8 ай бұрын
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@grumpyfish2612 17 күн бұрын
Very helpful thanks. Can I ask why Satie wouldn't have written this piece as per your alterations if it makes it easier to play and doesn't change any of the notes being played.
@TommysPianoCorner 16 күн бұрын
A great question. I think there are two competing forces at play. First is a notation that is easier to execute. Second, is a notation that expresses the music. I feel Satie has erred towards musical expression and how the performer achieves that is up to them. Redistributing notes is pretty commonplace.
@rothschildianum 17 күн бұрын
Excellent tutorial video... I am so interested in learning this amazing piece. Thx
@TommysPianoCorner 16 күн бұрын
Thanks. I adored learning it and look forward to improving it !
@labradorableretriever4490 20 күн бұрын
Good explanation. I studied music education, but I’m a voice teacher. I did grow up playing piano and I needed a recap with this song since I did not play it in a while. I wanted to say what you explained at the beginning. As a severely visually, impaired musician. Getting comfortable with the leaping of the distance and making sure the fingers are on the right notes before pressing it. Or slowly doing add-ons. Those are ways that I’ve learned along with your training. Good video.
@TommysPianoCorner 20 күн бұрын
Delighted it helped. Good luck with bringing it back :-)
@guymiklos9245 22 күн бұрын
Thanks for this very useful reference to Henle's website and rating system.
@TommysPianoCorner 22 күн бұрын
My pleasure. I frequently consult it when assessing new repertoire :-)
@guymiklos9245 22 күн бұрын
Thank you Tommy, this was very helpful, really. I'm 62 and started to learn piano 6 months ago. I love J.S. Bach's music. I'm making slow but steady progress on Inventions 1, 2, 4, and 8. My teachers are all generous Internet contributers. You are now one of them. Thank you.
@TommysPianoCorner 22 күн бұрын
Delighted to hear the video helped. The Bach inventions are some of the best music to learn early on as they teach so much about reading and foundation keyboard skills. Good luck!
@coelacanth64 24 күн бұрын
Using this for reading accordion sheet music, thanks!
@TommysPianoCorner 24 күн бұрын
Fantastic. I’m glad it helps :-)
@tomsrensen9382 24 күн бұрын
I'm not familiar with this piece, but it sounds blurry to me at times, like too much sustain or a mic issue. One of Rach's weaker creations, IMO. Even some of the big names struggle making the rather mundane melody line work. It's obvious you put a lot of effort into this piece!
@TommysPianoCorner 24 күн бұрын
I came across it in Pianist Magazine - so decided to learn it. I suspect I use a little too much sustain as I agree it sometimes lacks clarity. I’ll perhaps come back to it in a few months and look at refining the pedaling. It also needs the voices separating a little better I think - that might help with the clarity too :-)
@thewordbtrue2461 24 күн бұрын
Your effort and passion to bring this to us, be it a raw state now- you most certainly will add the subtle touches needed. You are an excellent pianist and appreciate you sharing. ❤👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼💕 Happy 🎊 New😊Year! Mr. Tommy
@TommysPianoCorner 23 күн бұрын
@@thewordbtrue2461 thanks for your confidence - I’ll keep trying :-)
@gillianfernie9376 26 күн бұрын
Happy New Year Tommy!🎉
@TommysPianoCorner 25 күн бұрын
Thanks. Happy New Year to you too!
@alexgoriatchenkov 26 күн бұрын
Thank you! Great!
@TommysPianoCorner 26 күн бұрын
I’m delighted you enjoyed it!
@blitheringape5321 Ай бұрын
Been following you sometime. Tho I'm a guitarist i find much or your advice applicable to my practice. Excellent piece you're showcasing here. Lovely work
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks - I think we musicians face many similar challenges whatever our instrument. I’m glad you find some of my advise transferable The guy who arranged this (Derrick Bertenshaw) is a very talented composer I think and I enjoy learning his work :-)
@PianoRevisited Ай бұрын
Tommy, that was really special !and the jacket took it to another level ! Bravo and Merry Christmas !
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Delighted you noticed the jacket!! Merry Christmas!
@yokeyewtan7390 Ай бұрын
Bravo Tommy. Your piano performance this Christmas was nothing short of magical! The way you captured the spirit of the season with your music truly touched everyone’s hearts. Each note resonated with warmth and joy, creating an atmosphere that made the holiday even more special.
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
You’re too kind. The arranger deserves more praise than me but I’m delighted you enjoyed!
@gillianfernie9376 Ай бұрын
Merry Christmas Tommy and thank you for all the excellent videos!
