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Yeah, honestly, the best part of that whole theme is the thing that he stole from. Beethoven Beethoven is a true genius. I love all classical music it’s absolutely wonderful.

Helpful. Thank you.

Dennyboy is a real G

This is the TRUTH!

It was Béla Bartók who said that competitions were for horses. He refused to be involved with them.

Interesting insights, and all the best to you & your career

Who said you don't have a sense of humor? Check out 0:56 - LOL(A)

Technique is NOT a one size fits all situation. There are many more factors that come into play such as piano being played, hand size, arm length, height, etc. You can't expect to try and mimic his technique and think you will sound like him. He has a particular hand size and arm length that for him works and probably other factors. With all that being said, we have had enough time in pedagogical studies to know what to look for and how to achieve better efficient playing. Though there are plenty of those who are ignorantly teaching faulty technique that could harm their students over time without knowing it.

Interesting ! I love how you keep it real. Thx

I just watched your performance of the Mozart concerto nr. 21 (my favourite Mozart concerto) at the prestigious (I might be biased though :) ) Queen Elizabeth Competition in Belgium with our Queen Mathilda in the audience! It confirms you are a great pianist (and teacher!).

Insightful video, thank you! Competitions are entertaining for the public and torture for the participants.

Y'all can try composition competitions. Talk about an even bigger headache. Just write a piece, mail it to a competition, and have someone you don't know look at it. Assuming they will look at it lol. One of the millions of reasons why I stopped applying and just focused on creating concerts of my own.

I do not practice for a competition, I just bribe the judges. It works very well😉

....if one wants to understand what a piano contest is and means, they'd better watch your video. And such a friendly and nice talk....I take my hate off to you, Denis.

16:27 How do you find these clips 😂. I assume the Juilliard sign was edited in?

Another great video! What is especially eye opening to me is the idea of feeling you deserve that first prize. I competed in my first piano competition last fall. After that, recitals and concerts have been a lot easier. The first prize winner would receive 6000 dollars, but only after winning the state, regional, and national competition in Atlanta, Georgia. This certainly did not help my confidence. I only competed against one other performer who was in my age category. I performed quite well (for my standards, not on a professional level). My biggest issue was that I felt I had not prepared enough, and so I didn't think I deserved the first prize. An interesting fact about the judge was that he taught my teacher, so if I had played better, he probably would have very much agreed with my style. I will be competing again this fall and I hope to compete next summer for a large scholarship as well. My eventual goal is to compete in the 2030 Chopin Competition. Right now, I can't even play a piano concerto and I am almost through RCM (level 8). Perhaps it is an overly ambitious goal, but I need to have some direction that gives me something to work for. Please let me know if it would be more realistic to set my goal to 2035 (I am still very young).

Brilliant video, Denis. Just immensely enjoying my first listening of it! May then try to extract some considerations from a successive listening. Will keep in touch, hahaha😊

The underrated curved right hand pinky keeps the tension for the other fingers in order to play quick notes. To sit so far away from the piano means also forcing a round back over the years of playing. New pianists and sportmen don´t want that. Play the same piece of music with different seat hight and different distance to the piano and you find the best postion for this peace. Bach (Goulda) and Stride Piano (Art Tatum) needs other postions. To show screaming girls from a Beatle concert is funny too. It is better to play piano than to speak about the techniques of genies !

Are you taking new more students?? Remember I commented you about sending it through your link? Or is it only for competitions right now??

15:03 even more heartbreaking when you feel you can play things but without having a teacher it’s vey difficult cause you get to a point where internet is not enough, you need one to one guidance

Absolutely amazing video Denis! Thank you for this.

Great listening to the important events in your musical career . But also love the little funny cartoons you always include in your tutorials 😂 . THANK YOU .

Tips: •Overpractice yourpieces •Be ready to win(give priority your first round and your last) •Winner mindset(psychological preparation is as important as wild practice) •Easier but better •Run-throughts •Find the best teachers but be your self

Thanks Denis, that was fascinating. To partly address the question you asked: one possible benefit to competitors in those competitions that produce high-quality videos of all the performances is that even if they don’t win they get exposure to music lovers around the world, not just those in the audience. For example, from the most recent Chopin competition I discovered Alexander Gadjiev, Martin Garcia Garcia, and Jakub Kuslik (who gave my all-time favorite performance of the B Minor Sonata). Perhaps this doesn’t help very much (for example, Rachel Breen’s fine performance of the Goldberg Variations in the semi-final of the recent Gina Bachauer competition has had only 696 views), but at least the competitor will have as a tool for further career promotion a superb audio and video recording of his or her performance. So, if exposure drives career advancement, and competitions in their current form give some useful exposure to competitors in addition to the eventual winner, how can competitions, on balance, be anything other than a good thing?

Thanks for those competitions' insides, very interesting for a beginner amateur pianist like me. May I ask you to elaborate on how competition performances are judged? What is taken into consideration when voting and how is this system organized?

