How to Play Ornaments on the Piano - Music Performance

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Hi Gareth, great video. The translation is done.

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[@nice2care]

This is the best explanation I have seen on Baroque ornaments. Thank you so much!

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[@johnhills6262]

I totally agree!

[@miwir1248]

I just started a piece with a ton of ornaments....and this video arrived like a godsend!

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Great video! Particularly liked the end where you said to play them subtly.

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Very informative video, I needed a refresher. Thanks 🙏🏻

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[@michaeltaylor7407]

A wonderful lecture! Helps me with my irish fiddle ornaments.

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Thank you vere much. Your explanation helped me a lot..

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[@DanBohaneGuitarandPiano]

Thanks so much. I'm a Rock player undertaking my first Bach pieces. So helpful. That will take my fear of ornaments away. Thankyou

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You´ve influenced a lot of people around the world! Congrats.

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[@christopherrobinkarlsson7099]

Great video! Thank you for explaining all of the main ornaments in one condensed video, in a very clear way and with demonstrations. I finally understand all of these weird symbols I've kind of been avoiding for years ^^

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You are the best, the most thorough, the clearest!

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[@rohanchung2185]

Excellent tutorial on this topic. Thank you and God bless you.

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[@richard1342]

One of the best music theory videos I have viewed. Top work Gareth.

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Many thanks for your masterclass on this topic, Sir!

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[@PIANOSTYLE100]

Explained so clearly. Will share this.

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[@josephk2414]

Amazing teaching. Here is where the wheat distinctly separate from the chaff . You listen one time, all you need to know is given to you. Respect.

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[@alanbirchenough]

This was a nice clear explanation. Thanks. By the way, I believe the correct pronunciation of "acciaccatura" is something like "a-chak-a-tura". (Generally, the "ch" sound in Italian is written as "ci".)

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A pleasure. Yes, the pronunciation varies

[@ott0ne]

Hi Gareth, thanks for your precious work. As an Italian, I can confirm that the pronunciation is "at-chak-ka-tu-ra" as suggested, at least here in Italy. But I guess it may be accepted the way you say it among English speakers.

[@thebones]

I've come back to the piano after a twenty year absence, I can't use the pedals so I chose to start with Bach, whose music I love and know very well. I'd forgotten the exact details of some ornaments and you explained them way better than some of the misinformed 'teachers' on KZbin, thank you.

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A big thanks to you Sir. You are great, I really need this lesson ornaments and you explain very well Sir, I'm appreciate your lesson . Thank you so much Sir From Mauritius

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[@johnhills6262]

Well done,star man cleared up 63years of ignorance! Many thanks ,John hills

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Another fantastic lesson! Thank you!

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You are my "music school". Thanks a lot!

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Thank you so much.. Its very helpful.. Learning from you more then from my teacher..

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Thank you so much Master

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excellent explanation. thank you.

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Brilliant lesson! Thank you.

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[@RandyBakkelund]

Love it! I first came across ornaments with my guitar pro software because it had all these symbols I've never seen! Now I know what all of them are! Great video!

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[@elizabethjohnsen6240]

Great video, thank you for posting! I have not played piano in many years and am beginning to dust off my skills while in quarantine. This was very helpful. Hello from Chicago, USA!

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[@NomeDeArte]

Thank you! Best wishes from Argentina

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[@captlynhall]

Thanks so much. That is the best an easiest to understand description of ornaments I have ever seen. I will refer to this often.

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[@Ilovetosingem]

Brilliant lesson. Ornament on the mantlepiece & Pink elephant, hits home! Thanks again and keep safe you and yours.

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[@Ilovetosingem]

@@MusicMattersGB Hi Gareth. I've been researching appoggiatura and some people teach it as a leap or skip up and step down. The opposite from the escape note! I'm a bit confused. Thanks in advance and keep safe.

[@SwapneelGhosh95]

OMG thank you so much! So clear and to the point. Loved the video and it helped me a lot.

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[@armansrsa]

I never understood why they just didnt write out the quavers of the appoggiatura and as you even said it would be "perfectly possible" but your video made it clear that this way the composer shows which are the main melody notes and that the appogg is subordinate to the main melody notes. Thank you!

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Thank you! Very enlightening!

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[@fififi-fifi]

Very clear! Thank you so much

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[@jessicapsalmist8205]

Beautifully explained thank you

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Great explanation and run through

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[@ericmirza9133]

Amazing accurate teaching

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[@epanije6086]

This explanation was fantastic, thank you so much!

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Thank you very much! Your lessons are clear and effective!

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[@balmoraltowers]

Demystified Ornaments for me thank you very much🎼🎹

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Thank you very much , sir

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Best Expalination i must say... Thanku

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[@tinkerchel]

Thank you!! You made ornaments so simply and fun😍

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Excellent lesson!

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Amazing video, so helpful and so easily explained. Thank you for these amazing tutorials, keep up the good work!

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This was so useful. Thanks. 😌

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Thank you! Great tutorial!

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One of the best explanations I have seen.

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So helpful. Thanks so much!

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Thank you!

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[@the_eternal_student]

The dictionary shows that an appoggiatura can be played short like an acciaccatura if it has the slash through the stem. I have also seen two textbooks that say the grace note at the beginning in Mozart's piano sonata K. 333 was meant to be played as a 16th note.

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The little line indicates that it is an acciaccatura.

[@man0sticks]

Which dictionary? The line through the note makes it an Acciaccatura-quite different from an Appoggiatura.

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Thank you for the very clear instruction! Very helpful!

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Beautiful Explanation! Crystal clear..

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[@carlosazambujayt]

I enjoyed your video so much! So well explained! Just two comments: I'm not italian, but I think the first double cc in "acciaccatura" are pronounced with a "ch" sound (like in "check"); and the "mordent" in baroque style should (generally) begin with the upper note, like the trill.

