I know how you feel. I do too. And even if I know there’s a clef change,it takes me by surprise because the Treble Clef is in the key of G and the Bass Clef is in the key of F,so if you don’t see the clef change, it’s gonna sound weird and all wrong.
Let's face it, any composition is fundamentally made up of scales and arpeggios (especially this Beethoven!) so your job is to not only perfect your scales and arpeggios but also be able to identify them quickly on the page when you see them. Of course, what makes any composition unique and great is the way in which the scales and arpeggios are altered or reworked with interesting rhythms, so you have to keep that in mind when sight-reading. Bottom line: look for and identify the scales and arpeggios so you can "predict" what is coming next, but learn to keep in mind that what makes any composition special is the alterations made by the composer to those scales which you already know. 🤓
This was such a helpful video. I have a one page beginner version that has just nine measures but it appears to follow what you were playing. The notes in measures 5&6 are tricky with the extra middle G's in the Treble Clef. Thanks for this video!
I am from brazil and i love your channel! You could make a video with tips and tricks about playing big chords with the hands very open, cause when I play pieces that need this, my hands feel so tired
Senza sordini means, as you said, without mutes, but this cannot be translated into keeping the sustain pedal always down with modern pianos. At Beethoven times, the sustain was much shorter than today, then the effect he wanted on his instrument has to be reinterpreted in modern pianos.
What I do is every 6 months, I sight-play through Eduard Steuermann's piano arrangement of Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie op 9. Or sight-play Alban Berg's piano sonata like once a month. It's better to sight-play things that are tonally ambiguous because you won't be able to depend on patterns and common resolutions etc that you have subconsciously mastered through years of hearing and playing music.
Has any ever discussed sight reading beginner method books songs from the John Thompson, David Carr Glover, Randell Faber, James and Jane Bastien, or Alfred Beginner Series?
Thank you for using moonlight Sonata for your lesson today. I Had been listening to beehtovans String trios today while painting. I recently saw the filmfollowing Beehtovav. What a great day this Has been !! D.l.
A little linguistic note from a pretty much NON-sightreader: I think we English speakers all call the opposite of "sharps" "flats", not "b-flats", even though we type the letter "b" to represent one because it sort of looks like a flat. That should make things a little less confusing when you're reading off key signatures. :)
Finally, a piece I can play. Beethoven is one of my favourites because his stuff is so moody. This is probably why I also like Chopin and Brahms and think Mozart is overrated. I find a lot of Mozart's stuff to be flowery and not very deep, but that's just me. I realize this is sacrilege but if everyone was the same the world would be a very boring place.
I fully agree with this- Beethoven’s pieces are definitely darker and deeper and have true substance and depth behind them whereas Mozart and Chopin just aren’t my taste in pieces
Sight-reading intimidates me, everything is complicated and so much to keep track of... it all looks so much easier just to watch the hands of the player or watch the player piano tutorial, " if you can find it" then go back to the sheetmusic. I was told by music reading programs that there are numerous timing errors in sheet music
Italian speaker here. I always thought that “senza sordini” meant one shouldn’t use the una corda pedal when playing this piece because “sordina” means mute, but the plural “sordini” probably suggests that you’re right and that Beethoven was referring to the dampeners. Imo we’ll never know because he spoke German, then he could have not known the difference between singular and plural in Italian. In any case we know that pianos in the time of Beethoven had way less resonance than nowadays, so we should be always cautious about overpedaling as you explained. Nice video :)
I would love to see what you could do with Chopin Ballade no 4 with the 1 minute, 1 hour, and 10 hour challenge. As you've learned all the Chopin Op 10 etudes, Ballade no 4 has some callbacks to the etudes within the score!
I suggest this approach for tonal music like this piece : 1. Identify the key of the piece and if it is major or minor. 2. First practice playing the notes of the key to create some memory of the sharps or flats 3. Practice the chords , at least I, IV and V7 (or i, iv and V7 in minor) . Practice the chords with arpeggios. 4. If also helps a lot to listen ( several times) a recording of the piece to get a sense of rhythms and dynamics. 5. Then start practicing the piece.
@@chmendez Thanks. The problem is that I have good memorisation skill, when I hear a piece it gets stuck in my head and while reading the score I tend to rely more on my memory/ear. If I want to practice my sight reading skills I force myself to not hear before the piece ("prima vista") and only after practicing a bit the piece, listen to the recordings. Sometimes there might not be recordings, so you have to rely solely on "sight reading" skills. But it is personal of course. Thanks for your contribution. I would also add that one can practice also chord inversions (of the chords you mentioned).
I'm struggling with Chopins Nocturne in E flat and I am learning so much abt chords and I got a lot better at sight reading, really, there's no shortcut, only p r a c t i c e
The use of pedal in this movement is tricky. Even if the piece says the use of pedal the whole piece without lifting your foot, the mechanism of pianos and their resonance in classical era is very different from modern pianos. Therefore, you have to experiment different ways to use the pedal that fits the sound you are pursuing and suits the piece.
I feel like you are the best teacher, you always explain so good and you are very good at piano technique and you are very smart at understanding what the composers want to capture in their piece, ❤️
Hi, I'm from Brazil and you as always making amazing videos. Great tips for sight reading, fingering and interpretation. In my opinion, Moonlight Sonata 1st movement is a difficult song, it helped me a lot. I really like your videos and I will continue to follow everything. Best channel/pianist in the world!😁🎼🎶🎵🎹
It is really not that hard. It was the first song I ever learned on the piano. Learning music theory helps a lot as most of the piece can be memorized as chord progressions.
