J.S. Bach: Invention No. 13 in A minor (Teaching & Performance Videos)

[@nelsoning5803]

Thank you so much! 🙏🏼

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Nelson, you are welcome, it is my pleasure! Best wishes to you. 🎶

[@davemorris9785]

Thank you for that. I could listen all night. I'm currently learning this piece and you bring it alive. Not too difficult for an 81 year old I hope.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Dave, thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful words. I especially appreciate you saying that I "bring this piece alive." It is wonderful and very inspiring that you are learning this piece at age 81. Your example will undoubtedly be an inspiration for many others as well. 🎉 Congratulations and all best wishes to you! 🎵

[@lynnealarie9733]

My very favorite 2 Part Invention. It is beyond my capability but I am determined to learn it. Your video is helpful and inspiring.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Thank you for your kind words about the lesson! I wish you all the best learning this wonderful Invention No. 13. 🎵

[@maximo666]

Sally, I can't even describe how beautiful it is to see how much passion you show while teaching and studying this piece of music. I would love to have you as a teacher but I'm from Argentina. Congratulations on the way you teach, and the way you play it. You give it your own feel when playing it and its just amazing to see. Simply beautiful. Cheers from Argentina.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hola máximo 666! Thank you for your wonderful and generous words! I really appreciate your acknowledgements about my approach to this lesson, the interpretation, and the playing. Very best wishes to you! Muchas bendiciones!

[@bolldamm3966]

Your videos are an excellent resource for anyone wanting to understand and enjoy these two-part inventions, and this lesson on No. 13 is exceptionally good. There are piano teachers for all tastes on KZbin, but you succeed in combining a physical delight and intellectual appreciation of the music's structure, harmonies and melodies with historical and technical information that can help a learner make sense of the music. These inventions are a living treasure and have to be kept alive, so thank you for doing that.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Bolldamm, thank you for your wonderful, articulate, and generous words about these Bach videos! I so appreciate your acknowledgements about the content and presentation. You have beautifully expressed the importance of keeping these treasures alive. While completing teaching videos and charts for all 15 Two-Part Inventions was a labor of love, it was also a privilege and a joy. 🙏 With very best wishes and blessings to you. 🎵

[@guidorescio1321]

Great lesson, thank you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Guido, thank you so much for your thoughtful and generous words! I really appreciate what you have said, and am glad the lesson was helpful. Best wishes to you and with your playing!

[@lawtechguy]

This just blew my mind! Thank you for putting this together. After 30 years of playing I am only just now studying Bach's inventions. Your analysis of the structure is incredibly helpful for memorizing and seeing the patterns in the music. Well done!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

lawtechguy Thank you! I'm so glad the lesson helped you to better understand the structure of the piece. Best wishes to you and to your learning of the Inventions!

[@based9930]

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[@kurtdaisley8629]

I learned this when I was a teenager (more than 30 years ago). I love the way you've broken this down, and put it back together. I'm inspired to relearn it now a bit more properly, and really let my hands become intimately familiar with those knotty spots. Thanks so much for doing this, Ms Christian!! Very cool!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Kurt Daisley Thank you for your kind and meaningful words! I'm so happy the lesson has inspired you to revisit this piece, work on the knotty spots, especially, and watch how they become effortless in your hands! Best wishes to you, Kurt!

[@thomaskirchschlager7217]

Thank You very much for Your detailed answer, so motivating! Best wishes to Overseas!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

You are welcome, it is my pleasure! 🎵

[@bryanpersaud9947]

You are so awesome! Thank you once again!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Bryan, thank you for your wonderful, generous, and much appreciated words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. :-) All best wishes to you!

[@sublimity59]

Great video - you have inspired me to learn this piece. As someone who does not play alot of Bach it is really nice to see a lesson taught with such passion and depth. You have allowed me to appreciate this piece for the genius it is and I look forward to being able to play it as well as you do!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Cloud, thank you for your thoughtful and articulate words! I am delighted that the lesson has given you access to the greatness and genius of Bach's Invention No. 13, and that you are inspired to learn it. I'm sure that with careful and consistent practice, you will play it well, confidently, and with joy!

[@logitech4410]

Bach is the best of the best

[@safelyanonymous5717]

logitech4410 agreed music begins and ends with JSB

[@pianoforte17xx48]

@@safelyanonymous5717 it does start with him but sorry it doesn't stop on him and that's underestimation for the latter composers

[@michaelcoppola7523]

Ill be the one to give due credit here and say: no, it ‘started’... 8 years before bach was even born. 🇮🇹 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

[@MM888877777]

I've started playing piano again and your videos are immensely helpful. Thank you so much Sally.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello M V, thank you for your wonderful words of acknowledgement! I am so pleased to hear that the videos are helping you as you return to the piano. I wish you all the best, and much joy to you with your piano playing!

