Josh Wright Piano TV - Expression. Three concepts are covered in this video:
1. Feeling finger-to-finger connection and expression
2. Quick impulse technique to find the natural hand movement for a melody line, then applying this same hand movement to the slow lyrical line
3. Rubato Technique (3-step technique)
To ask Josh a question, or to audition for private online piano lessons, please email him at josh@joshwrightpiano.com. Connect with him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/joshwrightpiano
Josh Wright Piano TV - Arpeggios. The concept of playing smooth arpeggios through stretching and releasing the hand, rather than jumping to the next hand position. This video provides thoughts and exercises for anyone looking to improve on this technique. For questions or video requests, please email Josh at josh@joshwrightpiano.com
Josh Wright Piano TV - Thirds. The concept of playing smooth thirds is one of the most difficult concepts a pianist will ever face. This video provides thoughts and exercises for anyone looking to improve on this technique. For questions or video requests, please email Josh at josh@joshwrightpiano.com
Josh Wright Piano TV - Quiet Hands. The concept presented here will aid students in developing soft and seamless accompaniment in order to let the melody sing freely. For questions or video requests, please email Josh at josh@joshwrightpiano.com
Josh Wright Piano TV - Octave Techniques. The concept presented here will aid students in relaxing while playing octaves, and also assist them with speed and accuracy when playing octaves. For questions or video requests, please email Josh at josh@joshwrightpiano.com
Josh Wright Piano TV - Free Hands. The concept presented here will aid students in relaxing while playing, which in turn will help with speed, tone quality, and overall ease at the keyboard. For questions or video requests, please email Josh at josh@joshwrightpiano.com
Josh Wright Piano TV - Revolutionary Etude Tips. Concepts covered are direction, voicing, force vs. beauty, and other elements pertinent to developing technique in this piece. For questions or video requests, please email Josh at josh@joshwrightpiano.com
Josh Wright Piano TV - Style of Mozart. Concepts covered are simplicity, tone quality, use of pedal, use of soft pedal, and operatic devices found in Mozart’s keyboard works. For questions or video requests, please email Josh at josh@joshwrightpiano.com
Josh Wright Piano TV - Pedaling Tips, Part 2. Concepts that are covered are syncopated pedal, easing into phrases, and how to avoid blurring the pedal, or cutting off the pedal too soon. For questions or video requests, please email Josh at josh@joshwrightpiano.com
Josh Wright Piano TV - Tips for the Coda of Chopin Ballade in G minor, Op.23. Concepts that are covered are shaping, singing lines, balance, phrasing, and artistry. For questions or video requests, please email Josh at josh@joshwrightpiano.com
Concert Pianist Josh Wright is launching the “Super Mario Fights Cancer” campaign with this video. Josh’s arrangement of Koji Kondo’s “Super Mario Brothers” Theme is dedicated to children cancer patients across America. His own mother is a 3x cancer survivor, and this year marks her 25 year cancer survivor anniversary. For every 1,000 views of this video, Josh will donate $5 plus one of his CDs to a children’s hospital in America. Please join this cause by sharing this with all of your family and friends. If you would like to help Josh in this cause, please email him your ideas at josh@joshwrightpiano.com
Josh Wright performs “Ondine” from Maurice Ravel’s “Gaspard de la Nuit.” His recently released CD, “Gaspard”, contains the entire suite. It also contains selections from Chopin, which embrace nearly all of the Polish composer’s styles of writing, including a ballade, nocturne, scherzo, mazurka, waltz, etude, and sonata. For more information, please visit www.joshwrightpiano.com. To email Josh a question for his Josh Wright Piano TV series (a free online video instructional series), you can reach him at josh@joshwrightpiano.com