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You’re probably right about the Italian. It’s pronounced both ways in many countries. I agree re the mordent generally starting on the upper note although there is variation of approach to that depending on the musical circumstances.

[@carlosazambujayt]

​@@MusicMattersGB Yes, there are rules and principles, but context (historical, stylistical, purely musical, and even personal) really matters. Well, if there is such a thing as a "natural teacher", you are a very good example. Thank you for all these didactic videos!

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[@user-sp4ij8ps3k]

Those first two ornaments, I just learnt it as "grace notes" when I was a kid.

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[@Janiesindall1981]

This is a fabulous lesson, Gavin! So infirnative! Thank you! 🙏

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[@DrLuke-ci8bo]

Very good. You could have mentioned non-chord tones, which is (usually) part of the definition of an ornament, but that might have obscured the clarity of this presentation . . . ♫

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Really useful. Many thanks

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Nice presentation

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Nice lesson. Very helpful. Thank you so much.

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Good, thank you for sharing

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[@iggykarpov]

01:53 Appoggiatura 04:05 Acciaccatura 05:19 Turn / gruppetto 06:25 Trill 09:06 Mordent 09:56 Inverted turn / gruppetto 12:21 Lower mordent 13:29 Realization

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Great presentation. thank you. Just what I need right now. I hope someday you bone up on Partimento and the Rule of the Octave, as there are few videos like this...yet, focused on the revival of Neapolitan improvisation.

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Your video always so helpful to me, great and clear explaination. Thank you so much

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[@Seekthetruth3000]

No ornaments = No baroque music. Great lesson.

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[@christophertanViolin]

Hello! amazing channel and explanation!! I wonder if you could make a video of an in depth explanation on this, like use a love song with overuse, overshadowing of notes vs the approriate way on putting them. THANK YOU!!!

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Great video thanks

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Excellent - just what the doctor ordered.

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[@martinh1277]

You can read a complete list of ornaments, as far as we know today, in Thierry Mathis, Le Clavecin en France (Latour) There is about 23. The real problem is to play the ornaments which are not written down. There are a few rules but mostly it is a matter of taste. But what is taste?

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The guidance given in that source is valuable and one can inject taste from there. Thanks for drawing attention to it.

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Thank you for this video, it is very helpful since I didn't have any theory lessons in lockdown!

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Thank you so much

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Very Nice!

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Thank you

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Excelente gracias!

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Great Tutorial!! Thank You Sir!

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[@ugur.nurcan]

Fantastic explanation, thanks

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Thank you. Very helpful!

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I watched all your videos and mlst of all this alot

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Why

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[@RuthButlerMusic]

Thank you!!!!

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[@man0sticks]

Good explanation of the Appoggiatura as regards time value, but I wish Gareth had made it clear that the stress is on the ornamental note, played on the beat. In other words, “Appoggiaturas are louder than the following tone.” (C.P.E. Bach) To make this more evident for those of us who did not begin our keyboard studies in the 18th century, the slur marking is often used.

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You’re absolutely right. Apologies if that didn’t come across sufficiently clearly.

[@marcellotenarta5233]

Hello, I would like to ask 2 questions. 1. The grace notes in appogiaturas you wrote it with a crochet. But what if the grace notes there are written with quavers or semiquavers, is there a difference? Does that affect the note values? 2. And how about double appogiaturas, I see they are usually written in semiquavers, so how to divide the note values? Thanks.

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Hi. There’s no difference in treatment between single double or triple appoggiaturas. Quaver or semiquaver appoggiaturas might imply a quicker appoggiatura.

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Good one! Thanks!

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[@aronkay5274]

Hey Music Matters Great VIdeo!!! Just out of curiosity what program did you use to make the keyboard play with colors?

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[@indus7841]

would these be similar to Slides and hammer-ons, and pull offs in blues music?

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They’re both ways of ornamenting a line.

[@martialpanyvino]

Hi ! Thank you so much for your videos Gareth ! I learn so much interesting stuff on your channel 😁 Yet, i have a question about the accidental sign (which means "natural" if i'm not wrong)... Is it possible to have a flat or sharp sign under or above an ornament symbol instead of this accidental sign ? Let's imagine i want to play a turn over the note E while the piece is in C major scale If it is a regular turn i should play F E D E But let's say i want to play F E Eb E (because i modulated to C minor scale or whatever) Could i put a "b" under the turn sign to indicate to play Eb instead of D while doing the turn ? Same question with a sharp sign above the turn sign... Thanks ! 😁

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[@stefanodigarbo4735]

Always crystal clear and super helpful Maestro Gareth. I have two questions regarding the turn, if I may. First question: I have never seen inverted turns written with crossing lines, but rather like normal turn signs with the first hump going down, as if mirrored along a horizontal axis; is that exactly the same inverted turn or does it mean anything else? Second question is how to play a standing turn (like S) and its inverted homologous. Finally, I'd love if you considered posting a video on more ornamentation signs e.g. double mordents, embellished with parenthesis-like heads and tails, and so on. Thanks a lot for your great teaching! Stefano from Italy

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[@Rametetr]

So helpful, thanks! Is there a simple way to denote whether a trill speeds up or slows down? Writing them out note-by-note get very rhythmically confusing for the players, and I've been looking for a better way to notate this type of thing.

[@MusicMattersGB]

This is really the point of ornamentation. We don’t really want to play ornaments mathematically. The notion of speeding up into a trill for example helps to make the trill expressive and more integrated into the melodic line.

[@leeerica3966]

I am confused when should I play grace note before the beat or on the beat?

[@MusicMattersGB]

It rather depends on the situation but usually they come on the beat.