Become a Better Musician in 10 Mins
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- Опубліковано 24 бер 2024
- What is the difference between musical and and non musical playing? What makes a performance good, expressive and musical?
In this video, I'm trying my best to answer these questions and to give you tips on how to improve your musicality in your playing!
Let me know what you tink in the comments, and feel free to share your tips with others!
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Hello. Really appreciate your videos. Do you know the piece that includes "Here Comes the Bride?" I'd also like to have appropriate music for when the people file into the church, etc. Finally, there's the music to play when the newly married couple leave the pulpit and exit the sanctuary...do you know if this is one single piece, or do I need to find separate pieces? Thank you in advance if you can supply the info! Once again, I really like lessons and calm approach to playing!
As a suggestion, your opening words are much too many
Beatrix: "I can't magically make you a better musician."
Me: "I'm out."
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I play a steel string, mostly blues and classic rock and so most often look at YT channels very different from yours. And over there I often read comments by ham-fisted shredders like, Oh this piece is SO easy. That piece is SO easy…
Sure, it’s easy to put your finger on the frets and pluck the right notes but not so easy to evoke the mood and nuance of a beautiful guitar piece.
Thank you for the reminder. It’s music, not acrobatics. We do it right when we take our listeners on a journey.
After I graduated from Peabody Conservatory I made my living playing classical guitar in restaurants and hotels. I wrote my own arrangements and wrote books for Mel Bay on guitar arranging. I had about three hours of memorized music. Let end by saying that the most popular piece I played by far was Romanza.
I never graduated but I did get an AA. I played in many bands and when those bands broke up I always returned to solo guitar to fill in my schedule with wine bars, restaurants, weddings, private parties, community theater/ Shakespeare plays, I have arranged a portfolio of original arrangements and compositions. I have so much fun arranging and performing with cello, violin I don't even care if no one will pay to hear it. Once I got a $100.00 tip for playing Villa-Lobos Prelude #3, another quite milkable piece..
@@MrDogonjon Milkable?
Romanza really? Wow i can see how some players can dismiss it as just a simple beginner piece. I’m going to keep on playing it !
Beatrix lookin like she's about to drop a Dark Souls guide.
Just git gud
You mean I need to buy more pedals?
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A new axe, perchance
That’s what I’m getting out of it 🙌🏽
…..I’m on Reverb right now 🎛️
Yup, that's what I heard.
I like this lady!
I found this a worthwhile reminder. Don't worry about technical virtuosity (though that's nice!) impressing others, etc. Focus on how you (whatever your skills) can bring out the unique virtues inherent in the song or composition you have chosen. That's as true for rock as for classical. Thanks.
Spanish Romance is such a great piece cos it has so much room for expression. Exactly the things you talked about. Dynamics, tempo, attack, all can change the feel so dramatically. And it's such an "ahhhh" moment when you hit the major section
I mostly play blues these days which i love for the same reason. The relatively simple structure of the blues leaves so much room for expression
How to play better: ask yourself
1. What do I like about this piece?
2. How do I bring this feature out?
I’m choosing to work on the song “Valentine” by Fiona Apple on piano. I love the song because it expresses the loneliness and frustration that comes from loving someone so deeply and struggling to move on while they’re seemingly unaffected.
I dont play guitar, I play piano, but I stumbled upon your channel after hearing Evocacion on another channel. Right away, I noticed your approach was similar to mine.
I've never had piano lessons, but I taught myself by reading a beginner book till I got to page of a song my older brother was playing, which I really liked.
So, for many years I have picked out simple beautiful, melodic pieces, and memorized them.
Now, I constantly work on making them sound as beautiful as possible.
This lesson of yours epitomizes my approach because I only pick songs that I absolutely love to begin with.
Thanks for not being just a typical UA-camr.
Subscribed. Awesome topic Beatrix! In my educational and performance experience I've learned that it's not how accurately I play the notes that matters, but how much I love, nurture and take care of each of the notes I'm playing that elevates the listeners experience. Using the specific word, "beautiful" will be a new element to my approach. Thank you!
Hi! Years ago as a newsletter publisher I bought a large book called '1001 things to know about publishing newsletters'. I diligently started working through it and by tip #32 I realised I probably new as much if not more than the author. But... I wasn't using what I knew and the book taught me to look at the subject in a completely different way, and I benefitted enormously from reading it. This, I think, is what your video is about. It is very helpful. Thank you. And, I agree Spanish romance is a beautiful piece of music mostly played rather badly. That's its biggest problem. I think you're great and I've joined your Patreon membership and I'll support you going forward. Keep up the good work. Thank you for sharing it.
