my scrabble opponent played rubato so i had to find out what it meant.
@TheMrKeksLp
5 жыл бұрын
lol
@williamdrury-smith3972
5 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@thomaspick4123
5 жыл бұрын
You mean it's not a Styx song? Mr. Rubato (roboto)?
@thekkl
10 жыл бұрын
Stuff like this is so useful for those who don't have teachers.
@Snarethedrummer
9 жыл бұрын
***** Find a teacher! ;) Skype lessons are a thing!
@_peg_moore
7 жыл бұрын
Matthew Helm yes, but some can't afford or are in communities which have few. I'm a NYC dance teacher. Seen all situations.
@panamagrand
7 жыл бұрын
Skype across states! (Or countries)
@labradog05
5 жыл бұрын
dont man dont waste money,
@Snarethedrummer
3 жыл бұрын
@No one cares not Zoomers, that's for sure!
@jordillach3222
3 жыл бұрын
_"What does rubato mean?"_ Well, this is a very easy question for us, romance language speakers, it means _stolen,_ it is the participle of the italian verb _rubare_ that means to steal. In Spanish it is _robar,_ as well as in Portuguese and in Catalan. You steal and then return tempo, that's the idea.
@Williamsmith42
2 жыл бұрын
Wonder if the police catch you!! what a musical fine you have to pay in order they set you free 😂
@jordillach3222
2 жыл бұрын
@@Williamsmith42 😄 Yeah, but speakers of non-romance languages must remember that being ignorant of the law does not exempt them from liability 😂
@MiguelMarinho
2 жыл бұрын
In Portuguese is roubar instead of Spanish robar.
@whatabouttheearth
Жыл бұрын
The closest phrase for Tempo Robato in english is "borrowed time"
@NeoZondix
4 ай бұрын
Basically, robbed
@v1982on
9 жыл бұрын
Dōmo arigatō, Mr. Rubato.
@charlesnorris8147
5 жыл бұрын
That's what popped into my pea brain! LOL
@Mr850man
3 жыл бұрын
LMAO
@stefanvanoorschot2508
8 жыл бұрын
This made me understand why I like Chopin so much. Thanks.
@romeyjomey4539
5 жыл бұрын
1:52 no rubato 3:07 rubato
@EminentJade
3 жыл бұрын
thanks for saving my time
@alek8954
8 жыл бұрын
You play this song better than any of the recordings I've heard. You ought to post a full version!
@amigosXcorrespondenc
2 жыл бұрын
Word! 😁
@haviskam
5 жыл бұрын
Loving the poetic way you present your videos. Man, I can listen to you for hours after a hard day's work.
@josealexandrearaujoalan851
3 жыл бұрын
Mr. Estrin you help so many people with your videos. You're a true music lover and a gifted teacher. Thank you kindly from Brazil.
@girlwheels
2 жыл бұрын
Rubato is something I never had a word for, but it's the key to musicality. I love how you play this Chopin piece.
@jonnamechange6854
8 жыл бұрын
Both versions sounded great. Previously unaware, rubato is now another obstacle to my goal of becoming a learned musician.
@mitchellgraham7060
2 жыл бұрын
it seems kind of strange to view them as obstacles
@BestiesWesties
Жыл бұрын
Just dance more, then you will pick up the concept. Always improving while dancing.
@Ppuffdiddleydangdoof
Жыл бұрын
John Bonham, the drummer for Led Zeppelin was a master at this. He had such a keen sense of time that he could play behind and in front of the beat to create amazing funkiness. Bo Diddley liked to "turn the beat around" but I think that's different. Still funky as hell, but different. I never knew there was a name. Thank you for the wonderful lesson, professor and for your infectious zeal for learning.
@kojimapromeatspin
3 жыл бұрын
My favorite piano teacher. The first channel I came across that I really enjoyed regarding piano wisdom. Thanks, Robert.
@hunterofendermen367
6 жыл бұрын
That was really awesome. I personally had never heard of rubato, and this video was the first one to pop up. That was an excellent description and visual showing of what rubato is.
