Congratulations for this very complete and clear demonstrations! Thank you so much.

Never in my life! Thank you @DanaeDörken. You are a delight. I've been following and trying your technique but only have just seen you perform the Bach concerto for 2 pianos, with your sister (?) You have taken years of practice, teaching and playing to another level. I hope you have written a book on how you were trained and how long you practice, and how your parents and teachers guided you... I eagerly await the title. Until then, I will always follow your brilliance and be inspired by your discipline, technique but also by your passion and magical touch as you go. Thank you ... (and please come back to South Africa - Cape Town would adore to see you)

Thanks again😊 Another excellent informative and helpful video. You are a blessing sharing.

Finally! Hands down the best tutorial on arpeggio technique I've found on YT. You are awesome, thank you!

Arpeggios Practice Notes 🎹🎶 Small - 3 note chords - 1 note per beat (wrist down and goes upwards as arpeggio progresses - for relaxation) - 3 notes per beat - Chords going upwards then downwards and outwards then inwards Large - 4 note chords - 1 note per beat - 2 notes per beat - 4 notes per beat - Chords going upwards then downwards and outwards then inwards Long - arpeggios going in one-direction - Hands separate, RH - up then down, LH - down then up (same feeling) - Thumb separate (wrist down), fingers on interval (wrist up), long - short, then short - long. - Hold interval with fingers, thumb jumps octaves - Arpeggio in one octave with thumb jumps - slow -> fastest (accelerando) - Add one note to arpeggio each run, starting from 2 notes to 2 octaves (last note staccato, wrist up) - Both hands, outwards and inwards - Both hands, up and down NB/ - Elbows should mainly stay in one position - Pick a new key to try each day

Thank you for an excellent video! I find it very helpful to play all arpeggios also in the opposite directions, e.g..: parallel arpeggios starting at the top with the descend, turning around at the bottom, and going back up; or contrary motion starting with hands far apart, coming together, then going apart again. Otherwise there tends to be asymmetry in direction of development, e.g. parallel arpeggios only practised up followed by down tends to lead to weakness in the downward half. (My personal findings.) Also - a good idea to practise the broken triads in groups of four notes or even five, accenting the first note of each four- or five-note group (instead of three), then the second note, the third, etc. - and the four-note forms grouped in threes (instead of twos and fours), again with the accent on each of the three notes in turn. This counteracts the bias to accent the thumb and increases overall control over articulation and accenting. Also, I like to practise all the inversions of the arpeggios, and even mix and match (root position left hand, first inversion right hand, etc.). There isn't time to practise all inversions in all keys every day, obviously, but I try to hit these as much as I can. I also really like Graham Fitch's arpeggiation exercise that he calls the "arpeggio bouquet," wherein he mixes up major-to-minor modulation (same scale degree) and vice versa, along with diatonic submediant and diatonic mediant modulation, changing each arpeggio one note at a time: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7V2a5SrnZPRgnk.html (note the timestamp which will bring you to the exact point in his video where he starts talking about this). I absolutely love your channel! Your approach is very different from my own in that I'm a follower of Taubman technique, so forearm rotation is prominent in the way I play melody. That said, I'm always open to new ideas! Your wrist flexion to relax the dorsal forearm muscles at the end of movement when practising alone sounds really key.

the metronome...Prof.Kämmerling always verbally crush those who don't use it. Miss you and Kiveli soooo much

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Thank you for this video. I started playing piano this year and have been struggling to play arpeggios. I am using your video to develop my daily practice routine to develop proper wrist, forearm and elbow movement when playing arpeggios. Your description and demonstration your technique is very helpful.

I love Danae the most amongst so many channels on KZfaq. Your instructions are always very detailed and easy to follow. Thanks God for sending Danae to earth 😍

so helpful. thank you very much!!!!!!!

Such a clear and insightful video. I greatly appreciate all of your videos and am so glad to have discovered them. Thank you, Danae!

Really brilliant focus on what height the wrist is depending on which finger is in use during the circular motion. Possibly the first video I can recall seeing where someone mentions that so clearly, actually stopping to isolate each finger and illustrate the wrist movement as opposed to just calling them out while playing the whole video. Thank you so much Danae.

Thank you for your generosity ! 🎶🕊🌿🙏🏽

A really thorough workout, clearly explained. Invaluable. Thankyou so much Danae.

Appreciate you sharing these wonderful techniques!

Grandes orientações😍

👏👏👏 thank you!! I can see you have so much discipline in your practice!

I am glad you explained practicing arpeggios thank you kindly jess

Great info with detailed wrist position comments. Thanks for sharing. You are inspiring.

