Large Jumps MADE EASIER at the piano! My Favorite Tips & Strategies

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[@rys6899]

I started playing piano again 3 months ago after a few years break. I discovered your channel by chance and I have watched many of your videos which helped me so much. Now I am always looking forward to the next video. Thank you from France. I wish you all the best.

[@joshwrightpiano]

Thank you Ry! I wish you all the best in your studies

[@twinblades-thewilltokeeplo6084]

I have been avoiding the Rachmaninoff Prelude in G minor because of the large jumps. I keep messing it up and put it off. Gonna watch this now. Thanks Josh!!

[@Aaalllyyysssaaaaa]

"you didn't come here for that" haha that is actually super helpful to know, when you don't have a teacher and you have been practicing something and it feels like a mess, you don't necessarily know if it is EVER going to get better unless you change something about how you're approaching it or learn something new about how the technique is supposed to work. It is very hard to invest time in something if you don't know whether time will help, so knowing it does help eventually is very encouraging! Over the years I've learned that brute force just isn't a solution for so many things, it makes it hard to commit to persisting when it's hard.

[@downpatmusic]

It's amazing how much careful preparation makes for excellent piano playing. This same attention to details and accuracy and efficiency can be applied to jazz styles of piano playing. I am sure Art Tatum prepared with this kind of study, and then he was able to do this with enough material in his jazz styles to be able to make on the spot arrangements which some might think were "improvised". But like classical music, his preparation was really the training that allowed what seemed to be spontaneous improvisational virtuosity.

[@jessberz1084]

Thank you so much for these incredible tips. It really helps a lot. Have a great day!

[@joshwrightpiano]

Thank you Jess!

[@BehzadKh]

It's always great to start the day with a Josh Wright lesson before a full day of practice! I have made huge leaps in my techniques since I accidentally discovered your channel! Thank you so much

[@official2mt37]

i got major liebestraum 3 from that liszt piece you played at the start

[@hollieiannazzone6677]

I love how you show the pedal as well while you play. Very useful thankyou:)

[@samueldanan891]

I don't play piano but I love watching your videos so much !

[@audreybeals9609]

thanks for adding a pedal view. hope thiis will help me with my pedaling

[@anitacarey6241]

How serendipitous… I was practicing lots of large jumps for Bernstein today and I can brute force my way through, but I will try all these methods - they are much smarter.

[@kareemahmullen8940]

Though I am a student of piano, I am not yet at this level of playing; yet, I find listening and watching very helpful. Thank you!

[@maxjohn6012]

This is extremely helpful, many thanks. I've recently fallen in love with Rachmaninoff prelude in D, op 23 no 4, and my copy of the music finally arrived yesterday. So many leaps in there, which have been much more awkward than I anticipated - I am currently playing a lot of baroque music (especially Bach and Froberger) and I find that so much easier to sight-read, the Rachmaninoff was a very unanticipated step out of my comfort zone. I was so pleased to search for "piano how to deal with big leaps" and find one of your videos near the top of the results!

[@dave90807]

Working on Antonio Soler's Fandango and viewing this video, hoping to more easily improve measures 85 thru 87 where the right hand thumb jumps downward from G#, G, F, E, D, C#, C, B, A#, A, G# and the right hand fifth finger alternately plays an A natural between all those notes - the distance getting further and further apart. I'm encouraged by your video to not give up, and persist while doing whatever I can to simplify and back my head away as much as possible from the keyboard, so as to have a wider field of vision to see the notes I'm trying to play. Thanks for your series of videos. They are inspiring and full of practical informatiion.

[@richardcasey4439]

All of these strategies are enormously helpful. There are so many leaps like this in many pieces

[@HPYB]

its cool including the pedal cam

[@joshwrightpiano]

I’m glad you like it. People have asked for it for quite awhile so I finally caved haha

[@ThePianoPutterer]

You always give such awesome tips. They're always so practical and realistic. I love listening to these videos that you make

[@robertpien8708]

JOSH also look at the shape of the jump and picture your hand bigger then it is. IT fits perfectly in that shape . No matter how small of big your hand is. Develop diffrent shapes from jump to jump .

