as a blind pianist i am fascinated at the tutorials... separating and breaking down the components the way you do gives me all of the auditory information need to learn the impossible things... the fingering I can always double check with friends. I am sure this one will really enable me to do so much more, things I dreamed not too long ago.
YES ! More Chopin Etudes tutorials, please * - * One other thing I would love to learn from you is your technique to increase the tempo progressively, particularly for hard passages ; few people detail precisely about it on the net, and I like discipline and precise methods. Thanks, Paul !
You are really a virtuoso Paul.Doing so many pieces that are technically challenging like Liszt un sospiro and other Chopin etudes Rachmaninoff ,is not easy.And making videos for us is also an incredible work.Thank you and keep it up.
I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano! My parents never had the money. My daddy served 25 years in the US Army. My momma was a stay•at•home mom/housewife. There were 6 of us kids!! My daddy’s Army pay just wasn’t enough for piano lessons. Plus we moved often, so that would also put a damper on lessons too. I’m 55 (almost 56) now. I’m actually thinking about learning to play the piano, not really sure though. It would really be for myself. I still might do it! I absolutely love the piano!! I am very impressed by your talent and your dedication to playing for elephants! I love your videos!! Much ♥️ Granny Winters
I say go for it as well!!! It's definitely never late to do something you'd love to do and that would bring joy in your life. Good luck with that, let us know!
It’s well worth learning - playing music has benefits that are far wider reaching than just the empowerment of learning something for yourself... it’s a very healing experience
That was so inspiring! I am basically a self-taught pianist (not having had lessons since school days several decades ago) and have struggled with Chopin for years, but this approach to breaking down the piece and gradually increasing its difficulty is a really interesting tutorial. Many, many thanks!
Hello Paul, I really want to say that just because of your incredible lessons I am able to move forward so quickly with my technical-probs. I've been playing the piano for 13 years by now, haven't been practicing Etude's(Chopin) frequently, quit my music lessons two years ago, because we couldn't afford the payment anymore. With your help I was able to reach tremendous improvements in Chopin Etudes Op 10 no.1 and no 4, no 5, no 12 by selfpractice, of course with a lot of patience and practice. Actually I was even making sessions by over 6 hours a day regularly, because it's just too fascinating and exciting for me to just give up and it's a wonderful moment when you feel the improvements! You're helping me a lot with my studies and I am absolutely thankful for that. You have a really good and calm way to teach your methods to people, it's absolutely helpful and efficient to watch your videos and I would recommend them to anyone I know. Since I have noone to ask specific music-questions by now, I am always looking for some ideas and tipps on your channel. I am going to challenge my 3,4,5th fingers for the second etude now :) Again thank you and may god bless you,
Hello Paul, I am *not* a professional pianist, far below the level to perform this Chopin study, but I appreciate your - in my view - exellent tutorial(s). I follow your channel now for several years. Thank you for your effort to produce such valuable videos. I am convinced that they contribute to improve the pianistic techniqes for many students around the world. Best greetings from Berlin, Germany.
I have listened to many performances of this etude on RUclips and have watched several tutorials on op. 10 no. 2, but this is the only performance/tutorial that includes ALL the notes. There are pianists who play this etude faster than Paul Barton, but every one of them omits certain inconvenient notes in the right hand. I have no respect for such performances, which is why I was so glad to find this tutorial that does not advocate leaving out notes in order to re-finger the right hand passages. I think many pianists play this piece at breakneck speed in order to camouflage these omissions.
Chromatic 3rd scales: Just practice Chopin Etude Op. 25 No.6. I have also found that I make more progress by practicing Etudes by pairs, i assimilate one when I practice the other... Good video, thank you!
This is revolutionary, my practice regimen has been a bit lacking for the past 3 years, with your guide I might be able to learn this within the year. Thank you so much Paul you're doing God's work.
I love this video. I especially like the approach of treating this piece as a kind of series of technical exercises that will eventually become the piece, because I'm guessing that most of us watching don't yet have the ability to start practicing all of the notes as written. It also gives a realistic look at the kind of work that goes into learning a piece like this and the amount of practice required over an extended period of time. But you've made the mountain look scalable and given us a great place to start. Thank you.