[@chevydude658]

Sally is a very warm and gracious artist. She inspired me last year to return to piano lessons after 40 years. Her positive reinforcement and kindness really opened up a whole new appreciation for the great composers. A true teacher.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello ChevyDude65, a belated but heartfelt "thank you" for your much appreciated words! Best wishes to you, and I hope you are continuing to play! 🎵

[@Joshua-dc1bs]

Your enthusiasm never fails to impress me. Love this!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Joshua, thank you for your kind and much appreciated words! I'm so glad you like the energy / enthusiasm in this presentation! All best wishes to you.

[@charleslaine]

I am falling in love with these inventions. Before I started learning piano I never even heard of them. But now that I've started to learn them, I just can't get enough. It's so challenging, but so rewarding to finally get these pieces under my fingers.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Charles, this is so nice to hear! It is true that the more we know these inventions and get them "under our fingers," the more we love hearing and playing them. Keep up the good work! :-)

[@courtneybrown1927]

Your analysis really helped me understand the different parts of this piece and how they relate. I am currently trying to learn the right hand part on Guitar and after this video I feel like I understand this piece so much more.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Courtney, thank you for your generous words about this analysis. I really appreciate hearing that it helped you to better understand the piece and apply it to your guitar transcription. This is an awesome project, and I wish you all the best with it! 🎶

[@feelingkevinly]

Thank you so much for uploading this! I've been watching it every day as I learn this piece and it gives me motivation! You seem like a passionate teacher, I love it!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hi Kevin, Thank you so much for your wonderful message, and for letting me know this lesson is helping you every day! I really appreciate your enthusiasm, and wish you much success and joy with the journey. Best wishes to you!

[@treyb7053]

So well explained! I have been coming back to this piece time and time again to see new and interesting patterns unfold and you answered a couple more questions about this piece I didn’t realize I had! Beautifully and skillfully done!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Trey, thank you for your thoughtful and complimentary words! I really appreciate hearing that you are continuing to learn more about this piece through your own inquiries as well as repeated viewings of this video. :-) All best wishes to you and with your playing!

[@sonrisadelsol450]

this piece ist so wonderful, it includes so many different emotions, thank you for your great teaching, I have never been so passionate about analysing a piece like this before. I'm now practicing the piece for 3 weeks each day and I think I will never ever get tired of it

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello katybpoint, thank you for your wonderful comment! My heart is singing to read your words. Feeling such passion for the music is a gift, and makes the daily practicing a joy. Best wishes to you with every step in learning this masterpiece!

[@sonrisadelsol450]

you're welcome, thank you:)

[@abeerahmar8526]

Veryyy Beautiful Sally♡thank you

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello abeer, thank you so much for your warm and very appreciated words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. 💕Best wishes to you! 🎵

[@cleveij1]

I learned the right hand for this on the guitar a while back but your teaching has opened my eyes to a lot of possibilities. I'm fairly new to the piano and am simultaneously working on the Hanon Exercises to get my fingers better acquainted with the keyboard. "Danger of your fingers go and your mind doesn't know really what you are doing." Now that is a trap that takes longer to get out of than I can ever begin to imagine. Many years of bad habits take many years to change. Where was youtube in 1980? You're awesome!

[@DirtyMonster762]

im in the middle of prelude six book two and im doing fugue two book one next as i have the henle urtext for those but i just purchased and printed ur materials for invention 13 i think im going to enjoy interrupting those and getting this one going too thank you so much 😍

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Thank you so much for your kind and very appreciated words! I'm so glad you now have your chart materials to work from and will start learning Invention No. 13. 🎉 I think it's wonderful you are playing so many Bach pieces, and I wish you every success and much joy with your playing! 🎶

[@paulfoisy9194]

Thank you for your wonderful analysis and playing. I am working on this piece, mostly on the A section so far, and I find your analysis very helpful. I can't wait to get to the B section. I love it!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hi Paul! Thank you for your generous words! I really appreciate hearing that the analysis is helping you. This is such a delightful Invention to play, and I wish you many wonderful hours learning and mastering it!

[@RanBlakePiano]

Fantastic !