I specially enjoy that you did this video with on of my favourite pieces to perform. Fantastic ideas! I was struck by how similar our approaches to this piece are!. Thanks for the video.
Thank you Beatrix!❤❤❤
Quality material never heard of before.
Bravo and many thanks for sharing.
WOW. I enjoy your videos of playing classical guitar as well as your teaching. Thank you.
I actually refused to learn this song, beyond the opening line, for over 40 years because it was so much of a cliche when I first started. I now play it because I choose to, not because "oh, you're a guitarist, do you know...?". I sort of regret not learning it for myself all those years ago and just not admitting it to people 😂
What a fantastic video! Great ideas and motivation!! I just found this video today and I will continue to watch! Thanks!
Awesome! Thank you!
A BEAUTIFUL and important video. Thank you, Beatrix.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting! This one of those moments when I realize "Oh, so that's what I've been doing subconsciously."
I play bass in a progressive stoner band. In one of our song, the main riff is in 4/4, 16th notes, four groups of 3 and one group 4. In a certain part of the song, I just continue playing the groups of three, while our guitarist play the original riff. This creates shifting accents between the guitar and bass. Watching this video, it came to me, that I subconsciously use my pick in a different way in that part. I subconsciously wanted to accentuate that accent shift, by making my accents more pronounced through a different picking technique.
A truly powerful way to think about music. Thank you for sharing!
This is a great idea! I'll give this a try, thanks!
You are an inspiration...
This is amazing- I am about to teach one of my young students Romanza today, but now I will incorporate your suggestions! Thank you. And you're right; even the "snobs" who look down on the piece secretly like it. The guitarist Milos took a lot of flak for performing it.
Wonderful! Hope your student will like the concept!
Wonderful discussion of musicality....thank you for this video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Gran vals will be the piece I'll try this on, thanks a bunch, great video for someone like me who just started classical guitar
Great advice. As you say, it can work for any instrument. I'm working on Schubert's Impromptu in C minor, Opus 90. Love the contrast between the very ominous opening and its funeral march rhythm and the more lyrical and tender second theme, and especially the way the two contrasting moods infect one another over the course of the piece, fear of death and love of life overlapping without either one winning out in the end. So I'm thinking about how to maximize the impact of each mood separately and especially how to play the final bits that are mostly in major in such a way as to make the listener feel that the minor is still hanging around waiting to appear again, even after the final C major chords.
How wonderful pieces! What I love about piano is that it seems to me that you guys have some really good ways to show heavyness on that instrument with the wider chords (I mean the chords have a winder range, more notes within a chord) and the sustain. Piano sound has been a huge inspiration for me through my entire life :)
This is good stuff, and I can see how much you love the classical pieces you play. I'm a rock-funk-blues-jazz cat, but this sort of stuff makes sense in any genre, really.
It's also something that becomes second nature in time, but one first needs to be aware of it, and that's where your lesson brings value to guitar students (which we all are and continue to be...) I suppose the next step is discovering how to use this great advice (i.e. picking the right tone, mood, tempo, dynamic etc.) and expressing it through one's personal-style features (i.e. that sort of finger slide, this sort of pull-off, that vibrato, this skin-or-nail-against-string effect etc. It never ends, really, does it? 😁 But what you teach here is amazingly useful and your video really does what it promises 🙏🎸
Great advice! I really appreciate it.
Glad it was helpful!
What an amazing coincidence! I am currently learning the Spanish Romance. I am battling with pace, in the sense of whether to play it slow or fast. It seems harder to play in the middle speeds with the emotional poignancy I want. If I play too slow or too fast, it's not there at all. Love your channel.✌️
Very good advice thank you.
Great little idea and mini-lesson to promote the development of musicality.
Yes but what I love about this idea is that it connects technique and musicality, because once you have a musical idea you need to figure out a technical solution to it 😁 this works well for me every time I feel a bit lost with the interpretation of a piece.
I think this is a great idea! It made me start thinking right away about stuff I’m playing. It’s sometimes not easy to say what it is that I like about a song or even if I actually like it 😂
That piece was the first piece I learned for classical guitar. I had been playing almost exclusively rock and metal up until then, and while I'm not a classical player per se, I did appreciate how much it made me work on my finger-style playing. I still play that piece, along with some Bach and Leo Brower from time to time.
You have a very good interpretation of that piece. Your playing is quite full and expressive. Of course, it probably helps that you're using a much higher quality guitar than I am with my thirty-plus year old Yamaha classical :)
Great insight! Subscribing to you now!
❤ great teaching!
Thanks for this very intelligent and instructive video !
Glad it was helpful!
