Love it. Incorporating your shoulders, arms, wrists, the high left hand, the pulling off with the fingers... all very helpful and just excellent information. Thanks for sharing. Just the free tips alone are extremely valuable and will make me a better keyboard artist. Whew! Great stuff, Josh!
So much music... so little time. Life is stuffed full of everything. I'm spending as much time as I have available... and it's all good. Never happy with one thing only. PIano, keys, guitar, recording and producing my covers, singing... seems far simply to focus on piano ONLY, but I'm far too crazy minded for just one. :-) I always watch your videos, though, because you're always presenting such good material. I learn from Bach as much as I do from Bono. I lived in Battle Creek for years. It's cool that you live in Michigan. Anyway, bye for now.
I played "Golliwogts" a lot. In measure 5-8, I would hold back the tempo ("retenu") and accelerate the tempo at about measure 6 and go to the regular "mouvement" in faster tempo leading to measure 9--where the real "cakewalk" action begins!
Thank you for sharing these videos Josh; they are very helpful! I was also wondering if you have a video on how to play a repeated note very fast, by this I mean a note for instance in Liszt's la campanella and the opening of Beethoven's Piano Sonata no.4 op.7 1st movement?
Hi! I just saw your comments and was wondering if you still need it. But for those that still do, a tips for repeated octaves: move up and down the keys, don’t stick in one place because you will be way stiffer that way (learned it the hard way). For single repeated notes, Don’t lift your wrist too high because it will make it harder to alternate between fingers and again, strike different places with different fingers (that works the best for me) and to relax, study Hanon exercise 44 and 47, very useful for repeated notes. Make sure your wrists are relaxed and loose. In Hanon exercise 44 the notes are divided by triplets, so you strike the keys only in the first note of the triplets (still must be very relaxed otherwise your hands will cramp), and you just let the leftover energy bounce off the two other notes. For exercise 47, you do the exact same thing but in semiquavers (divide it in crochets/quarter notes). Even though we strike “harder” on the first note, make sure to keep the tempo steady (the use of metronome is highly recommended if you can’t seem to keep the tempo steady, I also experienced the same problem). After the Hanon practice, you will find it easier to relax and play fast tremolos/repeated notes. That is the method I used to learn tremolos and I hope it helps and stay safe everyone! Warm regards from Indonesia 😊!
The cakewalk is a traditional children's game in which children walk along a circular, sectioned, numbered path as music plays. When the music suddenly stops, each participant must stop on the number he happens to be stepping on at that moment. A number is drawn from a hat. If it matches the number a child has "landed" upon, he is the winner of a big cake.
This piece is brilliant! The man was a wonderful father to write tunes like this for his children.
Great posts! If there were a competition for which piano channel were the best, I would vote for yours! :)
I love ProPractice! Keep 'em up, Josh! If you get the chance, do Heroic polonaise please, hahaha!
Love it. Incorporating your shoulders, arms, wrists, the high left hand, the pulling off with the fingers... all very helpful and just excellent information. Thanks for sharing. Just the free tips alone are extremely valuable and will make me a better keyboard artist. Whew! Great stuff, Josh!
Tom Glander Thanks Tom! I really appreciate all of your kind comments and your friendship
So much music... so little time. Life is stuffed full of everything. I'm spending as much time as I have available... and it's all good. Never happy with one thing only. PIano, keys, guitar, recording and producing my covers, singing... seems far simply to focus on piano ONLY, but I'm far too crazy minded for just one. :-) I always watch your videos, though, because you're always presenting such good material. I learn from Bach as much as I do from Bono. I lived in Battle Creek for years. It's cool that you live in Michigan. Anyway, bye for now.
I played "Golliwogts" a lot. In measure 5-8, I would hold back the tempo ("retenu") and accelerate the tempo at about measure 6 and go to the regular "mouvement" in faster tempo leading to measure 9--where the real "cakewalk" action begins!
Thank you for sharing these videos Josh; they are very helpful! I was also wondering if you have a video on how to play a repeated note very fast, by this I mean a note for instance in Liszt's la campanella and the opening of Beethoven's Piano Sonata no.4 op.7 1st movement?
Hi! I just saw your comments and was wondering if you still need it. But for those that still do, a tips for repeated octaves: move up and down the keys, don’t stick in one place because you will be way stiffer that way (learned it the hard way). For single repeated notes, Don’t lift your wrist too high because it will make it harder to alternate between fingers and again, strike different places with different fingers (that works the best for me) and to relax, study Hanon exercise 44 and 47, very useful for repeated notes. Make sure your wrists are relaxed and loose. In Hanon exercise 44 the notes are divided by triplets, so you strike the keys only in the first note of the triplets (still must be very relaxed otherwise your hands will cramp), and you just let the leftover energy bounce off the two other notes. For exercise 47, you do the exact same thing but in semiquavers (divide it in crochets/quarter notes). Even though we strike “harder” on the first note, make sure to keep the tempo steady (the use of metronome is highly recommended if you can’t seem to keep the tempo steady, I also experienced the same problem). After the Hanon practice, you will find it easier to relax and play fast tremolos/repeated notes. That is the method I used to learn tremolos and I hope it helps and stay safe everyone!
Warm regards from Indonesia 😊!
Well, that’s a long reply 🙃 😅
Will you do tutorial for the gradus as well? I am struggling on how to study it ...
Sorry I don't play the piece, but the best I can say is practice slowly and be patient!
The cakewalk is a traditional children's game in which children walk along a circular, sectioned, numbered path as music plays. When the music suddenly stops, each participant must stop on the number he happens to be stepping on at that moment. A number is drawn from a hat. If it matches the number a child has "landed" upon, he is the winner of a big cake.
Thank you for your insightful comment
when did billy joe armstrong become a piano teacher???
You're so cute. How do your female students concentrate? lol
Brah
This song is beautiful 💚😱
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