Play Moonlight Sonata Like a Pro- 4 Expert Tips Revealed 

🕘 Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:40 Pro Tip 1 2:29 Pro Tip 2 4:00 Creative Exercise 1 4:50 Creative Exercise 2 5:45 Pro Tip 3 7:13 Pro Tip 4 9:00 A Mother's Day Special

We should have gotten this tutorial 220 years ago 🔥🔥

YES to more on this piece!!! This video was helpful but really only an appetizer. We want the main course now!

Thanks for all your help. As a Amateur Piano Hobbyist I have adopted this phrase "PRACTICE - Fall in love with the Process because there is no finish line".

I am practicing this piece right now for my piano exam and you just dropped this video ❤ thank you

Great. I feel like you should do one on the 3rd movement. That a real challenge

I could never pay for such instruction!!! Thank you... signed Self taught.

Yeas please!!!!! Do turn it into a course 😆

6:51 never saw that left hand crossing before for playing the ninth!

I love it so much. I learned the beginner version from Faber Adult Adventures, Classical book 2. It’s not even close to this, in terms of level, but I want to play the ‘grown up’ version one day. Thank you for making this video about it.

Great tutorial. This is one of the pieces I have started learning piano to be able to play. Can't wait. Now the third movement please.

LOVE!!!!

BRAVO MAESTRO

AT LAST , AT LEAST GOT THE PEDAL DOWN PAT. GREAT PIECE!

I just recently started to try and learn this piece so this video came at the perfect time! 🎹

Great, thank you. Would love to see a similar thing for the 2nd movement of the Pathetique Sonata 😊.

Mini course for the piece sounds amazing

One of the pieces that got me playing piano, would love to be able to play it this well...and one day I will 😁 hopefully in the not too distant future!

Literally just started working on this piece 3 days ago and you drop this video. Fantastic!

you are a legend for this one. truly

This makes so much easy sense please make a tutorial greatly needed.

Thank you Jazer! I’m a beginner and watch a lot of these videos. To me you are the best teacher of them all!

I learned this piece over a year ago and my teacher told me the same things that you did! So in my opinion you both are fantastic teachers!

Thank you for the guidance. I've been working on this piece as part of my practice sessions for a couple of months. The biggest challenges for me have been trying to make the reading of some of the more unusual chromaticisms automatically (e.g., E#, B#, Fx) as their keyboard harmonic equivalent, and to reach the 9th intervals (e.g., the A and B in measure 8).

Dziękuję za wskazówki. Nauczyłam się tej przepięknej sonaty na pamięć, fragmentami przez rok. Teraz ćwiczę interpretację.

The timing is perfect, just started learning it 3 days ago!

great tutorial. thanks Jaz

Great, video. Yes, this kind of tutorial for iconic or even not so iconic pieces are super

Thank you for the overview and for touching on voicing and dynamics. I learned Moonlight Sonata about a year ago, self-taught by reading sheet music, watching tutorials and listening/watching pianists such as Claudio Arrau. I love his interpretation. I return to Moonlight Sonata often so I don't forget what I learned and to try to improve my playing. As you asked for suggestions, would you please do a Part 2 of this tutorial addressing more voicing and dynamics, aimed at say late beginners/intermediates? There are a lot of areas where additional voicing and dynamics can be applied and I'm sure you have an audience who would appreciate your perspectives. Thanks!

Thank you for the bottom/top voice and pedal lesson. Now I know how to un-mud my song.

This is SO helpful! I've been working on Moonlight for months, and finally am getting the notes learned (hard enough for an intermediate level----all those sharps!) but knew I wasn't getting near the expressiveness of the piece. Now I will work on left and right hand volume. . . . . . and pedal! Thank you so much!

Great video man! I'm in the process of learning Moonlight Sonata now, so this was perfect timing!

