Tricks of the Trope: Lesson 1

[@bobwitkow195]

I'm 63 years old, and your lessons are clear proof that an old dog can be taught new tricks!

[@debramarvin]

And I’m 65!

[@cherylsigel8916]

I have been wanting to learn Torah Tropes for years. As a retired high school teacher, I can say this is the best teaching technique I have ever seen. I learned these tropes so easily. It has motivated me to try to chant sections of the Torah from my Pentateuch. Thank you so much Cantor Brown.

[@thedylanshow1]

Thank you Cantor Brown! I always enjoy coming back to your videos to help me read Torah in temple.

[@cynthianonye7903]

I can not thank you enough, thank you so much. As mildly dyslexic I am, you made the tamei ha mikrah so super easy & enjoyable to learn. My daughter Elizabeth ( then aged 8 ) loved everything about it - defferent hand gestures which made the tropes such easy to remember etc. I've since been chanting from the Sefer Torah at my shul the past 18 months!!!! Shalom Cynthia

[@MarkDerbyshiremoses]

Thank you so much for helping me learn and recap my Torah cantillation.thank for the time you spent making the video

[@Sharilynnk]

Dear Hazzan Arianne Brown thank you so much for these easy to follow lessons. I have shared them with my B'nai Mitzvah Students and those who want to learn the actual trope system, to use beyond their B'nai Mitzvah Day have found them very helpful. I also, have always wanted to be more proficient at the trope and I love your system. Thank you!!!!!!!!

[@ilijaotter661]

Best by short & usefulness lesson!

[@sarah_pujangga]

beautiful video sharing my friend😊👍👌🔔💪

[@JittoRalo]

I am very grateful. The joy of the Lord is in His song.

[@hafman715]

Wow. This is an awesome method.

[@Endymion5000]

This is excellent! Great to tie the visual with the sound and an action. Every B'nai mitzvah should learn this.

[@Estiallina]

What a great way to learn the trope - very useful for those of us who are visual and movement oriented. I'm going to use this with my son who will be bar mitzvah in 6 months and not making as much progress as I thought he would be by now.

[@irosenth100]

Love it

[@dyanovitz]

Thank you Cantor Ari for these 3 great videos. I learned the trope in 2 weeks of watching and watching and watching your videos over and over. And now I'm reading B'shalach aliya ha'Rishon. You teach them in such a great and simple manner. Y'asher Koach

[@hectorpg1181]

Finally I learned the trope easily and quickly, thanks and blessings from Adonai

[@carlaknijnik6960]

Dear Arianne, You are a genious! Seriously! This is amazing! Kol hakavod!

[@joshmorris2474]

Awesome! It took me a minute to catch on, but then I was singing right along with you. The arm movements are so helpful, they make it so easy to visual the trope. Thank you.

[@TaniaShanaYegelwel]

This is WONDERFUL!!! Thank you so so much!! Sharing with fellow heb teachers and my students!! Very grateful to you!!!

[@neilwiththedeal]

Todah rabbah!

[@alancobo-lewis2000]

This is super useful. (And also a pleasure to listen to.) Thank you!

[@GamerKid-on9un]

You really help me and you are a great teacher and have a lovely calm peaceful voice

[@guardiaomer]

Best lesson I've had. I'm sooo thankfull because this is on KZbin!!!

[@jhnjhn900]

Great stuff...love it.

[@hebrewgreek7420]

Should we imitate your movements as if it’s a mirror image, or should we use our right hand to do what it appears from the video that your right hand is doing and the same with our left and your left?

[@akbdswagp]

bless you woman i was afraid i wasnt gonna be able to get the torah portion for my bat mitzvah in time but now i think i will

[@DanielBertles]

This is just wonderful! Thank you!

[@merlincoffee1108]

Thank you SO much for doing this for us. I really appreciate it. The others in my adult trope class are impressed

[@leahyanit]

Great. I need to learn a torah portion for my nieces's bat-mitzvah and am busy studying your lessons everyday now. Very helpful to associate the hand motions.

[@TheJesusNerd40]

This is beautiful

[@AmericanIsraeliJew]

Also thank you. These lessons will help all of us that enjoy the music of the Tanach.

[@jhnjhn900]

Brilliant....loved it.

[@michaelsloan3179]

Oh my gosh - Can't believe I'm just seeing this!!

[@emmafialkoff7684]

This is a fabulous video! I need to start teaching trope to my students and I don't know it myself! This is a great way to learn, and I can't wait to master the skill. Thank you for sharing!!

[@richardkaznyoung7711]

Thank you! Wonderfully explained pictorially !

[@tenafishman2064]

THANK YOU CANTOR ARIANNE!!!! THESE ARE SO HELPFUL TO ME. i'm trying to learn trope during quarantine

[@salosinger9924]

Same

[@treespeak2848]

Thank you so much for this! I have struggled for years and this makes so much sense! (I've been relying on rote memorization.)