[@rgm2754]

totally agree Sally, I noticed that when started to learn these pieces in piano saw that the structure of Bach's music, like this piece, is so amazing that when played slowly emerge great and beautiful feelings some kind different when played as normal speed,

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Raul, thank you for your interesting and articulate comment! It is amazing how much more we can hear in a piece at a slower tempo. Bach, in particular, lends itself to a wide range of tempo choices, with each tempo revealing something different. In the fast and dense passages of Chopin, one can hear much more clearly the 4 different voices when practicing at a very slow tempo. Thank you for your insights, and best wishes to you!

[@ErikBerggren]

I don't think anyone will read this but I would like to add a very simple simplification which she touches on but doesn't really expand on: The first section (after the intro of the chords A minor and E major - the tonic and harmonic fifth) then goes into a simple cadence through the seven chords by moving down in fifths (or up in fourths) which is classic of so much music (Autumn Leaves, Fly Me to the Moon, You Never Give Me Your Money - and many other pieces - especially by Bach). Then we end up in the C major section - but not really because after the little intro (C major - G7 again 5th and tonic) he immediately starts with the A minor - but this time the A minor is the beginning of the E minor cadence (if you can call it that) in which he goes down again through the circle of 5ths where you see that instead of D minor it's now D major and the G instead of being G7 is now G major 7 because it's all in the key of E minor, so the modulation is way up in the "supposed" C major section. Never mind the second page for now. That's just pure chromatic genius.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Erik, and thank you for sharing your accurate analysis of the harmonic progressions within these sections. I look forward to hearing about the "chromatic genius" of page two when you have a chance. Best wishes to you!

[@20gilbert20]

Thank you, Mr. Berggren, for your astute comments. For me, as a player, the circle of 5ths is an old friend I go to often. There is just something about the emotional tension and expectation that moves me. And of course the resolve of the circle has an emotional component of its own--where one can feel the completeness of.....life. I have often been criticized for being unduly emotional with my views on music (and other forms of art). But as Aaron Copland used to say, the intellectual enjoyment of music is only one part, while the emotional part is indispensable.

[@jeffreykaufmann2867]

You dont have to know anything about what she's talking about to play this piece very well.

[@constancedugan7722]

fabulous commentary with Sally's usual infectious energy...makes me want to keep practicing THANK YOU!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Constance, thank you for your enthusiastic and much appreciated words! I have just now seen your comment, and hope you are continuing your practicing and love of playing! Best wishes to you!

[@AaronAlterman]

Your teaching videos are so valuable! Thank you.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Aaron, thank you for your very kind words! I'm so glad to hear the lessons are helpful. Best wishes to you!

[@camillesindell2740]

Your charts are so very helpful as I watch your tutorial. Online videos like yours bring college level instruction to those of us who did not major in music, but wished we had. My private teacher cannot remotely convey this much information so I must educate myself through videos like yours. I so appreciate your enthusiasm and your willingness to share your expertise. This is a very energizing little number!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Camille, thank you so much for your wonderful words about the teaching videos! It is my pleasure to be of help, and I'm so happy to hear that you are enjoying your chart. I really appreciate you letting me know that you are especially benefitting from watching the lesson with your chart in hand! I too feel energized every time I play this wonderful Invention No. 13. I wish you the best with your piano playing, and with your musical journey!

[@janehalim2246]

Thank you for your analysis and playing.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Jane, thank you for your kind and appreciated words! Best wishes to you. :-)

[@StephenFasseroMusic]

Just ordered your chart~ what a valuable tool you have created! thank you.

[@DAVE121063]

Thank you Sally, your passion and enthusiasm is a delight to see and is infectious and encouraging. I've loved listening to this particular piece a long time, but for some reason I've always struggled to actually play it well even though I can play far more complex pieces. I am looking forward to to re-watching your videos while seated at my piano and studying the piece bit by bit with you. Also learning to appreciate the inner details much more and really feel the piece deep inside with passion and understanding. The sheer joy of this process is wonderful, thank you for re-awakening the desire for such musicality in me (and countless others I'm sure). Best wishes, David.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello David, thank you for your thoughtful and most appreciated words! It's so wonderful to hear that you found the video helpful and now have a greater understanding and passion for this piece! I completely agree that the joy is found in savoring every step of the process. 🎉 With all best wishes to you with your playing and your musical journey! 🎵

[@wcng5805]

Thank you so much of Sally's analysis. Your analysis allows me pick up the piece more easily. Bach is really Genius. I can appreciate the piece much now.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Wc Ng, thank you for your very nice words! You are so right, the genius of Bach; the more we can understand it, the more we can appreciate it. Best wishes to you!

