Chopin: Etude Op. 10, No. 3 in E Major "Tristesse" (Tutorial & Performance Video)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2021
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Wow. Just wow. An hour and 45 minute great lesson... for free. Most teachers I've seen charge 200 for an hour, or more. You're so kind and generous! Also, have you considered doing a video on Liszt's Spanish Rhapsody? The piece is so good and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it! You're the best.
Hello Adam, I am so touched to read your wonderful comment! It is a pleasure and privilege to make these teaching videos. I adore this art form, and if I can help others to better learn and understand these masterpieces, I feel like I have done my work in “lighting the path." Your words have compounded my joy, and I thank you very much. Yes, the Spanish Rhapsody is near and dear to my heart, and I will strongly consider making a video for this fabulous piece in the future. :-) With very best wishes to you.
Downloading now. This is a great one Sally. I love your teaching videos, and your history lessons of these pieces, and of course the beautiful charts you produce. One of your biggest fans and YSFA. Jim
Hello Jim, I am so delighted to read your wonderful comment! Thank you for your very meaningful words. It was a long and fulfilling project making this tutorial and chart. In the process I gained an even greater appreciation for Chopin’s extraordinary contribution to the repertoire. I hope you enjoy working from your chart package, and especially the pdf for the difficult “Cadenza” section! :-) With all best wishes to you on your piano journey! YTFA
Hi Sally. This was a fascinating in depth look at this Etude. I really enjoyed your explanations and passion throughout for this beautiful piece. Thank you for sharing such a professionally made video. ❤️👏👏👏👏
Hello Stephen, thank you so much for your articulate and thoughtful words! I very much appreciate your acknowledgement about the passion and content in this video. I know my videographer will appreciate your generous words as well! With all best wishes to you.
Lovely moving performance of one of my favourite pieces to listen to and play, your performance is so polished and played with exceptional clarity. Thanks for sharing it and your teaching.
Hello Roman, thank you for your wonderful comment. I really appreciate your thoughtful and articulate words about the performance and lesson. I wish you all the best with your playing and your musical journey!
Such a generous tutorial and so much original work done to help us hear everything in every note of this exquisite piece. Thank you
Hello Joanna, thank you so much for your beautiful and eloquent words! 💕I am very happy to hear that the original work of the chart package supplies I made and used in the lesson helped to made clear the wonder of every note in this piece! Your words are a gift which I will always treasure. 🙏 I wish the very best to you!
I nearly cried while watching your tutorial because I’ve been looking for one on this incredible piece for so long. Thank you thank you! 🙏
Hello Pearl, thank you for your beautiful and very appreciated comment. Your heartfelt words have touched me deeply. You are welcome, it is my privilege and pleasure! With all best wishes to you and with your playing of this magnificent piece. 🎵
Thank you for this video, I think this will be the next Chopin etude I tackle!
Hello Boris, thank you for your nice words, … it is my pleasure. I wish you much joy and success playing this wonderful Etude in E Major!
Thank you Sally, you are an inspiration and a wonderful, generous teacher! I have been working on this for some time and your lesson comes at the perfect moment!
Hello Justin, thank you for your very beautiful and appreciated message! Your words mean a great deal to me. It is a pleasure to be able to help, and I am delighted that this lesson came at just the right time for you. I wish you much joy as you learn and master this beloved etude!
Bravo 👏👏👏🎹🎹🎹A great study of Chopin and a huge sensitivity
Hello Lluís, thank you for your warm and enthusiastic welcome for this new tutorial! I am in awe of the ground-breaking frontiers Chopin carved with this etude. Preparing the lesson and chart was a labor of love, and your words are most appreciated!
With all best wishes to you. :-)
I've always wanted to study this etude. I was very much inspired by your exclusive way of interpreting and teaching. You are a shining example to me of how to play the piano. THANK YOU :)
Hello Querdenker, wow, thank you for your beautiful comment! I am very moved to read your thoughtful and articulate words. I encourage you to learn this etude, and hope the lesson will give some helpful guidance. With all best wishes to you and with your playing!
This is fantastic. I will have to listen to this video a few more times, but I was shocked when you mentioned that we warm up by playing this piece. The idea never dawned on me. I always warm up with scales. I wonder what my fingers will think. I hope they don't revolt. Thanks a million, Sally. You are a fantastic teacher. When you play, it all looks so easy.
Hello Roger, thank you for your enthusiastic words! This video is best watched in smaller segments with the chart music in front of you. In the video, you will hear me say that these etudes are advanced level pieces and are top of the line in difficulty. They are part of the concert repertoire. I quote my grand teacher, Claudio Arrau (whose birthday is today, February 6th!) as having said that the Chopin Etudes take 5 years to really learn and get into the fingers. In answer to your surprise where I talk about warm ups, please go to 56:32 minutes where I say "People ask me what I do for warm ups. I answer by saying that practicing a piece like this gives me both development of my technique and a beautiful piece to perform, and that this is what Chopin gave us with these etudes! You will not be playing this etude as part of your warm ups unless you are at least an early advanced level player. If you can play the Rachmaninoff Prelude in C# minor, you can attempt this etude, practicing slowly at first as you learn your notes. Once your fingers learn the patterns, and in particular the "Cadenza" and “Pre-Cadenza" sections, practicing this piece will be a wonderful way to build up your technique, strength, and suppleness! I hope this clarifies my words in context to what I was referring to in this part of the lesson! As always, thank you for your thoughtful comments and words of support!
Thank you for the incredible lesson, Sally. I'm recently re-learning this piece, which I played 10 years ago. But I hope this time around I'll play it with more nuances, and your lesson is exactly what I am looking for. Great job!
Hello Bret, thank you so much for your generous and very appreciated words! It is always a wonderful thing when we return to a piece after a long absence. We find so many more things the second time around, ... and the third time around, ... ! I'm so glad that this lesson will help you as you delve deeply into the piece. I wish you countless hours of fulfilling practicing and playing! With all best wishes to you. 🌟
The expression in your playing makes that Boesendorfer sing!
