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Brilliant!

This video saved my life😂Much appreciated!

I've worked with Dohnany's exercises....without much to go on ...maybe in the preface he says a little about approaching the exercises...wonderful to hear someone explain the way to approach this particular exercise so that we may realize maximum success. Success =increased facility, more ability to play musically

However, we don't want Mozart to sound like a Hanon exercise. We don't want every note to sound exactly the same. I assume you add interpretation to the finished piece.

Wow! Thank you for the video. This is pure gold and a lesson that everyone should re-watch multiple times to really learn it. Good repetition is the key! 🤓

My biggest lightbulb moment as a youngster was discovering the absolute wonder of slow deliberate practice and all the wonderful detail that can be achieved by not allowing myself to just rush through the text. You retain much more learn better technique and have breathing space to develop your own interpretation which makes it much more fulfilling rather than just attempting to mimic our favourite performers. However it does require learning discipline as the urge to just speed up prematurely is very tempting, I do love the rhythmic work. Practicing in blocks, hands separate love your channel some absolute pearls of wisdom there 👍

Fantastic lesson, Kate!

i'm trying not to convinced myself that i'm probably one of the lucky once learning piano....everything seems to be in sync and no distraction - fully focus....i do my technical exercises first for warm-ups and then my repertoire....doing Chopin etudes in my second year of constant playing....since i'm self-taught, never use metronome and never worry about sight reading....my only hurdles is memorizing music - just don't have that talent of playing by ear...and my other bad habits is i don't follow music score's dynamic....i do my own interpretation....when i listening to some youtube pianist, i can tell if the person is an entertainer or a concert pianist....i've been watching some of your videos....it seems that i'm on the right path - thank you

Beautiful suggestions for practice.....the end result of which will more than likely present a performance that offers the listener an enjoyable, MUSICAL experience!!

Thank you for this helpful video! I am getting back into practicing and playing piano after an almost 40 year break. I was a piano major in college but haven’t played much since then. I am having issues with my thumbs…especially my left thumb. I have posted a bunch of videos (long and shorts), and I see my thumb position looks bad. I will use your suggestions to correct this. Thanks again!

TRUE for ANY keyboard instrument. If you are an organist, you have hands and feet. Your score should look like a graphite minefield.

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Actually the same goes for organ work too. Of course you have pedals too, but this practice model works well. Now you have an organist subscribed 😊

I can't tell you how much I love this! Those pauses you're using - especially the long ones - I call those "strategic pauses." I like to do a variation of this kind of practice, where I will chunk my groups according to my fingering. For instance, I might to from thumb whatever note comes before the next thumb, and then I'll expand that and go thumb to thumb, and then I'll go from thumb to every other thumb. And all the while, I listen, listen, listen. Each little chunk I play, I want it to sound exactly perfect and flawless in every way. This is especially fun when the fast notes are very fast because it's so challenging to really hear those fast notes.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you! I came up through the ranks when scales were out of fashion. Of course, I was on the west coast so there was a lot of experimentation during the 70s. I never fully understood how I was advanced without a technical foundation! It didn't seem to be an issue with regard to my pieces, but it did become an issue when I began teaching...how to communicate the essence of technical exercises without having experienced them myself? The only authoritative reference point I had was that scales were 'soul-killing',,,same with Hanon exercises. I have since reworked my thinking and understand the rightful place of scales in practicing. However, it really is all about the presentation of the information isn't it? I am grateful for your videos. Everything scale related is as I understood it, but now I'm confident on how to teach it!

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You are awesome! Thank you so much for your lessons.

When you do the leaps, how do you know when to use clockwise rotation and when to use counterclockwise rotation?

Merci beaucoup. My teacher showed me the first permutation, stopping on the first note, in my last lesson. This is a nice continuation.

I didn't start until age 20 in 1988 and only dabbled for a few years in 1989-91, before taking it up again a couple of years ago thanks to my new Alesis Recital Pro. It breaks my heart to imagine what could've been ... 36 years experience and he plays 16 hours/day like a Chinese olympian? Rival to Anton Rubinstein or Liszt?

