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  • Sight-reading a variety of pieces selected from your requests and walking you through a bit of my process. Hope you find this interesting!
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  • @TiffanyPoonpianist
    @TiffanyPoonpianist  6 років тому +896

    I forgot to explain the mysterious 5th blue book that I didn't open to play. I realized in the middle of editing that I have played through Haydn Sonata No. 20 in C minor as recent as last year, so I had to cut it out 😅

    • @BeJIuKuu1
      @BeJIuKuu1 6 років тому +19

      you also forgot to sight read "Faerie's aire and death waltz" :>
      p.s. i found, that you never look at keyboard while sight-reading. How does it possible?

    • @PRINCESORH
      @PRINCESORH 6 років тому +1

      Please! For the love of Bob! Am I invisible?! Chopin "Raindrop" Prelude Op.28 No.15! I will upload a video of myself...idk, doing something embarrassing (I know not much of a tradeoff)! If you finally just play iiiit *sobbing*.

    • @frankrunge7
      @frankrunge7 6 років тому +1

      Love Haydn Sonatas!!

    • @souny1372
      @souny1372 6 років тому +4

      habits, im actually learning sight reading and from the beginning of learning you have to don't look back the keyboard while playing

    • @josiasdiazarvelo7292
      @josiasdiazarvelo7292 6 років тому +1

      Make a video about the ability of your ear... Please :D

  • @madelinelui175
    @madelinelui175 6 років тому +2830

    If you’re “bad” at sight reading then there will no words to describe how bad I am

    • @liloruf2838
      @liloruf2838 5 років тому +17

      Me too!

    • @lunaeaqua4339
      @lunaeaqua4339 5 років тому +15

      Count me too.

    • @biffii5568
      @biffii5568 5 років тому +72

      It's relative. Think she means bad, compared to some of her peers, (other professionals).

    • @gabriellasplanner5667
      @gabriellasplanner5667 5 років тому +8

      Truly! The sight reading portion of the KPE is terrible. I’m so bad at sight reading, not even close to being as good as her “bad”.

    • @isabellllee
      @isabellllee 5 років тому +24

      Oh no, you guys will be shocked if you compare her sight-reading with me practicing for 3 months.

  • @geraldromanow4576
    @geraldromanow4576 6 років тому +2205

    Tiffany, it takes a gutsy gal to air your dirty laundry, so to speak, on UA-cam. Most performers want the public to see (hear) only the finished product, not how they got there. But you are willing to suffer the awkwardness of allowing your followers to see you struggle a bit in the beginning stages of learning a new piece of music. You have given great insight to those who might think that what you do during a performance simply “falls out of your pocket,” as it were. I have the greatest respect and admiration not only for your talent, but for your openness and sincerity as well. All the best.

    • @TiffanyPoonpianist
      @TiffanyPoonpianist  6 років тому +333

      Ahh I wish there was a way to pin your comment because I appreciate it so much! The whole point of these talking videos is to show that I'm a living person before and beyond the finished music video. Thank you for recognizing what I do!

    • @chanelw9408
      @chanelw9408 6 років тому +6

      Gerald Romanow I second this

    • @moonrise458
      @moonrise458 6 років тому +12

      Ok Gerald Romanow, I appreciate your comment but I'll say Tiffany "struggles" with sight-reading; we need inverted commas there :) ! Beautiful playing, from the first attempt. Of course only an idiot woudl imagine that a pianist opens a book of partitions and plays the way we see them perform on stage. That does not exist. Players of her calibre can be "bad at sight-reading" as she humbly declares, but have a gift and work hard on that gift. Chapeau bas for your work Tiffany.

    • @studentoftheword6115
      @studentoftheword6115 6 років тому +27

      Yah but her dirty laundry is so clean compared to mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @jessicachen9114
      @jessicachen9114 5 років тому +18

      Tiffany, thank you for being so honest. This makes me feel want to practice and get better and learn more songs. A lot of prodigy make me feel that I am hopeless and should just give up learning or something. But your video and advice is very real to me and make me want to practice and get better. So thank you so much for posting this.

  • @advogado3118
    @advogado3118 5 років тому +415

    Your sight reading is my refined product🙄

    • @Lea-gd7zl
      @Lea-gd7zl 4 роки тому +11

      Figa Zumbi right!! it takes me months to reach the level she's at by simply sight reading it!!

    • @SeaTurtlee
      @SeaTurtlee 4 роки тому +3

      True struggle

    • @saber252
      @saber252 3 роки тому

      I felt so disappointed while watching this you can hear how light and bright her touch is it’s amazing

  • @yoinkyyoink
    @yoinkyyoink 5 років тому +292

    Meanwhile, me, struggling to find where the middle C is.

  • @ronagreenfield9545
    @ronagreenfield9545 6 років тому +1306

    You are way too modest when you say you are not a good sight reader!

    • @quinto34
      @quinto34 5 років тому +12

      like many things, it's relative..