[@PabluchoViision]

I like your teaching. You've clearly thought a lot about the piece, and studied its architecture, and you convey all of that beautifully. I particularly like the part around the 6 minute mark where you follow the sixteenth notes from one hand to the other, then do the same with the staccato eighth notes. I had never 'heard' that in this piece before... Thanks for opening my ears!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

+PabluchoViision Thank you for your thoughtful and articulate message. I'm very happy to hear that the lesson gave you a new appreciation for the dialogue and architecture in this wonderful piece. Best wishes to you!

[@jljovano]

Fantastique leçon, merci !

[@susanosborne527]

I learned this piece several decades ago and have always loved it. I'm attempting to wrap my fingers around it again and am so glad I found your video, it gave me a deeper appreciation of Bach's genius. Now to get the LH fingering down in m. 3 and 4. For some reason it has always defeated me.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Susan, it's so nice to hear that you are playing this piece again after so many years. I'm happy that the video gave you further access to this great piece. Please be sure to include some slow practice, as well as hands alone work. Best wishes to you!

[@gavrinmahaffey3656]

Thank you so much for your inspiring insights and enthusiasm!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Gavrin, thank you very much for your kind and generous words! I really appreciate hearing from you, and wish the best to you and with your music!

[@augustineosterbek6277]

What a powerful piece. I always hear something defiant in it, I love it. Thank you for the lovely video.

[@crashrr2993]

Even a plinky-plonker like me, who grinds his way painfully through the Inventions at the speed of death, feels an affinity with this piece. It's always been my favourite. I almost choked when you shouted 'CONTRARY MOTION'!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hi, Michael! Thank you for your comments and request to see Inventions 11 & 15. It is my intent to make "charts" and teaching videos of both of these, along with the other Inventions and Sinfonias I have yet to engrave. Please be patient, as each one takes months to make, learn, and memorize. This is a true labor of love!

[@RabbitsAreRoadkillRt.37]

Sounds good, I'll still be here and look forward to them!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

@@RabbitsAreRoadkillRt.37 Dear Michael, after 8 years, I am happy to say that the lessons for Inventions 11 & 15 are finally posted! With the completion of Invention No. 11, I have finished all 15 Bach Two-Part Inventions. Here are the links: Invention No. 11: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZC7pJewod9mm7s Invention No. 15: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHfVemWDYtOBjaM I hope this finds you well and that you are still playing the piano! 🎵

[@marlynchown2919]

Thank you Sally.

[@neginfatholahi5345]

Thank you sooo much Your videos are such a big help to me Plus you play really nice i can listen to you for long time 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Negin, thank you for your warm and wonderful words! I really appreciate hearing that the videos are helping you and that you enjoy watching them. 💕 Best wishes to you and with your music! 🎵

[@Murrangurk2]

This is great. I've learnt this on 5 string banjo, and to hear this analysis really helps me understand it so much better. Thank you! great presentation, too! Very entertaining!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Thanks so much! I'm happy to hear that the analysis helped!

[@ChristianPianoMusic]

Thanks so much for all your work that you put into these lessons. I'm always learning as a piano teacher, and I plan on ordering some of your charts to help my students and myself!!!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

+Sueci Carmichael Hello Sueci, and thank you for your interest in the lessons and the charts. It is a pleasure and a joy to see these materials being used by enthusiastic teachers and students alike! Best wishes to you!

[@21wunderkind]

An excellent analysis.Thank you--- I specially liked the way you highlighted the intervals of the 6th, the chordal progressions effective bringing out the sequences and melodic structure bar 19 onwards. A really effective teaching tool, and engaging for young players.

[@kateweatherall4675]

Such a great insight to understanding this piece

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Kate, thank you so much for your wonderful and much appreciated words! I'm so glad the lesson helped you to better understand the piece. :-) Take care, stay safe, and best wishes to you and with your music!

[@kateweatherall4675]

@@SallyChristianMusic thanks for message Sally, I'm taking this piece back to a slower tempo this week and listening carefully to those harmonies!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

@@kateweatherall4675 Hi Kate, this is an excellent way of practicing. I find that with Bach, especially, practicing at a noticeably slower tempo often reveals a beauty in the harmonies frequently missed at a faster tempo. Enjoy your mindful practicing, and all best wishes to you!

[@AriD2385]

I find these videos wonderful and look forward to ordering the materials when it's time to learn these pieces.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

+AriD2385 Thank you so much, and my best wishes to you!

