Mastering Trills in Piano Playing

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In this short lesson I explain some basic tips about mastering trills, and some important interpretation aspects when using them.
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00:24 Playing trills using finger movements
01:28 Playing trills using forearm rotation
02:09 Mastering trills: a simple practice method
03:41 Supporting the finger/weight management
06:15 stylistic tips
07:23 Playing trills efficiently in the context of a musical line
08:26 How fast trills should be?
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Комментарии : 58

@edgarsnake2857 3 месяца назад

Your technique is dazzling. And this lesson is very helpful. Thanks.

@LiliVG 29 дней назад

Excellent explanation of how to approach trills. I am now working on Mendelssohn’s Venetian Boat song opus 30 no 6 and there are some pretty long trills. I have played trills before but never such long ones as written by the composer. Thank you Denis. You are a concert artist and years of experience playing and teaching has allowed you to break concepts in little segments. Thank you!

@DenZhdanovPianist 28 дней назад

Thank you! There is another video and a comprehensive course on this piece: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VOgLXqjSbYA.htmlsi=Yinu5Eza5X1up7qj

@ignaciogianola4338 6 месяцев назад

Your videos are amazing! Can you make a video explain articulations tips.? Thank you!

@tiamat1628 Год назад

One of the best teachers on YT for real. Detailed explanation for every step.

@christophernorman8127 Год назад

More usefull than the often seen " pedagogue " style master classes, the gems from which are, for me at least, "too hidden" .... i.e. really you would need to have a course of lessons from these teaxhers to understand what they are on about.. Denis's videos are, in contrast, less esoteric and therefore more suited to the utube format.. Methinks

@sualee3883 6 месяцев назад

I find 1-2 trills in the first movement of the Schumann Fantasie challenging! 1-2 is definitely not the most effective trill fingering… I am still working on 1-2 trills, but my trills with other fingers have improved a lot, thanks to your methods!

@DenZhdanovPianist 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for a feedback!

@gergerklekle9400 Год назад

Yes, Denis is very very very good -- I am really impressed and glad 💯❣

@fionanogawa1730 Год назад

So helpful to have such detailed explanations - thank you!

@mabdub 2 года назад

Thank you for the tutorial, very helpful.

@williammanico2359 Год назад

What a wonderful lesson and insights and demo

@homayousefzadeh3635 Год назад

Thank you so much,very helpful.

@nelsonjoseperez-sosa8809 Год назад

Wonderful explanation!

@suzanneroyce9300 5 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@thomasford8197 Год назад

These are outstanding videos, certainly among the very finest but clearly at the top. One or two things I would love for you to post would be on double trills and trills with auxiliary melodic notes (see Beethoven op. 53, op. 109, op. 111, mvmt. II). Another particularly troublesome trill issue is at the recap. of op.57, mvmt. I , rh trilling with C & Db chords in the same hand. Thanks.

@DenZhdanovPianist Год назад

Thanks, will keep it in mind!

@luctorres9161 2 года назад

Interesting to learn that our hand axis is indeed not the third finger but the 2nd finger ..... thanks Denis !!

@DenZhdanovPianist 2 года назад

Yep..

@vanewfies 2 года назад

I do love your video! You always put things in a very clear and simply way, with a very modern and physiological approach! If one day I should decide to resume my piano playing I will contact you for piano lessons!

@Basti4231 6 месяцев назад

That one day, is today my friend! You are watching this video, not randomly. So align yourself with that feeling and get your dream going!!! Happy practicing.

@coralreef909 Год назад

Care to give some advice on the cadential octave tremolo trills in the first movement of the Brahms piano concerto No. 2 in B Flat opus 83 ? Fingering suggestions or other technical advice ?

@elizabethasenova3166 Месяц назад

Hello Denis, I played the piano for 8 years in my childhood. I stopped playing in grade 8. After almost 20 years of not playing, during COVID, I bought an old Baldwin and now I am practicing every day. Right I am learning Chopin' s famous nocturne in C- sharp Minor and I am having troubles with the second embellishment at the end of the nocturne. Do you have any suggestions on how to achieve this vertiginous speed. I would really appreciate if you make a video on the Nocturne C-sharp Minor embellishments. Thanks.

@DenZhdanovPianist Месяц назад

Hi Elisabeth, I have a comprehensive tutorial on this piece here: bit.ly/3vOoqp2

@cesaralves2303 Год назад

Great video Denis! Any tips on controlling the trill loudness as you increase their speed?