    • @bothieGMX
      @bothieGMX 5 років тому +2

      Yea, you can sight-read 100 times better than me (i.e. I can't do it at all).

    • @camilloflaim8933
      @camilloflaim8933 5 років тому +2

      You forget that you are one queen of the piano. When you will play Mephisto valzer?

    • @snickydoodle4744
      @snickydoodle4744 5 років тому +2

      LOL tbh for majority of us, our sr is underlevelled for our technical skill, her skill is just too good

    • @MrClassicalMusic1
      @MrClassicalMusic1 5 років тому +4

      A lot of great pianist aren't good sight readers. Alfred Brendel for one.

  • @EnchantedSleepStories
    @EnchantedSleepStories 5 років тому +611

    Impressed not only with your technical sight-reading skills but also with the emotion you are able to infuse into your playing, especially with a piece you are completely unfamiliar with! Lovely, thank you so much for sharing :-)

    • @galliumarsenide
      @galliumarsenide 5 років тому +1

      That's why I love Mendelssohn. It's often not too hard and one can start putting in emotion quite early. :)

    • @Ursaminor31
      @Ursaminor31 4 роки тому +1

      Totally agree

  • @musicofjan1076
    @musicofjan1076 6 років тому +468

    I'd be satisfied if i ever reached this level of sight reading :D

    • @TiffanyPoonpianist
      @TiffanyPoonpianist  6 років тому +88

      You can do it! And be better than me :D

    • @musicofjan1076
      @musicofjan1076 6 років тому +12

      Thank you for the reply :) May i request you to sight read or just play some Sibelius?

    • @zain4019
      @zain4019 5 років тому +4

      Music Of Jan
      You’ll get there one day:) Practice!

  • @YSFmemories
    @YSFmemories 6 років тому +1014

    It's so depressing when you see people who can sight read these pieces at a level that would take you at least a month or even more of practise to achieve.
    amazing.
    edit: now that I watched more of the video... I really liked the bach part! :D Makes you feel more human.

    • @TiffanyPoonpianist
      @TiffanyPoonpianist  6 років тому +140

      Noooo don't be depressed!! Haha I'm sure the latter parts of the video made you feel better :p

    • @cupofcoffee5526
      @cupofcoffee5526 6 років тому +19

      Indeed, let us partake in satisfaction in knowing that someone can still make mistakes, but in the end it wilk never really hide the fact that you can't even sight read elementary grade pieces, I'm gonna just cry on my piano

    • @joycechahinepiano
      @joycechahinepiano 6 років тому +16

      Practice practice practice! That's all it is :)))

    • @MichaelAlexander1967
      @MichaelAlexander1967 5 років тому +20

      I actually wonder how many years of playing & how many of hours of practice per day along with the quality of teaching is required to the sight read like Tiffany. It really is so amazing for those of us who have no clue as to how a player can actually see all those notes on both stave at the same time. Wow.

    • @controversy4987
      @controversy4987 5 років тому +1

      The first wasn’t bad, trust me read the sheet music!

  • @eriksatie877
    @eriksatie877 6 років тому +748

    I’m crazy about that Julliard library... 💜💜💜

    • @amigosXcorrespondenc
      @amigosXcorrespondenc 5 років тому +29

      me too, it's like heaven :)

    • @CosmodromeNostalgia
      @CosmodromeNostalgia 5 років тому +107

      And practice room with grand pianos. Omg..a perfect world.

    • @yoshi_drinks_tea
      @yoshi_drinks_tea 5 років тому +1

      Erik Satie ❤️❤️

    • @dibaldgyfm9933
      @dibaldgyfm9933 5 років тому +5

      Erik Satie? Yourself a composer and what a composer! Died with two grands stacked upon each other. You of all? Would you play other composer's music?

    • @orangeswalnuts7861
      @orangeswalnuts7861 4 роки тому

      Yeah, I'd love to be there!

  • @pianpiano
    @pianpiano 6 років тому +333

    Actually I was flattered with your attempt with Scriabin, I was thinking "is she really gonna sight-read that?". Of course it's quite impossible to sight-read it perfectly, but actually you immediately understood what was going on with the melody and understood the right tempo. Nice video, and as everyone said, no, you're aren't bad at sight-reading...at all!

  • @kpunkt.klaviermusik
    @kpunkt.klaviermusik 6 років тому +510

    Wow, thank you so much for playing the Wild Rose from MacDowell! This was so perfect on the first take - it's almost unbelievable for me how this is possible. There are quite a lot of videos with this piece on youtube - but your version is by far the best of them! And I'm really impressed how you sightreaded the beginning of Scriabin's op 42 no5 - one of his hardest pieces.

    • @batlin
      @batlin 6 років тому +17

      I was amazed at how well she brought out the feeling of To a Wild Rose on the first go. Really, really nice.

    • @shiningyoonie
      @shiningyoonie 5 років тому +7

      other versions tend to be a little too fast for my liking. Tiffany's tempo here is just perfect!

