Im 36 and trying to keep my piano skills up,I do consider myself pretty advanced but things like this have always been hard for me. I've wanted to learn Debussy's arabesque no 1 many times but struggled with this exact thing. I'm gonna give it another try
3 to 4, etc. I heard somewhere long time ago that you have to in effect let your hands play independently such that you don’t think about intertwining the notes. Instead you think of it as “I have x number of notes in the right hand and y in the left to play within a beat or a measure.” Chopin is a great example of this, e.g. the Fantasie-Impromptu.
Exactly!! 👍 That's what I was referring to in this video when I talk about making the leap to feeling the larger beat and spreading the notes evenly out within it. Where a lot of students have trouble, however, is playing those internal subdivisions evenly in each hand, no matter how hard they try to think about it. This is why it's important to actually understand how the rhythms relate to each other and do some practice to internalize that relationship, even though you aren't actually going to be thinking about that in the later stages of playing the piece. Because, as you correctly point out, once you have practiced and learned the piece, you'll eventually be feeling the beat and each hand will be playing the correct number of notes evenly within it, without focusing on the "intertwining" of the notes between the hands.
I’m working all my routine (scales, arpeggios, etc.) with polyrhythms (2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 3/5, 4/7, 3/7 plus inversions) . It helps a lot for hand independence (patterns don't repeat themselves when hands go at different speeds) and with time and practice, playing a polyrhythm becomes as natural and easy as any other basic pattern.
I love watching you play. You are so comfortable playing that your fingers are almost flat on the keyboard. I pick up learning piano as a retirement hobby and I watch your videos from time to time. No high hopes for me. Am not talented but I love the piano. Thank you for your detailed videos. You are one good professor.
Learning my 1st Chopin (prelude in E minor) and turned to this video. Just the intro outlining the content has me saying “whew! “ thank you for providing such high quality content
Thanks. Also, always mention which level of grade the topic should be appropriate, for example should a grade 2 student avoid this and wait until it comes in the method books for better progressive method.
Thanks Professor for the good advice on playing 2 against 3 polyrhythm. It helps a lot to me when I teach my students to grasp the rhythmic patterns. Love to see your teaching pedagogy on 3v4 next time.
I learned two against three by feel, so I’ve been having a difficult time teaching it to students!! This video is so helpful, thank you! I’m sending it to a student immediately. 🙏🎹
Love your clarity and down-to-earth delivery. Thank you. I appreciate how you teach the math, gave us "not difficult" to say AND address the importance of feeling the beat. A multi-faceted approach. :-)
Great video, perhaps as a continuation you should show how they are played in each period of music. Simply put, the way shown here is only done in the contemporary and classical period. The romantic and baroque periods play them very differently, which changes the sound a lot. Performance practice is something more musicians need to be aware of. My teacher used the ‘not difficult’ method too 😂
This is excellent! As a guitarist turned piano focused, I have always been interested in polyrhythms. Getting the left hand of fretting to independently cooperating with the right has been a journey indeed. This will really help! Thank you so much for sharing your skills, insights and passion! I look forward to learning more! you are an excellent facilitator and coach!
Clearly explained but very difficult to implement when trying to do both hands together😢 it is very frustrating. I hope that I can learn how to do this right one day soon. Thank you for the useful video.
It is difficult to put together and it takes time and hard work! But you can do it! And I hope you can have grace and patience for yourself along the way! 😊
Very, very good explanation, thank you very much! A video about 3 to 4 or polyrhythm in Chopin's pieces would be great, too! I love your channel. Best wishes from far away (Germany).
Super, wonderful it is, I try, because I have great problem of playing ,8th, 16th note, 2/3 ,3/2, 3/6 etc. Thank u excepting more knowledge from u.God bless.
I’d love to see a video of 3 vs 4. I can get my students to learn the rhythms by clapping, then using various timbres, then speeding it up, but getting it smoothly into a piece is very difficult.
A great piece worth mentioning for polyrhythms, I think, is Camille Saint-Saëns’ Etude Op. 52, No. 4. It starts off with the “Not difficult” rhythm in only one hand at a time and transitions it to both hands.
@@said1949 I am a performing pianist as well as a professor and I teach lessons, workshops and masterclasses. I have written a few articles but no book as of yet!
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Watch next: 3 against 4 Polyrhythms: ua-cam.com/video/gNnKFnqQjKs/v-deo.html
3v4, please! Great lesson!
Im 36 and trying to keep my piano skills up,I do consider myself pretty advanced but things like this have always been hard for me. I've wanted to learn Debussy's arabesque no 1 many times but struggled with this exact thing. I'm gonna give it another try
You can do it! Good luck!
Excellent once again. Where were you ten years ago, I wish I'd done all of this a long time ago.
Never too late! Glad it was helpful!
3 to 4, etc.
