Tiffany Talks/SIGHT-READS YOUR CHOICES 

you also forgot to sight read "Faerie's aire and death waltz" :> p.s. i found, that you never look at keyboard while sight-reading. How does it possible?

Please! For the love of Bob! Am I invisible?! Chopin "Raindrop" Prelude Op.28 No.15! I will upload a video of myself...idk, doing something embarrassing (I know not much of a tradeoff)! If you finally just play iiiit *sobbing*.

Love Haydn Sonatas!!

habits, im actually learning sight reading and from the beginning of learning you have to don't look back the keyboard while playing

Make a video about the ability of your ear... Please :D

Me too!

Count me too.

It's relative. Think she means bad, compared to some of her peers, (other professionals).

Truly! The sight reading portion of the KPE is terrible. I’m so bad at sight reading, not even close to being as good as her “bad”.

Oh no, you guys will be shocked if you compare her sight-reading with me practicing for 3 months.

Ahh I wish there was a way to pin your comment because I appreciate it so much! The whole point of these talking videos is to show that I'm a living person before and beyond the finished music video. Thank you for recognizing what I do!

Gerald Romanow I second this

Ok Gerald Romanow, I appreciate your comment but I'll say Tiffany "struggles" with sight-reading; we need inverted commas there :) ! Beautiful playing, from the first attempt. Of course only an idiot woudl imagine that a pianist opens a book of partitions and plays the way we see them perform on stage. That does not exist. Players of her calibre can be "bad at sight-reading" as she humbly declares, but have a gift and work hard on that gift. Chapeau bas for your work Tiffany.

Yah but her dirty laundry is so clean compared to mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tiffany, thank you for being so honest. This makes me feel want to practice and get better and learn more songs. A lot of prodigy make me feel that I am hopeless and should just give up learning or something. But your video and advice is very real to me and make me want to practice and get better. So thank you so much for posting this.

Figa Zumbi right!! it takes me months to reach the level she's at by simply sight reading it!!

True struggle

I felt so disappointed while watching this you can hear how light and bright her touch is it’s amazing

Lmao

Same!

🙄

How can you not find the middle C? 😂

Prinshi Ahirwar I think he means while looking away from the keyboard

That's why I love Mendelssohn. It's often not too hard and one can start putting in emotion quite early. :)

Totally agree

me too, it's like heaven :)

And practice room with grand pianos. Omg..a perfect world.

Erik Satie ❤️❤️

Erik Satie? Yourself a composer and what a composer! Died with two grands stacked upon each other. You of all? Would you play other composer's music?

Yeah, I'd love to be there!

I’m sorry i guess :D

You can do it! And be better than me :D

Thank you for the reply :) May i request you to sight read or just play some Sibelius?

Music Of Jan You’ll get there one day:) Practice!

Noooo don't be depressed!! Haha I'm sure the latter parts of the video made you feel better :p

Indeed, let us partake in satisfaction in knowing that someone can still make mistakes, but in the end it wilk never really hide the fact that you can't even sight read elementary grade pieces, I'm gonna just cry on my piano

Practice practice practice! That's all it is :)))

I actually wonder how many years of playing & how many of hours of practice per day along with the quality of teaching is required to the sight read like Tiffany. It really is so amazing for those of us who have no clue as to how a player can actually see all those notes on both stave at the same time. Wow.

The first wasn’t bad, trust me read the sheet music!

I was amazed at how well she brought out the feeling of To a Wild Rose on the first go. Really, really nice.

other versions tend to be a little too fast for my liking. Tiffany's tempo here is just perfect!

unpopular opinion: it was not perfect yet (just being honest), but if she executes it this well on first try, she should master it and perform as encore repertoire

I hope she preforms McDowell's "keltic" sonata.

Not sure what else I would do though. Any specific questions?

Tiffany Poon How to sight-read rhythms and subdivisions?

I do as well

Tiffany Poon You should try Etude Op. 39 no. 6- Rachmaninoff

Joel Del Rosario "Sight read Rhythms and Subdivisions" *Takes out score of Brian Ferneyhough's "Lemma Icon Epigram"*

Never give up!!!

Tiffany Poon hehe I never quit 😎✌🏼

i was like that too just last year. I had to read note per note, counting from one of my reference points. Took F O R E V E R. finally spent a week drilling on the site: sightreading.training and I got a little better. Then something clicked about recognizing the patterns in perfect triads and inversions and it feels like I am going 1000% faster (it also helps to know that the first 3 ledger lines above the treble and below the bass spell A-C-E)

Android Kenobi thanks for this! I’ll give it a whirl 😎🙏🏼

The Tempest Tiffany: 1 week Me: (I’m a 10 year old) 4 months Ode to Joy Tiffany: 1/2 minute Me: 10 minutes Tiffany ur sooo good how

Actually you would be better off learning to analyse the structure, practicing scales in every key, complex arpeggios in every key, and concentrating hard on absorbing phrase structures and dynamics on the fly. But yes practice will help but I dont think many professional pianists practice sight reading that much, it's more worthwhile practicing to perfect something.

This is true! Most of us skip sight reading practice yet we want to reach a comfortable level of sight reading skills. There are plenty of sight reading books out there, it is not shameful to start over and play simple piece with at least 6-10 measure for beginner sight reading from czerny, beyer, g.scharfer, faber and faber, cornelius gurlit, a.e muller, notebook for anna magdallena, first lesson from bach, and other books. No effort = No progress.

How about that! If you have found a recording of someone on the Naxos label playing the piece at a different tempo who could possibly argue? Well, Alfred Brendel for one! I have a recording of Brendel speaking at some length about the adherence to metronome markings. He holds that it is wrong to view them as an absolute and rigid direction as to tempo. Musical judgment is paramount. Indeed he gives examples to prove his point, and I can think of many other examples myself. In this case, although Tiffany was playing the piece at sight, I think her instinctive musical sense dictated the tempo she chose, and I think it was the right one. I would add that clearly Tiffany's abilities are such that if someone had told her at the outset to play the piece much faster she could easily have managed to do so.