  • @zhangchris1120
    @zhangchris1120 6 років тому +193

    11:30 I laughed when you said I'm not even going to continue this 😂😂 it's hard to sight Read Bach's work

  • @brandonbaltodano8058
    @brandonbaltodano8058 6 років тому +182

    Says 'terrible at sight reading'...
    Sight reads everything perfectly...

  • @dasteufelhund
    @dasteufelhund 5 років тому +169

    It is almost as if MacDowell wrote that piece for someone special, and it just found you.

    • @snickydoodle4744
      @snickydoodle4744 5 років тому +5

      unpopular opinion: it was not perfect yet (just being honest), but if she executes it this well on first try, she should master it and perform as encore repertoire

    • @drmgw7404
      @drmgw7404 4 роки тому

      I hope she preforms McDowell's "keltic" sonata.

  • @meletispix
    @meletispix 6 років тому +436

    3 years I've been playing piano now and it takes me an hour to read a single page 😭😂

    • @TiffanyPoonpianist
      @TiffanyPoonpianist  6 років тому +156

      Never give up!!!

    • @meletispix
      @meletispix 6 років тому +17

      Tiffany Poon hehe I never quit 😎✌🏼

    • @androidkenobi
      @androidkenobi 6 років тому +37

      i was like that too just last year. I had to read note per note, counting from one of my reference points. Took F O R E V E R. finally spent a week drilling on the site: sightreading.training and I got a little better. Then something clicked about recognizing the patterns in perfect triads and inversions and it feels like I am going 1000% faster (it also helps to know that the first 3 ledger lines above the treble and below the bass spell A-C-E)

    • @meletispix
      @meletispix 6 років тому +1

      Android Kenobi thanks for this! I’ll give it a whirl 😎🙏🏼

    • @mzhou2727
      @mzhou2727 6 років тому +9

      The Tempest
      Tiffany: 1 week
      Me: (I’m a 10 year old) 4 months
      Ode to Joy
      Tiffany: 1/2 minute
      Me: 10 minutes
      Tiffany ur sooo good how

  • @peterkovacs9951
    @peterkovacs9951 6 років тому +288

    I really want a part 2 of this

    • @TiffanyPoonpianist
      @TiffanyPoonpianist  6 років тому +21

      Not sure what else I would do though. Any specific questions?

    • @justelynnnjoelle
      @justelynnnjoelle 6 років тому +7

      Tiffany Poon How to sight-read rhythms and subdivisions?

    • @jodel_3698
      @jodel_3698 6 років тому +2

      I do as well

    • @jodel_3698
      @jodel_3698 6 років тому +6

      Tiffany Poon You should try Etude Op. 39 no. 6- Rachmaninoff

    • @sebastianzaczek
      @sebastianzaczek 6 років тому +2

      Joel Del Rosario "Sight read Rhythms and Subdivisions"
      *Takes out score of Brian Ferneyhough's "Lemma Icon Epigram"*

  • @ZL54JK8
    @ZL54JK8 6 років тому +342

    Hi Tiffany....I want to say your first piece, MacDowell "To a Wild Rose", was played to perfection! Just the right tempo. Over here in the UK it's a well known piece (at least I think it is). I so enjoyed hearing it on this video, and it was really lovely. Thank you.

    • @ZL54JK8
      @ZL54JK8 6 років тому +7

      How about that! If you have found a recording of someone on the Naxos label playing the piece at a different tempo who could possibly argue? Well, Alfred Brendel for one! I have a recording of Brendel speaking at some length about the adherence to metronome markings. He holds that it is wrong to view them as an absolute and rigid direction as to tempo. Musical judgment is paramount. Indeed he gives examples to prove his point, and I can think of many other examples myself. In this case, although Tiffany was playing the piece at sight, I think her instinctive musical sense dictated the tempo she chose, and I think it was the right one. I would add that clearly Tiffany's abilities are such that if someone had told her at the outset to play the piece much faster she could easily have managed to do so.

    • @ckmate23
      @ckmate23 5 років тому +2

      You played it well....I was kinda shocked that you were not aware of him as a composer....i mean, he's not a BIG name, but he's not super obscure....Van Cliburn was a big champion of his work

    • @monkberrymoon3999
      @monkberrymoon3999 5 років тому +3

      @@ckmate23 Yeah, I was shocked too. Then I thought that probably says more about changes (in fashion?) in places like Julliard. It's difficult to imagine a student at Julliard in the fifties or sixties never having heard of MacDowell -- after all, he was (and is) the most important romantic era American composer. But if someone can attend now and never hear of him, well that says a lot about how far out of favor he is. I'm not a young guy, and it doesn't seem that long ago that his second piano concerto had at least a minor spot in the general repertoire. Kinda sad, i guess, but not unexpected.

    • @squodge
      @squodge 4 роки тому +1

      @@monkberrymoon3999 - I've been playing piano since 1993... and I've honestly never heard of MacDowell.
      I don't even know the piece, "To a wild rose". For what it's worth, I'm in the UK.

