I'm new to piano, started taking lessons a few months ago and I have to say, I learned more in this 30 min video than I have learned from 3 months of instruction. This is a phenomenal video!!! Thanks, Kevin
I've heard of time signatures but didn't know what they were. This is simpler to understand than I believed since I don't read music. Thanks for making time signatures simple to understand.
James, please do a video that cover piano music theory books that you would recommend. I know you have mentioned books with Bach but what about those who are at the start? Cheers and also, your explanation is so well done and I can easily understand the way you explain it.
Thank you for letting me know. You might also show her my beginning series on Bach (Performance). It's wonderful to show young students that classical music does not have to be boring.
Excellent explanatory video, JPS; counting still remains one of my weaknesses and, even know I know the definitions I do not mind being lectured multiple times. I am certain your explanation of time signatures will help many people to learn the "correct way." My "counting" has always sucked and I remember a piano teacher once telling me after I played a piece for her saying: "That was good - now do you want to learn to play it correctly? :) "
A future video idea is to visit some place where they are restoring an organ and show the things they do when refurbishing an organ (theatre, or church pipe organ) that has been idled and is being brought back into playable shape.
Thank you James! :) This was a great explanation! What I can't get it is the metronome marks..how do we set up the metronome related to the time signature?...for example..in the piece at 13:00 the time signature is in 3/4, so there are 3 beats per bar and each beat is a 1/4 note, right? yet, the metronome marking says a "dotted half note = 66" and i just can't understand why and how to use this :/ Thanks again! Best regards and wishes from Portugal.
Your understanding of 3/4 time is perfect. Basically what's happening with the metronome marking is that at the full tempo, every click of the metronome will correspond to a dotted half note. Because a dotted half note is equal to three beats, this means that each measure has to fit into the space of one metronome click, so the quarter notes will kind of work like triplets. If this is too fast for you, you can just practice the piece with the quarter notes falling on each metronome click, and when you really understand the piece, and its timing, you can work on playing it at the full tempo like it says on the music. Hope this helps! :D
Wow..thank you for your quick feedback! :D ...So, this piece is meant to be played "really fast" at a performance tempo! Is that right? At least as it is in that particular sheet music. I still have this dumb question...Could then the metronome marking instead of "dotted half note = 66" be: "quarter note = 198"?....since there are 3 quarter notes in a dotted half note... Although it would be very confusing to practice with the metronome set in this way. I'm probably wrong and overthinking! Sorry to make dumb questions. I'm a music theory noob basically. Thank you for your help James once again! I'm having a "eureka" moment thanks to you! :)
Yes, this piece is very fast, at its full tempo. Different versions of the sheet music will say different tempos, but the general consensus is that it's a fast piece. It's a bit easier to understand the timing and feel of the piece at 66 compared to 198, and some metronomes don't even have a speed of exactly 198. But if it's easier for you to feel the rhythm of the piece with a metronome click on each quarter note, go for it!
Rhythm and time signatures is one of my main weaknesses. Thank you for this very helpful video.
Dude! Sheet music looks like gibberish for 40 years,completely explained in 28 minutes. Great teaching style man.
I'm new to piano, started taking lessons a few months ago and I have to say, I learned more in this 30 min video than I have learned from 3 months of instruction. This is a phenomenal video!!!
Thanks,
Kevin
I've heard of time signatures but didn't know what they were.
This is simpler to understand than I believed since I don't read music. Thanks for making time signatures simple to understand.
James, please do a video that cover piano music theory books that you would recommend. I know you have mentioned books with Bach but what about those who are at the start? Cheers and also, your explanation is so well done and I can easily understand the way you explain it.
Very good explanations. I knew most of this but this helped me a lot with 6 8 where my brain goes dumb.
Your video will help me explain this to my young daughter taking piano lessons. Thanks!
Thank you for letting me know.
You might also show her my beginning series on Bach (Performance). It's wonderful to show young students that classical music does not have to be boring.
Excellent explanatory video, JPS; counting still remains one of my weaknesses and, even know I know the definitions I do not mind being lectured multiple times. I am certain your explanation of time signatures will help many people to learn the "correct way." My "counting" has always sucked and I remember a piano teacher once telling me after I played a piece for her saying: "That was good - now do you want to learn to play it correctly? :) "
Thank you. Very good class.
Thank you so much for this videos.. please make more tutorial videos like this.. I like it.. :)
Where were you when I needed you in 1983. 🥰 🎼
Great video
I think that makes it all clear.
A future video idea is to visit some place where they are restoring an organ and show the things they do when refurbishing an organ (theatre, or church pipe organ) that has been idled and is being brought back into playable shape.
Your videos are so good
BIG thank you
Thank you James! :) This was a great explanation!
What I can't get it is the metronome marks..how do we set up the metronome related to the time signature?...for example..in the piece at 13:00 the time signature is in 3/4, so there are 3 beats per bar and each beat is a 1/4 note, right? yet, the metronome marking says a "dotted half note = 66" and i just can't understand why and how to use this :/
Thanks again!
Best regards and wishes from Portugal.
Your understanding of 3/4 time is perfect. Basically what's happening with the metronome marking is that at the full tempo, every click of the metronome will correspond to a dotted half note. Because a dotted half note is equal to three beats, this means that each measure has to fit into the space of one metronome click, so the quarter notes will kind of work like triplets.
If this is too fast for you, you can just practice the piece with the quarter notes falling on each metronome click, and when you really understand the piece, and its timing, you can work on playing it at the full tempo like it says on the music.
Hope this helps! :D
Wow..thank you for your quick feedback! :D
...So, this piece is meant to be played "really fast" at a performance tempo! Is that right? At least as it is in that particular sheet music.
I still have this dumb question...Could then the metronome marking instead of "dotted half note = 66" be:
"quarter note = 198"?....since there are 3 quarter notes in a dotted half note...
Although it would be very confusing to practice with the metronome set in this way.
I'm probably wrong and overthinking! Sorry to make dumb questions. I'm a music theory noob basically.
Thank you for your help James once again! I'm having a "eureka" moment thanks to you! :)
Yes, this piece is very fast, at its full tempo. Different versions of the sheet music will say different tempos, but the general consensus is that it's a fast piece. It's a bit easier to understand the timing and feel of the piece at 66 compared to 198, and some metronomes don't even have a speed of exactly 198. But if it's easier for you to feel the rhythm of the piece with a metronome click on each quarter note, go for it!
@@ThePianoforeverThank you so much for making this crystal clear, James! God bless you!
Thank you so much!
I love ❤ it thanks
Please do 3/8 4/8 2/10 time please but anyway great video and tutorial
Why can't you just change all the eighth notes in a 2/4 to quarter notes and put it on a 4/4 sheet of music. Wouldn't it sound exactly the same.
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