J.S. Bach: Invention No. 1 in C Major (Teaching & Performance Videos)
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Who is learning this piece during quarantine?
Absolutely! I have been playing way more since quarantine! If only my strain injuries wouldn't keep returning! There is nothing more fun to me than practising for hours. And this piece is so amazing it actually brings tears to my eyes.
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This is above my keyboard skill level, which hasn't stopped me from trying the first few bars. Merci for your lesson.
Hello Lawrence, thank you for your kind and appreciated words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. I'm really glad you are trying a few bars of this piece. Best wishes to you and with your playing! 🎶
Dear Sally, Thank you for your generosity! The brilliance, beauty, and passion you breathe into this composition and others is fantastic.
You are the most articulate and poetic in communicating great music. What a beautiful mind and spirit you are. I'm "self-teaching" music theory and piano, and of course with all the helpful resources I can find out there. Began about 6 months ago and am beginning to learn this invention.. my first baroque work. The most ambitious work for me to date. So grateful to you, Dear one.
Best wishes,
Alex
Hello Alex, thank you for your thoughtful and eloquent words about this video. I really appreciate hearing that it is helpful and a good resource for you. It is admirable that you are self-teaching and ready to learn this wonderful invention after just 6 months!
I wish all the best to you with your continuing piano work, progress, and joy with the journey. 🎶
There is truly something to the art of presentation! Absolutely beautiful! Love your playing and teaching.❤
Hello Elizabeth, thank you for your generous and beautiful words about the presentation, playing, and teaching.💖It means a great deal to me to hear your responses, and encourages me to continue with this work of making the videos and charts. 🙏
With very best wishes to you and with your playing! 🦋
i wish i could find a teacher like you. all the piano teachers iv come across are so apathetic about all the music.
I appreciate hearing your enthusiasm for my approach with the teaching videos. I wish you all the best in finding a teacher that makes the music come alive for you!
Do you have any tips on how to avoid the lifting of the fingers when playing the "trills" (not sure if that is called trills: i mean when playing C B C faster). What I mean is that when i play this my hands get unconfortable and i put my hand in an uncommon position
piano teachers apathetic about all the music ??? You should move to another town or city. Must be very boring in your town.
Damn so true ((wish I had such a cool teacher.
Your videos are a huge help to me. And I am a 5 string banjo player. you really help me understand this material when no one else in my area can.
I love your videos! I started learning Bach's Invention No. 1, and your beautiful playing and teaching is bringing it to life, and helping me understand it.
+TheKeyboardguy5012 Thanks so much for your kind words! Best wishes to you!
Excellent lesson! I love the explanation of compositional devices.
Hurray for Sally. This is such a great lesson. Sally, you are so clear. Old Bach would be pleased to have you teach his pieces.
Dr. Ronald Fernandez, Fernandez Music, Anacortes, Washington
Hello FernandezMusic, thank you for your wonderful words. I so appreciate everything you have said, and all best wishes to you!
I've got this one fully learned and am just polishing and improving the rough spots. A month ago when I first started this, it seemed like I'd never get it. My brain was struggling so hard to maintain independence of the left and right hands. I could do them separately but when I tried to combine the two parts, it was a mess. Now I can literally play the whole thing with my eyes closed!
I've now moved on to #2 and #8. Now I'm starting all over again because the c-minor invention is a whole new level of complexity over the first one. The ramp up in difficulty is quite noticeable.
I did #8
@@thecooler007 me too I did #8 (and #4) first, now just starting this one
When did you start playing piano?
She is so good 😻 she grabs all of my attentions during the whole class ..Gosh I wish I could afford a piano teacher like her ..🥰🤠🧋☕🍵
Hello Alma, a belated thank you for your lovely and very appreciated words! 🎵
This is my second time commenting on one of your videos. Absolutely amazing work! Your enthusiasm is infectious and it is like sitting there next to you while you teach.
