I will be 90 next month and played these Sonatinas when I was 11. I love them. Now I am living i MN and am learning them all over again. Thank you for your tutorials--not only are they informative but they bring back memories. Many thanks.

I am 71, and have been learning just shy of five years. I play the first movement at about 1/3 to 1/2 speed, but still enjoy it a lot. This tuturial has been a big help; thanks very much!

I also studied this sonatina as a beginner in 1984 as a recital piece. I recently returned to the piano and thought it would be fun to play it again. Thank you for the tutorial.

I played this exact sonatina at the talent show in 4th grade and won first place! Thanks Clementi for this wonderful piece!

Your content is truly excellent! I had to quit piano class a few months back and we were just starting on this Sonatina, your videos have helped me so much to keep motivated and keep practicing while I can go back to class! I wish you had given a bit of time to those trills in the second movement I always have problems making them fit without slowing down.

Very interesting. Thank you. My 6yo grandson started on the piano; my old Yamaha Psr520. after a year we got him a Yamaha UX oh yea we got lucky. Excellent condition. Me? 60 years ago I had piano lessons and absolutely as like all kids hated it and hated classical music. 10 years piano and 5 more accordion. Now, I love it. Mostly Mozart but a few others well. I found Clementi and this piece. So I got the book and started practicing when my grandson is in school. Glad I found your page.👍👍👍👍👍 my left hand sure needs some work ha ha

just got into level 3 RCM as an adult and have been working on this for the last few months. Working on the second movement. thanks for sharing

Thanks a million, Allysia, you are a great motivator! I will have a go at it TODAY :-)

Thank you so much for this. I've been playing piano since I was 5, I'm 21 now and I'm not really a consistent player, I stopped for years honestly. I was only taught by my grandma and she didn't go through a teacher also. But I follow through the books (I'm now on grade 3 or 4-ish and I've been playing this (with the guide of the metronome before)) and all the info here is so awesome and it inspires me to practice harder. Now I see the importance of a teacher. Too bad I can't get one right now.

I’m a bit late to the party and just found your video today since I’m just learning the first movement at my piano lesson. Great tutorial and very informative! My piano instructor is excellent too, like you. Learn so much from both of you. Thank you!

I don't even play the piano but I find your videos very interesting and entertaining at the same time (yes !). You're doing a fantastic job explaining, so I subscribed. And I remember my mother used to play this piece at home so it has a special place for me.

I remembered this being one of the first piano pieces from the sonatina I played. My favorite sonatina is the third.

This is a wonderful tutorial. Thank you!

My favorite part is the second movement (Andante). Not so fast, just the right pace. 😊

Thank you so much for your wonderful teaching, Allyson. I really appreciate it.

Thanks for the advice! I'm working on it over the summer.

I have only just discovered Clementi when I came across an old book of his. Am pleased to see I have been playing correctly, so thanks!

I love this strand of your videos! Every piece I get assigned seems to have a tutorial to go with it 😁

I just finished all three pages today. This was a huge help.

I've always loved this one.

I am learning this piece now and Your tutorial is extremely helpful!

amazing dynamic teacher !!

OMG EVERYONE PLAYS THIS ONE LMAO THIS IS ICONIC

Excellent tutorial !!!

Thank you so much! This tutorial helped me a lot with getting to know my music 👍

God bless you ma'am, THANKS A LOT!!!!

This video inspired me to start learning this sonatina. Thank you!

Very helpful. Thank you

Excelente!!!!

Thank you for this tutorial. I am definitely going to learn this piece. Thank you for posting this beautiful piece here.

Did she just say grade 3 who's playing for years? I've been playing for 6 months and my teacher wanted me to play all 3 movements lol.

Spiritoso part sounds much better when you take into consideration the dynamics noted in the score. Apart from that, it's a good tutorial.

This is a brilliantly done tutorial! The analyses are not only thorough, they are remarkably lucid! I feel fortunate to have discovered this channel. Time to subscribe!!

First piece my teacher gave me even tho I self taught myself for some months just finished the song really nice and easy

Great one.