    • @monkberrymoon3999
      @monkberrymoon3999 4 роки тому

      @@squodge Yeah, I think that's completely normal. An American in the 1970s, however, would have come across MacDowell -- especially students (as you can guess, he was a big composer of miniatures). My only point was that even an American school like Julliard doesn't bother with him any more.

  • @pianist7137
    @pianist7137 5 років тому +113

    How to get good at sightreading:
    Sightread pieces for hours EVERYDAY!!
    There's no shortcut to it.

    • @meszian
      @meszian 4 роки тому +15

      Actually you would be better off learning to analyse the structure, practicing scales in every key, complex arpeggios in every key, and concentrating hard on absorbing phrase structures and dynamics on the fly. But yes practice will help but I dont think many professional pianists practice sight reading that much, it's more worthwhile practicing to perfect something.

    • @josephuriarte2507
      @josephuriarte2507 4 роки тому +3

      This is true! Most of us skip sight reading practice yet we want to reach a comfortable level of sight reading skills. There are plenty of sight reading books out there, it is not shameful to start over and play simple piece with at least 6-10 measure for beginner sight reading from czerny, beyer, g.scharfer, faber and faber, cornelius gurlit, a.e muller, notebook for anna magdallena, first lesson from bach, and other books. No effort = No progress.

  • @BruceBurger
    @BruceBurger 6 років тому +216

    😨😒😒 man, saying you are not very good at sight reading is like a billionaire saying she isn’t really that rich. Hrmph! 🍔🍔😍🤯😴

    • @chanelw9408
      @chanelw9408 6 років тому +3

      Bruce Nguyen hahahaaaaa true fax

    • @kittenmimi5326
      @kittenmimi5326 5 років тому +3

      Yeah... my self esteem is gone now

    • @sneddypie
      @sneddypie 5 років тому +6

      Calm down there on the emojis

    • @Lordoftheswollen
      @Lordoftheswollen 5 років тому

      Humble bragging

    • @lucaslucas191202
      @lucaslucas191202 4 роки тому +1

      @Francis S.
      Idk they have a burger profile pic so probably something to do with that

  • @BrunaBorgesA
    @BrunaBorgesA 4 роки тому +37

    And here I am counting the lines to make sure I am reading it right

  • @nathanielberger1595
    @nathanielberger1595 5 років тому +120

    To a wild rose is a grade 5 piece. I learnt it. Took me about 2 months. She played it perfectly by sight reading it. I'm amazed by it. Well done! Sounds more beautiful

    • @dankruvand4937
      @dankruvand4937 5 років тому +16

      Yes. I had this in a summer adult piano class about 20 years ago. Same 2 months for me, and she played it much better than I ever did on the first time through! But I'm just a home hack hobbyist, and she has devoted her considerable talent and her life to her artistry. Much respect to the dedication and discipline and plain hard work it takes to get to this level.

    • @millygd955
      @millygd955 5 років тому +9

      To a wild rose is not grade 5 anymore. I think it is about grade 4 but it's still amazing that she can sight read it! It took me 3 weeks to get it right!
      Edit: I spelt something wrong 😂

    • @jassskmaster7575
      @jassskmaster7575 4 роки тому +3

      That piece is grade 5??
      I would think something like grade 1

    • @squodge
      @squodge 4 роки тому +3

      @@jassskmaster7575 - lol. I'd never heard of the piece, but it didn't sound like a Grade 5 piece, more a Grade 3 piece.

  • @Ballacha
    @Ballacha 4 роки тому +38

    You are so bad at sight reading. Yeah right. I’m awesome at that. I count lines and spaces on any non-Cmajor pieces just to accurately read them. Get on my level Tiff.

    • @Lea-gd7zl
      @Lea-gd7zl 4 роки тому +1

      Discoloured Buttflaps RELATABLE

    • @pineapple7024
      @pineapple7024 4 роки тому +1

      Ponyboy M. Curtis
      I mean, not really

    • @babygirl4169
      @babygirl4169 4 роки тому +3

      That was Sarcasm😂

  • @basspig
    @basspig 4 роки тому +62

    What a refreshing personality you have. No ego or guile, just a child like innocence that I find so charming.

  • @carlhopkinson
    @carlhopkinson 6 років тому +41

    Thanks for the effort on the Scriabin Etude.....I hope you would learn this.....I think you find it very rewarding, it's a fantastic piece and a real audience pleaser!!!

  • @kamiko8021
    @kamiko8021 6 років тому +25

    i chose ravel😍 i'm overjoyed you played it. sounded good im currently struggling with it although I'm an amateur makes things more harder. Also be more confident with your videos there are people who still watch and like it regardless of whatever flaws you think it has

  • @awndlr
    @awndlr 5 років тому +21

    God, it is so great to see somebody so talented and yet so humble. You’re a genius in my eyes.

