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I'm Marina and I'm a professional musician and teacher. I've had so many people ask me to teach them how to play specific songs on the piano, or to give them quick tips about the mysteries of music that I decided to save myself a bit of time and make videos. :)
If you want to reach your goals of making beautiful music at the piano but you don't have time for years of piano lessons, you're in the right place! I break things down into simple steps that you can follow - on your own schedule.
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Hi, this actually works. I've tried that for small fast passages in Bach's c minor partita sinfonia movement, and it showed me that my wrist really had been too low. Thank you! Subscribed
All the girls in my group piano class are playing piano with very long nails. I don't know how they do it. I think the nails must go.
😍 amo os seus vídeos.
Thanks for your help.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤thank you soooo much Greetzzz from holland
Thank u❤
Nice tips 👌 watching from India.
Great video as always, Marina !!! Thanks a lot !!! 💓
I follow your advice on listening to great pianists playing the pieces I am learning. I have my sheet music in front of me and I make marks and comments and draw arrows and all kinds of things to show to myself what they are doing! For example, I love when they play a bass note on the beat, but the melody note ever so slight after - to bring out the melody note. I love when they play the second note of a melody or phrase slightly louder than the first to "carry" the phrase (and, of course, the first note takes care of itself). Your advice is great, but I would add have the sheet music and a pencil ready. I am from St Louis, Missouri and I am a big fan. You the best.
Watching from my salon sitting in a chair bought from a Scandinavian furniture store in Switzerland. Your advice about rhythm was spot on for my self-analysis. And you gave me inspiration for finding the solution. Valuable video.
I'm enjoying your tips - from NC
I like where she talks about slowing it down. That's a big one for me. In my haste to be a piano player I was biting off more than I could chew. Working on half a page-no! Cut it down to a couple measures until you get them down well.
Thanks for the tips! Watching from Margaritaville, South Carolina!
Hai mbak cantik, ajarin aq main piano ❤
Usually the rule of thing is that the grace notes and appoggiaturas are played on the down beat if you're playing Mozart or composers before him. In my opinion depending on when a piece was composed you could probably get away with it in the early works of Beethoven but I know things are very subjective with him.
I hear you but it’s Tuesday.
Amazing teacher ♥️🙏
Thank you so much for this wonderful, clear land concise lesson - your demonstration showed so clearly how applying these tips to a piece makes all the difference in how it sounds!🌷🌷🌷
So glad you liked the tutorial, Diane! 💖💖
Beautifully articulated , both in explanation and movement . Thank you , an amateur writes..
Another great piano playing tips video! Thank you.
So glad you liked it!
Hi, and thank you for posting this. I love playing Fur Elise! Watching from somewhere in the middle of a forest outside of Olympia, WA, USA.
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! Washington has breathtaking natural beauty!
Lovely explanations Marina! And as always, nailing the tips for us to improve. Thank you for sharing so much! Blessings and all the best... from Venezuela 🤗🙏🏼
Thanks so much! I love Venezuelan food!
Hi, your new Norwegian friend here! I found your channel yesterday, and have been binge watching your content for 24 hours now 😄Many, many years ago I got a keyboard, and learned to play some Enya songs just by listening to the songs. So for 20 years I have been pulling out the old keyboard about once a year, to play those songs, but I rather quickly was putting it away again. Recently I "accidentally" got hold of a kind of new keyboard, that is much more like playing a piano. I even have a PEDAL!! And OMG!!! I'm hooked! It is the keyboard feeling I didn't like with my old one! Now I am fighting the urge to purchase a 88 key digital piano 🙈 -Maya
Oh wow, I love this so much! And I'm definitely not going to tell you to fight that urge. 😁😁
@@ThePianoKeys Well shoot, that didn't go as planned.... You was going to ask how many keys I have. I would answer 61. And your response was going to be that 61 keys is more than enough in the beginning.... Let me tell ya... I now have 88 keys... 🙃😉 😁
Thanks a lot, Ma’m. Following your videos from Calcutta, India
You're very welcome, Sarveen!