Hello The senate, thank you again for your gracious and thoughtful words! I so appreciate your enthusiastic comments, each so lovely and personable! I'm glad to know that you are engaging as a viewer as if this were a face to face lesson in person! Very best wishes to you and your life filled with beautiful music!
I like your style Sally. Thanks so much for the wonderful lesson!
I struggled with this piece as a child years ago and I am still struggling since I picked up the piano again 3 months ago. This Bach piece is one of the music got stuck in my head for decades. Until it gets to repetitions of 16th notes for both hands, I can manage to play from the childhood memories. But I never thought the Invention was beautiful music until I watched your tutorial video. The way you explain and play as you do, it is indeed a beautiful piece. I am encouraged to continue practicing for I really want to be able to play it in one beautiful flow. Thank you so much for this video!!!
Hello Tam SK, thank you very much for your kind words! I am so pleased to hear that the video helped you to better appreciate the beauty in this piece, and that you are encouraged to continue practicing and polishing it until it is "one beautiful flow." I wish you all the best with your practicing, and your enjoyment of every step of the process!
Waw. I can feel your presence. Thank you Sally for making me smile
So nice! ... thanks, Raymond!
Great teacher!
It's so great! Thank you Ms Sally.I will always keep track of your lesson.
+Du Thank you so much!
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I love your detailed explanations and breakdown of the piece, they’re so clear. I also love that you explain the compositional elements as well. I learned a lot in just a few minutes. Thank you very much.
Hello Jimmy, thank you (belatedly) for your wonderful and very appreciated words about this tutorial. I'm glad you found the explanations & breakdown helpful! Best wishes to you. 🎵
Dear Sally, thank you so much for this lesson. You're so clear and it's like an evidence. I know now what to do to play this invention. So thank you !
Hello Catherine, thank you very much for your wonderful words! I really appreciate hearing that the lesson is helping you to learn and play this great Invention No. 1. All best wishes to you on your musical journey!
Thank you for sharing this. It is very helpful to hear your analysis, and it helps me understand the music more. You are a natural and gifted teacher. I am really enjoying learning the piano again after decades of not playing!
Thank you, Grace! I really appreciate your kind words and am very happy to hear that you are playing the piano again. I'm sure it will come back quickly for you, and bring you so much joy!
Your enthusiasm is contagious and will spur me to work harder to iron out my rough spots in this great piece. I heard someone say that playing these Inventions is like getting a lesson from Bach. Watching your videos is like having his beautiful substitute teacher take over the lesson for the day. I enjoy these videos almost as much as playing the music. Gracias.
Hello Leftbanker, thank you so much for your wonderful words! I am touched and honored by what you have said. Very best wishes to you with your practicing and mastering of this wonderful invention!
I just listened to Lisitsa play 2 part Invention 1 on UA-cam and it was so fast it was scary. I’m sticking with Sally.
I listened to this a second time and discovered the conversation between the clefs quite charming.
Hello Joseph, thank you for your comment! You are so right, it is often only with a second or third (or 30th!) listening that we hear new things! I like your description about the charming conversation between the clefs. :-) Best wishes to you.
Thank you so much for your fantastic tuition! You are so eloquent, I will learn with great pleasure and hopefully master this and others one day.
I have found Sally's charts VERY useful. Totally worth it. I'm teaching myself the Bach Inventions and Sally is my 1st stop. Thanks
Hello jalans, thank you so much for your wonderful comment. I really appreciate hearing that you like the charts and that the lessons are a good resource for you! Best wishes with your piano playing and your learning of the Bach Inventions!
