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

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...
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