Fantastic Jazer, thank you. Really relevant stuff. The discussion and tips on voicing caused me to have a bit of a light bulb moment! I've watched lots of tutorials on this movement. This one makes me want more from you on this piece. If things go to plan, I'll be starting to learn this in about a year's time.

Played it in my final recital at university master class. Got to study with a grad student, great deal, as an adult, much easier to commit for 3-4 months than to just start taking lessons again. Wish I could play 3rd movement. I can play 1&2 only.

Thank you Jazer!

Amzing, Maestro Jazer....very, very useful advices. Un abrazo desde La Palma.

It truly helps a lot! Hope I can play it as an pianist (hope 😅) one day. I really love this piece. Beethoven is really amazing. Extreme sadness creates extreme beauty.

I am playing the piece since about a year and I love that is offers so many possibilities for articulation and phrasing. Great tips Jazer, many thanks. You could have mentioned. that the ML Sonata has 3 movements and this is just the 1st one - the easiest.

This is the piece that got me into playing piano in my early teens. I learned it entirely by ear by listening to a cassette recording. The only problem was the piano was very old and tuned a couple of notes too low. So I learned the wrong keys! Once we got a better, correctly tuned piano, and I got the notes, I quickly managed to relearn the piece. Ah, back then I could learn new pieces so easily! Now, after taking up piano again in my 50s everything takes at least 10x longer. Love your channel; its probably the best piano channel for beginners and intermediates.

cant wait bro

thanks for this video. I can play the first movement, but I still have to bring it to life. Long way to go, your hints will help.

So great video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I've tried playing it many times، but I never got it right all of the unkown tips you mentioned are great .. I'll give it another try 🥰🥰🥰

Great job

I have been practicing this beautiful piece for about two months now and I just love it although it is pretty difficult for my level. Your tips helped alot and, yes, I would love more on this piece! I am also practicing Mozart’s Sonata in C which just fascinates me! Any tips for that would be welcome!

I also made the mistake as a beginner to try and learn the 1st movement of Moonlight Sonata and quickly learned that its much much harder than it appears/sounds. The two voices are so much harder to play than it seems. I found it difficult mostly because my fingers just quite literally did not have the STRENGTH necessary to pull out that loud second voice in the pinky. It was IMPOSSIBLE to bring out that second voice properly as a beginner. The piece also has some HUGE intervals (9ths? i think) in some parts. I am very glad that after a week of working on the piece that i gave it up and learned something more beginner appropriate instead. It doesn't help that i have no teachers and have to be completely self taught, so it was incredibly important that i be careful with what i choose to work on. If i had continued to grind at Moonlight Sonata, i'm sure eventually i would make progress. But the progress i would have made as a piano player as a whole would have been much less than if i work on a piece more level-appropriate. I noticed almost immediately when i switched over to something a little easier that i was actually learning more fundamentals because i wasn't focusing so hard on trying to do things i wasn't ready for yet. I also realized that the only reason i was interested in Moonlight Sonata was simply because i was ignorant of piano music altogether and Moonlight Sonata is just one of those pieces that everyone knows about. I realized that i had much more fun learning pieces that were more unique instead of the one that everyone else already knows. It is very hard as a beginner to know exactly what to be putting the most energy into. Some people say "work on learning chords" and other people say "don't bother with chords/arpeggios, just learn pieces". Some people stress learning all of the scales, and other people say don't bother with scales until its necessary for a certain piece. I find myself sitting down to play for an hour a day, but i am constantly questioning if i am filling that hour with the practice that is most beneficial for me or not because i can't ever seem to get a straight concrete answer on the best order/process to learn.

Mini course would be great. I'm trying to struggle through it on my own and, as you know, not easy!

I love this piece so much but the middle part (starting from bar 32) is very challenging.

Thank you so much! Would you be able to do a tips video on Fantaisie Impromptu?