I like your style of teaching, it is really worth knowing. Thank you teacher.
Thank you so much this helps a lot this is the only tutorial ive found that actually sounded like it lol
I am not a professional piano player but I could tell the difference with how a piece should sound like, an excellent video and thank you for sharing 🙂
Thank you, Elizabeth! It's true that the listener can tell when a performance isn't quite at a high level, even if they're not a professional musician.
Thanks for the link to your pedaling course, I thought I had it down but it changes with different pieces. I need a real course! I hope I'm not the only one that feels like this video was directed at me!
Hi Roger! The pedaling course will give you the technical skills to coordinate the pedal with the hands, as well as how to apply pedaling technique to real-world situations.
These tips make sense for me. For me there are tempo issues at the beginning while teaching my brain which notes to play with a fingering that suits me. But early on in the learning proces I focus very much on the timing. It is also my exerience, that a lot of the dynamics can be picked up by listening to others. Kind of "feel" the music (If that makes sense). I really really love the pedals, and I never regretted taking your course very early in my piano journey.
That's an excellent process, Jan! I'm so happy that you've learned to use the pedals early on!!
First I memorise with a very unsteady beat, then I work on the steady beat :) Watching from England.
Yes, that is what I recommend! 😊😊
Pedal(s) do make a huge change. Does it make sense to introduce it to beginners, to bring motivation (rewards) back soon? If so, what are the cons for it?
You should add pedal as soon as possible. The cons are that you don't work on pedaling technique and just try to "wing it."
Dynamics is another dimension (axis), should beginners experiment with playing new pieces with various levels (throughout and then partially)? What is the best way to practice dynamics isolated (with and without apps)?
You can practice dynamics inside of technique exercises, but the best place to do it is in the music you are studying. I don't use apps for piano.
At first, I thought that beat/pacing is about control and using perfect control to perfectly alter it. But it seems, it is about learning in comfortable tempo, speeding it up to needed level when needed.
Yes, that is correct!
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Supergood…. 🎉 thank u
You're very welcome!
Lovely Arrangement, thank You !!
Thank you, dear Anna!
Thank You for this beautiful arrangement
Hi Anna! It's a great song! ❤️
But how do you keep time in playing this over the beat(s)? Is this 35 notes over 1 beat?
There's lots of room for rubato in Chopin.
@ThePianoKeys so I guess you can group the notes in different ways as longs as they are played evenly even with rubato applied?
Your shaggy carpet is alive!
Yes, it does that from time to time. 🤣
Hi I wanted to play Clair de Lune with your videos but I only find practice lessons 1 & 6 😢 Where can I find the other lessons?
They are all on my channel - just type in my name and the piece in the search bar on KZread.
Wow thank you very much
You are very welcome!
Greetings from Northwest England.
Hello! I'm so glad to know I have a viewer in Northwest England!
Thanks for this tip! Early on, I mistakenly thought you were referring to Chopin's C# minor Prelude, which also has a fast run, but one that only goes up, not down. Once I realized it wasn't that piece, I started realizing how many of his compositions have runs. The A♭ ("Heroic") Polonaise, the "Minute" Waltz, etc. And not just Chopin; there's the long non-monotonic (i.e., changes direction) run near the ending of the 3rd Mvmt. of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (even the arpeggios near the beginning of that mvmt.; and in the 1st mvmt. there are rising and falling arpeggios, although they don't call for much speed). (I see that you have another video on arpeggios - I'm gonna hafta check that out, too!) So this tip is really applicable quite a lot! Fred
Hi Fred! Absolutely right! Lots of scale-type runs in so much music!
@@ThePianoKeys Oops! I meant the C# minor Waltz, not Prelude.
You are amazing Marina!!! Thank you so much for all that you do. You inspire me to do my very best and to be the best pianist that I can be ❤
Thank you so much, Tuan!! It's easy to teach talented and dedicated students like you! ❤️❤️
Thanks!
Thank you, dear Tuan!!! ❤️❤️
I played that for a piano recital when I was 12 years old. I still love playing it.