Chromatic Scales - BASIC & ADVANCED Tips!

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In this video, we discuss basic techniques to improve chromatic scales, as well as a new method, taught to me by one of my lifelong teachers, Dr. Susan Duehlmeier, on how to reduce tension in fast speeds with chromatic scales. Examples given from Moszkowski Étincelles ("Sparks") Op.36 No.6
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  • @ThePianoFortePlayer
    @ThePianoFortePlayer4 жыл бұрын

    The excitement you bring when sharing these tips gives a lot of motivation

  • @realmirage

    @realmirage

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yousef Shadian actually

  • @Zhinarkos
    @Zhinarkos4 жыл бұрын

    Have you watched Paul Barton's tutorial on the Chopin Op 10 No 2 etude by any chance? He has some interesting exercises for the chromatic scales. One of particular interest for me was the one where you hold a small-ish ball with your thumb and index finger and let the weak fingers play the scales. I wonder if this could be inverted to work for the strong thumb and index as well and if so would that help.

  • @georgeflecknell
    @georgeflecknell4 жыл бұрын

    I appreciate that you record at a sensible volume, unfortunately when I turn your videos up to hear them interruptiung KZread adverts then DEAFEN ME.

  • @dw6600
    @dw66004 жыл бұрын

    Great tutorial. But you should really consider having an extra camera placed above the piano pointing down at the keys. That would make it much easier to see what you are playing.

  • @bradsims5116
    @bradsims5116Ай бұрын

    I love this video ! I play guitar and your videos have helped me so much. Thank you josh.

  • @maralagounari6193
    @maralagounari61934 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing these tips with us.The way you handle technique problems helps us understand that there's always a solution for every technique problem and after striving for a certain period of time ,in the end it feels easy and simple when you go over it again.

  • @JaySuryavanshiMusic
    @JaySuryavanshiMusic4 жыл бұрын

    Hi Josh, I loved this video. Chromatic scales are really important in a piano technique. Your practice methods work and help me to avoid bad habits and improve my technique. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

  • @heavypiano
    @heavypiano4 жыл бұрын

    Great tips, thanks for sharing Josh! I hope you realize how much us other pianists appreciate the insights you share.

  • @TheSIGHTREADINGProject
    @TheSIGHTREADINGProject4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Josh you do them beautifully - when I was practicing for ABRSM it was a nightmare and I was constantly on the verge of my tendon going twang. Glad you talk about it in detail here

  • @angelajowichewich8062
    @angelajowichewich80624 жыл бұрын

    You helped me SO MUCH! I can't thank you enough❤️

  • @captivator13
    @captivator134 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so so much for this video brother Josh, very useful tips... Blessings, Sam 🎵

  • @gabrielegambacorta8053
    @gabrielegambacorta80534 жыл бұрын

    Always giving like before watching the video, thank you very much, for your precious tips!!

  • @pnoman316
    @pnoman3163 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much, this makes my chromatic scales much faster and smoother!

  • @myrrhe3165
    @myrrhe31653 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for all your detailed videos!🥰

  • @JordanEvansMusic
    @JordanEvansMusic4 жыл бұрын

    Love your videos so much! I am a piano teacher who recently started making videos and I hope to be as good as you one day

  • @abhisheksingh1992
    @abhisheksingh19924 жыл бұрын

    Great content. Keep it up!

  • @m.a.3322
    @m.a.33224 жыл бұрын

    Hey Josh could you do an in-depth video on tremolos? I've seen all your other videos on tremolos and I wonder if you could cover some of the complex ones like really long double-third tremolos which require endurance?

  • @PawelLeszczynskipav
    @PawelLeszczynskipav Жыл бұрын

    awesome tutorial. You're a great teacher!

  • @bobbygadourymusic5476
    @bobbygadourymusic54766 ай бұрын

    Cool exercise! Thanks, Josh!

  • @lucjanocastro
    @lucjanocastro3 жыл бұрын

    Ohh..you are so modest, Josh.. your chromatic scale is superfast!