Hey Paul I'm really just here to second what the comment you pinned is saying. It quite quickly became apparent to me how much of an excellent pianist you are. Your technique is amazing, but the way you 'feel' the pieces, and your touch, is what really moves me. Through time though, it has become clear that you as much of an amazing person as you are a pianist. You inspire me. All the best - Kasper
Dear Paul, thank you so much for this tutorial and split up score/practice section. I came to this tutorial via the Bach preludes. I got stuck with No 2 and 5 and didn’t seem to progress. The structure you provide here is just what I needed. I really appreciate it!
I love love love your videos! I just saw your 'Un Sospiro' piece initially and my jaw is still on the floor. Thank you for the inspiration - I am enraptured with your content and was thrilled to find tutorials from you.
What a brilliant idea! For me, since I suffer nerve damage, my dexterity suffers along with it, so I have to compose and play around my altered abilities. Although I will never regain my speed, I think this is a wonderful exercise for me or anyone looking to improve their strength (or keep what they've got)! Many thanks to both you and Mercuzio :-) ~Jackie
My wonderful childhood moments with my beautiful talented mother when she would play the piano just for me to share our special time together, so many years ago.
Thank you Paul, I can't tell you how grateful I am. This video helped me massively with technique, fingering, tempo, articulation etc. The amount of work you must've put into this video (as with most other videos in this style) is truly unfathomable. Even just practicing the first section slow with only right hand has improved my right hand articulation to levels I didn't think possible; this makes pieces I'm working on, such as, Prelude No. 5 in D major by Bach (WTC Book 1) effortless and light; in a word, heavenly. This piece and video has provided me with great benefits to my overall playing, thank you.
Unbelievable tutorial! How I wish you had a similar tutorial for The Flight of the bumblebee, that would be much fun and useful as well, even if not so complete and perfect as a technical study.
This etude is a testament to just how important obeying the score is when learning music. There are three things I would recommend with op.10 no.2: 1. play the 16th note chromatic chords as legato as is possible per the laws of nature. Throughout the score, Chopin marks “sempre legato” a total of seven times. Legato means holding each note down as you play the next one. Smooth, connected at all costs. It also means curved fingers and a low, relaxed wrist. Remember, the fingers drive the motion of the wrist, not the other way around. In fact, play this etude like you would play Mozart. Legato as f 2. Use Alfred Cortot’s edition. His fingerings are better than Ekier and Paderewski. If anyone is struggling technically with the Chopin etudes, I could not recommend Cortot enough, because he goes into excruciating details with things like fingering and articulation. He even provides us with pre-etude exercises that help us with the difficulties. 3. Use the soft pedal.
Already an year after this video uploaded, but i really appreciate. I've been watching your videos without comment but likes because i'm not good at english. Watching this video, i can't hold it. I can forget the song name but i can't forget your name "Paul barton".Thank you all the times for your videos^^
Here they have already said everything that I think, I would have to give you a big hug. You have allowed many pianists to enjoy more of the music they recreate, and of course I talk about myself. Great joint work.
You are the best teacher in the world 👌👌 , Thank you very much for your help , I'm glad to see there are people like you ❤❤ Please don't stop neveerrr!!🙏🙏
Having broken my back and nearly my hand with the Schirmer edition on and off for years, I find Paul’s fingering to be a revelation and a welcome departure from some of the hand strains I encountered before. Too early to tell whether his fingering will suit my hand at the proper tempo, but his command of this particularly fiendish little study inspires a great deal of belief that this etude is infact achievable...and it’s great to see someone’s fingerings and approach backed up by such a commanding performance.Thank you for your guidance Paul, your command of these exudes is exceptional!
@@berimboplata I was using a Schirmer edition which has some unusual fingerings in. I'm guessing not Chopin's. I'm not sure which edition Chopin's fingering is used in? One thing that I'm curious about is why the fingering changes for the repeated sections later on. Is this just to give the hand the most training possible I wonder?
