How To Play SOFTLY - 2 Tips For Beauty & Control

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[@jeffh5388]

Thanks Josh. Great info. You have mastered the soft technique. Very technical in nature. Cheers.

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[@BEZONANCE]

god bless your soul for all these free golden nuggets, Thank you Josh!

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You play soo beautifully Josh you must publish more pieces for us🙏🙏🙏🍀🌈🍀

[@juanferrequetglas4444]

THANKS! I have been working on the Ravel Pavane for a few weeks, and voicing + pp is a hard combo... this is very opportune 😅

[@tonymeyer777]

I found your Chanel because of your eczema video. However. You're a badass pianist. I support it all ( I don't have severe eczema, just a small.patch on hands, but I took some tips from your video) I think take up trying to play the paino one day. You're the man.

[@cpt.2944]

Hi Josh.
I just noticed there's a comment chain in this video's comments section that's just promotion or something. You might want to delete that. It's not related to piano or music or anything relevant.

[@eliotnorman3133]

wonderful summary of both approaches, in my 2 note phrases in early beethoven I exaggerate a bit the down up with wrist and hand and arm to hopefully close the phrase with lightness, thanks again

[@LuluBodhi]

Timely and wonderful, this video is! Lately, I have been watching Claudio Arrau videos, and I am astounded by the phrasing- something I had not really noticed before, and now that i've noticed, had no clue how to achieve. Thank you for this.

[@susanmorrison8403]

Helpful ideas! I’ve always done a “down-up” motion for phrase endings, which is basically what you showed us in the second method. I’m so glad I found your channel! Thanks for the great content. 😊

[@yeeunpark8291]

Thank for helping me so much thank you soo much 😊

[@RolandHuettmann]

It also very much depends on the instrument. A grand is different from an upright from the keys of an electric. And, yes, sure, it depends on the control over generating the desired sound in a most natural movement of the whole body as one unit. The hands are expressing a dance-like movement.

[@QualityPianoEducation]

Great tips! Always telling my students to play endings softer 😃✨

[@mewcury111]

these tips are amazing! thank you josh🎶

[@jordanowen410]

Thank you very much Josh! Love your channel and it helps tremendously!

[@Elijah24553]

Thanks Josh! This will probably help me with the Debussy prelude I'm working on.

[@hazelc3640]

Great tips. You make it look so easy!❤

[@etudeando]

I got this for Aria BWV 988 wish me luck

[@mhkkarami2435]

Perfect vid❤

[@jafarshadiq9321]

Hey Josh can you make video on trills ?

[@23ritik]

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[@joycepostmus8962]

Thanks Josh, love your channel! I tell my students not to sweep the keys, but it is okay to do that with my advanced students then, to help them with the quieter notes?

[@josantonioalcantara]

Hi, sorry for the intrusion. As Josh showed, it depends on the circumstance or as I like to say the choreography of the hand. For instance, I find the tip he gave in the case of the polonaise more suitable than the other.
What I think It’s better to explain a student to find a way to play softer is to have in mind the mechanism of the piano. In order to play softer and have a better control of the sound the distance is shorter from the key so the hammer acts while stroking the key. Then, finding a way to increase the distance from the finger to the key will make things easier. In both examples he gave that’s what he does, i. e, increasing the distance from the finger to the key. Flattening the fingers a little bit, sweeping the keys or any other convenient solution that fits the previous motions will help.
What I was taught to gain a lot of control of the sound is to keep my fingers as close to the key when possible and to use all the falanges of my fingers as if I intended to sweep the keys but attaching my fingers tips before sweeping the key instead of stroking. The reason this way of “stroking” the key makes things easier to control the sound is because you increase the distance from the finger to the key to make the hammer stroke, it is a motion slightly inclined instead of a vertical one produced by pressing the key.
I hope my comments are useful.

[@connoryu9023]

How can you play softer when playing Mozart k332 allegro first movement? The first bars? Thanks

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