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I have a large hands and I have trouble on some pianos getting my fingers between the black keys and it makes fingering challenging.

What a voice! Like butter! Why haven’t I heard this voice everywhere?

Herr Albert, my piano instructor had me learn this piece since he knew I was a German major and my (German) professor would love to hear this piece played. MANY decades ago!

Thank you- I am picking up some voicing ideas from you in your performance which is very thoughtful and really emphasizes the melody so well!

I just ordered the two roll version AH550. That is basically the same as the LW45, but with Wifi and a mobile app. Not something I need, but due to some weird black friday calculations the white one came down in price so much that it is considerably cheaper than the LW45 at the moment here in Germany. Strangely the black AH555 remains really expensive. Anyhow, I was actually looking for the smallerLW15, according to the manufacturer's size recommendations it would be sufficient. But then I want it to run at the lowest setting all the time, noise in the piano room is annoying. So I'd rather get a bigger system that can run at lower pace. I am quite eager to see, how it works; my piano (Blüthner Style X 7' 6" - 230 cm) stands in my living room currently at 33% humidity, which is not only bad for the piano, but also causes me to have a dry coughing all the time. Thought about the Dampp Chaser first, but then decided, that it would be much better for me, too, to simply fix the room instead of the piano.

that was extremely useful and well thought of. THanks for sharing!

Interesting video, I love yuor way to speak and explain! It makes the audience comfortable. For those like me who currently can't have an acoustic piano at home due to logistical limitations but have a teacher saying, "You need an acoustic now," would the Kawai VPC1 be a fair compromise for the second and third year of piano study? To give you the context, I should mention that I am an adult and practice for an hour and a half daily. I've been studying piano for one year now. My teacher says I am learning fast, and we are already working on pieces typically tackled after the second or third year. I'm unsure whether to continue practicing on my Roland FP-30X for another couple of years until I can get an acoustic piano, or to upgrade to a higher-end digital piano. The main reasons my teacher recommends an acoustic are the "touch" and the "sound propagation." I wonder if something like the Kawai VPC1 could at least satisfy the touch requirement. Do you have any suggestions for someone in my situation? Maybe there are other options that you can share with us?

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so when you play the piano(with or without the sustain pedal on) what happens to other strings that don't resonate with it. do they produce so little sound or not at all? because I can hear noises (unnecessary strings vibrating? overtones? I don't know) when I press the keys. not very obvious though.

Too much talking!

What a lovely voice!❤

Hi Albert, Lovely playing as always. I have a question or perhaps it is simply a comment actually. I find the shortness of your teaching and here, performance videos very frustrating. In the tips emails I subscribe to it often makes me wonder why I took the time to click through. They feel, to me, more like questions. Maybe it is partly because of my focus issues, stopping and starting constantly leads to just frustration and often quiting (watching) for me. I looked through your paid content and they appear short as well. I'll add that I have a paid YT acct. so Ads are not the issue. I am much happier to hit pause if I want to break up content. I am only taking the time to write this because I enjoy your no nonsense manner, classical content that reaches beyond the usual in some ways, and I admire your story. BTW, congratulations on your success. Feel free to delete this after you read it. Thanks, a mid-beginner, 62 yo.

Those amazing fingers 🤩

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what do you think would be the best option for a classical singer who would use it for solo sheet music, choral work, etc / but also as a music education student?

Thank you for helping to clarify this question.

What do you think of the new iPad Air 13"? The price is much more liveable than the 13" pro. This is the best review of the different iPad value propositions. I'm just beginning to learn the piano and violin. Keeping books in position and turning pages is a real problem while playing. I've been looking for an iPad to solve this problem.

Good tips thank you, as an old starter after I stopped playing at 12 years of age(bad mistake) took it back up at 62, and now 69. One thing I didn't account for is the fact I'm older and when your young your brain soaks in information, not so much when you're older. Genuinely wish I'd kept playing, but still enjoy practicing every day for at least 2 hours. Drive the wife mad practicing scales for at least 30 minutes, but just tell her to go to another room. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Great video! Thank you again. It sounds like For-Score is your go to app for sheet music, right? Any others? How does one import sheet music into that app? Do you copy it on a copier and import it, or do you have to buy sheet music from the app? Really appreciate this!

