The Easiest Chopin Pieces (And the most difficult) 

Cat Lover Me

haha

Cat Lover Me :)

未知の生命体 😂🤣😅

Lol

10000000000000. la campanella 5675675675675675. hugarian rhapsody no 2

Null and void

Consolation No. 1 in E Major is pretty easy.

N/A is more applicable

Ha ha ha, nice.

That's good advise! I suggest Op.10 No.3 with some students too.

Lolllllllll

You bloody trolled me 😂😂😂

Lol

Iris de Graaf haha maybe u wanna start piano subconsciously hehe :)

Iris de Graaf Why am I here, I don't even play any instrument

Why am I here? This is Chopin

I play the banjo :(

Shut up Morty or I'm getting Mr. Jellybean

Yeah it came out a little more harsh than I intended...

Good luck!

pianoTV ur trashhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

you are a troll and get off this site - .......

Anita Albert ur fucking trash at piano

Anita Albert you people are touchy here

Update: I got a 5.5/6 for playing that piece at my exam

that is really good fam

Damn you're good fam!!

I chose to play polonaise-fantasie opus. 61 for my level 10 exam. That's worse.

I dunno but you can always play op 10 no 1 it sounds better but it is only awkward position

DeadVillFalls "easiest" is in comparison with all the other Liszt pieces, so there is. but yes liszt bartok and rachmaninoff pieces are quite ridiculous

keith Any recommendations?

actually his first consolation and nuages gris (gray clouds) are pretty simple I almost finished the second one

Nuages Gris by Liszt is easy but it's a super depressive piece.... so much that I don't play it anymore lol

DeadVillFalls oxymoron

ikr lol

Yes! Finally someone notices!

Amen!

She should be ashamed of calling herself a teacher goddammit! This type of causal lazy ignorance bothers me greatly.

Chill

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Big fan

Our apologies.

Frèdèric Chopin I love playing your Etudes. Still studying Op. 10 No. 2

HEY! Your accents are the wrong way around.

true Chopin I just find the op 10 no 1 akward

Yeah Ikr, its so easy to play *Presses the play button*

Ikr

Chopin actually did write 17 polish songs for voice and piano. Check Wikipedia's list for a complete enumeration. So yes, it technically is incorrect for one to refer to Chopin's solo piano pieces as "songs" but I just think too many classical music aficionados can be a bit too pedantic about this, thus making them look rather pretentious...it gives our community a bad reputation.

if it's for voice and piano, then they are songs because there is a singer lol.

Kalen1457 didn't he write 19 songs (2 without opus)?

I knowwww I have been playing for 7 years and I have only recently( as of 1 year ago) started playing his pieces. I love them so much though.

I started learning the Nocturne No.20 in C-sharp minor op. posth. some months after I began with my piano teacher. (I played 1 year on my own before that). It was a bit hard in the beginning, but still approachable, surprisingly. In the beginning I did not get the phrasing all right ... Although I actively listened to piano recordings and had ideas of how to create good music. I have devoloped a better technique and of understanding music since then (1 year later). My control and pedaling is at an ok level. My playing is still far from perfect or advanced, but still satisfying.

@@davidzhang6990 you taught yourself for a year and then tried to learn a level 10 Chopin piece? i hope you didn't try to learn it just because you thought it "sounded good". i hate seeing beginners or self-taught pianists jump to La Campanella or some difficult piece after less than 2 years just because they think it sounds good, and then totally butcher it because they're missing all the fundamentals and only barely have the notes down. those people are truly sacrilegious.

@@goofballcartoonist7848 No, I am absolutely not that type of guy, and I see your point. And I didn't learn it because I thought it sounded good or whatever you mean by that... My teacher showed it to me and recommended me to learn it. I was sceptical in the beginning for being too hard, and it clearly was, but I had to trust my teacher on that. But after some time I managed and I play it at a decent level today. Anyway, La Campanella and Nocturne No.20 in C-sharp minor are not comparable... La Campanella is at a much, much higher level.

Just because you have played for 16 years don't mean you know how difficult these pieces are. How about actually playing them instead of making a null point. And the mazurkas mentioned in this video are definitely easier than most of the Nocturnes.

Planet Yam Even then, these are not songs. They are called pieces.

ok

Songs? Piece

@@JSerrato289 thank you

That's true, I've spent a couple hours on that piece and can play most of the first section, the second section is another story though!

Yes it is pretty easy, besides the runs

I thaught that nocturne op. 9 no. 2 in Eb major was pretty easy, learnt it whilst I was in year 11 in a few weeks

@@ilikebread5911 it is pretty easy just hard to remember what come after what, for the left hand

Yess!! It is quite simple when you get the rhythm. Even the last page seems to have a really complex scale but it isn’t.

That, along with many other of his preludes, are definitely doable even at full speed. #4, #6, #7, #9, #15 and #20 are the ones I can play, and I'm self taught and can't even read sheet music right now.

Actually, with lots of practice, they are both do-able. I've played 25/6 and messed around with 25/11. They're both fairly short and if you don't mind being a few clicks under tempo I would say go for it.

I think it depends on if if you have already played any of Chopin's etudes. I have played op.10 nos. 2,4,5,12 and op.25 nos 6,11 and came to the conclusion that op.25 no 11 is by far the most difficult of the bunch and it should not be attempted before playing some of Chopins easier etudes. If you haven't played any of his etudes yet I would recommend starting with either op.10 no 5 or op. 10 no 12 and then progressing to op. 10 no. 4, which I feel yields the most technical benefits. Then I would start looking into etudes like op. 10 no 2 or op. 25 nos 6,11.

