I've been playing for 20 and I still play e minor. It's fantastic and its nuance is very rewarding as you get more mature as a pianist.

I like everything from Suite Bergamasque - the Passepied isn't as playful as some of the others, and I like that it's a bit more intense. :)

I agree. I think everybody should try to listen to the entire suite and not stop at just Clair de Lune. I love your videos by the way. You certainly bring a fresh and friendly approach to what can be very intimidating, and classical music can be that.

Hello fellow teacher! Thanks for the kind words. :)

instablaster.

Thanks :)

Hi Chopin, I see you're back from the dead again. Do you have the heart to tell me why?

*slow clap*

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Frédéric Chopin I love your prelude no.7

I love preludes 1,3,4,6,8,9,13,15,24

Tell your teacher I said hi! :) We're planning on delving into Debussy later this year (no specific timeline yet), I'll definitely keep Suite Bergamasque in mind! That was my gateway to Debussy and I love it dearly!

*godchurch

I love that Cortot is part of your teacher lineage, that's amazing!

yeah, C# major... why bach

@@leo17921 its should be D flat major, wtf C#?

I can't promise that Rachmaninoff is on the menu this year. Which, now that I've written that, sounds kind of gross. :) But I LOVE him and we'll cover him in depth for sure! First we've gotta tackle Liszt and Debussy!

thank you so much

yesss requested this 3 years ago haha

Huh, interesting!

paderewski is amazing too

Ha ha ha, now I want to give them my own subtitles too!

Good luck and let me know when you do. :)

Please let us know. Ran at ran Blake .com or my web

Hehehe... "doable"

I try to keep things legit on this channel by not using any copyrighted content, which can sometimes mean a more limited pool of audio to choose from. Any lack of sustain is purely coincidental, and not a preference on my part! :)

ok thanks !

Yeah ikr what the heck

Dude, I understand how you feel. A while ago I was watching some videos of students taking piano exams at the higher levels (ie. levels 5-8) and it really intimidated me. Then I thought: "One way or another, even if it takes me 50 years, I WILL get there!" You must chomp on that music like a rabid dog and never let go until you learn it. Don't doubt yourself - you can do it.

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Slow minor-key pieces? The ballades and scherzos say hi. Also, an Op. 28 example: No. 7 (A major) is rather slow and No. 8 (F-sharp minor) is fast and agitated.

Prelude #24 is d minor and fast!

When I was 13 I played those preludes +1 and someone in the audience started crying. No one ever complained about my inability to convey emotion via piano.

I'd say 6 and 9 from the opus 10 and 1,2 (probably the most accessible), 5 and 9 from opus 25.

Nicolas Betzios thanks , I have started on 10 1 at least one arpeggio a week atm is the plan... is 10 3 really hard technically I shouldnt have much trouble expressively at least thanks again ill take another look at 6 and 9

Wow, 10 n 1 is one of the most difficult etudes, Chopin said: "Unfortunately, instead of teaching, it frequently un-teaches everything.", so be careful with that. I suggest to take a look to Cortot exercices for this etude, here's the link (pg. 4-5) : www.waltercosand.com/CosandScores/Composers%20A-D/Cortot,%20Alfred/Chopin-Cortot_Etudes_Op.10(Engl).pdf Furthermore, Paul Barton's tutorial of this piece can really help. Have fun. :P "For me, the most difficult one of all is the C Major, the first one, Op. 10, No. 1." - Vladimir Horowitz ...

Nicolas Betzios so when you said 1 and 2 were the most accessible you didnt mean they were easier :) i did see paul bartons tutorials he also mentioned friedmans practice techniques for it. IM hoping i can use it as exercise to close and relax hand and have much slower but steady tempo and maybe balance it out with a left hand piece revolutionary maybe .. its strange that my teacher even suggested an etude tbh as i havnt even started on arpegios and only reached minor scales in my studies so far. I think as a more involved project rather than exercise i will leearn the etude 10 3 i think its easier to break down and works better at slower speed and i like the tempo changes also paul bartons tutorial makes it feel very reasonable easier than it looks technically. as beginner im thinking so long as i dont hurt myself its got to be better than endless scales and czerny isnt something others would appreciate as much in the long run. thanks for your thoughts i dont have much to unlearn atm :)

I was talking about the opus 25! Check those out too, 1 and 2 of opus 25 are definetely easier. ;) Chopin composed 27 etudes. Op. 10 n. 3 was one of my first ones as well, the middle part is quite tricky, good luck. :)

Play the A# and C# with the thumb. If you still can't play it, just roll the chord. ;)

Yeah I don't have the hand span to do that. If my thumb is touching the A#, there's no way I'm reaching the high C#. The reason I made that comment is because I think those ratings are bullshit. I'm like 5'11", probably have a slightly larger hand span than normal for someone my height. With that in mind, unless you have disproportionately large hands you probably need to be about 6'2" to have the hand span to play that (I can do a 9th or maybe the semi tone above - octave plus minor third - and a couple of my friends that are a few inches taller than me probably could barely reach it). So I'm guessing the people purporting these ratings can't actually even play the piece by my definition of 'playing it' which means including all the written notes. There certainly aren't small children playing it, it's not physically possible. The ratings imply that children who are physically incapable of playing it should be able to play it... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

When I was a child I omitted the low F# so I could play the A# with the left hand, it was actually one of the first pieces I ever played. Or maybe I omitted the A#, I honestly can't remember. I guess that'd be a good compromise if you don't want to roll the chord, but why wouldn't you? So my advice is just do a quick arpeggio, that ought to do it.

Well I want it to sound like when Martha Argerich plays it so I'm not gonna play an arpeggio which would undermine that. I mean I just think that would sound bad. That is purely subjective, but I like how the song culminates on that chord and she lets it resolve and decay longer than any other chord on the same beat. So again, I wouldn't say someone is 'playing it' unless they have that effect, particularly because it is the most important moment of the piece. That being said, I'm not trying to discourage children from learning it or something but to purport the difficulty rating as such is just wrong. They should at a minimum be providing the music to the simplified version their referencing. Rather than saying "you've learned it!" when you really haven't. That just causes people to develop bad habits. And I've been there "ah it's close enough" then a few years later you realize everything you did sounded like shit and none of it was close enough for anyone with a good ear to feel that way.

Also just to be clear, I didn't ask that purely to be pretentious about it. I was also curious if people had input about what configuration of notes is a good substitute because I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of very very good pianists who play the piece very well are faced with the same problem. It's pretty hard to be sure whether or not all 9 notes are ringing when listening to the piece in real time which is the only thing I can do to determine what is happening.

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