  • @downpatmusic
    @downpatmusic Жыл бұрын

    I see the greatest current classical pianists in the world with tension induced 5th finger issues. Of course they can still pull off the greatest works with this habitual tension. But when removed, sound improves, and speed is less challenging. Good tip here in your video!

  • @lialiniawatychristian.
    @lialiniawatychristian.2 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou Josh. This video so helpul.

  • @rosebolaji8774
    @rosebolaji8774 Жыл бұрын

    Who knew!!! I tucked my fingers and it was instantly better!!😀 Earned you a subscription Sir!!! THANK YOU!

  • @BachtoBagels
    @BachtoBagels4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Josh, for another helpful video. As someone looking to improve some basic skills, wondered if you've covered tips on how to avoid rushing during crescendos? Counting '1e+a' helps alot, but when trying to play more freely (without focusing so much on the counting) everything goes out the window! ;)

  • @TonyWinston
    @TonyWinston4 жыл бұрын

    Really good video. Jazz instructor just subbed.

  • @malikmohsin4881
    @malikmohsin48814 жыл бұрын

    Really amazing tips, one humbly request please fix a camera on hand it will be more easy to understand.

  • @scIrieband2
    @scIrieband23 жыл бұрын

    Outstanding i love love your skills

  • @Napoleon2010able
    @Napoleon2010able Жыл бұрын

    Hello Josh, I just wanted to take this time to thank you for your incredible piano tutorials. I have admired all your videos. I am new to your channel but I am learning a lot from you. You are now my teacher. I was self-taught before I took lessons for about years but the damage was already done to my fingers. In this video, your fingers stay together as you demonstrated these new techniques. May I ask you which book has this type of exercise? cause I would want to start working on my fingering. Your suggestions are welcome and Thank you so much.

  • @deej20007
    @deej200072 жыл бұрын

    Excellent. *As usual*

  • @eroceanos
    @eroceanos4 жыл бұрын

    Thanx man! I want to learn chromatic scales... they sound like a beautifull waterfall or something... dunno what it is, but they sound beautifull.

  • @mithuarup1
    @mithuarup14 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing

  • @leemotosuwa
    @leemotosuwa4 жыл бұрын

    Josh. You are the best

  • @britishlad5648
    @britishlad56484 жыл бұрын

    I love them!!!

  • @m4rzi4no
    @m4rzi4no4 жыл бұрын

    Me (beginner) at 00:00: let's improve my chromatic scales speed and technique ... Me at 00:55 after listening at the examples ... let's change instrument!

  • @saqeralattal8947
    @saqeralattal89474 жыл бұрын

    thank you so much

  • @JaimeJoseHernandez
    @JaimeJoseHernandez4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @tmcleung
    @tmcleung4 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see a video that talks about the difference at the very top. Watched your preliminaries at the Chopin Competition and always wonder what is it that separates you vs. someone like Seong-Jin Cho who just dominated everyone else, when all pianists there already mastered all the fundamentals, technique, etc.

  • @derinderruheliegt
    @derinderruheliegt4 жыл бұрын

    Another way to relax...okay gonna try to do this in words...use the "centering" technique. If you haven't done this before...do it slowly. As you play from one not to the next, imagine your hand does a small circular motion rotating towards the thumb (always toward the thumb NO MATTER what direction you're going, up or down the keyboard). Make sure when you land, you have the key fully depressed and are using arm weight, NOT finger muscle. Do not anticipate the rotation to the next note, and only move on when the key is depressed fully and your fingers are fully relaxed. Then raise your hand, make the circular motion toward the thumb, then land on the next note, fully depressed with arm weight. And so on. This keeps your arm mechanism centered. Watch that your elbow stays behind your hand. If your pinky starts to stick up when you land, you're not using arm weight, you're using too much finger muscle. For a more visual description, watch Edna Golandsky or Dorothy Taubman videos. Between Josh Wright and those two, you'll make huge strides. By the way...thanks Josh!!!

