Ten levels of GLISSANDO

Many will hate this video.
Sources:
• Mozart, Das Butterbrot...
• Glissando
• Liszt Paganini Etude "...
• F.Liszt - Spanish Fant...
• Hamelin plays Liszt - ...
• Marc-Andre Hamelin Pla...
• Liszt - Hungarian Rhap...
• Czerny - Etude Op. 365...
• Virgil Thomson Double ...
• How to gliss
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#piano #ranking #top10 #glissando

[@HenChongmingDeRen]

"You can see the moment the black keys ripped the skin off my fingers"..................................................................................................but actually tho, imagine that happened during a concert...

[@herobrine1847]

It’s definitely happened in many concerts

[@vrixphillips]

It's happened while I was practicing before, but because I sometimes practiced as though for a concert, I finished the piece before going for a bandaid, so.... there was a bit of blood on the keys I had to clean off too.

[@ethanhopper2467]

Black key glissandos tend to do that, you basically can’t practice them or you’re going to bleed everywhere

[@ivebarraco]

I clicked the video expecting only Ravel at the end. not disappointed.

[@Yubin_Lee_Doramelin]

The glissandi in the introduction from Ravel's Piano Concerto are so nice!

[@SamarthSachinJadhav]

Of course, I did expect him as well. No wonder.

[@pianist_detective]

"Liszt is a devil, he composed very more charming piece, without thinking what the pianists' feel." Not said by Chopin

[@teodorb.p.composer]

Hamelin is just a god of glissandos!

[@ryzikx]

hes just a piano god

[@pianist_detective]

Agree, and a nut that composed piece with some fucking hard piano skill

[@BlueSteve]

Alborada del Gracioso: What about me?!?!?!? (Could have used Richter's perf.)

[@gitikagitika715]

Octave glissandi are kinda impossible if you can't play a tenth atleast, because of the way you have to position you hand

[@chrisoconnor9521]

Depends on the context - Beethoven's 1st and Hummel's 2nd Piano Concerti both have octave glissandi but are written so it's possible to do with 2 hands.

[@mckernan603]

They were written for pianos of the day, not really possible on ours. I see no shame in taking the top note only

[@HKWhang1]

They’re definitely possible if you glide your thumb and pinky in a more straightened out way not with the nails

[@gitikagitika715]

​@@chrisoconnor9521yes, also in beethoven waldstein sonata

[@gitikagitika715]

​@@mckernan603while earlier pianos did have smaller keys, they weren't small enough to make a difference. Also, ravel basically had to play on the same pianos as we do.

[@azure5697]

and the "funny" (stupid) thing is that old pianos had lighter keys, not to mention the ones in czerny's era...

[@JamesBower-yj6ew]

Depends on the piano you're playing on too. Pianos can vary in key lightness/heaviness more than you'd think.

[@tinklewinkle42]

sillly pianists, as a harpist this second nature

[@eric8764]

As a trombonist, I second this.

[@gamecenterjerry]

not having totentanz on here gotta be a war crime

[@SamarthSachinJadhav]

Not literally, but I understand.

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

Liszt Totentanz? Also, the only time I actually bled from glissando was practising the orchestra part in Bernstein's Symphonic dances from west side story.

[@davyvargasmarcelinodossantos]

my RH 4th and 5th fingers bled in totentanz variation 1

[@Lavirfra]

Petrushka got a lot of those

[@doompiano1604]

There's BLACK KEY OCTAVE GLISSANDO in Kapustin's 8th Sonata

[@chrisoconnor9521]

I've heard the penultimate bars of the Chopin Etude 5 from Op.10 played as a black key octave gliss too.

[@ilovebrownies964]

Have you seen Prokofiev Suggestion Diabolique Op.4 no.4? The gliss is crazy!

