Hi! Thank you for the listening and compliment. I especially appreciate the opinion of a person that has a love for classical music. For score notation and playback of score, I use MuseScore version 3 software. I use many hidden tempo and dynamics changes in scores to achieve expressive i.e. non robotic playback. This can make a lot of difference in playback, but it needs a lot of fine tuning work. For making video, I use HitFilm software. I compose primarly at digital piano and record my sessions as MIDI tracks in DAW software (I use BitWig software). Thus, I do perhaps 70% of composing directly at the piano keyboard and only rest in DAW and notation software.

Thank you

Thank you for giving the feedback and your good will to improve the quality of the book. I am really glad to hear when people say that the book was able to help them a lot. I immediately corrected the slightly embarrassing error where I used the wrong English word. Regarding the 7th scale degree, I think that I understand the issue. In fact, it's all explained in the book but it's spread over three chapters which, I admit, can be confusing. In chapter "Scale degrees", scale degrees are explained but the difference between the "leading tone" and "subtonic" is explained in the chapters "Major scales" and "Natural minor scales". I may add a forward reference in the chapter "Scale degrees", for completeness.

Thank you, I'm glad you like it. Bach wrote it beautifully!

I don't know why I don't like that word 😊 Maybe because I only see a large amount of work accumulated over many years. Perhaps 'love for music' is a better term because it is the motive for work.

@@hstanekovic You're right, talent means nothing if there isn't hard work behind it!

Yes, first practice hard and then when you learn it, you must relax and play musically. It's more or less the same with every piece. It's good that you have succeeded in this. The problem is if you try to learn something that is beyond your current capabilities and then you can't achieve the relaxation phase.

Thanks. I'm glad you like it.

Thanks. It's a charming piece of music.

Hi. I use MuseScore 3 for notation and playback. I use Bitwig (DAW) for recording from digital piano.

Dear Marian, keep up your good work in practicing piano. God bless you. If every child had a love for music, I can imagine a better world without war and bad things. Regarding the dynamics, this was my vision in the moment, to play it very tender and romantic. Are there possibilities to play it with a more strength? Sure there are many.

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@@hstanekovic I agree that it's tender and romantic, and I don't think it needs more strength. But the contrasts between pp and mf are essential to the meaning of this piece, surely?

@@sgut1947 Hi. Sorry for a slow reply. I can agree that the differences in dynamics could/should be stronger. I did not say that my performance should be a reference in any respect. After all, I'm just an amateur musician. To be completely correct, one should check the original Schumann manuscript because sometimes the editors add their own markings. This one is pretty hard to decipher vmirror.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/9/91/IMSLP440280-PMLP02930-Waldszenen_autograph.pdf

My paper scores on the piano are full of fingering annotated with the pencil. The numbers are often erased and rewritten as I work on a piece. I recommend you to do the same. You can copy the fingering from the screen to your paper score, section by section as you practice it. The time to copy the fingering is short comparing to the time necessary for practicing/learning. The video is full HD and the fingering is easy to read when you watch in full-screen. Sorry for not offering any instant solution. Also you can try to take the screenshot and print it.

Hvala, trebalo bi to još urednije i uz veći stupanj kontrole ali ovo je vjerojatno bio moj maksimum u danom trenutku. Možda ako se za koju godinu vratim, bit će bolje.

Hvala, prijatelju

Thank you

If you have an account for MuseScore (you can create a free one as I did), you can download the score here: musescore.com/user/4089351/scores/6063858

@@hstanekovic thanks for the work. it's printing off now !

Dear Peter, it is about the joy (and many difficulties) of being able to play this beautiful composition written for a church organ on a simple digital piano where you can use only single manual and built-in organ sound.

Very beautiful! One thing, though: you have parallel octaves between the tenor and bass voice on measure 3 last beat going into m4

Thank you. However, as far as I remember, the 3rd measure was not modified in the transcription. It is the same as in the original. Thus your objection should be redirected to the composer :)

@@hstanekovic Wow, I didn’t know that$ thanks for the info! :D again, awesome performance!