OMG you just save my life thx you tutorial was amazing

That was my grade 3 piece , now on grade 6 👍🏻✨

This sonatina is what I've got up on my music rack this very moment! I started trying to learn it just a couple of days ago! Interesting that you comment about the "zig zag" motions. OMG that is killing me in this piece. Playing it slow, it't not a problem, but trying to play at tempo, it's a killer. My fingers just jam up completely. So I've got the metronome going and I'm playing the same 9 notes over and over and over again while attempting to increase the tempo.

Believe it or not I play this on my accordion from the piano score.

Hi! I love your videos. I am learning this Sonatina and I have two questions about the second movement: 1. how do you play the ornament with RH and the three notes with LH in the third measure and 2. In the eighth measure, how do you play the dotted eighth note with the RH and the three notes with LH? Thank you so much. PS: I use your practice journal and I love it.

Hey ! Can you do a tutorial of how to do runs on piano, i mean play fast ? Great video btw!

I started learning this piece

Just discovered you and an really enjoying your videos!

I don't know if you have a video on this already, but a video on arpeggios and how best to play them would be great, since I'm playing chopin's waltz in e minor and it starts with arpeggios :D

Thank you

Beautiful! Your ring is so bling bling:) Love

This is great. I realized that I was playing the first movement incorrectly

I'm glad I found this. Just started learning this piece the other day and my sheet music doesn't have fingering markings. It's fun to see what I came up with versus the actual.

Awesome!! thank you for this!

i love your eyes, greetings from Venezuela

Hey! My child started piano less than 2 years ago. I helped her get through 'Adult Piano Adv 1' before she started. The teacher insisted that none of 'Adv 2' was challenging enough for her, because she was able to progress through a lesson in a week. She moved her into Grade 3/4 material almost immediately with Bach's "Prelude in C Major". After a month or two, she got it mostly down and the teacher moved her to Chopin's "Waltz in A minor". This took her 2-3 months to learn to speed -- rather void of emotion or dynamics. The teacher moved her to Clementi's "Sonatina in C major, op.36 no. 3". Again after 3-4 months, she has it mostly up to speed, but not polished. This is a RCM Grade 5 piece and my kid only has 2 yrs playing experience max. She cant even play a single scale in multiple octaves, can't identify any 7 or 9 chords, doesnt know major from minor, cant tell you the sharps/flats in any given key, doesnt understand apreggios, etc. I feel like this is a terrible way to teach. Anyone can brute force the right notes after months of repitition, right? I believe the next piece she is about to begin is in the RCM Grade 10 repitoire! Piano is too rewarding because simply pushing the right key at the right time is all that matters for most students, and you can practically train a monkey to do that. It makes me think that I could start with Mov 3 of Moonlight Sonata and get it mostly down within a year, and then just say "I am done. I can play master level piano!' Guitar, violin, and the other stringed instruments mostly force you to slow down because of the difficulty in fretting, plucking, bowing, vibrato, etc. I tried to get her to sight read a piece from Adult Piano Adventures Classics Book 2, and she couldnt. At RCM 5+ and cant even sight read RCM 1 level stuff?! What should I do?

Hi PianoTv, when you say this sonatina is grade 3 you mean only the first part of it or all three movements? Thank you and for your videos as well.

Awesome stuff! Do you have any tips on trying to play melodic octaves with smaller hands? Like in Gs in section A. I have the same issue with Fur Elise with those Gs.

I think it was a good lesson. I plan to do a lesson on sonatinas, but it might be difficult to film from above.

Does spiritoso mean “very fast” as well as bold? No matter how long I practice this piece or how well I play it, I can never play it as fast as I hear everyone else playing it.

hi! could you please post a video on how to play Rondo CLementi n 36 op 2

My 2nd piano teacher threw this one at me. I never did master it. Maybe I'll go back and try it again.

In my sheet in the recupilation when it’s the lower C E C GG and the end of that one the E D C B A G the left hand for me goes G E E D

@pianoTV Maybe you could do a video on Satie's 'Sonatine Bureaucratique' that was directly modelled on this sonatina?!

For some students the left hand technical skill is not up to speed as much as the right hand. Could you do a tutorial that focuses and concentrates on developing LH only. I usually start my technical routine with LH scales,arps.,broken chotrds,chords,. What are your views?

is this actually grade 3 RCM? it sounds a bit more difficult...