I heard somewhere long time ago that you have to in effect let your hands play independently such that you don’t think about intertwining the notes. Instead you think of it as “I have x number of notes in the right hand and y in the left to play within a beat or a measure.” Chopin is a great example of this, e.g. the Fantasie-Impromptu.
Exactly!! 👍 That's what I was referring to in this video when I talk about making the leap to feeling the larger beat and spreading the notes evenly out within it.
Where a lot of students have trouble, however, is playing those internal subdivisions evenly in each hand, no matter how hard they try to think about it. This is why it's important to actually understand how the rhythms relate to each other and do some practice to internalize that relationship, even though you aren't actually going to be thinking about that in the later stages of playing the piece.
Because, as you correctly point out, once you have practiced and learned the piece, you'll eventually be feeling the beat and each hand will be playing the correct number of notes evenly within it, without focusing on the "intertwining" of the notes between the hands.
Thank you!! Great video. 3 v 4 yes!!!
This was really great! Thank you! I’m going to watch 3 against 4 too! 👏👏
You're very welcome! 😊
Thank you Kate. 73 and still loving to learn. You are an inspiration!
Thanks! Glad you're here!
I’m working all my routine (scales, arpeggios, etc.) with polyrhythms (2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 3/5, 4/7, 3/7 plus inversions) . It helps a lot for hand independence (patterns don't repeat themselves when hands go at different speeds) and with time and practice, playing a polyrhythm becomes as natural and easy as any other basic pattern.
Great way to practice polyrhythms!
thank you SO mucget answers toh Prof. you have cleared up many questions I have tried to
I love watching you play. You are so comfortable playing that your fingers are almost flat on the keyboard. I pick up learning piano as a retirement hobby and I watch your videos from time to time. No high hopes for me. Am not talented but I love the piano. Thank you for your detailed videos. You are one good professor.
Thanks so much! Glad to meet another lover of the piano. Learning piano is an excellent retirement hobby - best of luck to you!
Thank you Professor ❤❤❤
Very clear, you make it very easy to understand. Thank you for your excellent classes
Thank you so much, i appreciate!
You're welcome! Thanks for your comment!
Learning my 1st Chopin (prelude in E minor) and turned to this video. Just the intro outlining the content has me saying “whew! “ thank you for providing such high quality content
Of course, happy to help! Happy practicing! 😊
Great lesson, Kate! I’m going to share it with a student who’s working on this.
Glad to hear it's helpful!
Thanks. Also, always mention which level of grade the topic should be appropriate, for example should a grade 2 student avoid this and wait until it comes in the method books for better progressive method.
Thanks Professor for the good advice on playing 2 against 3 polyrhythm. It helps a lot to me when I teach my students to grasp the rhythmic patterns.
Love to see your teaching pedagogy on 3v4 next time.
That's great! Thanks for your comment!
This is a great tutorial I am learning to play legato as I started out teaching myself and that was incorrect now I have to learn again. Well done.
I'm so glad this video was helpful to you! Best of luck as you are learning, and happy practicing!
I learned two against three by feel, so I’ve been having a difficult time teaching it to students!! This video is so helpful, thank you! I’m sending it to a student immediately. 🙏🎹
Wonderful! Glad it's helpful!
Love your clarity and down-to-earth delivery. Thank you. I appreciate how you teach the math, gave us "not difficult" to say AND address the importance of feeling the beat. A multi-faceted approach. :-)
Yay! Glad it was helpful!
Hi a blessed day this is a very good lesson thank you very much and GodBless you forever
You are very welcome!
Thank you very much, your videos are helping me a lot with my mission to learn music after the age of 50 😊 Looking forward to a video on 3 vs 4
Wonderful!
Great video, perhaps as a continuation you should show how they are played in each period of music. Simply put, the way shown here is only done in the contemporary and classical period. The romantic and baroque periods play them very differently, which changes the sound a lot. Performance practice is something more musicians need to be aware of. My teacher used the ‘not difficult’ method too 😂
Great suggestion! Thanks!
This is very helpful, Kate!
I'm so glad, Deb!! Thanks!
This is excellent! As a guitarist turned piano focused, I have always been interested in polyrhythms. Getting the left hand of fretting to independently cooperating with the right has been a journey indeed. This will really help! Thank you so much for sharing your skills, insights and passion! I look forward to learning more! you are an excellent facilitator and coach!
You are so welcome - glad it was helpful!!
Thanks for this great video. Would love to see a video featuring 3v4 😅
Greetings and much appreciation from Italy!
Thanks! 😊
😊 wooow its very helpfull teacher, thanks!!!!
Clearly explained but very difficult to implement when trying to do both hands together😢 it is very frustrating. I hope that I can learn how to do this right one day soon. Thank you for the useful video.
