Conquering Problems With Unevenness In Piano Playing - Josh Wright Piano TV

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@markzurschmiede6866
@markzurschmiede6866 5 жыл бұрын
The finger staccato exercise was enormously helpful in overcoming the speed wall in my scales.
@sirchoppy1810
@sirchoppy1810 3 жыл бұрын
h time
@pianopera
@pianopera 7 жыл бұрын
Some very good tips here how to practise and overcome certain problems in rhythm, touch & articulation. You sure have the ability to analyse, to break the problem down into smaller parts and then invent ways to fix it!
@thegreenpianist7683
@thegreenpianist7683 7 жыл бұрын
very smart and creative methods, and that's really how you solve problems in technique, and not by draining yourself with the metronome going slow to fast for ages, great video!!
@dmc8129
@dmc8129 3 жыл бұрын
We meet once again
@alteregocarson
@alteregocarson 4 жыл бұрын
It seems like such a “doy” moment, but thank you so much for stressing the importance of not just the attack into the keys, but the release as well! I struggle with unequal fingers all the time and this will be something else to keep an eye out for during practice.
@lakep7798
@lakep7798 3 жыл бұрын
Agreed! I’ve hardly ever focused on release but will now do so thanks to this video. By the way, I haven’t heard “doy” in a long time😂! So cool-a total blast from the past moment...🙂
@MegaToti26
@MegaToti26 Жыл бұрын
Excellent!🎉🎉🎉
@pandahi3108
@pandahi3108 7 жыл бұрын
really helpful video ,thank you so much !! I remember when I was kid ,speed eveness was ok for me BUT sound uneveness(sound quaility ) was a problem and I struggled almost 3 months and I hate myself for let my teacher feel disappointed and I hate that sonata……so I practiced an practiced that 2 bars and suddenly one day it fixed,I felt soooo happy and I didn't hate that sonata anymore。 now I still get uneveness sometime and struggle some bars but I know finally I will get there I will conquer that as long as I don't give up
@susanbickel9965
@susanbickel9965 6 ай бұрын
Thank you. I just began these exact motions to fix my problem.
@thomashoffman5217
@thomashoffman5217 2 жыл бұрын
This was SOOOO helpful. I have scoured youtube for tips with Chopins fioritura and this was by far and beyond the most helpful.
@megh2075
@megh2075 3 жыл бұрын
This is exactly what I need to learn! Thank you, Josh.
@g.970
@g.970 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all your instructional video. I began the piano again, after a 15 year absence. Like most people who quit……why did I waster 15 years of practice? I downsized house and my grand piano wouldn’t fit…or so we thought. But I now have a new grand piano, that fits in my smaller space, and I practice every day.
@litzawewers9964
@litzawewers9964 6 ай бұрын
Thank you very very much for this video. The staccato exercise helps a lot!❤
@cocwithmeme2301
@cocwithmeme2301 4 жыл бұрын
This guy is incredible! I really love his method of teaching! I’m very thankful to find you! I’ve taken so much advantage of your Videos 🙏🙏🙏
@fabiopalma4429
@fabiopalma4429 6 жыл бұрын
Man Josh, you are getting better and better as a pedagogue and I have followed you for years. Even though I'm accordionist, I use a lot of your stuff with my accordion students. Thanks and keep up the good work
@jordidewaard2937
@jordidewaard2937 6 жыл бұрын
I was working on Mozart's Sonata K 545 and I couldn't figure out why my hands were stuck, felt too tensed up, and were slow. After watching this video I think it might have to do with the releases. I also played the big scales rather uneven as soon as I played faster. This might just mean that I need to practice more, but this vid's great. Thanks Josh :)
@audiomystic
@audiomystic 6 жыл бұрын
You’re an incredible teacher. Thank you.