Hello Bryan, thank you for your thoughtful and meaningful words! I really appreciate hearing that the expression in the playing makes the piano sing! :-) Best wishes to you.
This is absolutely stunning. I was completely mesmerized
Hello Faro, thank you for your wonderful and very beautiful words! I appreciate your generosity! 💓 Best wishes to you.
Watching this again, I'm astounded by your passion for this piece! Brava Maestra!
Hello Bryan, it's so nice to hear from you again! I really appreciate your beautiful words about my passion for this piece. 🙏Thank you so much! With all best wishes to you and also with your song writing! 🎵
@@SallyChristianMusic You're very welcome, Sally. Thank you for your kind best wishes for my songwriting. It means a lot to me from an artist like yourself!
wonderful performance and class, as always. thank you so much, sally, for your generosity of sharing all of this with us. many greetings from santiago, spain.
Hello Felipe, it is so nice to hear from you again, ... Gracias! Thank you for your warm and thoughtful words. I really appreciate your support and enthusiasm for these videos; it is truly a pleasure to share them! Many blessings and best wishes to you. :-)
Loved the performance!
Hello Bradley, thank you so much! Best wishes to you.
This is the first time I’m watching your teaching video. I was searching for this Chopin Etude piece on RUclips and your video caught my eyes. I adore you Ms. Sally 😍 Your performance and work brought me to tears 😘 You’re so knowledgeable, philosophical, elegant and beautiful. I enjoyed your lesson and your words of wisdom. Music melts our soul and brings life to us indeed. True master class at its best! I’m at intermediate level. Your video encouraged me to take on the challenge to learn this masterpiece. Thank you 🙏
Hello Vivian, thank you so much for your exquisite comment. Your generous and heartfelt words mean a great deal to me. I'm so happy to know that the lesson has encouraged you to learn this beautiful piece, which does melt our souls and bring life to us in full bloom. 💐 It is my privilege and pleasure to make these videos. I will be with you in spirit as you learn this piece slowly but surely! With many and all best wishes to you and with your playing!
What a beautiful video and you are playing so well! Thoroughly enjoyed this rendition ❤️
Hello Piano for Pleasure, thank you for your very kind words! I appreciate your enthusiasm and am glad you liked this rendition. Your channel name is just what piano can be for us, ... a great pleasure! :-) Best wishes to you, and much pleasure to you with your music.
@@SallyChristianMusic I’m glad you like my channel name - I took it after a very inspirational book “Playing the Piano for Pleasure” by Charles Cooke. This book inspired me to go back to piano after almost 15 years of absence.
And pianists like yourself inspire me to continue playing 😃
@@PianoforPleasure This is very inspiring to hear! Thank you for your generous words, and I wish you every joy with your music. :-)
Thank you Sally!!! You amaze me and I learn so much!
Hello Lucy, thank you for your generous and enthusiastic words! I so appreciate hearing that you are learning so much from these videos! My best wishes to you. :-)
Thank you so much! Wonderful performance and analysis/lesson.
Hello Hannah, thank you for your generous and warm words! I really appreciate your enthusiasm, and am glad you enjoyed the lesson/ analysis and performance! Best wishes to you.
Thank you for the incredible lesson
Thank you so much for your wonderful words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure! 🎵
This is so kind of you ! This helped a lot, after my teacher said I am a disappointment and that I’ll never go to the music university that I wanted to go all my life without giving me other advice than “ giving up on music “ I found this. A lovely patient lady who plays this so intimate and beautiful, I am so gratefull for teachers like you. I would like to say that you are amazing for this !
Also I am sorry if misspelled something, english is not my first language
Hello Valentina, thank you for your lovely and kind words! It makes me very happy that this video meant something to you, and was also encouraging for you! If you love the music, you must try to play it. It might take awhile, but over time you will make progress. Never give up! ⭐️ I send my very best wishes to you and am pulling for you from cyberspace! 💕
I was analyzing by myself for this piece. You have said much more !
I will use your knowledge to my students.
Thank you so much for sharing your video !
Hello Naoko, thank you so much for your very kind words! You are very welcome, it is my pleasure. I really appreciate hearing that you like this analysis and will share it with your students. I wish the best to all of you on your musical journeys! 🎹
I really love this piece and you play it absolutely wonderfully....
Hello Steve, I really appreciate hearing that you love this piece and the playing! Thank you for your very kind words. Best wishes to you. 🎵
@@SallyChristianMusic yes I really, truly love your rendition of l’Etude numero 10
You absolutely encapsulate all the nostalgia, melancholy and we must remember his country was at war with Russia, and so must include also some deep worries for his family and homeland that he loved so much.
I’m French and the sensibility of that piece touches me really deeply and more so now for all the people in Ukraine.
When you play it we can feel the pain of an entire population, the cry of its children, the lamentations of the women
The destruction of KYIV
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Backstory: Chopin left his home country to advertise Poland's fight, against the Russians, through music abroad. After leaving Warsaw for Vienna, the fighting broke out and Chopin was notified that he was longer welcome back in Poland. Quote: “Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.”
@@mariecohen3052 Hello Marie, thank you for your beautiful words about this rendition. I am very moved by your thoughts about Chopin and this piece. Accounts from Chopin's student Adolphe Gutmann tell us Chopin especially loved this piece and associated it with his homeland. We can only imagine how he worried about Poland and his family during the war years with Russia. My heart aches as does yours for all the people in the Ukraine. 💔 May peace be soon restored. 🙏
Amazing! You explained this so complex peace in such a beautifull and elegant way, with visual material that enables the brain to comprehend the whole with all the elements in order much faster. But the most important I think is the feeling and the spirit with which you present this music... it has so much love and deepness... it is the most precious thing a teacher can give... I only just learned it and still struggle with the middle section... it is probably a bid too much for my current skill, but I love it so much and that gives me motivation to practise it anyway... my playing will never be the same after this video... Thank you so much!
Hello Polona, thank you for your exquisite and powerful message which has deeply moved me. I am most grateful to read your generous words about the lesson presentation and the chart package materials. It makes me very happy to hear that these have helped you to understand the elements and structure of this piece. What touches me most are your profound words about feelings, and teaching done in the spirit of love. To hear that you received the lesson in this way and have been altered by it is a gift I will treasure for many years to come. Thank you for your light and grace. With blessings and best wishes to you!
