Josh, I just wanted to say that out of all the hand tension videos (yes, I've probably watched all of them!) I have to say this has helped me the most. The movement from the shoulder is the true "arm weight". Please consider remaking this video in better quality like you have with the others as I feel this is by far the most helpful tension/relaxation video for playing fast!
@fightingforfreedom5017
2 жыл бұрын
After 11 months self study from apps and You Tube video’s, I decided to go for a real private teacher. I was quite confidence to impress my teacher what I’ve learned so far. In apps community’s on Facebook I saw many reactions of people who started private lessons where their teacher’s blown away of the fast and incredible results of those self studies. I knew my Russian piano teacher was a little bit more down to earth, not a wow or “that’s amazing” type. But nevertheless I thought to impress the guy with the self learned skills. Playing legato with one hand and staccato with the other hand, a enormous improvement in 11 months of time. So proudly I sat behind a real piano in his studio and played the first two notes of a marching tune. And he said to my surprise and disappointed he saw enough. Everything was wrong. How I sat behind the piano, my shoulders to high, everything to tense. He explained that playing like that causes injuries and you’re never be able to play fast. I have to learn it all over again. He was talking a lot about the movement of the wrists. He dropped his hand in round position on the keys, hitting one note with the tip of his finger, after that slowly released the key while his wrist went up again parallel at the rounded position of the hand. You had to see only the three knuckles on your hand, he said. In this way, you produce clear sound, the fullest and clearest sound of a key. He told me to practice the three fingers except for your pinky and thumb, ‘cause they had exceptional rules. I have practice this for one week now and still find it difficult. The hardest part is to relax everything. He didn’t told me about dropping the arm first, than from the elbow and than from the wrist, as you told in this video. So I’m gonna try that. In this week I looked closely to other amateurs and now I saw it for the first time, that 95% of them doing this wrong. Sooner or later these people will get serious wrist problems and I’m a little surprised that nobody seems to care. I’m very happy to decide taking a private teacher, I hope to tackle all of my bad habits. It’s important to be personally guide by a professional, as my teacher say. The piano is a complex and diverse music instrument to play and you need a lot of patience and practice. Doesn’t matter how long it will take me, one day I WILL impress him.
@rogerpianoking1945
2 жыл бұрын
Crikey, what a tip a fantastic tip this is. I’ve been playing for nearly 50 years and just applied this to my playing. Omg. Makes a big difference to my playing in as much you get a better flow of playing and releases tension. ie the cadenzas in lieberstraum 3. Thanks for sharing this josh. As the yanks would say , that’s Awesome. 😂
@ChooChooRosenbloom
10 жыл бұрын
Terrific tip, Josh! I have a tendency to tighten up my wrist and suffered from wrist tendonitis so this is a wonderful tip. Thanks so much!
@DavidMesquitic
9 жыл бұрын
Ive recently subscribed and have been watching your videos on piano technique and since then my piano technique has sky rocketed in the past weeks with the simple pedagogy and explanations you share. Im graduating this may with my BA in Music Ed tenor trombone emphasis but I'm going for my masters in jazz piano performance in austin tx and since I've only had 2 semesters of piano lessons at the university its been hard catching up with the technique but this has helped a lot! thanks!!
@joshwrightpiano
9 жыл бұрын
David Mesquitic hi David - thanks so much for the kind words. That's awesome that you're graduating. Congrats! Best of luck in your studies. Feel free to email me if you have questions.
@AlfaAxel
8 жыл бұрын
I have for decades sought information and demonstration of "finger staccato" and other ways (forms?) of piano touch (Danish: anslag) I am surprised how easy you demonstrate, thanks a lot!
@tylerlyons4943
6 жыл бұрын
Your wrist is a shock absorber to the sound. most profound statement here!!
@Starritt_Piano
10 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for sharing your inspiring knowledge. i had played that schubert sonata as well so it's lovely to get a new perspective on it. :) thank you again, such a marvellous and intelligent musician. :)
@morganbrookmusic
7 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad that you made this! It has helped my practicing so much!
@MageAtYou
4 жыл бұрын
based on the audio I thought the video was from 2005 or earlier ;PP
@luisgonzalez6196
5 жыл бұрын
Excellent videos, very very helpful.
