Oh Penney, how I thank you for this! Today's technology brings so many things, such as shared learning miles apart. Thank you very much for this class on invention #1. I love Bach's inventions.
Thank you so much, André!💙 Indeed, technology is amazing! I have learned so much thanks to the internet. I did have a difficult time organizing this video, figuring out how to share my ideas. Teaching this way is quite different from actually working with a student!😅 But passion is passion!
I think these are the best Mr B tutorials on UA-cam. The sign of a good piano video is one that immediately makes me want to go and play or practice, or which makes me excited about learning something new or trying something differently. Thanks so much for taking the time to make them!
From Australia. I picked up a Yamaha keyboard, for free, left infront of a house. I can't play piano, but your fingering suggestions are leading me into this piece. Left hand is having trouble! So, thank you...I love your warm, self-deprecating approach.
I'm a beginner and have just begun to approach this work.. found your video here and well, you are a godsend! Thank you for such great instruction and suggestions.
This was fascinating. I think the thing that fascinates me the most is that you just know the right fingering for you after you’re comfortable with the piece of music and you remember the fingering throughout each time you perform the piece. I loved listening to your lesson! More please 😊
Thank you, Roseanne!🎹I really never thought about the whole fingering-comes-natural to me thing until I started making these fingering videos and reading the comments. It's been an interesting and somewhat revealing experience. I wish other things in life came as easily to me as fingering!😅
Dear penny, first of all a happy new year! Thank you for this great analysis. Two weeks ago I decided to take the next step in playing the piano and chatgpt actually recommended the bach invention for me. 😂😅 I took the trouble to copy your suggestion of fingering, because it also feels good for me to play with the fingers you suggest. I have lessons again next week and am looking forward to hearing what my piano teacher has to say about my choice of music. 😅 Best regards from the Bach town Leipzig (Germany)
Of course, every student is different, however I generally find it effective to recommend the student practice a short passage (a few bars) hands separately, at a snail's pace, say, for several weeks, with much counting out loud. Then gradually put it together. The level of each student will play a factor in all of this, as will the level of piece, so it goes without saying that's it's essential to have repertoire appropriate to ones level. This particular piece would perhaps be best approached after having had a few years worth of lessons. If the hands coordination is proving extra challenging, then perhaps try tapping the rhythm of both hands on a desk or on one's lap. Detailed, slow, careful work always gets the job done!
I'm working on this piece now and using Alfred's Masterworks edition (ed. Willard A. Palmer) and the suggested fingering seems to work. Let's hope so as I don't think I can learn to play this by constantly changing the fingering. It does suggest the 132 mordent in measure 13.
03:25 Me neither. I don't want to be seeing or thinking about numbers whilst I am performing music. I memorize hand positions, fingering strategies, and where necessary which finger to use e.g. thumb on F#. If I write fingering in it's sparse and mostly so that I use the same when I return years later. I learned from pianist Charles Owen to stick with a good fingering, particularly when playing from memory, or else chaos can happen during performance.
@@Yves75018 That’s to be expected, as I’m almost paralyzed reading fingerings on the page. I don’t write them in for myself, but tried to here to show people. It’s a very fluid thing for me, fingering is and next to impossible to pin down precisely.
The use of 212121 fingering on the left hand for scales was common practice at the harpsichord, that’s probably where it comes from. Similar to 34343434 and 323232 patterns on the right hand, they are known as “pair fingering”. That said, patterns like 5421 are not part of that practice.
Oh Penney, how I thank you for this! Today's technology brings so many things, such as shared learning miles apart. Thank you very much for this class on invention #1. I love Bach's inventions.
Thank you so much, André!💙 Indeed, technology is amazing! I have learned so much thanks to the internet. I did have a difficult time organizing this video, figuring out how to share my ideas. Teaching this way is quite different from actually working with a student!😅 But passion is passion!
I think these are the best Mr B tutorials on UA-cam. The sign of a good piano video is one that immediately makes me want to go and play or practice, or which makes me excited about learning something new or trying something differently. Thanks so much for taking the time to make them!