Thank you....It’s a privilege to listen and learn !!
Hello marksletters, thank you for your beautiful and heartfelt words. I appreciate your generosity.
It is also about contrast between the chords and notes played soft in the lower clef
as compared to louder and at times louder and faster/ softer/slower. I think you
were born to just play beautiful music on piano.
Thank you for the lesson. You are a great and graceful teacher.
Thank you for your wonderful and generous words! I'm so glad you liked the lesson. All best wishes to you. 🎵
Absolutely beautiful presentation! This is the piece that moves me the most… and made me start learning how to play the piano just last month. In a few more years when i am prepared to learn this piece, I will come back and reference your wise words. Take care and thank you for making such a helpful video!
Hello Brandon, thank you so much for your wonderful and very appreciated words about this presentation! I'm so happy to hear that this piece motivated you to start learning the piano. I encourage you to stay with your piano studies so that one day you can play this magnificent piece. I am supporting your efforts and congratulate you in advance for reaching your goals! With very best wishes to you with your piano journey. 🎶
Excellent! Thank you very much Sally.
Dear Ingrid, it is so wonderful to hear from you! Thank you for your warm & enthusiastic words. I'm really happy you enjoyed the video, and are surrounding yourself with these beautiful Chopin melodies. I hope you are playing the piano regularly, and I send you my heartfelt best wishes!
Incredible playing and an incredible video. 💕🎵💕
Hello Musicalintentions / James, I am so touched by your powerful and generous words. Thank you for your acknowledgement; this lesson was a labor of love. Best wishes and blessings to you.
Hi, Sally. Thank you for your video. Have a good week.❤.
Hello Sokwon, thank you for your kind words. You are very welcome! Best wishes to you. 🎶
Just an update on these awesome charts for étude Op.10 no 3. I took your advice from your tutorial and used the addendum for the cadenza included in your chart pack for this piece as a warm-up using the fingering 5-2, 3-1, one hand at a time and what a powerful warm-up exercise. Even a beginner who buys this chart can use it as a great warm-up exercise as you suggested in this tutorial. That alone is worth the cost of these charts and I’m hooked on this piece. It’s a lot of work and fun. I’ll definitely incorporate this as an every day warm-up practice section. Two birds with one stone, you get to work on mastering this piece plus warm up as well. Great advice! thanks Sally. you’re the best!! YSFA. Jim
Hello Jim, thank you for your wonderful and thoughtful message! I am very happy to hear how much this chart Cadenza Addendum is helping you! I appreciate you taking the time to tell me about your enthusiasm for the hands alone practicing exercise I suggested for this challenging section of the piece. You are right that you are getting double benefits from doing this! 🎉 Your message has made my day! Blessings to you and your family, and continuing joy and success with your practicing! YTFA 💕 (Your teacher from afar)
amazing technique... every ounce of emotion came through. and you didn't even need to play mad fast like some others, just to impress...!
Hello Su-Lyn, thank you for your wonderful comment! Your generous and thoughtful words mean so much to me. I'm very happy to hear that "every ounce of emotion came through!" With all best wishes to you! 🎶
you are a great teacher !! Thank you for sharing this ..
Hello Gudrun, thank you for your wonderful and very appreciated words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure!
All best wishes to you. 🎵
Thank you, Maestro Sally. This was an excellent tutorial and a wonderful online learning experience. I really appreciate all of the effort that went into producing this video and hope that this small digital comment of thanks portrays some of my gratitude to you and all who support you in your very important work. As I work through this material I will always remember this lesson and how useful your analysis is in practice and performance. I'm so glad I found you here!
Hello Ken, thank you so much for your wonderful acknowledgements! I very much appreciate hearing that this lesson and the chart & analysis you now have will help you as you learn this exquisite piece. The charts and lessons are labors of love, and your words mean a great deal to me. 🙏 Thank you. I wish you all the best with your playing and your musical journey. 🎵
Wonderful! Thank you so much ♥️
Hello Sara, thank you for your generous and much appreciated words! All best wishes to you. :-)
My goodness Thank You so much for doing this performance tutorial. I am working on this piece and will use your teachings to help me hone it to where I will be proud of my accomplishment. Again Thanks so Much :)
Hello Charles, thank you so much for your beautiful words about this performance & tutorial! I am so happy to hear that you can use some of the teachings and suggestions to polish your performance and be proud of your accomplishment! You are very welcome, it is my pleasure. All best wishes to you and much joy with the entire process!
Perfect as usual
Hello Harun, what a lovely thing to say, ... thank you so much for your generous and much appreciated words! All best wishes to you.
Wish I had a teacher like you. The most important aspect of this art is the love you feel for it. Not many teachers have the ability to inject this feeling to students. You are a personification of classical piano.
Hello impromptu, thank you for your beautiful and generous words which I very much appreciate. I agree that communicating the love we feel for the music is one of the most important things we can teach our students. Also, before every performance, I try to presence myself to the beauty of the music I am about to play and share. BTW: I watched your video of the Rachmaninoff Etude Op. 39, No. 5 and loved your playing and watching your beautiful hands! 💕With all best wishes to you.
@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you. That Rachmaninov etude took the life out of me. It’s so hard technically that by the time I started working on it musically, I was too exhausted and gave up on it. Playing Rach feels like being inside of a storm you cannot control.
Wonderful……..just wonderful , what more can one say.
Hello Ronald, thank you so much for your very kind and thoughtful words about this video. I really appreciate your generosity! 💖 Best wishes to you. 🎶
What a great performance from an absolutely unique masterpiece. Thank you so much for sharing this content. Also must say thank you so much for the tutorial. It's amazing to see how much love and at the same time technique you put on the class. Chopin is my favourite piano composer, no doubt he had an unique ear and so talented hands, and to see there's people that have studied his artwork so deeply as you show, it really pleases me so much. Thanks again for the masterpiece lesson, it's brillant! :)
Hello Carlos, thank you for your wonderful and generous words about this tutorial! It means a great deal to me that you acknowledged the love that went into making this lesson, performance, and chart package. This is my life's work, and it is truly a privilege and pleasure to make these videos. I will treasure your comment for many years to come. 🙏With all best wishes to you!
