Hello Sean, thank you for your wonderful, enthusiastic, & appreciated words. :-) I'm happy to see that you subscribed, too, and all best wishes to you!
Hello Victoria, I am so touched and delighted by your wonderful comment! Thank you for your generous words of acknowledgement and support. I am also happy that you now have your chart of the piece. :-) Wishing the very best to you with your playing and with your musical journey!
SallyChristianMusic Yes, Sally, it’s true. You are an amazing performer and a unique teacher! I can appreciate your work because I am a piano teacher too. (Soviet Union music education)
@@Vikki825 Thank you so much, Victoria! Your enthusiasm for the teaching & performance videos has all the more meaning for me knowing that you are also a music teacher! With all best wishes to you and to your students!
Hello Heidi, thank you so much for your kind and very appreciated words! I am delighted to hear that this tutorial will be a good resource for your son. :-) I wish him great success and joy as he learns and performs this wonderful piece!
Oh, how VERY nice to hear these words! Thank you, James, for your thoughtful and generous message which has touched me very much. I extend the same to you, your family, and your wonderful musical community!
Hello Cualisina, thank you for your very nice words, and for sharing the wonderful story about your mother's memories of having played this piece! My best wishes to you and to her!
Hello Las Vegas Guitar, thank you for your enthusiastic and appreciated words about the performance at the end! This is a great intermediate level recital piece, and is very well written for the pianist. I'm happy you are now acquainted with it, and hope you will play it one day. Best wishes to you!
I've recently returned to playing the piano and taking lessons after a long hiatus, and have started keeping a "wish list" of pieces I want to learn once I'm up to them. This is definitely going on the list! It looks like so much fun to play. Bookmarking this video so I can watch it again then. Thanks for all the amazing, in-depth lessons and performances you post online. I'm really enjoying them and finding them inspirational. :)
Hello Melissa, I am delighted to read your responses to Pieczonka's fantastic Tarantella! I encourage you to start learning it as soon as you can, even playing it at a slow tempo. It is one of the most fun and rewarding pieces to play, and will be well worth your efforts! Thank you for your generous words about the teaching videos, too. I am so happy to hear that they are helping to renew your passions for the repertoire! I wish you every joy and success with your piano playing!
Love your teaching. Your teaching like teaching a dance, with passion n energy. Your performance is amazing, love your beautiful texture of the piece. And you are beautiful n elegant.
Hello Grace, thank you for your wonderful and beautiful words! I really appreciate everything you have said. Playing this piece for me is like a dance! You are a kind, thoughtful, and generous person, and I wish you all the best on your musical journey. :-)
Hello :) Sally. Always love watching your lessons and they are amazing. Its been 5 months since I started learning Piano and I am currently working on this song. And watching your lesson helps me more than having one hour lesson twice a week from my Piano teacher ;) thanks a lot :)
Hello Seunghoon, thank you so very much for your wonderful words of acknowledgement! It means a great deal to me to know that the lessons are helping you to this degree. These teaching videos are a labor of love, and your supportive words encourage me to continue with this work. I send you many wishes for a long and fulfilling life with music and the piano!
Hello Jerry, thank you for your very kind words! I really appreciate hearing that this lesson is inspiring you today as you write your own Tarantella. This is just awesome! I would love to hear your piece when it is finished. Thank you for subscribing, and for your support. With very best wishes to you, and much joy and success with your Tarantella!
I love your video deconstructing my very fave piece. I played this entire piece, fully memorized from childhood until my late 20s. Then I no longer played. Fast fwd to now, and I get a wonderful Yamaha p125 digital piano for my 73rd BD. Of course, my first attention is turned toward relearning this phenomenal piece. Its a struggle, but I'm determined! Your passion has inspired me to persevere! Thank you, Sally. Wish I could sit and take lessons from you! Love this video!
Hello Justa, thank you so much for your wonderful words about this video! I really appreciate hearing that it will help you to persevere with your piano studies. What an exciting new chapter for you to begin your 73rd year with a beautiful new Yamaha digital piano, and go back to this fabulous piece that you played from your childhood! I love hearing stories like yours, and thank you for sharing it here. I know you will be an inspiration for many viewers. I will be with you in spirit as you re-learn this Tarantella. Sending you my heartfelt best wishes!
Bravo!. Un genio Aristóteles. Espero que al traducir ésto que escribo se entienda bien. Estoy trabajando esta obra con una de mis alumnas. No la conocía, la encontré hace poco y nos pareció genial. Es muy disciplinada lo va a lograr.