[@ryzikx]

ive never actually paid attention to gliss in pieces lol, nice vid

[@HKWhang1]

Thomson’s Etudes are very good. Ragtime Bass is incredible. But the cluster glissandi from Stockhausen’s Klavierstuck X should probably be included here, and probably at number 1. Pollini’s performance is great

[@Emiliasooo]

Honorable mention to Keit Emerson's "Rondo" (before he destroys the organ)

[@AaronPetitPianoTutorials]

I like playing rhapsody 10 with octave glissandos. Learned the Waldstein first, then used that trick in the Liszt. Very fun!

[@BlueSteve]

Spanish Fantasy is literally Liszt's final boss theme-

[@PetitBlackRose]

That glissando is not that painful, but everything else is.

[@LisztAddict]

Where in Dahomey

[@Jartious]

What in dahomey

[@LisztAddict]

@@Jartious In Dahomey by grainger played by hamelin

[@Whaijorhujishkomunyk]

lmfao was looking for some comment about in Dahomey and it was just yours

[@Jartious]

​@@LisztAddictOh ok. I've never heard of that.

[@snorefest1621]

Where is Tausig’s Geisterschiff (I’m past my Percy granger phase(

[@itamarbar9580]

That idea of glissing all keys at once is a really cool idea! That's an interesting sound I might use in my pieces.

[@Paganini-Liszt]

It's cursed to see young Katsaris with full hair play

[@DavidFranklinDartMusic]

I was waiting for this

[@avry362]

Should have used Hamelin’s recording for Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, it was his cadenza after all

[@jameerlawrencebondoc8162]

PAIN!!! I can feel the pain

[@dunkleosteus430]

You can do an octave glissando on the black keys if you point your thumb up, you can't use your nails at all but it usually works.

[@potatohunter3763]

I wish it was as fun and charming as it sounds

[@Jenairaslebol27merde]

ok i also expected to see beethoven's waldstein #3 somewhere... but the last few examples were just insane ;) but i also need to say, from my own experience, that a well regulated and fluid action with least sideways slack as possible really makes a huge difference between barely unplayble and quite easy. years ago i asked my piano tech what he could do on my rather lower end yamaha grand piano. i just couldn't do the octave glissandi from the waldstein, but he fixed it rather inexpensively, and then it was no problem at all! :) - also, consider the shape of the key edges. if they are a bit more rounded, it will definitely reduce the pain factor ;)

[@SamarthSachinJadhav]

I did expect Hamelin's Cadenza for Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody, no. 2, and Ravel's La Valse (solo piano). You missed Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, no. 1, and his Totentanz, along with Debussy's Feux d'Artifice.

[@user-uv3ux3jm3g]

Realmente impactante y maravilloso

[@HKWhang1]

For the Czerny etude, you could just very lightly glide your fingers across the keys. Seems like the same is true for most or all other pieces included here

[@yannickm5237]

What about chromatic glissandos like in the ghost ship by Liszts student Carl Tausig or Feux d'artifice by Debussy (played by Hamelin!)

[@Jartious]

The last clip has a chromatic glissando

[@tibetatakan]

Fast glissandos don't always mean they are hard. Until the rhapsody, the hardest one was Mozart because unlike the others, it needs accuracy.

[@Jartious]

Yeah, I thought that too but I wanted to put the Mozart first as having the music along with the title creates the feel I want

[@62pianoguy]

The Mozart also strikes me as a piece Chico Marx should have played, had he known it existed.

[@alexandrekuzmanovic4607]

Some also play glissando the octaves at the end of Waldstein Sonata 3rd movement... could be included there

[@ValkyRiver]

Here are a few alternate fingerings that I have used: Black keys (or any other 5-note pattern): L54321-R12345… White keys: L432-R1234… (I have used both patterns many times so that I don’t have to hurt my fingers) Miscellaneous: G, D, A, E major; L432-R1234… D, A, Db, Ab, Eb major: L23-R12345… B major: R1234-L432… F# major: L432-R1235… Bb, F major: L4321-R123… Whole-tone on C: L432-R123… Whole-tone on Db: L32-R1234 Octatonic: L4321-R1234… (This is not a comprehensive list)

[@Jartious]

Thanks for the comment! I will try the fingerings later. I guess you came from classical KZbin slander lmao

[@ValkyRiver]

@@Jartious In case you're wondering, for the 5-note ones, repeat every 2 octaves, but for the 7-note ones, repeat every octave (I have practiced these fingerings so much)

[@musicav3284]

Can you do ten levels of ornaments or jazz next? I'm subbed

[@Jartious]

I'll put it on my list 👍

[@Aminuteorso...]