[@AfroPoli]

Thank you very much. Brilliant. I found these tips very useful.

[@ivan94R]

Hello from Bogotá. Im just beggining to learn the art of piano. I dont know why your channel appear. It looks more for an advance player. But its kind of nice to know that are a lot of people in this journey. I study literature and is a more lonely place, i guess. Thank you for your knowledge.

[@maria-neusdevesa5125]

Really useful, thank you so much and wishing you every success!

[@elizabethbailey5391]

Thank you for this video. All the tips during the introduction were so helpful. I will be looking for the video on chords next.

[@Islandia69]

Love your teaching! Thank you for posting this!! 😊

[@Dominique632]

So thankful for your channel, it's really gonna help me a lot especially when I go study music on university next year. Thanks for all the great, free tips, super useful Josh!

[@cdoesstuff558]

Yo, this video went hard man. Trying to learn the intro to La Campanella and it woulda taken me idk how long to get where I'm at after letting this video digest. You da man

[@jessieborrell1856]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Josh! I especially want to thank you for recommending Piano Marvel in one of your videos. I am an adult who picked up piano in 2020 and while I had some music background via singing lessons and viola playing, I've always been REALLY bad at reading music. I started using Piano Marvel recently and I've been picking things to sight-read every day, either with the Czerny books that are available on there or just random scores. It's also helping me memorize pieces I've been working on!

[@ericaatkinson7311]

This video has been tremendously helpful to me. I've been practicing a relatively easy (but fast) piece with increasingly bigger jumps from one end of the keyboard to the other at a fast tempo in a 4-set sequence. I started deconstructing the notes for each set and trying to "go blind with" with my left hand. Already in my first day of practice trying these methods, I am doing better. Thanks!

[@nadeemlo]

2:16 Some Glenn Gould action

[@andreeasocolaw4557]

Wanted to add that I have the pro practice for the pieces I’m working on and for scales etc … I love the knowledge you impart with all your videos - thanks!!! I’ve been struggling with this issue for a while.

[@JG_1998]

Playing the Liszt Ave Maria transcription right now and I'm trying to get those 2 and 3 octave leaps (which are in octaves of course) a bit more consistent. Hopefully this helps! I was running out of practice ideas besides the usual tips for jumps and the ones from your previous videos.

[@mcognito1264]

I'm eager to try that on the piece I am working on now. Thank you!

[@jennalai5246]

Thank you so much for this video! It is so informative!!❤️🙏

[@joshwrightpiano]

You’re welcome Jenna! Have a great weekend

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@@joshwrightpiano Have a great weekend too!

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You're the best, thank you for this wonderful channel

[@maribethschmidt9431]

Thank you for sharing your expertise!

[@beatrizpalominosanchez3691]

Hello Josh! Thank you so much, excellent video! What do you think about studying jumps with eyes closed? Thank you in advanced!!

[@musicem734]

Great advice, thank you very much sir , could I ask if there is perhaps an additional technique to improve the large jumps of the left hand in the Chopin prelude no 16?

[@joshwrightpiano]

I think these tips will have you covered, along with the other videos I mentioned

[@musicem734]

@@joshwrightpiano Thank U very much ✨✨ xxx

[@adrianaelliott5620]

Nice video Josh. I've been working in big jumps and having a blind hands helps. I also like the tip of practicing eyes closed. Thanks !

[@anonims6557]

Thank you so much for these very helpful tips. Im currently working on Chopins Grande walse brilliante op 34 no1 and it has hard octave jumps but ill practise with these tehniques!

[@Mondelfe]

Wow! Thank you for these awesome tips! I hope they will help me with Rachmaninov Prelude g minor. Have been playing it quite a while now and I don‘t seem to be able to manage the jumps, there are always some that I miss. I put veeeeery much practice in it and almost gave up because it was so frustrating to practice for hours and never get it right. Now I will give it another try with your tips from this video! Thanks a lot!

[@williamtaittinger4529]

so, what happened then? did you manage to get the jumps right?