@kellisstudio4660
@kellisstudio4660 6 жыл бұрын
My teachers always knew how uneven I play. My brain self corrects tho... so I had no idea until I tried making a recording as Christmas present. Big eye opener 🤷‍♂️
@epichdsheep
@epichdsheep 5 жыл бұрын
Railway Quilt Studio exactly the same with me! I had been playing without a teacher for a year and then one afternoon I randomly decided to make a recording. Oh my what an eye opener it was playing the recording back to myself. I got myself a teacher the next week.
@josephschepis7258
@josephschepis7258 2 жыл бұрын
I agree. Recording oneself which I do frequently is really illuminating!
@snacklepussPSN
@snacklepussPSN 5 жыл бұрын
THANKS @Josh Wright for imparting any musical Knowledge onto us mere learners: I cannot believe how addicted I am to Piano after almost 6 weeks: All my life I played Guitar ~ Ukelele ~ Banjo and all other stringed instruments to an almost mastered degree [soloist] But Piano is my ultimate escapism: I have never been so happy just to sit down and learn and learn then step away to return and see the progress: I love the way the process pushes the ego aside and forces one to confront the fact that SLOW Learning through true patience is the way forward: There are NO shortcuts: Granted I bought a Roland Fantom X8 [88 Keys :-) ] and a pair of Rokit 5 G3 Powered Studio Monitor Speakers for now; but down the line I want a grand Piano: I will get there: Baby steps:
@g.970
@g.970 2 жыл бұрын
Love your teaching method. I hope you are still doing new videos. It’s 2022 now
@하나별-j1u
@하나별-j1u 4 жыл бұрын
It's really a helpful lesson thank you so much.
@steve4157
@steve4157 3 жыл бұрын
This is the issue I have been having. Thank you so very much for this tutorial.
@helloolleh4861
@helloolleh4861 5 жыл бұрын
2:02 that face long pause tho lmao
@hodinyklavirurichard6805
@hodinyklavirurichard6805 3 жыл бұрын
This is GOLD! Thanks Josh.
@markhayden6062
@markhayden6062 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this... concentrating on sound as a way to escape momentary discouragement. Technique, yes but good sound production is probably more important in the overall delivery. Great advice!
@TraderGary-42
@TraderGary-42 7 жыл бұрын
Great insight! This really helps my thinking about what I'm doing!
@LouisR56
@LouisR56 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you Josh, everytime you release a new video, it's perfectly what I need at the moment! I'm currently struggling with unevenness on a fast run, I'll try your advice!
@DynamicMateTV
@DynamicMateTV 4 жыл бұрын
a great teacher
@slkchao
@slkchao 7 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed your "light touches" section and K482 demo of Murray Perahia!!!
@B42UC4
@B42UC4 2 жыл бұрын
¡Thanks a lot for teh advice! It is great to know that no matter how advanced you are, those things need to be polished to achieve a better sound. Humble and inspiring :D. Cheers!
@IrisUkulele
@IrisUkulele 4 жыл бұрын
your method helps. Thank you
@SamuelIkeda
@SamuelIkeda 7 жыл бұрын
You're a frickin genius, man.
@kentvandervelden
@kentvandervelden 7 жыл бұрын
Fascinating, I'm sure I'm heavy handling the keys. I'll start practicing releasing tension and light staccato. Thank you
@AlexandraZavitsanou
@AlexandraZavitsanou 5 жыл бұрын
You are a great teacher and pianist! Thank you.
@wolfgangamadeusmozart7672
@wolfgangamadeusmozart7672 7 жыл бұрын
Great video Josh!
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I needed! 👍🏻
@jillmcaleese6514
@jillmcaleese6514 5 жыл бұрын
Super session! Thanks, it helps so much to be able to focus in on these details
@LordHar
@LordHar 7 жыл бұрын
This is exactly the video I needed right now!
@micko9736
@micko9736 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@joshuajones3929
@joshuajones3929 7 жыл бұрын
You are an amazing teacher thank you for sharing and making videos.
