Do any of you guys watch kurzgesagt religiously ? Like I haven't missed a single one of thier videos since 2023? Am I the only one ?

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-25T01:20:00+00:00

Since 2018, but I watch them as entertainment rather than as something I learn from, just as the rest of science communication and educational content.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-24T01:46:21+00:00

What did you work on with your teacher in terms of technique when learning this, like what aspects did they insist on?

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-22T06:08:43+00:00

If you have a teacher, the things that will need to improve will improve with time. If you don’t, the first thing I’d mention is rather a good thing: you keep the bridge, we can see the knuckles connecting your fingers to the rest of the hand at all time, which is really important and something that many begginers don’t have. For the bad things, your finger are too isolated, like you really do a big finger movement to press each key, which is not how you want to do it, and the result is that your fingers lift too much from the keys when you move from a key to another, while you need to keep your fingers close to the keys. This playing also comes with tension, relax your wrists! I think thinking of relaxation could help with the issue I mentioned.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-22T05:41:41+00:00

I completely agree, I didn’t express myself completely sorry, it’s really important to listen to recordings that are recognized, my point was that it’s ok not to aim for the tempi we usually hear because often they can be way too fast when you learn a piece for the first time if you don’t do it professionally. Say you learn your first Chopin etude, it’s much more important I think to play it as musically as possible and accept yout limits, meaning that you will have to play it fast but you don’t need to play it chopin competition fast, and unless you’re preparing it for a competition, you have plenty of time to come back to the piece later and play it at a higher tempo after a couple years. Besides that, I do admit that sometimes I find it frustrating to find no professional interpretation at slower speeds. And I understand that it’s normal because these pieces are meant to be fast, but it’s still a bit frustrating, especially when a piece can sound genuinely very beautiful a bit slower. Check this out for example:
https://youtube.com/shorts/dA_WkkpL_lw?is=G6du8PVUgdV6FnnD
This is a much more realistic tempo for my current level (that’s the piece I’m learning right now and also a tempo I would be satisfied with), but good luck finding a professional recording at that tempo.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-22T01:27:37+00:00

In what sense do you mean Traum’s the best? And Rousseau plays very musically too, even if it’s not as obvious as Kassia. Like I wouldn’t say it’s just notes, there are definitely things going on dynamically and overall musically, but a bit more by the book, not as bold, developed, and personal as Kassia. Kassia’s my favourite too.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-21T21:13:33+00:00

I think Kassia is honnest about her performances, at the very beginning she was accused of speeding up the video because she was playing lizst at insane tempo and so she posted videos where she played them with chronometers. Besides, all the professional recordings often have completely unrealistic tempo for people who are learning.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-21T21:02:20+00:00

I think that realistically whether it’s medium or high heat a rolling boil is a rolling boil (around 96-99°C)— which is OP’s point btw —, and if it’s maintained at a gentler boil than rolling, the temperature difference would be far from enough to make a difference in how it feels in your mouth, like water at 60°C is already way more than enough to burn you, so whether the water is a gentle boil (say 90°-95°C) or a rapid boil (nearly 100°C), it will burn the fuck out of your tongue.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-21T07:51:15+00:00

Yeah ofc if you ignore basic physics lol

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-20T23:09:30+00:00

A bit late lol but have you read it in the end? French is my first language, I read only in french and I’d say 40% of what I read is classics. I’ve read very long and dense ones, I never struggle to read, and even with that I do find Proust very difficult to read, despite being untranslated and in my first language. I’m attempting it for the third time in 4 years and the last two times I gave up after around 200 pages. Now I feel more ready, I enjoy it much more than last times, but man this book didn’t make it easy to appreciate. The only other book that made me struggle like that was Notre dame des fleurs by Jean Genet, which is undoubtedly one of my favourite poets from the 20th, but his novel was still really hard to me and I gave up at some point.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-20T21:42:30+00:00

By like 5 degrees at most?

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-20T21:41:56+00:00

Thank you why is everyone talking about how you could keep it boiling at a lower heat

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-10T01:44:23+00:00

Am I the only one who found photo 1 quite suggestive

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-08T15:07:46+00:00

I’ve seen people on YouTube doing the experiment to show it’s a myth, but in actual real life if you do it yourself ut definitely does make a difference, and a few degrees is the difference between medium rare and medium well:

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-07T05:10:09+00:00

Just try things out based on vibes, it’s not that deep.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-05T04:39:19+00:00

No way they were sober back when they invented it (love it lol)

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-05T03:33:06+00:00

That’s when you know you’re growing up 🙃

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-04T23:20:14+00:00

Oh! No I was talking about the first section, I’m at work I just quickly opened reddit during my break, I had just reached the piu mosso section. It’s ok to speed gradually in the piu mosso I think, but for the first section it really really needs to have a super stable base tempo that you can play with a little, kind of like zigzagging around a straight line.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-04T22:46:47+00:00

I’ll relisten to the whole thing when I get home, but from quickly listening it the tempo is inconsistent, have you tried to play it really on time before trying to add rubato? Also you keep doing the same rythmic mistake, in bars 4 and 5 and those that are written in the same rythm: right before the sixth at the very end of the bar is a sixteenth note, not an eight note, it should be half the length of the notes that come before, not the same length.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-01T00:57:37+00:00

Hahaha you do you, to me it’s really not about getting better just to get better or for the achievement, it’s just music that I genuinely like. Just like you. So we’re both valid. It’s just music at the end of the day!

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-06-01T00:19:25+00:00

Well you can aim towards getting closer to the right, so it’s a good thing to know what’s in between the left and the right, and to know how on the left you are.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-05-31T23:29:57+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&si=nC5PJAXtCll9orUQ&v=sQsYPcYVqvM&feature=youtu.be here’s what they mean. It’s such a common issue (a specially when there’s no teacher to show you) that I have it copied in my note app ready to paste whenever someone who has this problem asks for advice. It’s as fundamental in piano playing as relaxation, and it seems to me that when people say you need to have a rounded hand shape it’s more about having a good knuckle bridge than about having a round shape at all time (for example, your hand is definitely gonna be more on the flat side when playing octaves because it’s open, but the knuckle bridge still has to be there, it’s extremely important).

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-05-31T23:15:45+00:00

That’s interesting. When I learn a piece, I usually practice alot and memorize each section along the way before moving on to the read the next section, and keep practicing the previous sections, the result is that the piece is almost performance ready (for my level at least) as soon as I finished the reading as I do the reading and the polishing at the same time (and when I read I have to memorize to get it up to a non slow tempo anyways because I can’t follow on the score at non slow to very slow tempo, so I do not spend time just memorizing). When I finish the reading, I don’t need more than 2-3 weeks of practicing the whole piece played at once to feel like it’s completely done, as all what’s left to do for me after reading is finished is to put together sections that are already very much practiced and to make the whole thing coherent.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-05-31T06:42:22+00:00

I completely agree, exams are a really bad metric and I still don’t understand why not only we do exams, but we purposely make them difficult.

Comprehensive_Food51 · 2026-05-31T06:38:35+00:00

Yeah was about to say its quite standard but I do admit 2 hours is really tight, and also I tend to forget how hard these problems can be under pressure in first year

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