Czerny op.599 nr.65 Piano Tutorial | Practical Method for Beginners — Transcript

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4. 0:24Hi guys, I'm Stefan and welcome back to
5. 0:25another lesson in my churnies opus 599
6. 0:28for solo learners course. In this video,
7. 0:30we're going to learn number 65. Don't
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16. 0:48that will be down below, too. Number 65
17. 0:51is a trill exercise for the right hand.
18. 0:54It's a counted trill, not a free trill.
19. 0:56So, we can really keep it even and
20. 0:58light. Trilling is very difficult,
21. 1:01especially when we haven't done it a
22. 1:02lot. And the biggest challenge is to
23. 1:04keep a relaxed hand and an even sound.
24. 1:07This exercise is really good for
25. 1:09trilling because it works not on just
26. 1:11two finger combinations, but all five
27. 1:14finger combinations. So, trilling on
28. 1:16finger five, 4, 3, 2, and one as well.
29. 1:18The biggest problem that can happen when
30. 1:20we trill is that it becomes really
31. 1:21uneven.
32. 1:25>> [music]
33. 1:25>> And then we really start to push the
34. 1:28hand into all kinds of directions, tense
35. 1:30up the wrist, and really try to force
36. 1:32the hand to move quickly. And the more
37. 1:34we do that, the less it's going to move
38. 1:36quickly and the more tired is going to
39. 1:38get. So the key thing in this piece is
40. 1:41to learn how to relax the hand, how to
41. 1:43learn rotational movement when we play
42. 1:45the trills, and how to keep that
43. 1:48articulation nice and clean. We're going
44. 1:50to start with the left hand because it's
45. 1:52super easy. It's just basically a
46. 1:54cordial accompaniment. We're in the key
47. 1:56of D major. So every F and every C
48. 1:57[music] is going to be a sharp. It says
49. 2:00algor.
50. 2:02And we're in three, four. So three
51. 2:04quarter note beats in every bar. The
52. 2:06left hand starts in this D major [music]
53. 2:08position. And we're going to hold bottom
54. 2:10note in every bar and play the top two
55. 2:12notes of the chord staccato. So 1 2 3 1
56. 2:17[music] 2 3 and then an A major chord. C
57. 2:20sharp E A 1 2 3 1 2 3 [music] Back to D
58. 2:26major 2 3 1 2 3 and A7 A C sharp [music]
59. 2:31G 1 2 3 D major and then going on from
60. 2:36the repeat sign we have an inverted
61. 2:39[music] chord to F sharp A D 1 2 3 A
62. 2:43major inverted E A C sharp 1 [music] 2 3
63. 2:48D major 1 2 3 F sharp major inverted
64. 2:52[music]
65. 2:531 2 3 B minor 1 2 3 G [music] major
66. 3:00and then E D major in second inversion
67. 3:03[music]
68. 3:04A major 7 and D major. So key thing
69. 3:08again is to not push too hard onto the
70. 3:10first note in each bar. Just rest the
71. 3:12hand on that note and play the upper two
72. 3:14notes very accurately staccato. But
73. 3:16remember we're in three four. So the
74. 3:19first beat is always stronger and the
75. 3:21second third is lighter. So strong
76. 3:23[music] light light strong light light
77. 3:28strong light light. So keeping that
78. 3:30lightness for the second and third beats
79. 3:33not pushing those stacato.
80. 3:35The right hand has the trill. So there's
81. 3:38not much going on. Only two bars which
82. 3:40have a different pattern. The rest is
83. 3:41just alternating between two notes. So
84. 3:44what is a trill? A trill is basically an
85. 3:46alternation between two adjacent notes.
86. 3:48It could be a semmit tone or it could be
87. 3:51a full tone or whole note. It doesn't
88. 3:54matter what it is as long as you keep
89. 3:55alternating back and forth between those
90. 3:57two notes. And it's a very common
91. 3:59ornament in piano playing, especially
92. 4:01classical piano. So, we've got three
93. 4:04groups in each bar. As you can see, for
94. 4:06each beat, we're going to play four
95. 4:08notes. So 1 2
96. 4:123
97. 4:15times four notes and it's up and down
98. 4:18all the way through. And just remember
99. 4:20to think of your beats because it's very
100. 4:22easy to get lost in trills. So 1 2 3
101. 4:28feeling that pulse all the way through.
102. 4:31Now what we want to do first is to get
103. 4:33the hand onto the piano. Making sure the
104. 4:35wrist is feeling very relaxed. I can do
105. 4:38these circles with my hands. And I'm
106. 4:40going to put my hand onto this D major
107. 4:43position. So, one on the D, two, three,
108. 4:45four, five. Because I'm going to stay
109. 4:47here for the trills. And the first trill
110. 4:49is going to be between fingers one and
111. 4:51two. So, I want to kind of round the
112. 4:53fingers. So, I can play the second
113. 4:55finger with the fingertip and start
114. 4:57going back and forth. Now, the important
115. 5:00thing here is when you do it very
116. 5:01slowly, first of all, do it evenly. So,
117. 5:04every note is the same length and it's
118. 5:06legato. And I'm doing a little bit of
119. 5:09rotation in my wrist. So back and forth
120. 5:12because that's going to really help me
121. 5:13when I go quicker. The back and forth
122. 5:16almost like um rocking motion or trying
123. 5:20to turn a door knob. Now I'm
124. 5:21exaggerating that motion, but that's
125. 5:23what you need on a smaller scale. Do not
126. 5:26play it with a stiff wrist and trying to
127. 5:28play it from the fingers. It's not going
128. 5:30to work and it's going to get very
129. 5:32tired. So as long as the wrist is
130. 5:34feeling nice and relaxed, you can try to
131. 5:37uh play it faster and faster each time,
132. 5:39but start really slowly just to feel
133. 5:42that motion. So the first bar is one and
134. 5:44two.
