Thank you for this video! After getting back into piano after several years away I'm finding myself trying to be much more conscious and deliberate about my technique, and I love how you've broken down the movements. I'm excited to apply these to the pieces I'm working on, and rediscover new elements in pieces I've played for years!
This is extremely helpful, as I have never had a formal piano lesson. Just one question: It looks like you're primarily playing the upper portion of the keys, between the black keys. Am I seeing that correctly?
This is extremely helpful, as I have never had a formal piano lesson. Just one question: I looks like you're primarily playing the upper portion of the keys, between the black keys. Am I seeing that correctly?
I have been searching for a lesson like this for a decade...In Mozambique with scarce Piano teachers, if any out there...This is a gold lesson...I already started teaching using this content to the kids in Juvenile detention facilities and they all love it...Thank you for your time and sharing your experience.
Thanks for the generous explanation! Such a straightforward way to think of it with 5 distinct techniques. Really consolidates things I’ve been trying to figure out. And men, please don’t compliment a woman for being both smart and attractive. It’s like saying “wow you are pretty and also smart, how rare!”
Very sweet of you to share your knowledge and enthusiasm for playing music on the piano. Older, yet aspiring players like me take away much inspiration for our love for music in all its forms, divine expression of the human Spirit! ❤️
Thank you for that video! One of the best lessons I've seen on youtube. I do have a question though, which would you say, out of the five, is the best technique to use when it comes to the left hand of many Chopin's nocturnes?
06:31 Is that outward movement of the elbow necessary? I feel that it makes the shoulder work unnecessarily even though it works for rebounding without going up again
This video is so invaluable! I’m a guitarist learning to play piano, and it’s so tempting to apply guitar - especially left-hand - technique, where very little movement or force is required to press the strings down or even pluck them. Having the context of why a greater range of motion is required to strike the keys is super helpful to keep the guitar part of my brain quiet!
While I do not disagree with the point of rotation, as a physicist, a curve is not always the fastest descent. It must be the right curve, namely, a brachistochrone curve.
I know this is my second comment, but your video made me want to go buy the book, so I did. It is expensive, and I wish it could be reprinted so that it could possibly be cheaper and more accessible. However, it was totally worth it, and I was blessed to receive a little bonus with my copy - stuck in the book were two handwritten notes by Sandor himself to a student of his!! I watched your video again, following along with the examples given. I can't wait now to try all the OTHER examples he gives in his book. Again, it was truly worth every penny (I paid a little over $100 for it). I'm also excited to try these out on the little Bach piece I'm working on right now, the Prelude in F Major BWV 928. Thank you again, so much, for this video!
There are two kinds of teachers, those who teach you how to play, and those who like to show off and brag about their piano pedigree or whatever. I've watched 1:30 and you haven't even touched the piano but instead bragged about Juilliard. Quit trying to waste my life.
She wasn’t even discussing herself; she was speaking about someone else and attributing her knowledge to her teacher. She was providing context. If you're in a hurry, you probably shouldn't attempt to learn anything about the piano or the importance of form, as mastering the piano takes many years.
That piano is a hidden gem. This lady is great also. I started watching and next thing you know it was complete. I am trying to up my piano game so this channel has been helpful and entertaining.
Hello Dr. Lee, and thank you for this very useful video lesson. I have been a fan of György Sándor's recordings for many years, and had just discovered his book "On Piano Playing" when I happened across your RU-vid video. It was very helpful in making Sándor's five motions clearer. I'm a retired violinist who has begun learning piano and the Sándor book has been my bible along with Bartók's "Mikrokosmos" . It won't surprise you that I'm a Bartók fanatic and have been listening to Sándor's recordings of Bartók's music for years. It was when I began studying Bartók seriously that I knew I had to get some facility on the keyboard. You've done a great service by introducing Sándor's teaching to a wider RU-vid audience.
I came for tips on how to play the piano and stayed for the woman with the affable approach. That is probably why people enjoy your company in everyday life, thank you.
Much respect for restoring and sharing a piece of history with us. I'd have never have known anything about this was it not for this video. Hope to see more videos from this teacher.
I am a beginner who watched videos online to learn to play. But I knew my technique was incorrect due to sore hands and thumbs. Thank you for teaching the proper techniques to allow me to practice. I wish I could learn to play effortlessly, but suppose that is where practice and patience will pay off.
@06:55 Free fall. Now that is cool, however the physicist in me can't help note that far from being "effortless" you actually are using more energy having to lift your (entire lower) arm up, before letting it fall back, just to strike the keys. The bigger one's arms are, or the higher you lift them, the more the energy. Moreover I think it's not just gravity doing the work , seems you strike the keys hard coming down and thus you are actually expending even more energy. Maybe better only if used sparingly?
Thank you for posting this! I just started reading this book, and I will be watching this a LOT as a learning companion to it. I have a question though. When you demonstrate the free fall in the Chopin piece, it still looks like your forearm is contracted. Is that to slow down the motion for demonstration? I have read a lot about free fall and the push back it gets. People claim no one actually truly plays in free fall. In the demonstration, it doesn't look like true free fall. How do you think about it? I'm not trying to nitpick. Just really trying to get a handle on this technique. Thank you again for this awesome video!
Correct observation as in my opinion the free fall was accellerated. Does that defeat the purpose of free fall, probably not, because we can include gravity plus an accelleration. Gravity only happens so fast, and if you have to play two octaves quickly after another, you'd be pushing for sure.