Arpeggio Masterclass !!!!!!! 😍❤ Thanks a lot 🤙

I think I wd have booked to have live piano lesson with you ... because your advices are so accurate and so far you are the only one coach who did mention to add “mental practice “ and one hour before coming across of your specific video about it I was thinking to train myself mentally by visualising notes to improve my note reading .. and keyboard knowledge ( nice coincidence 😊 ... being a beginner is crucial .. then you also insist on “anatomy “ hand wrist elbow arm ... “ full package “ ! Just few followers today but it will increase for sure ! Thank you so much !

Many thanks Danae👍As usual you offer a very detailed tuto with clear and understandable explanations. As always a rich content. Gratitudes

Yes, thanks Danae ! I was waiting for this for so long =)

Very helpful, thank you!

Danae...your tutorials are INSANE ! thank you so much

Very useful, thanks a lot

Thank you!

excellent, thank you !

Wow, it's amazing! ❤

Thank you for showing😎

woooooo me encantaria tener esa digitación.the best

You are teaching great technic thanks

Your channel is amazing! Thanks for sharing

So good theory

Excellent

Richtig gut, da habe ich auch noch was mitgenommen. Interessant, dass Du die Gelenksrotation nur nach oben herum machst und gar nicht nach unten. Werde ich auch mal ausprobieren. Danke!

hi i learned so much from you in 20 minutes

You are amazing!

I love your channel ❤❤❤❤🎉

what about the fingering for 3 notes arpeggio....? thank you awesome tutorials!

Danae ~ Thank You. You Shine. * * * * *

Awesome...🙂

Excellent direction. Very nice! If I may, I was wondering what you thought about placing the camera directly overhead so it can capture what you are seeing? I would love to see the keyboard and both hands from your point of view.

These exercises may come in handy to play the arpeggios-passage at the end of the Moonlight Sonata part 3 (presto). I still have problems to reach the metronome tempo (160BPM) or 10 - 11 notes/ sec. without mistakes. One of the difficulies is , that the bar starts with 1/16 of the end of the previous passage, followed with 3X 1/16 note of the arpeggios. So the metronome starts every time at the 4th note of the arpeggios (and not at the first note as usual in case of exercises).

The up and down in a opposite way, I use it for Liebestraum n°3 (Liszt)with the first arpegios with 13 times the same notes.

Great tutorial--is there any way you might do an update--explaining while sitting at the piano and showing the notes you're striking? I'm able to piece it together somewhat, but it's kind of as grind. Thank you 😃✨

Mendelssohn Prelude & Fugue Op.35 in b minor. I have begun playing this and am not happy with the way my staccato arpeggios are sounding. I would appreciate your input on playing staccato on this particular prelude.

You are so talenter. I will try but with teo handa is hard😮

Thank you for this advice! Great and detailed video, as always! 🙏🏻 I have a question concerning the fingering: do you always use the 2, 1, 4, 2 fingering in a key where the arpeggios starts on a black key or are there different fingerings that you use for that?

Great explanation for right hand but what about the left hand?

Si j'ai bien compris, Danae travaille par renversements. Je rajoute les 7e de dominante, les arpèges long en montant (du style mi, do #, sol #), les arpèges x 4 rapides sur la gamme majeure et je finis par les les mêmes notes mais en octaves. Plus les arpèges sur 1 temps et la note suivante.

Great tutorial, thanks a lot for your guidance. For A major cord. I just was not sure for large arpeggio do you play AC#EA? Or AC#EG ?❤ Also for long arpeggio, what fingers on which notes? Thanks in advance.

liebe Danae, i have seen a mastercourse in Stuttgart some years ago by Jen.. (oe?) Jando (Budapest), he asked to play some arppegio, they couldn't, i appreciate very much so i am only a hobbyplayer

You are the best 😘💖 Danae! The only way I can keep up that speed would be to 'sweep' the piano keys using my broom 🧹!🥵🥵

Music in the background is just amazing! :) One question thou, do you always insist on thumb under or you sometimes use thumb over, using rotation, especially in very fast and long arpeggio? I wonder is it even possible for people with short thumbs, to reach that and not strain wrist of the hand, or use very large movements in elbow and then be less accurate and fast. Hope you are doing well Danae! :)

I just began playing the piano. Would you please tell me what notes your playing and how many times you repeat them? Thanks!

This is absolutely the BEST arpeggio video I have found! My students struggle with arpeggio technique, and I think these exercises will really help. Thank you! ❤

Very helpful. Thank you. I don’t have any references to show what the long arpeggios look like. Any suggestions? Or ideas on how to google this?