4 pages of this music starting on page 66, will get more expression than if played in F.
I miss my Baldwin Model L a large baby grand.
Muito linda essa música e a sua performance! Estou encantada! Emoção pura!
Olá Neli, muito obrigada pelo seu lindo comentário! Agradeço as suas palavras: "emoção pura!"
Muitas felicidades para você!
Hello Sally. Thank you so much for this.
I first run those first few notes through my fingers at age 7 when my dad suggested I should start learning piano and suggested Chopin studies (he had no musical knowledge but being Polish he knew he like Chopin!)
Anyway here I am at age 74 still struggling with these pieces. In my formative years we had no access to music, not even a record player. I might get the occasional snatch of something nice on the radio, but no one around to explain it. And now we have all that technology brings, and I have been able to make use of it.
And now the latest discovery, your in depth analysis of Tristesse which has helped tremendously.
Incidentally, a trio played Tristesse at my son's wedding in Slovakia. When I was playing it recently my daughter-in-law said it was nice and I said they played it at her wedding - she said she didn't realise!
So thank you again. I will look forward to investigating your other videos!!
Hello Stef, I am so touched to read your poignant stories and memories with this Chopin Etude "Tristesse." I also appreciate hearing that this analysis has helped you. I hope you will be practicing the piece frequently now after so many decades since you first ran your fingers through it! This is such a beautiful piece, and I'm sure it was a very heartfelt experience for you to hear it played at your son's wedding. Thank you also for your kind words and interest in watching some of my other videos. It is my privilege and pleasure to make these labors of love! I wish you all the best, and many joy-filled hours at the piano! 🎹
Grande!!
Thank you Francisco! :-)
Bon Soir Sallie 09/02/22
BIEN MERCI, GRAZIE, EFFIGATTO ETC, & JUST THANKS.! YOUR PASSION IS STUNNING! YOU'VE MADE ME REACH A NEW PASSION IN THE FEMININE PART OF MY PERSONA. I'M INGRATIATED TO YOU. I STUDIED THE e minor prelude. CRIIED FOR A YEAR A BARS 9-11.
I UNDERSTAND YOU!!! AS IN... I KNOW YOUR GIFTS INTIMATELY.
I'M THERE! AM SURE WE'LL BE CHATING AGAIN. ANTHONY, FL.
Hello Sandy, thank you for your enthusiastic words about this video! It's wonderful to hear your passion for the music of Chopin! I am also very happy to see that you ordered your chart for this amazing piece. I hope you enjoy working from your chart package, and I wish you every joy and success on your journey with the piano! 🎵
This helped me sooooo much for a concert that I will be performing in! Thank you so much Sally!
( The best online teacher 👍😀💕 )
Hello Ye John, thank you so much for your awesome words! I'm so glad the lesson helped you, and best wishes for a great concert playing this piece. 🎵
I really appreciate your warm acknowledgements! 💕
Thanks 🙏
Love her!
Thank you for your beautiful words! 🎼💓
I am impressed that you really play like they way you talk, very passionate with a lot of rubatos
Hello Selmer, thank you for your thoughtful and meaningful words. I was most interested to read your observations that the performing and teaching complemented and mirrored the speaking! :-) With all best wishes to you.
I grew up with a cheap keyboard, unfortunately not being able to have a piano or lessons. But there was a very simplified version of this piece that was built into the keyboard to learn and play. Despite only having the top melody and single note left hand, I loved it immediately, and learnt how to play it.
Now, a good 10 years or so later, I have access to a piano, and this piece in full is very high on my list to learn.
Claire de Lune by Claude Debussy is my first piece, and I’m currently about half way through. Not many pieces truly capture me, but these two pieces, Claire de Lune and Étude op.10 no.3, transport me to a different world whenever I hear them. An honourable mention is Liszt’s Liebestraum no.3.
The important part is: I have now found an amazing lesson on this piece for free. And for that, I must thank you profusely, as I now have a means of learning this beautiful piece from my childhood.
So, thank you. Really.
If you’ll excuse me, I now need to practise!
Hello j.a.g1291, thank you for your beautiful and inspiring comment! I am so moved to read your story about having loved this piece from childhood, and now being able to learn the original version of it on a piano! 🎉 You are very welcome about the tutorial, it is my pleasure. I wish you the very best as you learn this gorgeous piece, one section at a time. I am pulling and cheering for you from afar! 🎵
thank you so much for making this
Hello moredom, thank you so much for your kind and much appreciated words. You are welcome, it is my pleasure! 🎶
Best wishes to you.
@@SallyChristianMusic why thank for the kind words to.
I love to see a video or your view on Chopin winter wind. because i love how you brake it down into the parts like you do
Here is a story i have feeling you will like to hear.
I'm 25 got into piano a about 15months ago but this story was just after 6months I just got chopin complete collection Because i have a calling to his work.
So i pick to start with the walzs in A minor.
What sounds so nice what you made me love even more. one of my moms and anyone i see just loves it we don't have a lot of piano playing where i live small town. what you help me make a lot more enjoyment with most who hear me play so thanks but back to the story.
So before this walzs in A minor was mozarts twinkle twinkle little star theme + 2 lvl 1 rcm minuets then the 2 Bach minuets G so this was a bit of a step up in how hard it was.
I was so lost so for a good weak i was going no where fast. so by luck or fate god i found your videos on it and with in 2 weaks I was playing it all to where i was happy to move onto new stuff.
i want to wish you the best of luck and thanks for all the help you have giving me and so many more
@@max123456lu Thank you for sharing such wonderful examples of how the teaching videos helped you learn the pieces more easily and play in a way that is satisfying for you. 💖 Personal stories like these are so wonderful to hear and are energizing for me! Thank you for your kind and supportive words, and all best wishes to you and with your piano playing! 🎹
Beautiful!, Thanks so much, I'm wrkg on a modified version in F, Chopin sure put a
lot of expression in his music. Chopin and Beethoven with his Moonlight sonata,
these two masters of the piano never died, they became music.