  • @annafernandez6674
    @annafernandez66743 жыл бұрын

    what song are u playing !? it’s beautiful

  • @saraheve7653
    @saraheve76532 жыл бұрын

    What’s the best chromatic fingering for the left hand?

  • @dorcasnajjingo5998
    @dorcasnajjingo59982 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the beautiful tips, but it's really hard to observe the finger positions in the video. Thank you for the video.

  • @bhh1988
    @bhh19884 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how much the flying pinkie really matters though. For example, Chopin Op 10 No. 4, right in the 2nd bar, when you go from the E with 3 to the F# with 4, basically every pro pianist I've seen on KZread has a flying pinkie in that transition, including Kissin. When I saw that, I gave up trying to fix mine.

  • @Rykeron
    @Rykeron3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, my pinky was pointing straight out

  • @metteholm4833
    @metteholm48334 жыл бұрын

    What is the name of this piece? You have demonstrated it before - i think.

  • @TracingFlares
    @TracingFlares10 ай бұрын

    cool😊

  • @xXxColin62xXx
    @xXxColin62xXx4 жыл бұрын

    Do ever just feel the tension in your right hand watching these videos haha

  • @jacobsimonson9040
    @jacobsimonson90404 жыл бұрын

    What piece is that?

  • @derinderruheliegt

    @derinderruheliegt

    4 жыл бұрын

    Enticelles by Moszkowski... Horowitz liked it for encores :)

  • @derinderruheliegt

    @derinderruheliegt

    4 жыл бұрын

    m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/imZrsMGsprm2n84.html

  • @jacobsimonson9040

    @jacobsimonson9040

    4 жыл бұрын

    derinderruheliegt thank you 😊🙏👍

  • @lminor7

    @lminor7

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@derinderruheliegt - Thank you for posting that link. Makes me think of the cartoon mouse inside the piano running away from the descending hammers while the cat plays either a classical piece or Raymond Scott's Powerhouse kzread.info/dash/bejne/i5p407RtltSvh6g.html . I doubt the mouse would have survived the Horowitz performance :-O

  • @DouglasButner
    @DouglasButner4 жыл бұрын

    What a wonderful video on how to talk for 16 minutes

  • @townnet
    @townnet4 жыл бұрын

    Flying pinkie is really matter? Chromatic only use 123 finger isn't it?

  • @non-youtuber
    @non-youtuber4 жыл бұрын

    Transcendental no 8 by Franz Liszt

  • @holyebangz2.018
    @holyebangz2.0184 жыл бұрын

    linus tech tips but for classical piano 🍜

  • @nerminessamaldin1567
    @nerminessamaldin15673 жыл бұрын

    You should put cam on your fingers only its not clear so far

  • @somwonlol6375
    @somwonlol63753 жыл бұрын

    watching this for flight of the bumblebee

  • @bohuazhang9145
    @bohuazhang91454 жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @RanBlakePiano
    @RanBlakePiano Жыл бұрын

    Can t hear well

  • @pvpro6039
    @pvpro6039 Жыл бұрын

    That would take me 6 months to learn slowly

  • @russ3578
    @russ3578 Жыл бұрын

    00:55 ok not for me!

  • @JakobPGrau
    @JakobPGrau4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, no, don't tuck 4 and 5, unless you're actually trying to develop focal hand dystonia/musician's cramp.

  • @m.a.3322

    @m.a.3322

    4 жыл бұрын

    He didnt say grip it, he said keep it loose and comfortable.

  • @bohuazhang9145
    @bohuazhang91454 жыл бұрын

    First!?

  • @jamien.5528
    @jamien.55284 жыл бұрын

    No views my butt

  • @b-at8183
    @b-at81833 жыл бұрын

    bruh he doesnt even explain the fingering for left hand -_- nor does anyone ask in comments ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

  • @11maryk
    @11maryk3 жыл бұрын

    you are too fast, should go slower. also we cant see the piano keys you are playing.