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Hi, Evgeny, how do you do! Interesting and useful tips! Im amazed at how generous you are to share your knowledge and precious experience with us! I was wondering if you could be so kind to make a video about music memorization and also give some advice about my playing, i will be uploading more videos cause youve inspired me to do so, thank you so much beforehand.
Just signed up with Patreon. I noticed that except for the first exercise, you use only the ascending intervals. Same with the thirds. Any reason. not to use descending ones as well. I'll add this to my warmup rotation-aside from my teacher's, there are lots of pianists on here with interesting ones. Thanks for what you're doing. PS: I play on an c1885 Bechstein. I fell in love with it when I was looking for a better instrument, and while my wallet groaned a bit, I've never regretted it. For such a large instrument, it really shines in playing softly. Go figure.
Spettacolarmente bravo e generoso, Maestro Evgeny Genchev, bello e talentuoso! Grazie per condividere queste "Lezioni di Musica 🎶"🎼🎹 La Musica, è un Linguaggio Universale di Amore💟 e di Pace☮ che salverà il Mondo🙏🏻🌍💖 🎹26 agosto 2022-h. 23:25🎹
Thank you Evgeny for such a helpful tutorial. One pro tip to further expand this technique - I called this "sticky fingers" and it goes like this: 1. All the fingers are gently "glued" to piano keys. 2.If one finger does the work - all other fingers (and thumbs) are "glued" to piano keys in this moment; they don't go up - I mean they are not allowed to lose contact with a piano key - they always touch a piano key. 3. Only the finger that is currently doing the work (or fingers - like Evgeny shows in 7:57 in this video) are allowed to go up - all other fingers are stuck to the piano keys. 4. Just do a variation of all these Evgeny's exercises but with a "sticky fingers" variation. Try this for a week, 30 min a day and you will see a dramatic progress in speed, fluency and overall development of your piano skills. It works like some "magic formula". By the way...I've picked up this "secret exercise" from a "god-like" virtuoso pianist 🙂who i came across at the airport in Rotterdam a few years ago. The speed and a seemingly "zero effort" way of playing of that guy was like from another world...and he was also performing Chopin. Good luck to everybody.
A lot of this stuff is pretty natural though. Knowing nothing about piano and you try to build familiarity... So you mess around with it... rationality applied, you end up doing all these things with no experience, just curiosity.
Czerny was great piano father to based on his etudes for all students and piano performer warming up hands exercise. Use metronome to exercise fingertips dexterity touching base on czerny etudes op 740 no 1 and no 3.
Wow, I always had the thought of the c major scale being uncomfortable to play as a beginner, I even put my hand on the notes in the video once and thought of how comfortable it is, but then I thought it was ridiculous. this clears up a lot of things lol, thanks.
Brilliant exercise this one. My teacher taught me this one. It shapes the hands perfectly and enables the fingers to curve naturally, he said. I still use it today as a warm up. I really like your reminder to keep the hands as relaxed as possible and hold no tension. It’s so important.
Bro! This is changing the piano for me. I feel like I am getting better faster and have less trouble with my hands. Keep spreading this forgotten knowledge and beautiful playing. A thousand thank-yous!
can I ask: do you start b-major on the 4th finger in the left hand? If you start on the 5th, you have the 1st finger on F#. the right hand fits perfectly, but I would describe the left hand as "irregular" and wouldnt this be harder for a beginner?
Евгений, вы прекрасны! Очень нравятся ваши видео. Я сама педагог по ф-но с приличным стажем. I appreciate your your style. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge ❤
Evgeny, thanks for your help. I often use these exercises. I've been playing piano for 50+ years and cello 30+ years. There are no advanced cello teachers in our area and very few advanced piano teachers. Our local university got rid of the best teachers. Therefore, I have to rely on You Tube to help me and St. Mario Borzaga, who was a "very good pianist with affection for Chopin, Bach & Dvorak." He helps me unsnarl difficult fingerings and passages.
I can make my own excercises. But it will be very useful to learn these masters excercises. And then change them to improve them according to a logical and bold analysis.
Best thing about chopin is everything fits around the hands like gymnastics where beethoven just works against them robotically. Beethoven Rondo a capriccio is much harder than fantasie impromptu even though it sounds much easier
I'm self taught and I do most of these exercises regularly. No one ever showed them to me, it just seemed like a good thing to do. I also like to do thirds together in all the keys moving up and starting at every note in the key: major dorian... A tricky one is to hold down thirds and play the notes in between.
ive been playing fifteen years and learned in the ket of c because it was so easy conceptually and years of playing in c plenty prepared me for playing in the other keys , and like you said , turns out key of C major is one of the hardest keys to play in , but easiest to understand
@@bettinah. If you're tired of that one, there's always the other c# one. #7 (Op 27 #1) Almost nobody plays that one, as it's overshadowed by its opus-mate.
