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Hi Gina, it's great to hear from you! Thank you so much for your wonderful, thoughtful, and appreciated words! You are right, it is deceptively difficult, but is so worth learning. I hope you will play this one! ❤

@@SallyChristianMusic. When I’m up to it. And back to Bach!

@@ginafazio318 Yes! 🎉I always return to Bach. 🙏

Thank you for your very kind and appreciated words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. Best wishes to you! 🎶

Hello sparx1599, thank you so much for your kind and appreciated words. I'm very happy you are enjoying the emotional descriptions I give with these tutorials. For me, the character and the emotions of the piece inspire and determine the interpretation. I always ask myself, "How does this piece make me feel?" Thank you also for your encouragement for more videos! Best wishes to you. 🎶

Hello Garland, thank you so much for your very kind words about the Opus 32 tutorials. 🙏 I'm very happy to hear that the lessons have inspired you to learn some of these great pieces! I also appreciate that you have already purchased several of the Op. 32 charts. All 13 Op. 32 Prelude charts are available on my website. To find Prelude No. 3, scroll down on the first page to row 8 and you will see the thumbnail for this chart. I wish you all the best with your playing and learning of these magnificent Opus 32 Preludes! 🎶

Hello derinderruheliegt, thank you so much for your wonderful and appreciated words about these Bach Invention tutorials! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. It is very gratifying to hear that the discussions about the voice dialogues and intricacies is both enjoyable and helpful! With very best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎶

Hello Karl, thank you so much for your kind and very appreciated words about this analysis! I'm so glad that it helped you, and I wish you all the best with your playing of this beloved piece. 🎶

Hi Jim, it's so great to hear from you again! 🎉 Thank you so much for your beautiful acknowledgements about this tutorial and the style of the presentation. Your words mean so much to me and I really appreciate your thoughtfulness and generosity of spirit. Although it might not sound that difficult, this is not an easy piece to learn. I hope the suggestions I give in the lesson will help you and others to better understand the piece and to learn it well. May this find you thriving with life and with the piano! Blessings to you and your family as well. 💕

Hello Peter, thank you so much for your beautiful and appreciated words about the content and style of the presentation. I'm so happy to hear you were moved and resonate with this lesson. I also appreciate you describing music as "a message to our soul and innermost feelings." I absolutely agree that music is a direct link to our hearts and soul. 🙏 I wish you all the best with your playing of this beautiful Chopin Etude in E Major! 🎶

Hello ChewyTwee, thank you so much for your wonderful acknowledgements about this lesson, the chart diagrams, and the slow practice demonstration for the "Cadenza" section! It was very gratifying for me to format the eight measures of the Cadenza all on one uninterrupted line and see the entire phrase and patterns at a glance. I'm delighted to hear that this diagram made it easy for you too! 🙏 I wish you the very best on your musical journey and with your playing of this beautiful Chopin E Major Etude. 🎵

Hello Linda, thank you so much for your beautiful and uplifting comment! I am very touched, and feel the energy and heart in the words you have chosen. 🙏 You are welcome, it is my privilege and pleasure. 💕 With continuing best wishes to you!

Hello Lon, Merci! Thank you very much for your beautiful words about the playing and the tutorial videos. You are welcome, it is my pleasure! I also love this piece; it is one of my very favorites as well. 💕 I hope the tutorial I gave will help you. It is really amazing that so much of the piece is constructed around eight-measure phrases. You can see these very easily from the chart and Color Structural Analysis "map" that I made for the piece. This really helped me to learn all the different parts of the piece! Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎶

Yes, it is from a Bach Violin Partita! It is a transcription of the "Preludio" from Bach's E Major Violin Partita. 🎶

@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you; I thought that's what it was. Beautifully done.

@@waygoblue4729 Thank you so much! 💕

@@waygoblue4729Since this video only shows the ending, here is the link to the full performance of the piece: ruclips.net/video/Q0WFCBGAi88/видео.html

Hello Linda, thank you so much for your wonderful comment! I am so touched by your kind and generous acknowledgements and will treasure your words for many years to come. 💕 With best wishes to you and with your playing! 🎶

Hello John, thank you for your wonderful comment! I really appreciate your meaningful and thoughtful words. 🙏 With best wishes to you. 🎶

Hello Hotsk, you are correct, it should be played as a 4-note trill. Please listen to the full performance at the end of this video. You will hear at 23:32 that I play a 4-note trill, starting with the main note, the lower note, the main note, and the lower note. I hope this answers your question. Best wishes to you.