Thank u so much for sharing! 🥰

Wow, great Danae! How much time do you spend on fex the long arpeggios in average pr session? I usually pick two keys ( one major and the minor rel) and spend about 5-10 mins on each only up and down, using dotted rythm first, then straight, bumping metronom until stumbling. Will def try out your strategy. Thank you so much!

You're so good. It's baffling😂😂. I wish you were my tutor

Excellent vídeo. How do you approach practicing 4-note arpegios (for example, C E G B)?

Hi Danae, thanks for this very helpful video. Can I ask, in the "small" arpeggios do you ecclusively begin each sequence of 3 notes with only 1or 5, thumb or 5th finger? Best wishes Sheila

In C, please: left hand based on 7 (= F), right hand: 5 (= D)

Sorry if this seems like a silly question, but are you doing standard fingerings for arpeggios in root, 1st and 2nd inversion? So when you're doing your C major in the left hand is it 5-3-1, 5-3-1. 5-2-1? Same with, say, Eb major in root, 1st and 2nd inversion: RH 2-1-2-4, 1-2-4-1, 2-4-1-2? Find it hard to see with the camera angle, which fingers you're using, but appreciate getting to see the rest of your position like elbow/arms etc. Asking this question because I noticed with D major arpeggios for four notes, you bring the pinky to the F# starting the arpeggios in 1st inversion in the left hand, when in the LH I'd do 3-2-1, 3-2-1 etc. Was wanting to know if a benefit starting the inversions with these different fingerings? Like are all the 3 note chords done with LH: 5-3-1; RH: 1-3-5? And are all the 4 note chords done with: LH: 5-3-2-1; RH: 1-2-4-5? Great content by the way.

What fingering are you using for these arpeggios, in all inversions, that have one black note? In the video I can’t see too well how you are playing A major

Impressive tutorial but it leaves me with one doubt. The wrist motion you describe : low for the thumb, high for the other fingers. When you do arpeggios at two hands the wrist motion is the same for both hands, while the finger motion is contrary from one hand to another... Can you explain?

Thanks so much! Are there not standard names for these types of arpeggios? Ex: small: broken tonic triads and inversions. Big: 4 note broken arpeggios and inversions. Long: tonic arpeggios root positon.

Do you have an entire spare keyboard action leaning against the wall back there??

Am so interested in learning more from you but I am suggesting that as you teach could there be another camera showing the piano direct on the screen allowing us to see clearly what you are doing ???

should the wrist motion be opposite of each others hand (if i do arpeggio ascending that means the right would be counterclockwise and left would be clockwise) or both the same? i always play the first and figured the rotation was so the fingers can fall freely

What way is better to play when passing through octaves? legatto or jumping the finger .. I dont feel comfortable when im doing legatto

Hallo Danae, kannst du ein paar Tips geben, wie man das sogenannte Microtiming bzw. die Notenwerte allgemein in der Präzision verbessern kann. Ich habe einmal nach Metronom gespielt, war am Anfang schnell voll daneben. Ich habe aber schnell festgestellt, daß dadurch das Gehirn ungemein trainiert wird. mfg

What do you recommend for people with small hands?

I'm confused by the fingerings and how you're doing it?

Hi, practising like this helps to play leggato? I feel like that s what is missing on my arpeggios

Are your arpeggios ( 3 notes say ) starting on the the 1st, 3rd and 5th, of the ( A major in this case ) scale, then repeating ?

What are your fingerings for these studies?

Are you doing inversions as you do an arpeggio?

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Is there any good book for arpeggios ?

Why not making the video from above to see directly the fingers on the keyboard?

Kurze Frage: Wie ist der Fingersatz bei den kurzen Arp. ? Immer gleich 1 , 3, 5?

Wanna practice it, as long as I have free time.

Wondering if u like Keith Jarrett?

All the teachers over here say to play them individually fingered ascending then descending not as chords?

I think you should make the effort to have a camera above the keyboard! to show piano technique, it makes sense, as do all the other channels on this subject. you go at 200 km/h and you see nothing! Is it to put on a show or do you want to show us!?

We all have different shape of hands. Approach to playing arpeggios is slightly different to individual hands. For instance, you’re moving your rist too much in my opinion. You mention about how high is to be when person has a small hands or a big hands. movements of the elbow just to be adjusted to structure of the body. But in general, I like the video is professional. Needs individual touch.

This is not a beginners video. The basic technique in very slow motion is not shown. Otherwise great for intermediate level. Thanks anyway, I am still looking for a good beginners video showing how to play these things... we live in hope.

That looks easy! NOT!!