  • @seiji6855
    @seiji6855 6 років тому +80

    SAY WHAAAAT YOU'RE NOT EVEN LOOKING AT THE KEYS WHILE SIGHTREADING OMG OMG YOU'RE SO TALENTED AAAAAAHHHHH

    • @masonhmusic
      @masonhmusic 5 років тому +30

      seulgi's bangs I’ve actually heard that’s a major part of sightreading a piece. It helps you to not get lost and you can focus on more if you aren’t constantly looking up and down

    • @PassionJo777
      @PassionJo777 5 років тому +1

      Yes she is .

    • @dominikclarke6545
      @dominikclarke6545 5 років тому

      Once you get to a certain level it’s just second nature

    • @conorshields6538
      @conorshields6538 4 роки тому +11

      She's not talented, she's an incredibly focused and hard worker. Her passion, focus and hard work are way more impressive than talent

    • @fatbrother8283
      @fatbrother8283 4 роки тому +5

      @@conorshields6538 she's talented too.

  • @MrTedflick
    @MrTedflick 6 років тому +56

    Your brain works fast!

  • @shostyappreciater3613
    @shostyappreciater3613 6 років тому +39

    I love ravels pavane its so pretty

  • @danielgloverpiano7693
    @danielgloverpiano7693 2 роки тому +8

    Hi Tiffany, as a Juilliard graduate, it was great to revisit the library and practice rooms! I remember taking a keyboard class with a very demanding teacher there. She usually got people upset and it often ended in tears because she could be so mean. You obeyed one of her tough rules and broke another:
    1 when sightreading, never look at your hands (you did great with that)
    2 never stop the rhythm under any circumstance. She said playing wrong notes was preferable to wrong rhythms. She didn’t care how slowly we went, and how many wrong notes we played and we had to count aloud. If someone stopped to correct a wrong note, she went ballistic! I use her method to this day and she was right. I often have students play on one note only with the correct rhythms. It helps a lot.
    By the way, MacDowell was a great American Romantic composer and his Second Concerto was once standard repertoire. Andre Watts and Van Cliburn both recorded it. Worth investigating. The form resembles Saint-Saëns No. 2. He also wrote four large sonatas.
    Well done!

  • @Bmayo27
    @Bmayo27 6 років тому +65

    I had a pompous Uncle criticize me for being a music major. He was a simpleton business major that could never hold a job. It takes sooo much work complete a music major! Especially Juilliard! Good on you. You are an extreme talent. I wish you all the success in the world.

    • @PreservationEnthusiast
      @PreservationEnthusiast 5 років тому +1

      @@goldiel2435 Science/Eng Major >>>>> Business Major >>>>>> Music Major >>>>>> Arts Major

    • @harrisons62
      @harrisons62 5 років тому +2

      But do you have a job?

    • @zeropr0ductions631
      @zeropr0ductions631 3 роки тому

      was your uncle willy loman

    • @Bmayo27
      @Bmayo27 3 роки тому

      @@zeropr0ductions631 - No. But that is a great reference!

  • @jennytse9058
    @jennytse9058 5 років тому +19

    WT- didn’t u say u were bad at sight reading...... I thought “oh someone I can relate to but NOPE.

  • @uhgs
    @uhgs 5 років тому +16

    Did you just try to add a vibrato at 6:26? xD

    • @apug296
      @apug296 3 роки тому +2

      Maybe it was for releasing tension?

  • @Dominique632
    @Dominique632 4 роки тому +43

    Tiffany: I not good at sight reading
    Also Tiffany: Sight reads like a pro

    • @kensmith1913
      @kensmith1913 4 роки тому +3

      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
      It’s coming from the sight reading pro so that’s saying a lot.

  • @AntarioPiano
    @AntarioPiano 6 років тому +88

    How about a tutorial on how to not look at your hands while sight reading 😀

    • @mashmax98
      @mashmax98 6 років тому +28

      DanPocketMiner practice will do

    • @pianoonparade
      @pianoonparade 6 років тому +46

      it's like touch typing on a computer keyboard. you just practise.

    • @Lizhi荔枝
      @Lizhi荔枝 6 років тому +1

      I did this when I was young... but maybe try to cover your hands with the lid or cover (I don't know what it's called) if your keyboard or piano has it, while reading or looking at the music sheet. It can be the sliding ones, but that's kinda hard. I've tried that and I couldn't lift my hand when I'm supposed to. This is just a fun thing to try.

