Really fascinating and very insightful. Thank you 🙏

Don't you have to struggle with constant distractions with a screen always in front of you?

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Thank you so much!! I’ve been struggling with this movement the entire year but now it’s finally coming together! Forever grateful for your tips!!! 😭💕💕💕

Do you think the IPAD Air 13 inch is as good?

Thank you for these excellent insights. I recently played a Bach French Suite in a public context, and I used many of the same tactics-mentally slowing certain busy passages, for instance, or paying attention to the musical expression. These tactics helped! One common problem: some rhythm patterns (e.g., long-short-short) can rush without our realizing it, so that we start to practice them into the playing. And then, under stress, the rushing gets worse. So, we have to practice with evenness from the beginning. Perhaps most importantly, one must be thoroughly prepared in the first place. We often don’t know a piece as well as we think we do, and if there is an unresolved trouble spot, it will certainly give the pianist trouble in the heat of performance!

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

Thank you so much!!!😊 Your lessons are so helpful. Really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.

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

I started piano at age 8 and played everyday but didn’t truly start practicing seriously until about mid teenage years, currently I am 20 and in college as a piano performance and music management double major. Im still thinking about what I want to do in the future and unsure about what possibilities there are for me with a career in music that could provide me a stable income.

Anyone else notice that she has 1. An unusually long 5th finger and 2. An especially wide space between fingers 4 and 5 ? This would make this etude easier (although still difficult) for her than many others without those advantages. Caution should be used on some of the left hand exercises; holding widely stretched positions for long periods can create tension and tendonitis problems.

Is that a period correct piano, or perhaps one like Mozart would have played?

Wow looks like sheet music for organ, if not treble clef

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

Do you have any tips for this piece?

Traumes wirren next? 😅

beautiful

Organists: 😄🤗

thank you very much. very helpful.

Hi!!!! How about playing softly but rapid passages? You only demonstrated soft and slowly! 🙂🙏🏼

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

Thank you so very much for this! So helpful 🎶🎵🎶

Remarkable technique at 8:33.

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Thanks Danae ❤

That video just found me while I was practicing pathetique sonata😅what a great fortune❤

Why are you talking to much with your hands, it is anoying.

This is actually pretty good tips. Thanks

Good tutorial! But what I find is missing here and in many interpretations is a discussion of how to play the left hand. Many people play it as if it was written as 3/8th and ignore the 6/8th notation where the 8th are explicitly grouped by 2, not by 3. Personally I find it better to try to bring out the overall 3/4th feeling and suppress the urge to play the 3/8th rythm. So it should (subtly) be YAM taa Taa dam (Taa daa), not Yamm taa taa Yam taa taa, in my opinion with the appropriated timing for a very slow 3/4th as well, instead of the timing for a doubly as fast 3/8th What do others think about this?

Very good !

