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I’ve been teaching piano for 38 years but there is still much to learn which is why I visit your channel often. My own experience with piano teachers was horrible. I had 6 teachers from age 10-18. My parents kept trying to find someone to feed and nurture my piano obsession. When starting college lessons I realized just how incompetent they all were. Sad. First thing my college professor said was, you need to fix your legato. What??!! She taught me about time periods, sonata form. I learned my first Bach and Mozart pieces etc. it was like a whole world was opening up!! Since I never learned scales or chords, I learned them on my own in order not to take lesson time away from repertoire. I’m sharing this because this type of incompetence is still happening today. I get “transfer” students who are so needy. Because I experienced this myself it makes me both sad for them (and their parents who paid for lessons in good faith) and just a little angry too. So please, prospective pianists chose your teachers carefully. I recommend attending a student recital. Do the students not only play well, but are they comfortable, happy? Best wishes to all of you!
Thank you for the beautiful piece and the explanations. Could you please explain in a little more detail about bars 46-51? I grouped them together in twos as you said, but I wonder if there is a better or more technical way I should do it. Thank you so much for your time and help.
I think a great deal of practice progress is mindset. I always break the pieces down in to small pearls maybe 2 bars/ measures or phrase and spend maybe 10/5/3/2 or 1mins running through these small snippets in a variety of ways ie hands separate together in rhythms blocks etc. hyper focusing on small amounts at a time allows me to absorb much more detail early on and polish these pearls so they shine bright. I then string these pearls together to form the whole necklace for me I find this the most efficient way to begin a piece in the first few weeks I use a strict timer and highlight the score snippets in alternating highlighted colours
Could you please talk about your opinion on the pedaling for the opening theme? Do you use pedal at all or just completely dry? I find pedaling is hardly ever addressed in tutorials and this is sooo important! Thank you!
Beautifully played and with such good technical advice. I think the speed you play it is just correct for me. Time to enjoy the harmonies and the texture of the music.
How does the fingering work on bars 134-136, specifically the high b-flat and a-natural! I can't seem to come up with a good one so far. Your tutorial here is helpful and really excellent!
Schubert begins the impromptu in a way that captures the attention. This helps a lot because the immediately following theme is so important and so quiet that the composer has increased the chance that the audience will absorb it. Also, the homophonic chord lasting exactly three beats recurs on several downbeats throughout the opening section, so even though it's small, could the opening G in double octaves be a motif?
Ho ascoltato questo studio da grandissimi interpreti di fama internazionale. Questa e' la migliore interpretazione che io abbia mai ascoltato. Sei eccezionale! Complimenti!❤
Wow. I k ow younposted this 3 years ago, but i found this today. So beautifully explained and utterly captivating. You have really opened this piece up to me with fresh eyes. Subscription clicked ❤.