It definitly is ! I’m a simple amateur, but I’ll use it anyway. It’s so important to have such clever advices to complete the theorical technique books !
Great lesson! Very insightful, not obvious yet highly practical and necessary.
Btw. I love your hair and eyes. You're beautiful
Nice video.. Thanks!
Hey, no complaints. That was definitely worth my time. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good clip - good advice - good luck - well done
helpful-thanks!
Thank you you're great.....
I usually just roll my eyes when I see title of the video similar to this one.
But, since I like your channel, I gave it a shot.
And well, I must admit, I really like this advice. Anything that brings some new perspective to my playing is more than welcome and you've achieved that.
So, thank you, and thank you also for sharing your positive energy.
I wish you all the best! 😉👍
Haha I know it’s a bit of a clickbait but I honestly believed I will be able to deliver on my promise 😃😃 glad you found some value here!
B, thank you for the inspiration.
" personnal musicality " it's the most important...thx😊
I have always been drawn more to classical because of this very lesson. Being able to create emotion in the music you play. I love Spanish music particularly.
Wow. This video did not disappoint! Thanks so much. I would add more to it though. Not just What is "beautiful" about this piece of music. What is "inspiring, energetic, kick-ass, sad, virtuous, powerful" Things like that resonate with me. And I'll definitely use this technique in my performances. :-)))
Great advice. Coming at this from the mandolin world. Right now I'm trying to work up a decent version of El Condor Pasa (adapted by Paul Simon into If I Could). The second part where Art Garfunkel does a soaring high tenor is challenging to interpret instrumentally. I'm trying to just apply full rich chord forms for that part...its a work in progress...
You got my attention with the title of this video, Ms. Beatrix.
Very good advice! Love the humor and how was the big mac? ❤
Ohh I'm in love
Thanks!
To get good there're lifetime conditions to respect: 1/Technique et hand calisthenics weekly practice. 2/ Update the repertory by revising it and learning pieces you like. 3/ learning theory to understand music and build a strong knowledge. 4/ just play and have fun by improvising, experimenting and explore different musical languages genre and style. 5/ USE A METRONOME.
There is no escaping the METRONOME !
@@el_aleman métronome is very important
What does calisthenics have to do with music?
@@josephnwakelu2894left hand calisthenics are exercises that gives you the ability to do different movements and complexe fingering patterns relentlessly, if in piano your hands got to be independent, it is the same thing with guitar but this time the fingers should be independent so that each one does something different. The perfect example to me is the piece "Fraktured" by king Crimson, "Tiempo del silya" by vicente Amigo but a lot classical piece also have that.
It's a task, but I'm working on a piece called "Smoke on the water".
I was introduced to this concept through a UA-cam video by Scott Paul Johnson. After watching the video, I had to ask: Why doesn't everyone teach this?
I love it!
Thank you for sharing your valuable music knowledge 🙏 you are an amazing musician. Also, you have extremely beautiful eyes.
I immediately subscribed
Hello, I practise Spanish Romance, but I don't success. I play guitar for years but I do what I can. I will try to get emotions into this piece of music with the help of your advices. Thanks
Starting off playing for the 50th time in my life, first place I thought to start is the channel that gives me information, and a solid butterfly crush XD!!!
I asked my guitar what it thinks and it said it likes the simplicity that supports the soaring melody allowing expressive glissando, vibratos to highlight the high points allowing rubato/ lingering on those notes milking them for emotion. When the middle section double sharp comes it is an interweaving of climbing and falling leading to a grand crescendo/ diminuendo. My score shows AABBA song form so tonal variations dolce/ metallico give variety to the repetitions. The voice of my guitar comes through showing just how much resonance the instrument generates with melody and arpeggiated accompaniment. These things are the hall mark of the trite interpretations less skilled players like me evoke.
Thx this is very helpfull 💐💐💐
A totally appropriate little for this video. I am confidant that if we were able to sit with Tarrega whilst he he was contemplating his compositions such as Adelita or Lagrima, He would have spoken of a story in his mind. An emotion or a fond memory would have shaped, molded and set an orientation to the first notes and phrases to his piece. The technical aspects of the composition would have been secondary considerations. The whole point of performing a piece of music, especially music that is romantic in nature, is to hypnotize your audience, Is it not? To move them into a place where their emotions and memories come to the fore. If the performer is not clear on the emotional substance of the music he or she is playing, what does the audience have to rest on. Are they even going to remember the piece you performed? They (your audience) need more than a display of your competence or technical ability. It pays great dividends to remind oneself that your music is fundamentally a story, and how this is expressed can have great emotional effect or none at all. I'm sure that composers of music film sound tracks, understand this concept quite well. Many great perfumers have initiated there creations by writing a story or drawing a picture of a setting or situation, so to create a fantasy, in order to set an orientation for the fragrance they intent to make. This is like guiding light by which their success can be measured in the end. In my view, one of the best compliments for any piece that I play is when, (by off chance) I hear the listener whistling a phrase or two to himself at a later time. One last ting to mention is, a guitar teacher I had many years ago suggested that, when learning a new piece of music, start by learning the section or phrase that I found most appealing or attractive as this would set the groundwork for the expressiveness of the rest of the piece.