The poblem with competitions is how they decide who is "better" on a linear scale when musical art is multidimensional. So they stick to elements that may not be the most important such as playing no wrong note and tend not to judge the artistry of a performance as well and are swayed by players theatrical exaggeration acts of bravado, narcissism and acting (like you surely did when you were younger in those excerpts). I think one easy improvement of competition would be that jury have to be blindfolded but I realize that the stage acting is part of what the public comes to watch as well. My final take is that even the best performer is only a good parrot and only composers performers deserve full admiration. All major composers we idolize and worship today abhorred the idea of piano competition i think.

Thank you for sharing your honest thoughts on competitions! Very few concert pianists speak so openly and genuinely about piano competitions.

I could not recognize you in these videos without the beard. Even your hair color was lighter.

14:52 Avoid Helsinki competition? Ok. Got it!

I am relatively new to your channel. I knew from the beginning you are a very fine pianist by the way you talk about weight transference and more esoteric piano technique. However, hearing you talk about your competition experience and repertoire, I realise now that you are actually an outrageously good pianist

Geza Anda was a great pianist, btw.

I was expecting an interview with Trifonov...oh well.

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Amazing!

What a sincere, caring, thoughtful approach and interpretation! Phenomenal playing as always ❤❤

If I went back to classical repertoire it would no doubt be Scriabin. This gives me an entree. Thank you.

Should all rotation be around 2nd finger and knuckle, rather than middle knuckle? Does it generally apply across technique when possible?

What is this exercice ? Just a basic arpegio ? 🤔 Pretty cool though

Thank you Deniz, you are an inspiring musician and educator.

thx

I'm picking up past lessons from before I discovered you/your channel. Can't say enough in voting for you as supernumerary teacher and player. World class on both accounts, in my view. Too many "liking" comments to read, just read a few. You set the highest standards in selling your method; you seem to know just how to do it, perfeclty matching explanations and demos. You work at a nice pace, never drag. Sprinkling of constant good humor and constant good will; we want to learn from you; resistance is nil. Chromatic scales: I try to use the 3-1 method; sometimes I will go 2-1 for short bursts; the webbing between 2-1 is useful at times, closer web with 2. Very interesting, never seen any multi-finger patterns before using all 5. You can rock the hand back and forth a little better with 3-1 and then 2-1 for white keys together. Also, a new idea for me is that the rotation in this scale, tremolos (I watched your first broken chord video) and trills are around 2nd knucke/finger, not around middle knuckle. This seems so obvious now while I'm sitting here trying it dry. Will apply it to my chrome-scales/riffs, on which I'm working constantly as a jazz player, virtually all arranged at this point. Super-super common element. I have been developing my unique technique around middle knuckle aligned with forearm. I use less ulnar deviation than you show, but you are faster, of course. I WONDER HOW IT WOULD BE TO CONSCIOUSLY WORK IT MOSTLY AROUND KNUCKLE/FINGER 2, FOR MORE COMFORTABLE, SMOOTER AND CONTROLLABLE ROTATION? THAT IS A QUESTION. I'm working on Frank Loesser's "Joey Joey Joey" from "The Most Happy Fella." Features long strings of chromatic sequential third passages; fingering better be efficient. We could sure welcome some jazz tutorials, which would also broaden your appeal, though the school might re-consider your employment. No need. Virtually ever element on which you teach directly translates to my jazz scores and figures. You are a treasure for all of us aspirants out here. As they say in the jazz/pop/blues world, "You're a gas, man." Thank you.

Beautifully presented. Thank you. What grade is this beautiful piece please thank you

Excellent video. Your description of Rubinstein as like a "king" is more spot on than you know--whenever I saw him live, he entered the stage with an aristocratic nobility even before he played a note. Even his wardrobe was kingly. There was a widely syndicated newspaper comic strip in my childhood called "The Little King" by the cartoonist Otto Soglow. You can google it. Rubinstein entering the stage of Carnegie Hall was the living embodiment of Soglow's Little King.

Hi Denis. You should be the most popular piano channel on youtube because you are the best by far. Especially for intermediate and advanced players you are the absolute best. I guess beginners don't know what's good for them and most don't want to think and want immediate results but we know.

Thank you Denis., for this very interesting and helpful video! Blessings to you!

With you it's no doubt a natural gift. Often good players are not great teachers. You are also a fine person, who we feel really wants to help. We appreciate your efforts.

You are the foremost teacher of techniques online that I have ever encountered. You explain the specifics with a most rational detail. Sequential steps toward a goal. At once you demonstrate with your hands/body parts so that we can see exactly how it's done. Your talk backs up the reality of what you'r showing. Also, love the little interruptions which keep us in good humor, a relaxing moment, keeps us sloghtly off guard; we get it. Thank you.

Very nice- thank you! I like your detailed, highlighted approach! Bravo!❤

I love your advice. I can reach up to 9th but somehow struggle with octave. Lately, I've been on a mission to improve everything that needs to be improved...., and octaves is one of them. Both about the tump and release help. Thanks.

Thatt was cool !