@cryozer0398
@cryozer0398 6 жыл бұрын
This guy is pretty good, why are there only 69k subscribers :(
@Soundofcats99
@Soundofcats99 7 жыл бұрын
A definite a-ha moment at 4:20, thanks Josh!!!!! :)
@SeEyMoReBuTtS
@SeEyMoReBuTtS 7 жыл бұрын
Etude op 10 no 2!!!!
@BillyJeen
@BillyJeen 7 жыл бұрын
Practicing that light touch, such good advice, thanks muchly.
@Archeomane
@Archeomane 7 жыл бұрын
Thanks ! Im working too on 25/2 Chopin ! Hope can transpose advices here... Josh, maybe can be so great to do a vids on 25/2 !!! Pierre frm Paris
@johnjmr
@johnjmr 6 жыл бұрын
This is so helpful!!! Thank you Josh!!
@Aalii6
@Aalii6 5 жыл бұрын
very good advice, thank you!
@jjuuaannii1
@jjuuaannii1 4 жыл бұрын
Every time I watch this video I learn something new!!! Thank you so much, Josh!!
@ZB_US
@ZB_US 7 жыл бұрын
This is so helpful!!!! Thanks a lot!!!!
@songhan6317
@songhan6317 3 жыл бұрын
Does this work for other pieces?
@kablah19
@kablah19 7 жыл бұрын
This is a good idea! Thanks for sharing!
@janschoeppe732
@janschoeppe732 7 жыл бұрын
thanks for the video josh! i have many rythmic problems on the fantaisie impromptu in the right hand. that'll help
@metteholm4833
@metteholm4833 4 жыл бұрын
I´m really battling unevenness in scales. It seems to go wrong around crossing. Perhaps a slight adjustment of the hand position could help.
@pilkin5378
@pilkin5378 4 жыл бұрын
Oooooofff, this is the only vid of your I liked. Idk y. But i did rly like this vid
@rapunzelz5520
@rapunzelz5520 5 жыл бұрын
Very helpful!!
@DoubleGauss
@DoubleGauss 5 жыл бұрын
3:09 Jeunehomme rocks !
@noahmaillouxmusic
@noahmaillouxmusic 7 жыл бұрын
Really liked this one, thanks Josh!
@jacobj2954
@jacobj2954 7 жыл бұрын
thank you, super information every time, thank you for sharing your time and knowledge :)
@sheytherese
@sheytherese 6 жыл бұрын
Ohh thanks a lot for this video! This is really what I wanted!
@ggarcia12390
@ggarcia12390 3 жыл бұрын
I tried playing the 3rd movement of the appassionata sonata but I was too allegro for me. I practiced it hard but was a little too advanced for me. Chopin is more where it was at for me I could nail the revolutionary etude
@RaveenaAroraOfficial
@RaveenaAroraOfficial 6 жыл бұрын
Very very helpful. THANK YOU
@FeonaLeeJones
@FeonaLeeJones 6 жыл бұрын
I always tell my students to pull the sound instead of pushing the sound out of the piano.
@leo32190
@leo32190 3 жыл бұрын
1. Play all loud and release the tension after your press, PRESS-RELEASE 2. Find out exactly where is uneven
@henrydenner5448
@henrydenner5448 7 жыл бұрын
Hi +joshwrightpiano Firstly, I am quite the fan. Secondly, I'd like to ask the following: I am not the biggest fan of Preludes. Unless the composer is Rachmaninov, of course. With reference to the most beautiful Prelude ever, Rach Prelude in G Major, Opus 32 no 5, my concern is with evenness of awkward polyrhythms, in this case pentuplets over triplets, pentuplets over semiquavers and even pentuplets over demisemiquavers. What in your view is the best approach to get those even? Do you practice them single hands first and then jointly, or is it more effective to immediately go both hands? I believe there is an 8 over 7 part in the Grieg A Minor Concerto as well. 🤤
@mammamya5281
@mammamya5281 6 жыл бұрын
Henry Denner wow Ur serious about piano!
