Thank you very much for very informative videos.

I'm left-handed, and I've noticed that I can rotate my let wrist much faster than my right. This is happy news for my Alberti bass, but I'm worried my playing will suffer for a weak right-hand rotation. I'd imagine right-handers face a greater obstacle with a weak left wrist rotation. Are there exercises to do to increase the speed of a weak hand rotation?

Never played any Schumann till 2 weeks ago, so I learnt the Träumerei from the Kindersenen. This method is improving bar 3-4 right hand, and probably the other 4 bar phrase endings, which seem to be the trickier bits musically. I think it looks a great way to take some elements of a piece apart! Thanks for the tip!

It's good to start the New Year with your uplifting videos!❤

Welcome back professor! Very valuable information here. Curious, how does the brain handle learning different things in the same practice session. For example, what if I am trying to learn a new piece, chord inversions, and arpeggios in the same session? Is that too many things for the brain to effectively store and recall?

Thanks for placing this link in this week’s newsletter. I missed it the first time you posted it. And yes The quote you posted is perfect: “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today. Let us begin.” - Mother Teresa

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This video literally smells like my old music school. I haven't been playing that technically hard classical piano for ages, but still feel so familiar and close

I'm 65 and have been taking lessons for the past 7yrs. I've had to cease lessons because my thumbs are progressively becoming a big problem due to increasing pain. The weird part though is that the thumbs don't hurt when playing but do when going about my other business. It's unlikely that I'll recover due to needing possibly a year off.

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Also may I know the name of the peice

Amazing

Your technique is so beautiful

Beautiful piano. Would like to spend my practice time playing it. Love the mellow tone and light key touch weight of the Steinway piano.

Hi ❤❤❤ prof

What piece is this?

Brilliant! Thank you!

Great lesson. Thank you for going so in-depth.

Thank you. Great and very informative video.

Thank you for this. I used to play a lot of piano when younger, even finishing a diploma, and stopped when i started uni. Now older I'm a bit dissapointed in how much skills I've lost, but have started piano again with the Arabesque as one of pieces im learning - the video is helping me a lot with my confidence. Ill be rewatching this a lot.

You’re an amazingly beautiful teacher 😊

Great video, thanks a lot! For some reason, I didn't find the pdf in the description, could you please, send me the link? 🙏

Do you ever use the sostenuto pedal in Mozart, etc?

Are tou aupposed to actually lightly touch the 3 black keys tocfind the F key? (Maybe drag your finger tips over the 3 black keys)

I studied this one very badly in college as a near-beginner.

I'll come visit your channel later on. Just {{{beginning}}} my keyboard studying

I ended up discovering I did this the other day for really fast short chromatic phrases when improvising.

NIce video Professor, thanks.

Never been more happy to never have tried piano

Thanks so much! Really learning by example! Happy new year!

This was really helpful. Do you make a distinction between pure warm-up at the piano, vs. technique practice? I am a bit confused about the terminology--warm-up seems to include technique practice (in guitar method books as well; I mostly play guitar, but am a beginner student of piano).

Time to geek out on microphone levels 😅

Great video! I looked through some of your other vids and saw most of them focus on classical piano and idk if you would be willing to make an exception but i would love to see a video discussing some of the technique of Bill Evans!

Thank you. Can I ask why, at the 9:45 mark, youstart the trill on the bottom note? Other videos emphasize starting on the upper note. Curious.

Dear professor, I am playing a Haydn sonata right now and I am enjoying the articulations. I'm doing my best to execute them well! Thank you for your advices and happy 2025!

I better understand what the term "Technique" means. I've only officially reintroduced piano into my everyday life since 2017. And now approx. seven years into it I am beginning to realize that I don't really have "technique". What I have is an undereducated approach, which now after seeing the difference, the contrast is glaring! I saw a nine year old girl in a recital over Christmas and her technique was perfect (my six yr old grandson is 2nd year piano at a music academy- grandfather of the year award, please) and her technique was marvelous! That little girl knew more about technique than I ever did. So now I pay attention to it. Thank you Dr. Boyd!

So far all of your videos have contributed greatly to my new me. I keep evolving in tiny steps and I can see a definite improvement in my own technique. I only really started paying attention to it about a year ago and I've been playing for years. Oh, the things I never knew. Thank you!

Beautiful arrangement!

Beautiful!

Excellent. I've been working on Clair de Lune for longer than I care to admit. But as I delve into the inner workings of it all, I try to follow your advise and apply it to my work. I have one question: Many times I run into what I call "Double Treble" or playing both hands above C4 and both staffs are in treble clef. (same for double bass) But what I notice is that the left hand gets bound up at the wrist because my left arm has swayed over so far and it kinks at the wrist. What is the proper way to play so far to the right of C4?

For some reason, I can't see the pdf you mention. Could you add a link to it?

Hi, I just found your channel and find it both very informative and thoughtful. Appreciate the personal info also. I started playing a couple of years ago, and still surprised that at 66, I'm playing the piano. Have a Happy New Year.

I play drum kit and tried to learn piano once from one of my friends… safe to say the pedal was what barred me (i play punk music so I kick really hard for the bass drum

Ours were pretty private affairs, somewhat like a medical exam. Only the three piano professors and no others allowed in the auditorium.

Thank you for this. I am 78 and decided to try to learn some piano but have three frozen fingers. Scales seemed impossible but this has explained a lot. One comment though. It is difficult to see how the opening and closing of the hand in the air translates to the keyboard, Even though you are slowing it down it still happens pretty fast. A close up slowed down version on the lines of this fimger does this then this finger does this would help numpties like me. Seasons greetings.

i have a digital piano and purchased four concert grand plugins from VSL (Vienna Symphonic Library)....i slightly press the pedal when playing Asturias by Albeniz...works really great!...i still practicing half or less pedal all the time

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My Baldwin Acrosonic was a "toy piano" to Professor Richard. Yes, but those spinet uprights can be so warm and immediate to the player.