@DenZhdanovPianist Год назад

After you implement correct motions as explained you’ll be able to gradually play a trill lighter, by controlling the strength of the hit. Staying really close to the keys helps here

@bzeliotis Год назад

Great , thanks for the excellent video! Question: If one uses a combination of thumb and fingers, does the forearm move in and out so that the thumb can play easily? (For instance in the G major menuet by C. Petzolt (Bach), on the 2nd beat of the 3d bar if one uses right hand fingers 321 to play the trill)

@DenZhdanovPianist Год назад

I personally wouldn’t use much of a forearm in out motion for trills, but such things need a personal approach.

@velcroman11 Год назад

This was a very interesting video and I did get much from it. I did feel frustrated that there was no video over the piano so that I could actually SEE your fingers actually moving. I felt this was necessary as you said trills where better when using the thumb and another finger while applying wrist rotation.

@DenZhdanovPianist Год назад

Thanks, sorry that you feel dissatisfied. Next time!

@DBoudewijnAussems Год назад

What about double trills in one hand? What is the best way to do them?

@etudeando 2 года назад

Working on 12 Mozarts variations and found that everyone makes different trills😆

@DenZhdanovPianist 2 года назад

Yep

@RUT812 Год назад

Oh yes!

@mitchnew3037 7 месяцев назад

Hi Mr Zhdanov , there are trills in Mozart Sonata no.8 1st movement that use the fingers 3 and 5 and for me , they are always uneven . How should I practice them? Thank you 🙏

@DenZhdanovPianist 7 месяцев назад

I’d first see if there are other fingering options. But you can apply same practicing strategies and additionally prioritize the evenness, not the speed. Those trills were meant for lighter instruments which sounded even if you’d barely touch the key.

@coralreef909 Год назад

Mordents? Like occurs frequently in Bach,Mozart and Haydn written for the fortepiano or harpsichord with very light action ? Modern instruments like Steinways and bösendorfer present new challenges and problems unique to their actions.

@DenZhdanovPianist Год назад

Modern mordents’ mordant mordacity. 😅

@NimeuMusic 2 года назад

Denis, what is your favourite book on piano playing or piano practice?

@DenZhdanovPianist 2 года назад

Probably Chang’s book, the link is in the description of this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vBQoMzwC2Ec.html

@NimeuMusic 2 года назад

@@DenZhdanovPianist I like that book too! It seems to be pretty controversial somehow but it’s solid advice in my opinion. My piano teacher is from Russia and her teachings are pretty in line with Chang‘s book.

@DenZhdanovPianist 2 года назад

Any piano teaching is controversial from another perspective. We can more-less agree only on basic amateur level things (and yet not always), but as higher you go, as less musicians and approaches you are fully agree with.

@m.a.g.3920 3 месяца назад

L'isle joyeuse beginning trills...😅 Those are incredibly exhausting

@ScruffyTubbles 2 года назад

I have an Oxford University Press edition of "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" and in the first few bars (number 5 I seem to recall) the letters 'tr' appear over two large chords (left and right hand) so any tips how to play that !!!!? Denis.?

@DenZhdanovPianist 2 года назад

I would have to see the score in order to suggest anything… if you can upload it somewhere like google drive and drop the link to the file here, I’d be glad to tell you what I think

@eltonwild5648 8 месяцев назад

What if the trills have an acciaccatura note before them?

@DenZhdanovPianist 8 месяцев назад

Interpretation might depend on a specific context (for example playing on or before the beat, making it quicker or slower, etc.), but the technical approach is similar.

@pianoforte17xx48 Год назад

Same technique applies to left hand trills as well?

@DenZhdanovPianist Год назад

If the left hand has a significantly different physiology, like fingers are growing right from the elbows, etc, then of course not!

@pianoforte17xx48 Год назад

@@DenZhdanovPianist ha ha.. very funny...

@RUT812 Год назад

@@DenZhdanovPianist 😂

@magicmoths6018 Год назад

Hi Denis, My trills are terrible.. my fingers just seize up… I am learning the Italian concerto and there are a couple of very long trills in the first movement… perhaps I am aiming too high for an intermediate player who just returned to practice after many years.. I am 53 😬

@DenZhdanovPianist Год назад

😅 good luck!

@radoslavdragnev8797 6 месяцев назад

Piano actions used to be lighter ? WhAT? REally? So why does everyone suddenly prefer heavy actions over lighter ones? Especially pro pianist they say that light action keyboards are not real pianos they are toys. I'm confused. A medium heavy action works best for me. To Allow for technique development , but also not so heavy and stiff to damage and hurt my fingers and feel fatigue after I play for awhile

@DenZhdanovPianist 6 месяцев назад

If you will find some access to try historical pianos of the 18-19th century, it might be a revelation experience. It’s not the same as modern days unweighted e-pianos, that’s a different issue.

@christophernorman8127 Год назад

* teachers...!