[@juanatarazzona1873]

Muchas gracias maestra estoy en esta pieza y el vídeo me ayuda un montón saludos desde el PERU

[@shou7310]

You are absolutely amazing Sally! I have been a subscriber of yours for awhile and you have helped me with so many Bach's pieces that at first I thought I could have NEVER played. You have the best enthusiasm, skills and knowledge about every pieces you post. I hope you the best of luck and thank you so much for helping me throughout my piano studies :) Hope you always remain happy and best 2018 to you!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Shou, thank you so much for your wonderful words! I so appreciate your generosity in letting me know how much the videos are helping you, especially with pieces you thought were out of reach. This is really music to my ears. It is a great pleasure and privilege to be a resource for you, and I wish you much joy throughout your life with your piano playing!

[@based9930]

Amazing? Try this kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6aZpox-jZt4hpo

[@AntPDC]

Fabulous! Thank you very much Sally!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello AntPDC, thank you for your enthusiastic & much appreciated words! All best wishes to you!

[@AntPDC]

@@SallyChristianMusic A real pleasure Sally. I do love how you describe Bach's musical language: "let yourself swing with this; this music is *happening* ...". You are so right, and you convey an exciting, contemporary sensibility to an otherwise rather dusty, fusty old didactic approach. Much of Bach's music revolves around dance, as you noted - much to the surprise of those who think of him in terms solely of musical mathematics. I love music, but I'll never really quite *get* how the emotional mechanics work at a technical level, but it is a real privilege to learn from you. Thank you very much.

[@aaronmoralesesparza691]

super ejecucion....felicidades.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Gracias! 🎵

[@elgerardoedwardio2498]

There is a heavy metal band from New Zealand that does a version of this. Just two guitars, one overdubbed. I had no idea it was Bach. Check out 'Invention 13' by '8 Foot Sativa'.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Thanks so much!

[@hans-jurgendeutsch7883]

SallyChristianMusic

[@hefensa-akhi7947]

Wonderful explanation. Much appreciated.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Hefen, thank you so much for your very kind words. I'm glad the explanation was helpful! Best wishes to you.

[@canman5060]

I personally like this no 13 invention play a little slower.

[@fluorescente]

I love this piece played way slower, to me it's not playful, it's somber and I love that

[@DangerRussDayZ6533]

Bach wrote these as practice pieces for his son, and other students. They were never intended to be performance pieces. The point of these pieces is to obtain better hand independence, and become proficient at playing 2 (inventions) or 3 (sinfonias) voices, and in a smooth singing style. There are no tempo markings, and since they were written for harpsichord mainly, they have no dynamic markings either. So in theory, once you've mastered the piece by playing it in a song like manner, in 2 or 3 clear voices, with correct fingering, and correct counting, you can play it however fast or slow, or loud or soft you want. The rest is up to the artist and their interpretation.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

Gould plays it so fast it's crazy.

[@joesalz9963]

@@DangerRussDayZ6533These were written indeed as “teaching’ or “practice” pieces for his son but no really for the playing part. They were primarily intended to teach composition, especially contrapuntal part writing. I play this piece all the time and while I can play it fast, in my opinion their is such a thing as ‘too fast’. Some people play it waaaay too fast for my taste. This is the them for the old Commodore 64 commercials and i like the tempo they use there.

[@VideoBash2]

A wonderful teaching video, and the best intrepretation I have heard!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

This is so nice to hear; thank you very much!

[@guymann9567]

This is great ! I’ve spent a lot of time with this piece . You break it down soooo nicely ...:) you sure play the heck out of it ! Wow !

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Guy, Thank you for your very kind words about this lesson! I'm so glad to hear you are working on this piece now, and I really appreciate knowing that the break down is helping. I still enjoy playing this invention a few times a week as part of my warm-ups. :-) This is a piece I think you will also like playing for years to come! All best wishes to you, and with your joy-filled practicing.

[@back2backband1]

Wow you are Talented attractive and a brilliant pianist!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello back2backband1, thank you for your very generous words! Best wishes to you!

[@sathiamoorthy9529]

Wow really good piano tutorial. Thanks

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Sathia, thank you for your kind and most appreciated words. I'm glad you liked the tutorial, and best wishes to you!

[@jillmcaleese6514]

Thank you very much! This is the first piece on the new ABRSM grade 6 syllabus here in UK so I'm sure will be much studied and very useful. You have a great feel for the piece.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Jill, and thank you for your nice comment! I'm very interested to know and glad to hear that this piece was selected for the UK ABRSM syllabus. It's a great piece to play, and I hope the video will help. Best wishes to you!