    • @keescanalfp5143
      @keescanalfp5143 5 років тому +4

      @Antario,
      Here are some ideas: 1. Never forbid yourself to look at hands and keys. Doesn't serve any aim. For kidding ends, take a shawl or so.
      2. Try to play a scale you know very well in contrary movement, that's from central C with both thumbs, lh. down, rh. up at once. First couple of times only one octave, slowly but perfectly and relaxed, outward, then outward and back to the middle. You leave the pedal consequently unused.
      Choose it sounding p, mf, f, mf, p, totally smooth, equalized. Do it staccato too, p,mf,f,mf,p, slowly and elastically jumping, relaxing after each touch.
      3. Next day two octaves, outward and inward. The fourth day, not earlier, three octaves. Sixth day, if possible, three octaves but departing from two different C's. See that you'll need eight C's.
      4. The seventh day gather the new experiences and own discoveries in this, and describe them (as if) in a short message to a best friend.
      *:*:* (5 - 8) *:*
      9. Congratulations to your growing in getting the overview on what your hands are doing in different corners of the manual. With all control of the dynamics, movements, and articulation. Without crossing eyes. Without forbidding yourself to look at keys or fingers. And, remaining important for this exercise ideas, without using the pedal - being permitted only on Sundays. For the triads.
      * * *

    • @jocarcorpuz7210
      @jocarcorpuz7210 5 років тому +2

      It's muscle memory hahaha lots of practice

  • @NWS189
    @NWS189 6 років тому +65

    This video concept is new. I don't think anyone else is doing it. Great video.

  • @yongsoon4223
    @yongsoon4223 6 років тому +25

    The Scriabin etude( 42 no. 5) is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written. I need you to play it!!!

    • @valeriagutierrez3006
      @valeriagutierrez3006 6 років тому +2

      An easier one to read would be etude 42 no. 2 and its beatiful too

  • @davidhertzberg
    @davidhertzberg 5 років тому +13

    Madam, you are brilliant... I've never heard a more beautiful "Irish Rose" in my life and I've heard thousands!

    • @048w2-m5g
      @048w2-m5g 5 років тому +1

      It's a relatively easy piece but she played it like a master at the first time that she did. On the other hand, she, who has played in public since about the age of four, said that she had never heard of its composer Edward MacDowell. She needs to know that he is a major American composer.

  • @MrGrey1997
    @MrGrey1997 4 роки тому +5

    Okay low key jealous of your sight-reading ability. It looks like you were playing pieces you had practiced before. That first piece To a Wild Rose. I played that for my piano grade 5 exam and you sight-read that as if you have been practicing for ages. How did you get so good at sight reading. Cause I'm the type of person that hates sight reading as I feel overwhelmed and unprepared as I've never played the piece before. I feel as though I'm expected to play it perfect without ever seeing it before. I wish I could be better as sight reading.

  • @happypiano4810
    @happypiano4810 4 роки тому +5

    Her: Ooh! Mendelssohn.
    Me: Awesome, I hope it’s songs without words.
    Her: op 30.
    Me: Yes! I hope it’s number 1 or 6.
    Her: *Plays op 30 no. 1*
    Me: Well that went better than expected.

  • @jasmineyeo9697
    @jasmineyeo9697 6 років тому +11

    I think the Mendelssohn piece you sight-read was really in the rhythm! Really impressed by how you can sight-read without the metronome beat :D

  • @howardzimmer6452
    @howardzimmer6452 6 років тому +20

    That's why you are in Julliard !

  • @cbdpianist
    @cbdpianist 6 років тому +7

    Fun fact: I clicked on the video because I instantly recognized the Scriabin Etude Op. 42 No. 5 Music. So yes, I’m glad I watched it!

  • @bigollameo
    @bigollameo 6 років тому +5

    "It might not sound good because, again, I'm not very good at sight-reading."
    **Proceeds to sight-read with brilliant, spellbinding accuracy**

  • @clamayaceo
    @clamayaceo 6 років тому +6

    Thanks for doing this piece on sight reading. Believe it or not, you actually gave helpful information on how to approach different composers depending on the music. To a Wild Rose was played beautifully. My teacher taught it to me when I was 9. It was within a collection of music from different composers. When you mentioned the title, fond memories came. Well done on the Scriabin! I was looking at that page of notes-wow.

  • @walterchin8832
    @walterchin8832 6 років тому +7

    My goodness. I love to play this piece by McDowell's To A Wild Rose. It's so calming and peaceful.

  • @romanhollow2985
    @romanhollow2985 3 роки тому +2

    Not good. Then she plays without any mistakes. Lol

  • @kittenmimi5326
    @kittenmimi5326 5 років тому +5

    "Not good at sight reading" eh...
    What a joke.
    Her playing was amazing! And what is not good to her, to me is expert level XD

  • @kaelonisthe
    @kaelonisthe 6 років тому +7

    it's incredible to me you can play so naturally to pieces you haven't even heard before, let alone practiced. really well done!

  • @blackburn1111
    @blackburn1111 4 роки тому +5

    Hearing that someone might not have heard of someone like MacDowell by the time they are well into a place like Julliard suddenly makes me feel like I can actually relate to them and it's very relieving (not in a competitive way though). In my mind I tend to place musicians who make it into prestigious conservatories on a pedestal that's too high cuz I'm honestly a bit too insecure about myself as a pianist. I don't mean to speak downward towards Tiffany at all, but it's very relieving to be reminded that we are all learning and experiencing new things and making mistakes etc in the practice room in the same boat whether we are Argerich, Kissin, Poon, or Blackburn.

    • @cynthiamccaleb2816
      @cynthiamccaleb2816 4 роки тому

      Blackburn11: Amen, and very graciously stated.