I’m SO thankful to have quite accidentally found this channel. Hands-down, the best teaching videos for this material (the Bach Inventions) I’ve seen yet. I’ve been playing piano for 40 years, and teaching it (and guitar and several other instruments) almost as long; but in my very rural, culture-starved community, most of my students unfortunately don’t make it out of the first two or three method books before football, dating, and farming take control of their lives, and that ends most young piano careers before Bach is even in distant view. I myself got a 2 year music degree, and simultaneously studied piano tuning and repair (among many other things, including Information Technology and Electronics), but, per my family’s demands, took a job in a dangerous factory because “music isn’t a real job”, and subsequently crushed off my right index finger in a machine that I should never have even been in the same room as to begin with. Somehow though, through countless surgeries, bone grafts (donor bone from my wrist), and a year of physical therapy to re-learn how to use my hand again, I somehow found myself with a reattached and rebuilt (but grotesquely misshapen) right index finger with, miraculously, about 50% functionality (I was told that EVERY other surgeon would have just completely amputated and called it a day). Somehow, I guess out of pure fight-spirit, although my dreams of some day playing the Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto with a live orchestra were crushed (along with my finger), I found a new path, and actually became a BETTER musician AFTER the accident, and actually DID make a successful career out of music; continuing to teach beginners, working with major artists on stage and in studio in rock and country music, and even becoming the composer and pianist for “The Official FolkLife Play” of the State Of Georgia, called, “Swamp Gravy”; true stories of the history of rural Southwest Georgia set into musical theater format, for which I write and perform all music. We are now, at this moment, celebrating our 30th Anniversary… I never seriously got back to classical piano though, and I still want to. I have a goal of playing ALL the Bach 2 and 3 part Inventions, and who knows, maybe even Rachmaninoff again some day, albeit, the “9 1/2 Fingered” versions, and on top of only having 9 good fingers and 1 “gimpy” finger, I also have UNUSUALLY TINY hands! 12 YEAR OLD KIDS HAVE BIGGER HANDS THAN I DO! LOL! … So, I’m just PPPERFECT for Rachmaninoff! LOL!…
… All that said, my classical piano learning stopped dead in its tracks with my accident, so I never got a deep understanding of: BACH’S ORNAMENTATION! I’m hoping your videos will help me sort it all out (I SO wish I could have private or video chat lessons with you!), but I am still VERY CONFUSED over all the different ways I hear Bach’s ornaments executed on these Inventions and on other pieces. EVERY SINGLE PIANIST I see playing these Inventions - world class, and very credible pianists! - plays the ornamentation differently; EVERY ONE… All GREAT, but all DIFFERENT… What’s a “beginning again” classical piano student already at the upper edge of “middle age” to do, to learn these “right”? Any advice would be SO GREATLY APPRECIATED! … Thanks SO much, and thanks so much also for your wonderful work!
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Hello Steve, thank you for your very kind words about my teaching videos! I am so sorry about your hand accident. This is a horror story, and I can barely imagine how traumatic it must have been. You have tremendous courage, and I'm sure your story will be an inspiration for many people who read your comment. It's wonderful that you have gone on to teach music and to play the piano despite your index finger limitations. *** You ask a very good question about the ornaments and the many different ways you hear them played. Ornamentation became highly developed in Bach's day, and every keyboard player was expected to incorporate an extensive list of ornament options in their playing. For the student first learning about Baroque ornaments, there are two that are most often used, the trill and the mordant. The trill begins on the note above the written note, and there are at least four notes. The mordant begins on the written note, and there are only three notes. Many Bach piano books will include a page with the names of the different kinds of ornaments and musical examples showing their notation. You can also search this on the internet. I do agree with you that the variety of ornamentation we hear from many of the top Bach specialists shows the wide range of possibilities regarding ornamentation. I hope this helps you regarding this subject! I wish you and your students all the best with your musical journeys. 🎵
@@SallyChristianMusic … Thanks so much! I’m looking very forward to watching and carefully studying ALL of your videos! 😊😊😊
@@SteveHacker Hello Steve, thank you for your kind and appreciated words! I hope the videos are a good resource for you! 🎵
Well, I loved your lesson! Many thanks!
Thank you. This is very helpful as I'm learning this invention. You are very inspiring.
