hello ladies and gentlemen welcome back
to another video
today i'm going to perform chopin's Nocturne in b flat minor
opus 9 number one and also will be
giving you a tutorial on how to practice
chopin's longterm as you can see chopin
likes to use
poly rhythm in his nocturn means he
likes to add a lot of
embellishments and decorations in right
hand
running notes and melody and you need to
company with the left hand's quaver so a lot
of students are having coordination
problems they find it difficult to
coordinate a right-hand's
embellishment with the left-hand's quaver
accompaniment so if you think that my
method is useful
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and before going to tutorial i'd like to
give some
historical background about chopin's
music
and also chopin's Nocturne Chopin
wrote this doctrine when he was only
19 years old before writing this piece
he has already written his
piano concerto and this piece of music
was dedicated to a lady called
madame camilla pleyel the father of this
lady was a french virtuoso pianist
who also ran a concert hall where chopin
played the
first and last of his concert in paris
and this lady was also a professor of
piano
at the conservatory in brussels but when
i was playing this Nocturne
the atmosphere of this Nocturne and
background story like this
remind me of beethoven's Fur Elise
Beethoven also dedicated Fur Elise to
one of his students called alice
but she rejected him because musician at
that time
had lower social status so he was very
upset
but there is a very interesting secret
behind
this piano piece the first type is the
two notes
e and e flat in german e flat is
pronounced as
Eis e-i-s so the first few notes e
and Eis e-flat a's keep repeating
themselves alternatively
so like recalling the person's name
because
e plus the Eis e flat
is Elise at least name okay
keep repeating
okay before the left hand accompaniment
join in and start the music
so i could see the similarities in this
chopin's Nocturne
because this Nocturne also starts with
few notes of single melody
which is heard few times during this
piece
with each repetition it is embellished
by even more decorative tones and trails
so in my opinion he could have been
influenced by
beethoven's dues to this similar
characteristic
in their music when talking about
chopin's music i always like to
associate
his music with artwork especially poetic
paintings unlike baroque painting
they are created for the nobility and
church services
and were designed to display magnificent
extravagance
for example for example this painting
during
baroque period display multiple themes
in the background although the main
focus is on the childbirth
the objects in the background also has
very clear outline and structure
it is similar to polyphonic texture in
baroque's music
with main theme accompanied by multiple
counter melodies
in the background the measurements of
line and
proportion of objects are very
accurately done
in 18th century classical period the
painting has a main theme
but the background is less important
unlike baroque's painting
you can see the background in this
painting doesn't have
clear outline this is same with the
homophonic texture
in classical music
melody with accompaniment when coming to
19th century chopin's time
the paintings and music put emphasis
on self-expression and individuality of
style
the romantic sensitivity to nature is
revealed in their painting
unlike baroque and classical period this
is a time that
brought the flowering of romanticism
a cultural movement that stressed
emotion
imagination and individualism
and a new world of music was a goal of
young Chopin
just like the blending of lighting and
colors that you see in this painting
romantic piano pieces allow generous use
of paddling
and we are required to blend the harmony
and express ourselves with different
layers of dynamics and
tone colors this Nocturne has a rhythmic
freedom which is called rubato
that can characterize chopin's work the
left hand part has a continuous
sequence of quaver notes in arpeggios
movements
throughout the entire piece while the
right hand has to
move with flexibility in running notes
they are grouping of
7 11 20 and 22 notes
let's get into the tutorial for this Nocturne
a lot of students ask me how to play
poly rhythm uh
in chopin's Nocturne poly rhythm means
in Chopin's Nocturne he likes to add
a lot of embellishments in right-hand
running notes and it can be nine
eleven sixteen in the group to match
with few quaver notes in left hand's
accompaniment
what i suggest is two method method
number one
is to practice hands separately and
organize your fingering uh right hand
fingering write down and make sure
every time you practice
you stick to the same set of fingering so
that your fingers will not get confused
