Initially I thought a bit fast but... Man you nailed every note with beautiful expression. A very worthy rendition. Ps I've played the n1x and it is astonishingly good digital piano. The action allows for so much subtlety. Alas the price tag makes it only a dream for now.
A superb innovative instrument. By closing my eyes and just listening I Honestly cant tell the difference between the Avantgrand and an acoustic concert grand. Incidentally a fine performance of the Fantasie Impromptu.
Zachary Forbes Thanks a lot :-) I'm glad you liked it. Have fun with your N1!
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Dude, exceptional. Excellent dynamics and played with heart. Shows what a focused person can accomplish with desire (and a really nice Yamaha AvantGrand!). This piano brings out your best. Really nice.
An absolutely smashing performance. Thank you. However, it's easy to see why digital pianos can never replace acoustic versions, especially when it comes to pieces like this being performed.
Kenneth Hwang Hey Kenneth! It's good to hear, that it looks effortless 😄. But I really have to fight for those pieces. It's a lot of work and I am glad that I have a very good teacher who inspires me.
Great playing! - wish I could afford a Yamaha like yours, but I'll never play as well as you (even in my dreams...). Even more impressive, since you started late (as I did), and also had a long period away from playing - though (at my basic level) I often find that being away from playing for a while, then coming back again to it, seems to improve my playing. Well done.
PhilRichH Hi Phil! I got the same impression: if you stay away from some pieces and lay them aside for some weeks, they tend to get better after that. Playing piano helps me a lot to keep my mind "structured". Have fun with your practice an enjoy the music 😄 Thank for your thumbs up 😊
I think you play very well! I really enjoyed your performances on the N1X, Wow! - I work for a Yamaha dealer and I manager piano sales, teach piano, write music, and perform. I am building out a new website and I am wondering if I could embed these performances on our new website? I think my customers would appreciate hearing your playing when shopping for avant pianos. Let me know!
Hi Would you recommend this instead of a good vertical? I have to study far from home and in the apartment where I live I will have little choice.need a good feel for practice at home. That or upgrith piano with sylent system
You didn't ask me but I'd definitely recommend you look at the AvantGrand pianos. They have the acoustic action from Yamaha GRAND pianos, which would be preferable as a practice instrument to a silent upright. (If you want upright action on a hybrid piano I'd encourage you to check out the NU1X... all other hybrid pianos like the one in this video have GRAND piano action.) I've owned the Yamaha N3X and am blown away by it even months later. Fantastic instrument, and you never have to tune it!!!
@@IvanEDaza This isnt true, the Yamaha N1 comes equipped with the Yamaha "Specialized Grand Piano Action", or SGPA for short, which is akin to a shorter Yamaha grand such as a C3, it is still an incredibly good action, but not quite a concert grand action as the pivot point is significantly shorter.
Hi, I need an advice on action. I'm planning to buy a digital piano for my daughter so she can start learning. She is only 3 right now. We had an upright Kawai, but I'm moving to an apartment and would like to get a digital. Would a child have a problem with muscle memory learning on digital keys
Nice interpretation and Sound incredible. It's really the sound of N1 or do you use midi or usb to host for change sound, and in what kind of library (Vienna Symphonic library Boesendorfer imperial ?). The result is full realistic.
+bruno blanchard Hey Bruno! Thanks for your comment :-) I have recorded the sound with an USB audio interface directly from the audio outputs of the N1 into my Mac. What you hear is the original sound. I have just added some reverb and readjusted the sound a little with an equalizer. The sound is pretty much the same when you play it with headphones.
+megahertz Thanks for your answer so fast. your performance and rendering is so beautiful that I still have one last question: do you use speakers connected to mac to hear directly what you play the keyboard with this superb sound? or do you send out sound from your Mac to the N1?