@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you so much for the quick response, although even when you play the piece at the end of the video, I still hear the mordent, not a 4-note trill. Why do you think most pianists--at least that's what I appear to be hearing in all these videos of persons performing the piece--play a mordent instead of the trill? Is it because of the tempo, that they don't have time to play 4 notes, so they just play two? Anyway, that's my problem with playing this piece: I can't seem to play a clean 4-note trill.

​@@Hotsk You are welcome. It can take a long time to develop the technical facility to play a fast, even, and clean 4-note trill. I think you are right that the reason some people play a mordent instead of a trill is because they do not yet have the facility to play four notes cleanly at a faster tempo. This should not stop anyone from playing the piece, however. Ornaments are embellishments, and I think playing the piece with shortened ornaments (or no ornaments if necessary) until one has the facility to play full trills is preferable to not playing the piece at all.

@@SallyChristianMusic Again, thank you so much for the explanation. It gives me a big incentive to practice more.

@@Hotsk Wonderful! 🎉

Hello Alice, thank you so much for your wonderful words about these videos! I'm especially happy to hear that the tutorials are helpful and that they are also adding to your appreciation of the pieces! All best wishes to you and with your playing! 🎶

Thank you so much for your wonderful and very appreciated words! Yes, there will be more to come! I am presently working on several of the Opus 23 Rachmaninoff Preludes in preparation for more tutorials, performance videos, and charts. Thank you for your interest and for your support! 🙏 All best wishes to you. 🎶

Hola Isaac, muchas gracias! Thank you for your wonderful and very appreciated comment! I love this music and your words mean a great deal to me. 🙏 With all best wishes to you and with your playing! 🎶

Hello William, thank you for your wonderful comment! I really appreciate you sharing this touching story line in the film "A Month in the Country." It sounds like MacDowell's To a Wild Rose was the perfect choice to convey such tenderness and aching yearning about a love mutually feft but not to be realized. 💔I will certainly watch this film! With all best wishes to you.

Indeed. The film was based on the novella by J.L. Carr, whom his biographer, Byron Rogers, defined as ' The Last Englishman.' Just so. Perhaps it is those traditional ( and, sadly, passing ), English values of honour, faithfulness, and respect that the story and MacDowell's wistful melody so vividly evoke. Regards, William.

Thank you so much! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. I really appreciate hearing that the Addendum was helpful. 💕 Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎶

​@@SallyChristianMusic🙏

Last page has to be memorized! I'm not a good memorizer. And this is hell for a reader. But then the 12 lr, same, almost! Magic how sinple it is acually! This I can memorize! Addendum! ❤

@@per174 Hello per174, thank you so much for your second and very appreciated comment! I'm so happy that this Addendum for the difficult recapitulation section has made it easy for you to read and memorize the music. When I made this Addendum, I was also thrilled to see the music magically "come into focus." With this reformatting showing the two elements pulled apart, it makes it so much easier to read, hear, play, and track! 🎉 With continuing best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎶

@@SallyChristianMusic thank you so much! 🙏

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Hello John, I am happy to help you get the chart you had meant to order. Please email me at SallyChristianMusic@gmail.com so we can communicate directly and successfully complete your order. 🎶

@@SallyChristianMusic will do

It seems my emails do not reach you?

@@JohnRR So far, not. Please check your inbox for my email sent earlier today.

Hello Andre, thank you for your interest in ordering the chart music for Invention No. 4. It is available. Here is how to find it: Go to my website and click on any Order Now button. This will take you to my PayLoadz Storefront. Near the top right corner you will see a blue See More button. Click on this and you can then scroll down to find the thumbnail of the chart you want to order. For this piece you need to scroll down to page two. You will find Invention No. 4 on row eight. The charts appear with the most recently uploaded at the top of page one and the oldest at the bottom of page two. I hope this helps! Best wishes to you.

@@SallyChristianMusic Thank you!! I've been playing a few of the inventions for over a year now and it's so true that they are like friends that we're getting accustomed to. When I first found your instructional videos, I immediately fell in love with them. Your thorough analysis and your chart gave me a new perspective to these pieces when I thought I had already grasped all there was to them. Can't wait to have it while sitting at the piano!

