Mr Paul , section 8 is one of best pieces of the whole music. !!! I' m crazy for it... how can a man compose such beautiful notes ???? Chopin i love you @!
Absolutely seriously helpful! On another note, Paul, can I advise you to mark the timestamps with a colon like this?: Introduction 0:00 PS1: 2:50 PS2: 8:20 PS3: 9:30 etc... That way RU-vid will automatically create easy to view sections in the video progress bar. As you can see it already did that with the introduction and sum up section. If it was done like that intentionally you can disregard my comment. Thanks for putting out such amazing content again!
Does anything faze you Paul? You seem to make it look so easy but I’m sure there are endless hours of practice behind the scenes. Your tutorials are excellent. I learnt to play piano as a child but I’m not brilliant. Good enough for school assemblies etc or behind closed doors but I love to listen to experts like you and follow the score. Thank you so much .
Thx Paul. The way you broke this piece into sections will make easier to practice. Very few piano teachers teach this way. They will just say it is too difficult for you to learn. Actually, if they break the piece into small section, it is doable. It has been my dream to be able to learn this. After 30 years, I am ready for this piece. Again, thank you for the video!!!
Glad to hear you feel ready to play the Scherzo. If you work to master 20 small sections and view each section is a perfectly achievable goal and be content to play the more difficult sections at a tempo you can manage, it's sure you can realize your dream. In life we often find ourselves being told by someone we can't do this or that. It's not important. The important thing is never to tell ourselves we can't.
holy moly. thank you so much, i have a competition next month, and im playing this piece. before watching your tutorial, the whole piece was a mess. now i fully understand. thank you so much
Coincidentally, I just started learning this scherzo after wrapping up the first. I guess sometimes the universe does sometimes make happy coincidences!
Thank you for this tutorial! I think I will have a go at this Scherzo. Thanks to your help I managed to learn and play Chopin's Prelude no. 24 at a satisfactory level. This might be my next challenge :)
I have always loved this piece and thought it beyond my reach. You have opened my eyes and inspired me to learn it now. I will persist till I have every note under my fingers, not just in my heart. Thank you so much.
Chopin's genius is, ironically, more clearly revealed in the slow practice such as that beginning at 27:15. Very illuminating, thank you for this video.
Thank you for this, Paul! Think the piece is probably still out of my difficulty range, but I love your tutorials nevertheless! Hope you'll do more! Thanks again!
I haved watched your videos since a long time Paul and I got to say that you have really mastered how to teach and how to make a great fluid tutorial. You have inspired me to try this Scherzo and get back into playing the piano! Thank you very much Paul, I wish you the best!
Mr.Paul, I want to thank for every tutorial you have done for us. The work required to produce them is immense yet you make them for us when we request them. Big thanks and may you and your family stay safe.
This is lovely. I was wondering if you could also do a performance and/or tutorial on the first Scherzo. It's so fast that sometimes it's kind of difficult to bring out the right emotions. Have a nice day :)
Very interesting and nice. I like your broad perspective on art, it is not only about playing piano, not only understanding songs, not only painting, not only language etc.!
This is a brilliant tutorial. I previously watched your Fantaisie Impromptu tutorial a few years ago and it helped me enormously in preparation for a concert. This piece is in a different league but the way you explain proper practice techniques makes it seem possible to play and even perform. Thank you. An artist, musician and an outstanding gift for enabling people to achieve incredible goals. A truly amazing human being. 😊
I find your tutorials very inspiring and motivating. I still have a long way to go, a lot of problems to fix and technique to learn, and what's worse I'm doing it on a digital piano. I have made progress and I feel like I can work on the technical issues and improve without struggling with frustration. Thank you.
Don't worry about having a digital piano, as long as the keys are properly weighted (?) It's the musical intention and expression you put into striking the notes that truly matter - after that moment of contact the rest is out of your hands so to speak whether on an acoustic grand or digital piano. It's strange how the fingers can adapt to and overcome the difficulties associated with less-than-ideal piano keyboards. I imagine out there there are many fine pianists that have no option but to practice on old out-of-tune uprights with notes that don't work and sticking keys! Best of luck with your practice!
