VSM: Piano Lessons and Piano Insights
Robert Estrin: How to Learn Mozart’s Famous C Major Sonata - From the Piano Expert
Jul 8, 2026 · 10 min · 10 segments
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Robert EstrinHost
VSM: Piano Lessons and Piano Insights
Jul 8, 2026 · 10 min · 10 segments
Robert EstrinHost
Now, the first critical thing is tempo because just what I just showed you there, how notes are fading out, the slower you play, the more difficult it is to sustain a melody.
Watch if I play this really slowly, how laborious it is, and it, the melody loses all continuity.
First of all, it doesn't have that rhythmic feel, but more importantly, the left-hand notes which are happening on every single 16th reinforce themselves while the melody gets lost.
It literally translates like walking, so you can think of it as being a nice [snapping fingers] tempo to the quarter note, not the 16th note, not the eighth note.
Now, the first critical thing is tempo because just what I just showed you there, how notes are fading out, the slower you play, the more difficult it is to sustain a melody.
Watch if I play this really slowly, how laborious it is, and it, the melody loses all continuity.
First of all, it doesn't have that rhythmic feel, but more importantly, the left-hand notes which are happening on every single 16th reinforce themselves while the melody gets lost.
It literally translates like walking, so you can think of it as being a nice [snapping fingers] tempo to the quarter note, not the 16th note, not the eighth note.
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