a great master who's willing to share his knowledge... Thank You!

Thank you very much Professor. I'm a beginner and struggle with these issues. You shared lots of detail to work on. Slow motion scenes focusing on your hands are brilliant.

Extremly good! Thank you very much.

Hello teacher... Salut from Angola! Thanks you for this great lesson... Here you have a new student...

Very useful. Thank you!

Thank you Sir for this excellent instruction on improving piano technique. It was both extremely informative and thoroughly enjoyable as you gave several brilliant segments of such great pieces, while explaining underlying details on how to improve the playing of such works! I hope to view more of your classes.

Dear Maestro! Thrilled to have discovered your channel! Embarking on a piano comeback after over two decades, and I’m documenting every step on my own channel. Your deep knowledge and technical tips couldn’t have come at a better time. Thank you for this insightful video! It's packed with so much valuable tips and information! 🎹✨

Absolutely wonderful and so inspiring thanks.

Very very Helpful! Thank you!

Grazie mille for the beautiful, very educational and inspiring video!!👏👏👏👏

Thanks for this master class. Hello from Brazil

Esto me ha ayudado en grande. Que importante tener la guía de un profesional. Gracias

Bravo!😊

Thank you very much for your video lesson, grazie mille! Your core idea of co-ordination of articulation and rotation is so important! But I would have a couple of questions! Non posso scrivere più in questo momento perché non sono a casa mia (sono in vacanza in Italia!), ma scriverò presto per fare le mie domande. Grazie!

You’re an absolute piano master. I wish to have a teacher like you! Thank you a lot for recording and publishing this. I would say you are amazingly talented but I wish to believe that it is hard work only made you like this and I have some chances to become so proficient one day.

Thanks for the lesson, it was very instructive, the exercices help to get rid of stiffness and tension. Wow you play in a beautifull manner, you make the piano growl and sing😮

Grazie Maestro, un video molto apprezzato ❤

Dear Master, thanks for this lectute! Could you make a little focus about what using weight means and some examples? Thanks a lot.

Your advice to use mainly the two end phalanges (dip and pip joint)of the finger and to minimize the action of the extensors works very well. When I lift my fingers mainly from the knucle joint (mcp joint), with the extensors, and land on the bottom of the key, my arm starts pressing downwards behind the finger in an attempt to stabilize and everything gets stiff and seizes up. Your advice helps to avoid that and to “hover” over the keys instead of stumbling👍🏻Correct me if I am wrong in my analysis.

Georgeus lesson Daniele. Almost totally agree with all

great!!! vital!!!! ARTICULATION vs. ROTATION.- COMBINE and COORDINATE!

You need to use a close collar mic, which will increase sound level and its a must for any good sound.

There are only pianists from Italy who are world famous and also genius . Maestro Pollini passed on a few weeks ago. And there is Beatrice Rana. She's imho the best musician of our entire world.

When you play double notes like in Feux Follets, you align you forearm and elbow with the top or bottom notes? Thank you for this great lesson!

Great video Daniele, so helpful to demonstrate correct alignment! Thank you! One thing it is not clear to me although is what happens with the elbow when we pass the thumb on scale/arpeggio. Do we bring the elbow close to the body? You mention in the video move horizontally not verticaly when passing the thumb but I can not see your elbow position from the video. Thank you in advance and also taking your personal time to upload such a great content.

L'ultimo insegnante che ho avuto ha un approccio molto simile. Quando suonavo alcuni passaggi di un brano mi faceva fare sempre il confronto vecchia scuola-nuova scuola, quindi mi faceva suonare lo stesso passaggio in due modi diversi prpr per farmi sentire la differenza e quanto con la "nuova scuola" l'esecuzione di quel passaggio fosse molto più efficace. Per nuova scuola lui intendeva prpr la modern piano tecnique, una tecnica basata sui movimenti di rotazione e su un'articolazione quasi invisibile. Lui mi fece vedere questa cosa a partire dalle scale e mi insegnava a suonarle costruendo come delle diagonali. Quel movimento in diagonale non mi ero ancora reso conto che era la rotation. Me l'ha fatta applicare sullo studio op. 10 n 1 di Chopin e il risultato era che non mi stancavo più, cosa che succedeva assai prima di incontrare questo docente. Da allora ho capito cosa significa avere una tecnica che non ti fa disperdere energie e quindi non ti fa stancare, che era quella dei grandi pianisti del passato. Anche lui diceva sempre USARE LA PARTE FINALE DEL DITO. Nell'appassionata basta vedere Arrau che suona prpr così: con le rotazioni. Complimenti per la spiegazione ! Inglese comprensibilissimo.