+bruno blanchard Thanks again :-) Regarding your question: when I play or practice, I just use either the build in speaker system during day time or headphones at night without any further equipment (In both cases, the sound is very nice an pretty, but without having the possibility to adjust the sound with an equalizer or similar things. It's still good enough though). For recording the sound in this video I directly connected the N1 to my Mac via the audio interface (symmetrical outputs on the bottom backside of the N1). This connection doesn't cut off the sound from the speaker system, so it is still possible to hear what you are playing while recording. I hope this answers your question...
You play very good :) and your piano is like gorgeous i can't take my eyes off of it! I wanna buy a digital piano but i don't know which model to chose and from which coutry to buy it since i live in morocco! Do you have any advice? :/
+Nihal Nihal Hey Nihal! Thank you very much for your comment! Concerning the country: I don't have any advice, since I don't know, what the best option would be for importing the piano. Concerning the model: I have an AvantGrand and like it very much. It's great to play on and it looks beautiful :-) Other non-hybrid pianos with plastic keys are not so nice to play in my opinion... Best wishes to Morocco.
+megahertz thank you for your response!! Yeah i have a model in mind already my only issue is the importing matter! But anyway thanks for replying and have fun with your piano :) and especioully keep recording videos
please can you recommend me a good but cheap digital piano? (around 1000€) I play Chopin's preludes, nocturnes, mazurkas but I really wanna start with his etudes, first ballade, 4th impromptu etc but i'm demotivated because my piano is garbage (yamaha p 35)...
Thats a very difficult question. I have a Yamaha CLP 585 which is "ok", but still kind of expensive (I payed something like 2500€ for it). I am not sure how responsive and realistic the Arius pianos from Yamaha are. Have you ever thought of renting an acoustic piano? Many dealers offer this for their acoustic pianos.
CallIndy Q. Yeah but probably all of this sounds/fills like a garbage :( if you interesting to buy used upright pianos you must knew a lot what exactly need to check.
Hey Chris! To be honest, I would try to find a nice and inspiring piano teacher and take lessons. It is so much easier to learn piano, if someone with a professional background is sitting right next to you and helps you finding your way through the score. The only important thing is that the teacher is nice, understanding and dedicated to music 😄
+WIZARD Z I agree with what megahertz, but you can find online teachers today which teach over skype. If you have a digital piano it's easy to connect it to a soundcard in the computer, buy a soundcard with 4 inputs so you can have both piano in stereo (2 inputs) and microphone connected and set it up with skype. That way the teacher is practically there in the same way. It can be cheaper also this way, bigger competition so prices must be competitive or else they are out! Just search on youtube a bit and then if you like how someone is playing and they offer lessons try some and see if it works. If budget is short I would recommend getting some books, I started off with buying all the Suzuki books at age 21 and all the Cd's that complement them also. Then I just plow through them one after the other, I did get quite a bit on my own but after a while it's good to have a teacher to help with pedal technique and even more so the complicated thrills that pop up here and there in classical music. Some music is very easy but you can get stuck on a thrill part for days because it's hard to decypher on your own. The benefit of playing the suzuki is that you have the cd's with them, always so much easier to play music you can hear someone else play first as a reference. Just looking at the clutter on a piece of paper called notes is quite intimidating. But don't give up I hope you don't see this as too complicated so you let go of the piano playing dream, I think many who became the greatest would not have become that if it wasn't for a big streak of luck having musical parents and getting in touch with great teachers. I wasn't fortunate with that but I did maintain some decent teachers on the way but I started late and in that way I had to struggle with some stuff that younger students learn easier, like site reading, I am still a shit site reader and I think if I started with that at age 7 it would be second nature like reading normal or riding a bike. The benefit of being a bad site reader made me into a really good memoriser, and I have noticed now when I picked up piano again after some years break that my site reading is a bit better but now my memorising is lacking. It's like when you read the music your brain don't want to memorise in the same way. And when you memorise your brain refuse to read the music on the paper, at least my brain. Good luck man, I really mean it, it's such a battlefield out there, not only trying to find teachers, but avoiding all idiots who just want to make it harder for you to reach your goals. Lots of jealous, scared, competitive thinking people who hate to see someone else succeed. Never give up and if someone refuse to help you, don't take it personal, just get at it again and find someone else who will help you, keep the dream alive and work hard, but work right. You can sit and learn to play great in 1 year with a good teacher, or you can sit 5 years alone and play the same 3-4 boring pieces of music you already know. So please try to get a teacher, try get the money and the time and you will be so glad you did. Once again, good luck and have fun!