Thank you so much for your wonderful and very appreciated comment! Your words touch my heart! ❤ With very best wishes to you! 💕🎶

Thank you for your comment and request for the Bach C minor Fugue, WTC I. You are right, the first four notes and rhythms of the subjects for these two pieces are identical! I would love to make a chart and tutorial for the C minor Prelude & Fugue. I've added this to my queue of requests and hope to start it after finishing a large backlog of on-going projects. The charts and tutorials are labors of love and take a great deal of time, practicing, and thinking to make. No two are alike. As I remind myself: "Everything in right time!" Best wishes to you. 🎶

Hello Linda, thank you so much for your lovely, thoughtful, and very appreciated words! 💕You are welcome, it is my pleasure. Best wishes to you. 🎶

Thank you so much for your kind and very appreciated words! I'm so glad you now have your chart materials to work from and will start learning Invention No. 13. 🎉 I think it's wonderful you are playing so many Bach pieces, and I wish you every success and much joy with your playing! 🎶

Grazie mille per le tue meravigliose parole! Non c'è di che, è un piacere. 🎶

Gracias Sandra por tus amables y apreciadas palabras. De nada, es un placer para mí. Mejores deseos para usted. 🎶

Thank you so much! 😇

Hello l.w.paradis2108, thank you for your lovely words! It's nice to hear from you. I'm glad you enjoyed this tutorial. 😇🎶

Hello bleesev2, thank you for your question. The opening introductory three octaves, notes A, G#, & C# are marked fff. Immediately after this, Theme I begins and is marked ppp with occasional swells to mf. The overall sound for this Theme I section should be very soft. After the Development Section, the introductory and Theme I material is heard again beginning in measure 43. Everything has transformed and has become huge with dynamic markings of fff & ffff. Best wishes to you and with your playing of this magnificent prelude. 🎶

Hello Codertopics, thank you for your very kind and appreciated words! I'm so happy to hear you love this piece and practice it every day! Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎶 Prost!

Hello Sokwon, thank you very much for your warm and appreciated words! This is a fantastic piece and is one of my favorites! I'm glad you are enjoying these videos. 🎶 Best wishes to you. 💐

Hello Tatyana, thank you so much for your beautiful words. I'm very happy that you enjoyed the lesson! Best wishes to you. 🎶

Hello NormanicusDiabolicus, thank you so much for your wonderful words about this tutorial. You are welcome, it is my pleasure and privilege. I also appreciate your descriptives and completely agree that this piece is very spiritual and expansive. Rachmaninov / Rachmaninoff is a gift to humanity! 🙏 Best wishes to you. 🎶

Thank you very much for your kind and enthusiastic words! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. BTW: I made a more comprehensive Solfeggietto Version II tutorial in 2017. Here is the link in case you would like to watch it: ruclips.net/video/J4M-rEasBdA/видео.html Best wishes to you. 🎶

Hello Sokwon, thank you for your lovely and kind words. Best wishes to you as well. 🎶

Hello Ethan, I'm glad this video was helpful for you! Best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎶

Hello Sokwon, thank you for your kind and enthusiastic words about this video and the playing! You are welcome, it is my pleasure. Best wishes to you. 🎶

Hello Sokwon, thank you for your very nice comment! I'm glad you are enjoying and benefitting from these videos! Best wishes to you. 🎶

Hello tellatubbies5918, thank you so much for your wonderful comment! I'm very happy to hear that this tutorial helped you to understand this piece and have peace of mind with it. When we see how a piece is constructed, we can relax and enjoy the wonder of it! I wish you all the best with your playing! 🎶

Thank you so much for your wonderful and meaningful words about this interpretation. I really appreciate what you have said. 🙏 With all best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎶

Hello Lauren, thank you so much for your wonderful comment! I am very touched by your beautiful and generous words. 🙏 With all best wishes to you and with your playing. 🎶

@@SallyChristianMusic I definitely need to just finally learn this masterpiece.

@@Bigblackpiano Yes! 🎉

​@@SallyChristianMusicI've started❤

@@Bigblackpiano Fantastic!! Enjoy every moment of your work. 💕

Hello Valentina, thank you so much for your lovely words! Regarding the pronunciation, I have heard that it can be pronounced both ways. Perhaps the Italian gee is preferable. 😊 With all best wishes to you. 💖

@@SallyChristianMusic 🌷❤️🌷

Здравствуйте, Тимон, спасибо за ваши очень добрые и ценные слова! Желаю тебе всего наилучшего.

Hello Sokwon, thank you very much for your kind words! Best wishes to you as well. 🎶