Hello DQDebra, thank you for your kind and thoughtful message! Many happy hours to you with your learning & playing of Bach's C Major Invention!
Wonderful teaching , insights and passion for the music. Thank you!
Hello Youssef, thank you for your enthusiastic and thoughtful words. I really appreciate your generosity, and all best wishes to you!
LOVE Bach's "Inventions"...can listen to his compositions forever...sighs...and you, MS Sally C, make the playing of them and the construction of them seem so "easily done"! And I enjoy your insights to how the pieces were "done".or "built"..so fascinating - had not seen that done at all! As a kid, I originally learned piano from the mother of a "NYC MET Opera" Star (Eleanor Steber) and I still just wish you would play them fully...since I love JS Bach so much...
I love this piece so much ❤️ Thank you!
Thank you, Maria! Best wishes to you!
Thank you for your video's!
It took me over a month of working on the piece until I could understand most of the material and ideas presented in your video but now most of them not only make sense but they are helping me to take it to the next level and really understand and appreciate this music much more. Thanks.
Hello Hristo, thank you for your wonderful words! I really appreciate everything you have said, and am so happy to know that the lesson has helped you to better learn, understand, and appreciate Bach's C Major Invention. All best wishes to you, and much enjoyment with your piano playing!
Wonderful!
Hello Revangel Rose, thank you so much! Best wishes to you.
Wonderful analysis! Thank you so much.
Hello HotSketch, thank you for your kind and enthusiastic words! I'm so glad you liked the analysis! Best wishes to you.
Thanks for the tips. You play beautifully
Hello Back2backband1, thank you for your very nice words. I'm glad the lesson was helpful!
Love your interpretation!
Thank you!
Thank you so much for the lesson! It’s really cleared and encouraging! I feel so honored to watch this! Cheers from Bangkok ♥️
Hello Kris, thank you so much for your kind and generous words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. I really appreciate hearing that the lesson was clear and encouraging, and I wish you all the best with your playing! 💕
My piano teacher gave me this piece to learn during the summer. I don't really like this piece, because this piece is played so many times by the beginner... Then, I watched your video, and now, I think I will take pleasure to learn and play this piece... Thanks to you ! Thanks a lot :)
Hello CynthiaLG, although it has been 4 years since you posted your lovely comment, I have just now seen it! Please accept by belated thank you for letting me know this lesson gave you a new "pleasurable perspective" on this piece. :-) I hope you have enjoyed playing it over the last 4 years, and I wish you all the best with your piano studies!
Just love this. Love playing it !!! Think this was a wonderful explanation. X
Hello Satie girl, a belated but appreciated thank you for your enthusiastic and delightful message!
Excellent lesson. Many thanks.
Hello Bernard, thank you for your kind & much appreciated words! I'm glad the lesson was helpful, and all best wishes to you!
Thanks for the help
I took many piano lessons when I was a little younger and after a long break purchased the Urtext inventions and thought I’d really slowly work my way through them to get some technique and ideas back. As primarily a jazz musician some of these simple compositional ideas are fascinating and will definitely become integrated in my improvisational play! Thanks so much for these videos and lessons they’re definitely enriching my self study of Bach significantly!
Hello Spencer, thank you for your wonderful comment. I'm very happy you are coming back to the piano again and studying some of the foundational works of Bach. Absolutely, these will help you to expand your compositional ideas and technique. I appreciate hearing that the videos and lessons are helping you! With all best wishes to you and with your musical journey. 🎵
Thank you so much Sally! You have helped me understand all the aspects of this piece that I am playing for my music class at school
Hello Sarah, thank you for your kind and generous words about this tutorial! You are very welcome, it is my pleasure. I wish you a wonderful performance playing this piece for your school music class. 🎵
This video is very useful for me.