[@charlesjirkovsky14]

Why is the “munach” melody different in the et nachta than in the katone?

[@craigpadover8667]

Does anyone know if these melodies are are appropriate for Haftorah or Torah reading? The cantor refers to "Torah" trope but my gut tells me it is probably for "Haftorah". I just need to confirm. Thanks.

[@jonatastavares1598]

Thank you very much! So helpful for me! Really fantastic.

[@imolanemes694]

thank you, absolutely amazing!

[@baileycohen7775]

Ha, thank you so much! I'm preparing for my bot-mitzvah, but due to some complications, I'm missing a lot of my lessons. This is awesome for helping me catch up with my Haftorah chanting. :-)

[@mayakl8371]

bailey cohen I know right! My Bat-Mitzvah is this saturday and this saved me

[@viniciusban]

Amazing and wonderful. Thank you very much.

[@cmdb582]

this is the simplest way I've seen to learn. thank you. any chance you could post lessons on the haftorah trope? thanks Dina

[@walidgaming8553]

What sound do these tropes make do they make the sound that she is singing for example mercha does it make the sound Kha?

[@carpexomnis]

Why does the sof pasuk in words in the V'ahavta seem to end on a higher note than the examples here?

[@nzarabi]

Go cantor ari thats my teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MusicalMinds100]

Fantastic lessons! Kol Hakavod!

[@DtotheORdoubleEen]

Hey what style trope is this? Is it same that chabad would read?

[@edwardleal2976]

I learned here and have been chanting at our synagogue for years now. Then started going somewhere else where the rabbi insisted on a different nusach. This is so engrained, it is almost impossible to relearn another style. So, for anybody wanting to learn to chant Torah. Make sure you learn the style of your community. This is a reform nusach called Avery/Binder. It is one of the prettiest sounding, but a Chabad house will not approve. Lol...at least where I went🕎🙂

[@devorahlewis-burstein4635]

Hi' my son really loved your lesson, and he read amazing in Shull/. Thank you very much

[@judysbakeryandtestkitchen1654]

Someone in my synagogue told me about this KZbin . This is the way I have been visualizing the trope myself! Somebody told me that the trope symbols are actually choir symbols that have been written down. Is that true?

[@Freedomancer111]

Lesson 1 was easy... Lesson 3 not so much.😂❤

[@kittyhoffman8708]

Thank you! This helps by making it a living organic system, and not just academic.

[@heatherseaton7787]

Wonderful singing and teaching! Please forgive my ignorance; what style of cantillation is this? I saw another video, using with the same symbols, but it presented a different set of notes to go with them. I’d love to understand more about these differences and have less confusion…

[@mahimageetha6023]

Tq mam

[@icychap]

You are a phenomenal teacher. Reminds me of chess lessons that progress from individual moves to combinations. Brilliant stuff. Thank you!

[@mayakl3494]

Ahhhhh this helped me sooooo much

[@ivangomesdeassis8079]

Sister Arianne, a got very amazed with the methodology that you used in youtube to explain the tricks of the trops, but unfortunately, when I was chating Bereshit 1, in the third day of creation I did not know how to chant because there is a munach before a gershaim in the verse 11 and munach before a mapach in the verse 12. Sorry if I commited some mistake in this message, I am Brazillian. God bless you and your family. Remember me in your prays. Thank you very much for your gifts. If you have some video in which you are chanting Bereshit, I would be full of grace if you send it to me, I would like to chant the Torah like your method, I have not found no one that chant precisely like you do and it is hard to learn anothers incomplete ways. Thanks again.

[@johnny.bo.jangles]

Is there any difference between Munach and Katon? I'm wondering if Munach sounds different when in the Etnachta phrase than it does in the Katon phrase.

[@edwardleal2976]

Yes, munach has 4 different sounds. Etnachta, katon, rivi'i and legarmei.

[@susanyoungblood1843]

Thank you so much! Your series is coming in so useful for working with my child (studying for his bar mitzvah).

[@lim7lim]

3:55 משפטים שלמים

[@csfox99]

Love the hand movements - very helpful!

[@chloelevian682]

i know shes the best trope tech everssssssssssssssssssssss

[@palaruanm27803]

Nehadar! Toda raba!!

[@chloelevian682]

same well was i will miss u

[@AmericanIsraeliJew]

I'm trying to figure out how to play the Trope of the Tanach on a guitar in he same way the King David plays them.

[@gantrep]

Interesting historical theory.

[@7kaisheba]

Try learntrope.com,

[@421sap]

B''H, Amen

[@erzaine6545]

Would watch but kol eisha

[@ivangomesdeassis8079]

Thank you, I'm a Brazilian Chistian trying to learn cantillation and what you have done has helped me a lot. Could you do a new video singing bereshit one as an example??? PLEASE!!!

