Mozart's Trill Exercise | Beginner Lesson

Mozart's Trill Exercise | Beginner Lesson | Pianist Academy

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Mozart's Trill Exercise has been around for centuries, literally! And there's good reason: it works ALL of the possible finger combinations that a trill can be played with. The exercise is always written out in C, and today is no different, but it can be transposed into a variety of keys for extra practice, as well as a variety of registers. Don't miss the free PDF supplemental sheet below that includes my favorite other note combinations for Mozart's Trill.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:17 - Brief Explanation of a Trill
00:43 - Most Common Trill Fingerings
01:10 - Deep Dive into Mozart's Trill Exercise
02:47 - Variations on the basic exercise
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@PianistAcademy1 2 жыл бұрын

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@valgca 10 ай бұрын

THis link did not work today, it only took me to the page to sign up for the newsletter, I would really like to get your beinner sheets.

@PianistAcademy1 10 ай бұрын

@@valgcaYes, the link above takes you to a signup for my newsletter. Once you sign up, both the practice planner guide and a piece of original intermediate music will be automatically emailed to you! If you're not at all interested in the newsletter, you can always unsubscribe as soon as you receive your gift, although I'd appreciate it if you stuck around! If you're looking for the sheets that go with this video, they are available in the description above. Thanks!

@valgca 10 ай бұрын

Thank you, I found them. I enjoy your teaching style very much. @@PianistAcademy1

@Robinom 10 ай бұрын

Straight to the point thankyou! Am sick of people waffling on for hours!!

@PianistAcademy1 10 ай бұрын

My pleasure! Thanks for watching!

@lawrencetaylor4101 2 жыл бұрын

Merci for this.

@PianistAcademy1 2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@AlexandreSchimel 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@PianistAcademy1 2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome!

@ladyp5511 2 жыл бұрын

New subscriber here! Excited for future lessons/videos! 🎼🎹

@PianistAcademy1 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks LadyP!

@mohammedflfl4396 Жыл бұрын

I don't know how to thank you for these academic lessons

@PianistAcademy1 Жыл бұрын

Just you watching and finding them helpful is thanks enough!

@constancestellas1409 Жыл бұрын

Good thanks

@PianistAcademy1 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Constance!

@Arcenmh7718 2 жыл бұрын

Title: beginners lesson Me: playing for 8 years and I can’t even play trills properly, so I look for tutorial

@PianistAcademy1 2 жыл бұрын

Trills are tough at any level no matter how long you’ve played! I’ve played for 30 years and I still need to take time to practice them and keep them in top top shape. Just keep at it for a few minutes each day and they will get better 👍🏻

@akshobiya7501 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I was assigned Etude 9 from op 299! Exciting right? :D (ps: can you teach how to play fast? It's like my thumbs are weighty unmovable anchors.

@PianistAcademy1 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Have fun with it! I'll see what I can think of about speed increases. :-)

@scottweaverphotovideo Жыл бұрын

I'm just beginning to learn Mozart's Concerto 9. There are a lot of trills, beautiful long delightful trills! I have heard conflicting advice as to whether they should begin on the note or on the upper note? The performances I listen to all seem follow the former.

@PianistAcademy1 Жыл бұрын

Scott, great question! Mozart's trills in repertoire should always start on the upper note. There might be a few occasions this isn't true, but they very few and far between!

@scottweaverphotovideo Жыл бұрын

@@PianistAcademy1 thanks for your helpful response! 👏

@hastensavoir7782 Жыл бұрын

Mozart’s trills are the trickiest, most difficult to execute in all of piano literature.

@PianistAcademy1 Жыл бұрын

They are a challenge!

@KalikaWeerasinghe 2 жыл бұрын

💖🎹💖🎹💖🎹💖

@PianistAcademy1 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Kalika!

@sindencollier1822 2 ай бұрын

Great exercises for trills. However, I was wondering how to execute trills when you have to hold a note down while playing the trill with the same hand. Specifically Bach Little Prelude in E Minor, BWV 941 Bar 10. Thanks.

@PianistAcademy1 2 ай бұрын

Hi Sinden! Thanks again for tuning in to the livestream this week! I'd suggest taking your question, first, out of context from the piece. Work on a trill holding middle C down with the thumb and using 2 and 3 to trill E and F. Also try the same pitches but use 2 and 4 for the trill. The goal is to still feel BOTH finger articulation as well as rotation to play through the trill. By necessity the "balance" between both of those techniques will need to favor a bit more finger movement, and the rotation will need to be anchored by the thumb rather than freely across the hand. As always, begin slowly and don't worry about increasing the speed of the trill. It will came naturally, with time, as your hand is ready. When you feel fairly confident doing this exercise, try transposing it around, and then also put it back in the context of the piece. I'd suggest using thumb on the F#, hopefully your teacher will also agree with that (if you have one). Using thumb twice in a row causes a break in the connection of the lower line, but I'd argue that a small break will actually produce a more authentically baroque sound than attempting full finger legato here. Thumb on F# also allows you to trill, probably, with 2 and 3. If you instead play 2 on F#, the trill becomes *significantly* more difficult.

@sindencollier1822 2 ай бұрын

@@PianistAcademy1 Thank you so much! I gave you a "like" but you deserve ❤❤❤❤❤

@serwoolsley 2 жыл бұрын

ohh these are what my teacher was talking about in my previous lesson, what a coincidence lol

@PianistAcademy1 2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@bluemoon6579 11 ай бұрын

There is more to it than that.

@SeanMillea 9 ай бұрын

Learning sonata 16 and I’m struggling with the trill in bar 4. I saw you tell someone trills start on upper note? The note is F with a trill symbol. That means I should start on G? I’ve seen videos where it differs. Lang lang starts on G I believe but everyone else I’ve seen start on F. Thanks!

@PianistAcademy1 9 ай бұрын

Hey Sean! Yes, the general rule that works 99% of the time is that in music prior to 1800, trills should begin on the upper note and trill down to the main note. After 1800, the rule began to change and trills begin on the main note instead and trill up. The grey area that is almost impossible to know is that in some cases, it is actually better to trill in Mozart from main note and up. In the piece you are practicing in particular, the argument can be made that since the melody itself comes from a G (the upper note of the trill to come), it may be one of the rare cases where the trill begins on the main pitch instead, because if G is played as the first note of the trill, we don't end up hearing the descending melodic line as well. Given that people like Lang Lang play from G, and Maria Joao Pires plays from F... there's a lot of credibility to either choice! We can't ask Mozart himself, so we can be informed of historical context and then we choose how we'd like to interpret it ourselves! Btw, congrats on such a hugely successful channel! It's an honor to have you here in the comments!

@SeanMillea 9 ай бұрын

@@PianistAcademy1 thank you!!! This is awesome. Happy to be here

@alzhang74 11 ай бұрын

what level is this exercise for? advance?

@PianistAcademy1 11 ай бұрын

You can definitely start it slowly as a beginner and use it for many many years into an advanced level. The difficulty all lies in the speed you are working at/towards!

@mr.RAND5584 2 ай бұрын

I hate trill. It is so hard.

@lappenx 3 ай бұрын

Easy? No.

@PianistAcademy1 3 ай бұрын

The difficulty of this only arises with the speed asked of it. Just like the response to your comment on another vid, this would be something easily covered within the first month of piano lessons for a complete beginner... playing this, even playing the 4-5 motion, as long as it's just quarter notes at 60bpm or slower, is completely doable for the early beginner. One of the fantastic benefits of this, just like scales, is that the exercise can grow as you grow... so even an advanced student might still use this trill exercise, but instead of playing it in quarters at 60, they might play 16ths at Q=160.