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Great tips on Moonlight thanks. The dynamics really make a difference for this (most played piano piece ever? Like Shakespeare's Hamlet?). I especially like your suggestion of the swelling for measure 18. I also prefer playing Moonlight more on the quiet side - pp as they say, however as the piece comes to a conclusion, I up the strum and drangst and play more loudly (than many do) on measures 57-59 - where a crescendo is marked but I really lean into it. I also continue a bit into the next measures even - with the strum and drangst (ignoring the p at some risk) and just slowly quiet down into the ending. It's a final outburst of emotion before coming to a very quiet Moonlight fade away.

This video is nice! Would like to see more detailed breakdowns of individual music pieces and how to 'professionally' play them with all the nuances.

Thank you Jaser. Great tutorial.. Dynamics is crucial, as you say.. I have made a great effort for practising this sonata.. But I must polish it. Will you make a video on "AUTUMN LEAVES" This piece has different sheets concerning different levels. I consider myself as intermediate.. Waiting eagerly for your other videos.. ❤

Would like a simple version

Love your videos and tutorials! Could you do a tutorial on Schuberts Impromptu No3 in G-Flat Major, Op90, D.899?

Hi Jazer can you review Erik Satie Gymnopedie I ? Give some tips? I have played in a pop band for years and just started classical pieces. This will be my first piece to learn.

One more problem for me is, having bought a Yamaha P-228, the keys get harder to press down as you move up the keys. The good thing is that this is a good piece to learn how to adapt to that, especially since the pinky seems to spend so much time up there. Other than that, I'm having less of a problem learning this piece than Fur Elise which I swear, once I learn it, I may never play again. I feel vindicated having learned this weekend that Beethoven didn't like it either.

Sir which piano you are using and i want to buy a acoustic piano please make a detailed video on it please🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

What you haven’t covered at all is the tempo. This mvmt is often played way too slowly. It’s alla breve so you count 1 2 1 2…so two triplets 1 and two triplets 2. Adagio becomes pretty fast in this case. I recommend Andras Schiff and his ideas regarding the tempo. Anyway thanx for your advice.

Jazer, what is the indication on the music that the left hand should cross over to catch that top note, as you did?

Great Work! Please please make a Tutorial for this peace en Detail. Its one of best peaces ever and you are the only one who could teach it beginners. PS: greetings from Germany!

Mr.Jazer, please advise me whether priority should be given to learn notes first or remembering notes. In my practice, though I practiced notes first later-on I could follow only the tune. Is it a correct procedure for learning piano? Regards,

Will you be making the same video, but for Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement? :)

Which published edition of the sheet music did you use for this tutorial?

As a Amateur Paino Hobbyist I only have room for a Digital piano, can you recommend a Digital Piano, I'm thinking of the Kawai CA901 would it be equivalent to a acoustic grand piano? When you get the chance.

I have been practicing this piece for the last month and was wondering about the ninths. I have small hands. What is the correct way to play this?

How about the 2nd movement?

I play Romance Lizst..169!❤ and Serenade.. Schubert?!😅

thank you! Can you please do a tutorial on Fur Elise especially the last pat?

Helo sir!! I'm actually having trouble playing major 7th chords ... My music teacher had given me the finger numbers as 1 2 4 5 ... But I'm not comfortable with that number... Is it because I'm a beginner or are the finger numbers are wrong ?

What mvt is it?

I cheated, my dad new the piece so he just told me what notes to hit. If I played all of them right, he'd teach me the next 10 seconds of the song. And so it went til I had it all.

can you play pathetic2nd movement beethoven its harder than moonlight sonata 1st movement but too slow

I so disagree with this myth that black notes affect anything. When u think like that they become a challenge. I taught my son without ever treating them as hard or easy but just notes. He has no concept that c# is easy to difficult, just notes. Hardly anything tricky about it . C is just as easy as C# only when reading it is a challenge to remember what is #

Please, please, please stop using fake AI portraits of composers in thumbnails. They look nothing like the composers and it's becoming a really annoying plague of RU-vid vids.