[@intermission1864]

Thank you for unlocking the Genius in such a clear and concise manor. I am learning this for one of my Grade 6 pieces

[@luminousstarchild989]

Jill McAleese Im doing this piece as well :)

[@MrMscaliban]

Thank you for this tutorial! I played this as a young adult and have been inspired to get it out and revisit it. I have missed the piano. Thanks for the lesson and inspiration.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

This Invention No. 13 is a wonderful choice as you return to your piano studies. I know you will love practicing it again, and I'm glad the lesson has inspired you!

[@miaburke3703]

Great video. Thank you

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hi Mia, thank you for your very nice words!

[@Mr888Tristan]

Great video

[@musicmaxmusicclasses7162]

thanks for guidance

[@jenniferalbino3242]

Hello! Very interesant the video. I'm play the piano and this moment playing this piece.

[@Alextkirk]

There it is guys... a woman passionate for what she does... it´s really beautiful to see =)

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Thank you for your lovely and much appreciated comment! Best wishes to you!

[@selina7595]

would you please do a teaching and performance video about prelude in B minor by Chopin or sonata in G major by Beethoven? it would mean and help a lot!!! :-D thank you!

[@DirtyMonster762]

omg yes can u do this for prelude six book two also 😍

[@ARGON023]

Thank you ... for this recording. Best Regards

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello ARGON023, thank you for your kind and much appreciated words. Best wishes to you!

[@Coasterdude02149]

Have to get this score next. The one I originally learnt is so small it's difficult to read. This is a fun one!

[@dennyboleware8408]

Sally, your videos are the best when it comes to actually understanding the piece. I feel like you need to give a Ted Talk!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Denny, thank you for your wonderful words. I love your idea about giving a Ted Talk! Thank you for your vote of confidence, and all best wishes to you!

[@charleslaine]

Bach was such a genius.

[@lufebeta]

thank you... you're great!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Thank you, Luis, and best wishes to you!

[@GarajauSeixal]

Thank you very much for your lesson. Excelent!

[@MrChris76ize]

Im learning this piece and its a real pleasure and enjoyment to learn. its a bit over my level but I work a lot and I will do it. It'll take the time it takes, but... Thank you so much Sally for this lesson. I do like your comments :=)

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Chopin D, thank you for your lovely message! I'm so glad you like the lesson, and also my comments. :-) I still play this invention often because it is one of my favorites and is such a joy to play. I wish you every success as you learn this piece, one section at a time. Please stay with it, and do lots of careful hands alone study as well. With accurate and consistent practice, you will reach your goals!

[@sebastianabreu1243]

Beatifull video! thankyou!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Sebastian, thank you for your wonderful words! It is my pleasure, and you are welcome. Best wishes to you!

[@lucydych9474]

Favorite 🤩

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Thank you Lucy, .... it's one of my favorites, too!

[@RabbitsAreRoadkillRt.37]

Hi, I've been learning piano starting around age 30 - I started out on some of the Bach Inventions and would love to see your treatment of Inventions 11 and 15. Thanks for your videos, love that you play each piece at the end with your own interpretation. I'm doing my best to keep up with all of the technical details. I'm not a stranger to reading music but a lot of the theory is full of mysteries to me.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Dear Michael, here it is, 8 years later, and I am happy to say that Inventions 11 & 15 are finally available! With the completion of Invention No. 11, I have now finished the complete 15 Bach Two-Part Inventions. Here are the links: Invention No. 11: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZC7pJewod9mm7s Invention No. 15: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHfVemWDYtOBjaM I hope this finds you well and that you are still playing the piano! 🎵

[@samaramusic300]

Nice sharing ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@walken199]

Your videos are really brilliant! i would love to see a video on Bach Italian concerto first movement, there are no tutorial on this piece out there. anyway thanks for taking the time to make all these videos

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Thank you for your enthusiasm, and also for your suggestion about the Italian Concerto! This is definitely on my list of future engravings and videos I plan to make!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

***** Thanks for your kind words. Thanks also for your suggestion about the Italian Concerto. I have wanted to make a chart and teaching video of this piece for some time, and will definitely add it to the queue of future engravings and tutorials I am planning to make.

[@mimiclara75]

«This music is happening! » Lol! Love this video. Thank you! 💕🎶💕

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello mimiclara75, thank you for your wonderful message. It makes me happy to see your enthusiasm for this video! All best wishes to you!