It is difficult to put together and it takes time and hard work! But you can do it! And I hope you can have grace and patience for yourself along the way! 😊
@@ThePianoProfKateBoyd Thank you for your kind reply and encouragement🙏😊
Thank you for this quite well structured video (as all your videos are) ! 3v4 yes.
Greetings from south of France.
Glad you enjoyed it! Here's the video I made about 3v4. Enjoy! 👋 ua-cam.com/video/gNnKFnqQjKs/v-deo.html
3v4. Thank you for making these great videos!
Glad you like them!
Brilliant explanation ❤
Thank you! 🙂 Glad it helped!
Very, very good explanation, thank you very much! A video about 3 to 4 or polyrhythm in Chopin's pieces would be great, too! I love your channel. Best wishes from far away (Germany).
Danke! Schöne Grüße aus Indianapolis!
3 v 4 please! Such a helpful video. Thanks!
I love your teaching. Thank you very much.
Thanks so much! Glad you're here!
Thanks for the great and creative explanation! I'm working on this piece and your video came in handy!
You're very welcome!
So helpful! Wish I had you as a piano teacher in college!
Wow, thank you!
Me too … I wish Dr. Kate was my teacher too … she’s amazing
Thank Dr. Kate thus is most helpful… I love your videos… I’m learning so much
Very nice! I like this kind of 'brainy' stuff.
Thanks! Glad you find it helpful! 😊
Thanks!
Thank you so much!! 🙏🙏🙏
Super, wonderful it is, I try, because I have great problem of playing ,8th, 16th note, 2/3 ,3/2, 3/6 etc. Thank u excepting more knowledge from u.God bless.
You can do it! Thanks for being here!
thank you for these videos, you truly made my day
Awww, thanks! Your comment made mine! 😊
You're awesome. Just starting to get into your videos, and this one is fabulous!
Wow, thank you! Glad you're here!
Dear Prof could you please do a video on how to play , memorize Chopin aelion harp Etude? Thanks!
Great suggestion- I will definitely consider it! Thank you! 😊
3 against 4. This tutorial was very good.
Here you go! ua-cam.com/video/gNnKFnqQjKs/v-deo.html
I’d love to see a video of 3 vs 4. I can get my students to learn the rhythms by clapping, then using various timbres, then speeding it up, but getting it smoothly into a piece is very difficult.
This was so helpful thank you 😊
Glad it was helpful!
A great piece worth mentioning for polyrhythms, I think, is Camille Saint-Saëns’ Etude Op. 52, No. 4. It starts off with the “Not difficult” rhythm in only one hand at a time and transitions it to both hands.
Great one! Thanks for that suggestion, Jeremy!!
Fantastic Lesson!
Thanks!
Отличная подача, спасибо!
Пожалуйста
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Good!
Yes please yes please 3v4. Thank you so much
You're welcome! Here is a link to a video about 3v4 rhythms: ua-cam.com/video/gNnKFnqQjKs/v-deo.html
Great lesson.
Thank you! 😊
Adorei! Sim, quero assistir 3 x 4. Brasil. I loved It! Yes, please! 3 v 4. Thank you! Obrigada!❤
😊
3v4 Please! Thank you Professor!
You're welcome! 😊
3v4 please and then 3 v 5 !! L’Isle Joyeuse. Your videos are great! Thank you!
Thanks for the suggestions!! Glad you're here!
3v4 yes, thankyou
3 v4 please!
3v4 thank you!!
Here you go! ua-cam.com/video/gNnKFnqQjKs/v-deo.html
3/4 please
3v4! Thanks!
3×4 please!
“Pink Cadillac” is another 2:3 mnemonic I was taught.
That is another helpful one! Thank you for the recommendation!
3v4 would be great!
5 Metronome Tips ua-cam.com/video/v4bb4JsLEvY/v-deo.html
Have you some books that you published regarding piano ?
@@said1949 I am a performing pianist as well as a professor and I teach lessons, workshops and masterclasses. I have written a few articles but no book as of yet!
Yes 3v4 please
3v4, please.
3v4 🙏🙏
3V41
3v4 please
Here is another video on three vs four rhythms!
ua-cam.com/video/gNnKFnqQjKs/v-deo.html
I'm practicing triplets in the right hand and a syncopated salsa bass rithim in the left. Since then I'm two persons 😂😂😂
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Yes 3v4
3v4😊
3v4!
3v4
Three v four
Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/gNnKFnqQjKs/v-deo.html
3 v 4
3 v 4 comments
Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/gNnKFnqQjKs/v-deo.html
3V4
Here you go! 😊 ua-cam.com/video/gNnKFnqQjKs/v-deo.html
Great lesson
Thank you! 😊
3v4
3 v 4
3v4
3 v 4
Here you go - enjoy! ua-cam.com/video/gNnKFnqQjKs/v-deo.html