I played it pretty well in my 20's . I forgot EVERYTHING. I'm 83 now and trying to play the piano again. So far so good......

This is easily the best teaching video I've seen on this piece. It's very easy to understand and gives me complete confidence I can do this. I was never taught HOW to practice so this is wonderful beyond words. Thank You!

I am so glad I have found your website! The fantasy impromptu is one of my all-time favorites but I’ve had mental blocks against it for years and what you said has made perfect sense! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I look forward to more instructional videos from you.

You are highly skilled and an excellent communicator. I appreciate the musicality of your own playing which is important. You prove your own approach works from a point of actual musicianship. While you talk about mechanics, it's directed at creating lyrical music in the end. When you demonstrated the melody by itself it was as it should be.

Thank you for explaining the mechanics of the fingers, wrist, and arm! This is a wonderful video! Your explanations are so clear and so helpful!! Please post more!!!

Very interesting explanation. Thank you, it's very helpful!

You are such an excellent teacher! Please keep them coming!! ;-

Very nicely explained - and very helpful. Thanks

You are such a great teacher! So well explained and you give me hope!

Thank you, it was encouraging! I thought I’ll never get to “that” level. Just performed the op. 18 waltz. Can’t wait to learn the fantasie impromptu!

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Very Great and helpful teaching!!!

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Thank you, you are an excellent communicator, and it is a pleasure listening to your explanations

Excellent, thankyou so much this is extremely helpful.🤗

This Chopin piece is my all time favorite. I can play it really well ONLY in my dream. Watching your video and listening to your instructions, I have hope and the desire to make my dream into reality! Thank you very, very much. I will watch this video again & again. Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you so much for this valuable introduction to playing this piece. I've sight read through this piece many times and put it down as too difficult. Now with your guidance I understand how to work on this piece. Your left hand advice is particularly helpful. It prevents fatigue and allows smoother arpeggios. I've subscribed and look forward to more lessons.

Hello, thank you!! I've been struggling with this one forever. This was the best motivational video ever, I think I'll be able to get it together now. I've also been trying to transpose the themes into different keys, play it as a tango in C-minor etc in order to understan how Chopin was thinking. Time to go back into the shed. :)

I feel this video is exactly what I needed, as a self-learner. I have tried this piece many times without success, over the last decade. One problem is memorization. Your suggestion on using right thumb is brilliant to simplify and make it easier to memorize. My another problem is speed, for which you mentioned using gravity... Hopefully, I will succeed this time. Thanks a lot for the lesson. I will start practicing this piece again.

yes it's my big big wish to play this piece !!! wish me luck Pray !!! i get through this with your very valuable tutorial !!! thanks for the inspiration !!!

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That's a great lesson! It looks like it's not impossible for me anymore. I play piano for 4 years now and i'm planning to learn this piece next year. Definitely going to watch this video several times. Thank you. Greetings from Brazil!

so glad to see you are posting more frequently!

Quality instruction material that will save aspiring pianists the frustration I had to endure. I learned this piece in shortly over 2 weeks in late 2000 but took a brute force approach and had no guidance whatsoever because this was over the Christmas holidays when the music school I attended was closed. I wish I came across a tutorial like this, would have saved lots of junk volume in terms of practice. And been friendlier to my parents' and siblings' ears because they were literally sick of the piece half-way through my learning process. On a side note: this is the only work of Chopin, one of my favourite composers alongside Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Reger, I ever came to dislike. It's a frivolous salon piece which is basically a second rate knock off of the opening movement of Beethoven's 14th piano sonata but without the emotional depth and without any significant sort of development of the material. Especially the ending, it sort of just peters out. However, at the time it did serve its purpose: managed to dramatically improve both my technique in a relatively short while, and, as a psychologically immature teenager who just wanted to impress musically clueless passers-by (especially girls) when playing in public, it worked miracles. Play it in front of someone who's not into classical music and they'll think you're a super virtuoso.

I actually learned this during covid. I'd done it as more of a test to see how much I could get through, but actually ended up finishing it. It's still one of my favorites and I never want to lose it.

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I will work on this piece little by little. I am mainly focused on Mozart, Beethoven and Brshms now, but I always wanted to learn this one and the G minor Ballade. I find the Finale of the Brahms F minor sonata rather difficult, but I can play slowly through it with some stumbling. I suspect these Chopin piecies will not be so difficult as the Brahms op. 5 Finale.

Chopin actually didnt like this impromptu very much. He didn't think it sufficiently captured the free improvisational quality that an impromptu entailed.

😳 that intro 😳 this is why I never play other people's music. I compose my own. When people tell me my music sounds terrible, I answer with a smile saying, "It's an avant-garde piece; it's supposed to sound that way." 😂

I played this perfectly when I was 18 but am really having difficulty learning it again 40 years later.😮

Played this for my senior recital. If I can do it, anybody can!

