Tutorial Performance Notes Sheet music 4 page PDF (free) Donation If you’ve benefited from this tutorial and would like to show your support, consider visiting my Patreon page. Your support helps me continue creating online content. Thank you! »
For my friend, Frank. This tutorial looks a later version of Chopin’s well known Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2, titled “Later Version with Authentic Variants”. The score is only available in the Polish National Edition of the Works of Fryderyk Chopin. The fioritura variants I selected from the original score are featured in this video. This tutorial concentrates on fingering suggestions for these fioritura variants. Performance Notes The original score can be downloaded from this link, starting on page 11 of this PDF Download my practice score featured in this video (free) Download my fioritura fingering suggestions featured in this video (free) Donation If you’ve benefited from this tutorial and would like to show your support, consider visiting my Patreon page. »
In this viewer requested tutorial, we look together at Chopin Nocturne Op. 48, No. 1. Today, the work is one of Chopin’s best known nocturnes. It’s popular with piano students and is known to be technically challenging, almost listed in places. The work is firmly in the key of C minor in 4-4 time and there are no surprising harmonies or key changes. The work reminds us of contemporary descriptions of Chopin’s amazing skill at improvisation. »
Claude Debussy said, “Music is the space between the notes.” And that’s what this tutorial is mainly about. The other week, a friend sent me a beautiful recording he’d made playing Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2. He told me, listening back, he thought his left hand was a little out in places and he also wanted to improve his feel for rubato. So, this video is for my friend and anyone else that feels the same way about these two particular things. »
Notes Download Le Couppey 25 Etudes Op. 20 from IMSLP Music Library (free) Download Le Couppey 25 Etudes Op. 17 from IMSLP Music Library (free) Donation If you’ve benefited from this tutorial and would like to show your support, consider visiting my Patreon page. Your support helps me continue creating online content. Thank you! »
My recordings: Overhead view: Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau Op. 33, No. 8 - P. Barton, FEURICH piano Side view: Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau Op. 33, No. 8 - P. Barton, FEURICH piano Other recordings: Mikhail Pletnev plays Rachmaninoff Etude Op. 33, No. 8 on Rachmaninoff’s piano 1987: Notes: Donation If you’ve benefited from this tutorial and would like to show your support, consider visiting my Patreon page. Your support helps me continue creating online content. »
Viewer request tutorial. Part 1 - middle “B” section. Part 2 - outer “A” sections. Performances Notes FREE highlighted practice score featured in this video from Google Drive Free sheet music in the public domain: Friedman edition Cortot edition Mikuli edition Donation If you’ve benefited from this tutorial and would like to show your support, consider visiting my Patreon page. Your support helps me continue creating online content. Thank you! »
Tutorial: Performances: Top-view Side-view A 2009 recording on upright piano Notes Free sheet music PDF in Public Domain from Google Drive. Donation If you’ve benefited from this tutorial and would like to show your support, consider visiting my Patreon page. Your support helps me continue creating online content. Thank you! »
Tutorial Video: Timecode for 16 practice sections: 00:00 Introduction and history 05:45 Section 1 06:30 Section 2 06:52 Section 3 08:16 Section 4 08:57 Section 5 09:43 Section 6 10:29 Section 7 12:55 Section 8 13:37 Section 9 14:03 Section 10 14:36 Section 11 15:07 Section 12/13 17:20 Section 14 18:45 Section 15 19:26 Section 16 Home-recording of Chopin Berceuse, Op. 57 Notes Listen to Paul playing this song on streaming platforms. »
Tutorial Performance Historical performances https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioyWOZ2lsY8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrWwDza5gPM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWTyzc-cM1I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wwq0w-nfmw Notes Much of Mikuli’s left hand fingering is impractical for the average sized hand, Cortot’s fingering suits the average hand size better. Donation If you’ve benefited from this tutorial and would like to show your support, consider visiting my Patreon page. Your support helps me continue creating online content. Thank you! »