Thanks for your work:)
Can't decide which is more gorgeous, the song or you. Thanks for sharing, am working on this one too
Hello DC piano, thank you for your very nice words! Best wishes to you with your work on this piece!
you are the best piano teacher god bless you and love you so much thanks for sharing this videos
Hello Saya, thank you for your beautiful and inspired words. I really appreciate your heartfelt acknowledgements, and wish the very best to you and with your playing!
Watching this makes me want to go study intervals, im self taught so, will definitely be helpful. I want to he able to identify intervals as fast as her :)
Thank you, very helpful and much appreciated. You have opened the piece up for me.
+Tony Bayliss Hi, Tony, and thank you for letting me know the lesson has helped you to better understand this piece! My best wishes to you!
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So nice to hear this, ... Thank you!
Great lesson!
Thank you so much! Best wishes to you.
Oh this is very helpful, thankyou. I learn alot from your videos, you break it down and explain it so well that it is easier to play.
Hello Annie, it's so nice to hear from you again, and I really appreciate you telling me the ways that this video was helpful. All the best to you and your piano playing!
Miss Sally, I have no words to say how touched I am with your lesson. So profound. Astonishing, really. I began with the piano this last January and I've been playing Burgmuller 25s and started some sonatinas, and Bach's Inventionen. I love the way you explain the structure of the piece, the little details differing a barroque piece from one of the romantic period, etc. This really helps to grasp the real pourpose of this opus: get a taste for composition. Subscribed.
Oh, and I love the sound of this Yamaha, as well as the cristal clear Bösendorfer form other videos.
Hello Gabriel! Thank you for your generous & enthusiastic words. I'm delighted to hear that the videos are helping you and are giving you extra and useful information. Learning the Bach Inventions will be a most valuable & rewarding part of your daily practice routine for many years to come. I wish you all the best with your piano studies!
Thank you. That's really encouraging.
Thank you so much for the video!
You are very welcome, it is my pleasure! Best wishes to you. :-)
Thanks for a very clear explanation.
Hello Lar M, thank you for your kind words which I am most happy to hear. Best wishes to you!
You are an amazing teacher and the chart is so smart! I am at the beginner level (Bach Minuet G Major level), and love Bach, wish I could find a teacher with your teaching style.
Can't believe I never came across this channel earlier in life. Great content! Consider me subscribed for life.
Hello rthmjohn, thank you for your wonderful comment! Your words of support are much appreciated and so nice to hear. :-)
All best wishes with your music!
Very helpful, thank you Sally
Hello Jeremy, thank you for your kind and much appreciated words! I'm so glad to hear that the lesson was helpful, and I wish you all the best with your playing! 🎶
You are an incredible teacher.
Hello rootTheory Records, thank you so much for your wonderful and much appreciated words! Best wishes to you. :-)
Agree inventions should be required in study of classical piano. Even though Bach wrote for clavichord or harpsichord which was early keyboard instruments. The forte piano came out later in Bach's life. He did approve the Silbermann Piano. 73
A great lesson on a beautiful piece of music! One of my musical goals is to play all of the inventions and sinfonias. Thank you for sharing this, you are a great teacher!
Hello Laurie, thank you for your very kind words, and also for expressing your musical goals. I aspire to this worthy and rewarding musical endeavor as well, and hope you too will play these for your entire life! Best wishes to you!
Very nice explained. Very good job.
Hello Zurab, thank you so much for your kind and very appreciated words! Best wishes to you. 🎵
Thanks, this was highly informative. Excellent playing, by the way.
I agree, she is an excellent teacher. I love that music! She is the best analysis the piece and teaching. I have learn more skills from her.Thanks!
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Great teacher. Thanks for explaining this Bach Invention 1. In C.
Hello Betty, thank you for your kind and much appreciated words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. Best wishes to you.
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Thank you very much! 🎹
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Imma Sally fan! Wish on the bach videos she would mention some finger suggestions
Excellent lesson, Thank you ms Sally.. Gbu always
Hello Jane, thank you for your generous and much appreciated words! I'm so glad you liked the lesson, and I wish you blessings and much joy with your playing!
