you ca now hear my fingers go yeet on spotify!!!! open.spotify.com/album/0GAIWw... i promise this is the last chopin upload for a bit, just felt the need to record this one!
i tried learning this and no one know how stupid the rhythms are until they play it. what psychopath put triplets that start on the sixteenth of the first beat OVER NORMAL SIXTEENTH NOTES WTF??? anyway this is incredible, every note is so clean and it's performed so well. you're a phenomenal pianist update: i just finished this piece 3 weeks after picking this song back up lmao
马鑫焕 like if you honestly think this composition by Chopin is as devilish as you make it out to be due to polyrhythms, then you must be an amateur pianist still learning polyrhythms. Most pianists with around 5-6 years experience have these simple polyrhythms essentially embedded into their muscle memory. If you want something that IS challenging, then listen to Sorabji, or late Scriabin sonatas - - these have much more sophisticated rhythms.
It's actually not that nice living next to a musician. Most of the time it's just one part of a song over and over and over and over and over until they get it right.
This man is underrated asf, i wouldve thought he has at least 100k subs Edit: Guys I feel like a dad now, he really hit it, Congrats on 100k William, you deserve it!!
This is one of the most mechanically clean, emotionally intense playings of this piece I have ever seen. I would have left you a video response of my attempt at it, but I don't think you can do that on youtube anymore. Great job man, really fantastic stuff
I agree with the guy above me. This is also probably one of the best performances I've heard, but man Daniil Trifonov is a completely different beast, he is fucking wild
All the other performances I've seen of this piece so far feel pretty soulless most of the time. Serious props to the poster of the video! I'll be checking out this Daniel Trifonov guy.
I hope you were able to figure it out. There are two methods imo. One is just to focus on the notes where the left and right hand line up. The notes in between you ignore, but just focus on the goal of every 4th note on the right hand lines up with every 3rd note on the left hand. You have to play in short bursts. The other method is play extremely slow to begin with. It requires a bit of fractions. If the 3 notes on the left hand happen at beat 1, 2, and 3, then the 4 notes on the right hand happen at beat 0.75, 1.5, 2.25, and 3.0. However, if you treat every note the right hand plays as 4 beats, then your left hand plays notes on beats 4, 8, and 12. The right hand plays notes on beats 3, 6, 9, and 12. This is extremely slow because you're breaking 16th notes down into 4 beats... but it's what I did and it worked.
@@dustdukk2832 Yeah for sure, that piece is difficult when playing slow, I find that you need to have some speed, almost like momentum. Just like how riding a bike is much hard when you are going extremely slow.
There's two types of pianists: the ones who learn & follow the notes... or the ones who feel the music and move with it. You sir, are the second. Amazing.
For anyone who's struggling with the polyrhythms: Nahre Sol has a great video on it! I thought it helped a lot to "memorize" the sound of the rhythm by tapping on a table.
It's amazing to think about composing this. Even thinking about these weird note timing is hard, not to talk about playing them. Amazing job dude! You play so well!!
Just wanted to say that people like you are the reason I’ve started getting into classical! I’m a big fan of metal but watching beautiful pieces like this being played so perfectly makes me want to hear more and more!
99.9 % of performances today use the paderewski edition from 1910, who, in some way corrected chopin. If you look at the urtext editon (Wydanie Narodowe from 2010) the writing for the lowest voice is pretty horrible, so i think chopin could dislike this piece
How the heck can this performance ONLY have 300k views??? This was brilliant!! Thank you so much for explaining what you are doing while playing! I love it! :)
Underrated af. PLEASE blow up! You deserve it. Love classical music and love your virtuosic mastery of the piano. As a noob pianist watching these are unreal to me. You deserve so much more credit and I really hope you play many more amazing and beautiful pieces like this
The comedy and memes coupled with the piano in your videos is just great. Also, I really really like listening to your piano, it sounds awesome the way you play it. Good luck in the future!
He even close his eyes and don’t look at the keayboard!!He’s such an inspiration!I play piano like 6-8 years know I guess but I had during that time no time and motivation and had a huge break for like 1-2 years and now I regret that I didn’t took it seriously.So I need really much time to learn those hard pieces.I‘m a little sad while hearing those pieces while happy to hearing at it…I hope I‘m not the only one who has such an experience like me…💔❤️🩹
How can you just have 2020 subs. You deserve a lot more and I can promise you that you will become big on RU-vid. I’ve just started playing the piano and this is making me so impressed and motivated. Keep it up!
As a kid I would wait for my piano lesson to begin and for about two months the lady who was the student before me would be playing this piece beautifully. Nothing compares to hearing it in person.
I love the subtitles in your videos. They bring a lot of personality and entertainment to what would otherwise just be another impressive video. Keep up the great work :)
For some weird reason, whenever I see a classical piece performed in a "practice" setting, I gain a newfound appreciation for the piece and the pianist (subbed to this channel :) ). Always makes me regret giving up piano and not being more diligent with practicing when I had lessons, now I just play for funzies. Your technique is amazing and every note sounds so pristine. Keep this up!!!