135. 5:47And then the second bar is three and
136. 5:48four. Again, same kind of moving in and
137. 5:52out. I'm exaggerating this motion so you
138. 5:55can see it, but I'm moving in and out
139. 5:56from that F sharp G. And then in the
140. 5:58third bar, I've got number two and four.
141. 6:01Again, see I'm doing a little bit of a
142. 6:05rocking motion. So, my hand is going up
143. 6:07and down so I can accommodate the
144. 6:09difference between the height of the two
145. 6:11notes and the movement back and forth.
146. 6:13Almost like a seessaw uh motion between
147. 6:16the two notes. And then in bar four,
148. 6:18I've got G and A. So, the two weak
149. 6:20fingers, four and five. [music]
150. 6:23Again, I'm leaning towards finger five
151. 6:25here. And then in the next bar, I've got
152. 6:28again three, four. And then we have a
153. 6:30little scale. Five,
154. 6:33one,
155. 6:34one. [music]
156. 6:36And then I've got E
157. 6:40coming back from the A [music]
158. 6:43and a little broken chord
159. 6:46finishing in D [music] major. And that's
160. 6:48the right hand. So nothing really
161. 6:49difficult about the notes, but getting
162. 6:51the evenness and feeling of uh freedom,
163. 6:55the soft wrist is the hardest thing to
164. 6:57achieve, especially when you start going
165. 6:59quicker and quicker. Let's put this
166. 7:01together. So left hand is counting for
167. 7:03us. 1 2 3 1 [music]
168. 7:092 3 1 2 3 1 2 [music]
169. 7:173 1 2 3 1 2 [music]
170. 7:243 And now the A7.
171. 7:29[music]
172. 7:32Be careful. There's an octave higher
173. 7:34sign there for the final two two and a
174. 7:36half bars. Another problem that can
175. 7:38happen is that I hesitate between the
176. 7:41bars. So I start
177. 7:44[music]
178. 7:48we want to avoid it completely right
179. 7:50from the start. So play slow enough so
180. 7:52that you can anticipate the change of
181. 7:56the chord in the left hand and the
182. 7:58change of the pattern in the right hand.
183. 8:00So really important when you get to the
184. 8:01end of the first bar
185. 8:05that I can carry on to the next bar. The
186. 8:07second section, the right hand is going
187. 8:10to start number three on the B. So we're
188. 8:12going down this time.
189. 8:142 3 and then one on the G. 1 2 3. And
190. 8:21then we're going to do a little
191. 8:22crossing. One and then four and three.
192. 8:26[music]
193. 8:28Number two on the E
194. 8:32and going down,
195. 8:36crossing over number three onto the C
196. 8:38sharp
197. 8:42and up on an A scale
198. 8:49and [music] finishing again on a lovely
199. 8:51broken chord. So what you noticed here
200. 8:53is that sometimes the trilling is going
201. 8:55down and up and sometimes it goes up and
202. 8:58down. So the direction of the trill
203. 8:59changes every second bar which again can
204. 9:02cause a little bit of confusion and uh
205. 9:04hesitation between the bars but make
206. 9:06sure you play it slow enough so that you
207. 9:07can prepare yourself for that. Hands
208. 9:09together. Starting with this first
209. 9:11inversion D major chord three on the B.
210. 9:131 2 3 1 2 3 [music] 1 2 3 1 2 3 1
211. 9:25[music]
212. 9:262 3 1 2 3 [music] and now the scale
213. 9:37and finishing on the D major chord. Now,
214. 9:40when I say start slowly, I mean really
215. 9:43slow. So, you could start at this speed
216. 9:46[music]
217. 9:50and then eventually go faster and
218. 9:51faster. The quicker you go, the lighter
219. 9:53the hand needs to feel. And don't do any
220. 9:55dancing on the keys. Something like
221. 9:57this,
222. 9:59where the fingers are flying all the way
223. 10:01into the air. The faster you go, the
224. 10:03smaller the motion has to be. And your
225. 10:05fingers are going to stay very close to
226. 10:07the keys.
227. 10:10So staying very close to the keys with
228. 10:12the fingertips so we don't lose energy
229. 10:14and time going away and coming back to
230. 10:17the keys. Well, I hope this helped and
231. 10:19please be very careful not to build up
232. 10:22any tension. If you do feel tension or
233. 10:24tiredness in the hand, stop immediately
234. 10:27and try to see where that is coming
235. 10:29from. How can you fix it and then carry
236. 10:31on. There's no point to play this
237. 10:33exercise if it's not even or if you're
238. 10:35getting very tired in the hands. It's
239. 10:37never going to go fast and it's going to
240. 10:39cause you frustration and a very slow
241. 10:42progress or even going backwards in your
242. 10:45journey with this bees.