How would you set the metronome on Sonatina in C major op.36 no.1

Hi tercer! How can I get the music to start practicing? What steps do I follow to get this piece please? Greetings from Tijuana!

Thanks Allysia. I need to keep a note of triplets form (Accent-light-light). I keep forgetting that. In the vivace piece, it starts with slurs on the left. When it repeats in forte, the slurs are gone. Does it not mean that the form changes and we need to break the notes a little?

How much peddle do you use in andante movement ? and where ? Thanks

When you say drill a section, can you give pointers on how to drill? How many times do you play it?

I was wondering if you use any music software. I noticed the parts where a cursor goes over the sheet music in sync with your playing and I'm curious how that is done.

I have a question. Not related to the video but about piano. I've been learning piano (I have a teacher, self-teaching is something I'm not good with in general lol) for about a couple months. Mind you, I don't have a grade but my teacher said that I was good to go for Grade 2 ABRSM exam. He also said to my mom when she was asking how good I was, he said that I can be a professional pianist in about 10 years. I practice about 1-2 hours on the daily, usually 1 hour after school, then another right before/after dinner. Really passionate about music, I plan to be a producer when I grow up and hopefully I can apply my piano skills to it. Question: Am I going at a fast pace or what? I'm personally comfortable with how I'm learning it now, just that I am curious on how you see it. Am I doing good as a beginner?? Thank you in advance

Hey, my teacher just assigned me this piece, you say you should be able to handle it when you've been playing for a few years but I started playing in November. Do you think it's still a bit too early or would you recommend trying this piece because my teacher told me to?

Heinrich Lichner Sonatinas are also excellent.

what make and model is your instrument

Hii My teacher gave just gave me this and I’m only in the beginning of my second year... I have been trying to learn this for 2 days now and it isn’t going as fast as the other pieces she gave me to play. I just keep messing up my finger positions and I’m pressing the wrong keys + I’m holding some keys in for to long When I try to play it really fast, When I play it slow enough everything is played as it should be except for the keys I’m holding in for to long ( staccato ) , but I just can’t get it to the right speed😕 Any advice Hha

yo Alyssia! have you ever tried chopins ballade no 1? If not, do you plan to study it some time? I ve read about this reporter who set himself a goal to be able to play this ballade within one year allthough not being a pianist at all and he actually managed it with a lot of discipline and help of professional pianists. this ballade is in fact a piece of work for lifetime, but if I manage it to play it eventually, I would be so happy, even if it takes me 40 years

Grade 3, really? I'm going to be stuck on Grade 2 forever...........

Great. I really enjoy your vids about classical musicians. Could you put subtitle in French? Thanks

I just finished Turkish march and k.545 and this is kinda similar

Is it possible that you could do the same tutorial for Mozart's K545? Would absolutely LOVE to see that. Very nice tutorial.

What is the real tempo of this piece? Someone could help me?

Can you do an no 2???

Could you tell me the name of the digital piano?

May i know the workstation that you use.

Few years! I need 5 decades

is true

Why do you play digital piano in tutorial? Does it have any advantage for recording?

😃😀😄

I've been playing for about for about 4-5 years and I'm playing this, is that bad?

Few years? I'm here trying to do it with 3 months of piano exprience?

start 2:35

Hi second year here who just finished arabesque 1?!? Now my teacher wants me to play this

IN MY SHEET MY TEACHER GAVE ME My recupilation at the near end the lower part at the end of it E D C B A G at the left hand part it goes G E E D instead of G F E D

chords typo

I have been studying for only less than a month (tutored twice a week) and this is given to me already and I can't keep up. Do you think I am lagging behind? 😢

la-so-la-so-fa-so-fa....ladofadolafa 15:59

Nearly forgot the reapeat signs

Я русская

BTW bfgf fgff is a PIG (IMHO)

i know a lot about slow messes…

This is difficult I don't know why people are saying it's easy like tf

your a little bit too fast for me. But i am learning from my book i have

besides being a great teacher, you have the prettiest eyes....