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks so much. Merry Christmas to you too !!
@madmary Ай бұрын
Lovely arrangement, beautifully played. Happy Christmas Tommy 🎉
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks so much. Merry Christmas
@SeaDrive300 Ай бұрын
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Tommy! 🙂
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks. All the best to you too !
@JoeLinux2000 Ай бұрын
Nice
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks - glad you enjoyed it!
@TucsonBillD Ай бұрын
Nicely done.
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks - I enjoyed learning it.
@PianoRevisited Ай бұрын
Merry Christmas Tommy ! Your Jazzy rendition of " God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen " really cheered me up ! My best to you and your family !
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks - I thought it was a really fun arrangement. All the best!
@aostensv Ай бұрын
Hi Tommy. Thank you, very useful. I am looking to set up an alternative to the MV88 which i have (lightning connector into ipad). Ipad<audio interface <2 mics. I still preref to avoid post processing, so basically want the camara app to record the sound onto video directly. Have you looked into this at all, for example sending the audio from zoom to iphone directly?
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Hi. This isn’t something I’ve tried directly. Next time I record I’ll give it a try. Theoretically, if microphones are connected via an audio interface, then any app that uses ‘microphones’ will use that connection. After all, if opening say Garageband, the iPad would use the external audio connection over the internal mics without prompting (unlike a laptop that will often ask which device you wish to use). The MV88 has a built in audio interface and the camera app will use it once connected rather than internal mics. Personally though, I prefer the post processing. It takes no time once we have a simple template set and I have found that most video editing software (at a consumer level) has very limited audio options.
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
That said, you might need to configure the audio interface to send a single stereo track as 2 microphones equals two separate audio tracks so the camera software might only pick up one of them? As you’ll have noticed, the MV88 does this automatically.
@aostensv Ай бұрын
@@TommysPianoCorner Would love to hear back if you try it and if you found the audio decent enough.
@thewordbtrue2461 Ай бұрын
❤🎶🎹🎶🙏🏼
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks
@eydiguttason1961 Ай бұрын
Very good Thank you 🎄
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks too!
@marcus8258 Ай бұрын
Beautiful! Merry Christmas!😊
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks. You too and a great 2025
@harishg2155 Ай бұрын
Very Nice 🎉
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks - it’s a great fun piece
@gamingby3 Ай бұрын
Thank you
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
I’m happy you found it helpful :-)
@forensicpjm2884 Ай бұрын
This is wonderful Tommy - you have packed so many useful tips into this video. It has given me the confidence to tackle the more difficult sections.
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Great to hear. It’s tricky but definitely worth the effort to learn it - good luck.
@Gidon83 Ай бұрын
Hello, Tommy! Thanks for the great video! I'm relatively new to Forscore, but am finding it very useful as leader of the violin or viola sections of my (amateur) orchestra. I use separate score layers for Bowings and Fingerings. I export a PDF containing just the Bowing layer for everyone to use / copy into their printed parts so we are coordinated. I can export a separate PDF that also includes my fingerings to any player who's interested. The Bowing layer is named to identify the orchestra it was relevant to. Another orchestra conductor / leader might prefer a different bowing, so I can create a separate new layer for that and name it accordingly. I was very interested to see your 'Errors' layer and use of highlighting, though. I'd been marking such 'special attention' passages with a big X in the margin (as has long been my practice with paper and pencil), but it's nice NOT to have these 'danger zones' flagged up during performances!
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Yes, layers functionality is fantastic - especially when combined with other features as you mention here (exporting as PDF). I love forScore and use it daily.
@marcus8258 Ай бұрын
Thank you! You offer really good practical advice in your tutorials. Very helpful!😊
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks. Good luck learning it :-)
@russelsteward3412 Ай бұрын
Too many video edits, it doesn't run smoothly, try to do longer takes
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
Thanks for the feedback. I do keep trying but I find it difficult speaking into a camera … oddly I’m much more comfortable live.
@russelsteward3412 Ай бұрын
Too many video edits! But the book looks like it might be helpful.
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
The book is excellent - well worth getting hold of.
@shohrehferdowsi3027 2 ай бұрын
Did I see it wrong or you played the three notes before the grace notes just as fast. I thought we only played the ornaments notes fast not the ones before it. Specially the F before E. It sounded like it was part of the grace notes.