    • @sjpbrooklyn7699
      @sjpbrooklyn7699 4 роки тому

      You can't find much better pianists that Juilliard faculty, yet I have been studying in the adult division at Juilliard for 4 years and have often been surprised by 20th century composers and pieces the instructors haven't known. Examples: Dohnanyi rhapsodies and Winterreigen, Griffes Fantasy Pieces & Barcarolle, Villa-Lobos Floral Suite, a scherzo by Borodin, Grainger's Handel in the Strand, and more. However, once we got started on any of these the quality of instruction was astonishing - as if they had known these pieces inside out from childhood.

  • @Bogard2312
    @Bogard2312 5 років тому +2

    I've watched a lot of your videos in the past, but this made me subscribe. Also, I'd love to be able to sightread at that capacity. That wouldn't be embarrassing at all.

  • @RuthHV5
    @RuthHV5 6 років тому +3

    To a Wild Rose is a lovely piece -- I played it in a competition when I was a little kid. And you don't need to apologize. By letting people see that even an accomplished pianist like yourself can struggle a little with sight reading, you give courage to others who may struggle with it and want to give up. That takes both courage and humility. Good job! Thanks...

  • @ornleifs
    @ornleifs 8 місяців тому +2

    I just wish I was as "bad" at sight reading as you.

  • @serpaiva
    @serpaiva 5 років тому +5

    would someone like be a "bad first sight reader" like her?
    Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @junenovae
    @junenovae 5 років тому +1

    hum.. in what world are you a bad sight reader?! If you want to meet a true bad sight reader, let's meet

  • @FelipeCostaPiano
    @FelipeCostaPiano 5 років тому +3

    If you`re not good at sight reading I wonder what is to be good at it. Maybe that would be Liszt level, who could sight read Chopin Etudes. I would be happy if someday I could sight-read as well as you do. They say that the secret is to learn/read a lot of music. Would you agree? Did you practice sight reading or that came naturally by learning a lot of music?

  • @sealand000
    @sealand000 4 роки тому +3

    Her sight reading sounds infinitely better than me after having practiced hundreds of times.

  • @7pianoforte
    @7pianoforte 6 років тому +4

    Thank you Tiffany. I loved your rendition of the Chopin Concerto in E minor. Perhaps you can give us some needed tips about learning concertos, and about putting the second piano (orchestra) together with the first piano. Thank you very much.

  • @mlsocodex3586
    @mlsocodex3586 4 роки тому +3

    Tiffany : "I'm not good at sight reading"
    Tiffany : *plays better that I would with 500h of practice*

  • @maybudha
    @maybudha 6 років тому +12

    You are just so adorable.

  • @JeremySee
    @JeremySee 6 років тому

    Wow! It gives me tingles under my skin when the 1st video I'm watching of you shows you playing the "Wild Rose". It is one of the songs I learnt when I was a beginning student. Lovely.

  • @sebastianzaczek
    @sebastianzaczek 6 років тому +5

    You should try Rautavaara's Etudes, they sound quite virtuosic, yet they are quite Sight-readable

    • @scriabinismydog2439
      @scriabinismydog2439 5 років тому

      They're incredibly difficult! Thirds and the Fourths are my favorites.
      He was an excellent composer.

  • @martinlee5604
    @martinlee5604 3 роки тому +1

    I was surprised you hadn't heard of Macdowell, but now you have!

  • @chintarou1150
    @chintarou1150 5 років тому +6

    She’s so uwuingly humble it’s crazy, like how tf XD

  • @woolneckii2395
    @woolneckii2395 4 роки тому +2

    That first piece was supposed to be faster but your version was waaaaaayyyyy so much more better for me.

  • @truBador2
    @truBador2 5 років тому +6

    There's always time for a pretty girl playing the piano (well).

  • @jonathanbush6197
    @jonathanbush6197 4 роки тому +2

    It was particularly brave of you to play that Scriabin piece. I loved your comment "too much stuff in the middle."

  • @HermanPianist
    @HermanPianist 6 років тому +12

    tiffany, thank you for this video =) i feel encouraged to know that it is not just me who finds it hard to sight read bach etc.

  • @tszy3285
    @tszy3285 4 роки тому +1

    If you can sight read slowly, you can sight read quickly

  • @alylyshua74937
    @alylyshua74937 5 років тому +3

    The Ravel piece had a lot of ambivalence, it was really refreshing! Congrats on your playing too, it is excellent!

  • @jamesewanchook2276
    @jamesewanchook2276 2 роки тому +1

    Beautiful readings. You are a fantastic musician/communicator. Hey Tiff here's a quote... 'nobody ever hear's you reading anyway'. From Errol Garner: [ worl famous non sight reader]. God bless you from Vancouver!