@@hstanekovic the original goes up to A

Thanks. The whole toccata is very enjoyable (I highly recommend it). The last section (the fugue) is the most popular part of it.

Muito obrigado

Nice play. Where you got this music sheet? The fingering is nice.

@@LuqianSun The sad thing is that I do not remember anymore which score I used while I was learning. During learning, I always print the score and modify the original fingering here or there (using pencil and eraser) to suit me better. After recording, I always input the score in musical notation software, together with the fingering that I used. I use this digital score in the video, but I seldom publish it outside of the video itself because I respect the work that was done by the original editor. I presume that I modified the original fingering a lot here because I actually published this score: musescore.com/user/4089351/scores/9010331

This is what one can perform having a digital piano. If you have multiple keyboards/pedal, like on organ, than is a different story.

Yes, there is a legend about this chorale prelude.

Dear Lau, thank you for the compliment! If I was able to find the correct information, this is the platform described: "Gan Jing World (GJW), led by James Qiu, a former Apple executive, is a new online information, video, and entertainment platform with a global reach. Unlike most of its competitors, it is committed to being completely free of ideological censorship and all types of degenerate, sexual, violent and deviant content.". Yes, you can repost my channel there! However, I keep my right to demand deletion at any moment if I eventually determine that this platform is not what it promises to be.

Hvala😀

Thank you very much!

@@hstanekovic Of course! You're very welcome :)

@@MitchBoucherComposer It's funny. I thought, I will just a little play Bach and then begin seriously with piano technique of Chopin and Brahms but... here I am, still at WTC 1 :)

@@hstanekovic I admire your dedication! I wish I could dive deeper into WTC I,... What are your favorite preludes and fugues?

@@MitchBoucherComposer Before I started to learn from WTC, it was easy to answer this question: I knew only Prelude and Fugue in C minor (I heard them playing in some video games or MIDI files), so they were my favorites :) When I started with WTC, I preferred Preludes over Fugues. As I learned more and more, the list of favorites only grew. Now, almost anything. Each one has its unique qualities and emotion. For instance, I love: - how playful is no 3 in C# major (both Prelude and Fugue) - how elegant is D major Prelude and how grandiose is its accompanying Fugue (no 5) - how beautiful are harmonies in D minor Prelude and Fugue (no 6) and how Prelude "breaths" in a really special way - how emotional and lyrical is Prelude in Eb minor (no 8) and its accompanying Fugue - how simple and carefree are E major Prelude and Fugue (no 9) - how at first tragic and then agitated is E minor Prelude (no 10) and this agitation continues in the Fugue ... continue the sequence ... - how deeply tragic and meditative is Bb minor Prelude (no 22) like a prayer of a sad soul and similar emotions continue in the Fugue Now, enough with my talk!

Thank you. I did not learn the fugue (yet), essentially for the same reasons: it's long and in 4 voices. Fugues in more than 3 voices usually require a lot of time and the progress can be painfully slow. There are passages in which any chosen fingering does not feel comfortable. Thus, I'm choosing shorter fugues for now. However, I do not want to discourage you. If you feel motivated, go for it!

Yes, Bach composed it to be like that. But unfortunately we can not send our compliments to him anymore.

@@hstanekovic There is no need to draw a distinction between the man and the music. To appreciate the one is to appreciate the other.

@@suninmoon4601 :) I think that we did not understand each other well. I said (or wanted to say) that we can not send our compliments to Bach because he is no more alive. I'll add "anymore" in my comment so that it will be more clear.

@@hstanekovic I understand. I was perhaps being, or trying to be, too clever. I wanted to say that appreciating the music is the ultimate compliment to the man, whether alive or not. Thank you for everything :)

... marié et heureux :) merci

And thank you

It's least often performed prelude. There is another op posth prelude (in C# minor) which is more often performed probably because it's longer and more mature work. If you did not already listen to it, do it. It's very beautiful.

@@hstanekovic are you talking about op.45 or is there a posthumous etude in c#?

@@bartoldo5898 Op 45. So it's not posth? Sorry, my mistake then. Thanks for noticing.