@@MartinJacoby Hmm, I dunno, I was just assuming that since literally every note in my edition had fingering, it was Chopin's. And some passages, I'm like, WTF is he purposely trying to make me use the worst possible finger combination for this? There was there was one where its said to use 5-5-4-3...really, 5th finger twice? I wonder if the "pros" modify the fingering for the easiest fingering possible (obviously still using 3-4-5 combos). Like Dmitry Shiskin who played this at 180 tempo, which I feel is at the literal human limit at which 3-4-5 fingers can twich!
berimboplata I know the bit you mean. I see Paul B uses 5-5-4 fingering here. 5-4-3 is also suggested but for me it makes achieving the chord on the first 16th note more difficult. I think the action of the piano makes a different as to tempo choice too. My piano is quite heavy so getting near to 144 seems really tough. Generally the fingering used on Paul’s version (whoever’s it is) is very good. I made a few finger substitutions here and there for my own comfort and I’m making much better progress with it now than I was before. My Schirner version is fingered by a guy called Carl Mikuli, and some of it is really not suitable for my hand to play and resulted in a lot of tension
Paderewski's edition for this etude is the best. Idk it's probably Chopin's fingerings written but I find these fingerings way more suitable than Paul's, but that's just my opinion.
Learned op 10 no 4, thanks to your help last year. However this one is challenging me a great deal, even more so than "torrent". Guess my weak fingers were indeed weaker than i've thought. 😅 Thanks for the tutorial, Paul :)
I have been spending some time with this etude recently and it is fun to play! Thanks for providing suggestions on how to split it up and practice it! Very helpful
These exercises will be so helpful! I can name several pieces I've worked on where having developed these skills better would have made my playing much easier & more efficient. Thank you to both of you!
Great stuff. Thank you so much, especially your intro where you give us permission to use this as an exercise at any level rather than worrying right away about performing it. I love the chromatic thirds exercises, especially since it helps with the left hand, which in the piece isn't doing much. One correction to your chromatic thirds exercise for the left hand. The fingering for the D#/F# is mistakenly reversed, as if you could actually play the upper note with 3 and the lower with 2. lol
Hi Paul Great video! Many thanks. I'm new to your channel and can't believe how much great content you have put there. Amazing! I will explore more of it over time. I've been trying to learn 10/2 for a few months now and this has really clarified and focused things for me. A lot of work ahead but I think your approach is very sound. I have also looked at your 1 hour routine video and am adopting that. You mention op25/10 and I have worked on that as well. I don't see a specific video for this. Maybe you will make one some day! It would be very useful. I do practice just the "outer" fingers (3-4-5 mostly 4-5) to strengthen. Would you recommend scales as for 10/2 but with the more 4-5 heavy fingering? I also work on 10/7 and it strikes me that there are many similarities with 10/2. Both 'split' the right hand 1-2/3-4-5. Actually the tempo is only slightly slower than 10/2, as the 84 of 10/7 comes to quarter (your crotchet!) = 126 (= dotted quarter 84). I practice just 3-4-5 in the right hand here also. The other thing in common and I think it's an important step you elude to: 1-2 have to 'bounce' (I think that's your word) in both. Actually 10/7 seems to be a good thing to work on for this, just 1-2 which are repeated notes. Might you do a video (or perhaps have one?) for 10/7, also anything you can recommend to get that 1-2 bouncing properly. It has a huge effect on the speed of the other fingers! Again, many thanks for all your content.
I recommended you to a young but talented RUclips pianist :Austin Evans Piano ... He will undertake this piece, I sent him this video. I watched this nice piece of work from you here 3 times already !
Thanks for this great videos and the PDFs!!! Best channel for profesional pianists :) BTW your technique is flawless! I wish I could have your technique...
Thank you so much for this tutorial Paul (and pretty much every tutorial you've ever made). I always learn so much from you. Looking forward to start practicing this piece. I know it's still out of my league but it definitely wouldn't hurt for me to do this exercises :) Thanks again.