Thank you so much, Rich!💙What a wonderful compliment!🎹
What a very interesting presentation. Well done Penny !
Thank you very much!🎹
From Australia. I picked up a Yamaha keyboard, for free, left infront of a house. I can't play piano, but your fingering suggestions are leading me into this piece. Left hand is having trouble! So, thank you...I love your warm, self-deprecating approach.
Thank you so much, George! I appreciate it very much! Happy practicing to you!🎹✨
What a wonderful video! Great job!
Thank you so much!
I'm a beginner and have just begun to approach this work.. found your video here and well, you are a godsend! Thank you for such great instruction and suggestions.
Thank you, Alex! I’m glad to hear it was helpful!🎹
This was fascinating. I think the thing that fascinates me the most is that you just know the right fingering for you after you’re comfortable with the piece of music and you remember the fingering throughout each time you perform the piece. I loved listening to your lesson! More please 😊
Thank you, Roseanne!🎹I really never thought about the whole fingering-comes-natural to me thing until I started making these fingering videos and reading the comments. It's been an interesting and somewhat revealing experience. I wish other things in life came as easily to me as fingering!😅
Thanks! I like the way you think about this.
@@keithwins Thank you, Keith!
thanks for sharing . I just subscribed
Thank you very much, Philip! Welcome!🎹❤
Dear penny, first of all a happy new year!
Thank you for this great analysis. Two weeks ago I decided to take the next step in playing the piano and chatgpt actually recommended the bach invention for me. 😂😅
I took the trouble to copy your suggestion of fingering, because it also feels good for me to play with the fingers you suggest.
I have lessons again next week and am looking forward to hearing what my piano teacher has to say about my choice of music. 😅
Best regards from the Bach town Leipzig (Germany)
Thank you and happy practicing to you! Greetings back to Germany, from a chilly Ontario, Canada!❄🎹
I love yooou ❤❤❤
Thank you, Suzana!🥰🎹
Penny How do you deal with cordination of right hand left hand??. This piece has 16 th notes and 8th notes
Of course, every student is different, however I generally find it effective to recommend the student practice a short passage (a few bars) hands separately, at a snail's pace, say, for several weeks, with much counting out loud. Then gradually put it together. The level of each student will play a factor in all of this, as will the level of piece, so it goes without saying that's it's essential to have repertoire appropriate to ones level. This particular piece would perhaps be best approached after having had a few years worth of lessons. If the hands coordination is proving extra challenging, then perhaps try tapping the rhythm of both hands on a desk or on one's lap. Detailed, slow, careful work always gets the job done!
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@AugustusBroadford Thank you, Augustus!
I'm working on this piece now and using Alfred's Masterworks edition (ed. Willard A. Palmer) and the suggested fingering seems to work. Let's hope so as I don't think I can learn to play this by constantly changing the fingering. It does suggest the 132 mordent in measure 13.
As the great pianist, Anton Rubinstein once remarked, “Play with your nose, if you will, but produce euphony.”
03:25 Me neither. I don't want to be seeing or thinking about numbers whilst I am performing music. I memorize hand positions, fingering strategies, and where necessary which finger to use e.g. thumb on F#. If I write fingering in it's sparse and mostly so that I use the same when I return years later. I learned from pianist Charles Owen to stick with a good fingering, particularly when playing from memory, or else chaos can happen during performance.
Whatever works, I say!
Very interesting. Small fingering error on the score at measure 5 last beat 1324 (that's what you played and not 1323). Thank you very much.
@@Yves75018 That’s to be expected, as I’m almost paralyzed reading fingerings on the page. I don’t write them in for myself, but tried to here to show people. It’s a very fluid thing for me, fingering is and next to impossible to pin down precisely.
The use of 212121 fingering on the left hand for scales was common practice at the harpsichord, that’s probably where it comes from. Similar to 34343434 and 323232 patterns on the right hand, they are known as “pair fingering”. That said, patterns like 5421 are not part of that practice.
Thank you for sharing!
1212. 1432. Both of these could have been good PIN numbers for Johann Sebastian?
Ha, that's funny!😅
24:00 so nice :D
Thank you!🎹