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How to play flowing piano passages smoothly and rhythmically

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philbestmusic.com/ When we struggle to get our fingers to play strings of flowing notes evenly in faster passages - or even slow ones too, for that matter - it's always because the sense of rhythm is not awake in our fingers. When we have the rhythm flowing well through our fingers, we don't play with perfectly equal rhythm, but with a natural, complex rhythmic flexibility that sounds much smoother and more even.

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@lshwadchuck5643 9 месяцев назад

There's so much organic subtlety in 'tigadiga'. Letting go so that the way it pulses in our bodies makes it out through our fingers... not a minor skill. When I was self-teaching and confused I'd set my virtual metronome with extra subdivisions and I'd be trying to watch the little lights... and the score... and my fingers. Kind of like my own bad app. Who knew the secret lay deep in my body? Then I googled play piano fluently, fortuitously.

@PhilBestMusic 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for such a deeply insightful comment. Yes the rhythmic intelligence of our body is unfathomably good!

@sallywebber6579 9 месяцев назад

How very helpful to me this video has been. Thank you so much Phil. And you explained it so very well. Warmest regards, Every blessing, Chris

@PhilBestMusic 9 месяцев назад

Glad it was helpful, Chris.

@davidallsopp4030 9 месяцев назад

Excellent video! Very interesting and helpful. I've been thinking about my playing sounding a lot better when I think about it in terms of talking and telling a story and I think that analogy really holds true and is very powerful. Thanks for sharing!

@PhilBestMusic 9 месяцев назад

I'm very pleased to hear that. Thanks!

@RobertHopkinsArt 9 месяцев назад

You are describing the same thing that you can “clean up” by adding some fluctuation to the notes while editing midi notes in Garage Band/Logic, etc. Quantizing the notes down to a 32 or 16 is what we expect to hear in the real world. Right on, Phil!

@PhilBestMusic 9 месяцев назад

Right - some people are very skilled at programming very human-sounding flexibility. That's a whole other skill than letting the body do it it for us but the results can be excellent.

@obscenemachinery 9 месяцев назад

Great points, thank you 🙏

@PhilBestMusic 9 месяцев назад

I'm very glad it resonated! Thanks for watching!

@dagjomar 9 месяцев назад

This is the weirdest episode of Last Week Tonight I’ve seen

@CatfishLove 2 месяца назад

New to your channel and new to learning to play an instrument. I am 62 and want so bad to learn piano and drums, also interested in bass guitar. Could you explain the use of the computer set up on the back of your piano. I will have to teach myself to do all these things so I can do it at my pace. Any help would be appreciated. I have purchased a nice Kohler and Campbell console piano and I also have quality-built guitars and drums. I am currently learning to tune the piano myself. Thanks, Phil, for all your help, and Greetings from South Carolina.

@PhilBestMusic 2 месяца назад

There are lots of different setups. One basic setup would be this... You need a digital piano connected to the computer via usb and an audio interface connected to another usb port on the computer. Then, you need speakers connected to the audio outs of the audio interface. There are loads of videos on RU-vid that show you how to make things work with different setups. Have fun!

@roxroe6731 9 месяцев назад

On some of the videos you posted, you don't play evenly. I think one is from a chopin. Playing evenly or uneven, is it per piece and per composer? I mean how do you choose if its playing even vs uneven? Thanks in advance.

@PhilBestMusic 9 месяцев назад

I never try to play perfectly evenly rhythmically or dynamically. It is humanly impossible. We create the effect of smoothness or evenness through playing from the body with natural flowing rhythm within a stable and flexible groove. So the most "even" playing is not flat at all, it ripples. Some music demands tempo rubato. Chopin and other romantic piano composers from the nineteenth sounds good with rubato, which is just a more extreme form of stretching rhythmic groups within the groove. If you lose the groove, if it breaks rather than stretches, then rubato just sounds mannered and sometimes very odd.

@robertmichalscheck3072 9 месяцев назад

Sorry Phil,but this video does nothing for me,want to hear some good playing,not talk video,just my personal opinion

@PhilBestMusic 9 месяцев назад

OK, but I'm not sure why you would share that opinion on here. It makes you appear a little mean and self-important which I'm sure is not who you are. Perhaps your expectations weren't met on this occasion but many people enjoy my videos that reflect on the art of piano playing, like this one. My audience is made of different people with different requirements and tastes .

@lshwadchuck5643 9 месяцев назад

Then just watch the performance videos. This one has an instructional title. Phil's brilliance as a fluency coach equals his performance virtuosity. His teaching is radically non-traditional and I guess threatening to some players.

@robertmichalscheck3072 9 месяцев назад

@@PhilBestMusic yeah okay I agree,like you say we are all different,have a good day or night whatever it is across the big pond.