um which finger to use and when you do
slow practice for right hand
uh you need to apply more weight so that
the finger will remember which finger to
use
and what are the movement how to adjust
the position
okay
so for left hand um using its own speed
by remembering the harmony versus first
one is
and make sure you relax your hand and
you put them together
okay so another second method is to
write down
the coordination okay which right hand
notes want to play together your left
hand nodes together
and you use the line to write down to
match them properly
so when you practice slowly you accent
on the notes that
you want them to play together
okay so after that you increase the
speed gradually
so if you move faster you can start to
remove all the accents
and relax your fingers and play it
smoothly
and also when the melody has repeated
note you don't play them
with the same dynamics because when a
note keep same note keep repeating itself
for a few times
we don't want to play with the same
touch we want to
uh start soft and then gradually loud
because we want to shape
the phrase because it's very important
to shape chopin's melody line
uh gracefully okay so for instance this
one
chopin wrote three b flats in a row
so i'm sure you don't want to play like
this it'll sound like her woodpecker
packing the wood so you can do
okay so also ask me how to place soft
but clear but project the tone clearly
when the diamond is soft
what you can do is you look at the
pianos key is so long it's for you  to
slide
okay by sliding the key you you can
actually remove some
weight uh in your fingers touch when it
does it's soft
you slide it reduce the weight
so when it's loud the weight goes
down
this way okay so that is for a student
who are unable to control
the soft passages properly or the notes
keep missing at some
passages so i'm sure you can do it give
it a try
with the method that i introduced thank
you
let's listen to the piece
so
so
so
this piece of music is to describe his
first arrival
in paris in 1831 chopin's
experience was quite the opposite of
that in Vienna
he was warmly welcomed in paris and very
quickly fell in love with the city
his period of torment was finally over
setting aside his growing illness
tuberculosis
in spite of this he met with almost
immediate musical success
in the french capital there he met
mandelssohn and even franz liszt who became a
great
friend he also had a very large female
following as Chopin was extremely
attractive
and could turn his hand to anything
music
drawing poetry he was a success at
everything was charming and had a good
sense of humor
it was during this fulfilling time that
he composed other pieces like grand
valles brilliante
in spite of his success with women
champion did not show the same interests
on his companies as they did
until he met the one who will become his
great love
in 1836 which was a few years after he
composed this
Nocturne the novelist George Sand
he was not attracted to this woman at
first
who wore trousers and smoked he even
doubted
if she's a woman as for George Sand
she fell under the spell of these young
pianist
and moved heaven and earth in order to
see him again
it was so that they saw each other two
years later
during a musical evening where after
listening to his playing
she dropped him a note you are adored
surprised by the enterprising behavior
of this
independent woman to whom he was
entirely
opposed chopin finally gave in to her
advances and they began a relationship
though it was a secret at first
two years before this began chopin
composed
his very famous fantasy impromptu
opus 66 whose exterior parts are
characterized by heightened speed
on a polyrhythmic system while the
central
theme in dreamy atmosphere
evokes that of a Nocturne
as a way of making money while living in
paris
chopin built up a book of rich contacts
to whom he would give piano lessons
unfortunately he felt too embarrassed to
ask his student
for money so he looked away while they
left the fee
on the mental piece chopin died in 1849
most probably from
tuberculosis at the age of
39 he's buried near his friend
composer Cerubini at a cemetery in
paris as a summary chopin's music
has long lyrical melodic line
and highly expressive in character it
has
colorful harmony sensitive touch and
chromaticism can be found
frequently in his music dynamic change
frequently and greatly with dramatic
effect
with wide range of crescendo and
decrescendo are used
mainly homophonic with generous use of
pedaling
and it also has flexibility of tempo
and use of rubato you can explore other
ways
based on your point of view and there'll be
know right or wrong
as long as you follow the basic concept
of chopin's music interpretation
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