***** Thank you :-) It's really cool, that you start taking piano lessons. Age doesn't matter in my opinion. I also startet quite late at an age of 15, took lessons for about 5 years and then stopped playing for over 14 years due to college and profession. Three years ago I started again playing the piano for myself and was amazed how much fun it is. Have fun with your first pieces of music. It will be great!
Thank you so much 😊 It’s straight from the piano. I am using the symmetric outputs on the backside of the piano and feed them directly into my audio interface. With GarageBand I’m adding some reverb and that’s it 😄
+Scott Nightingale Hi Scott! Chopin is a wonderful composer. Good choice :-) What about the a minor waltz (Op. posth.)? It's a great piece with a wonderful melody and very good to the enter the world of Chopin.
+Stéphane DELEAU Hey Stèphane! Thanks for your appreciation! My Avantgrand is pretty good. It is still not perfectly comparable to a good acoustic grand piano, but it is by far much better than any digital piano I have played up to now. It does indeed come close to playing a grand piano... I hope this answers your question.
Your playing is wonderful but somehow, Yamaha does not manage to produce acceptable sounds. As one of the best manufacturers of the planet, they really should come up with something way better than what they produced so far on the digital piano market... At least they should enable updating sound libraries. I would be glad to be able update my CLP 695 gp to have at least an acceprable sound ...Whatever, to my opinion you just deserve a CFX!!
I like how the wind blew outside when he start to play
Lovely playing....thoroughly enjoy everytime I hear...and great sounding Piano...
Best playing I never heard on a digital piano!!!
Really fantastic play continued !!!!!!!😀😀😀
Bravo , nice jab .... 👏👏👏
Sound of heaven, thank you young man you made my day.
In your channel you say, you are amateur, but this is absoluteley not amateur like! This is absolutely amazing! Very good!
Thank you :-)
Initially I thought a bit fast but... Man you nailed every note with beautiful expression. A very worthy rendition. Ps I've played the n1x and it is astonishingly good digital piano. The action allows for so much subtlety. Alas the price tag makes it only a dream for now.
Amazing playing! And I really like your piano.
A superb innovative instrument. By closing my eyes and just listening I Honestly cant tell the difference between the Avantgrand and an acoustic concert grand. Incidentally a fine performance of the Fantasie Impromptu.
Thank you so much ☺️
Lovely, great playing! Thank you for letting me ear it.
Wow! Your playing made my mind explode! Fantastic job!
Thank you very much 😀
Amazing...👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💕💕💕
Very nice playing! I've got an AvantGrand N1 as well. Very happy with it.
Zachary Forbes Thanks a lot :-) I'm glad you liked it. Have fun with your N1!
Dude, exceptional. Excellent dynamics and played with heart. Shows what a focused person can accomplish with desire (and a really nice Yamaha AvantGrand!). This piano brings out your best. Really nice.
D T Hi DT, thank you so much 😊
I'll try to keep going...
Congratulations. Very nice, you are a very good pianist.
An absolutely smashing performance. Thank you.
However, it's easy to see why digital pianos can never replace acoustic versions, especially when it comes to pieces like this being performed.
I’m a beginner with an N1x and your video was very inspiring!
One of the best versions I’ve ever heard of this piece
Maria Casemyr Vocal & Piano Dear Maria, thank you so much ☺️ This means a lot to me!
Wonderful!! Well played
I wish it was possible to like twice or more. Well done!
I just received my Yamaha Avantgrand N1. I hope I can be half as good as you someday.
Hi Mohamed! Thank you so much for your encouraging comment 😀 Have fun with your new N1 👍
Beautiful!!!👏👏👏
Thank you 👍😊
So beautiful the way you attack the keys! Love it
Hey Igor! Thanks for your very encouraging comment 😄!
