I like your honest non-pretentious tutorial approach!

Dear Josh, I am a retired piano student who has decided to sand off the years of rust that have etched my fingers. I found your videos by happenstance. I studied ten years at the Royal Conservatory of music in Toronto and I have to say that your videos have revealed more valuable information to me in these last two weeks than the entire ten years spent at the Royal Conservatory. Your videos are mindblowing to me! I cannot thank you enough!!! Richard E.

Hi Josh i know it is an old video. I'm watching your video about this piece because one of my student is playing this piece for a concert diploma. I have also played that piece very young and came back to it years later. One thing I realised about the doppio movimento is that a lot of pianist think that it has to be faster in order to get the passion out of it. I did that as well younger. I used to think this puece as a technical challenge and it is actually an expression challenge. Until I heard Rubinstein playing it. I think that what chopin means by Doppio Movimento is the unsettled and fiery feeling of that section. The polyrythm helps a lot to give that chaotic feeling, but in order to play this the right way, you need to have a very strong control over your tempo management. The rythm pattern is really pushing you to rush it, so you have to control it in order to be able to control the dynamics and the expression. Very good video thank you for the tips. 😊

Thank you! You're still my favorite teacher because you are so real! I love your style. Keep it coming! ❤

That is so kind of you Richard. Thank you so much for your kind comments. I'll keep posting more videos -if you have any requests just let me know :)

The b flat grace note before the chord in the 4th measure of the return of the main theme is the hardest part. Those 4 16th notes.....

Helped with the technical issues I was having with this piece. Thanks for making this video.

As an avid lister to all the greats playing Chopin you definitely need no explanation on any rustiness your perceiving in your playing....you absolutely capture the mood and even when you perceive it bad , I feel the power and beauty of the passage.

Your explanation of hovering over the keys is excellent! I love their piece. This is going to be my next piece

no problem. I already have hand/finger independence on my list of videos to do, and I will add the mozart. Please realize it may be a couple of months until I post it as the list is quite long :)

slight delayed temp, i got it ! marvelous piano lesson, Thanks a lot. i love this video, from JP.

Thanks, hugely helpful!

Great "lesson"! I can play it now perfectly, thank you so much!!

Love all your tutorial s Josh ; and as im soon wanting to try learn this brilliant masterwork - very appreciative that you have made this for us 🙏once again

I was told it was the easiest Nocturne for beginners.... I was listening to the first part and thinking, 'Hey, I can do this!'... then the middle part came, and I started having strong doubts... then the return came, and I lost all hope of ever playing this...

Great lesson on one of my favourite Nocturnes by Chopin! I took out my score so I could follow whatever you were saying. :)

josh I do like your videos that are very interesting ! I like that way you explain the techniques

Thank you, Mr. Wright! Very helpful tutorial, as we've all come to expect from you. I find, however, that what I'm curious about the most regarding this Nocturne is the arpeggiated chords of the middle section. Some of these wrist-cracking chords are in fact notated as un-arpeggiated eighth or even sixteenth notes, and I've always been curious about these. I see no other way for me to play them aside from breaking or rolling them. You'd have to have mitts the size of Rachmaninoff, perhaps mutated due to Chernobyl radiation, in order to take these chords without breaking them. My hands aren't small, but are not huge either. I'm probably an intermediate amateur in his first decade of pianism, and I can easily span a ninth. A tenth with difficulty. Most piano gurus on YT seem to avoid giving any guidance on these rolled chords, and I'm hoping that you might address this in the future at some point. In any case, thank you for all that you do, and God bless.

Tbh this piece sounds just as good (if not even better at times) when it's played under tempo

Wonderful, thank you!

Thank you, Josh! I just started this piece and it helped a lot!

I have been playing on the piano one year and I am learning this. I have to say that it is really the hardest I tried so far -.-

Thanks a lot for all videos! Looking forward for more :)

Obrigado Josh!

Thank you very much Josh!!

Thank you, Josh! This was very helpful.

Really enjoyed the part where you demonstrated the escapement key depressions! I am not far enough along in my lessons to do something as complex as this Chopin piece, but the knowledge of how to do that was really cool to learn. Thanks! For some reason i am thinking that only grand style pianos can do some expressions because of the escapment action. Something about the speed of recovery i am thinking...then again i could be completely wrong lol

That's great, thanks for replying and the consideration... I look forward to the videos :)

Josh, I totally enjoyed this .. thanks to Tiffany Poon

I really need this, this hard piece makes me exhausted

Very interesting video... A lot in here I hadn't thought about before. Thanks.

Great lesson, love your videos!!!

Really good teaching !

Hi I was wondering if possibly you could do a lesson on hand independence and possibly Mozarts Phantasie in D minor (anything to do with piece really) Thanks in advance. keep on with the awesome videos!!!!

Excellent

some real valuable tips here

Thanks for the help. Do you think an upright piano has a double escapement?

Oh my Gosh, you did a video on the Nocturne! I just love you Josh, seriously :D

I love you man.. Oh, I'm not a gay! I just don't know how to appreciate to your lesson! Thanks a lot!