@GrantTarredus
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this, Robert! I’m a non musician who bought and loves an album by Terre Thaemlitz titled Oh, No! It’s RUBATO (the title and cover art are nods to Devo’s album Oh, No! It’s DEVO), and I was unfamiliar with the term. Half an hour of reading shed very little light on the subject (which I now think seems a rather elusive one, possibly even to many musicians), but your demonstration made it clear and brought it into sharp focus for me. I do appreciate it!
@afnanrauf364
4 жыл бұрын
I have a music final tomorrow for music class. This helped a lot! Thanks for sharing. You play the piano incredibly.
@biavobitoficial916
8 жыл бұрын
Mark Hammil's father?
@kpoary5307
4 жыл бұрын
Even he speak a little bit Joker
@ComposerKuandohan
9 жыл бұрын
Robert says that Rubato is difficult to do, especially since someone should still be able to tap to the "big" beats to the piece. I agree with what he says, but I believe that if you feel like you should add more or less rubato, then go ahead and do it. You shouldn't sacrifice the emotion of the piece (which can only be channeled through your playing) because "keeping time." When you start to become aware of technical problems, that's when you lose your emotion and love for the music. This is why practice is key, because once you have the timing conditioned into you, you can play whatever piece with as much emotion as you want without becoming a technical worrywart with no emotion. Because in the end, you can add as much rubato as you want, but that can still sound emotionless when played without soul. Now it sounds like I'm discrediting this lesson. Robert gave a great lesson, I'm just making sure that people understand that just because there's rubato doesn't mean it creates soul. It's the player's soul that shines through when playing.
@DeadManProp
9 жыл бұрын
Like somebody once said "Learn everything you can, then forget about it and just play".
@michaelcorcoran3942
9 жыл бұрын
Pat I heard it was what someone said to Louis Armstrong, either way its the way to go.
@RevanPorkins
5 жыл бұрын
Correct but you must realize that know one can teach this to anyone only explain it. have to find it on your own imo.
@whoopjohn
7 жыл бұрын
Rubato means 'robbed' - you are robbing a bit of time from one beat to add to another.
@dylanr4854
7 жыл бұрын
Lol
@kiraleskirales
7 жыл бұрын
More like stolen actually but yes.
@Koropokel
5 жыл бұрын
explained something in one sentence what this guy took 10 minutes for
@leviackerman1486
4 жыл бұрын
Nice❤🖤
@gc3209
4 жыл бұрын
So romantic
@georgemixis2172
4 жыл бұрын
You have an excellent channel. And your approach brings an interest in learning. I commend your efforts and enthusiasm, Robert !!
@elfinidorquetzelini2201
3 жыл бұрын
I love the way you talk about music!
@user-tf7nb2ju1x
Жыл бұрын
You are an amazing pedagogist, as the way you explain everything is clear and understandable. Also, you explain why and you use the right terms, I loved every second of the video
@LivingPianosVideos
Жыл бұрын
I really appreciate that! I owe a great deal to my father, Morton Estrin, who was a great pianist and teacher who had the ability to reduce complex ideas into simple terms.
@nhm1069
8 жыл бұрын
Thank you! This is so helpful. I like the idea of feeling the large beat.
@onetwoBias
10 жыл бұрын
great example - really illustrates the point and effect of Rubato. Very helpful indeed!
@johnlegend3081
2 жыл бұрын
You’re amazing sir Rubato version sounded superb. BRAVO
@velcroman11
11 ай бұрын
Short, sweet and to the point. Thank you, best explanation I have ever heard. 👍
@KevinRoddy
9 жыл бұрын
A great explanation and demonstration Robert - thanks SO much, and Aloha from Honolulu!
@jeremyrhoads6899
8 жыл бұрын
I can't imagine how hard that was to play without any rubato. lol
@bluewater3783
4 жыл бұрын
Profound music! I had never heard that before. Thanks for turning me on to it--and for the "rubato" lesson.
