Here's why I'm never bored practicing Bach 🎹

In this tutorial, I'm a Leschetizky fan girl as I share my tips and tricks for practicing the music of J.S. Bach.🌟 On the menu, is Little Prelude No. 5 in E-major, BWV 937 (ca. 1720) and I'm sharing practically everything but the kitchen sink! 💦

Here, we're exploring fingering (multiple), invertible counterpoint, piano technique, tone production, some curious data and a few thoughts on what it means to play with expression.❤️ On this hot summer day, I've even got some sidewalk chalk to go with Bach's counterpoint!😎🎵

0:00 Intro
1:02 Welcome & Agenda
3:24 Identification of the subject
4:29 Marking the subject entries
8:15 Chromatic saturation
9:04 Playing the subject entries
14:32 My interest in the Golden Age of piano-playing
16:33 One of my favourite piano teachers was Theodor Leschetizky
17:05 It's not just about finding the sequences
19:08 On getting grace of motion (Leschetizky & the butler)
23:19 On expressive playing
24:38 "You don't have enough life experience to feel this music"
27:36 The importance of enunciation (Leschetizky➡️Lotte Mills Hough➡️Constance Keene)
29:22 Leschetizky on the English-speaker's need for learning Italian
30:02 Harold Bauer: "I can study everything in anything"
30:32 More Leschetizky anecdotes
32:10 Fingering
37:34 Most used fingers
39:14 Busoni fingering
40:00 Czerny fingering
40:55 Invertible counterpoint
44:13 They all add up to 9! (sidewalk chalk & Bach)
48:27 Indicating invertible counterpoint (& a 2nd example)
50:33 Intervals used
52:15 Macro notes
56:27 Singing the macro notes
58:12 Micro notes
1:02:22 Wanda Landowska side story
1:04:00 Another Leschetizky gem
1:04:43 Playing the micro notes
1:06:25 Reacting to the micro notes
1:06:41 On removing the repeated notes
1:08:30 Concocting my own practice methods
1:09:44 A brief review of the subject statements
1:10:45 Technical issues & remedies
1:27:46 On tutorials vs actual lessons
1:29:41 Wrap-up
1:31:29 Bonus footage: calming chalk sounds and bird songs😌

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[pablobear]

I got a copy of etude magazine at an antique store and there is an interview of Leschetizky, you may have already read it.

I love his pupils playing, Hambourg, Friedman, Schnabel, Paderewski, Moistewitch...

He had some of the best pupils, very individual and the TONE quality.

[channelelectronique]

A lot of work to put this together. So well done!!! Impressive!

[slim]

this is so good, this video deserves more viewer

[yp-hbme]

im so glad i found the videos im looking for on youtube, i have been praising bach since i was in second grade and i was really looking for deep analysis videos like yours, thank you so much for creating videos like this, and making my day every time a video releases. a bit of a far fetched request but im playing right now the fugue in g minor from the second book of the well tempered clavier, and its very difficult. i would be more than thankful i you would create a short video regarding that majestic piece. thank you very much.

[lucdeslauriers]

Good morning from North Québec, Canada. I really appreciate your videos. You are very bright to play with joy counterpoint. You are very modest but you are a great musician. You are very bright. Thank you very much! Please excuse my mistakes, english is a second language for me.

[flintlong]

I love this! My blues and boogies woogie band played in Eisenach and also in Weimar, among many other locales in what was then, East and West Germany. There we were able to see and hear a variety of local musicians who were excellent and who seemed to be authentically "steeped" in the JS Bach and Liszt tradition.

[mebach]

Little Prelude waits patiently as does Mr. B ❤

[roseanneeklund]

I was soooo excited to see this video! Yahooo another Penny video to watch. I really enjoyed Bach with chalk! You’re so creative! The piece of music for this lesson is uplifting. The colour you used on the score made my heart and brain happy, (you know how much I love colour!). Keep creating Penny! Can’t wait to see your next one!

[maryfauque]

Querida Penny em compás n.14 cuando usted canta el bajo armonico mientras va tocando, los tempos 3 y 4 son en realidad Bm. y luego en el 4 tiempo C# como dominante de F#