[@dianaran4009]

👌👍 教得好！

[@natanaeldadivapiano1922]

very good

[@brentriddle5858]

Sally, could you offer a comment on your phrasing at cadences and other key points in the piece as in your slowing of tempo and feel at these areas? Very nice btw, super helpful lesson. Thank you!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hi, Brent, I would say that it is similar to how we speak; our voices often change inflection as we near the end of a sentence, or our pacing may change slightly to indicate that we have come to the end of that thought. The shaping of musical phrases is very similar to how we punctuate in speaking. I hope this is helpful.

[@Loriddian]

You're like the piano teacher I never had 😢

[@SallyChristianMusic]

💖 Thank you!

[@uchigasaki]

Beautiful lady

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Uchigasaki, thank you for your lovely and much appreciated words! Best wishes to you.

[@uchigasaki]

Hello,Sally,thank you for your message! I like listening to Bach, I have an interest in your music analysis.

[@DangerRussDayZ6533]

For a mid-level piece, this sure does give one a work out.

[@mengster_l]

Hi Sally, I enjoy your channel so much!! Thank you for making these awesome videos, really appreciated especially the way you analyze the music pieces. Not only it's great for practicing, but REALLY helps me to see the patterns in them. I noticed that you haven't uploaded videos for a while, wondering would you be interested to do one teaching video on Bach's Fugue in A minor (BWV543)? BTW, I LOVE your vocabulary as well!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Mengdan, and thank you for your very nice words, including mentioning my vocabulary! I really appreciate hearing that the analysis of these pieces is helping you to see the patterns. It is exciting for me, too, to uncover the supporting structures for each piece. As you might know, I just recently uploaded the 13 teaching videos for the complete Rachmaninoff Preludes, Opus 32. I am now in the middle of preparations for the next project, and expect that it will be several more months before anything new will be uploaded. Regarding the Bach Prelude & Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 for organ, I will put this Liszt transcription in the "to be considered" queue! Best wishes to you!

[@mengster_l]

Sally, so excited to hear back from you! I'm glad to find your channel on KZbin, and definitely looking forward to seeing more new videos from you soon! Also, thank you for taking the time to respond and considering maybe filming a video on Bach Prelude & Fugue in A minor. It's one of my favorite pieces from Bach, and I would love to see your analysis and interpretation on it! Take care!

[@markteague8889]

Would you be willing to produce a layout chart for Rachmaninoff's Opus 23 No. 10 Prelude in G flat major? In perusing your web store front I saw that you had pretty much worked through all of the Op. 32 set. No. 13 is my favorite of those. But, I also adore Op. 23 No. 10.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Mark, and thank you for your request to make a chart for this exquisite Prelude in G flat Major. This is one of my very favorites from the Opus 23. Completing the charts and teaching videos for the 13 Preludes Opus 32 has taken years, and I anticipate the same thing would be true for the Opus 23. I appreciate your wonderful suggestion, & will strongly consider beginning with this one when I address the 10 preludes!

[@OnielWiggan]

thanks

[@thomaskirchschlager7217]

Dear Madam, yes you do a great job, I really do agree with all the others, but: I by myself have got a totally different view on this piece which is one of my favorits. I recently performed it before an audience of important people (to me), and if I had known your point of view before, I would have been a bit discouraged, because: To me this piece seems so much more tender and soft and I like to play it more slowly (as the final version, not practice!), except the end, that can be seen as virtuous, dark and perhaps a little furious, but nevertheless not that hard. - Is there a right and a wrong? Am I totally wrong? I'm not sure now! -- Anyhow, the way you play and explain it matches perfectly your personality! Chapeau to your stile!

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Deear Thomas, thank you so much for your kind and appreciated comment! You ask an excellent question. Over the years of studying, performing, and making Bach teaching videos, I have come to think that there is a wide range of possible interpretations that are valid. I also have found that my own interpretations can and do change considerably over the years. There is not one right or wrong way as long as the playing is accurate, cohesive, and consistent within the decided upon character and phrasings. Sometimes I will practice a piece at a much slower tempo, and find that this could also be a valid interpretation of the piece. I hope this helps, and I wish you the very best with your playing! 🎵

[@TxRxAxP]

She reminds me of one of my 8th grade teachers.

