Thank you for these amazing exercises - will try them out right away! I am currently working on Pathetique sonata so this couldn’t have come at a better time. 🤗
You are a gifted teacher. The best tip for me in this video was the silent playing of the "off" hand, so that you can hear the unevenness and problems in the tremolo hand that weren't there with hands alone.
3 года назад
Thank you! This is also one of my favorite exercises 😊
So many great ideas and tips - I starting watching without even realising you'd be talking about the Pathethique 1st movement, but that was a bonus as it's a piece I love! Thanks so much
This is a great short lesson. I really enjoyed and found the hyper relaxed and exaggerated tremolo help build the mind muscle connection into the wrist and out of the fingers trying to play fast. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks Danae, Very helpful, I think it will be tricky to make the notes in the tremolos, but practice makes perfect. I think I heard somewhere they should be played at low volume but not sure.
If you use the wrist rotation first and not use the fingers, how would this work if you had something else with the tremolo, as in Liszt's Chasse neige or Stravinsky's Semaines grasse (left hand, alternated thirds with the thumb playing something else) ?
Hi Danae! Thank you !! Great tips! I would really appreciate how to perfect/get more clarity and control when playing different types of trills and ornaments, best fingering plus how to use the pedal when playing them.
3 года назад+1
Thanks for the suggestion, I will add it to my list. There is a general pedaling video coming soon and I also briefly talk about how to pedal passages with many little fast notes, so stay tuned for that. :) Thank you for watching! 🙏🏻
As a beginner, I have been drilling tremolos for 5 minutes a day for a long while now, specifically for the Star Spangled Banner - Rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air. I had an enormous noticeable improvement after just two practice sessions using that wrap the finger around drill. Thanks so much! Now I am wondering with the tremolo being so loud, I can only match it volume with the melody in the right hand. Is a pianist supposed to be able to control the volume of a tremolo? Make it piano or mezzo-piano?
3:38 that's right there is no such thing as slow tremolo, it doesn't exist at a slow speed(that's an illusion). You have stated the obvious(though I know many would disagree). This is a good tutorial I agree with the majority of it, I like the tip on not worrying about how the hand looks I always thought the fingers should fall toward the pinky but it didn't "look" right. How about one on two different subdivisions in each hand 16ths and 8ths or sixteenths and quarters(not letting one subdivision rule keeping things separate ala the Pathetique) and better yet 6/8 and 4/4 like in Chopin(fantasy I think) piece everybody plays.
Thanks so much for this! Do you have any tips to reduce tension? I can play hands together at a reasonable speed but my arm is so tired by the end of the page, and left hand tension continues until the end of the exposition because of the held down 5th finger in the next section followed by more fast bits 🥵
3 года назад+2
I would suggest to make sure that the elbow is completely relaxed (which in consequence usually relaxes your entire arm) and then feel free to slightly move up and down the keys with your finger position so that you give your muscles the chance to alter the pressure on the muscles and stay more relaxed. Hope this helps! 🤗 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Hi Danae! I have a question about the tremolos Beethoven used in the Tempest adagio part. There are very quick, but how do you get them timed properly since they do not start on a beat, rather somewhat into the note. They end on the beat but start off the beat. Just sight reading that now, but I had to listen to someone play them to get an idea when they get introduced.
3 года назад
I always think of two beats per 8th (so basically 16ths) in my head and then always start then on the second one. When I have the continuous 16ths sounding in my head, it makes it much easier and also musically it makes more sense, because you are creating more of a musical tension and feeling of suspense.
When you do the wrist rotation at fast speed would you open up your hand more on finger 5 or 1? In other words, which finger would “lift” up more (lifting is done by the wrist of course, not the finger)? I used to feel a small jiggle on the inside of my biceps when played effortlessly and without tension. Now I can’t seem to get there (I had a stroke).
2 года назад
In my case, I do a slightly higher lift with the 5th finger compared to the thumb. That‘s amazing that you are still playing after the stroke, what a great example of music keeping us going. :)
Been trying to play tremolo for 3 years now. Sorry, but this video wasn’t much help. I did what you suggested but I can’t play fast for some reason. No idea what I’m doing wrong.
That video just found me while I was practicing pathetique sonata😅what a great fortune❤
Thank you for these amazing exercises - will try them out right away! I am currently working on Pathetique sonata so this couldn’t have come at a better time. 🤗
That’s great, have fun with it!
You are a gifted teacher.
The best tip for me in this video was the silent playing of the "off" hand, so that you can hear the unevenness and problems in the tremolo hand that weren't there with hands alone.
Thank you! This is also one of my favorite exercises 😊
Ditto. Thanks... working on pathetique 1 as well.