Always been able to play the notes, but with the same sort of phrasing in both hands. Already doing everything you said up to the halfway mark in the video Still unable to play semiquavers over 12/8 convincingly 😢 it's literally just the polyrhythm thing that is my wall 🧱 Oh I also struggled with the tumultuous part of the coda section for some reason and that's not even a polyrhythm. It might have been the jumps in the LH and RH. I can't remember fully since it's been a while since I actually tried. I did do a video on my channel but it was me just looking at the sheet music for 30 minutes at work and then trying to play it from memory so nowhere near a serious attempt 😅 I probably can't even play the RH as good as that now Awesome video btw

Very helpful video! Which pieces and Chopin-Etudes would you suggest for the preparation of this Impromptu?

I am not in the level for that song... I play piano only one year, but it is amazing your teaching.

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great video! would like to know how you approach Chopin's Ballad no. 1 :)

Any chance you teach online? Thank you. Love your videos

With all due respect, um, No I cannot play this, even with guidance 😊😊 But - the video is great and even applying the “method” of learning is very insightful

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Thank you so much for this video Jeewon. I was wondering if you could help me with what I have a problem with in this piece it is that I can set the metronome for mm = 88 bpm for a triplet in the left hand and play it perfectly hands together at that speed, counting 1 2 3 4 for each set of the four sixteenths of the right hand against the left hand triplet but I don't know how to get it up to the incredible beautiful speed that you perform it at that makes it sound so correct and perfect. Can you give me some ideas on how to get the right hand that much faster? Thank you so much. Keep up the wonderful videos. Brian King

Thank you for this! Want to learn this so badly, but I’m very intimidated. I am an adult who returned to the piano during the pandemic ( studied for 8 years as a kid). I’d say I’m solid intermediate but can play about 3/4 of Chopins ballade no. 1 😂, and some other less demanding waltzes and nocturnes. Do you think I’m capable of this? wish I could study with you!

Could you comment on the final chord? Some scores list it as broken, like how you play it, and other scores instruct you to play it unbroken.

She is playing the standard version published after Chopin's death. The version based on Chopin's actual autograph is more difficult and better. It is available in a Peters edition and was first recorded by Artur Rubinstein.

Honestly, once you get the rhythm , the flow, it’s much much easier!!

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Hi Jeewon , do you provide private tutoring online? I live in Australia 🇦🇺

may i ask what piano you played on?

Throughout this lesson, you mention pulse and rhythm quite a bit, as someone who struggles with pulse in specific pieces, what would be your advice, to fix any pulse/rhythm issues NAMELY if you realise very late that you have a pulse/rhythm issue in specific parts! And how would you align this with the rest of your piece, which seems to not have such an issue. Does not have to be specifically to op.66, my personal issue with this has been worst with Haydn for example, especially between 'sections' A-B-A-B. Great video however!

Nice video. I heard some clipping, i.e. distortion. Probably, you need to turn your microphone down or place the recording device farther away. Other commentors may know more.

I was doing this perfectly up until this point <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="154">2:34</a>

😂 used to love it as beginner... Now I had enough of this piece........

6 notes against 4 notes…has a combined rhythm in English similar to “The Golden Butter” or you could break this down to 2 sets of 3 notes against 2 notes as in “You Chatter Box-You-Chatter Box…” oh so my Organ teacher taught (he was a student of Widor, and Dupre). At the speed this is played at concert, and it comes out as Latter Day Saints Latter Day Saints (incorrect), which he warned against. 6 notes against 4 notes isn’t easy….some get the right hand disconnected from synchronization against the left in Chopin, others with difficulty, and more than the precious few who do simply give up as the emphasis in early stages of learning the piano this togetherness of both hands is taught defacto. As to the many of Chopin pieces with the tiny (and this includes the majority of concert artists) notes completely not in sync this is a lost art.

I don't even try to play it. The frustration would be too.....

To play it well is difficult. Any piece is easy to play mediocre. I see it all the time in my class.

It’s played too fast very often. Use whole beat metronome theory

I challenge you to piano battle. Face me honorably or admit defeat.

You will never play it, as a beginner, that way, because all what she is explaining makes sens only if you understand something else, that is a basically move, involved in playing scales : the rotating of the wrist over the scales, 3 + 5 : when the thumb is played the wrist goes down, anyway it's a natural move, with 2, 3, 4 the wrist goes up, an down on 5. Obviously before playing this you want to play scales, ie, Bach. Mozart only a little because his best compositions are not the sonatas, and then you skip Beethoven entirely : the passionata is recycling Mozart's nozze di Figaro.