Q+A: What is Musical Phrasing?

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[@michaelmcgill8104]

Thank you so much! That was very helpful. I love all the analogies you used. You taught it very well.

[@PianotvNet]

+Michael McGill Glad you found it helpful - thanks for the question! :)

[@hiltzhowes]

Amazing! So much more concise and helpful than what my university has taught me in the past year.

[@chekromlek1918]

I really like your voice ( full energy )

[@hopesonmakokha5217]

Wow I need to re-evaluate my technique

[@KunaiForce]

Phrasing to me is like where regular people think it’s people playing “passion” part and the part not written in the music. Micro pauses, dynamics, slight tempo changes, not playing a repeated note twice the same way. It’s the in between part of why river flows in you from Yiruma sounds so much better than everyone else trying it as their first song

[@dr4gonbloodx]

Very well said!!

[@AuniAmani-nz2wz]

Wow so good i liked

[@Earlofmar1]

very informative video on what from my reading is a hard subject to teach. Great timing as well as I am just starting to come to grips with phrasing, so thanks

[@PianotvNet]

+Earlofmar1 Thanks for the comment and good luck! :)

[@Sothiamient]

Thank you for this video!

[@kentwind]

Thank you! I really like how you explain phrasing. It is not confusing anymore after watching this video

[@jereminoid7896]

i was so stumped when i was taught this at my piano class. this video is super helpful and now i understand what a phrase is! tysm!!!

[@tereseconklin1232]

Thank you. That was extremely helpful in words and showing us.

[@davidallsopp4030]

Excellent video

[@welshsteve2009]

This makes sense. Thank you 😀

[@vladlight6153]

This is actually the first time i've understood the concept. Thanks so much.

[@lahrelkeely6541]

Great explanation of phrasing, thank you so much. The classes I have been watching kept going on about phrasing with no explanation as if a novice knows all this stuff. Thank you thank you thank you.

[@s.e.b.a.m.u.s.i.c]

Hi! I'm training to be a music teacher and I really love how you're writing on the screen while talking us through it. Would you mind sharing how you're doing that exactly? Thanks so much!

[@DanneoYT]

I think she’s using a graphic tablet to write

[@ultimatepromotionscustomen1851]

Thank you! I just paid for another phrasing course and after 2 hours I didn't understand one word of it. I had to use your video to get "what is it" before I could learn one darn thing on my paid course. .

[@malihakhan7353]

Thank you this was so helpful!

[@teamyordle23]

Awesome

[@bboymac84]

Very smart! Thank you! I learned so much!

[@ttaibe]

Thx, very clear.

[@janegraham9713]

I found this when I was wondering what a cadences was,and I learn so much.😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀🐋🐋🐋🐧🐧🐧

[@maxmillman9477]

It seems that, rather than play a a half note for the chord at 05:24, signalling the end of the first phrase in Ode To Joy, she reduces the chord's duration to about a quarter note. As a drummer it helps me to quantify the shortening, although in practice the amount of shortening probably isn't as formulaic, and is probably more ad lib.

[@bethdimasuhid9827]

Can you show the musical phrasing in the song DO RE MI. Thank you

[@chowturtlezpabus]

I was just gonna submit a composition challenge on reddit and needed this! (I'm so dead)

[@PianotvNet]

Haha, good luck!

[@janegraham9713]

Will you do a quick video on mood of music, that would be great, thanks.😙😙😙😙😙😽😽😽🐧🐧🐧🐧🐋🐋🐋

[@gavinvonmeyer3746]

And I thought I already meant what phrasing was... Great lesson!!

[@challengeacceptedjohn7799]

thank alot my teacher mad me do this yeah

[@Theosis78]

Thanks, you helped. I´m studying a virtuoso rock guitar solo. Phrase analysis remains difficult.

[@holypeachy]

Can you make a video on piano interpretation?

[@MeetParekh]

Can You do a video on how to memorise Beethoven's moonlight sonata 1st movement

[@anonymouse4003]

Practice is key

[@WintersunForever]

It is your musical accent. Thats phrasing. (And I don't mean a ">" accent.)

[@tianxing7795]

@@revantmehta4209 ">" on the music notation usually means louder, heavier. Phrasing more like your style of speaking.

[@moxigeren50gabe23]

Some music sheet does not have the slurs

[@PianotvNet]

True. In which case you mainly have to go with your gut!

[@moxigeren50gabe23]

Hahaha nice

[@hopesonmakokha5217]

yh mostly baroque music I think. It kinda presents an interesting challenge of deciding how to phrase it suitably.

[@nishad1shahul]

What are phrase marks piano

[@fotbalmfotbalm]

What does “lift the sound” mean?

[@Animal.broadcast2024]

I think she just means to lift your finger to stop the notes being played. Basically make a gap between phrase 1 and 2. She does an example of when she plays the song.

[@fotbalmfotbalm]

Thanks

[@janegraham9713]

I agree.😁

[@sewzamusic]

i fell in love with you

[@dalyxprotacio5996]

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[@maxmillman9477]

That word she uses at 1:13: what word is it? It she even speaking English? Haha

[@engvallfam]

commas? You don't know what a comma is?

[@maxmillman9477]

@@engvallfam Oh, she says "up to commas"; sounded like she said "octo-commas", was pronounced lazily.