This video is so important to me, It sure did help me with my practices. Nice and slow 👌👍 then speed it up. It's good to do this for an hour or two everyday. It's gonna make practicing Godowsky a lot easier.
Paul, your video of Tak (with Emilie) singing Moon River is the most wonderful thing we’ve seen in a long, long time. My wife and I were both in tears. Thanks for posting such authentic music. Also, where were you trained in piano? 😊
Great tutorial! I‘m not sure if you use a hidden „algorithm“ for choosing third or fourth finger. Downwards you use often the third finger, where I logically would use the fourth finger to provide maximum relaxation.
Hello Paul. I've been using your pdfs as a guide to playing this Etude and your approach has been very helpful in returning to a piece that I have struggled with for years. However the fingerings you suggest are not always consistent when one compares reiterations of identical material. EG compare Measure 1 with measure 41 (4 on f-sharp in the former VS 3 on f-sharp in the latter). There are few other places where this occurs. Assuming this is intentional, I was just wondering what the rationale was behind the changing of finger patterns in identical passages. THanks!
6:28 I find that going down the scale is a lot more awkward than going up. Hopefully with practice, I'll be able to get my scale to sound the same while going up and down.
The chromatic scale that goes down in the right hand is played with finger 3 on the black keys and 4 and 5 on the white ones. I wonder if it is more logic to play with finger 5 on d and on a and g. It feels more logical to my brain^^ Because I find it confusing to first play d with 4 and then changing to 5 on c (Because you need to play b with 4) and the same in a, g and then changing to 5 on e. I'm currently practicing this scale. I'm aware that it is common to play d, a and g with 4 when playing chromatic downwards in the right hand. What do you folks think? I don't even feel a disadvantage in this piece with this fingering. Thank you for the tutorial!
Hi Paul, I really think your tutorials are great but I just started playing the piano and was wondering where I should start at. I love all the classical pieces but they just seem to hard for me. Would really appreciate a recommendation, Thanks in advance!
as a blind pianist i am fascinated at the tutorials... separating and breaking down the components the way you do gives me all of the auditory information need to learn the impossible things... the fingering I can always double check with friends. I am sure this one will really enable me to do so much more, things I dreamed not too long ago.
If I may ask, are you clinically blind or legally blind?
17:49 - That in itself sounds like an amazing piece, wow! Thank you very much for the video and the pdf, amazing work!
YES ! More Chopin Etudes tutorials, please * - *
One other thing I would love to learn from you is your technique to increase the tempo progressively, particularly for hard passages ; few people detail precisely about it on the net, and I like discipline and precise methods.
Thanks, Paul !
17:49 gave me goose bumps. To clearly hear the inner structure I always focused on was so nice
You are really a virtuoso Paul.Doing so many pieces that are technically challenging like Liszt un sospiro and other Chopin etudes Rachmaninoff ,is not easy.And making videos for us is also an incredible work.Thank you and keep it up.
I’ve always wanted to learn to play the piano! My parents never had the money. My daddy served 25 years in the US Army. My momma was a stay•at•home mom/housewife. There were 6 of us kids!! My daddy’s Army pay just wasn’t enough for piano lessons. Plus we moved often, so that would also put a damper on lessons too. I’m 55 (almost 56) now. I’m actually thinking about learning to play the piano, not really sure though. It would really be for myself. I still might do it! I absolutely love the piano!! I am very impressed by your talent and your dedication to playing for elephants! I love your videos!!
Much ♥️
Granny Winters
Go for it!!!!!
I say go for it as well!!! It's definitely never late to do something you'd love to do and that would bring joy in your life. Good luck with that, let us know!
Do it and share it ❤️
Please do it 💚
It’s well worth learning - playing music has benefits that are far wider reaching than just the empowerment of learning something for yourself... it’s a very healing experience
That was so inspiring! I am basically a self-taught pianist (not having had lessons since school days several decades ago) and have struggled with Chopin for years, but this approach to breaking down the piece and gradually increasing its difficulty is a really interesting tutorial. Many, many thanks!
Mir Barton, you are without a doubt the best teacher here on YT! You make every piece playable! Thank you so much!