[@isaiahadamsvlogs5309]

I REALLY, REALLY needed this!! thank you

[@florencelancette9119]

Very useful and convincing, as usual. Thank you so much, Josh !.

[@morrowseer9969]

here trying to learn Harmonies du Soir by Liszt. This hopefully will help a lot.

[@nelsonthekinger]

Phenomenal

[@glenmatthes8839]

This is giving me confidence to try Hut of Baba Yaga again. Lots of octaves and jumps in that one.

[@WinItReigns]

Sorry Im late to class 😊

[@flobenzo4897]

Great video Josh!

[@mabdub]

Thank you.

[@leomarcus8845]

Excellent!

[@what.company]

Hey Josh I love your work and your channel I also think it's really critical the pedagogical approach that you're taking and with respect to I need the inclusivity definitely but but also the way in which your you're sort of reminding viewers that the like in that the immediate compression of video based lessons and teaching are distillations of really dynamic rigorous difficult and mistake you know a routines that are rich with mistakes and so and I you know I also think that the sort of what he says lame advice the kind of a high like almost like like a climactic sort of importance I feel like with that because there's a way in which like that's the very thing that like if that isn't there then it's another person who like leaves music you know so anyway I really yeah I really just love you work and think I just yeah I hope you keep trusting your your self and cuz your contents like some of the best on the internet and definitely makes yeah just impacts every single person who's playing the piano and watching your stuff like it it has an immediate sort of like blessing really so anyway that's what I got for now

[@rhys8878]

could you do a video on Scriabin Etude Op8 No12. That also has large jumps but the rest is also just really difficult in general.

[@dylankeane]

What’s that Scarlatti sonata your playing? It sounds quite nice😅

[@bjornviir3333]

wow Josh your scherzo 3 is gonna be biting Trifonovs heels soon. would you practise hands separate in hunngarian rhapsody 6 end where rh does descending runs vs rh octaves until two hands are rock solid before combing....tough to combine them at speed.....ahh, tempo, the final frontier....like star trek.

[@rinztv3603]

Josh Make a video about chopin mazurka

[@glauberglousger6643]

I don’t have problems with the 1838 4th Paganini Etude, (except needing to change the score a bit so my small hands can play it, though I mostly play the original) What I do have problems with is Feux Follets,

[@joshwrightpiano]

I think 99% of pianists have problems with those rapid parallel intervals in Feux follets. How many will actually admit that is another story 😂

[@mirasiro]

❤❤❤

[@tonycostello8729]

Hey Josh, is there any recordings of you playing Hungarian rhapsody no.2? Would love to hear it.

[@joshwrightpiano]

I don’t have any on my channel

[@user-vj9ky3pm5m]

What is the name of the first piece he played?

[@michaeltse321]

what is used for the 3 cameras?

[@sstanford1331]

Sup, im new. im having trouble with small jumps in the left hand. Not sure how to explain it Basically lets say im playing E (octave) and then the next chord is the high E my pinkie was on to a G. So an octave to a min 3rd i believe, constantly alternating between the two pretty fast have not been able to figure this out. Anyone feel free to help if you want. i can add the link to the song if anyone is feeling generous lol

[@superipermagererata5084]

thank you for thinking about us getting overwhelmed by how perfect professionals get it at “first try”😅 and i like that you can see how the exercise actually helps and how does it do it

[@waggawaggaful]

It’s interesting how playing an instrument is considered an art when the majority of it involves problem-solving!

[@higo4208]

If I can't make the tempo I can pause and say its rubato... It makes me feel bad though...

[@kcrescendo]

Which Scarlatti sonata was that?

[@gondoliere8374]

K24

[@gondoliere8374]

oh nvm it is K39

[@kcrescendo]

Thanks!

[@wimpify]

Ok

[@superipermagererata5084]

i recommend you to separate your video, what i mean is that when you upload the video there’s an option for you to see the parts of the video (introduction, tips…)

[@user-hf5wf6bp9n]

Thanks for not polishing the piece, the mistakes are what make a tutorial worthwhile A tutorial has to show how to get to the polished product, else it is just a demo

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