Please tell me I am not the only one forgetting to check the clefs every single time 🤪😂

I passed my piano exam

Lol I sometimes also play the wrong clef and I feel so dumb once I notice it. Glad I'm not the only one haha

'Beethoven, so don't use the pedal too much...' Beethoven: 'Hold the pedal down the entire time'.

Italian speaker here. I always thought that “senza sordini” meant one shouldn’t use the una corda pedal when playing this piece because “sordina” means mute, but the plural “sordini” probably suggests that you’re right and that Beethoven was referring to the dampeners. Imo we’ll never know because he spoke German, then he could have not known the difference between singular and plural in Italian. In any case we know that pianos in the time of Beethoven had way less resonance than nowadays, so we should be always cautious about overpedaling as you explained. Nice video :)

I really love how You pronounce „Dzień dobry” 😁 Greetings from Poland!

I suggest this approach for tonal music like this piece : 1. Identify the key of the piece and if it is major or minor. 2. First practice playing the notes of the key to create some memory of the sharps or flats 3. Practice the chords , at least I, IV and V7 (or i, iv and V7 in minor) . Practice the chords with arpeggios. 4. If also helps a lot to listen ( several times) a recording of the piece to get a sense of rhythms and dynamics. 5. Then start practicing the piece.

I love your 'What's up guys' intro! So much enthusiasm. 😁

Let's face it, any composition is fundamentally made up of scales and arpeggios (especially this Beethoven!) so your job is to not only perfect your scales and arpeggios but also be able to identify them quickly on the page when you see them. Of course, what makes any composition unique and great is the way in which the scales and arpeggios are altered or reworked with interesting rhythms, so you have to keep that in mind when sight-reading. Bottom line: look for and identify the scales and arpeggios so you can "predict" what is coming next, but learn to keep in mind that what makes any composition special is the alterations made by the composer to those scales which you already know. 🤓

Cooooool - Annique at her best! Love your positive energy - amazing

Amazing Annique, Thank you ❤️ i love your videos, they ALWAYS help me so much! i hope you're having a nice day :)) 🇧🇷🇧🇷

I feel like you are the best teacher, you always explain so good and you are very good at piano technique and you are very smart at understanding what the composers want to capture in their piece, ❤️

These tips are very good thank you very much. What also helps me a lot when learning a new piece is to listen to the piece on KZfaq and follow along with the notes. It gives a really good overview over the piece and makes sightreading and memorising easier

I LOVED THIS VIDEO ANNIQUE, you’re my favorite pianist and my favorite influencer. 🥰

Watching this channel give me good flashback when i was child when i learn classical piano lesson a lot. Looking back then it was really a good times

Thank you so much! I am still struggling with sight reading and this will surely help me massively.

I've been waiting for this video for a long time 😻😻😿😿

Love the energy

Thank you for this awesome video. You are very encouraging and I love your positive personable personality! 😊👏👏❤️

Loved this! I play this all the time.

I've been learning this for a few weeks. This video is a given !

When I was younger, I used to do sight reading of every piece in my book - only the first page, just to see what the piece sounded like. Eventually, I got better at it. I love how you explained all the steps individually.

❤️ love it!

I would love to see what you could do with Chopin Ballade no 4 with the 1 minute, 1 hour, and 10 hour challenge. As you've learned all the Chopin Op 10 etudes, Ballade no 4 has some callbacks to the etudes within the score!

Danke für die vielen tollen Tipp!!

Thanks, lots of good tips for a beginner such as myself.

A very great video :) thank you Annique 😊

Thank you. My life has been saved by this video

Vielen Dank, Annique! Sehr interessant!

Outtakes - sehr schön 🤩

Great tips for a beginner sight reader, thanks for this.

I'm struggling with Chopins Nocturne in E flat and I am learning so much abt chords and I got a lot better at sight reading, really, there's no shortcut, only p r a c t i c e

Wonderful video, found your channel by chance now. Thanks for that great insight

Hi, I'm from Brazil and you as always making amazing videos. Great tips for sight reading, fingering and interpretation. In my opinion, Moonlight Sonata 1st movement is a difficult song, it helped me a lot. I really like your videos and I will continue to follow everything. Best channel/pianist in the world!😁🎼🎶🎵🎹

Great video!!! Very informative thank you

Thank you for an interesting video, with a great example piece.