Hello Raymond, thank you for your kind and inspiring words! I'm glad to hear that you are working on some of these beloved pieces. You are right, they became music for all time! Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎹
@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you very much.
@@raymondgarafano8604 🎹 You are welcome!
You are the best
Hello Catherinne, thank you for your generous and much appreciated words! All best wishes to you. :-)
Ah-yes! There can only be '''one''' thing that can up lift us all during this pandemic ... Sally's music.
By-the-way ... I absolutely love that dress!
I will fight anyone to be your number one fan.
Warmest hugs!
William (UK)
Hello William, thank you for another beautiful and heartfelt message. Your words are so very appreciated, and always put a smile on my face! Thank you for the thumbs up on the dress, and for your endearing closing sentence! Blessings and all best wishes to you. :-)
Exceptional!
Hello Sava, thank you for your wonderful comment! 💫 Best wishes to you.
Perfect...Bravíssima!!!! Congratulations!!!!
Hello Maestro Carlos, thank you so much for your wonderful, generous, and much appreciated words! Very best wishes to you and with your playing! 🎵
Thank you for this and for all your videos Sally. I’m a lifetime lover of music, but am an adult beginner taking lessons. Though these pieces are far beyond my abilities, the enthusiasm, insight and approach has really carried into the way I’m thinking of my my pieces 🙂
By any chance would you ever consider doing a video of Chopin’s Nocturne Opus 9 No 2?
Thank you again for all you do.
Hello Ynot, thank you for your wonderful and kind words! It means a great deal to me to hear that the content and approach in these advanced lessons is also applying to the earlier level pieces you are working on. This is one of the things I had hoped to offer with these teaching videos, and your words are very much appreciated! Regarding the Chopin Nocturne in Eb Major, Opus 9, No. 2, I am happy to say that I have already engraved the chart for this piece. While I still have a year’s worth of other projects already in process, I hope to make the companion teaching video and performance for this Nocturne sometime next year. These videos are very labor intensive, as each chart, teaching video, and performance for memory takes many months and sometimes years to complete. Thank you for your patience, and best wishes to you and with your playing. :-)
Anything by Chopin = ❤️😍
Hello Joshua, thank you for your encouragement for anything by Chopin: more are in the works! :-)
Amazing. Thank you for doing these! I think I have a CRUSH! :O
Hello Dave, aww, … thank you! You are so kind. It is my pleasure to make these videos, and I'm glad you like them. :-) Very best wishes to you.
Such a beautiful woman playing beautiful music. So inspiring. Thank you
Hello Gregory, thank you for your kind, gracious, and very appreciated words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. 🎵
Imagine living your life by candle light with a quill pen, paper and a piano...@@SallyChristianMusic
Splendida interpretazione 🔝🎶💐
Ciao Claudia, grazie mille! :-)
Beautiful, thank you. @11:40 Yes! Those parralel thirds are super sweet, they striked me from the very first listen. They somewhat remind me of Japanese music.
Hello Amjan, thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful words! I appreciate you commenting on the sweetness of the parallel thirds at this part of the piece. I agree, it is so touching, ... like a "love duet" counterpoint to the melody! Best wishes to you. 🎼
so besutiful 🙏🏽💞
Hello Edith, thank you for your lovely and heartfelt words! Best wishes to you. :-)
I like how you play , and i enjoy very RUclips talent
Hello Johny, thank you for your kind and much appreciated words! I'm glad you are enjoying the videos. :-) Best wishes to you.
opus 10#5 in Gflat is a cheery piece of music, reminds me of my cousins fine looking
girls getting ready to to go to a place called the patio on sat nights where a band played
much dancing, how happy they were just in getting ready . . .a very happy piece of music.
This is amazing! The detail that you go into for each section is amazing and the fact that this is free but still more productive than a piano lesson. I can see how much you love this piece and I was about to cry during some parts! I am attempting to start studying Chopin's etudes but I fear I do not have the technique required. Could you please give me some recommendations for pieces I should play or any exercises to prepare for them?
Dear Aditya, thank you so much for your wonderful words about this lesson. It is a pleasure and a privilege for me to make these tutorials and I appreciate your heartfelt words about the lesson and the music! 💕In order to better answer your question, I watched your recent video playing the Prelude No. 5 by Karol Szymnanowski. You play with much sensitivity, passion, and natural musical instincts. I think you already have enough technique to begin this Chopin Etude in E Major. As I said in the lesson, the Cadenza is the most difficult section and will take years to play well and accurately and to get “into your hands.” Please follow the steps that I outlined in this lesson and practice the hands together and also alone as you memorize this section. Seeing how much you love playing the piano, I recommend that you learn as much Chopin as you can. The waltzes and the preludes are a great place to begin! I wish you much success and joy with your playing and your life-long journey with the piano!
@@SallyChristianMusic I really appreciate you taking the time out of your day to reply to my comment. Thank you for your words about the Szymanowski prelude. That piece took me a long time to learn, as do most other pieces. Do you have any tips on streamlining the practicing process? Ex. What does a typical session of practice look like for you? I would also appreciate if you would take a listen to my interpretation on Fantasie-Impromptu (can be found on my channel). I worked very hard on that piece and would love to. hear your feedback for how I can improve. I understand you must be very busy but I would absolutely love it if you could.