I think this is very good to have this one simple but thorough warm-up exercise that emphasizes the relaxed motion of the fingers. The fact that it applies equally to the beginner as well as the advanced player gives it a sort of Zen quality of focus and concentration. And, of course, Chopin's expressing favor for this exercise and teaching it to his students gives it as high a pedigree as one could expect -- since he might know a thing or two about playing the piano.
I think there are still some differences from people to people. Like Chopin LIstz, they both have large hands. So this scale is indeed normal for their hands. But if you consider kids or adults with smaller hands. The C major scale maybe suitable for them
Musikschule Clavina if you kindly Google Federic Chopin hand size, it will tell you the contrary. Anyway, the more suitable for students, the better we should choose to teach.
I will then keep watching your teaching's then to help me from the beginning again lol and lastly I never practiced any keys to loosen up as well I only went for my favorite meme and anime songs which is a bad thing to do.
I'd read before that Chopin started students with black key scales, but hadn't knows of these particular warm up exercises. Would you share the source material for where this was researched/documented as to Chopin using it? I'd be interested for a deeper dive into Chopin's teaching method. I've known from reading his letters that keeping hands relaxed was a big focus of his.
Hi Evgeny, I sent an email to the one you mentioned in the video. I'd really like to find out more about the warm ups and its documentation. Thank you.
For me the 5th roll is more about elbow up. I don't like to roll the other way. (into the pinky) For me this is counter productive and I work to avoid it. Chick Corea just posted a practice video and he moves his elbow up. Corea plays more with his fingers.
Interesting, but in fact Chopin never really emphasised finger exercises, and probably even less as he got older. He did emphasise singing and relaxed body postures and breathing. He said you must use your whole body. This is the important thing to remember from Chopin's teaching. Like many would understand later, he understood that finger exercises are the worst thing you can do, as they contribute to RSI. Never only exercise the same muscles as you would use to play.
Hello How are you doing Thanks for the support. It's my out most pleasure having you here, thanks for your support you have been giving me all these years, I won't be here if not for you my lovely fan. I hope you find joy and happiness in my songs? I will have to call you My Super Fan.. Where are you watching from?
I subscribe if I want to see more. So I did, Piano is very niche as you know so not a lot of people are going to sub. You keep popping up on my feed bc youtube knows Im a pianist x)
Hanon original tempo was 60 BPM to 108 bpm We require hanon from 1 to 30 tempo mark was 160 BPM to 176 BPM. Czerny etudes op 740 op 1 and no 3 half note = 92 and Half note = 96. Czerny etudes op 740 and 299 presto tempo exercise difficult is not so easy than Chopin etude and Liszt Transcendental etudes. If you meet czerny etudes op 740 and op 299 tempo mark, that's not so easy than Chopin etude and Liszt Transcendental etudes.
Hope you are all doing well and handling pleasantly the lockdowns as much as it's possible! 🙏🏼😊
Did you enjoy the tips in the video? Let me know if you have any questions or perhaps anything else you would like me to cover 🎶
Hi, Evgeny, how do you do! Interesting and useful tips! Im amazed at how generous you are to share your knowledge and precious experience with us! I was wondering if you could be so kind to make a video about music memorization and also give some advice about my playing, i will be uploading more videos cause youve inspired me to do so, thank you so much beforehand.
Just signed up with Patreon. I noticed that except for the first exercise, you use only the ascending intervals. Same with the thirds. Any reason. not to use descending ones as well. I'll add this to my warmup rotation-aside from my teacher's, there are lots of pianists on here with interesting ones.
Thanks for what you're doing.
PS: I play on an c1885 Bechstein. I fell in love with it when I was looking for a better instrument, and while my wallet groaned a bit, I've never regretted it. For such a large instrument, it really shines in playing softly. Go figure.
