I just learned this piece at a slow tempo. Playing it fast is a whole other animal.

Thanks for posting your thoughts. I think essentially I have the same attitude towards learning / teaching music. Although I must say that I'm neither a good musician (in terms of perfomance skills and virtuosity) nor can I ever be a teacher. I was raised in a household where music/art was not appreciated at all. But I felt always intensely attracted to music. So I began as a child to teach myself by "exploring" objects which produce sound. Not knowing anything about standard (western) notation I even developed my own way to jot down rythms and melodies to better memorize and reproduce rythms and melodies which I enjoyed during my improvisations. This led to a very deep relation / love with music. But it also caused a new problem: Growing up I tried several approaches to "correctly" learn music through attending music classes and workshops. But I always failed. It seems that I don't have the ability to pick up (at least quickly) when teachers present a certain musical skill or concept. I always have to "explore" everything myself. Sometimes I even have the feeling that I need "to invent myself" any aspect of music before I can learn/adapt to it. The latter may sound romantic and when I play my "own" music I cannot feel any closer to my soul and to the "music as an expression of the eternal spiritual universe". But the lack of beeing rooted in the cultural way music is taught and percieved makes me sort of a "hermit". As most other musicians learned music the traditional way (either with music lessons or by watching and imitating other musicians) they share the same "conversation space". And I now do miss that skill / background because I also would like to be part of the "musician-family".

As a piano teacher myself I’ve struggled for years with how to enable my students to move beyond reproducing the music on the page. This video was very comforting to think that ‘I’m not alone’. I, too, rebelled from formal lessons and took up guitar instead which I played in bands and with singers and it gave me a great outlet for expression. Eventually I returned to the piano with a very different approach. But it took me years to break through my own blockages around ‘getting it right’ etc. etc. You’ve communicated this very nicely, thanks.

Keep up the great work Phil!!

I believe any music you want to play can make you fluent in what you enjoy playing,

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Love this! Becoming more and more fluent by the day :) Talk soon Phil!

Periphery - Ragnarok has one of the slickest grooves I’ve ever heard in a heavy song for anyone that enjoys metal/metal-adjacent music. This explanation is the best I’ve seen of what makes music with a groove so compelling 👍

Really really struggling with this lately I truly appreciate you tackling this concept. I've been a guitarist for 15 years and still to this day think im absolutely awful. Like a regular thought in my mind is I could get a beginner guitarist better than me in a couple months. I think this while actively having one of the worlds most technically skilled guitarists in the world as my teacher for the last year. While writing an entire album myself and practicing every single day still I can not help but feel terribly unskilled and useless. I have yet to find a way to fix my brain and get past this feeling of dread especially when you jump online and see just perfect musicians everywhere it's daunting.

“The contrast-y dynamics… not in an artificial weird way though” 😂 love it ❤

Is the piano a Casio GP?

I still couldn't get a feel of the sudden change from 4s to 3s in bach prelude you mentioned. Any tips?

Your amplifier and speakers make a big difference. And EQ, compressors, etc. I couldn't find a list of gear here.

Fastastic

Great sound and expression

Hi, could you make a video on digital pianos amplifying on stage ? Maybe you did before, I'm just discovering your channel.

I love pianoteq. It blows all my old piano vsts out of the water and since I don't really have a good way to record a piano or digital piano directly otherwise it's made me able to actually record piano in a way that sounds pretty organic and clean. My only concern is that I wonder if my digital piano is a bit too old to take full advantage of pianoteq. I'm not sure if it picks up dynamics as intricately as pianoteq can actually represent, primarily. Using an old yamaha ydp-123. It kinda feels like everything is a bit louder than I expect and not that wide of a range. Not sure if getting something newer would change anything though.

Modern D vi labs is better

So beautiful ❤

Even with the latest Pianoteq models, I still find the K2 to be my favorite.

I’m astonished how much my eyes have been opened by your videos! Thank you for the time and effort put into each one.

Hope new generation studies this !

Extraordinary!

First video I've seen of yours, that was extremely well thought out. I see a lot of artists talk about creative expression abstractly or attempt some sort of philosophical explanation, but you've provided a concrete way of understanding and improving.

Great insights! Personally, the 'Stop being civilized' part is spot on. I struggle to make fortes and fortíssimos on the piano, and the overall dynamics always feel shy and insecure. I'm currently learning to allow myself to be loud and even sloppy if I need to. It's making me feel more confident, but it's a long road.

This video content hits the essence of my not daring to start composing myself. I am just lacking confidence! Great insight. I have to start practicing it. By the way your piano playing of the start of the Moonlight sonata was really awesome as to your rhythm and timing. I loved it!

for you, is tempo relevant to this discussion?

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Welches Hybrid spielst du??? das Kawai???

KLingt echtr gut!!! & halbwegs real, wohl einer der besten Konzert Piano Klänge die ich hörte bisher.

I’m a passionate fan of Phill . Talented and gorgeous artist.

Great Video Phil! Really spoke to me. Looking forward to our next lesson :)

Brilliant explanation!

Satie like...fine job. Really fine........

Fine job!

Amazing playing sir! I have tried a demo version of Pianoteq and I like the ANT Petrof more compared to other pianos. It’s too good…Amazing job by the Modart. ❤

Lovely. Do you have the score on your site?

