Aside from the absolute beautiful perfect playing. Paul was the first one to make me truly understand this piece. Thought I felt it before now it’s crushing. The man is incredible.
Paul, you are 100% correct that this is one of those wonderful pieces that makes you play piano in the first place. I'm learning other pieces alongside this one at the moment, and there is something uncannily cathartic and beautiful in this particular Beethoven work. When I sit at the piano and want to just relax, play and enjoy, this is the piece my fingers play. Thank you for your wonderful instruction!
I have not opened my piano for a good 2 decades. Due to grief This morning I sat down and played by heart moonlight sonata. But got lost after 15 bars or so into the piece. Then I stumbled upon this piece on Spotify. Looked it up and decided to learn something new. I never learnt this piece as a child. But now I have a huge desire to 'do a new thing'. Hope I can cope on the technical side. But practice , practice and more practice.
I cannot read music nor do I play avidly, but when I was young I had a keyboard piano that taught the notes on a screen and I couldn't remember much of this song except the beginning. Your tutorial is the first one I've come across in which the keys were the same as the one I learned. The rest are so simplified and off for me to relearn. This is a tough thing for someone who doesn't play to pick up on, but I'm going to follow along your tutorial many times lol, until I can play this all the way. Thank you.
I stumbled upon this site and immediately said, that is the chap who plays for the elephants. And so it is. I choke up when I watch them. There is no mention of elepheants in the comments and I offer this as a flag to point people in that direction. You play beautifully and are an inspiration to many others. Thank you.
Thank you to teach is how to play this. I am a very beginner, and did not know how to play the 〜 symbol on the bar 20, 21. But I learn more than that. Thank you and please upload more and more educational video😄
Thank you for this video. I'm not a pianist, but wanted to learn this movement a na d bought a keyboard to do so. Your video made something way above my level accessable and possible.
Inspiring and lovely playing as always. Your lesson is also really helpful with the practical aspects of playing the piece, like eg fingering for the ornaments - thank you for the generous use of your time!
A really helpful tip is that for as much of the main theme as you can, play the melody line *alone*with the right hand. Obviously change when fingers can't reach, but this helps distinguish the melody and harmony for people starting this piece.
Was just about to comment that, I totally agree. Sometimes it sounds like it’s part of the melody and it’s a bit of a challenge to make it clear that it’s just accompaniment.
@@k0d0kushi73 yeah because if it is part of the melody then we’re missing a note in the “alto”, which has regular crotchets throughout the theme, and it makes a lot more sense in a melodic perspective to have Eb-Db-C than Eb-Bb-Db-C
In future videos, please include a view of the dampers along with your hands. By doing so, we will see how you peddle. (Better yet, a split screen with a small section with a separate camera to see your feet). Thank you.
please what is the screen that you use to read the sheet I see that change page nut I would know if there is a pedal to change or what .. (and if possible where is possible to buy it)
I have trouble making the upper most note stand out from the rest. The melody drowns in the accompanate. I somehow must press faster with my right pinkie at the same time i play other notes with my other fingers on the right hand. Not sure how to do that.
I play with completely wrong fingers! LoL. But after watching Daniel Bareboim playing this I gave up trying to play it perfectly because he already did.
@@1827641 Casella was a genius composer and pianist, his edition for all the sonatas are some of the best for pedal, indications, fingerings, and most importantly for me in some cases writes down single notes of trills. I still prefer Urtext for when i play, but Casella's are perfect for somebody who is self teaching this piece as it helps
So, I worked out a complicated method of hands sharing the middle part which seems natural, however you don't do this at all (and neither does Daniel B) so I guess I need to just learn this as the middle part all in the RH. This seems problematic at the part in the last section where the triplet rhythm is played against a dubplet semi-demi quaver - but no one seems to care.
Hello, any advice on how i get my head round practicing scales for this piece ? The modulations i'm struggling with what the key signature actually is half the time .
conpletely to the point here: if you can't play some scales I'm not sure this is your skill level, it requires a lot of muscle memory and hand changes with the accompaniment. But answering your question, i find having solid fingerings for scales helps them be rooted in your head. One hand at a time and then both toghether, slow and then fast, 2 octaves and then a full 4 octaves. Don't be discouraged though, if you believe you can play this you will surely be able to!
The score I purchased has the notes on the treble and bass clefs published slightly differently, so the treble clef has single notes and the bass clef has the other notes. As the notes are so close together it isn't easy to figure out which hands use to play which notes.
first things first...like noticing that the upper and lower bars are both BASS clef ...jajaja....My first pass was reading it as treble and bass..."This sure sounds funny?"
I am practicing this beautiful piece for my Grade 8 exam. I will see myself come back to watch this tutorial numerous times. Thank you teacher! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fIrPTnQKnMM.html