0:39 Op. 10, no.2..... thinks to himself: you guys are f'ed lol
Lol
Hello Paul,
I really want to say that just because of your incredible lessons I am able to move forward so quickly with my technical-probs. I've been playing the piano for 13 years by now, haven't been practicing Etude's(Chopin) frequently, quit my music lessons two years ago, because we couldn't afford the payment anymore. With your help I was able to reach tremendous improvements in Chopin Etudes Op 10 no.1 and no 4, no 5, no 12 by selfpractice, of course with a lot of patience and practice. Actually I was even making sessions by over 6 hours a day regularly, because it's just too fascinating and exciting for me to just give up and it's a wonderful moment when you feel the improvements!
You're helping me a lot with my studies and I am absolutely thankful for that. You have a really good and calm way to teach your methods to people, it's absolutely helpful and efficient to watch your videos and I would recommend them to anyone I know.
Since I have noone to ask specific music-questions by now, I am always looking for some ideas and tipps on your channel. I am going to challenge my 3,4,5th fingers for the second etude now :)
Again thank you and may god bless you,
Excellent tutorial. I have been frustrated with uneven notes and tension in my RH. Now I have a better game plan. Thank you!
Hello Paul, I am *not* a professional pianist, far below the level to perform this Chopin study, but I appreciate your - in my view - exellent tutorial(s). I follow your channel now for several years. Thank you for your effort to produce such valuable videos. I am convinced that they contribute to improve the pianistic techniqes for many students around the world. Best greetings from Berlin, Germany.
I have listened to many performances of this etude on RUclips and have watched several tutorials on op. 10 no. 2, but this is the only performance/tutorial that includes ALL the notes. There are pianists who play this etude faster than Paul Barton, but every one of them omits certain inconvenient notes in the right hand. I have no respect for such performances, which is why I was so glad to find this tutorial that does not advocate leaving out notes in order to re-finger the right hand passages. I think many pianists play this piece at breakneck speed in order to camouflage these omissions.
Chromatic 3rd scales: Just practice Chopin Etude Op. 25 No.6. I have also found that I make more progress by practicing Etudes by pairs, i assimilate one when I practice the other... Good video, thank you!
Sir Paul Barton gives us an opportunity to touch a big chopin pieces by his very usefull tutorial😀 Thank U!
This is revolutionary, my practice regimen has been a bit lacking for the past 3 years, with your guide I might be able to learn this within the year. Thank you so much Paul you're doing God's work.
I love this video. I especially like the approach of treating this piece as a kind of series of technical exercises that will eventually become the piece, because I'm guessing that most of us watching don't yet have the ability to start practicing all of the notes as written. It also gives a realistic look at the kind of work that goes into learning a piece like this and the amount of practice required over an extended period of time. But you've made the mountain look scalable and given us a great place to start. Thank you.
Hey Paul
I'm really just here to second what the comment you pinned is saying. It quite quickly became apparent to me how much of an excellent pianist you are. Your technique is amazing, but the way you 'feel' the pieces, and your touch, is what really moves me.
Through time though, it has become clear that you as much of an amazing person as you are a pianist. You inspire me.
All the best
- Kasper
It's amazing that you've made it look easy. It's a very difficult piece.
Dear Paul, thank you so much for this tutorial and split up score/practice section. I came to this tutorial via the Bach preludes. I got stuck with No 2 and 5 and didn’t seem to progress. The structure you provide here is just what I needed. I really appreciate it!
hi paul, just wanted to say thanks. can't find the original 10/2 video that i saw, but your trick with the ping-pong ball was very helpful.
I love love love your videos! I just saw your 'Un Sospiro' piece initially and my jaw is still on the floor. Thank you for the inspiration - I am enraptured with your content and was thrilled to find tutorials from you.
What a brilliant idea! For me, since I suffer nerve damage, my dexterity suffers along with it, so I have to compose and play around my altered abilities. Although I will never regain my speed, I think this is a wonderful exercise for me or anyone looking to improve their strength (or keep what they've got)! Many thanks to both you and Mercuzio :-) ~Jackie
Thank you very much!!! Nice lecture
My wonderful childhood moments with my beautiful talented mother when she would play the piano just for me to share our special time together, so many years ago.