@shavendahampath
Жыл бұрын
Best ever explanation of the concept.Thank you Thank you
@exploringwithdave5926
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Robert. You play very well. ! I hope I can learn that piece soon.
@sixstringsurfer6533
9 жыл бұрын
I did a cover of this song a while back ago and I believe I added Rubato to it...I'm not sure but still a great lesson...Bravo!
@sk8rdad
9 жыл бұрын
First version still had Rubato. Second version maybe a little too much but what do I know :) I'm still learning...
@katiemoseley2384
9 жыл бұрын
Do you know how hard it is to play romantic pieces without a little rubato
@Torebordalpiano
9 жыл бұрын
I agree completely. But he's probably played that piece for like 20 years, it'd be sooo hard not to avoid a little rubato.
@Louisli5238
7 жыл бұрын
hah??? so easy you don't know how to control ur hand?
@PutItAway101
6 жыл бұрын
It's less about control your hand and more about controlling your soul.Which is hard to do if you have a deep feeling for the way the music is meant to sound.
@hopesonmakokha5217
6 жыл бұрын
PutItAway101 well said!
@mariannawilk7260
4 жыл бұрын
Beautifully explained, thank you!!
@alvarchavarin5037
5 жыл бұрын
You are such a great teacher....
@JimJones-km3hk
7 жыл бұрын
I have just found this channel, this guy is awesome
@billoldham4787
10 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Robert. This has really helped me to understand rubato. The next challenge is to actually try it on Tango esta noche which I am learning. Cheers, Bill
@snapjoeneck8080
2 жыл бұрын
Very good Mac exactly what I was looking for, have been teaching my self how to play guitar, while reading online for some tips I ran across this word a few times. Thank you :)
@mistersmith1883
Жыл бұрын
No one could sing Bellini or Verdi like Maria callas. Her Sense of legato, the push and pull off her rubato, the way her voice glides beautiful and easily over all the notes andit
@philodactyl
10 жыл бұрын
You have an amazing talent! I wish I had carried on with learning Piano.
@Szerykguitaracademy1
Жыл бұрын
Great explanation and enthusiasm
@josegoncalves5618
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot. I really apreciate your explanation. All the best.
@amigosXcorrespondenc
2 жыл бұрын
This is exactlt what I was looking for, thanks a lot!
@fiddlingglassblower
8 жыл бұрын
Great explanation, and perfect demonstration of it. Thanks. Someone described a person's playing as "rubato style". I didn't know what it meant, and now I do, and no, his playing most certainly wasn't rubato. There was no timing to it whatsoever.
@sonjamuller2846
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for your excellent explanation!
@Pirlisan
7 жыл бұрын
beautifully played and explained. Thanks!
@Ayaron427
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot. Very well explained.
@Schatten2712
7 жыл бұрын
I cried :,) so beautiful... makes me to wish to learn piano
@ernestohemingway7563
8 жыл бұрын
Very good explanation and demonstration!
@desr2395
7 жыл бұрын
too many people just slow and speed the actual tempo when trying to do this. Im glad this was an accurate explaination and demonstration. Chopin himself said something along the lines of "when doing rubato, it is ESSENTIAL that the left hand ALWAYS remain in time" actual rubato is very difficult to do well
@kenshi7139
Жыл бұрын
Never thought I would learn to play piano from Mark Hamill. Subscribed
@paulmortimer1471
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent! Thanks.
@civilaggie06
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the explanation and video!
@thomaspick4123
5 жыл бұрын
Superb advice.
@dennyb87
7 ай бұрын
3:43 ""That's a lot better isn't it ?" it gets me every time 😂
@gentinmedia
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing difference great lesson!
@mantistoboggan2676
2 жыл бұрын
The rubato gives a dreamy feel and really makes the shorter notes sparkle.
@sm9846
4 жыл бұрын
maestro Roy Sonne explains rubato very well and understandable,he says : Rubato means taking some freedom with the tempo, or stretching and bending the tempo, going a little slower or a little faster momentarily and then getting back into the groove, or getting back with the basic beat .