@@hstanekovic ohh ok. Don't worry it's alright I was a bit confused ahah

Hi. For instance, here: s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/1/1f/IMSLP532320-PMLP13346-Bach-orgelwerke03_chorale-prelude_BWV721-Erbarm-dich-mein_pp28-29.pdf

@@hstanekovic thanks!

Thank you Lauren for your kind words.

Thank you, I'm glad you like it

Thank you Thomas

Thanks for listening. They are inevitable :)

*underrated in chopin's standards

Thank you for the kind comment. An interesting comparison! I hope one day I will find courage and time to try to learn some Chopin etudes. They really require a professional approach.

To be honest, I do not remember. I'll say probably about two months. The most interesting part for me was to find the realization of the ornaments which is not too technicaly demanding and still sounds good. The biggest challange was to not make a single mistake while playing from the beginning to the end. Good luck!

Thank you for the feedback. As you certainly know, an organ can be registrated in many different ways so it can sound in many different ways. Moreover, different voices can use different sounds. Thus, the strength of expression of an organ can be close to an orchestra. However, when using a digital piano having only one manual and only one kind of organ sound, you are limited to what you have. This video is not intended as a replacement of a performance on an organ. It is intended for people having an acoustic or digital piano and the love for Bach's chorale preludes so that they can see some of the chorale preludes can be played on their instrument.

Thank you for the comment. I completely understand you. I have to admit that KZbin has spoiled me so much that now I almost never listen to music without a score.

@@hstanekovic Same here

Thank you Peter for your kind words. Indeed, a deeply profound music written by Bach. I just googled and I think I was able to find this page again: pjb.com.au/mus/arr.html It is a wonderful resource where you can download many transcriptions including this one you asked for!

@@hstanekovic Dear Hrvoje - Thank you so much for your reply and the link to the manuscript. The fingering is particularly helpful and as you say there are many other wonderful transcriptions available here too. I understand that Angela Hewitt likes to perform this work after The Art of Fugue. I find these late compositions by Bach deeply spiritual. Once again, thank you so much.

Thank you. I'm just listening to your channel. Your compositions are very lovely and touching and well written! Some of your compositions even reminded me to Schumann's.

@@hstanekovic oh thank you! I have not played a lot of Schumann, much more Brahms and Chopin. And I like particularly Albéniz and Fauré, and some of Rachmaninov as well.

Thanks. In fact, I'm quite used to the sound of my digital piano and I like it. It's a good digital piano, for a resonable price. I'm not sure if Pianoteq D4 VST can sound much better, but I can try. Of course, it depends very much of your preferences. For instance, I like a mellow piano sound more than a bright piano sound. It sings more. Also, it depends of a musical composition.

@@hstanekovic Ok :) - I just say: there are a lot of differents pianos inside the kit, plus some old instruments and a Grimaldi Clavichord that I use very often for Scarlatti and Bach. It's a new synth-sampling tech which does'nt need room or CPU. I'll post my actual try of Scarlatti K 208 one day. Just try out of curiosity if u like ;) see u !

Certainly, their clavichords and harpsichords are very interesting. For instance, the demo sound of "Harpsichord: Blanchet" feels very good. Best regards.

@@hstanekovic If i had money and room, I would play real clavichord. Bach and Scarlatti didn't compose for modern piano. Old discussion... ;)

Thanks. It required a lot of work and the beauty of Bach's music was the motivation.