Your second attempt is also awful. Stop posting any video😱

Hello ma'am ! I am from India. And I am a piano beginner student. I really benefit from each of your piano techniques. Thank you so much.

So how do u turn the pages playing Schubert by yourself? 👀

I loved seeing you actually work through a piece this way in real time…it’s super helpful! My students don’t believe me sometimes when I tell them this is an effective way to practice fast passages; now I have a video they can refer to between lessons. Thank you so much!

Can this rule apply to guitar, bass and vocal lines? other types of music like pop, rock...etc? how did you use the fourth beat the lead? I don't get this one.

What a great video, thank you! I myself am practicing in a similar way since several weeks and it changed a lot and it's great that you share this method with your students. I have one more variation to it which might be very helpful: I practice in the right hand two notes and than lift the hand/wrist a little bit (making a little pause), then again two notes and again lifting the hand for a moment (this is a small relax). It's important to move the wrist very flexible while doing this. This helped me a lot to achieve a nice touch/sound and tempo. I really love your videos and wished all the stuff your are teaching I had learned much earlier. Please pardon my mistakes in english language and best wishes and thank you so much from Germany.

Thank you very much for a very informative and useful video. I have a question: Should we try to learn not to look at our hands right from the start of our piano learning process or should we learn other things first (e.g. notes, chords, etc) before trying that?

Wonderful! How can I give this two thumbs up? This is my favorite Mozart Sonata. I learned this entire Sonata four decades ago for my junior recital, though I missed the recital due to a little thing called changing my major. 🧐 I had the whole thing memorized at one point. My hope is to relearn this piece again well enough to perform. The particular passage you highlighted is definitely one of the more challenging in the first movement. But once you master it, it's exhilarating to be able to play it flawlessly! I've been taught this technique by others. One instructor suggested an optional variation: use different rhythm counts, not just groups of four. For example, groups of 5 or 7. Takes much more concentration to avoid tying your brain in knots! When I first applied this technique to my scales, I was able to increase my speed and accuracy beyond what I previously thought possible. It's truly amazing at how effective it is. I highly recommend this practice technique for everyone. Thank you for this video!

Thank you so much for the great advices as always. I just wander about a group of 6 notes, how many notes to play? 🙏

Which iPad size do you use? Thinking about buying one for my piano studies.

Awesome lesson Professor, this will be my next piece to work into my practice scheme🙏🏽💯

Trying this now with BWV 115. So far I’m liking this tactic. 👍

Thanks for this.🎉

Brilliant! As I have a future plan is to play Schubert: Impromptu D. 899/Op. 90 No. 2, I wonder if you would divide into groups of 3? Or 6 but not use every permutation? Or something else?

I can sure identify with the mental fatigue!

Wow! Thank you so much for this video. Going to practice right now❤

My 4th year has been a big breakthrough for me. When I could finally play without looking at my hands and a good-enough fingering became automatic. The Wizard (my college prof who took me on as a beginner) would be proud.

My teacher just assigned me this on my last lesson for a Mozart written coda on one of his concertos to build speed. It is definitely helpful!

I LOVE doing technique work its almost zen like going from major to minor, and inverting exercises etc.

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Great advice. Thanks so much Kate!!

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Wow!! Thank you for sharing this. Fast passageing has Always been a struggle, even with scales.

But if you already pressed the key, how do get the sustain back after the quick lift?

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Maybe the phobia (for lack of a better word) that I have of recording myself is that someone recorded me when I was'nt aware of what I sounded like. The correct notes except it was uneven without any dynamics, it sounded horrible. So I'm afraid that I will give up totally. I practiceat least 3 hours a day but no matter what I do, it's never enough as the more I practice the more I realize there is to do. It might just stop me practicing completely. Fantasic channel though, I watch for your videos daily. Thanks.

Developing muscle memory in your hands and arms is really important on guitar, too. Teach your hands to make the correct movements & the speed will just show up one day, whether you like it or not. I'll practice so slowly for some things, it doesn't even sound like music ... until my hands learn what to do.

You are to good to mess up correctly. I loved this video, I'm going to practice my sightreading like this now. Thank you so much ❤