@littlefishbigmountain
@littlefishbigmountain 6 жыл бұрын
I'm no teacher, and certainly not a piano teacher, so take what I say with a grain of salt Polyrythyms are tricky, even for drummers and other percussionists, whose specialty is obviously rythym (ignoring for a moment that the piano is technically a percussion instrument itself). It takes practice to develop the necessary limb independence, yet on piano trying to just jump in and play a polyrythymic is to try to hit all the right notes and in the process hopefully achieve the correct rythym by feel/sound at the same time That being said, I think it would be much more beneficial to start at the fundamental level, as a drummer might too, and practice banging out some polyrythyms on your lap by tapping your hands. Start with a good ol' 4/3 until you really get the feel for it (a 4/3 repeats every twelve beats, so if you continue the pattern for a while you're brain will probably start to chunk those measures together into one bigger piece) and can feel it's groove. Focus on accentuating the four, then let the four fall into the background and accent the three. Switch back and forth, really exploring the feel of the rythym. Then switch hands and try to do the same thing in reverse to really work on that limb independence. Once you get down 4/3, try learning a piece that uses it. For example, Fantasie-Impromptu. After developing the limb independence, it needs to be taken one step further for piano to finger independence. The overall rythym obviously stays the same, but certain fingers need to strike certain keys to it now instead of just tapping. Of course, that much is obvious. Since 4/3 repeats every 3 bars in 4/4 time (or 4 bars in 3/4 time), I'd say practice the piece in three or four bar chunks. Playing the triplets in one hand and the quadruplets in the other separately to learn the notes and how each hand should move, them set them against each other with hands together, trying to feel out their rythyms through exploration and dynamics, not unlike feeling it out through the tapping on your legs, then tying the 3 or 4 bar chunks together. All of this should help you internalize the basics of polyrythyms Then practice a couple other polyrythyms. Preferably start with a couple simpler ones and build up to formulate a sort of pattern between different polyrythyms, but music is ultimately about making the sounds you want so don't force yourself too much to struggle through it to the point of burning yourself out. That'd be counterproductive. So you may wanna just jump on up to try working on whatever polyrythym you need for your purposes. If the notes are how music sings, then the rythym is how it dances, so respecting the rythym and internalizing its feel and its soul in its own right first as a distinct component of the music (and a tricky one at that! even for drummers and other percussionists), as well as breaking the task up into chunks instead of trying to take everything on at once and relying solely on musical intuition to bring it all together, should really help. And of course, once you do internalize it and then apply it, you're musical intuition won't have gone anywhere, so it should be much easier to weave together all the pieces neatly and cohesively after you've practiced them all independently But that's easier said than done. Hey, nobody ever said being a musician was easy! But if it was, I don't suppose it'd be as rewarding. After all, what were you more proud of yourself for? Learning something like Mary Had a Little Lamb, or something like Für Elise? So how much more rewarding would it be to go from Für Elise to Hungarian Dances, continuing farther and farther upward and onward from there! Again, I'm not really qualified to be saying this, but I at least hope I could help give you some fresh ideas or ways to think about/approach the problem to get you out of the rut you seem to find yourself in and inspire you to achieve what you set out for yourself to do as you make new goals for yourself :)
@littlefishbigmountain
@littlefishbigmountain 6 жыл бұрын
By the way, Grieg's A Minor Concerto is a masterpiece! One of my favorites, for sure. I'd heard it was technically unfinished as Grieg never felt fully satisfied with it, iirc. C'est la vie for a perfectionist, I suppose
@littlefishbigmountain
@littlefishbigmountain 6 жыл бұрын
UPDATE: So I know I commented a couple weeks ago trying to help, but much of what I said was incomplete and in certain parts the way I talked about it was confusing or even just wrong. Like I said, I'm not qualified! lol. Anyway, I was looking into polyrythyms a little more recently and I found some videos that said what I was trying to say much, much better than I could say it by someone much more qualified to teach and more knowledgeable about music, and he teaches it with a piano keyboard to boot and gives good tips about taking this stuff to the keys! He also very specifically answers your question of how to keep polyrythyms even, as well as addressing which notes tend to slip around in what directions and why Intro to polyrythyms video {pt 1}: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXjbd4WLfrRqeKM 3 against 4 (and figuring out any polyrythym) video {pt 2}: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJPZoKtjqausjsU Extra info on practicing and free online polyrythym practice tool for the keyboard: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3S2qa2MbqeskMU This info is incredible, sure to help you out. I also highly recommend subscribing to this channel, as I have. He apparently hasn't uploaded a video in a little while, but his content is top-notch stuff, and he covers quite a bit of music theory with clarity, insight, and practicality
@bateman7573
@bateman7573 5 жыл бұрын
Op32 no5 is in G minor, isn’t it?