❤t.y. from may f.c. / from the land of the Long White cloud. NZ.😅😊

Thank you for your videos. You are correct to endorse accurate singing as a foundation for accurate hearing and by extension, accurate playing. I would go so far as to propose that every serious music student should participate in a chorus, from childhood, if possible. This includes orchestral musicians. Why? In the Western music idiom, the concept of singing is the foundation for musical thought. We aim for a “singing tone” with all our instruments. Innately musical children generally can sing intuitively, and in fact, many languages (e.g., Italian and French) rely heavily on tonal inflection for meaning. Our society, particularly in America, has tended to suppress this innate musicality, and the subtleties of linguistic inflection is supplanted by a lot of grunting, shouting and wailing- that’s popular “music” today. Plus, the act of singing, for most people, is highly personal, and they are extremely hesitant to do it in front of others. It’s like people’s typical reluctance to be photographed. Getting a piano student past that obstacle is difficult but critical. When I was in graduate school, I always thought the best chorus was not made of voice majors, but of pianists and guitarists-because they valued above all accuracy of tone, and were far less concerned about themselves than about the aggregate sound. Frankly, these are the musicians who just cannot tolerate being out of tune.

Moore speek and play less

Sehr geehrter Herr Franz, ich bedanke mich ganz herzlich für die nützlichen Videos.

I am wanting to upgrade my 11” iPad Pro (1st gen) to a larger screen. I thought I would get the iPad Air 13”, but today I found a 2022 IPad Pro 12.9” for the same price. I almost pulled the trigger, but one issue I have is that it is only compatible with the Apple Pencil 2 (and the USB model). That’s great from the point of view that I already have the Apple Pencil 2, but it is already 5 years old and it looks like Apple doesn’t sell it anymore. I would hate to be stuck with a USB Pencil if this one ever failed. There’s always a catch 😢.

Casio GP510 and GP310 digital hybrid piano allow you to repeat the keys going up and down a thousand times a second and is just as fast as doing it on a grand piano, if not more so.

When you live in an apartment, you have no choice but to have a digital piano.

Small hand means small dick.

Its not as easy as it looks, well played

Do you think that there is a difference between slow and fast fingering? That is; if one works out a fingering slowly for a piece would that necessarily be the best fingering when playing the piece faster, "at tempo"?

hi, which case and screen protector do you recommend for pianists? Thanks

I've emulated an accoustic experience through some key aspects that digital piano developers won't consider as importants, but are the vital ones to bring a piano experience alive. First of all, I used superb samples such as the Fazioli by Imperfect Samples. Then I added the sympathetic ressonances present in an accoustic instrument. And there is where digital pianos stop their sound processing. Now, the most important part comes with the messy ressonances that occur when the sustain pedal is pressed. Those ressonances are coming from the full strings and those suspended sounds can reach up to 3500 notes polyphony or even more. After that, the dynamics are not only intensity and color by sample. There are more than that with the dynamics actually. When you gently press a key, the sound as a wave it is, affects only fhe near surrounding area making a clean note, but as soon as your intensity gets higher, the sound waves reach a larger area inside the piano, and start to bounce more and more as an echo chamber and that makes a really different sound. That's why I added a per note reverb calculation based on the velocity they've been individually touched, then treat all as a whole system of ressonance (besides the full strings ressonance, this reverb is another plus process) I named the messy ressonances "antipathetic ressonances" and are somparable to the dirt on the surfaces added in a 3d rendering textures to make the image alive, lifelike, realistic (otherwise clean and sterile, such as most 3d renderings) And here's where an extremely powerful computer is needed. Digital pianos are really lacking of all these important chaos generators, and that's why they feel simply sterile.

Why (how) does youtube have vids that do not identify a presenter??

Another thing to consider is the 13" Air doesn't support face recognition so if you're looking to turn pages with face gesture, you're out of luck. You have to go for the current or previous gen Pros for that. Apple sells refurbished 5th and 6th gen iPad Pros though but they may disappear over time.