So many great ideas and tips - I starting watching without even realising you'd be talking about the Pathethique 1st movement, but that was a bonus as it's a piece I love! Thanks so much
Very glad to hear that! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Such a helpful video. I used to do too much movement with the wrist, but I see that less mvt. is a lot easier.
Thanks so much.😀
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thank you so much for this - i am working on beethovens 5th and I absolutely needed this help
How wonderful, I am actually playing Beethoven’s 5th piano concerto in concert twice before the New Year. 🤗 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Thanks thanks thanks you are Great!I follow every your lesson.
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Thank you! 🙏🏻🙏🏻 So glad you like the videos :)
Wonderful advice and clear demonstration, Danae! I am always excited to see you have posted a new video!! :)
So happy you liked it, thank you for watching! 😊
the exercise was so helpful thank you
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This is a great short lesson. I really enjoyed and found the hyper relaxed and exaggerated tremolo help build the mind muscle connection into the wrist and out of the fingers trying to play fast. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
So glad it helped. :) Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Thanks for the great advice!
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Thanks Danae, Very helpful, I think it will be tricky to make the notes in the tremolos, but practice makes perfect. I think I heard somewhere they should be played at low volume but not sure.
this really helped, thanks!
So glad to hear that :)
Thanks
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If you use the wrist rotation first and not use the fingers, how would this work if you had something else with the tremolo, as in Liszt's Chasse neige or Stravinsky's Semaines grasse (left hand, alternated thirds with the thumb playing something else) ?
Hi Danae! Thank you !! Great tips! I would really appreciate how to perfect/get more clarity and control when playing different types of trills and ornaments, best fingering plus how to use the pedal when playing them.
Thanks for the suggestion, I will add it to my list. There is a general pedaling video coming soon and I also briefly talk about how to pedal passages with many little fast notes, so stay tuned for that. :) Thank you for watching! 🙏🏻
As a beginner, I have been drilling tremolos for 5 minutes a day for a long while now, specifically for the Star Spangled Banner - Rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air. I had an enormous noticeable improvement after just two practice sessions using that wrap the finger around drill. Thanks so much! Now I am wondering with the tremolo being so loud, I can only match it volume with the melody in the right hand. Is a pianist supposed to be able to control the volume of a tremolo? Make it piano or mezzo-piano?
3:38 that's right there is no such thing as slow tremolo, it doesn't exist at a slow speed(that's an illusion). You have stated the obvious(though I know many would disagree). This is a good tutorial I agree with the majority of it, I like the tip on not worrying about how the hand looks I always thought the fingers should fall toward the pinky but it didn't "look" right. How about one on two different subdivisions in each hand 16ths and 8ths or sixteenths and quarters(not letting one subdivision rule keeping things separate ala the Pathetique) and better yet 6/8 and 4/4 like in Chopin(fantasy I think) piece everybody plays.
Thanks for watching! 🙏🏻
I have a lot of tension building in the first part of liszt-saint francois de paule marchant sur les flots and i can’t seem to reduce it:/
Thanks so much for this! Do you have any tips to reduce tension? I can play hands together at a reasonable speed but my arm is so tired by the end of the page, and left hand tension continues until the end of the exposition because of the held down 5th finger in the next section followed by more fast bits 🥵
I would suggest to make sure that the elbow is completely relaxed (which in consequence usually relaxes your entire arm) and then feel free to slightly move up and down the keys with your finger position so that you give your muscles the chance to alter the pressure on the muscles and stay more relaxed. Hope this helps! 🤗 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@ thanks so much. You are the best teacher 🤗
Hi Danae! I have a question about the tremolos Beethoven used in the Tempest adagio part. There are very quick, but how do you get them timed properly since they do not start on a beat, rather somewhat into the note. They end on the beat but start off the beat. Just sight reading that now, but I had to listen to someone play them to get an idea when they get introduced.
I always think of two beats per 8th (so basically 16ths) in my head and then always start then on the second one. When I have the continuous 16ths sounding in my head, it makes it much easier and also musically it makes more sense, because you are creating more of a musical tension and feeling of suspense.
When you do the wrist rotation at fast speed would you open up your hand more on finger 5 or 1? In other words, which finger would “lift” up more (lifting is done by the wrist of course, not the finger)? I used to feel a small jiggle on the inside of my biceps when played effortlessly and without tension. Now I can’t seem to get there (I had a stroke).
In my case, I do a slightly higher lift with the 5th finger compared to the thumb. That‘s amazing that you are still playing after the stroke, what a great example of music keeping us going. :)
P grazzioso p leegerio also
Plzzz give exercise to play p pp mf mp etc
Thanks for the suggestion! I will make a video on that in the future!
Been trying to play tremolo for 3 years now. Sorry, but this video wasn’t much help. I did what you suggested but I can’t play fast for some reason. No idea what I’m doing wrong.
Tremolo-wrist not fingers
Lower wrist
Yes exactly! 👌🏻🤗