Justin Johnson thanks Justin! I agree - it’s not all about the showiness like many of his other works (which I still love haha). Such a beautiful little gem
Justin! I see your comments popping up on all the same videos I'm watching... I had the opportunity to meet this guy (Josh Wright) at a BYU lecture a few months ago. He's phenomenal, and these pro-practice videos are really useful.
Well, it is very virtuosic and very technically difficult, so you could argue that it is showy. But yeah the ‘showy’ attitude of the piece is definitely a lot more subtle here
I know many of you have been waiting a VERY long time for this, and I finally learned it for a concert I played last Saturday, and recorded a tutorial about it this morning. I hope you enjoy it :)
Dr. Wright, I am approaching my last semester for my applied piano class for my school before I transfer and I’ve told my professor that I want to have my last recital for my school to be this piece and with the help you’ve given me it’ll be very helpful and I am grateful for your help
A good tip for remembering S as left in Italian is Sinestra (left in Italian) is where the word sinister comes from since left handed people were seen as 'evil' in a way
One of the most useful tutorials that I have come across on RU-vid. Thanks for your simplified explanations and guidance. As someone who is just now getting back into piano after 15 years, you are an immense help. Cheers from Spain!
Its definitely worth it learning the piano and then being able to play this song later on. Ive been playing this for 3 years and its my go to piece since its muscle memory for me now. Its so satisfying to play
I've always loved this song. I have the sheet music, and learned a little bit of it, years ago. Nice tutorial! ... I haven't watched one of your videos for a while, but just noticed how improved your audio is. Nice balance between your voice and the piano.
I was waiting for this one for a very long time, you have no odea how happy I'm you finally done propractice on it, but there's a thing that interests me even more than this. Namely you wrote in your comment in your latest video that you're going to learn Mazeppa this year. I'd give anything to have propractice on this one
Niccolo Paganini Haha hopefully I’ll have time to learn it. But it’s definitely on the list of things to learn. Thanks for your patience! I will definitely do a ProPractice video on it when I learn it
Yo josh I really love how you described the concept of having a solid touch on each key and the notion of taking each key deliberately is very interesting. You really do have to be... sure. I find that a lot of the time I hit a note correctly but I feel like I've almost... gotten lucky? Like I hit it and I wasnt in control of hitting it I just happened to hit it that time it's like I wasnt solid or deliberate enough. I will try to apply this.
I do the same thing, I’ve found that practicing slowly and consciously feeling each note (even to the point of accenting it) helps for when you practice it at a faster tempo!
I think it's part of the story to allow for the left hand to play that initial Ab. Why? In the beginning, when someone puts in effort to achieve what we can already accomplish easily, we might take note of it, and start a dance :)
1:23 - Josh sorry to bother you but do you hear the dampener when you slowly release the suspended chord - how it degrades the tone as it touches down on the strings? Is that what I am hearing because my piano has this exact issue and I want to fix it.
Hi dear Josh I have a question: the Arpeggios must be play just as how liszt wrote them? in the exact hands? for example: the 2nd arpeggio(Db, Bb, Db, Gb...) 4 notes in the left, and 3 notes in the right? or - in case you have small hands - can you play it with 3 notes in the left and 4 notes in the right?
GUYS UNDER THE CITY I try to read and respond to comments within the first few hours of uploading. It’d be a full-time job to read and respond to all comments across my channel haha
Thing's like Liebestraum, his consolations, and this one really shows his more lyrical and musical side. Always found Liszt's music to be "virtuousity for the sake of virtuousity". Maybe it's the Chopin effect🤔.
Thanks for the great info as usual! Would you consider doing a tutorial on Bártok or other 20th century figures? Bártok's 3 etudes is one of my personal favorites: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-G2E058Ep99Y.html
You make no comment about the creation of the melody, starting with the basic tune and then a repeat in a different Key and return to the original simple theme. I wasn't interested in learning how to play the piano.
