Hodina 28. 5. 2021
Hello,
- Hand relaxation
- Fifths
- Just watch carefully your wrists movement, it’s all about wrists and not the fingers.
- Jumping
- We tried again, still the middle fingers aren’t relaxed, we’ll manage (one day)
- Polyrhythm
- 7:3 in scale and chord altogether
- Awesome work, do it up and down 🙂
- 7:3 in scale and chord altogether
- Fifths
- Grieg (Waltzer)
- Slow it down, like I mean really slow 🙂
- Bach (Praeludium I)
- The principle, first 4 bars,
- try it with both hands alltogether.
Hodina 20. 5. 2021
Hello,
- Hand relaxation etc.
- 5ths, trying to get 8ths (octaves)
- Move it with relaxed finges, nothig’s stiff or rigid. Just lay all the fingers there on the keyboard.
- Polyrhythms
- Scale & chord 7:3
- Scale – right fingering in the right hand 1−2−3−1−2−3−4−5
- Switch it sometimes, si in the left hand you’re playing a scale and in the right hand you’re playing a chord.
- Scale & chord 7:3
- 5ths, trying to get 8ths (octaves)
- Grieg – Waltzer
- First line! Smoothly, with confidence.
Hodina 13. 5. 2021
Hello,
- Hands, relaxation etc.
- Polyrhythm 7 over 3 (7:3)
- Right hand – scale (any scale)
- Left hand – chord (divided to discret tones) (same scale as in the right hand).
- Polyrhythm 7 over 3 (7:3)
- Písničky
- Holka modrooká – Polka
- V zahradě na hrušce – Valčík (Waltzer)
- Together both hands.
- Grieg, Waltzer 2
- First few bars
- Right hand with a melody.
- Left hand with an accomp. (Waltzer)
- Download: http://klavir.klusik.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Grieg-lyrical-pieces-Op.-12.pdf
- [pdf-embedder url=„http://klavir.klusik.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Grieg-lyrical-pieces-Op.-12.pdf“ title=„grieg-lyrical-pieces-op-12“]
- First few bars
Hodina 29. 4. 2021
Hello,
- Hand position, relaxation, excercises
- 5ths to 8ths
- Polyrhythms
- 4:3 cool
- 5:4 (similar to 4:3 just R‑L-R in the middle)
- 7:3 (similar to 6:3, just R is more often)
- Both
- Right
- Right-Left
- Right
- Right
- Left-Right
- Right
- Polymeter
- Similar to polyrhythm, but the beats are all together, different is a meter of music (how much beats are there).
- Holka modrooká
- Fingering in the right hand – it’s important, you’re playing a lot of things with a thumb, just spread the load 🙂
- Polka dance accomp.
- Left hand just goes on and on, never stops (ofc. at the end it stops 😀 )
- V zahradě na hrušce
- Meter of 3⁄4
- Waltz/waltzer dance accomp.
- Root + 2 + 2 (hmm-ca-ca) 🙂
- Download V zahradě na hrušce.pdf
- [pdf-embedder url=„http://klavir.klusik.cz/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/V_zahrade_na_hrusce.pdf“ title=„V_zahradě_na_hrušce“]
Hodina 22. 4. 2021
Hello,
- Hands preparation, relaxation, excercises
- 5ths
- Better, just move up and down in your wrist joint, not the whole elbow/lower arm.
- 8ths
- (octaves)
- not feeling comforable yet, but soon you will.
- Polyrhythms
- 3:2
- Okay 😉
- 4:3
- A sequence goes as follows:
- Both
- Right-Left
- Right
- Left-Right
- A sequence goes as follows:
- 3:2
- 5ths
- Czerny 481⁄3
- Don’t rush, just take it easy.
- First 4 bars (divided by barlines)
- Chord analysis
- Watch your left wrist, it tends to go under the keys quite often.
- Holka modrooká
- Same as in Czerny, watch your left wrist.
- Accompaniment types
- Polka dance
- Heavy first and second, soft „middles“ 🙂 Sounds like „HsHs|HsHs|…“
- Polka dance
- Try it all with polka dance type of accpm.
