A Revolutionary Arpeggio Learning Strategy in 4 Simple Steps

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00:00 Why this learning strategy?
00:49 Adzzz time!
01:20 An important tip before learning
03:22 Step 1: Fly over
06:01 Step 2: Rotation
07:47 Step 3: Elbow Opening
09:30 Step 4: Landing on fingers 1&2 at once
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[@mitchnew3037]

This is amazing !! PHENOMENAL 👍

[@suzanneroyce9300]

Thank you, I’ve never heard an instructor address that fear of giving up the security of knowing where I am on the keyboard during arpeggios. So I’ve always tried to keep connection between octaves and never attempted fly overs. This video is a real confidence builder.

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Happy to help! Thank you for your support!

[@Basti4231]

This is the best video I found on the internet with such dedication and great explanation! It's like a great teacher is giving me private lessons :D Thank you so much! I will practice and see the results

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Glad it was helpful!

[@pviseskul]

Thank you for breaking down the steps and demonstrating the gestures. I have always struggled with arpeggios so I will definitely give this a try :)

[@jaytsecan]

Very useful tips. Thank you!

[@messiahh]

I am still a begginner and was practicing only during the time lenght of the video. It instantly made a difference! I'll incorporate this to my practice asap. Thank you!

[@antoniomaccagnan7200]

Excellent tutorial. Clear, complete, and well explained.

[@michaelandersson1904]

Best lesson on arpeggios ive ever seen!! Thank you very much!!

[@martoneill]

Fabulous video- thank you!

[@pianochad]

Perfect timing, i just started learning this piece and have trouble with making my appregios sound smoothly. Thank you so much for these high quality videos.

[@brandonmacey964]

So incredibly compact and helpful..

[@jeanflores6627]

HOLLLYY MOLLLY

[@frangallo57]

Brilliant. Nice presentation on a technique which I am sure will overcome stumbling blocks for many. Thank you.

[@toddbilleci8563]

Brilliant, thank you!

[@jasonhuddleston2720]

Another great video. Thank you. ❤

[@hanchobarbi8266]

Extremely helpful tips! 🎉

[@DJazium]

Wow! This really helped immediately!

[@user-mo2js8nv8i]

I’ve been slowly getting better at this particular arpeggio, of course it doesn’t make it easier that the left hand is also changing position lol, but this I think will help me with it. Thank you

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

The opposite way of position changes is covered in the most recent videos on arpeggios!

[@miguelmunoz5598]

Exceptional! Many thanks for this and so many other great tutorials, it’s the focus on the perhaps not so little details that make all the difference.

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Thank you! ☺️

[@myless789]

I need to watch this, but I love your channel! Your videos have transformed my playing:) Keep making awesome content!!🦄🦄🦄

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Thanks and have a great progress!

[@myless789]

@@DenZhdanovPianist thanks ^^! Also I’d like to say that my piano teacher is who recommended your Chanel to me:)! I told her that I want to start getting better technique and get a better practice routine so I can start doing piano competitions and she said that your channel was absolute necessary. She was definitely not wrong :)!

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Cool! I’m happy to hear that. Good luck with establishing a good technique!

[@edgarsnake2857]

Thanks, Denis.

[@lilianmariawiens4781]

Thank you!

[@agnieszkalibiszewska4262]

This is the best explanation of how to practice playing passages quickly that I have heard! ❤ Thank you beautifully for it! It helped me finally get to grips with playing the fast passage from "Für Elise". Before watching your video, I was agonizing over it for a very long time. My warmest regards! 😊

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Glad it was helpful! 😊 thanks for commenting!

[@moy9022]

Great teacher.subsribed. thank you for sharing.

[@theresa1817]

🦄🦄 Your videos are so amazing and helpful, thank you for your effords!

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

☺️ thanks for watching!

[@MrPhilou78]

Thank you so much Denis, your tutos are true gold mines ! I will try your method with the Gm arpeggios of the 1st Ballade (measure 56). However, I find some arpeggios really uncomfortable and tricky to play them properly (ex. Debussy, Rêverie, Meas. 19, left hand).

[@Andrew-pj9kb]

This guy is awesome.

[@anjinsanx44]

Cool. Thank u

[@ykaylow1803]

Wow - I'm going to follow this process over the next few days ! Thank you.

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Best of luck!

[@ykaylow1803]

@@DenZhdanovPianist Thank you ! Day 1 went well - but I'm an old learner and I'll need to repeat step 2 for a couple of days !

[@rodrigogb6022]

As always, brilliant, to the point, and generous. Thanks, Denis.

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Glad you liked it!🤗

[@rodrigogb6022]

@@DenZhdanovPianist I still want to point something else of what goes on, with you as pedagogue, which I think is remarkable. 1st. you offer a context of the problem addressed, namely the arpeggios. 2nd. you cover all the abilities/skills needed to solve the posed situation. 3rd. you let the nature of everyone acquiring these skills manifest itself in its best way to feel comfortable playing the arpeggios. Tremendous teaching. Insightful ! Teaching principles is much more far-reaching than teaching recipes !! Thanks, Denis !!!

[@sychg3448]

Inspiring

[@ezequielgerstelbodoha9492]

I always thought that even fast arpeggios needed to be connected, I became frustrated because I couldn't achieve the speed I wanted without getting very tense. Thank you very much for stating the obvious intuitive and ignored idea: at faster tempos you jump

[@marmasan164]

Brilliantoo

[@waltergiz]

Thank you! Everything is clear and helpful. Let me suggest the better (and not "dangerous") pronunciation: фоукэс. My student kindly corrected me many years ago, but even now I would rather say "concentrate". My apologies, but I only want to help.