@RichWoodwardMusic
@RichWoodwardMusic 7 жыл бұрын
Great tips!
@pavithric
@pavithric 7 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! Superbly helpful, thanks :D
@scottjames9057
@scottjames9057 5 жыл бұрын
Killer advice, brotha! Rock on 🤘🏻
@pardaq24
@pardaq24 3 жыл бұрын
My scales are like: C d e F g a b C d e F g a b C
@emanuel_soundtrack
@emanuel_soundtrack 5 жыл бұрын
All the recordings of Rachs op23 No 7 the fast c minor prelude (?) i know are to loud. To you have thoughs on that? Are the pianists afraid of beeing judged by the light touch "as weakness"? Cause of course its also probably weak when you start the piece...
@Archeomane
@Archeomane 7 жыл бұрын
To resume here, the principal major tips is CLEAN RELEASE !
@jakklovediablo6293
@jakklovediablo6293 2 жыл бұрын
Why i never think about it When practice slow i hold down a key for too long When come to speed up it's the opposite I have to practice staccato too omg
@metteholm4833
@metteholm4833 4 жыл бұрын
I wish, I could develop this light, loose touch - with speed.
4 жыл бұрын
you certainly can! ;)
@zan6585
@zan6585 5 жыл бұрын
The metronome sounded like a Geiger Counter at first
@sonyalin700
@sonyalin700 4 жыл бұрын
I got a josh wright commercial on this
@Chris4314
@Chris4314 6 жыл бұрын
Ugh can you be my new piano teacher thanks bye.
@ales5733
@ales5733 7 жыл бұрын
im gonna cry I need a piano teacher
@SwePianoholic
@SwePianoholic 6 жыл бұрын
My piano teacher usually cries when I am playing =P
@maxwellspiano3580
@maxwellspiano3580 3 жыл бұрын
@@SwePianoholic lmao
@oysteinsoreide4323
@oysteinsoreide4323 7 жыл бұрын
You don't mention so much what role the arm and wrist has to do with evenness. But if the arms and wrists are doing it wrong, then the fingers can't do the little work they are supposed to do.
@jc2058
@jc2058 7 жыл бұрын
Great video. Always trying to get over the technical hump. One question: When are you going to get your piano tuned?
@ryanstrickler5692
@ryanstrickler5692 3 жыл бұрын
The way you phrased that was really annoying
@None_NoneType
@None_NoneType 5 жыл бұрын
That audio desync though
@davindawson6964
@davindawson6964 6 жыл бұрын
I want you as my teacher
@SwePianoholic
@SwePianoholic 6 жыл бұрын
..And now with better speaking sound :D
@jasmwong262
@jasmwong262 4 жыл бұрын
Its difficult.
@burburchacha
@burburchacha 6 жыл бұрын
Why r all ur students professors ?
@HighEffortName
@HighEffortName 3 ай бұрын
What of you are playing really fast and quiet tho
@thenightwalker4338
@thenightwalker4338 7 жыл бұрын
4th comment
@binyoung7297
@binyoung7297 7 жыл бұрын
Can you wear a tie too? I like to see a man in a tie, especially a piano-playing one.
@rosebolaji8774
@rosebolaji8774 Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@davidmarcum9845
@davidmarcum9845 7 жыл бұрын
Great tips!
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