Hello Mr. Phil your videos on Pianoteq convinced me to buy the Pianoteq. Only thing is I am little confused because Pianoteq 8 pro is bit expensive for me so I am thinking to buy an individual 4 different packs. Please suggest me 4 best options from all. It would be great. Actually I love to buy a Pianoteq8 pro because Pianoteq is offering 20% discount but still I don’t have that much budget. Thanks! Love your playing a lot and your settings. ❤

Beautifully performed.

Just bought it to add to my existing PTQ. Black Friday discount. So nice

When are one of the big manufacturers of digital pianos going either: 1. Ask Modart to license Pianoteq? 2. Give us a grand pianos sized Vpc1 / Avant grand cross, with haptic feedback and built in speakers. If there is a market for the Avant grand Nx3, I would imagine the market for 2 would be 10 time that size.

I am more in to acoustic piano playing. I have a Yamaha YUS5 acoustic and I love my piano a lot. The way you compared between this two piano vst is very sensible & useful. I have played many different brands acoustic piano as I am working with piano seller company as a piano specialist and I know about the pianos in depth as I said on my comment on your other videos. I never got impressed with digital pianos. I have many compositions ready but I can’t afford to record the acoustic piano and also there are many reasons like tuning and piano action is also keep on changing piano to piano so that’s the reason why I am looking for a good piano controller and mostly I will go ahead with Kawai MP series or May be the VPC series so that will have sense of playing on same action. If needed I will make minor changes on velocity curve and made the permanent setting. Pianoteq has very nice bloom and it gives every control as I can see on your playing. Thank you so much for sharing your experience. 🙏

Your explanation of on Pianoteq vst is carrying musicalities. I am more of acoustic piano player never got satisfied with digital piano except few model. Like Kawai MP11se and Novus5. I need your opinion on controlling piano. Which is the best controller for Pianoteq. I had a Roland RD2000 but I sold because I didn’t enjoy the piano tones. Action was decent but it wasn’t behave like acoustic piano action & Now I am waiting for Kawai replacement of MP11se & VPC1. I hope they will launch these 2 models in winter Namm. They already delayed too much. My concern is does it will work well with Pianoteq? I never tried both the models but I have watched many videos of experts and all of them saying that MP11se & VPC1 has better control on acoustic and very realistic action like a real grand piano. Also let me know which is a better pianos in Pianoteq 8. I have listed few 1) Steinway Model D 2) C. Bechstien 3) ANT Petrof 4) Bösendorfer 5) Gortrian and last is U4. I am asking this because whole bundle is too expensive for me. Whenever you are free please advise me on this. It would be a great help. Thank you so much 🙏❤️

Superb explanation! I am always looking for alternative of acoustic piano and I tried many digital piano. Only close I found is Kawai Novus5 but it’s so expensive so my eyes on vst’s I have tried many piano vst’s and I got discounted even I don’t like Keyscap much. Then I downloaded the trail version of this and I played, you know I immediately got impressed with all the different piano sounds libraries. I can say it’s the best available vst piano in the market. I have seen that VI labs is come out with new Modern D which sound s better than Pianoteq Model D but then it will take huge memory and also there’s no facility to try demo version from VI labs, so sad! How come I buy without trying it. The previously popular piano vst of VI lab is so impressive the name of that vst is Revonscraft but again without trying it’s a risk. So final I have made my mind for Pianoteq specially trying demo version and watching your videos. Just waiting for a Black Friday sale but there’s no news on Black Friday sale on Pianoteq website. I am waiting for the sale I wish they will offer a good discount like many others. I am a pianist and Composer and soon I will start recording my compositions the way want & Pianoteq will play good roll. Frankly speaking I had a some questions regarding the user license sharing but surprisingly I didn’t find any email id for customer’s query on Pianoteq website but final I ask my friend and he explained me about this. Thanks man for making videos like this and sharing your experience. 🙏

Your videos are as if you know what I’m going through right now. Thank you for all this great content!

GREAT video! Really opened my mind.

This was good. Thinking does get in the way. I can't groove to a click but if I tap along to my beat I can see it's stable on the BPM readout. And sounds much better than something aligned to the grid.

I love how you say to not try to play perfectly with a metronome, but to feel the groove from within. I have come to realize that the tension I feel when I've played with a click before is not so much due to the challenge in keeping up with it, with keeping on-time, but it is a tension between my soul wanting to feel my way versus the scientific, clinical, sterile click. And this, to me, goes right to the heart of why music played without a click-track is and feels so much warmer, accessible, "human." The slight variance of the human groove is what lends to the feel of music. Case in point: Paul McCartney said that The Beatles purposely slowed the tempo very slightly on the last part of "Michelle." Music is conversation, at its basic level, between the composer/players and the audience. And human conversation is not robotic; it flows from the soul. :)

Your chord-playing groove around the 4-minute mark reminded me of "Lonely Days" by The Bee Gees. Nice! :)

I loved hearing what you called the jazz preset. I want that in my living room! (I'd also would live some pianist skills but whatever) Do you get the same presets on all Pianoteq variants? Do you get all presets even on Stage?