You are so fabulous in so many ways, Annique.

i literally thought of asking you for a sight reading video last night haha. i love your videos and learn a lot from your channel. thank you so much for sharing your knowledge for free ♥️♥️

Wie immer interessantes und hilfreiches Thema Annique!👍🎹

I play cello and this video was still very helpful! Thanks!

Thank you so much you are the best teacher 🤩🤩🤩. Greetings from Panamá 🇵🇦 ❤️🎹

Great advice....thanx!

"willst du mich verarschen?" 😅 I am learning piano after 30 years and find your videos really really useful. Thanks for sharing them 👍

it was soooo hrelpful thankss especially te key part

I love this explanation! I am just an amateur, I fell in love with harmony) :)

Thanks for the video

very good!

please do more videos of this format!

I like that your left hand is moving between different octaves and also manage to scroll down the screen on the tablet :)

Deine Outtakes sind geil :-)

Looks like I will enjoy you presentations.

I am from brazil and i love your channel! You could make a video with tips and tricks about playing big chords with the hands very open, cause when I play pieces that need this, my hands feel so tired

🎉🎉 congratulations

It’s such a pleasure to discover you and your channel, thank you for sharing your knowledge! May I ask what software/App you use to read, scroll, and markup the sheet music on your iPad? Thank you again!!

I’m Italian and “sordina” is what the first pedal is often called (the one which makes the sound quieter). I’m pretty sure that’s what he means

definitely being relaxed while doing it. If you have pressure it's so much more difficult...

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I have a friend, who used to study in Lübeck and he could play any piece prima vista. We sight-read Beethoven piano trios and he downloaded the score right before the rehearsal and made not the slightest mistake. It’s incredible

Thank you

I would love to schedule a lesson one day!!

I'm impressed by you playing those annoying huge intervals cleanly!! Those beyond an octave in the right hand. I have the same size hand so I know that's hard. Diese oktawen wollen mich verarschen ;)

👍👍👍 good video 👍

Danke für die hilfreichen Tipps! Es wäre schön wenn du evtl mal einen weiteren Clip zu der Mondscheinsonate zeigen könntest wo du auf die Betonungen und sonstigen erklärungsbedürftigen Stellen eingehen würdest. Viele Leute wären dir da sehr dankbar. VG

Identifying the key of the piece then playing that scale of the comfortably is my first step.

He tells us good tips.

I learned the 1st movement of this when I was 11. I was such a slow music reader it took me 6 months to learn it. Finished it on my 12 b-day as a matter of fact. Today, over 1/2 a century later, I'm STILL "The World's Slowest Music Reader"!! Guinness is looking for me. Over the years I've (attempted to) learned (and forgotten) a couple popular Liszt pieces, Debussy, a nice Chopin etude, etc. I STILL have to count up from the bottom line EVERY little black dot of music!! All these years of counting black dots on lines and it still takes me forever to learn anything. Guess I'll never catch on. I really want to someday (attempt to) learn the 3rd movement of this. Afraid if I don't start soon I might not live long enough! P.S. I need you in my life. js

Thank you 🌹🇨🇵

Dzień dobry! Thank you very much for this video.

It says senza sordini because it is a music written for fortepiano, the sound fades much faster than a modern piano

The use of pedal in this movement is tricky. Even if the piece says the use of pedal the whole piece without lifting your foot, the mechanism of pianos and their resonance in classical era is very different from modern pianos. Therefore, you have to experiment different ways to use the pedal that fits the sound you are pursuing and suits the piece.

Could you give me tips for Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor?? I’m trying to learn it for a competition next year, and your tips are always incredible!

I composed an orchestrated version of Moonlight. It's a sightreader's nightmare, because it's constantly modulating. But, damn ... it sounds good! Great Vid! Thank You! ~TD, Boston

Danke :)

Tolles Video wie eh und jeh....aber die Outtakes😂 wonderful

fand diesen neuen Video still sehr nice und das video war auch sehr helpful lol

Very pretty

Great video. My teacher always told me that saying "And" when you count is not recommended because there's a risk to loose the pulse and play as if it was 4/4 instead of 2/2 for this exemple

Thanks.