  • @erfanshekarriz4707
    @erfanshekarriz4707 6 років тому +9

    Tiffany just wanted to thank you and tell you how much I appreciate your hard work and effort into sharing you private space and love of music with aspiring younger musicians like me! I wanted to suggest a series you could start where you can dedicate videos to brilliant female composers that were neglected at the era and shed light on their complex compositions! I would LOVE to hear some more recordings of Fanny Mendelssohn's sonata in G minor (It's one of my favorite pieces of all time!) and of course some Clara Schumman! Just a suggestion I'm sure lots of people would appreciate :) Thank you!

  • @matthewmiguel8108
    @matthewmiguel8108 5 років тому +1

    I can compose music and notate it but I'm really bad at sightreading.

  • @briantrinh431
    @briantrinh431 6 років тому +19

    Who is early and enjoys this video? :D

  • @robsalt4493
    @robsalt4493 4 роки тому +1

    nice video but you did not adhere to modern classical tradition of illegally print sheet music

  • @lucassmith3787
    @lucassmith3787 5 років тому +4

    “I’m not very good at sight reading”
    * sight reads perfectly

  • @JiushiNiubi
    @JiushiNiubi Рік тому +1

    Her magnificent sight-reading made me think that she had practiced that piece for over a month 😅

  • @ryanguerra2024
    @ryanguerra2024 5 років тому +3

    You should attempt to sight read a Liszt rhapsody for fun

  • @kristianjohansson8912
    @kristianjohansson8912 6 років тому +2

    12:00 It's never enough Bach! :-)
    I would love to see you play a fugue by Bach one voice at a time to reveal it inner workings. Not necessarily sight-reading it.
    Is that something you would consider doing in a future video?

  • @gwardell2
    @gwardell2 6 років тому +3

    I would say if it's something you know, just play it. Don't worry about sight reading it. I love hearing you play.

  • @skybirdnomad
    @skybirdnomad 3 роки тому +1

    Anyone whose says "I'm not good at X" is either not good at X, or really good at X

  • @christofjoubert8850
    @christofjoubert8850 6 років тому +6

    That Scriabin Etude is a particularly nasty one

  • @cyalinechoi892
    @cyalinechoi892 3 роки тому +2

    "To a wild rose" is my first song after 10 years of not touching piano.. it's such a lovely song that I immediately fell in love with the piano again

  • @justadude641
    @justadude641 6 років тому +5

    You are an excellent pianist.

  • @thenakedsingularity
    @thenakedsingularity 4 роки тому +2

    the way you sight read just blows my mind away. all that information you could digest right away and translate it into piano. I can't understand it.

  • @sawj100
    @sawj100 6 років тому +10

    *Notification Squad!*
    Thank you for the video!

  • @JohnSmith-te4xf
    @JohnSmith-te4xf 4 роки тому +2

    The MacDowell was beautiful and exactly the right tempo. Thank you so much

  • @dustsky
    @dustsky 4 роки тому +1

    Starts by humbly informing us that she's not very good at sight-reading, then proceeds to sight-read quite well actually, leaving us all feel helplessly inadequate. Talk about killing with kindness.
    Edit: After quickly going through the comment section I realized how redundant my comment is... LOL.

  • @Edward-W
    @Edward-W 6 років тому +3

    This definitely made me want to subscribe immediately

  • @jasonreeve5012
    @jasonreeve5012 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks for sharing. You are at a level that 99.9 per cent of the audience (including me) dare dream of. It is extremely brave and very helpful to show where it is difficult for you. It erodes a popular myth that you or any other fabulous musician is super human or possesses a god given talent. In reality it’s hours and hours and hours of hard work and every musician, no matter how good, can readily produce a 1000 word essay on areas they can improve. It’s endless for everyone. And no, I can’t sight read anything like that. Thanks again for sharing.

  • @kresentiaaiko5238
    @kresentiaaiko5238 5 років тому +13

    Omg i wanna go to that libraryyy 😭🙌🙌

  • @MawoDuffer
    @MawoDuffer 5 років тому +1

    I’m learning “Praise Him! Praise Him!” In the setting of Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words No.21, Op. 53, no.3 Arranged by Margaret Bos. It’s hard to find online but it’s in one of Margaret Bos’ books.

  • @BPK4699
    @BPK4699 4 роки тому +4

    I love To a Wild Rose.

  • @violetchadwell
    @violetchadwell 4 роки тому +1

    Its not fair
    8 yrs and i still SUCK at sight-reading

  • @DrChaad
    @DrChaad 5 років тому +4

    Never enough Bach

  • @NoferTrunions
    @NoferTrunions 4 роки тому +1

    Hard back sheet music? Well I never (!) haha You're so lucky!

  • @frankrunge7
    @frankrunge7 6 років тому +3

    Music is so good for the soul :)

  • @marctaras9455
    @marctaras9455 4 роки тому +1

    Very educational. Thanks for sharing this. I don't consider it embarrassing. I like that you speak and are very natural and humble because you are an excellent pianist.

  • @normanfz8558
    @normanfz8558 6 років тому +3

    Yay😊
    I'm so early😂😂
    #NotificationSquadForLife