Блестящее и мастерское исполнение.👏👏👏👍👍👍 Благодарю 🙏. А что за модель инструмента yamaha а дальше...?
Whenever i feel frustrated about piano i just watch this video to remind me why i choose the piano
😂how are you now anyway?
Great sound and playing
Dihelson Mendonca Thank you very much ☺️
Amazing performance. You make it look effortless.
Kenneth Hwang Hey Kenneth! It's good to hear, that it looks effortless 😄. But I really have to fight for those pieces. It's a lot of work and I am glad that I have a very good teacher who inspires me.
Well done!
Very good 👏🏻
Brilliant, that piece is in my to-do list.
+David Izquierdo Azzouz Thank you! Have fun with this piece. It's really fun to learn...!
Great playing! - wish I could afford a Yamaha like yours, but I'll never play as well as you (even in my dreams...). Even more impressive, since you started late (as I did), and also had a long period away from playing - though (at my basic level) I often find that being away from playing for a while, then coming back again to it, seems to improve my playing. Well done.
PhilRichH Hi Phil! I got the same impression: if you stay away from some pieces and lay them aside for some weeks, they tend to get better after that. Playing piano helps me a lot to keep my mind "structured".
Have fun with your practice an enjoy the music 😄
Thank for your thumbs up 😊
I think you play very well! I really enjoyed your performances on the N1X, Wow! - I work for a Yamaha dealer and I manager piano sales, teach piano, write music, and perform. I am building out a new website and I am wondering if I could embed these performances on our new website? I think my customers would appreciate hearing your playing when shopping for avant pianos. Let me know!
Very Nice Performance!!!!!!
Thank you 😀
すごいです！上手。
Superb!!!
esharp13 Thank you ☺️
Excellent playing! Did you record with an external mic or use midi with a vst ?
GREAT!
Thank you 😊
very good.....
Thanks a lot 😄
Super Spiel!
Dankeschön ☺️
great playing, i also bought N1 thanks to your videos, what type of keyboard sensitivity touch are you using ?
Hi Would you recommend this instead of a good vertical? I have to study far from home and in the apartment where I live I will have little choice.need a good feel for practice at home. That or upgrith piano with sylent system
You didn't ask me but I'd definitely recommend you look at the AvantGrand pianos. They have the acoustic action from Yamaha GRAND pianos, which would be preferable as a practice instrument to a silent upright. (If you want upright action on a hybrid piano I'd encourage you to check out the NU1X... all other hybrid pianos like the one in this video have GRAND piano action.)
I've owned the Yamaha N3X and am blown away by it even months later. Fantastic instrument, and you never have to tune it!!!
Upright piano will only make noise to you neighbor and destroy your fingers. Grand keyboard is a must if you want to have the real thing from piano.
Since this has the real action from a Yamaha concert grand, this is way superior than an upright piano
@@IvanEDaza This isnt true, the Yamaha N1 comes equipped with the Yamaha "Specialized Grand Piano Action", or SGPA for short, which is akin to a shorter Yamaha grand such as a C3, it is still an incredibly good action, but not quite a concert grand action as the pivot point is significantly shorter.
Can i ask how long do you play the piano? Its beautiful!
Hi, I need an advice on action. I'm planning to buy a digital piano for my daughter so she can start learning. She is only 3 right now. We had an upright Kawai, but I'm moving to an apartment and would like to get a digital. Would a child have a problem with muscle memory learning on digital keys
no not at all!
Nice interpretation and Sound incredible. It's really the sound of N1 or do you use midi or usb to host for change sound, and in what kind of library (Vienna Symphonic library Boesendorfer imperial ?). The result is full realistic.
+bruno blanchard Hey Bruno! Thanks for your comment :-) I have recorded the sound with an USB audio interface directly from the audio outputs of the N1 into my Mac. What you hear is the original sound. I have just added some reverb and readjusted the sound a little with an equalizer. The sound is pretty much the same when you play it with headphones.