Thank you Paul, I can't tell you how grateful I am. This video helped me massively with technique, fingering, tempo, articulation etc. The amount of work you must've put into this video (as with most other videos in this style) is truly unfathomable. Even just practicing the first section slow with only right hand has improved my right hand articulation to levels I didn't think possible; this makes pieces I'm working on, such as, Prelude No. 5 in D major by Bach (WTC Book 1) effortless and light; in a word, heavenly. This piece and video has provided me with great benefits to my overall playing, thank you.
Unbelievable tutorial! How I wish you had a similar tutorial for The Flight of the bumblebee, that would be much fun and useful as well, even if not so complete and perfect as a technical study.
This etude is a testament to just how important obeying the score is when learning music.
There are three things I would recommend with op.10 no.2:
1. play the 16th note chromatic chords as legato as is possible per the laws of nature. Throughout the score, Chopin marks “sempre legato” a total of seven times. Legato means holding each note down as you play the next one. Smooth, connected at all costs. It also means curved fingers and a low, relaxed wrist. Remember, the fingers drive the motion of the wrist, not the other way around. In fact, play this etude like you would play Mozart. Legato as f
2. Use Alfred Cortot’s edition. His fingerings are better than Ekier and Paderewski. If anyone is struggling technically with the Chopin etudes, I could not recommend Cortot enough, because he goes into excruciating details with things like fingering and articulation. He even provides us with pre-etude exercises that help us with the difficulties.
3. Use the soft pedal.
You are a terrific teacher and pianist !
thank you Paul. I got some very useful advises to practice this etude. Please more videos. Many thanks
Already an year after this video uploaded, but i really appreciate. I've been watching your videos without comment but likes because i'm not good at english. Watching this video, i can't hold it. I can forget the song name but i can't forget your name "Paul barton".Thank you all the times for your videos^^
Here they have already said everything that I think, I would have to give you a big hug. You have allowed many pianists to enjoy more of the music they recreate, and of course I talk about myself. Great joint work.
You are the best teacher in the world 👌👌 ,
Thank you very much for your help ,
I'm glad to see there are people like you ❤❤
Please don't stop neveerrr!!🙏🙏
Mr. Barton, you are the best teacher of the piano!
Having broken my back and nearly my hand with the Schirmer edition on and off for years, I find Paul’s fingering to be a revelation and a welcome departure from some of the hand strains I encountered before. Too early to tell whether his fingering will suit my hand at the proper tempo, but his command of this particularly fiendish little study inspires a great deal of belief that this etude is infact achievable...and it’s great to see someone’s fingerings and approach backed up by such a commanding performance.Thank you for your guidance Paul, your command of these exudes is exceptional!
Wait, his fingering is different than the fingering indicated by Chopin? I thought you were supposed to use the fingering indicated?
@@berimboplata I was using a Schirmer edition which has some unusual fingerings in. I'm guessing not Chopin's. I'm not sure which edition Chopin's fingering is used in? One thing that I'm curious about is why the fingering changes for the repeated sections later on. Is this just to give the hand the most training possible I wonder?
@@MartinJacoby Hmm, I dunno, I was just assuming that since literally every note in my edition had fingering, it was Chopin's. And some passages, I'm like, WTF is he purposely trying to make me use the worst possible finger combination for this? There was there was one where its said to use 5-5-4-3...really, 5th finger twice? I wonder if the "pros" modify the fingering for the easiest fingering possible (obviously still using 3-4-5 combos). Like Dmitry Shiskin who played this at 180 tempo, which I feel is at the literal human limit at which 3-4-5 fingers can twich!
berimboplata I know the bit you mean. I see Paul B uses 5-5-4 fingering here. 5-4-3 is also suggested but for me it makes achieving the chord on the first 16th note more difficult. I think the action of the piano makes a different as to tempo choice too. My piano is quite heavy so getting near to 144 seems really tough. Generally the fingering used on Paul’s version (whoever’s it is) is very good. I made a few finger substitutions here and there for my own comfort and I’m making much better progress with it now than I was before. My Schirner version is fingered by a guy called Carl Mikuli, and some of it is really not suitable for my hand to play and resulted in a lot of tension
Paderewski's edition for this etude is the best. Idk it's probably Chopin's fingerings written but I find these fingerings way more suitable than Paul's, but that's just my opinion.