@@adityalagu4114 Hello Aditya, you are very welcome. Regarding practice tips, after I have learned the notes of a piece I will usually play through the entire piece first. Then I will isolate the sections that are difficult for me and give them extra attention. I will often take the hands alone and practice at a slower tempo. There is no shortcut to learning well and memorizing accurately a piece of music. It always takes a long time. I did listen to your Fantasie-Impromptu. You shape the right hand beautifully and have a nice feeling for the piece. Please check the right hand dotted rhythms of the Largo section as you have missed some of these and are playing even eighth notes instead. As is true for many people, your left hand is more difficult for you to clearly articulate all of the notes. Additionally, there are a few places where you have learned wrong notes. I recommend practicing your left hand slowly and reading from the music again. Places to correct notes are: Measure 7, beat two. These notes move up to a higher pattern, beginning on an F# and not the D# of beat one. This supports the gorgeous ascending right hand passage that repeats many times throughout the piece. Measure 63 also has different notes on beat two. In measure 48 of the left hand, please play the A natural on beat two and in the 3 other measures where this same pattern repeats. Your careful attention to accurate reading will be a very important habit for you to develop. Best wishes with your work and much joy to you with your playing!
@@SallyChristianMusic thank you so much! This is more information than my teacher told me about this piece! You are so helpful
@@adityalagu4114 You are very welcome! I'm so glad to hear my feedback was helpful!
Best wishes to you on your musical journey. 🎵
Bravo!
Thank you so much! 🦋
My piano instructor played a Bosendorfer. When my children and I had mastered our piece we were allowed to play it on the Bosendorfer. Are you familiar with Victoria Solonina?@@SallyChristianMusic
@@nopriors I also "save" my Bösendorfer for my students to play after they have learned their pieces well!
I looked up the pianist Victoria Solonina and see that she recorded many CDs of Chopin and Liszt in 1998.
You remind me of her!@@SallyChristianMusic
Opus 9#2 well known used in wine commercials, his Polonaise awsum. Changes
in volume can be quite expressive. I'm thinking of working on the lower clef
separately. or putting a lot of work on the upper and lower and then putting them
both together.
First heard this song as "No Other Love" in the 2012 film The Master. Hard to unhear the lyrics now.
Hello Avindra, I know how this can be!! I had a similar experience when I saw the release in 1974 of the movie, The Terminal Man. To this day, I wish I had never watched this movie and the sacrilegious use of the poignant "Crown of Thorns" Bach Goldberg Variation No. 25 in G minor. We are so sensitive and vulnerable to these types of unwise pairings to original musical masterworks. We must try to leave these thoughts behind and replace them with the original sublime musical creations they are! Best wishes to you.
Columbo..the episode is "SUITABLE FOR FRAMING" This is played at the beginning..Nobody on youtube plays it quite as good as this version to me..The timing,tempo,accent and feeling is perfect....I think you would enjoy hearing this....
Thank you, Sally! You are an influencer!!
Hello Chunshik, thank you for your awesome and very appreciated words! Best wishes to you. 🎵
I’d love to see a video on the op. 25 no. 1 etude in A-flat. It’s the first Chopin etude I am learning
Hello Benjamin, thank you for your appreciated comment and request! I am preparing to do a teaching video and chart of this Etude Op. 25, No. 1 in the coming year or so. Thank you for your timely request! Best wishes to you.
At times I like to go through the scales to loosen up before I start to 'really' want to work
on a piece of music.
Love this. Thank you. I would like to start studying the difficult "middle" section, playing the "beginning" for quite a while now. Chopin made specific instruction to have his Fantasie Impromptu destroyed (what a lost that would have been if that wish was exectuted), because he felt it was too much like the Moonlight Sonata. "Tristesse" reminds me so much of Beethoven Pathetique sonta 2nd movement. What do you think?
Hello Danny, thank you for your warm and appreciated words about the lesson! I'm very happy to hear that you are going to start learning the difficult middle section, and encourage you to break it down into small sections (or systems as I call them) when you practice. I can see why this Chopin Etude reminds you of the gorgeous 2nd movement of Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata. Both of these pieces have a deeply grounded and sublime quality, and also have such heartfelt melodic lines that are supported by exquisite harmonic combinations and the ever-present rhythm of 16th notes below! I wish you all the best with your playing. :-)
I’m looking for a piano teacher but I don’t know where to look. I’d love to find one as good as you
Hello Benjamin, thank you for your nice words, and for your question. A good place to start is to ask for recommendations from your local college music department or Music Teacher's Association. Usually, someone can then refer you to a private teacher who lives near you or who is teaching remotely. I wish you all the best in your search for a good teacher!
Hi Sally, So, u made a longer run of music so u would not have to stop and turn the page?
That is great I didn't do it as fancy as u did, but I copied by hand the 1st page so I could have
pages 2 and 3 laid out in front and it works nicely.
Hello Sally, really appreciate the in-depth look at this awesome piece of music. I am what you would describe as an amateur pianist despite receiving the proper education all through my schooling years. I would like to ask for more advice on perfecting the accuracy of the cadenza section of this Etude. I have all the notes of that section practically memorised in my head but am struggling in perfecting my accuracy at the required tempo. For me, I feel like I lose focus of the length of my fingerings as I swap from 1-3 to 2-5, what can I do to remedy this?
Hello TheJudge, thank you for your wonderful comment and excellent question. You have identified one of the biggest technical challenges of this section. I had the same difficulties, which is why I spent so much time in the lesson with this "Cadenza." It took me months and months of hands alone practice as well as hands together at a slow tempo to train my fingers how to accurately set up these jumps. I experimented with the angle of the fingers being on the diagonal, pushing into the jumps with the wrists, and pulling down with the arms. It will take months of slow and careful repetitions, but ultimately you will “learn your hand” and how it fits with these big stretches. You will be able to do this if you are patient and do not give up! I wish you all the best as you surmount this challenge and play this piece with ease!
A man , Tom Perry and others have words to this great music, 'So deep is the night'
Thank you so much for this! Now I regret buying a 66-key keyboard when this piece is what I really want to play!
Hello Franco, thank you for your kind words! You are welcome, it is my plelasure. I hope you can buy a full 88-key keyboard soon! 🎵🎹 Best wishes to you.
Where has he taken us? I think he was talking about his relationship w Aurora Dudevant
a writer of french heritage, spending time in Myorca Spain. sad that his health was not
as good as others, imagine how much more music he could have written and played?
Спасибо за вашу работу (а это не так просто, обучать необучаемое) . Разрешите поздравить Вас от всего сердца и пожелать вам здоровья. С праздником Вас.