+megahertz Thanks for your answer so fast. your performance and rendering is so beautiful that I still have one last question: do you use speakers connected to mac to hear directly what you play the keyboard with this superb sound? or do you send out sound from your Mac to the N1?
+bruno blanchard Thanks again :-) Regarding your question: when I play or practice, I just use either the build in speaker system during day time or headphones at night without any further equipment (In both cases, the sound is very nice an pretty, but without having the possibility to adjust the sound with an equalizer or similar things. It's still good enough though). For recording the sound in this video I directly connected the N1 to my Mac via the audio interface (symmetrical outputs on the bottom backside of the N1). This connection doesn't cut off the sound from the speaker system, so it is still possible to hear what you are playing while recording. I hope this answers your question...
+megahertz Thanks for all.
Great job, beautifully played! How do you like the N1? I'm thinking about getting it to replace my Kawai CE220. Do you think it's worth the price tag?
Mike Kushnir Hi Mike! Definitely 😄 For me it was really worth it, since this was the first instrument for me, which really resembles the "real thing".
Great job on this piece! I am curious what microphone you are using to pick up the sound. Whatever it is it's doing a good job.
You play very good :) and your piano is like gorgeous i can't take my eyes off of it!
I wanna buy a digital piano but i don't know which model to chose and from which coutry to buy it since i live in morocco! Do you have any advice? :/
+Nihal Nihal Hey Nihal! Thank you very much for your comment! Concerning the country: I don't have any advice, since I don't know, what the best option would be for importing the piano. Concerning the model: I have an AvantGrand and like it very much. It's great to play on and it looks beautiful :-) Other non-hybrid pianos with plastic keys are not so nice to play in my opinion... Best wishes to Morocco.
+megahertz thank you for your response!! Yeah i have a model in mind already my only issue is the importing matter! But anyway thanks for replying and have fun with your piano :) and especioully keep recording videos
please can you recommend me a good but cheap digital piano? (around 1000€) I play Chopin's preludes, nocturnes, mazurkas but I really wanna start with his etudes, first ballade, 4th impromptu etc but i'm demotivated because my piano is garbage (yamaha p 35)...
Thats a very difficult question. I have a Yamaha CLP 585 which is "ok", but still kind of expensive (I payed something like 2500€ for it). I am not sure how responsive and realistic the Arius pianos from Yamaha are. Have you ever thought of renting an acoustic piano? Many dealers offer this for their acoustic pianos.
ikaw na ang rich!
megahertz Here in Russia I can find easily an acoustic upright for about 300-400$
CallIndy Q. Yeah but probably all of this sounds/fills like a garbage :( if you interesting to buy used upright pianos you must knew a lot what exactly need to check.
Waow
Nice !! :D
Jorick Michiels 😊 Thanks!
Another Question what site do you recommend I learn piano from? For a Noob like me?
Hey Chris! To be honest, I would try to find a nice and inspiring piano teacher and take lessons. It is so much easier to learn piano, if someone with a professional background is sitting right next to you and helps you finding your way through the score. The only important thing is that the teacher is nice, understanding and dedicated to music 😄
+WIZARD Z I agree with what megahertz, but you can find online teachers today which teach over skype. If you have a digital piano it's easy to connect it to a soundcard in the computer, buy a soundcard with 4 inputs so you can have both piano in stereo (2 inputs) and microphone connected and set it up with skype. That way the teacher is practically there in the same way. It can be cheaper also this way, bigger competition so prices must be competitive or else they are out! Just search on youtube a bit and then if you like how someone is playing and they offer lessons try some and see if it works. If budget is short I would recommend getting some books, I started off with buying all the Suzuki books at age 21 and all the Cd's that complement them also. Then I just plow through them one after the other, I did get quite a bit on my own but after a while it's good to have a teacher to help with pedal technique and even more so the complicated thrills that pop up here and there in classical music. Some music is very easy but you can get stuck on a thrill part for days because it's hard to decypher on your own.