I am a working pianist here. I do this for a living. Those of us who work as pianists, really have the benefit of one thing that most people don’t ever get to do at work. That is drinking on the job. We have the ability to drink at work where most people that is tottally not allowed. If we are playing a venue that is serving drinks we have drinks with us. Also. As a pianist on my day off not just at work, but as a working pianist should, it is nice to go off and have drinks. Go drink it up. It will make you rediscover yourself and you can get those creative juices flowing again. Now when I am at work drinking, I do play the same. As long as I can still keep focus and keep those keys going drinking is not a problem. Now on my off day, it is really fun to get drunk and drink away. I think that a true pianist will tell you that they drink. I am not talking about church pianists but those of us who actually do this. As our work beeing a pianist and drinking go hand and hand together. But I think at the best on our off day well, I know me. When i have an off day I have a certain bar I like to go to and visit. It is my watering hole. But beeing a pianist means that you have a job that you can do one thing that is not allowed for most jobs. We have the line of work where we do get to drink and we do get served at work drinks. It is very uncommon to hear people drinking at work, but we pianists have the ability to bee in a line of work where drinking is excepted. We get to do things that most people can’t do they would bee in a bit of trouble if they drank at work, but we have that ability to get served at work drinks. And then on our off day drinking for a pianist should bee the rest and relaxation. You can chat with people and rest and drink up. I don’t drive and that is another thing that is great cause i can drink whenever I want. As I go to work sometimes, I will ask even the bus drivers about their days off and yea…. Some of them don’t care to drink but there are plenty of bus drivers who on their days off actually do drink. Even. The bus drivers need to have time to have drinks. They have to bee careful about that though, cause they have to rest that off and burn it off before coming back to work, but,,, on their days off when they can, absolutly. Bus drivers like to go to bars and have drinks you bet. Then when it is time to get back to work they have to bee focused in what they are doing in driving a huge bus. The thing with us though,,, compared to the bus driver is that we can actually drink at work. Where as bus drivers have to find time around their jobs where they can drink. On and off the job for pianists that work like myself though, It is so healthy for us to drink and relax off of the job because drinking at. Work is a bit different…. You can only do so much cause you still have to keep focused at work in what you are doing. Cause even though we can drink we have to still keep in mind that we are at work and we have to provide for the people. Just as the bus driver is giving transportation to us we are providing the music for people…. And then on our days off drink like a fish and have a great time and you don’t have to look like you are working…. Change out of work clothes out of those formal dress clothes and put some relaxing clothes on and go to a bar and hang. Ummmm there are times even maybe after I get off work where i. Will head to the bar and drink for the evening but it is a bit uncomfortable cause i am in work clothes. Formal dress with shirt and tie. So you don’t really get that relaxation like if you were on your day off…. I have enjoyed drinks after work but is more enjoyable to wait and have those on your days off cause even though we get to drink at work we still are at work…. So having that time to drink on your day off is that much more enjoyable. And…. Maybe you will have a venue that you don’t get drinks. You might get coffee or something but we ae always drinking something usually though it is a happy hour or lounge time where drinks at work are served. Lao.remembering that we are playing one of the hardest instruments is another thing. I do think that if you are in a place were you are beeing served drinks at work, you are actually going to play better. Because drinking. At work just makes us relax our hands a bit and everything is able to flow. So if you do get served drinks at work take them and enjoy. Just might make you relax just a bit so you are able to do your job. I for sure would never recommend that if i was in a different work environment though but for us usually the artists and people who are in the intertainment business yea. We are allowed to have drinks at work. And that my friends is foreign to the work place. But we have that opportunity. I do believe that a true pianist if you are a working pianist yes….. you are gonna drink…

the exercise was so helpful thank you

sorry.. I lost it on the left hand...

Another great video, Danae; thank you! One thing that I do is hold my hands under warm running water while stretching. The heat helps make my hands more flexible. Another thing, which I would really love to see comments on, is that I use an electric hand massager. I'm an older player and have arthritis in my thumbs. The massager uses a combination of heat, pressure, and vibration to relax my hands and improve circulation. The particular machine I use is the Legra Massager found on Amazon. I would love to know if you or any of your followers have tried this.

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.

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Thank you for the video. I think this would have been more engaging...and more accessible if you had included a very brief snippet of each piece you recommended... this would have supported curiosity to listen to the piece where there was interest and perhaps go on to learn it.

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)

Thank you! This helped me!

Hi Danae. I have a question about daily routine. I am an intermediate player. I need a week routine to solidify my technique and learning new Pieces. Can you tell me how many hours and which technique books should i practice. Can you make for me a routine like my fitness Coach who make Training plan for 6 months. My weak points are : Chords, sight reading and scales

WOW you are incredible @DanaeDörken ! a constant source of inspiration to me as a piano teacher and also as a student - which I realise, I will forever be 🙏grazie mille🙏

Thank you so much for reminding me of the technical aspects of playing piano. Feeling blessed 😇.

All of it excellent advice. Classical training but not much else, often I have envied those that accompany what they or others are singing or playing on an instrument either in harmony or as an introduction, a lead in, or a sort of comment to a phrase that is sung or played on another instrument.

When you performed the prelude, I heard the slight rubato and was puzzled. Thank you for explaining the origin and purpose. Much appreciated!

This was very helpful! Thank you!

Thank you!

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!?

Thank you for your extremely useful video

Very good execise. Thank you very much.

Well played❤