The fact that will is able to play both the right hand and left hand so clear with each note not being pulled or too short is amazing, my notes always pull a bit because of pedal, AND THE GODDAMN FINGERING OF THIS PIECE
You played this SO EXTREMELY WELL!! It’s really fantastic to listen to and I love the little facts you put in there. As a piano beginner, I hope I’ll be able to one day have 0.1% of your skill 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Although I’ve listened to this piece thousands of times, your interpretation is sooooo impressive! Keep going!!! I really enjoy your practice videos (and also short videos🤣)
Hi Will. I’ve just discovered your channel, and have to say that I hope you’re a professional pianist. Because you are FAR too good if you’re not! I’m blown away by your talent. 🙌
This is some of the most impressive piano work ive seen in a long time, you must be some sort of competition pianist right? this is crazy!! I know youve been getting a lot of requests, but man i'd love to see you approach some Art Tatum or Monk, I gotta see what those stride skills look like on stride piano lol
Why does everyone says he hates it? He threw it away, that's it. He didn't give a public condemnation on it, it was just in his trash, a piece very similar to another piece by a different composer at the time. Love it when minor misinformation goes mainstream to the point where it becomes real.
I would love to hear you play some of the lesser known piano repertoire like late Liszt etc Bc I find it hard to listen to but with your commentary it would probably make sense and I’d enjoy it!! Excellent job!!!
ok but this is SO GOOD?! I love how clearly you can hear the right hand and the way you put both hands together is veryy clean, thank you for this amazing performance!!
I listened to/played so much Chopin when I was younger that I got a bit fed up of his pieces. Your comments beneath the vid kept me watching despite me really disliking the start of this piece (just too many notes at once, like just pick a few) and I really loved reading your 'thoughts' throughout the piece. Don't stop!
omg i just found this channel and you've singlehandedly inspired me to pick up piano again! i haven't played in a year since i stopped private lessons before starting college. but learning a classical piece by myself has always been something i've wanted to do and the way you've performed this piece with such musicality and deliberate musical choices is so beautiful that it makes me want to play piano again :') and your commentary is always fun to read lol anyway i hope you continue to amaze us with your videos
I am 81 yo and so happy that my mother taught me to appreciate classical music. I studied piano for a while but now mainly just enjoy hearing such beauty. Do you have albums? I would love just to have this great musical beauty playing for hours!
Ah hem, Chopin did not hate this piece, there’s lots of miss-information and misconceptions in the classical world (example: Beethoven did in fact meet Mozart and received 6 lessons even though everyone says he came to Vienna to seek out Mozart for lessons but never met him. Truth is, he was invited to Vienna by Mozart through their mutual friend Max Franz for lessons and had to cut them short because his mother fell ill and he returned to home, Bonn Germany, they exchanged letters and very much knew each other, rather than the story that’s commonly told). This piece was not meant to be publish, not because he didn’t think it was a good enough piece or loathed it. The original title not known until 1960, included “Composed for the Baroness d'Este by Frédéric Chopin”. That is the reason it was not meant to be published, it was written as a private piece for that person. Chopins friend Julian Fontana got his hands on a copy and made some minor edits and published the piece posthumous against Chopins wishes. Arthur Rubinstein purchased the "Album of the Baroness d'Este" at auction in 1960 which included the original transcription in Chopins handwriting. The Arthur Rubinstein (original) version is the most commonly performed version. It was not at all hated by Chopin, it was simply a private piece not meant to be published, but thank god for Chopins sneaky friend that we get to hear this and get to play it. Lots of classical pieces were written for specific people as private commissioned pieces, we are still discovering pieces written by Vivaldi for example that have been held private as family treasures.
Awesome performance! Keeping up with your unique video style haha. It’s funny and educational at the same time! Sometime you should try to do verbal commentary while playing instead of post-production 😄. I agree, that ending is like the sun coming out! The op 27 no 1 c#- Nocturne has the same effect at the end - do you play that one?
For pieces of this difficulty memorizing is it what all pianists do. So much practice is required that you will build up muscle memory and be able to play the piece from your memory. That's really not that special. What's special is the ability to play with such clarity
Your face is perfect and nothing to be embarrassed about. You worked hard, weird faces are a part of that! Thank you for the delightful performance and colour commentary
Yes, please don’t let how many years or even months or weeks of experience limit what you want to play. I am 18 but I started playing around 15 and a bit before 16 i started learning moonlight sonata 3rd movement and had it down after 17. In the middle of moonlight sonata I had started to learn op25 no11 chopin etude. It will be hard but as long as you have the same intense desire to learn piano I have jo doubt you can do it. Just remember to start slow and take it in very very small segments. I also started learning random things like the skyrim theme and a couple anime themes in a simple way and made them complicated in my own way to improve. So for the skyrim theme which was the first thing I learned, I played an extremely simple version off of RU-vid and started adding my own things like chords, octaves and such. Good luck with your piano journey, I hope youll do well because it is a very mentally and emotionally rewarding hobby.
Hey! I love the way you play, and the accuracy of your tempo is great! I was wondering if you could consider a request for the song “Winter Wind”. It starts out slow and rushes into a fast chorus… it just a fun piece that I don’t see many people play :D
Your commentary and great playing connects me to the music in a way I haven't experienced with classical. It almost always comes accross as edgy pretentious note diarrhea full of cliché cheesy melodies to me. Fantastic playing and video
I couldn’t find any evidence that Chopin “hated” this piece. If your video is going to be seen by a lot of people, you owe it to the legacy of Chopin to fact check this claim.
Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu op. 66 is harder than this piece at normal speed other than the impossible parts like playing G and high G while also playing the D and E above the high G, and some notes outside of the piano.
