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Beethoven "Moonlight Sonata" Master Class: Seymour Bernstein teaches piano technique

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0:00 Intro 0:42 What pianists can learn from Archimedes 3:29 Pianissimo doesn't mean everything is pianissimo 5:40 What's more important than the Moonlight Sonata? 6:12 Choreographing the sound 9:44 Cut time 13:01 Phrasing the left hand 15:12 Seymour shows how to shift to neutral 20:23 Ben tries to get mystical 23:10 The relaxation myth 28:48 Adding rotation 33:54 Sound is born at the escapement 35:21 Fingering 37:16 There's a war going on 39:04 We performed an MRI on the first measure 41:49 Spending 80 years to build a knuckle bridge Seymour Bernstein and Ben Laude go deep inside the first three notes of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Watch Seymour's lesson on the complete first movement of the Moonlight Sonata: https://app.tonebase.co/piano/artists?tbModal=courseModal&tbModalSlug=seymour-bernstein-beethoven-moonlight-sonata --- tonebase gives you instant access to knowledge from the

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