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
If I understand where you mean, I suspect it is because I play the grace notes before the beat rather than on it. I mentioned this choice in the video as Chopin uses both grace notes and mordents to indicate a similar pattern. So, I opted to play grace notes before the beat and mordents on it. You might prefer to play them on the beat which is perfectly fine. If this is not what you mean, can you tell me the point in the video and I’ll try to give a better answer
@marcus8258 2 ай бұрын
This is beautiful! Bravo!👏 👏 👏
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
Thanks. It is a fabulous little piece. There is another transcription by Kempf that is worth listening to if you’re thinking of learning it :-)
@marcus8258 Ай бұрын
@@TommysPianoCornerIt is! Thank you for the recommendation. I'll be sure to look it up.
@TommysPianoCorner Ай бұрын
@ enjoy! Let me know how you get on
@marcus8258 2 ай бұрын
This is excellent. I've always had real problems memorising pieces, so your tips are invaluable!😊
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
Thanks. I’m really pleased you found them helpful :-)
@DavidBerglund 2 ай бұрын
Great video. Can you playback all channels simultaneously? And can you record separate channels individually for composing music?
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
What you appear to be describing is a DAW. The F6 can be used with one. Each channel on the F6 is an individual microphone and records into its own file. It can also be configured to combine multiple files into a single one. Most usually, we load the files produced into a DAW (eg GarageBand) and mix them together.
@DavidBerglund 2 ай бұрын
@TommysPianoCorner I know what a computer and DAW is. I'll look for the manual if you can't answer the question
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
@ what I’m trying to say is that you cannot synchronize tracks from within the F6. As such, unless all tracks were recorded simultaneously, playback of each would start from when you pressed record.
@IgorStepanov-g7v 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for the videos. They help a lot and a joy to watch!
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
That’s great to hear! Thanks.
@ThinkPositiveEnglish 2 ай бұрын
Very interesting! Spaced Repetition Systems are widely used for memorising information and I always advise my English learners to set up a Spaced Repetition System for learning vocabulary. I'd come across interleaved practice before too but I haven't used it quite as forensically as you have outlined here. With SRS, the idea is that for the things you can remember, you leave a wider time before revising them again; things you can't remember get less time between revisions. However, I have not tried this with piano learning, only vocabulary learning! You've given me something new to think about with my piano playing, thank you!
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
Yes, I have also found it a helpful approach with language learning too. I think the more difficult we find something, the more forensic we need to get. This particular prelude has so much going on within it that it was as much about brain training as finger training (for me at least). Another interesting twist is to sometimes leave enough space that we ‘forget’ (at least on the surface) and need to ‘relearn’ . This I find especially helpful with problems I’m struggling to fix.
@ThinkPositiveEnglish 2 ай бұрын
@@TommysPianoCorner Definitely! Some pieces of music I can learn in bigger chunks, others, the hard ones, need to be chunked right down to tiny bits!
@ThinkPositiveEnglish 2 ай бұрын
Wow! What an amazing video! This must have taken you hours to put together so thank you so much for your efforts!
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
Thanks. Yes, they do take an awful long time to do but I enjoy it. Also helps me keep a record of how I approached things so that if coming back to them a year later, I can jog my memory :-)
@jeannieniokos5661 2 ай бұрын
Fantastic breakdown. Thank you so much for all your work.
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
Delighted it helped :-)
@Jay-el9iz 2 ай бұрын
Thank you very kindly.
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
So happy it helped :-)
@tammyl1931 2 ай бұрын
Thanks Tommy! What if I don't have a sostenuto pedal? How is it possible to hold the tied LH D flat?
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
Without sostenuto, you can try partial pedaling. When we don’t fully release the pedal, it has the effect of sustaining lower notes whilst clearing the resonance from upper ones. How well this works will depend on your piano so experiment with it to see. However, I wouldn’t worry too much. Apparently Liszt wrote this piece before the sostenuto pedal was invented and so physically holding the note would not have been possible. Interestingly, I did read that he later wrote to Mr Steinway indicating that this ‘new pedal’ could be put to good effect in his Consolation.
@izastockaviolin 2 ай бұрын
Thank you, this is a very insightful video!
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
Pleased to hear you find it helpful.
@zainalu 2 ай бұрын
Hey Tommy! Your hands do not look small at all.
@TommysPianoCorner 2 ай бұрын
I guess everything is relative. My hands (ie size of palm) are not particularly small, however, my fingers are quite short. This makes anything beyond an octave haphazard as my fingers can’t reach that far. Equally if I play say a C octave with an E in the middle (to be played with 2), then this is extremely hard for me. It’s a reason why I don’t enjoy learning things like The Entertainer where this is a big feature. There are many people who might have quite slender hands but much longer finger for example who I’m sure have different challenges :-)
@rcai3262 3 ай бұрын
Very good tips. Thanks
@TommysPianoCorner 3 ай бұрын
Pleased they helped :-)
@IgorStepanov-g7v 3 ай бұрын
Does it work with regular Iphole 15 and iPhone 15 plus or only the pro and pro max series?