@carlottapianist
9 жыл бұрын
You're great ! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge ! Hope you'll come to Italy in the future.. to have concerts or do masterclass :-)
@joshwrightpiano
9 жыл бұрын
carlottapf Thank you! I'd love to visit Italy again. What city are you from? If you'd like, shoot me an email and maybe we could figure out a way to make that happen! www.joshwrightpiano.com/contact. Have a great week!
@WarrenPostma
5 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or is the audio here breaking up and overloading the camera mic?
@magusl9628
9 жыл бұрын
Sorry if the question is a bit dumb, but could you please spell the name of the pianist you played the Schubert sonata for? Thx a lot, keep watching your videos, they're diamonds!
@joshwrightpiano
9 жыл бұрын
Maria Lobato Sergei Babayan. He's incredible and so inspiring. Just google "Sergei Babayan Instant Encore" to find a great collection of free recordings
@magusl9628
9 жыл бұрын
Josh Wright Cheers Josh, I shall research it :)
@085697065982
10 жыл бұрын
I think its much harder to loose the left wrist, any tips? Thanks :)
@GuyMannDudeTheOnly
4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video...You mentioned thinking down or up ...I've discovered 'thinking up" has made a ton of difference in my playing. Watching other classical pianists, they seem to 'think up' and draw the sound up by grabbing or plucking is you will...'thinking up', gives me a lighter touch...and lessens tension in the stroke...Do you have anymore comments about this Josh? Am I right ?
@laisreis2385
6 жыл бұрын
If you look up the book “ Piano lessons with Claudio Arrau” you will see he and his students refer to this bouncy movement of the arm for non legato playing as “vibration”. Very good examples and explanations can be found in this book.
@Dundatta258
7 жыл бұрын
these are great videos I'm a jazz musician and I want my wrist to be flowing like that
@CelsoARRibeiro
10 жыл бұрын
Hello Josh, I love your work here at youtube, as well as your work as a musician. I just wanted to know if you in some moment studied the Taubman method for piano technique, it seemed odd that you teach about weight of the arm and loose wrist without mentioning this method...
@zephyr755
8 жыл бұрын
Dear Josh, Would you please produce a video on how to do ARPEGGIOS if you have small hands and shortish fingers|? Things like the run up in the first bars of the Wanderer Fantasy are a disaster for me - all seizes up. Other notorious bits: the "fall" from the high F (effectively a Db 9 downwards arpeggio a few bars into Chopin's Scherzo no 2), the huge run in E Major over a descending bass in the mid-section of the same piece - etc. etc. I've been a pro pianist, specialising in shows, etc., played for decades, but I despair with this stuff. How do you "flip the hand over" for all of these? Thanks.
@nihilumaeternum6555
4 жыл бұрын
The piece at 6:38 is Chopin, Op. 25/8.
@beethigludwogen5727
5 жыл бұрын
Do you think I can apply this in solffegieto? I’m playing this with legato and I kind of didn’t know what to do with it. This might help.
@alexcondejazz
4 жыл бұрын
Hi Josh, thank you for your videos. I've played piano for many years and recently discovered recording videos that my pinky is flying add tense. Is there any exercise to fix this? Thank you
@tf8280
7 жыл бұрын
Who is "the greatest piano player" you mentioned around 2:05? I would like to look him up. Thanks.
@ChanningWalton
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this Josh. I'm learning Chopin's butterfly etude and can tense up. Would this technique help for something like that etude with its octave stretches?
@FroskiTheBroski
7 жыл бұрын
my name is Isaac I was like "this is for me!" lol
@skylermccloud78
7 жыл бұрын
would this work if your on 3rd movement of moonlight sonata 3rd movement
@redboombuzz
7 жыл бұрын
Sir Josh, so this could be applied on hanon exercises also?
@PriscaM
10 жыл бұрын
Sorry if I ask... but how did your recital go?
@cyray224
9 жыл бұрын
What piece are you playing in this video?
@mikewhelan9561
10 жыл бұрын
who did he say to listen to in the car scalatti by ?
@musicality9193
10 жыл бұрын
serguei babayan
@bonnielau3982
9 жыл бұрын
i can't hear what you say in this video, fortunately, the subtitle is useful
@joshwrightpiano
9 жыл бұрын
Bonnie Lau Sorry to hear that Bonnie! I know the audio is probably a bit low...have you tried using headphones? That usually helps me when the audio is low
@thrillscience
10 жыл бұрын
Great video, but you need to do something about your audio quality! (And brush your hair, too!)
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