I've done this for a long time with bachs air . Just the main melody as a single line the expression is a never ending learning process year after year . Working on the flow and feeling of the ups and and downs of the notes. If its just a scale with no life quit playing -energy can be a ------master that lol.... Slow isn't always easier. To each his or her own and own pace... play on .❤
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Hi. I'm new here. Actually you got me with the title. I'm working on a harp piece and ten bars are not going well. Today I was asking myself about the dynamics and what pianissimo means to the harp as this ten bar section begins as now the harp is solo: is it scared, or lonely without the clarinet and how can I better show that, and how does it feel when the clarinet returns (and a crescendo occurs). So your discussion takes me further on my journey. Thank you. I have also just started learning guitar so I will definitely ask questions about the music there too - even though I still get lost on the strings and frets. Yes, I agree the guitar is more nuanced or I am better able to hear/ create the nuance
Hey Susanne, glad to hear you found some value here! I like that you slice up the “questioning” in a more structured way, like you said, today your questions were around dynamics. Hope you’re making some nice progress these days 😊
When I look at you- by Miley Cyrus. I just love the song as your video, the strong chorus is my favorite part of the song 🎶 ❤️
I have a piece I wrote for my late wife several years ago. I've not been able to write suitable lyrics for the composition, and it has never worked as an instrumental. I'll try to work with the modulation and see if that helps. Thank you
great,
Oho... really to think about it. Till date, I used to think about songs or music pieces as a whole. Now, it got changed forever.
2 Prelude's by F. Tarrega, building a good arrangement. Both are DMaj, just different tempos.
I have discovered that my feeling for a piece of music matters a great deal in my ability to learn to play it. I am very surprised by what I have learned to play by focusing on learning music that I really love. After learning basics I can focus on technical details that fill out the piece. I’m a beginner and do not read music or know music theory.
Listen to Vincente Gomez play this piece, vocals as well in a film called " Blood in the Sand"
....not the usual boring way that so many people do.....plus he plays two Flamenco pieces.....fabulous...just watch, listen and enjoy!
Good useful video Beatrix. Enjoy the Big Mac :)
Thanks Vincent! 😄😁
You could always make up some lyrics that match the sentiment of the feeling you're trying to convey with that melody. That would make it easier to play with convincing phrasing and dynamics.
Nice, I agree with your approach. Is big mac food? I didn’t know it. Jó. Olt, köszi!
Right hand movement is one of my weaknesses i try to get a hold of soon. Maybe this video is a sign, that i should play Romanza more and try it out for myself. Allthough i guess my probleme is more with changing right hand position fluently back and forth during a line. Its what i noticed watching professionals do quite a lot, that i struggle with and so i avoided it till now with exeptional dedication. 🥴
Very nice video. I love your accent, it’s so cute ☺️ ✌🏽
I'm learning "Bang your head by quiet riot" I love that line, I got a mouth like an Alligator.
I really enjoy your channel and I was wondering what was the name of the $600 guitar when you did the comparison with the $6000 guitar? and Thank You.
Thanks! It was a Manuel Rodriguez guitar 😁
I appreciate you getting back with me. Cheers and Happy Easter.@@beatrixguitar
Music is about feeling. Be aware of how music makes you feel, and try to ensure that your audience becomes aware of this
Robert Johnson became a virtuoso after a mysterious man retuned his guitar at the cross roads at midnight. In return he had to give up his soul at 27. So if I'm going to have to make any promises in return for virtuosity the deal is off.
I think your students are very lucky people indeed.
I missed the premier!! T_T
I’ve been struggling with dexterity and finger stamina so to speak.
Amd has been like this the past few years.
I can’t move my fingers as well, or as fast, but years ago I could.
I noticed once I started doing some weightlifting my fingers sort of lost their flexibility, they tired and get sore fast.
I also started playing on a smaller travel guitar (which I don’t have anymore.) and I got use to its smaller neck.
But I’ve never got back to how I was before, could it be tendons?
It’s annoying and disheartening, I feel I should just stop and get rid of my guitars and give them to someone who is worthy!