Music is a language.. Thanks for your help.👍🇳🇿

Hey, i've been watching your videos for a while, i love the passion and dedication you put in this instrument. I really want to learn piano, but i dont have time for lessons, so i'm looking for a way to learn it at home, do you have any recommendation for where to start? thank you!

I forget to look at the clef and then for a moment I am confused about the harmonies. I say to myself look at the key signature and the clef. Interesting someone as accomplished as you would make the same mistake. Thank you for your insights.

Jetzt hab ich die Mondscheinsonate zum hundertsten Mal gespielt und doch noch was gelernt. Ich springe immer mit der linken Hand mit dem 1. und 5. Finger die Oktaven rauf und runter und wundere mich warum ich manchmal nicht treffe...dabei wäre 1+5 zu 1+4 doch so einfach. Muss ich heut mal ausprobieren. Danke dafür. :)

Please can you make more videos on sight reading? What music should you read to improve. Do you recommend czerny?

omg I’m from Poland and I’ve just heard this DZIEŃ DOBRY and I’m like what’s just happened I still don’t know I’m confused but it’s nice :))

Dzien dobry from Poland 🎉🎉🎉

That s a sight Reading piece we re doing at 11 in conservatory or at least when we are young. Seems obvious for me to know how attack a piece. But you do great job for people !

Must say your cyber offerings are addictive. Can't seem to pass up any of them. Keep them coming. When you look at staff notation, speaking of sight-reading, do you hear the melody in your head, even so, possibly sensing its mood or character? Secondly, what is your opinion that in music history there have been quite a few artists, some alive today, that have never learned to read music?

I laughed so much when the “without deafness” part came up and you were all like “aaaa Beethoven”

Hi Annique! I was wondering if u could give some tips on internalised counting and playing musically? Been told off by my piano teacher many times on not counting enough😅 apparently i havent developed that habit yet and im at a higher grade already 🙃 Playing musically is also something i struggle with, not really sure how to describe this. But looking forward to hear if u have any tips!! Thank you!

What I do is every 6 months, I sight-play through Eduard Steuermann's piano arrangement of Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie op 9. Or sight-play Alban Berg's piano sonata like once a month. It's better to sight-play things that are tonally ambiguous because you won't be able to depend on patterns and common resolutions etc that you have subconsciously mastered through years of hearing and playing music.

I absolutely hated sight reading and it's a skill I neglected for a long time, but a few months ago I decided to invest in it and now I'm really starting to like it, lol. I still suck (not as much as before) but it feels good when you actually land on the right notes 😝

I would like your take on any of Bach fugue sight reading.

Interesting fact it says to hold the pedal for the whole piece! This is because the older piano had a much weaker pedal than we do now and weaker tone so holding the pedal for an entire piece wasn’t muddy in 1.5 seconds like it would be for the modern piano I believe the pedal was controlled by lifting your knee unlike with your foot today. This affected historic phrasing as Beethoven meant for the left hand to be the sole voice however now that we cannot hold a pedal for the entire piece pianists now make the right hand more of a figure rather than background due to the blur issue.

bin froh dass ich die outtakes verstehe haha ^^

First piece I ever learned in its entity... About 25 years ago.

Check the cleffs definitely...my first piano teacher when I inquired about hat"odd"(maybe she was distracted that day?) notation in the left hand told me that "I didn't have to worry about that"... so I didn't...until my 2nd piano teaher....what is hilarious And weird is that if you play the Motzart Adagio ignoring cleft indications for the left hand it still sounds great...maybe even better

I try to keep my eyes as far ahead of my hands as possible. Flashing single note and harmonic/melodic interval cards helps with finding the notes/patterns on the KB. But most people also don't know how to count. Rhythmic training cures that. Robert Starer has a great book called "Rhythmic Training". I don't know if it is still in print.

I love you

Der Schluss war das beste Hab das ganze Video sowieso nur durgeskippt hab leider nur Bahnhof verstanden 😂

I found it easier and simpler to learn this piece by starting out playing it in chords rather than arpeggios because it forces you to "chunk" the notes into simple groups.