Hi Annique! I was wondering if u could give some tips on internalised counting and playing musically? Been told off by my piano teacher many times on not counting enough😅 apparently i havent developed that habit yet and im at a higher grade already 🙃 Playing musically is also something i struggle with, not really sure how to describe this. But looking forward to hear if u have any tips!! Thank you!
Great video. My teacher always told me that saying "And" when you count is not recommended because there's a risk to loose the pulse and play as if it was 4/4 instead of 2/2 for this exemple
Yes I would agree on this. However, for some people it can help in the beginning to make sure the rhythm is precisely played - later I would change it into counting without „And“ :)
I learned the 1st movement of this when I was 11. I was such a slow music reader it took me 6 months to learn it. Finished it on my 12 b-day as a matter of fact. Today, over 1/2 a century later, I'm STILL "The World's Slowest Music Reader"!! Guinness is looking for me. Over the years I've (attempted to) learned (and forgotten) a couple popular Liszt pieces, Debussy, a nice Chopin etude, etc. I STILL have to count up from the bottom line EVERY little black dot of music!! All these years of counting black dots on lines and it still takes me forever to learn anything. Guess I'll never catch on. I really want to someday (attempt to) learn the 3rd movement of this. Afraid if I don't start soon I might not live long enough! P.S. I need you in my life. js
This just made me laugh, as I am the same you with sight-reading and do still 'count up' on the stave at times 😅 🤭 I love playing the slow movement but, coincidentally - to reading your comment today - I've recently been watching videos of that amazing third movement. I then watched a tutorial and for a very brief moment thought, "COULD I perhaps think about learning even PART of that? 🤔 before swiftly concluding: "Absolutely no chance...that'll have to be one for my NEXT life..." 😆
Danke für die hilfreichen Tipps! Es wäre schön wenn du evtl mal einen weiteren Clip zu der Mondscheinsonate zeigen könntest wo du auf die Betonungen und sonstigen erklärungsbedürftigen Stellen eingehen würdest. Viele Leute wären dir da sehr dankbar. VG
If one sight reads Bach's handwritten scores, one better watch what the clefs are as they differ greatly from the modern editions. Also the repeats may be written way differently so I get lost often ;-)
12:26 is it true that measure 13 , the right hand should be G B C#, E B C#... so a wrong note there... but I think your emotion is probably very close to Beethoven's... 'To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.'
It’s such a pleasure to discover you and your channel, thank you for sharing your knowledge! May I ask what software/App you use to read, scroll, and markup the sheet music on your iPad? Thank you again!!
Loved the video... great content. Clear concise Question: what’s with the Bflat? ? When you say “sharp” you don’t say “Hashtag sharp”. Is it just me? Thank you for posting. 🙌🏼
Could you give me tips for Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor?? I’m trying to learn it for a competition next year, and your tips are always incredible!
Must say your cyber offerings are addictive. Can't seem to pass up any of them. Keep them coming. When you look at staff notation, speaking of sight-reading, do you hear the melody in your head, even so, possibly sensing its mood or character? Secondly, what is your opinion that in music history there have been quite a few artists, some alive today, that have never learned to read music?
Hey, i've been watching your videos for a while, i love the passion and dedication you put in this instrument. I really want to learn piano, but i dont have time for lessons, so i'm looking for a way to learn it at home, do you have any recommendation for where to start? thank you!
Ciao 😊 dal nickname presumo tu sia italiano. Personalmente io ho comprato il manuale chiamato Beyer e sto seguendo le lezioni di un canale su youtube che spiega passo per passo e gradualmente tutti gli esercizi. Basta che digiti Antonio Gennari Beyer e trovi tutto. Io mi trovo molto bene per ora, ho iniziato ed inizio ad avere già le prime soddisfazioni, anche io partivo da zero 😊
I have a friend, who used to study in Lübeck and he could play any piece prima vista. We sight-read Beethoven piano trios and he downloaded the score right before the rehearsal and made not the slightest mistake. It’s incredible
These tips are very good thank you very much. What also helps me a lot when learning a new piece is to listen to the piece on RU-vid and follow along with the notes. It gives a really good overview over the piece and makes sightreading and memorising easier
When I was younger, I used to do sight reading of every piece in my book - only the first page, just to see what the piece sounded like. Eventually, I got better at it. I love how you explained all the steps individually.
You know that everything your learn in music from practice, performance, technic or theory., there is a skillset to learn. Sight-reading is no different. What is different about it in music does not require music to read nor a piano to practice on. It has to do with the realm of muscle-memory. What do I mean about muscle-memory? The ability to reproduce a particular movement without conscious thought, acquired as a result of frequent repetition of that movement. The ability to repeat a specific muscular movement with improved efficiency and accuracy that is acquired through practice and repetition. A form of procedural memory that involves consolidating a specific motor task into memory through repetition. The ability to move a part of your body without thinking about it, learned by repeating the movement many times. Keep this in mind playing the correct keys, and moving the finger(s), hand(s), with arm movement(s) from one side to the other side of the keyboard when reading notes and without looking at the keys.
