Have you watched Paul Barton's tutorial on the Chopin Op 10 No 2 etude by any chance? He has some interesting exercises for the chromatic scales. One of particular interest for me was the one where you hold a small-ish ball with your thumb and index finger and let the weak fingers play the scales. I wonder if this could be inverted to work for the strong thumb and index as well and if so would that help.
Thanks for sharing these tips with us.The way you handle technique problems helps us understand that there's always a solution for every technique problem and after striving for a certain period of time ,in the end it feels easy and simple when you go over it again.
Thanks Josh you do them beautifully - when I was practicing for ABRSM it was a nightmare and I was constantly on the verge of my tendon going twang. Glad you talk about it in detail here
I see the greatest current classical pianists in the world with tension induced 5th finger issues. Of course they can still pull off the greatest works with this habitual tension. But when removed, sound improves, and speed is less challenging. Good tip here in your video!
Hi Josh, I loved this video. Chromatic scales are really important in a piano technique. Your practice methods work and help me to avoid bad habits and improve my technique. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Hello Josh, I just wanted to take this time to thank you for your incredible piano tutorials. I have admired all your videos. I am new to your channel but I am learning a lot from you. You are now my teacher. I was self-taught before I took lessons for about years but the damage was already done to my fingers. In this video, your fingers stay together as you demonstrated these new techniques. May I ask you which book has this type of exercise? cause I would want to start working on my fingering. Your suggestions are welcome and Thank you so much.
Great tutorial. But you should really consider having an extra camera placed above the piano pointing down at the keys. That would make it much easier to see what you are playing.
Hey Josh could you do an in-depth video on tremolos? I've seen all your other videos on tremolos and I wonder if you could cover some of the complex ones like really long double-third tremolos which require endurance?
Thanks, Josh, for another helpful video. As someone looking to improve some basic skills, wondered if you've covered tips on how to avoid rushing during crescendos? Counting '1e+a' helps alot, but when trying to play more freely (without focusing so much on the counting) everything goes out the window! ;)
Me (beginner) at 00:00: let's improve my chromatic scales speed and technique ... Me at 00:55 after listening at the examples ... let's change instrument!
Another way to relax...okay gonna try to do this in words...use the "centering" technique. If you haven't done this before...do it slowly. As you play from one not to the next, imagine your hand does a small circular motion rotating towards the thumb (always toward the thumb NO MATTER what direction you're going, up or down the keyboard). Make sure when you land, you have the key fully depressed and are using arm weight, NOT finger muscle. Do not anticipate the rotation to the next note, and only move on when the key is depressed fully and your fingers are fully relaxed. Then raise your hand, make the circular motion toward the thumb, then land on the next note, fully depressed with arm weight. And so on. This keeps your arm mechanism centered. Watch that your elbow stays behind your hand. If your pinky starts to stick up when you land, you're not using arm weight, you're using too much finger muscle. For a more visual description, watch Edna Golandsky or Dorothy Taubman videos. Between Josh Wright and those two, you'll make huge strides. By the way...thanks Josh!!!
I'd love to see a video that talks about the difference at the very top. Watched your preliminaries at the Chopin Competition and always wonder what is it that separates you vs. someone like Seong-Jin Cho who just dominated everyone else, when all pianists there already mastered all the fundamentals, technique, etc.
I wonder how much the flying pinkie really matters though. For example, Chopin Op 10 No. 4, right in the 2nd bar, when you go from the E with 3 to the F# with 4, basically every pro pianist I've seen on RU-vid has a flying pinkie in that transition, including Kissin. When I saw that, I gave up trying to fix mine.
@@derinderruheliegt - Thank you for posting that link. Makes me think of the cartoon mouse inside the piano running away from the descending hammers while the cat plays either a classical piece or Raymond Scott's Powerhouse ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YfDqR4fqIWE.html . I doubt the mouse would have survived the Horowitz performance :-O
bruh he doesnt even explain the fingering for left hand -_- nor does anyone ask in comments ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
