Hi guys, NB on the fingering on the score, the opening bar I made a written error and reversed a 2 and 4. It’s obvious but should read 5-1-2-4-1-4-2-4-2. Thank you @stevesandgroper3241 for spotting it for me. Passacaglia is available to stream on all your favourite streaming platforms and Spotify spotify.link/KKfo1rJnEDb
I arranged this piece back in 2010. I uploaded it in 2012. Never expected for it to become this popular. The section D actually starts from the highest note and goes down. In your sheets they forgot to use the 8a notation.
Wow, that’s amazing! I had no idea, I absolutely love your arrangement ! ❤ I’ve only been playing piano for a year and I am still learning the piece (I uploaded a short on youtube a few days ago. It’s not great, but it was more to get over my fear of recording myself and/or play in front of people). If you want me to credit you let me know! It’s probably not going to get that many views 😂 but I wanted to offer it anyway since most covers with your arrangement don’t credit you at all
Hello Louise. This is one of my favourite pieces. I'm 64yrs old and have been learning to play for 5 months. I'm ready to learn this piece. Your teaching method is really amazing and appreciated from all of us you would just love to be able to play this piece well. Thank you so so much. ❤❤
I just have to say that you have a gift in teaching. You're definitely born to be a music teacher! I really admire your patience in teaching us the technique to play this piece and explaining the character of the piece. You also went through section by section while teaching us how to play this piece of music. This is indeed a lovely classical piece of music and I love listening to this tune. Brilliant work there, Louise! More tutorials, please!
Thank you for the wonderful lesson video 😊 By shooting from directly above, I was able to clearly see and visualize how various parts of the keyboard are being played. Although the sheet music is packed with notes, it was easy to understand the flow of the song thanks to the chord names read out loud. This song has a really nice melody, so I'd like to play it someday ♫ Thank you, dear Louise 🥰
Your technique is so brilliant, and your pedaling on the original piece is so perfect. It is definitely a very advance piece, and you are very professional player. thanks
You are soooo good at demonstration and explaining all these musical elements in detail as well as the story / history behind which makes the piece more interesting!
Wow! I’m new at learning piano and the way you present this material is awesome. With you explaining in details, not only the technique, but also emotions this piece can create is great. And lastly, seeing the keyboard and fingers placement is so helpful. Thank you for taking that piece apart so brilliantly. I can read music so, I’m giving myself three weeks to memorize it and play it with a certain ease. Thank you again.
Thank you so much for your wonderful teaching, guidelines, and notions.. Extremely helpful and inspiring. I lost my brother a few months ago, and it is a custom in our culture to express a memorial after a year of passing away of our Dear ones... and I intend to perform this piece for him .. in all the performances I heard... yours is very emotional as well as classical... thank you again . 💓❤
Thank you so much for your comment and sharing. I’m so sorry to hear you lost your brother. I hope the tutorial will help you prepare for playing at the memorial. All best wishes, Louise ❤
Thank you very much for the lesson, the fingering, the dynamics, the hand techniques, the history of the song. The insights on the left hand make up will help me learn this piece quicker than me reading every note. I’m hopeful i can learn this piece and memorize it too! ❤
Thanks for amazing video. I'm a beginner learning this piece for the past few weeks and still looking for the right emphasis of feelings it should have. You really nailed this. The best tutorial I've seen. Thanks again. Nir.
Thank you for the lovely comment! Really nice to hear that. I appreciate it💖. The tutorials are starting to gain some traction so hopefully the channel will grow. 👍
It’s quite clear you like what you do and are good at it. It’s a tutorial unlike any other I’ve seen on here. Thank you for the explanations and background!
Love your teaching, so helpful , this piece looks easy but it’s not easy…every note in each hand has to play different, but your method is amazing and clearly to help me how to play it…how I love this piece and I can learn and play it now …I cannot say enough to appreciate it, Love and thanks so so much !❤
Thank you for the wonderful tips on touch, "variation" and ornamentation! I'm an adult intermediate student, and this is my for fun/non lesson challenge piece I started a couple days ago. It's a challenge to learn to play the bass & treble patterns together, but it's just a matter of practice, patience and muscle memory. Like scales, the less I think about it, the easier it is to play. I've found comfort playing the bass line as 5-5-2-3-1-3-2-3 instead of 5-1- etc. Do you think that's okay? I'm not sure I'm skilled enough to do the left hand hopping you're doing.
These are based on my 2006 and 2009 variations I made for youtube. I also published a PDF sheet music and MIDI file during that time, as I got a lot of request at the time. Suddenly became a thing again here at RU-vid and Tiktok the last two years or so.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and beautiful skills with us! You are an excellent teacher! I grew up learning piano and violin (and my dream was to learn harp, so I have been doing that in my latter years). It's been a long time since I've had formal teaching and when I came across this piece recently I just have to learn this. I was trying my best to figure out what technically is the best fingerings and this has helped tremendously. I wasn't very far off! Haha! I am now 60 and it just proves music is ageless and never too late to learn something. Blessings to you, Angelicus!
Thank you for the wonderful lesson video💛 I studied in my own way by looking at Louise's hand movements, facial expressions and sheet music. Even so, I forgot to listen to the lesson because the tone of piano was so beautiful😊
Thank you so much for such a deep expression of this wonderful piece of music. I was so deeply touch by the melody and the arrangement of Halvorsen. Your performance on this video every time you played the melody made me cry how deep you expressed this piece. I watched your video of the total performance> The most beautiful version in RU-vid. Thank you so much!
That was really helpful. I just started learning this last week and I was using a different fingering for the left hand. I think yours is better so I’m going to switch and re-learn it that way if I can. Subscribed! 😊
@@PianoAngelicus Yeah, it’s coming on pretty well thanks. I’ve relearned the left hand fingering the way you described and I’m glad I did. However, in measure 35, I tried using the 2-1 fingering you suggested for the repeated C, repeated B etc and it just didn’t work for me! I see the logic but it reduced my accuracy of reaching up to the octave with my finger 5, so I’m sticking with 1-1 for those repeated notes. I look forward to browsing some of your other tutorials. Thanks very much!
What a great video. Passacaglia is an italian work. I love this lesson . I had difficulty with the basss note in the left hsnd and just avoided playing it
Thank you for the comment. You’re quite right….i hasn’t spotted that I’d reversed the 2 and 4. Hopefully with having the overhead view viewers will realise. I’ll pin a comment explaining and appreciate you flagging it up for me. Best wishes, Louise
Hi, that’s a great suggestion. If it helps I can post pictures of the sheet with fingering on my community tab. Is it just left hand fingering pattern you’re interested in or the whole piece?