Thank you so much, your video helped me to play this invention better❤
Hello Paria, thank you for your kind and much appreciated words! I'm so happy to hear that the lesson helped you with your playing of this wonderful invention. 🎶 Best wishes to you and with your musical journey.
Thank you very much. I enjoy the class a lot. Congratulations for the channel
Thank you, Javier, for your kind words. Best wishes to you!
please give me feedback on the one i uploaded. thanks in advance
Thank you so much for your videos on Bach’s Inventions!
They are HIGHLY inspiring and insightful.
Because of you I have now started to learn them :-)
They might be slightly above my skill level though, because even if I have no problem playing the pieces with hands separate, when I try to play them with hands together I get nosebleeds and smoke puffing out of my ears.
+Sprellic Ultima Thank you for your kind words! I am delighted to hear that you are starting to learn these wonderful pieces. Be patient with playing hands together. With slow, consistent (always the same fingerings!) & accurate practice, one day the patterns will become internalized in your fingers and mind, and it will feel effortless! Best wishes to you!
nice performance at the end of the video!
Hello Diego, thank you for your kind words about the performance of the piece! All best wishes to you!
This is really awesome!!! My charts are covered in notes now, and I really love the satellite view board; very clever, clear and helpful :)
Hello Megan, I am delighted to read your words about the chart, and especially about the Satellite View! This is my favorite part of the chart package, too, because it shows the sections of the entire piece at one glance! Thank you for letting me know these are helping you, and I wish you the very best with your playing!
"That sixteenth rest means something!" or "I always ask my students to do it with their eyes closed. Then they know it!" It's keen insights like this that make your videos so valuable. Like all the others, thank you so much for posting this one, too! (P.S. Although you're only talking to the camera, your videos also have a certain intimacy--I always feel like you're speaking directly to me.)
Thank you so much for your wonderful words about these videos! I especially appreciate you quoting some of the phrases from the lesson that had meaning for you. While I am looking at the camera, I am also visualizing interested listeners just beyond the camera. Thank you for being one of them! With best wishes to you. 🎵
Thank you!
Thank you! ... it is my pleasure. :-) Best wishes to you.
Dear teacher it's so pleasure to seeing you play every note with those piano classic masterpiece !In my neighborhood.. it's always about the black culture jazz blues music for shows and money ! none classical piano music Sense at all .. it's so sad ! Because classic music it's so so beautiful,and the piano song it's BIG part of that !! Thank you so much play that beautiful music for us !! 💗💗❤️❤️
Hello Alma, a belated thank you for your heartfelt and very beautiful message! With best wishes to you! 🎵
Greetings Professor. I love your class. Congratulations!!! Bach is my favorite .... I want to learn how to interpret the jaws and embellishments of the Baroque period .... You can help ... thank you
Hello Kan Kan, thank you for your enthusiasm about the lesson and your wonderfully descriptive words regarding embellishments of the Baroque period! Bach is also one of my favorites, and I'm glad to be of help. I wish you all the best with your playing!
Muchas gracias maestra sus tutoriales me ayudan mucho un saludo desde el Perú
¡Gracias Juana por tus amables palabras! ¡Estoy tan feliz de que los tutoriales están ayudando! ¡Mejores deseos para usted!
Good piano teacher in my book. 73
Thank you for your kind and much appreciated words! Best wishes to you. 🎵
Thank YOU!
Hello oh mygiita, thank you for your kind words. :-) Best wishes to you and with your musical journey!
I actually hated invention 1, but thanks to this video you’ve helped me to see that piece from another point of view, thanks!
Hello Life in Bricks, thank you for your wonderful words! I really appreciate hearing that this video gave you a diffferent and more positive perspective about Invention 1. This is music to my ears! 🎵 Best wishes to you.
I am learning this for my jury performance. I loved your performance and explanation of it.