Buongiorno Maestro, chi le scrive è un adulto che suonava tempo fa (molto appassionato) e in procinto di ricominciare (dopo anni di pausa) le chiedevo se esiste un modo per avere qualche lezione online. Non a cadenza settimanale, magari mensile. Sarei davvero molto interessato. La ringrazio anticipatamente

Is arm weight technique used or not .. Is it a good approach towards modern pianist? Or is it not a good technique

A me è stato utile tenere presente che l'azione muscolare è per lo più una resistenza alle leve (dita, polso, gomito, spalla...) che contrastano verso il basso la reazione verso l'alto della spinta sui tasti. Questa anche la ragione per la quale, nonostante l'intensa l'attività muscolare, gran parte dell'azione risulti 'invisibile'.

My thoughts exactly

What piece is being played so masterfully at the start of the video?

Excelent class!!! You are and extraordinary pianist. Thank you for sharing your knowledges

in taubman's as explained by golandsky, reference to rotation looks different to me (which you demonstrate at 27:55 ). in fact, opposite. it is focused on the forearm. elbow moves AWAY from body for thumb, and TOWARDS the body for pinky. Here the movement is more circular, originating in circular, even spherical movement from a freely upper arm suspending freely from shoulder (Edna actually says it on 6" 30 in the attached video.) All traditions are good for some people some repertoirs etc, here the integrated attitude seems to be the tradition of great pianists like Claudio Arrau or Alicia de Larrocha, I am not well educated about the Taubman method, so I may be wrong in many things about it, take me with a teaspoon of salt. HOWEVER I suspect that there is some distortion of the basic perspective. The hand is in no way symmetrically designed, so it would probably better not be symmetrically rotated relative to the elbow. When in pronation weight is shifted on the thumb, the thumb, hand, and arm can carry the weight easily and comfortably. But in supination weight on the pinky and 4th is or can be problematic, but as a compensation, there is wider range for a swing. In short: pronation of the hand in playing is very different structurally and functionally from supination. Circular rotation as explained and demonstrated here looks to me much more in harmony with the many asymmetries of the hand at the keyboard, both in its structure and the structure of the forearm and upper arm, and shoulder, and very importantly: the fact that the hand is not suspended from the middle of the torso, but far away from it. I am and have been much occupied with this issue along many years, and am very curious about your take on these remarks, myself a little in the jungle with all the many ideas, and you obviously very articulate and clear about your concepts, which I highly applaud, needless to say! Golandsky's arppegios video on articulation of the forearm kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptSibJCr3sXQY4k.html

Bello.E possibile vedere i sottotitoli in italiano?

I still don't get how to adjust the circular motion technque in the Bach prelude in D major. Will have this on exams...

Do you have examples that don't involve advanced repertoire? Examples from the appassinata doesn't help anyone who can't handle a late Beethoven sonata. How about k. 545, or BWV 772? Show me how to teach this to an absolute beginner.

11:15 begining of "modern piano technique" talk

It would be nice to include some timestamps

A thought and query about flexion vs extension. right! palm of the hand and fingers are made to comfortably and powerfully flex. BUT it can be combined and coordinated with many forms of extension of the arm and forearm. under the roof of arm movements away from the torso and towards the piano the many forms of flection of the hand can be used, with fingers sometimes more round, sometimes more extended, with wrist sometimes higher, sometimes lower.

What czerny study is it at 32 mins?

After experimenting a while with your advice: wonderfull the sense of stability and control in your fingers that results from the alignment! Although I tried in the past to align my fingers with my forearm, as Gyorgy Sandor also recommends in his book On Piano Playing, I always kept my elbow rather stiff and immobile close to the body in the process subconsciously. The elbow should also move in-and outwards freely as you demonstrate! New sensations are flowing through my playing apparatus and the sound has improved. Thanks again for the good medicine💊👍🏻

'Rachmaninoff...is conceived to fit the human hand' - my good sir, I respectfully disagree 😅 Rachmaninoff and his hands were not human (just joking)

Secondo me anche i movimenti del busto influiscono

Peccato solo l'uso della lingua inglese, avrei preferito il linguaggio nazionalistico!

15:38 "articulation must use the flexers and not the extenders" this demonstrate that DP does not understand biomechanics / anatomy: both are used and are important, flexion is only stronger. Beside this, "articulation" is actually a deprecated notion, from "old piano technique" and from few schools (old french school, Hanon etc). The modern way is using weight and little articulation from the fingers (eg., Polish school, Fassina, etc), indeed because of the increased force needed to play on modern keyboards.

You play way too fast to articulate, especially the left hand. Slow dow n your tempos, universally professor.