Spettacolarmente bravo
e generoso, Maestro Evgeny Genchev, bello e talentuoso! Grazie per condividere queste "Lezioni di Musica 🎶"🎼🎹
La Musica, è un Linguaggio Universale
di Amore💟 e di Pace☮ che salverà il Mondo🙏🏻🌍💖
🎹26 agosto 2022-h. 23:25🎹
Thank you Evgeny for such a helpful tutorial. One pro tip to further expand this technique - I called this "sticky fingers" and it goes like this: 1. All the fingers are gently "glued" to piano keys. 2.If one finger does the work - all other fingers (and thumbs) are "glued" to piano keys in this moment; they don't go up - I mean they are not allowed to lose contact with a piano key - they always touch a piano key. 3. Only the finger that is currently doing the work (or fingers - like Evgeny shows in 7:57 in this video) are allowed to go up - all other fingers are stuck to the piano keys. 4. Just do a variation of all these Evgeny's exercises but with a "sticky fingers" variation. Try this for a week, 30 min a day and you will see a dramatic progress in speed, fluency and overall development of your piano skills. It works like some "magic formula". By the way...I've picked up this "secret exercise" from a "god-like" virtuoso pianist 🙂who i came across at the airport in Rotterdam a few years ago. The speed and a seemingly "zero effort" way of playing of that guy was like from another world...and he was also performing Chopin. Good luck to everybody.
"Ok, now play the C Major scale"
Normal piano students: "Wow, so easy"
Chopin's students: "Are you serious?! That is so hard!"
Just because something is simple, doesn’t make it easy 😜
Czerny etudes 299 and 740 no so easy. Tempo presto exercise
This is very useful. I'm trying to improve the speed of my fingers. I can really see the benefits of this. Thank you for sharing.
Happy you find it useful 😊
A lot of this stuff is pretty natural though. Knowing nothing about piano and you try to build familiarity... So you mess around with it... rationality applied, you end up doing all these things with no experience, just curiosity.
Clearly Chopin was a very intelligent man.
Absolutely. That's the result of being a practitioner too 💯
Anyone who loves Bach must be intelligent.
true
Czerny was great piano father to based on his etudes for all students and piano performer warming up hands exercise. Use metronome to exercise fingertips dexterity touching base on czerny etudes op 740 no 1 and no 3.
@@isaacgreenwood4230 It does not take intelligence to fall in love with Bach, speaking from experience lol
Wow, I always had the thought of the c major scale being uncomfortable to play as a beginner, I even put my hand on the notes in the video once and thought of how comfortable it is, but then I thought it was ridiculous. this clears up a lot of things lol, thanks.
Happy to hear this! 😊 It's a small adjustment but it makes a huge difference to the mechanics. It's so undermined from most people
The BMajor scale is the easiest
Brilliant exercise this one. My teacher taught me this one. It shapes the hands perfectly and enables the fingers to curve naturally, he said. I still use it today as a warm up. I really like your reminder to keep the hands as relaxed as possible and hold no tension. It’s so important.
Every Evgeny plays the piano beautifully.
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Wow!! I’ve been playing piano for 42 years and I’ve never seen this exercise! It makes so much sense!!
Complimenti per la chiarificazione Maestro Genchev!
Bro! This is changing the piano for me. I feel like I am getting better faster and have less trouble with my hands. Keep spreading this forgotten knowledge and beautiful playing. A thousand thank-yous!
I've always looked for warm-up exercices like these. It's an useful video, thanks Evgeny!
Glad you liked it!😊
This is a really great practice. Thank you.
You have a lovely, friendly and inspiring attitude towards teaching Evgeny! Thank you for the great videos!
I always teach my piano students this way! Thank you Chopin haha
This is why, the first Scale i teach to Kids is B-Major (as recommended by Chopin him self) and it works perfectly.
can I ask: do you start b-major on the 4th finger in the left hand?
If you start on the 5th, you have the 1st finger on F#.
the right hand fits perfectly, but I would describe the left hand as "irregular" and wouldnt this be harder for a beginner?
AkidNamedJascha yes
AkidNamedJascha the scale would start with 4th finger, but B major chord can be played 531
Do you have any books on this?
@hapedisedivide1980 starting b major with 4 on left hand makes it way way easier and more natural to your hand
Wonderful work, and I love hearing Chopin's concepts repeated!
Thank you! Quite a few people seem to find it very useful. The magic of Chopin indeed 🎶
Wow thats so perfect and with the numbers so mutch easer! Love this.
Thank you Evgeny for teaching us piano I am learning little at the time
I love the la campanella intro and just your videos in general. Thank you!
Евгений, вы прекрасны! Очень нравятся ваши видео. Я сама педагог по ф-но с приличным стажем. I appreciate your your style. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge ❤
Evgeny, thanks for your help. I often use these exercises. I've been playing piano for 50+ years and cello 30+ years. There are no advanced cello teachers in our area and very few advanced piano teachers. Our local university got rid of the best teachers. Therefore, I have to rely on You Tube to help me and St. Mario Borzaga, who was a "very good pianist with affection for Chopin, Bach & Dvorak." He helps me unsnarl difficult fingerings and passages.
came for the lesson, subscribed for the accent!