You mean the tenth measure? D2 - F#3 in the left hand. It is followed by E2 - G3, but G3 is played using the right hand. It was a long time ago, however, I do remember it was hard to get it right. I do not have a particularly big hand, but usually, I can play the tenth in the slow tempo, with some practice. Often, I think if I would have only two or three millimeters longer fingers, it would be comfortable to play the tenth. But, I do not have so it is always kind of a struggle to play the tenth. Thus, let me try to give some advice. I hope they can help. I can play D2 - F#3 with the left hand. It does not feel comfortable, but I can. I put the first finger on F#3 very close to the nearer end of the black key and stretch it so that it does not strike D#3 or C#3. The fifth finger also strikes the white key close to its nearer end and it is practically parallel with the keyboard while the first finger is something like 45 degrees to the keyboard. If you can do that then all you need is to practice at a slow tempo. Memorize the whole tenth measure and practice it in a very slow tempo watching your hands. The right hand must work on "auto-pilot" so that you can concentrate on the left hand. If you can not stretch your left hand like that, there is a chance that by practicing you will be able to stretch your fingers a little more, but only a little more. Sorry, the physiology of your hand is the deciding factor here :( However, you can roll any chord that you can not play (play it like non-overlapping notes, from the lowest to the highest as fast as you can, using the sustain pedal). The sustain pedal can be very helpful in a way that it can sustain the musical notes while you can release their keys and position the hand in the next position.

@@hstanekovic Thank you so much!

Greetings to Paris! I'm not familiar with BWV 588. Since you mentioned it, I listened to it now. It's a lovely composition for organ. Regarding Hauptwerk, I was playing with it before same time and used it only for this video. I play the digital piano. Of course, not every composition for the organ can be played on the piano. This one was written for manual only, thus no problem. Also, I was able to play a few of Bach's choral preludes (written for the organ) on the digital piano using its built-in piano or organ sound and that required some complex fingering choreography (kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3jYq5hqbNp9o6M , kzbin.info/www/bejne/i3eWZWuJpbJso9E , kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpapd2uclL50pNU , kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4SulaipgLlrps0 , kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5eodKuDmdRof8k). However, the result can not sound so good as the original because on the organ you can play different voices with different sounds so you can emphasize the melody over the accompaniment.

@@hstanekovic Thanks for the quick answer :) - Yes, Hauptwerk seems to be a very nice solution in deed, but I assume the copy I got is features-limited: for exemple I cant backup or program registrations. And the price for the full stuff is huge ! Still, they are cool to let us try it fot free. ;) My first tries : kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3WqopuLYrprr5o

I checked my copy of Hauptwerk. I have version 4.2.1. On the start, I can choose Free edition, which can be used for smaller organs/registrations. When I load an organ, I have Registration menu which contains a lot of options for loading and saving. The best thing is to download the manual for your version and check it for yourself. Your videos sound very good. You do not sound as a beginner at all. I suppose you will finish these compositions. Keep up with the good work! So you have pedals? As a keyboard only player, I envy you a little on this experience. :)

@@hstanekovic No, no, you are much too kind, I was born into music, but I used to play clarinet, not piano. I love keyboards because of the huge repertoire, and the possibility of using vsts, which have become very realistic. I just play for fun, and I cheat a lot in those recordings !! - which is very easy whith MIDI DAW lol ;) . No pedalboard (too expansive): I use a small 43 keyboard for it, post-synchro recording. Does your registration backup /restore work ? In my case backup seems to work, but restore doesn't. I can see a message box but just in a blink so I can't read it. I suppose it's an error message.. Good health ! see you later here ;)

Maybe, I can help a little. After some scratching of my head and reading the manual, I just saved some registration in Hauptwerk. The procedure is tricky and the manual is dry: 1) Pull the desired stops on the organ console. 2) Push the SET button on the organ console. 3) Select the desired stepper, for instance 000. You can do that by using many buttons on the Stepper toolbar (there are buttons for increasing/decreasing stepper number, buttons for increasing/decreasing first and second digit of stepper number and buttons for setting the third digit of stepper number). For instance, you can click on (xx0) button to set the third digit to 0. 4) Pull the SET button on the organ console. Now the registration is memorized for the selected stepper. 5) Next time when you select the stepper, the saved registration will be applied. For instance, when you click (xx0) button. Recording voice by voice is ok, it's not cheating. It's like an orchestra in which every instrument is played... by you. However, I decided to play only what I can play with my 10 fingers in a single recording. Best regards, see you.

Yes, isn't it? Each piece in Forest Scenes is beautiful in its own unique way and they should be played more often. I like a lot the sentiment of this performance: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5rMq4GridiHaqs