Hello David, thank you for your very kind words about the lesson and performance. I wish you all the best with your upcoming jury performance, and continuing musical journey!
SallyChristianMusic Thanks so much! Love your videos.
@@DavidPNeff Thank you! :-)
SallyChristianMusic I’ll be sure to upload a video when we are finished and would love to have your review.
@@DavidPNeff Sounds good!
Nice one!
Thank you! :-)
We are playing bach invention #1 together (daughter and daddy) thank you for inspiration. Her piano teacher says it will be a summer project.
Hello CoinPro, and thank you for your delightful message! I'm so glad the lesson has provided inspiration for you. I can visualize all the wonderful hours you and your daughter will have learning this piece together. Best wishes to you both!
Thank you so much.
I really love this piece, so wonderful to have the compositional analysis in this video, love too the anecdote with the voice, letting the phrases breathe. I really want to play this, I'm coming from guitar and studying composition, got a piano and the Faber books semi recently . I think these would be good for a lot of things, two voices, left hand. I think I'm still a bit beginner for this though, unfortunately :/ I'm going to learn this invention 1st though I know it! This video will be my go to! Can't wait until I can play these, and the fugues, someday.
Hello Ken, thank you so much for your enthusiastic words about this lesson and the analysis! I think it's wonderful that you will be learning this piece and other Bach compositions for keyboard. I really appreciate hearing that you will be using this video as a guide! With all best wishes to you and with your exciting musical journey with the piano! 🎵
Thanks for the wonderful explanation! (:
Hello Chris, thank you for your kind and much appreciated words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure to help. Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎵
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Vielen Dank, Mohamad. Mein Bestes auch für Sie!
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you show ppl the beauty of invention 1 who dont see it on their own. blessup Gyal. ❤️💪🏿.
Hello Elbee, thank you for your meaningful and very appreciated words. This is one of the nicest things a teacher could hear! :-)
Best wishes and blessings to you.
@@SallyChristianMusic ahhh the pleasure is mine! much love. 🔊🔊🔊.
Great teaching and also showing how smart J.S. Bach could interweave 2 voices by just using melody into a perfect composition, something many modern composers lack off...
Hello Jazz Katua, thank you for your wonderful comment! I agree that it is amazing how Bach could weave a complete and perfect tapestry using the melodies of just two voices! :-) All best wishes to you.
@@SallyChristianMusic Hi Sally,
I noticed your interest into Spanish Music and into the Music of Albéniz; my personal favorite is Córdoba from Op. 232 - 4; also many of his pieces were successfully transferred to guitar pieces which sound beautifully! But I'm sure you'll also know the performance of Alicia de Larrocha...
I'm Spanish myself and I love the way Paco de Lucia 'modernized' the Flamenco Scene; he was a GENIUS together with Camerón de la Isla...
But still in the first place I remain a really true BIG J.S. Bach Music Lover! He's my Musical Father sort of speak; His Music is always Intelligent, Emotional, Mind-Blowing, ... Never 'commercial' like Mozart sometimes had to do.
Wishing you also all the best & Stay Safe in these Corona times...
@@SallyChristianMusic BTW, I liked that Satellite View! It gave a completely other view onto the Composition.
@@MiskoKatua Thank you for your lovely message! How interesting that you mention Córdoba! I just uploaded my performance & teaching video of Córdoba two weeks ago! Here is the link if you would like to watch it: ua-cam.com/video/qRmNjAo7Z9A/v-deo.html
BTW: Alicia de Larrocha was an enormous influence and role model for me. I heard her play the complete Iberia in San Francisco in 1986. It had such a profound impact on me that I determined on the spot to perform the complete cycle in recital. Two decades later I performed Iberia in concert throughout California, and concluded with UA-cam video recordings of the cycle last year. Mis mejores deseos para usted!
@@MiskoKatua Thank you!! The Satellite View and companion Color Structural Analysis View are my favorite parts of the chart package! They are the map of the piece. :-)
Nice analysis
Thank you so much! Best wishes to you.