Ah. Now I know why E keys are my hands' preference, always!
Great exercice! thanks Evgeny
Merci beaucoup.
I can make my own excercises. But it will be very useful to learn these masters excercises. And then change them to improve them according to a logical and bold analysis.
Best thing about chopin is everything fits around the hands like gymnastics where beethoven just works against them robotically. Beethoven Rondo a capriccio is much harder than fantasie impromptu even though it sounds much easier
Thank you for this video!
Você é um excelente professor ...Se tivesse ainda o piano ia ser sua aluna.
Reminds me of when my violin teacher taught my first lessons; she used a similar method as Chopin.
I'm self taught and I do most of these exercises regularly. No one ever showed them to me, it just seemed like a good thing to do. I also like to do thirds together in all the keys moving up and starting at every note in the key: major dorian... A tricky one is to hold down thirds and play the notes in between.
Great warm up exercise!
Great channel so glad I found you.I have subscribed.
ive been playing fifteen years and learned in the ket of c because it was so easy conceptually and years of playing in c plenty prepared me for playing in the other keys , and like you said , turns out key of C major is one of the hardest keys to play in , but easiest to understand
great ex ! will start asap. thank you
Thx
とても、効果的で
素晴らしいエクササイズです😀
Thank you 🙏🏼😊
thank you for this video
Thank you very much, Evgeny. Always bringing us quality content.
Happy you enjoyed it Doug 😊✌🏼
Could you please do more warm up videos it would be greatly appreciate, thank you 😊
Don't overcook the noodles!!!!
Piece at the end: Chopin.. Nocturne in C# minor..right?
That's right, Bettina 😊
@@EvgenyGenchev in the meantime so often heard😴😴😉.. Still love it..
@@EvgenyGenchev the first time I heard this melody was in the movie Pianist
@@bettinah. If you're tired of that one, there's always the other c# one. #7 (Op 27 #1) Almost nobody plays that one, as it's overshadowed by its opus-mate.
@@brianbuch1 I'm not tired of that, you miss understood the comment. Evgeny knows what I mean...
Wow! I love this. Thank you 😘
Hanon including all exercise scales and arpeggios and double third scales and octave and chromatic scale.
I think this is very good to have this one simple but thorough warm-up exercise that emphasizes the relaxed motion of the fingers. The fact that it applies equally to the beginner as well as the advanced player gives it a sort of Zen quality of focus and concentration. And, of course, Chopin's expressing favor for this exercise and teaching it to his students gives it as high a pedigree as one could expect -- since he might know a thing or two about playing the piano.
good video for piano practice~!
This makes sense!
Thank you for sharing this great video !
Glad you enjoyed it!
I think there are still some differences from people to people. Like Chopin LIstz, they both have large hands. So this scale is indeed normal for their hands. But if you consider kids or adults with smaller hands. The C major scale maybe suitable for them
Liu Le Chopin had small hands, like kids also. The first Scale I teach Kids is B major, just as sugestet by Chopin and it works perfectly.
Musikschule Clavina That's awesome! 😊
Musikschule Clavina if you kindly Google Federic Chopin hand size, it will tell you the contrary. Anyway, the more suitable for students, the better we should choose to teach.
Schumann was not happy about the difference fingers, Chopin said "it's ok".
Hello! THANKS for the video. Where can I fand those exercises, where did you get them. From which book?! 🙏
Nice tips 👍 Thanks 🙏
Ey my name is Eugenio also.
I'm from.mexico. starting learning piano. I used to only improvise. Good video. Thanks
New sub here. I started learning piano recently and your video inspired me. Thanks so much.
I like this.
I loved the vid. You deserve way more subs. Great quality content!
I appreciate that!
As a student of Czerny Chopin adapted his warm up exercises to suit him.
Just discover this amazing video, like your tips! Another amateur pianist here
Absolutely superb advice. Thanks for taking to time to share your talent and uploading. Amazed you don't have a million subscribers !!
Thanks a lot Shaun, you are very kind. Hopefully will get there 🙌🏼
I will then keep watching your teaching's then to help me from the beginning again lol
and lastly I never practiced any keys to loosen up as well I only went for my favorite meme and anime songs which is a bad thing to do.
Your videos are really original and great, if u carry on u will get recognised and go far
I'd read before that Chopin started students with black key scales, but hadn't knows of these particular warm up exercises. Would you share the source material for where this was researched/documented as to Chopin using it? I'd be interested for a deeper dive into Chopin's teaching method. I've known from reading his letters that keeping hands relaxed was a big focus of his.
elenajalan lena I just ordered that book in english a few days ago. Looking forward to it. :)
@@salemnj1 Hi Steven, did you find the documentation to support that these warm up exists in Chopin's hand?