@@PaulBartonPiano It is a weighted 88 key piano with an adequate sound. I can always dream of better sound quality and touch response of course. But I've come to recognize the particular recording of a grand piano that it uses as something familiar and warm to me *and* I've been working with it's particular, somewhat heavy and floppy, action for eight years now (though I've been practising over twice as long as that) so whether I like it or not that is the default assumption my muscles have about the weight and movement of the piano keys. My current projects are the C minor prelude from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Moszkowski's Etude Op 72 no. 2 in G minor with which I find the most trouble with and Chopin's Nocturne Op 72 no 1. Thank you so much for the encouragement and everything you do sir.
I took note of your comment at the beginning, mentioning any historical recordings we might be familiar with. In my case, I "grew up" with Horowitz's 1957 RCA mono recording and since then, it's been my standard version. Your tutorial made me appreciate this Scherzo even more, to the point of digging out the music and getting beyond the first page. Bravo!
Mr Paul .. thank you for your performances !! As i'm not pianist nor musician i follower you to aware the deep of the music ' soul. By from bellagio como lake italy
Thank you very much for this great tuturial. This really makes want to learn the piece... Your methodology and exercices tips are full of efficiency as always (some make me think about études op10/1 and 25/12). I also appreciated some details about some sections as the way to see it... For example, I loved your "waltz approach" of some sections because this this exactly the feeling I have of theses parts. Moreover I believe that this feeling is probably not an "accident" when we know what a "valse" (and "A flat major") means for Chopin. This conforts the interpretation I have of this scherzo No.2 as the expression of Chopin's dramatic love story with Maria Wodzinska... Otherwise, speaking about "colors" for a general point of view, note that the Bflat major is not so far from "A flat major" (of love) and expresses the "heart" pain (for me), whereas Bflat mino rrather expresses the darkest "mortuary" side of these feeling, maybe the same image that Chopin used to give to his pupils... I loved as well the idea of "question-answer" of the first bars even if after listening and listening the piece I also like the idea of an self question of Chopin after the famous letter he received from Maria at the time he composed the piece. Of course, I have no proof of I'm saying but for the introduction, I like to imagine words such as: (pp) Oh My Ma-ri-a, My Ma-ri-a (FF) What have you done to me ? But all that is just feelings and as you said it well in the video, the interpretation is a matter of everyone's imagination... Lastly, as a more practical point of view, I was wondering about the amount of work for such a piece, compared to an another famous and difficult 10 min long piece: "ballade no.1" ? Keep on going with your great work...
This helped me SO much. This tutorial helped me find new fingering that made a hard passage easier, and the practice techniques are amazing. You’re the best
May god bless you and your family always.Much love to you and your family.YOUR all videos are beautiful and inspiring.May god always be with you and all the very best ❤️😇🙏
Es muy grato , escucharlo , y Gracias ♥️ por compartir sus clases . Es Ud un gran Maestro .Lo Admiro mucho .Le enviamos saludos muy afectuosos desde México 🇲🇽🎹 🎼🎵🎶👏👏👏👏♥️
Dear Mr. Paul, thank you so much, I’m practicing ständchen schubert by watching your play repeatly. It would be a godly gift 🎁 if you have time to do a tutorial on ständchen schubert as well. Greatly appreciated 😘😘🌺 btw, Emilie is adorable 😍
Wooow Paul you are amazing! I wanted to ask you to make tutorial for Heroic Polonaise (op.53) That's my dream piece and if you would find time to make tutorial for it in 2022 you would make my year... Currently I'm working on ballade no 1, also thanks to your tutorials!! Thank you so much for your work!
Hi Paul, thanks for the video. More inspiration to continue learning this piece after putting it down for 10+ years. One very small note, in measure 512, you play an F-flat with the A-flat octave although there is no F-flat here. The chord is repeated with an F-flat in 516. Cheers and thanks again.
Hi Paul, I absolutely love your videos and you are, overall, one of my favourite pianists. Is there any piano exercise book you would recommend for practicing?
Paul Barton Thanks for responding! Maybe No.2? It's the most popular one and I'm currently working on No. 2 which is a bit challenging, especially with the dynamics and fingering. I also want to learn No.4 at some point, but that's after I figure out No.2
Hi Paul, good afternoon. My name is Marlon, I'm a pianist/piano teacher, I'm Brazilian. Congratulations for the excellent videos. A question... what equipment do you use to put the camera on top? Thanks. hug
