Josh: You are an extraordinary Maestro in all ways. I can´t begin to tell you how grateful I am for the passion you put on each video. I have found in them, great advice and wonderful solutions in my career to become a pianist. Playing the piano is a difficult task, and sometimes it´s mastering can be a long labyrinth of frustration. For students of Conservatories around the World, like myself, you are a source of motivation and guidance. You are an example of perfection not only as a pianist/musician, but as a person in general. I wish you all blessings, and I look forward for the time when I am ready to have lessons from you :)
Josh, I would like to know, how do you use your iPad (Pro 12.9" ?) in regard of music. I know that more and more musicians transferring from paper to digital sheet music. I personally also started this big trip (thanks to big iPad Pro 12.9" and Apple Pencil for fingering, annotations etc.) and great forScore app. Ah, and Bluetooth pedal for turning pages! I personally use AirTurn PEDpro because it's compact and lightweight for traveling musicians. There are some advantages that iPad gives me: • All your sheet music always with you in one slim and lightweight device. • You can find any specific sheet music composition very quickly and easily. You can organize them in different ways (composers, genres, tags, groups, set lists etc. Even by mood, difficulty or rating). • Easily to make notes, fingering etc., plus more possibilities (tools) for that. • There are sheet music templates available in forScore, so, you can write some draft music into them. • Sometimes, practicing in late hours in musical college or academy I was dissatisfied with lamp lights (not enough light). I wouldn't experience this problem with iPad Pro 12.9" because of understandable reason (it lightings itself, and you can adjust this). • You can link music file (mp3 etc.) to specific composition and listen to it instantly. You can record yourself as well (maybe quality is not so good, but enough for self audition). • You can make links in sheet music which will instantly bring you to the right place (useful for reprises etc.). • There are extra built-in tools like metronome, tuner etc. And also Analytics dashboard, which gives you wide abilities to control, how much time you spent for every specific composition every day, to adjust some goals and control them. So, the abilities are almost endless.
Want to be a musical historian, and IMSLP helps most definitely. Here I view Mozart’s manuscripts of his best masterpieces, including the Requiem, Posthorn serenade and his quintet in G Minor. If only they produced facsimile books as well...
This was great, been searching for "classical piano sheet music pdf free" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Jonwen Doniden Rule - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my partner got amazing success with it.
Pierre Nic. There are also plenty of non-urtext music books as well. Off the top of my head, Dover Publications published a very well edited edition of the Beethoven Sonatas. Alfred is also very good for Bach and the new G. Schirmer Performance editions are also VERY good. But I definitely agree that most urtexts are really "the best".
Hello, I have a question and hope someone could help me a bit. Is it better to find a teacher on classifieds advertisments, internet or something else? If anyone has a clue I'd be grateful! :) (sorry if I made English mistakes)
Thanks everyone for your advice, then i will see if I can find a music school or in music store where I can ask if they know someone! I'm a beginner (on a scale from 0 to 10 i would give me 2 ahah), i'm not even sure it's useful to have a teacher at this level but well I'd say it's at least more interesting than alone.
Tanguy: In my opinion, Josh Wright is one of the best online teachers I have seen online. For 7 years that I began to study the piano. Where do you live? I am a member of The Art of Piano Pedagogy. I can give you names of reputed teachers
I think you misunderstand what Urtext is. There are editions that are heavily edited.....then there is Urtext...unedited. There are a number of different companies that have Urtext editions...Henle being the most popular. I use IMSLP all the time. It's interesting to compare the different versions. Generally speaking...I use Henle or Peters, although Peters tends to be somewhat edited. I believe Universal also prints Urtext and there used to be the Kalmus series.
What Spock Johnson said. Many different publishers from Alfred (yes, they have a few urtext books!) all the way up through Schott and Musica Budapest. Tons of really bad publishers as well.
Hello Josh, I have tried to find a good copy of the sheet music for "G MInor Bach - arranged by Luo Ni" by searching online to no avail. All I could find was a copy from musicscores which only shows the key signature and the notes - no expression marks, or fingering references of any kind. When I listen to this piece by pianists online, I hear lots of emphasized notes and intricate fingering here and there. Are you familiar with this piece? Here's a reference: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UnMhEEttY2w.html I tried your reference to Google using the IMSLP postscript by couldn't find it there either. I love this piece and I've been working out my own fingering but I'd like to have the original music to see the ornaments and the emphasized notes, etc. Can you help me? Thanks, Paul