You played it well....I was kinda shocked that you were not aware of him as a composer....i mean, he's not a BIG name, but he's not super obscure....Van Cliburn was a big champion of his work

@@ckmate23 Yeah, I was shocked too. Then I thought that probably says more about changes (in fashion?) in places like Julliard. It's difficult to imagine a student at Julliard in the fifties or sixties never having heard of MacDowell -- after all, he was (and is) the most important romantic era American composer. But if someone can attend now and never hear of him, well that says a lot about how far out of favor he is. I'm not a young guy, and it doesn't seem that long ago that his second piano concerto had at least a minor spot in the general repertoire. Kinda sad, i guess, but not unexpected.

@@monkberrymoon3999 - I've been playing piano since 1993... and I've honestly never heard of MacDowell. I don't even know the piece, "To a wild rose". For what it's worth, I'm in the UK.

@@squodge Yeah, I think that's completely normal. An American in the 1970s, however, would have come across MacDowell -- especially students (as you can guess, he was a big composer of miniatures). My only point was that even an American school like Julliard doesn't bother with him any more.

Bruce Nguyen hahahaaaaa true fax

Yeah... my self esteem is gone now

Calm down there on the emojis

Humble bragging

@Francis S. Idk they have a burger profile pic so probably something to do with that

like many things, it's relative..

Yea, you can sight-read 100 times better than me (i.e. I can't do it at all).

You forget that you are one queen of the piano. When you will play Mephisto valzer?

LOL tbh for majority of us, our sr is underlevelled for our technical skill, her skill is just too good

A lot of great pianist aren't good sight readers. Alfred Brendel for one.

Yes. I had this in a summer adult piano class about 20 years ago. Same 2 months for me, and she played it much better than I ever did on the first time through! But I'm just a home hack hobbyist, and she has devoted her considerable talent and her life to her artistry. Much respect to the dedication and discipline and plain hard work it takes to get to this level.

To a wild rose is not grade 5 anymore. I think it is about grade 4 but it's still amazing that she can sight read it! It took me 3 weeks to get it right! Edit: I spelt something wrong 😂

That piece is grade 5?? I would think something like grade 1

@@jassskmaster7575 - lol. I'd never heard of the piece, but it didn't sound like a Grade 5 piece, more a Grade 3 piece.

seulgi's bangs I’ve actually heard that’s a major part of sightreading a piece. It helps you to not get lost and you can focus on more if you aren’t constantly looking up and down

Yes she is .

Once you get to a certain level it’s just second nature

She's not talented, she's an incredibly focused and hard worker. Her passion, focus and hard work are way more impressive than talent

@@conorshields6538 she's talented too.

DanPocketMiner practice will do

it's like touch typing on a computer keyboard. you just practise.

I did this when I was young... but maybe try to cover your hands with the lid or cover (I don't know what it's called) if your keyboard or piano has it, while reading or looking at the music sheet. It can be the sliding ones, but that's kinda hard. I've tried that and I couldn't lift my hand when I'm supposed to. This is just a fun thing to try.

@Antario, Here are some ideas: 1. Never forbid yourself to look at hands and keys. Doesn't serve any aim. For kidding ends, take a shawl or so. 2. Try to play a scale you know very well in contrary movement, that's from central C with both thumbs, lh. down, rh. up at once. First couple of times only one octave, slowly but perfectly and relaxed, outward, then outward and back to the middle. You leave the pedal consequently unused. Choose it sounding p, mf, f, mf, p, totally smooth, equalized. Do it staccato too, p,mf,f,mf,p, slowly and elastically jumping, relaxing after each touch. 3. Next day two octaves, outward and inward. The fourth day, not earlier, three octaves. Sixth day, if possible, three octaves but departing from two different C's. See that you'll need eight C's. 4. The seventh day gather the new experiences and own discoveries in this, and describe them (as if) in a short message to a best friend. *:*:* (5 - 8) *:* 9. Congratulations to your growing in getting the overview on what your hands are doing in different corners of the manual. With all control of the dynamics, movements, and articulation. Without crossing eyes. Without forbidding yourself to look at keys or fingers. And, remaining important for this exercise ideas, without using the pedal - being permitted only on Sundays. For the triads. * * *

It's muscle memory hahaha lots of practice

An easier one to read would be etude 42 no. 2 and its beatiful too

Lol

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But do you have a job?

was your uncle willy loman

@@zeropr0ductions631 - No. But that is a great reference!

It's a relatively easy piece but she played it like a master at the first time that she did. On the other hand, she, who has played in public since about the age of four, said that she had never heard of its composer Edward MacDowell. She needs to know that he is a major American composer.

Blackburn11: Amen, and very graciously stated.

You can't find much better pianists that Juilliard faculty, yet I have been studying in the adult division at Juilliard for 4 years and have often been surprised by 20th century composers and pieces the instructors haven't known. Examples: Dohnanyi rhapsodies and Winterreigen, Griffes Fantasy Pieces & Barcarolle, Villa-Lobos Floral Suite, a scherzo by Borodin, Grainger's Handel in the Strand, and more. However, once we got started on any of these the quality of instruction was astonishing - as if they had known these pieces inside out from childhood.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart It’s coming from the sight reading pro so that’s saying a lot.

Maybe it was for releasing tension?

Brian ME

mua

Brian who doesn't enjoy?

They're incredibly difficult! Thirds and the Fourths are my favorites. He was an excellent composer.

I wish I could take away my ability to read.