@TommysPianoCorner 3 ай бұрын
As far as I have been able to test, it works with any model. This is also what is advertised. Thus, if it does not meet the advertising claim in you scenario you can legitimately return it!
@IgorStepanov-g7v 3 ай бұрын
@@TommysPianoCorner thank you for the answer! I will look into the advertising claim as you call it in greater detail. The thing is that I have a Zoom iq6 mic with lightning connector and it worked perfectly well with a lightning connector IPhone. But after switching to IPhone 15 plus it does not work at all despite the fact that I used an apple usb c to lightning adapter. Maybe it’s somehow related to the fact that the ordinary IPhone models compared to the pro models have reduced functionality- data transfer speed charging speed etc. that’s why I am trying to find that out!
@TommysPianoCorner 3 ай бұрын
@@IgorStepanov-g7v when I raised the compatibility issue with Shure, they referred to ‘laptop protocols’. Hard to be exact, but USB-C seems very different to the old lightening. Shure mics did catch up. Yet, there appear to be residual connectivity issues.
@IgorStepanov-g7v 3 ай бұрын
@@TommysPianoCorner thank you. I just ordered one. It will arrive in 2-2,5 weeks. Then I’ll see if it works!
@TommysPianoCorner 3 ай бұрын
@@IgorStepanov-g7v good luck. Let me know :-)
@malekiram 3 ай бұрын
I tired recording a voice and piano vid on a new I phone 15 pro , discovered there is no gain control and finished vids the audio kept auto adjusting, when my big daft voice was too strong, so after trip to apple store the guy confirmed there is no inward gain control lol...anyway this looks like a fantastic channel, so at least a small gift, thank you for the video to confirm the Shure mic is the probably the way to go, I've subscribed... good work btw....best Brian
@TommysPianoCorner 3 ай бұрын
Thanks. Some 3rd party video apps do allow you to set the gain (eg Motiv Video). How well this would work with the built in mic is hard to say. I found better results with an external mic
@TommysPianoCorner 3 ай бұрын
I checked Motiv Video and in fact you can’t set the gain with the internal mic. You can with Filmic Pro (which is the one I mostly use). However filmic pro moved to a subscription model so you’ll soon recoup the cost of a mic :-)
@anasnunuk3265 3 ай бұрын
Terimakasih tutorialnya❤❤
@TommysPianoCorner 3 ай бұрын
Sama sama
@markfitzell1662 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! A very helpful and insightful video
@TommysPianoCorner 3 ай бұрын
Thanks. Very pleased you found it useful. It’s a fabulous piece.
@sigridschad7248 4 ай бұрын
Thank you very much! You showed me a great way to learn the "Ständchen", this is extremely helpful.
@TommysPianoCorner 4 ай бұрын
Pleased to hear it - thanks! It’s a gorgeous little piece - especially given the Liszt treatment for piano :-)
@AlisarHabiballa 4 ай бұрын
This video is very helpful. Tommy's explanations are very accessible. Thank you Tommy!
@TommysPianoCorner 4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much.
@MariosPanteliadis-pianist 4 ай бұрын
Hi there!Just a question: recently I recorded a video on my iPhone and tried to post it on Facebook but the sound was very much deteriorated, I mostly felt it was normalised automatically and the sound was much more metallic… has this happened to anyone here? How can I resolve this issue? I recorded a video with wav audio file and 44100 Hz. (On instagram there was no audio change, it remained exactly as I had recorded it). Thank you very much and well done again for your videos!
@TommysPianoCorner 4 ай бұрын
This is a very interesting question. First, did you use the phone’s built in microphone or an external (e.g. Shure). Next, did you use the standard ‘camera’ app or something with more control. Finally, did you listen back through the iPhone’s built in speakers? I have noticed these are extremely unflattering to piano music. There will often be severe clipping that disappears with headphones. Go figure! Then start adding the processing of platforms such as KZbin or instagram and it becomes very difficult to work out what is going on.
@dng88 4 ай бұрын
Her performance is shocking, except for the drop of coins. good you negoiagte with her approach.
@TommysPianoCorner 4 ай бұрын
I think it’s always good to get lots of contrasting performances. It can be helpful to notice things we don’t like just as much as things we do :-)