Piano Practice | Improve your counting and rhythms with Marcello Bach

This video looks at a fabulous piece of music originally written for Oboe and Strings by Marcello and then subsequently transcribed for keyboard (Harpsichord actually) by none other than JB Bach. It is a piece that I'm sure you'll recognize and I discovered that working on it greatly improved my ability to deal with rhythmic changes in music. It's the Adagio from Marcello's Oboe Concerto in D Minor.

As with lots of music from this period, lots of the musical interest is in the composer's use of rhythm. The video gives ideas on how you can count different note values and switch from one to another with ease and security. What's even better though, is that at the end of it you have an absolutely beautiful piece to play. As regular viewers know, I'm a firm believer in piano music over exercises.

I also give ideas on the ornamentation. There is lots of conflicting advice and I'm not saying that mine is definitely right, however, we perhaps have a tendency to over-think things that we don't really need to fret about. If you have a different view of ornaments, then by all means stick with what works for you.

As promised in the video, here is a link to a recording of the original piece played by Oboe and Strings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0BalQMrVDU

Given we're here trying to improve our rhythmic control, I advise avoiding listening to lots of recordings as we need to 'learn by doing'.

The sheet music can be downloaded from IMSLP.

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Filmed on an iPhone XR - using the Filmic Pro app
Audio captured on an iPhone 6S using a Shure MV88 Microphone
Vocals captured on a Rode SmartLav microphone
Video editing done on iPad using LumaFusion
Audio editing done using Garageband

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