@CvnDqnrU
8 жыл бұрын
domo arigato mr
@xxXthekevXxx
7 жыл бұрын
oh I just got that joke haha nice one
@jlamb2760
5 жыл бұрын
LOL...clever.
@serventofTheMostHigh
11 жыл бұрын
Oh Thank You beautiful! Excellent example.
@ruangheechun3714
8 жыл бұрын
Great explaining! Now I know well about rubato
@JordanMedina
9 жыл бұрын
Good Playing!! I love Chopin..
@whitehouseblackroom
7 жыл бұрын
crazy, crazy voice you got there, buddo
@mrwahwah66
9 жыл бұрын
Excellent video =) Thank you
@lemuela545
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks, very valuable..
@pablom2274
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome!! thank you!
@helgeschneider5423
Жыл бұрын
Awesome, thanks!
@glueckssilben
6 жыл бұрын
My teacher never told me about rubato, probably due to the literature we were playing. However, I have listened very much to music by Chopin, and your video helped to understand how this music is driven by rubato. Do you think that it actually suffices to "think rubato" instead of trying to do it actively?
@minhhieuhuynh5174
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your detailed explanation. Could you please explain the phrase you used at 4:10: "mold the tempo to your wimp"?
@tanujgaurav
8 жыл бұрын
Does this have anything to do with "Free Time" style of playing?
@Kref3
6 жыл бұрын
What I really would love to hear is something you cannot find anymore today. Mozart and Chopin were pretty famous because they played Rubato only in the melody, while the arpeggios or accords played mostly with the left hand kept the original pace perfectly. Mozart actually wrote a letter to his father in which he was quite amused about his audience which was always astonished how he did it: „Daß ich immer accurat im tact bleybe. über das verwundern sie sich alle. Das tempo rubato in einem Adagio, daß die lincke hand nichts darum weiß, können sie gar nicht begreifen. bey ihnen giebt die lincke hand nach.“ Rather free translation: "That I always stay in the measure accurately, that's what puzzles them all. That the left hand never knows anything about rubato, they cannot understand it. When you listen to them, their left always surrenders" I would really love to hear a Mozart sonata played like this, where the left keeps the time and pace perfectly while the right speeds up, slows down and meets the left again. Especially since it was Mozart's own style of playing them according to his own words. But it seems that this technique is more or less lost in time and nobody trains to play like this anymore.
@rachelles.9657
6 жыл бұрын
I still heard some rubato in the first one. :) Only a computer could play that with zero rubato.
@jamesmctier1891
6 жыл бұрын
Rachelle S. me too
@labradog05
5 жыл бұрын
i can play withouth rubato
@Tkimba2
5 жыл бұрын
@@labradog05 so? Metronomic playing makes you a robot, not an artist
@labradog05
5 жыл бұрын
@@Tkimba2 shut up, im just pointing out that i can play without rubato, bec thats human instinct to play in a beat
@Brewbug
3 жыл бұрын
A lot even
@tophan5146
3 жыл бұрын
2:44 - Wow, I at first I was looking for 1/8 pulse but my intuition was suggesting large interval slower pulse, I thought I was missing something, I’m poor at music.... turns out I felt it as one should! :)
@musicsound2683
3 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video and awesome playing - I have learnt a lot from it. But I have to disagree with you on some terminology - in 6/4 (Compound duple) - the "beat" is the dotted minim - the "pulse" is the crotchet.
@ruangheechun3714
8 жыл бұрын
Great explaining!
@edfelstein3891
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video. I never knew what "rubato" was -- that is to say, I never knew what it was called, though I heard pianists regularly doing it. Question -- what is the name of the piece played in the intro and outro of the video?
@RecycleBin0
9 жыл бұрын
yep it does change the tempo of whom is using robato but its so fine that its too messy to notate, each bar is in the same place though but the beats in it are slightly delayed or ahead, keeping in time is still important and would need to have very good timing, Including activley having the ability to change tempo or time sigrature instantaniously
@kerder8660
6 жыл бұрын
Hehehe how Chopin influenced the world of music... U can learn the music but in Chopin case growing up in Poland it has deep roots in his soul which shows in his compositions. One should spend some time in Poland to find out its influences & connections. Chopin music is termented soul taken trough cycles of life...