- Pět Ježibab
- Next time 😉
Hodina 15. 4. 2021
Hello,
- Hand relaxation
- 5ths as usual
- Elbows and wrists
- Keep your elbows lower (just let it hang) and watch your wrists.
- 5ths as usual
- Songs with chords
- Songs
- Holka modrooká (blue eyed girl)
- Download: Holka Modrooká.pdf
- [pdf-embedder url=„http://klavir.klusik.cz/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Holka_modrooka.pdf“ title=„Holka_modrooká“]
- Pět ježibab (Five witches)
- Download: Pět Ježibab.pdf
- [pdf-embedder url=„http://klavir.klusik.cz/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Pet_jezibab.pdf“ title=„Pět_ježibab“]
- Stín katedrál
- Download: Stín Katedrál.pdf
- [pdf-embedder url=„http://klavir.klusik.cz/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Stin_katedral.pdf“ title=„Stín_katedrál“]
- Holka modrooká (blue eyed girl)
- Chords
- Use inversions – like A chord play like C#-E‑A in „Pět ježibab“.
- Songs
Hodina 8. 4. 2021
Hello,
- Hands relaxation, smoothnes
- Watch your wrist
- Waltz in A minor
- Awesome, just dont rush 😉
- Music theory
- Chords
- Basic form, 1st inversion, 2nd inversion
- Scales
- Major scale, half-step, whole-step
- This website has some info about it: https://www.earmaster.com/music-theory-online/ch04/chapter‑4 – 4.html
- Chords
Hodina 3. 4. 2021
Hello,
- Hand relaxation, smooth wrist motion
- Try to play it with and octaves.
- Octaves
- Play with 2 octaves (one octave in every hand)
- Playing chromatic scale (C‑C#-D… etc.) in both hands 🙂
- Polyrhythm
- 3:2 (Three over two)
- Just try it with both hands independently.
- Waltz in A minor
- We had read all the notes correctly, now it’s time to play it smoothly as a one piece.
- Czerny 481⁄3
- Download: Czerny Op. 481, Etude 3.pdf
- [pdf-embedder url=„http://klavir.klusik.cz/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/czerny-50-practice-pieces-for-beginners-op-481.pdf“ title=„Czerny: 50 practice pieces for beginners, Op. 481.pdf“]
Hodina 25. 3. 2021
Hello,
I was online, nobody came, nevermind. Please do those things we did last time (hand relaxation etc.) and try to record me the first page (okay, the only one :-D) of that Dancing Elephants piece. Just a simple video, hands position, playin in relaxed way. Post it on Youtube as an unlisted video and send me a link (via email or Messenger).
Next thing – try something new, I hope, you’re be able to playe elephants well, you did it almost perfectly last time, so let’s try something new:
[pdf-embedder url=„http://klavir.klusik.cz/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Waltz_in_A_minor.pdf“]
Download: Waltz In A Minor.pdf
Same principle – just try to read notes, the whole sheet. It’s easy, don’t worry, very similar to the elephants, so you’ll be fine. Try the first row, learn it well, and THEN go to the secong, it’s not good to have the whole page in the „draft state.“ Better is learning the first few bars (takt) and then and only then another few.
Then anogher thing – just try to print (if you’re able) only the Waltzer (second piece) in this book:
[pdf-embedder url=„http://klavir.klusik.cz/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Grieg-lyrical-pieces-Op.-12.pdf“ title=„grieg-lyrical-pieces-op-12“]
Download: Grieg – Lyrical pieces Op. 12.pdf
You may try it, if you want, but beware, if elephants are level 1, that Waltz is level 2, this is like level 6 😀 Don’t underestimate it, even it looks simple.
Hodina 18. 3. 2021
Hello,
- Hand relaxation, flexing of hands
- Fifths – e.g. C‑G in one hands. Relaxed, fluid motion. Not with the elbow, just with wrists.
- Dancing Elephants
- The whole page.
- Try to memorize it (it’s only 4 lines, don’t worry), next time we’ll try something different and we’ll work on the better sound of it.
- Good work 🙂
- 4pm GMT 😉