Thank you so much for showing such a effective way to practice Chopin etude.
Nice video and explanation free from all the Mumbo-jumbo. I’ve been using Cortot’s fingerings and exercises and will compare.
It’s so calming listening to you speak! Please do more QnA or sharings!!
Learned op 10 no 4, thanks to your help last year. However this one is challenging me a great deal, even more so than "torrent".
Guess my weak fingers were indeed weaker than i've thought. 😅
Thanks for the tutorial, Paul :)
I've been following your channel for quite a while now, and i just want to say thank you because you inspire me.
Sincerely from Greenland
You are a master. Glad I found you. Thank you.
Thank you so much Paul, this tutorial really helped me with this Etude.
Grande artista sono rimasta meravigliata dalle sue molteplici attività meraviglioso,grande
Nice
Wow. Fabulous tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to share this wonderful instruction.
I have been spending some time with this etude recently and it is fun to play! Thanks for providing suggestions on how to split it up and practice it! Very helpful
thank you so much paul!
I really appreciate it.
These exercises will be so helpful! I can name several pieces I've worked on where having developed these skills better would have made my playing much easier & more efficient. Thank you to both of you!
Merci beaucoup, très instructive cette vidéo, merci
thank you for good explanation
Fantastic lesson, Paul. A world of help to me on many levels.
Great stuff. Thank you so much, especially your intro where you give us permission to use this as an exercise at any level rather than worrying right away about performing it. I love the chromatic thirds exercises, especially since it helps with the left hand, which in the piece isn't doing much.
One correction to your chromatic thirds exercise for the left hand. The fingering for the D#/F# is mistakenly reversed, as if you could actually play the upper note with 3 and the lower with 2. lol
This figers number coming from Cortot! and for me are totally corrected!
Thank you so much, Paul! I started piano early this year and your videos are very helpful and inspirational.
Thanks Paul! I've been looking for some practical exercises for piano and I can't wait to try this out
Thank you for sharing this video with us ! Very nice! Playing difficulty's! Will Done!
Update 11/18/2018
Hi Paul
Great video! Many thanks. I'm new to your channel and can't believe how much great content you have put there. Amazing! I will explore more of it over time.
I've been trying to learn 10/2 for a few months now and this has really clarified and focused things for me. A lot of work ahead but I think your approach is very sound. I have also looked at your 1 hour routine video and am adopting that.
You mention op25/10 and I have worked on that as well. I don't see a specific video for this. Maybe you will make one some day! It would be very useful. I do practice just the "outer" fingers (3-4-5 mostly 4-5) to strengthen. Would you recommend scales as for 10/2 but with the more 4-5 heavy fingering?
I also work on 10/7 and it strikes me that there are many similarities with 10/2. Both 'split' the right hand 1-2/3-4-5. Actually the tempo is only slightly slower than 10/2, as the 84 of 10/7 comes to quarter (your crotchet!) = 126 (= dotted quarter 84). I practice just 3-4-5 in the right hand here also.
The other thing in common and I think it's an important step you elude to: 1-2 have to 'bounce' (I think that's your word) in both. Actually 10/7 seems to be a good thing to work on for this, just 1-2 which are repeated notes.
Might you do a video (or perhaps have one?) for 10/7, also anything you can recommend to get that 1-2 bouncing properly. It has a huge effect on the speed of the other fingers!
Again, many thanks for all your content.
I recommended you to a young but talented RUclips pianist :Austin Evans Piano ... He will undertake this piece, I sent him this video. I watched this nice piece of work from you here 3 times already !
Thank you Paul for sharing this. Helps a lot🙏🌱
Thanks for this great videos and the PDFs!!! Best channel for profesional pianists :)
BTW your technique is flawless! I wish I could have your technique...