@mfabrena
11 жыл бұрын
Robert - This is an excellent example and beautiful playing. I think often purists take too literally Chopin's comment that the left hand must be played in strict metronomic time, all notes equidistant. The concept of the "macro" beat is very apropos. This reminds me--didn't Rubinstein ding Rachmaninoff for playing Chopin with "exaggerated rubato"? Perhaps it is the other way around...
@grubybueno
5 жыл бұрын
Hows the name ot the song?
@WhompingWalrus
3 жыл бұрын
What does it say about *me* if I prefer the first version, & the second makes me want to slide a pencil from one ear straight through to the other? I've noticed the same with other music - just never been able to put a name to it 'til now.
@jacquelinefong5344
6 жыл бұрын
The first version had rubato still I think
@jasmyn1258
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, sir!
@afonsoserro4437
4 жыл бұрын
good to see Luke Skywalker's brother is doing fine
@rock9529
5 жыл бұрын
Very helpfull, as ever!
@AlaanPlacenciaTimoteo
9 жыл бұрын
Gracias por explicar lo que es el rubato
@kolaparadise260
10 жыл бұрын
thanks it helped me alot for my test!
@peterwong8460
3 жыл бұрын
Now I understand what is rubato, thanks
@TheMightyDd
7 жыл бұрын
This guy is great
@mudkip_btw
8 жыл бұрын
Wow. You play that nocturne very well, could you upload it please? Love your videos! I'm working on an easy Chopin waltz, that also uses rubato. Because I'm not experienced it's very useful to get such vital information, like keeping the pulse. Thanks!!
@mudkip_btw
8 жыл бұрын
I might need to relearn every part, on metronome. Now I know rubato is a far more difficult technique than I imagined - not just play with the rhythm. Thanks again, I know for certain that this will help me put some life into my structureless playing :)
@stitchyduck
7 жыл бұрын
Um... Did you just literally answer your own question? o_o
@jimwalsh2001
3 жыл бұрын
Domo arigato for explaining rubato!
@snoodler856
10 жыл бұрын
amazing thankyou
@user-pg8qq5mj3k
3 жыл бұрын
What is the name of this wonderful piece????
@lfelly6223
5 жыл бұрын
Then if I want the effect of "gaining and losing time" (sounds like improvisation), what would it be called, anyone knows please?
@matimacek6438
4 жыл бұрын
Accelerando and Ritardando
@silk5005
8 жыл бұрын
Hi, would you care to share the name of the Chopin piece you demonstrate in this video? I adore the harmony in it
@mtomazza
8 жыл бұрын
he says in the video. Nocturne 9/1
@MrDlg112
10 жыл бұрын
muchas gracias!
@sputnickbeats4107
7 жыл бұрын
wonderful video !!! when you say don't lose the time how do you not lose if at the end if the measure you sped up so much you are a pulse short? Does the next measure need to slow back down to regain the missing pulse? Thank you!!!
@kormathawa6152
7 жыл бұрын
You are technically sort of correct. Though thinking of rubato technically defeats the purpose. I like to think of it more as, you have a starting down beat (or major pulse) and ending down beat (or major pulse) of a phrase. Those beats will happen at a fixed time. With rubato, you have the freedom to stretch or contract any of the notes in the phrase between those pulses allowing for natural and expressive freedom, as long as you land on that ending beat with the last note. So, yes, if your natural expression causes you to lose a full quarternote in the first half of the phrase, you're going to have to pick it up somewhere through the second half. That being said, rubato is much more subtle than that, If you're losing a full beat in a phrase, you're probably overdoing it.
@Ericstroman100
9 ай бұрын
I can’t hear the difference lol. As long as you use the same time frames for each bars you can do whatever you want. I thought it was a lagging between left and right hand. Some pianist do which give it clearer articulation
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