[@elijaguy]

great! thank you! how about a video of harmonic analysis? some of it is not very difficult, but towards the end, help will be greatly appreciated! structurally, beginning of "page 2" could insert here the 4 opening bars on e minor, as typical to italian concerto technique. He just skips it, seems to me, to intensify the movement.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Eli, thank you for your kind & appreciated words about this lesson! I agree, page 2 begins a marked difference in the piece, following the structure of binary form. It certainly does intensify and develop the movement wonderfully! Best wishes to you. 🎵

[@clarkyclarker3603]

Wow!

[@help_exe]

Thanks! I’m currently learning this piece. However, i do have a question. How can I try and enjoy the pieces I play because I feel like I’m just playing it because I have to. I really want to enjoy piano and my lessons, and I do the work, but I’m just not feeling anything.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello, thank you for your comment and your very good question. I have always felt that it is essential to at least "like" the piece one is working on. If you don't resonate with the music, it is very difficult to play it really well, not to speak of all the hours it takes just to learn the piece. I recommend that if you are required to play a certain work for whatever reason, you should have some input in the selection process. Perhaps there is another piece that would be acceptable in place of the one you don't really like? If this piece is a set repertoire requirement, is it necessary for you to participate? Would there be another approach for you and your teacher that would make the experience more satisfying for everyone concerned? I wish you well with this, and I do understand your dilemma.

[@help_exe]

SallyChristianMusic Thanks for your reply! I’ve looked at the piece and I tried to immerse myself in it, and now it’s easier to work on it. I actually enjoy it. Your comprehensive video as well as your reply really shed things in a new light. Thank you! Liked and subbed.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Thank you TRFT, I'm really glad to hear this! Sometimes it just takes a little time working on a piece before we can begin to understand it and then enjoy it. Congratulations on staying with it, and I wish you the very best with your playing!

[@CoinProMCL]

Do you believe it should be played fast as you did in the first 20 seconds or more with emotion as I was professional taught?

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello CoinPro, thank you for your question. This is really up to the performer to decide, as Bach gave no tempo indications or dynamic markings. You will hear a range of tempo choices and styles when listening to recordings of well respected interpreters of Bach. The tempo in this lesson is just one possible way of playing the piece.

[@timmiller7524]

What piano is that, please? Thank you

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Tim, this piano is a Yamaha Conservatory C7 F (7'6"). It is also called a Yamaha C7 Semi Concert Grand Piano.

[@timmiller7524]

@@SallyChristianMusic Thankyou. As an (old) engineer I am dazzled and humbled by the teaching, the playing, the art and its rich depth and colour, and not least the instrument in which we hear a few centuries of devoted craftsmanship. Particularly when so played and loved. Thanks ever so much.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

@@timmiller7524 Hello Tim, thank you for your eloquent, thoughtful, and meaningful words which have touched me very much. 🙏 You are welcome, it is my pleasure. With very best wishes to you. 🎶

[@pianoforte17xx48]

Hello dear, I just wonder if the trill you added in your performance is suitable in baroque period, like is there a specific condition that might allow me to add a trill?

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello Weldon, thank you for your question. It was common performance practice in the Baroque period to add ornaments and trills. You can add them (with discretion) when you want to emphasize a note, or give it a little more color. I recommend listening to some of the recordings of the great Bach players to give you some good examples of how and where to add them. Best wishes to you!

[@pianoforte17xx48]

Thank you so much for the professional answer! Your ideas are always new, fresh and beneficial like no other teacher could give me! It's such a fortune to be able to watch your videos. God bless you with what you do.

[@SallyChristianMusic]

@@pianoforte17xx48 Hello Weldon, thank you for your beautiful reply and words of acknowledgement about the videos! It is my pleasure to help, and I wish you many wonderful hours of practicing and playing!

[@SaraMGreads]

I really like your videos. Do you have one (and corresponding chart) for early intermediate level?

[@SallyChristianMusic]

Hello, and thank you for your interest. Here is a listing of the early intermediate level videos and charts that are available from my SallyChristianMusic.com website: Bach Prelude In C, WTC I, Bach Minuet in G, Beethoven Für Elise, Burgmüller Arabesque, Graupner Intrada, Grieg Arietta, Grieg Waltz, Gurlitt A Little Flower, Handel Gavotte, Haydn Menuet in G, Heller Avalanche, Mozart Andantino, Mozart Minuet in F, Petzold Menuet, Reinecke At Twilight, Reinecke Praeludium, Schubert Waltz, Schumann Little Study, Tchaikowsky In Church, Tchaikowsky Chanson Triste, Telemann Fantasie, Telemann Minuet.

[@SaraMGreads]

Thank you very much!