Здравствуйте, Тимон, спасибо за ваши щедрые и очень ценные слова! Вы очень добры, и я желаю вам крепкого здоровья и многих благословений.
order now chart link is not working. it says on my machine " secure connection failed. problem loading page "
Hello Learning With Rich, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have located the problem and have corrected it. Please try clicking on this link again! :-) All best wishes to you.
Hi again, I'm working on Willard Palmers version in F. Would it be a good idea to
practice the upper and lower clefs separately or together? I warm up with Hanon.
Thanks very much in advance.
Hello Raymond, I recommend practicing both ways, hands alone and then slowly hands together. Hanons are excellent for warm ups! Best wishes to you and with your playing!
@@SallyChristianMusic GR8! So nice to get help from a professional pianist.
I love this playing! I see in the comments you take requests, so I have one; a kinda uncommon piece if you’d be interested in that type of thing. It’s called “Salut, cendre du pauvre” by Charles Valentin Alkan, and I think you’d enjoy it.
Hello HappyPiano, thank you so much for your wonderful words about the playing! I also appreciate your request for Alkan's "Salut, cendre du pauvre." This is a most unusual and intriguing piece, and I am definitely interested in getting better acquainted with it and other works of Alkan! Best wishes to you.
@@SallyChristianMusic
Edit:
If you want something a little less long, because I see in your videos pieces that are around five minutes, I have a few possible Alkan suggestions. Maybe you’ll decide to do one of them if Salut Cendre du Pauvre isn’t a piece you want to play.
1. Saltarelle op. 23
2. Any of the 25 preludes, op 31
3. Etude Op. 39 no. 5
4. Any of the 49 esquisses, op 63
5. Vivante from op 65
@@happypiano4810 Thank you for these other Alkan suggestions. I will listen to these with much interest!
Hey! Me again! Once again, absolutely AMAZING lesson, performance and video! I can feel how much you care! Just one thing... Wrong chopin etude! 🤪
Just kidding, Op. 25 No. 11 may have to wait a while anyway... 1 month of solid practice every day and.. Well I have the first 3 'systems' down... out of, what... 50 😅
Hello Reece, thanks again for your kind and supportive words about this lesson and performance. :-) Congratulations to you on your progress in learning Chopin's "Winter Wind" Etude, one system at a time. Each correctly learned phrase is a victory! 🎹
@@SallyChristianMusic I am so glad you said that! You know, I realized recently that every challenging piece I have ever played, there is at least one phrase, or one section (usually the very last part of the piece that I learned) that is just.... Muddy, sloppy, and inaccurate. Wrong fingers, total disregard for emotion/feeling... And its much harder to CORRECT it later than it is to LEARN it right the first time!!!
@@rgriffith6476 Absolutely! These sections require much patience, time, and of course, hands alone and slow practice. Keep up the great work!
Hello Sally, One question 🙋♂️
In the cadence do you use the first/third finger to connect each group of two sixteenth notes? Thank you
Hello Mohan, thank you for your question. Are you referring to measure five? If so, the two pairs of the soprano 16th notes melody on beat 1 are not connected because they are slurs.
@@SallyChristianMusic The minor sixths section, do you conect the slurs with the index?
@@mohanshawcellist Ah yes, ... thank you, now I understand you are asking about the "Cadenza" section of the piece (as I have called it.) Playing legato slurs in this section of minor 6ths is very important, and your question is an excellent one. I made a special Addendum about how to practice this Cadenza and which fingerings to use to achieve the legato slurs. Beginning at 1:03:45 in the lesson, I go over these fingerings in detail. You are correct that both hands use the index fingers simultaneously with the 5th fingers to play the first minor 6th legato and connected to the next minor 6th, which is played with fingers 3 and 1 in both hands. It is on the sets of fingers 2 and 5 where we connect the slurs, and the sets of fingers 3 and 1 where we go off on the slurs. Please watch this part of the lesson where I explain and demonstrate this fingering pattern that repeats 32 times for the entire Cadenza! I hope this part of the lesson and the Addendum I made and use in the lesson will be helpful for you!
Please can you tell What sheet music are you using ? Merci
Hello Marie, the sheet music I am using in this lesson is from my edition, the Sally Christian Piano Edition. I engrave the music using public domain music, and use these New Layout Charts in every teaching video I give. If you are interested in them, please visit my website at SallyChristianMusic.com or to order your chart, please click on this link: Order Chart Now: store.payloadz.com/u/sallychri...
I send best wishes to you! 🎵
I've got nothing to Say but Bravissima...
Hello Lawrence, thank you for your beautiful and very appreciated words! With all best wishes to you. 🎵
I Just finished the whole month of january disecting this marvelous piece and finally im smoothing It out..only the tortuous part the finale cadenza im stili derailing on the fingerings but im patiently repeating till now everyday to perfect it
@@lawrencemangiba7497 Great work! Yes, the cadenza section requires much slow, hands alone, and correct repetition to get it in the "finger /rote" memory. You are right, patience is the key! 🎵
I like very much your very detailed teaching accompanied by historical annotations and your paragon to figurative nature...i think every teacher should do the same as pauses to theory, it gives the 'push" to every student's fantasy...again my compliments to your bravura
@@lawrencemangiba7497 Thank you so much for your generous and articulate words! I really appreciate everything you have said. I especially resonate with your phrase "it gives the 'push' to every student's fantasy. My teacher, Philip Lorenz, taught is a similar way. He would describe parallel literary and historical worlds that complimented the music. This inspired me and helped me to make my own interpretations while still staying faithful to the score. 🙏
Hi Sally, I'm thinking F.Chopin wrote this when he was with Aurora Dudevant a woman
who took on the name of George Sands as she was a novelist and knew she could not
get anywhere as a woman, a glass ceiling even back then. I read their relationship was
quite stormy at times, maybe it is showing up here? lots of passion.
Hello Raymond, yes, the relationship between Chopin and George Sand was one of the most fascinating and extraordinary in musical history. It also ended tragically, especially for Chopin. We would know so much more if she, after ending the relationship, had not destroyed all the personal letters in her possession from the eight years they were together.
