaps a little bit unsettling. Once we get used to hearing this diminished chord tonality at the end, it becomes very rich and meaningful. It supports the surprise and unexpected harmonic changes we often find in Bach. I hope this is helpful!
@@SallyChristianMusic I am very grateful for your reply. I will now apply only the diminished chord to that part of the sequence.
I have one more question, I was curious if you had interests in improvisation of these Bach/late baroque styles, and if we might see videos on this? Also I was curious if you were interested in partimento improvisations?
@@will.sagastume You are welcome, it is my pleasure! 🎵
In answer to your questions, I do not do any improvisations in partimento or late Baroque styles.
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