[@sonnetrajeeb5010]

Sir, You are such a nice teacher. I just prayed to Almighty Allah, for your happy long life. One of your youtube student from Bangladesh. Dr Rajeeb Chowmuhini, Bangladesh.

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Many many thanks, have fun with piano playing!

[@ninifesta1336]

great

[@lalafa21]

Thank you do much, I discovered some new ways for me. But, what about left hand? Do you mind dome especially way for it? Thank you!

[@NyuLatari]

Denis, how would you approach the hand rotation and elbow opening for the left hand in an ascending arpeggio?

[@davidpaolini3522]

Hi. Great tutorial! How would you approach a left hand arpeggio or a descending arpeggio in the right hand when doing the 90 degree rotation and glissando practice? In the left hand Counterclockwise rotation seems to be against forward flow and clockwise rotation feels awkward. Thanks!

[@w3sp]

Nice exercises. I know fingering is not the purpose of this video, but for this passage I'd recommend using 24 124 1245 fingering 🙂 PS: Do you have any recommendations on how to get the descending arpeggios in Chop 10/1 more even when playing fast?

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

A good fingering tip for this spot! At the moment I have only this detailed video dedicated to op. 10/1 kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKPLZ2WFo61or80

[@opustravels3659]

Nice, will give this a try! How about moving down the piano?

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

To be continued!😅

[@raleedy]

Use left hand for descending

[@rolanambrocio7434]

I wonder if these steps are applicable to left hard arpeggio where fingerings are different

[@theoooms7277]

I'm so grateful for finding your channel. I already bought your course on Hanon and just purchased this Czerny course. I think you are a great teacher and wish that technical skills were more adressed by the teachers I had in the past. I intend to study your courses and find that ease in playing ! One question; what would be your advice in the descending form of this arpeggio and how would you play an arpeggio starting on a black key (Eb for example)?

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Thanks for a nice feedback! Going downwards is covered in the Czerny course which you already got in the lesson dedicated to the Etude no.12!😎

[@ml4119]

This is a very insightful video. Do you suggest then that in all instances arpeggios should be played without tucking the thumb under the palm? I guess shifting can also be applied to scales? Your method seems to be more gentle on the thumb which takes the same role as the other fingers (moving up and down rather then sideways). Anyway, the method you propose seems to be more efficient, less painful but would need a lot of practice for fast arpeggios/scales.

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

There are two special videos for scales on this channel. Tucking the thumb under slows you down, and as faster you play as lesser this motion should be. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYS7qGiabp58aLM kzbin.info/www/bejne/noTJd2l3mJ6fprM

[@billligon4005]

😅😅😊How do you “polish a piece for performance? I’m making mistakes in places where I did not make them before. How do you polish a piece of art - working Shostakovich Fugue No 7.

[@polonoise]

Tons of practice, also have somebody else hear you perform.

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

That’s too vast to answer briefly. It includes massive topics as the overall piano playing technique state, the way you usually practice, an overall ability to focus and hold attention, even how much you have slept and what you ate! 😅 but you might find some answers in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHO0oICwrKhle8U

[@malebuls]

Hi I am working on my thrills. Can you explain how to improve thrills 4-5 finger? Thank you.

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Thanks that’s a good suggestion, I’ll make a video on it. Meanwhile, I have video on trills, try these learning strategies first kzbin.info/www/bejne/sIWomGaJopZ_m5Y

[@annamusic8037]

👏❤

[@spiinox]

9:13

[@tomarmstrong1281]

How could I not get good with such a beautiful piano and studio space with youth, and youthful flexibility, mental and physical, to support my efforts. As it is I guess I will press on with my creaky joints and noisy complaining neighbours and an instrument of unknown origin with a couple of keys that stick down if pressed too hard. Other than that I'm not complaining.

[@daseandolton]

Can someone refer to a video that does arpeggios moving toward the thumb cause the technique is very different?

[@daseandolton]

This video only discusses one direction

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

I have mentioned this in the older video on arpeggios, watch from 9:30 kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYezlZhmbd93rLc

[@daseandolton]

Love man❤

[@karolpiql]

Could you name some professional pianists which "fly over" when there is forth interval in arpeggio? I always saw that they connect everything

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

It seems like they connect because motions are close to the keyboard. But physical connection in any vivid tempo will ruin your passages. I tell this as a professional pianist.

[@karolpiql]

​@@DenZhdanovPianistwhen in the piece are quiter and slower apreggios an without pedal you have to play it legato on cross, otherwise it will never sound good.

[@pohlpiano]

No Yeti Pro anymore? What mic are you using now?

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

I decided to make an upgrade to AKG C 414, because Blue Yeti Pro turned out to be a crap option for XLR connection. I am using it solely as a usb mic for online lessons.

[@pohlpiano]

@@DenZhdanovPianist Great! I use ASTON mics for recording, but for online classes, etc. I still go with USB Yeti Pro. What interface do you use? Or do you connect directly to your cam (like straight to DLSR via XLR)?

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Steinberg UR44C

[@pohlpiano]

@@DenZhdanovPianist Thanks! Keep up the good work!

[@sarovah1]

Would this help with chopin etudes?

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

It is a universal approach that helps for any arpeggios. But Chopin’s arpeggios often have a specific shape which has to be approached in a certain way. I have a special video on op.10/1 and op.25/12: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKPLZ2WFo61or80 kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnW0nZt7ZceXh6M

[@sarovah1]

@@DenZhdanovPianist thank you!

[@martoneill]

🦄

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

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