@@SallyChristianMusic Hi again, From what I read, there was a scuffle
between Chopin's woman and her dughter/s. Apparently, Chopin took the
side of the daughter/s . . . well I guess he really went by his true feelings,
not that it worked out for him. makes me wonder if this opus 10#3 was
written after the break-up. He was rather frail in health and between that
and his loss of a woman he loved to some extent, seems she saw him one
last time, held his hand, then he was gone. . .but his music still lives on. . .
Do you think that chopin etudes are the fundamentals of piano technique?
Hello Mohan, thank you for your excellent and thought provoking question. I think the Chopin Etudes address many of the technical difficulties we may face as pianists, as do the etudes of Liszt and Rachmaninoff. It has been said that if one can play the Chopin Etudes, one can play anything! Building the fundamentals usually starts with learning scales, chords, inversions, arpeggios, etc. and progresses in difficulty with combinations and extensions of these. There is no question that practicing scales is one of the fundamentals. An expanded version of playing scales is to play parallel scales with each hand playing thirds or sixths. I begin my practice session with these. They are written by Plaidy, and are in a volume called Plaidy Technical Studies. Anything with these "double-stops" is great preparation for developing strength and suppleness. Chopin wrote three etudes using different combinations of thirds and sixths with his Opus 10, No. 7, & Opus 25, Nos. 6 & 8. His Opus 10, No. 4 is a good example of using some of the fundamentals in the most extreme form of difficulty.
@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you very much ❤️
@@mohanshawcellist You are welcome, it's my pleasure!
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I don’t like it
I see you are an imperial fan as well
Hello Matt, yes, absolutely! It is a magnificent instrument!
Dear Sally, this is to express my gratitude. My now 6-year old son has used your structured analysis to help learn this piece. I also watched this tutorial with him multiple times. Here is a video of his performance at a concert recently. ruclips.net/video/CJqPmGde1sM/видео.html
Dear Steph, thank you for your beautiful words of acknowledgement. You are very welcome, it is my pleasure. I am delighted that you watched this tutorial with your son, Luc-Emma, and am especially happy that Luc used the Color Structural Analysis to learn the piece! I watched Luc's recent performance playing this Chopin Etude and was very impressed! He already has such composure and has an obvious love for the music. Luc shows great musical and pianist gifts. It was a joy to watch and hear him play such a difficult piece at the young age of six! 🙏 I think you and your son have a marvelous and fulfilling musical journey ahead. Congratulatuions to you both for the wonderful work you have already done. With very best wishes for a lifelong journey with the piano! 🎵💕
12:00got a little angry for a second there didn’t you doctor?
Great job btw
This video is an etude.
Hello TBHigg, thank you for your nice comment which I really appreciate. Yes, this project was very labor intensive making the pdfs, script, and performance. When it was finally completed, I gained a deeper understanding and greater love for Chopin and his genius.
Dear Sally please pity the beginners,you promised me long ago bach first fugue WTC1 when you were doing its prelude in C major.... Thank you in advance
Dear Zuheyr, yes, I understand your frustration having waiting so long for the WTC I C Major Fugue lesson. This fugue is not a beginning level piece. It is more on the level of the Bach 3-Part Inventions / Sinfonias. I am working full time on these videos and am going as fast as I can. When I first launched my channel in 2012, I started with the earlier level repertoire. Since then, I’ve had to carefully decide just which projects to do next. Some of these pieces have been on my personal wish list for decades, and these have naturally come first. I have received hundreds of requests for various teaching videos, and I would really like to do them all at some point. My responses are always that “I have added them in my queue of projects I would like to do in the future.” It is not a promise for immediate turn around production. The reality is that each video takes months and sometimes years to prepare. The videos have evolved over the years as well, and have become extremely labor intensive. They involve making 3 separate parts: the engraving of the chart music with the multiple pdf supplies, the teaching video, and the memorized performance video. Many of these pieces are new for me, and I have had to learn them and memorize them as well. This often takes a year or two. I have already made engravings of the complete Bach 2-Part Inventions, and this year I will be working to record the lessons and the memorized performance videos for a few more of these. Inventions 11 & 15 were requested in 2013, and I very much hope to finish these this year! I do have plans to go back to some of the beginning repertoire, but my authentic calling in the last several years has been geared towards the intermediate to advanced level literature that is part of the concert repertoire. This is a very long answer to your request. I hope it will reassure you and others who are also waiting for their requests that I have not forgotten your requests or you! To conclude, I like the saying: "All things in right time." Best wishes to you.
@@SallyChristianMusic You are so good. It was only more than half jokingly put, you know that. Thank you for everything you do. I am sure everywhere around the world people love you and follow you. Just please do tell me one thing, which Bach piece that you teach that is the easiest? All the best wishes to you and to your loved ones for 2021. Thank you million times.
@@zuheyr1 Thank you Zuheyr, you are very kind and thoughtful! I was not sure if you were joking or not, but because this is not the first time I have been "reminded" of a request not yet fulfilled, I thought I would take the time to answer in more general terms! Of the easiest level Bach pieces I already have made, I recommend the Minuet in G and the Invention No. 1 in C Major. You could also try the Petzold Menuet in G, which in publications from my childhood was thought to be written by Bach. FYI: I do have one other easier level Bach piece I am preparing now, but would like to keep it a surprise until it is finished. :-) Thanks again for your patience!
@@SallyChristianMusicthanks from the bottom of my heart. I will immediately look for these lessons. I once bought WTC Prelude1 your landscape sheet music. Do you also have them for the minuet and invention? Thank you.
@@zuheyr1 You are most welcome! Yes, I do have charts for these pieces. Every teaching video I make shows me using the chart I also made for that piece. You might also enjoy playing the Haydn Menuet in G. When you watch any video, you will see a link below my thumbnail that says Order Chart Now: store.payloadz.com/u/sallychri... When you click on this, you will be brought to my PayLoadz Storefront. Click the See More button in blue at the top right corner, and you will see a list of every chart available. Keep scrolling down until you find the title of the piece you want. There are two total pages. I hope this helps. All my best to you!