VSM: Piano Lessons and Piano Insights
Jul 8, 2026 · 10 min · 9 segments
https://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/experts/robert/how-to-learn-mozarts-famous-c-/ - Most students look at the slow second movement of Mozart’s famous "Facile" Sonata (K. 545) and assume it’s the…
Robert EstrinHost
So how do you get a sustained line at the piano? That is the question for today.
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 the melody loses all continuity.
But more importantly, the left-hand notes, which are happening on every single 16th, reinforce themselves while the melody gets lost.
So how do you get a sustained line at the piano? That is the question for today.
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 the melody loses all continuity.
But more importantly, the left-hand notes, which are happening on every single 16th, reinforce themselves while the melody gets lost.
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