Albert Frantz, as I live and breathe! I just stumbled onto your "7 rules of fingering" video (nicely done) and then came here and saw your name, which takes me way back. Unfortunately my memory gets sketchier the farther back I try to go, so I can't really remember where I used to see your name all the time and enjoy your input into so many conversations...maybe some now-defunct Usenet newsgroup? Was there something called piano-l that you participated in? Anyway, great to see you here and I'm looking forward to exploring your videos. 🙂

I'd say good advice. In particular rule #1. My span is not quite a 10th, so editorial fingering written for wide passages are often useless for me. And also, it is always better to avoid stretching wherever possible. Stretching is more likely to cause unwanted tension which will cause all sorts of difficulties. Another technique, (not so much for beginners) and particularily for fast pasages, is to play the passage with whatever fingering comes to mind as close to full speed as possible. Do this many many times. You'll start to get a feel for which patterns are going to be more effective. Then choose one of them and write it down. Stick to it and practice it slowly!

These are quite helpful. Thank you so much for sharing these methods. You now have a subscriber.

You make this very easy to understand. I'm a classical pianist composer who sufferd an old German piano teacher of the early 1960s. She slapped my hands only once and I fired her as a 10 year old boy. 4 long years of her correcting me because I would not follow the written notes 🎶. I play by ear and she hated it but I never gave up and it eventually led to her unemployment with her hand slapping. I'm from Chicago Illinois and live in Florida now. I left a city of culture and moved to a state of uncultured. I'm 70 now and played professionally all over the USA and Canada as a child and young man. I miss Chicago. I enjoy your teaching and hope all the best for you and your family 😇🙏 thank you for reading this cultural lonely Man's message 😀👍🌹

I'm an organist. The facial gesture feature is one of the big reasons I use a tablet for sheet music. I need all both hands and both feet to play my instrument, so using gestures to turn pages is game changer! This feature is still only available on the Pro iPad versions. This feature was non-negotiable for me. I much prefer the Zagg keyboard cases over Apple's versions. The Zagg cases protect the iPad even when it is removed from the keyboard. The Zagg cases are also less expensive. Thanks for making great videos!

Or just buy a Lenovo tab p12 for a fraction of the costs. Or a Samsung Galaxy tab s8 ultra for less money and a bigger 14,6 inch screen.

I preordered the 13" iPad Pro with 1TB storage and picked it up at the Apple Store the day it was released. I upgraded from my original 12.9 iPad Pro that was some 5 years old. For my "old" eyes the brighter OLED screen was well worth the cost. After using the new OLED screen for the past few months, I would definitely do it again. I'm more than pleased. I use the Henle App and over the years have accumulated most of what Henle has available for the piano. I also use the forScore app, but Henle is used the vast majority of the time.

I was just considering getting an iPad when I saw your video. Good information and advise. The price is a big issue for me, even the 13" air which is the one I'm pondering.

Thank you for the information. It was very helpful.❤

Thanks for your lesson! This blue Danube exercise is very good and amusing way to train the skill of voicing. Your lesson made me more aware of the different levels of the keys in relation to the different levels of the knuckes of the fingers. For exemple if one plays f# - a - c# with fingers 1-3-5, fingers 1 and 5 will have to exert less deep than finger 3. (Of course a no-brainer😄) If you apply this consciously, it is easier to keep the level of the hand horizontal and stable, it is not thrown out of balance resulting in more control. Correct me if I’m wrong!

Very fascinating! I really, really want to sing on pitch! I love how the voice can vibrate with the piano (or other voices), and create a noticeable oscillation when they’re close, but not perfect. One of my close singing friends coached me to sing sharp if in doubt, lol. He said that general audiences don’t mind a little sharp, but surely will get their tomatoes out when you sing flat! I appreciate you, Albert. You are a really good coach.

Hello, Albert. I am eager to learn more about this, and am very curious to hear what you have to say about it. However, this video will not play, at least not on my device. I have tried numerous times, and on different days. Thanks. T

thank you

THANK YOU, Mr. Frantz! This could be a concrete chute, channeled directly to the foundation. Blessings to ya from Edneyville, NC, Appalachia, USA!

Greetings, are there physical exercises for the fingers and the wrists for strength and endurance?

How did you learn to speak English sooo well. If I didn't check your website, I wouldn't know you're not a native speaker and an Austrian. The Austrian accent is usually extremely noticeable. Thank you very much for the great content! LG aus Wien.

Very clear and helpful! Thank you!