Great lesson.. thank you so much.
Great. 🖒
Thank you, Ricardo! Best wishes to you.
@@SallyChristianMusic u 2 Sally. Piano is amazing.😂
Found your channel in last hour and I'm delighted. You play the things I play, but your knowledge and expertise is better. Do you sign up students remotely?
Hello CoinPro, and thank you for your very nice words! At the present time, I do not teach remotely, but I appreciate your asking. My best wishes to you!
Bach means brook in German. This invention flows just like it and finally ends in the ocean of Bach's genius.
Hello Bhaarath, thank you for your exquisite and extraordinary words! You are right that Bach means brook in German. Even Bach's hand-written manuscripts look like little waves! Your amazing description "just like the brook, this piece finally ends in the ocean of Bach's genius" will be forever etched in my mind and heart. 🙏 With very best wishes to you.
Again many thanks for this lesson. I am a beginner and have serious problems in hand indépendance with this piece. How to get past this obstacle?
Try practicing hands apart and then practicing hands together one measure at a time
Dear Sally, I keep coming back to this great lesson of yours. It would be very helpful, if you could comment on how to achieve the liveliness and lightheartedness that your play of the Invention No 1 shows. Recording myself practicing it very slowly reveals an inaccuracy and unevenness (I believe both I can handle), but also a sluggishness in the key releases (I am not sure what to do about that) that is hard to detect when playing fast, but that is likely there at any speed. Thank you so much, and I hope that my question is valuable to the other commentator here.
Hello Axel, thank you for your very nice words about the lesson and the playing! I appreciate hearing that you return to this video repeatedly. :-) In answer to your question, achieving the liveliness and lightheartedness just takes time. It took me a lifetime of study developing technique and musical understanding to play as I do now. I started piano at the age of 6, and have practiced almost every day of my life. When I was regularly performing in public, I was practicing 5 hours a day. The author Malcolm Gladwell writes about the "10,000 hours" it takes to become proficient in any endeavor. There is no shortcut, one must "do the work." I wish you the best with your playing and with your consistent practicing. Over time as you develop your muscles, finger strength, and control, you will little by little be able to produce the sounds you desire. You are already doing good work by listening to your playing, and knowing that you would like something different. Stay with it- I am pulling for you!
SallyChristianMusic Hello Sally, Thank you for this sobering comment. I’ve had many years of piano lessons when I was a child and adolescent, but I believe I did not have an appreciation for the details and did not learn how to really improve. In this specific Invention, there are “micro learnings” in many of the measures that can be easily overlooked. Regular and effective practice based on detailed and actionable feedback can really make a difference. I e.g. discovered over the past weeks since you wrote your answer that I had unknowingly taken shortcuts to overshadow a lack of proper technique, manifesting in inaccuracies and a certain unevennesses. Thank you for having guided me to that outcome. I read somewhere that it is insufficient to practice until a piece works out, but to keep practicing until it cannot fail anymore, which really marks a very different level of proficiency.
@@ajsworld77 Hello Axel, I am very glad to see your reply, and that my candid feedback led to a positive outcome for you. It takes courage, faith, and patience with the process, and you have demonstrated all of these. Please continue in this direction that will most certainly give you the solid foundation you want and deserve. With all best wishes and success to you!
if it has subtitle that's prefect
This is a hard piece. any extra tips?
In case anyone's interested in music for 2 pianos... I've just completed writing arrangements of all of Bach's 2 part inventions. One piano part remains as Bach's original, whilst the other plays a new additional piano part. Available via my website: www.simonpeberdymusic.com
Lovely, do you also play JS Bach inventions 2 to 8 perhaps?
Hello Adel, thank you for your kind words! Yes, I play all of the 15 Bach Two-Part Inventions. You can find these teaching and performance videos on my channel as well as many of the Bach Sinfonias. Best wishes to you. 🎵
@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you, will watch them all