Thank you so much for this tutorial Paul (and pretty much every tutorial you've ever made). I always learn so much from you. Looking forward to start practicing this piece. I know it's still out of my league but it definitely wouldn't hurt for me to do this exercises :) Thanks again.
This is amazing!!! Thank you so much!!
Brilliant! Thank You so much Paul!
They have to make a new Nobel; prize for creativity and give it to you.
This video is so important to me, It sure did help me with my practices. Nice and slow 👌👍 then speed it up. It's good to do this for an hour or two everyday. It's gonna make practicing Godowsky a lot easier.
Thank you Paul
Paul, your video of Tak (with Emilie) singing Moon River is the most wonderful thing we’ve seen in a long, long time. My wife and I were both in tears. Thanks for posting such authentic music. Also, where were you trained in piano? 😊
Maestro,sei un genio!!
Thank you so much for the tutorial! Treasure!
Muito obrigado pelo exercício muito bom para desenvolver a coordenação dos dedos 3 4 e 5.
Thanksss you so much !
Thanks, Paul!
Замечательные вы люди, доченька растёт удивительная. Добро исходит от всей вашей семьи. Желаю вам счастья!
GREAT TUTORIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Extremely helpful thank u
brilliantly ! )))))))
Thank you for the lesson !!!!!!!
Thank you soooo much!!!💚💚💚
Great tutorial! I‘m not sure if you use a hidden „algorithm“ for choosing third or fourth finger. Downwards you use often the third finger, where I logically would use the fourth finger to provide maximum relaxation.
YOU ARE THE MAN
Thank you so much!
Paul, you could do a tutorial for Moment Musicaux no. 4 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
great. i enjoyed it a lot.
i headed straight to my piano to try this out. will you ever make videos for the left hand?
Yes. Mercizio and I have made 10.2 for the left hand. This will be my next tutorial upload.
Paul Barton looking forward for it! :D
@@PaulBartonPiano Hey, I can't find that video anywhere, was it released and if so: where?
Thank you
I love Your content, Sir
Thanks much Paul. 🙏
Hello Paul. I've been using your pdfs as a guide to playing this Etude and your approach has been very helpful in returning to a piece that I have struggled with for years. However the fingerings you suggest are not always consistent when one compares reiterations of identical material. EG compare Measure 1 with measure 41 (4 on f-sharp in the former VS 3 on f-sharp in the latter). There are few other places where this occurs. Assuming this is intentional, I was just wondering what the rationale was behind the changing of finger patterns in identical passages. THanks!
Thanks a lot~
BRAVISSIMO👏👏👏
6:28 I find that going down the scale is a lot more awkward than going up. Hopefully with practice, I'll be able to get my scale to sound the same while going up and down.
So true
The chromatic scale that goes down in the right hand is played with finger 3 on the black keys and 4 and 5 on the white ones.
I wonder if it is more logic to play with finger 5 on d and on a and g.
It feels more logical to my brain^^
Because I find it confusing to first play d with 4 and then changing to 5 on c (Because you need to play b with 4)
and the same in a, g and then changing to 5 on e.
I'm currently practicing this scale. I'm aware that it is common to play d, a and g with 4 when playing chromatic downwards in the right hand.
What do you folks think?
I don't even feel a disadvantage in this piece with this fingering.
Thank you for the tutorial!
I wrote a mistake, I meant and then changing to "f", not to "e".
Thank you
Hello Paul, thank you very much for the video. Are there tips to improve strength, dexterity and evenness of playing for the left hand as well?
Chopin revolutionary etude should do the trick for that
How come you have tutorials on almost every Chopin etude except opus 25 no 1?
wonderful!
amazing!!!
I extremely like you marked the fingerings on the score. It is perfect for us to learn the music.
thanks!
awesome
freaking difficult!!
Hi Paul, I really think your tutorials are great but I just started playing the piano and was wondering where I should start at. I love all the classical pieces but they just seem to hard for me. Would really appreciate a recommendation, Thanks in advance!