Hi Evgeny, I sent an email to the one you mentioned in the video. I'd really like to find out more about the warm ups and its documentation. Thank you.
Omg, I just got a new piano teacher yesterday and this was the second thing he taught me... Also, many teachers start with E Major instead of C Major
Nice one. It what is the name of that one? In which book? Would like to dive deeper :)
Funny enough, I do these exercises with my students since I read about it hahaha smart guys we are hahaha you got a subscriber. Congrats Evgeny
Great teaching, thanks for sharing. Great hair as well btw! :D
subscribed
For me the 5th roll is more about elbow up. I don't like to roll the other way. (into the pinky) For me this is counter productive and I work to avoid it. Chick Corea just posted a practice video and he moves his elbow up. Corea plays more with his fingers.
Play some of Bach’s harpsichord concerto in Dm as a warmup. There is so much useful technique.
Wow bro ur legit,uve just had subscriber
so cool and very informative thanks ! :)
Could I have score sheets of these exercises?
3:30 this guy loves sharps so much he just called C B#
Czerny etude and Hanon exercise are warming up hands to exercise fingertips dexterity touching
Interesting, but in fact Chopin never really emphasised finger exercises, and probably even less as he got older. He did emphasise singing and relaxed body postures and breathing. He said you must use your whole body. This is the important thing to remember from Chopin's teaching. Like many would understand later, he understood that finger exercises are the worst thing you can do, as they contribute to RSI. Never only exercise the same muscles as you would use to play.
7:53 (personal reference)
Hello
How are you doing
Thanks for the support. It's my out most pleasure having you here, thanks for your support you have been giving me all these years, I won't be here if not for you my lovely fan. I hope you find joy and happiness in my songs? I will have to call you My Super Fan.. Where are you watching from?
Ok...I'm sure if I had a teacher this Hot I'd be a stellar student.
😂😂
Whats the name of the song in your intro?
La Campenella but with Cziffras's twist.
Love from singapore!
Wondrerful...👏👏💥💯🇭🇷
4:54
Oh my god that piano sounds so beautiful compared to my yamaha
Sweet Jesus! There was about 50x more action from your hands when you were talking than there was actual keyboard action!
Got to keep them active 😂
Some cultures have very active body language.... Italians... Arabs... Persians..etc
Where does your name come from?
I subscibed😘
Would you consider Chopin's methods explained here to be the most useful for beginners. Notice I don't say, "best" since any exercise is good.
Evgeny, you said to release the key as soon as the note's been played. Does that mean it's not meant to be played legato?
Staccato
No not staccato. Non-legato but definitely not staccato.
Hello Evgeny, I want to ask, what is your handspan ?
Not enough 🤐
@Vladimir Putin when are you playing Still Dre again?
Hey I tried to email you for the patterns and it didn't go through
Try again. Maybe you misspelled it 🤷🏻♂️
@@EvgenyGenchev chopinwarmup@gmail.com correct?
True i noticed c maj seemed unnatural n gave me problems
Amaazing my friend
Glad you enjoyed it 😊✌🏼💯
I subscribe if I want to see more. So I did, Piano is very niche as you know so not a lot of people are going to sub. You keep popping up on my feed bc youtube knows Im a pianist x)
Thanks for subscribing 🙌🏼😊
This is so weird! I do this all the time with my fingers (not on piano jus when I’m bored) I didn’t realise this was a whole technique!
✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
I would like for my violin students to play these warm-ups.
As always... ❤❤
Thank you 😊🙏🏼
Hanon original tempo was 60 BPM to 108 bpm We require hanon from 1 to 30 tempo mark was 160 BPM to 176 BPM. Czerny etudes op 740 op 1 and no 3 half note = 92 and Half note = 96. Czerny etudes op 740 and 299 presto tempo exercise difficult is not so easy than Chopin etude and Liszt Transcendental etudes. If you meet czerny etudes op 740 and op 299 tempo mark, that's not so easy than Chopin etude and Liszt Transcendental etudes.
So, these are Chopin’s published teaching exercises?
Can you put the sheet music in pdf please?
Sure thing! Just send me an email to the address I give in the video
I can’t find it in the video and it’s not in the description but it’s okay i’ll do other exercises
@@FreeSkillsStyle maybe watch till the end? 😜8:30
Evgeny Genchev ahaha oops thanks 😅
Wow noice that a video about me :)
You know it😜