When I think of hard glissandi, I immediately think of the final 2 minutes from Prokofiev's 3rd Piano concerto. It's not exactly a glissando because you are playing all the notes with your fingers instead of sliding, but it's still very technically difficult and it's very hard to make it sound good.

[@zaqareemalcolm]

piano glissy compilation

[@EdouardTavinor]

if i remember the liszt etude correctly there's an easy way to get the glissandi the right distance apart and that's to wrap the thumbs of both hands together.

[@puffballbk2186]

Also it is surreal seeing how unnaturally even hamelin’s gliss is shocking

[@karrotkake]

imo you shouldve used ldf's performance of the spanish fantasy, but still good video

[@puffballbk2186]

Insane

[@BlueSteve]

is the 2nd one even a song (piece)?

[@chrisoconnor9521]

Well, for starters, it'd be a PIECE since it isn't vocal music, but no, it isn't.

[@BlueSteve]

I feel bad for Rousseau :(

[@RaptorT1V]

Prokofiev - prelude "Harp" is on the 2nd place

[@sebastianperez3696]

Faltó la mazurca glissando de Lecuona

[@dzordzszs]

Brahms Paganini Variations Book 1 var 13 also a lot of octave glissandos

[@TwitterChannelOfficial]

glizzysando

[@saymayfire]

the worst glissando i have ever encountered was in ginastera's 3rd piano sonata - a triple gliss moving from white keys into a black-key cluster. ouch. i don't consider it possible LOL my favorite glisses to ever perform were those in the primo part of shostakovich's concertino for 2 pianos

[@user-km5qf6oj2m]

if nyatith play my electric piano i think my piano will die X_X

[@pianist_detective]

I suggest you to make your next video with "10 levels of interval", bc it must have Liszt Spanish Fantasy in it💀

[@Jartious]

Do you mean like ten levels of difficulty?

[@pianist_detective]

@@Jartious bruh I'm not sure if I pronouns it correctly, but I mean like third, sixth, octave and as more as possible

[@zanegart4399]

tausig ghost ship

[@jhonatangomez5445]

you need to see Jorge Luis Prats glissando

[@matei_woold_wewu]

3:27 is F# pentatonic scale

[@Paganini-Liszt]

1:43 You can do it without hurting yourself by using your Middle and Ring finger

[@jannis11]

Noice

[@PacotheRingneckanimatons4221]

I have Etude op.4 no.3 in F major final is glissando

[@beastasfiist]

No waldstein 😢

[@cziffrathegreat666]

Yo where's cziffra's octave glissandi? 😄

[@kk-ht6uw]

Where in Beethoven Waldstein #3

[@FriskaPiano]

Hi

[@Jartious]

Hello

[@MeB3ast]

Hi

[@wyolucile]

Hello

[@nguyenhaianh3003]

I quit Animenz My Dearest just bc of the double gliss *_*

[@bruhthing1010]

falafel

[@chrisoconnor9521]

2 is a pile of cack - how is this even included? 3 did the glissandi way too quick. 7 definitely needs to improve technique if they're bleeding.

[@potatohunter3763]

lol ok

[@chrisoconnor9521]

Problem ​@@potatohunter3763?

[@chrisoconnor9521]

@@potatohunter3763 problem?

[@yahyakhazbak4713]

bro these videos are kinda may get deleted he play other's video on his channel

[@ethanthegreat23]

1:06 its not that fast