The benefit of playing the suzuki is that you have the cd's with them, always so much easier to play music you can hear someone else play first as a reference. Just looking at the clutter on a piece of paper called notes is quite intimidating. But don't give up I hope you don't see this as too complicated so you let go of the piano playing dream, I think many who became the greatest would not have become that if it wasn't for a big streak of luck having musical parents and getting in touch with great teachers. I wasn't fortunate with that but I did maintain some decent teachers on the way but I started late and in that way I had to struggle with some stuff that younger students learn easier, like site reading, I am still a shit site reader and I think if I started with that at age 7 it would be second nature like reading normal or riding a bike. The benefit of being a bad site reader made me into a really good memoriser, and I have noticed now when I picked up piano again after some years break that my site reading is a bit better but now my memorising is lacking. It's like when you read the music your brain don't want to memorise in the same way. And when you memorise your brain refuse to read the music on the paper, at least my brain.
Good luck man, I really mean it, it's such a battlefield out there, not only trying to find teachers, but avoiding all idiots who just want to make it harder for you to reach your goals. Lots of jealous, scared, competitive thinking people who hate to see someone else succeed. Never give up and if someone refuse to help you, don't take it personal, just get at it again and find someone else who will help you, keep the dream alive and work hard, but work right. You can sit and learn to play great in 1 year with a good teacher, or you can sit 5 years alone and play the same 3-4 boring pieces of music you already know. So please try to get a teacher, try get the money and the time and you will be so glad you did.
Once again, good luck and have fun!
megahertz A
megahertz
You're a god
kedd nelson Wow! Thanks for your overwhelming comment 😄
how much OTD did you get that N1 for? In the market
+Christian P I bought it in Germany three years ago for 6500 Euro (which is roughly 7000 USD).
Thanks your an amazing player. I am more crazy like starting to take piano lessions at a late age of 34
***** Thank you :-) It's really cool, that you start taking piano lessons. Age doesn't matter in my opinion. I also startet quite late at an age of 15, took lessons for about 5 years and then stopped playing for over 14 years due to college and profession. Three years ago I started again playing the piano for myself and was amazed how much fun it is.
Have fun with your first pieces of music. It will be great!
Much to commend here. How do you like your N1?
I really like ist very much. It's my practice piano at night and its a quite good and pleasant sounding piano.
What model is your piano?
Why did you go for the N1 instead of the N2? I'm guessing N3 is to big or to expensive.
Christian Jimenez Hi Christian! That was just a matter of budget 😉. N2 is nearly twice the price of a N1
Beautiful performance! Your piano sounds great also. Is the sound straight from the piano or are you using a virtual piano voice?
Thank you so much 😊
It’s straight from the piano. I am using the symmetric outputs on the backside of the piano and feed them directly into my audio interface. With GarageBand I’m adding some reverb and that’s it 😄
Incredible! I want to start learning some Chopin. I never usually play this genre. What piece do you recommend me to start on?
+Scott Nightingale Hi Scott! Chopin is a wonderful composer. Good choice :-) What about the a minor waltz (Op. posth.)? It's a great piece with a wonderful melody and very good to the enter the world of Chopin.
Great job. What do you think about your Yamaha : is it really like an acoustic one ? thanks.
+Stéphane DELEAU Hey Stèphane! Thanks for your appreciation!
My Avantgrand is pretty good. It is still not perfectly comparable to a good acoustic grand piano, but it is by far much better than any digital piano I have played up to now. It does indeed come close to playing a grand piano... I hope this answers your question.
Yes It's clear. Thank you very much.
Nicely done, but I think tempo is a bit too fast…
Your playing is wonderful but somehow, Yamaha does not manage to produce acceptable sounds. As one of the best manufacturers of the planet, they really should come up with something way better than what they produced so far on the digital piano market... At least they should enable updating sound libraries. I would be glad to be able update my CLP 695 gp to have at least an acceprable sound ...Whatever, to my opinion you just deserve a CFX!!
Sonunda mi diyezi vermiyorsun
Sounds bad
I was going to click a like only to realize that I already did a long time ago.