Hola Milagros RS Conservatorio, gracias por tus maravillosas palabras sobre esta pieza. Estoy muy feliz de que lo haya encontrado y de que esté trabajando en ello ahora con su muy capaz estudiante. Agradezco su apoyo y les deseo lo mejor a usted y a sus estudiantes. 🎵🎹
@@SallyChristianMusic Gracias Sally!. Voy a tener muy en cuenta las indicaciones de tu vídeo. ¿A qué tempo la recomendás?. ¿A cuánto la corchea?. En mi cuidad el conservatorio de música está cerrado por falta de calefacción. Bendecida semana!. 🇦🇷❤️🇦🇷👏🏻🇦🇷👏🏻
I absolutely loved everything about your video. I am currently learning the Tarentella and you bring so much texture to the piece! Bravo on your playing, you're fantastic and so much fun to watch. Incidentally, your end quote is actually not by Aristotle, but rather a philosopher named Will Durant, in 1926. Aristotle said: “As it is not one swallow or a fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy.” He also said, “these virtues are formed in man by his doing the right actions.” To bring these two selections together, Durant elegantly clarified their communion by stating between them, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Hello Ilana, thank you for your wonderful words about this video and about the performance! I appreciate you pointing out that Will Durant is the author of this powerful statement: "Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” I wish you much joy and excellence with your music, and may you have a happy, healthy, and safe New Year 2021!
Wow! ... thank you, Dwight, for your wonderful words and most synchronistic suggestion! I have been considering making a video about the "Chart Story," and would include related musical & personal experiences. I really appreciate your support, encouragement, and vote of confidence. Very best wishes to you!
hi can you do Edward Macdowell Hungarian Etude piano opus 39 no 12. I played it as a child, the sheet music is daunting when I look at it as an adult. Very informative re: Tarantella, I love the history.
Thank you for your kind words about the Tarantella and your request for the MacDowell Hungarian Etude. This etude is a great performance piece. I will consider doing it for a future teaching video. Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎵
Hello, and thank you for your question. The rhythm is 6 8 time, which is a compound meter. It is marked Presto, so when you count out loud, you will feel and hear the rhythm pulsed in two small groups in each measure, with the emphasis for the 6 beats like this: ONE two three FOUR five six. Please see in the opening 5 measures of your music that the 6 eighth notes in each measure/bar are beamed into these two small groups. These two pulses per measure are what you would conduct and what you will feel. I hope this helps, and best wishes to you with your competition.
Great information and great technical wisdom. However it is hard to follow you even with the music in front of you. It makes it hard to see where you are unless you know the piece very well already.
@@celina3797 Thank you for your excellent question. For me, the emotions I feel are: Questioning and slightly mysterious for the brief introduction. For the main section I feel a driving energy and excitement as well as a skipping playfulness. The contrasting middle lyrical section makes me feel more tranquil, with a mood of loveliness and grace. This is a fun and delightful piece to play! 훌륭한 질문에 감사드립니다. 저에게 느끼는 감정은 다음과 같습니다. 짧은 소개에 대해 의문이 있고 약간 신비합니다. 메인 섹션에서는 드라이빙 에너지와 흥분, 건너 뛰는 장난기를 느낍니다. 대조적 인 중간 서정적 섹션은 사랑스럽고 우아한 분위기와 함께 더 고요한 느낌을줍니다. 이것은 재미 있고 유쾌한 게임입니다!
Hello A. Almeda, the intermediate level is a broad catagory and covers a wide range. If you are more of a beginner, than this is a difficult piece. If you are on the other side of being an almost advanced player, than it is not that difficult. Please do not be discouraged. It is a long road to being able to play this "intermediate level" piece easily. With consistent and careful work over the years, though, it does happen! Best wishes to you with your playing and progress. 🎵
@@SallyChristianMusic i believe you teacher Sally, i was just kidding. I reached grade 4 level when I was 8 and I stopped my lessons. I also never learned how to sight read, I could read the notes on the bar, but can’t play by just reading the piece, I just memorized the notes and read/counted notes on the piece slowly to figure out what I missed. Now getting back to it in my 40s..I can kinda can play this now at a good speed, just not as nice flowing and accurate, but this is probably the hardest level I’m aiming for..i read this is grade 5.
@@allancheli thank you for your thoughtful explanation about your early piano studies and how you had to learn a piece. I think it is wonderful that you are getting back to the piano now and are working on this piece. You might try to incorporate in your practicing 5 minutes a day playing exercises from an easy sight reading book. By doing this, you will slowly but surely become more comfortable with reading, and you will have a more solid foundation. I am pulling for you to stay with it! 👏