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Hey Kyle! I made a warm up video, it should be on my channel, one with a thumbnail of a white background, me holding a ps controller. I think that video may have some answers for you
I feel you. I have a very weak left hand myself. Small wrist, weakened by too much typing and with low thumb endurance when it comes to prolonged grip. I purchased this little finger "gym" contraption called "D'Addario Accessories Hand Exerciser" and it has helped me a bit. It is relatively affordable online. It has improved the grip issue to an extent. Unlike what we can do with "electric" instruments, I find it extremely difficult to relax the left hand when playing classical. Accuracy is the priority, of course, but the left-hand grip needs to be tight for quality tone production. This takes a toll on one's physical fitness (tendons, finger joints, nerves...). All the best!
My hands sound like yours (arthritis or something). I put low tension strings (D'Addario Silk & Steel) on one of my guitars and it made a huge difference in playability. I also play less difficult arrangements, things don't have to be complex to be beautiful.
Go to 12:13 on the video. May not be the best example on the video but notice two important things going on here 1. How she holds her guitar. The head of the guitar is elevated. The nut on the guitar is about level to her eye. She is not leaning over her guitar to gain some advantage to finger the string. 2. Her wrist is straight and the fingers hover over the strings. Her thumb is placed under the fingers, probably between the middle and index fingers.
Old habits die hard. The painful thumb muscle trying to play barre chords. The fingers that feel like they are too short to reach notes. This can be eliminated by adjusting how you hold the guitar and place the thumb under the fingers correctly. Carefully practice this every time and those aliments will go away. Be diligent, those old habits won’t give up without a fight. I hope this helps.
Petrucci has been doing weightlifting and he doesn't seem to have problems with dexterity :). He does a lots of stretching.
I’ve been playing Snowflight by Andrew York and I find I don’t like his interpretation of his own piece. He plays it really fast and doesn’t vary the tempo at all. I like to be a little more expressive with the phrases with a little variation in tempo and dynamics. It makes me think of the way snow actually falls and drifts. Enjoyed your video.
That’s a lovely piece, if you like those kind of pieces I highly recommend Kurpie Etude and Rainy Etude by Tatyana Stachak!
The first song I ever wanted to play is perfect; stairway to heaven.
Thanks really useful, however for your video,
I don’t see that much beauty on that piece, whenever I have played it to people they think it’s beautiful but I don’t find it that moving, because I have been played and practiced the soul out of the piece, it feels like an exercise.
It is the same with any piece even if I think it’s beautiful to begin with. The soul goes from it after a while.
The only piece that doesn’t bore me after a while in terms of classical guitar repertoire is Villa Lobos prelude no 1. Not sure why but with that piece there are so many ways you can express it.
However with ‘romansa’ I can’t invent beauty out of it for personal expression.
I'm allergic to commitment, but I'll give it a shot since you demanded so nicely :D
OK, I admit it! 😁
So basically… learn interpretation. Studying that now.
Well not entirely. I tried to explain in this video how critical thinking, questioning and self-directional learning should work when you have no teacher who got your back.
Ah the upper melody, whilst beautiful, it's the Bass line that must boom. 😁
I got a book of Jewish folk songs. I wonder what effect it might have on my guitar due to the spiritual nature. I also got some Irish folk songs. It doesn't give me much time for classical music or baroque.
Hi Beatrix, do you offer a tab for that romance or maybe you can confirm that some publicly available tab for this romance is legit? I'm asking because there are so many wrong tabs nowadays I understand you play music score with notes, not tab, so you must know the proper way. Edit: I found a tab on capotastomusic and immediately stuck at bar #9
5:59 I learned these words watching Little Einsteins with my kids!
It's pretty windy in here, talks a blue streak!
after watching the video here are my thoughts : I wasn't expecting Romanza to be the center of the topic as an example, now if you repeat that piece in 10min trying different sound nuances, it will make you focus on the feeling which means how you are playing it but wouldn't you get bored? Now if you take let's say two chords E / A and improvise for 10min playing the notes you want to play even if it feels random, would you be able to play the exact same notes for another 10min?? Now imagine doing it again using different techniques and ideas depanding on your theoretical music knowledge. That's for me how you get better in 10 min and that's the point where your instrument becomes your voice and turn anything you feel into an expression that you can't express in words.
I get your point, but when I make educational videos, I'm looking for easy to understand and approachable examples to show. Romanza is great because it has a very solid melody line, it has repetitive middle voice and a simple bass line, so the structure is very easy to understand, making this piece great for explaining a concept :)
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4:37 Was that an Animal Farm reference? 😳
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