[@leoska47]

Torah incantation

[@merlincoffee1108]

Thank you!!

[@musdoc]

Thank you

[@buckets212]

Your not paying attention to the difference when the mercha and tipcha appear in an etnachta phrase and when they appear in a siluk phrase. Your singing them the same.

[@mishahaliva3058]

יפה ובעזרת אדני גם במקלדת:

[@mishahaliva3058]

אם את מוכרת מקלדת טעמי המקרא אני משלם על זה מאתיים דולר או חמש מאות שקל

[@lexiaontube]

Briliant !!!!!!! The Kol Be-Isha however ;(

[@user-zd7ki4cf6n]

This was great. Thank you! But does the Munach change? If so, this could be talked explained. Thanks again!

[@chloelevian682]

help full :)

[@MrDave7575]

She confuses sof-pasuk with sof-aliyah. The tune she uses for sof-pasuk is really sof-aliyah. The sof-pasuk is different.

[@cassandraduschane3935]

Would anyone say this was a form of music conducting? Would the cantor typically be giving these gestures in front of students for them to follow like in western choral conducting? Also if it's not, I'm incredibly sorry, I'm just trying to learn more about this.

[@mnschultz]

ok den pretty awesome

[@AmericanIsraeliJew]

I'm speaking truth here so don't take this as flattery but you are so pretty I find myself enjoying your beauty and voice that it's a bit difficult concentrating on the lesson you teach so perfectly, and I'm not complaining :-).

[@tzipporahv3619]

+AmericanIsraeliJew, you're comments are inappropriate for this video and disrespectful to the Hazzan. Take a cold shower, Romeo.

[@AmericanIsraeliJew]

She teaches like a normal heterosexual woman most likely she hasn't found my comments offensive or disrespectful especially since I posted a year or more back and she hasn't made any response of the comments being disrespectful of offensive. She would have made that clear herself since she is a daughter of Israel and a woman of valor. You on the other hand seem a bit weird. I write that she is beautiful and you think that is disrespectful. You seem to be a troll and I will not feed you further. Anyone reading this, please do not feed the trolls.

[@9spriter3]

it's "zakeif katon" not "katon"

[@AnantaGaurangadasa]

most ba'alei kri'a that I know, including myself, abbreviate it.

[@tzipporahv3619]

With all due respect, Ms. Brown, this cannot be "Lesson 1" because you presuppose some degree of knowledge of the Tropes by someone who is seeking to learn them via this lesson. I'm glad it has helped some, as evidenced by the comments of others. However, I need to look elsewhere for a true beginner's lesson. Todah for your efforts.

[@peterhutchison2727]

+Robee V What more should a beginner know? I'm not Jewish. I'd never even heard of the word "trope" until yesterday, when I read that Jews use trope to help them memorise Torah. I actually found this video while looking for a definition of trope, so that's literally the full extent of my knowledge on the subject. After 20 minutes, I can now recognise each of the symbols in this first video and name and sing the associated melody. I suspect that if I was reading Torah and these symbols appeared on the page, I would just sing the words to these melodies. I'm not sure yet and there's probably a lot more of theory that I could learn, but I certainly didn't need any other knowledge to complete this beginners lesson.

[@tzipporahv3619]

Mr. Hutchison, I'm not sure of the purpose of your comment. I'm glad you were able to get more out of her lesson than I could. Good luck with your continued endeavor.

[@peterhutchison2727]

Sorry if I wasn't clear. You stated that Ms Brown presupposes some degree of knowledge. I was curious as to what else you believed we should know prior to watching this. I'm just hoping to learn more. You expressed you opinion with some certainty, so I assumed you were privy to what this lesson is lacking. The rest of my comment was simply providing context. i.e.: How little I knew prior to seeing this lesson and exactly what I got from it. If there's more I should have gained from a first lesson, I'd sincerely like to know, so I can learn that too.

[@AnantaGaurangadasa]

those are the trope signs.

[@fannykeats]

Even if the lesson was not helpful to you, you might keep in mind that the teacher has earned the title "Cantor" and is properly addressed or referred to as "Cantor Brown" rather than "Ms. Brown."

[@joroepstein-bliss1983]

hahaha

[@lenamitchell509]

ummamapa

[@sarar7037]

mercha, tipchaaaa munach etnachtaaa!!! lol

[@nathanmarek3644]

When she does katon she does the woah.

[@lmandrums3118]

lol

[@symongoldblatt7269]

No she doesn’t she makes a :

[@mishahaliva3058]

NAOW IN RUSSIEN OR ARABIC

[@evan2328]

hi

[@sherolmanavi6899]

Stop being so annoyingly cheerful. 😒

[@kristen3715]

hey dont say that! thats mean.