Now I feel accomplished since I've learned the f minor ballade, the b-flat minor scherzo, and the g minor ballade lol

The b flat scherzo is actually quite play-able, and the g minor ballade is not as difficult as it appeared now that I'm playing it. And, it's more about how well you can play a piece than what you can play. Good job anyway..

Yes, I agree. It's not learned until polished. Anyway, happy playing!

100% agreed

I agree with you on some points, but not at the emotions/convoluted topics. If anything, that's what makes some pieces difficult, and technically you haven't fully "mastered" a piece/play it professionally without these aspects and nuances of the music

I couldn't agree more... I've been playing for over 10 years now, with teachers teaching me pieces that I never liked, and I have a level 6 biw I'd say... I stopped taking lessons as they are completely conterproductive for me. I've started learning ballade no.1 this week and I've been putting so much time and effort into it. I still cant play the middle but I know I will be able to play it decently if I work hard enough. My sight reading is better than ever, and I'm finally learning something that I love. [Edit] okay so I dont know if anyone will ever read this, but I'd just like to let anyone know who was reading this comment that even if I literally spent so much time learning ballade in g minor, I'm up to about 4:35 in most recordings, and I've realized that I dont really like the next 3 minutes of the music. I've worked so hard for the beginning so I'm giving up on the end and enjoying playing what I can. I'll go back to it when I'm older, it's no use forcing your brain if you can play something else that you love. Okay that's it, bye!

the first chopin piece I learned was the nocturne in c# minor op 20

It's not easy! It's a grade 6 level, which is intermediate. But it's one of Chopin's easiest (so you can only imagine how crazy they get).

waltz sucks etudes are gold

Jaidyn Camp good luck! i cant even imagine learning it

hii..i am 17 years and i too practicing Fantasie impromptu in C#min.. and I already learnt the most difficult part of it.. if u have strong desire..u can do anything.. after all chopin was also a humen..and not Alien..😂

I plan on learning it soon. It's only like 45 seconds of very hard and like 5 minutes of easy and I like it.

Yes, this beautiful piece is actually manageable after some hard work and lot of desire. Here are some tips for managing it and some traps I fell into: * I cannot play it very well on every piano. The instrument itself needs to respond on what I am doing. Some (older and cheaper) pianos are just hopeless. And some brands work better or worse just for you! (For me, I prefer playing Fantasie Impromptu on a Yamaha rather than Steinway). * When I first looked at it; oh no, trips in the left combined with fourths in the right. Yes, there are RU-vid tutorings of handling it. But when I finally took the math out of the piece and looked at it as "running water" (undefineable) I then conquered all the obsticles. * In the second part, there is actually a melody heard on every fourth note. Inside my head I there go "di-di da-da di-di-di..." The rest of the notes are just there for its completion so to speak. You may try just to play the melody to start with. * Need to learn how to master Chopin sound control by using the sustain pedal properly. There is funny video about this: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-djkpfItBhmY.html * Listen to it from the masters. Personally I find this version to be one of the best: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tvm2ZsRv3C8.html * It is a "fantasie". I perform better if I dream away, trying just to hear what I am playing, less looking what my hands are doing. Sounding good is better then looking good, in my opinion. (My former piano teacher would disagree). * Get a feel for it and play from your heart!

There's also a 5 on 6

Good luck, I love that waltz! The first few lines aren't so bad, but the bottom of the first page can be a nightmare!

pianoTV thanks hope it goes well!

Bobowobo Hey, I'm self taught too! Been playing for about three and a half years. I just learned Chopin's Nocturne in C Sharp minor and I'm on the last page of Op. 72 no. 1! Good luck, I tried the waltz, but it wasn't my style.

Z0LSTICE hi I just finished it about a month and a half ago went pretty well! I'm not self taught I was just self teaching the prelude. I do a lot of research to try and learn more so I kind of self teach myself a bit.

Oh, I see.

she has her grade 1O RCM, I think, maybe more so she has to be an advanced level pianist..... how good we dont know, not all good teachers are the best musicians , they are more talented at teaching. From what I have heard, hmmmmmm...... I agree about calling the pieces "songs" lol...but the simplified versions and advice is great- I am grade 8 level, working on some grade 9 pieces and I like and appreciate her thoughts....plus, you an find simple versions of classical repertoire online which is nice for earlier level pianists who would like to try to play one, they can get exposed and later, try the actual piece. So, she is kind of indicating to people they can try these pieces Cheers

It might be *the* easiest Chopin piece.

Minh Trung Le Not Op. 53 the posthumous one

i don't understand this comment.

he did write 19 songs for piano and voice with polish lyrics ! Liszt transcribed some to piano.

Casey Jones Mendelssohn wrote many "Songs without words".

Casey Jones you better watch your speed.

Cool, I will do that! :)

How goes your progress!

Ezekiel Toshiki fantasie **

Avalon Green Fantaisie*

TerryTheDood actually, it can be pronounced both ways + nobody asked you to correct my correction.

Impromptu

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Waltz in f major: *Hold my fingers*

YESS!! that's what i came for!! I'm currently working on Waltz in E Minor, just got to the end recently and playing at like a third or half the tempo of any performance recording on youtube. plus those arpeggiated chords with the pedal and at such a fast tempo, i could go on and on... that is NOT an easy piece. thank god someone mentioned this!

If you generally compare it to all of Chopin's compositions, it's on the easier-middle side. But when you only look at Waltzes it's one of the harder ones

Thanks!

hahaha

Nah bruh. How you gonna start on Op. 10 No 3😭

Maybe not as your first Chopin piece 😅 But I chose to learn it as my first Chopin Etude and it’s going pretty well, It’s very emotional, heartbreakingly sad and beautiful at the same time and engaging and joyful as well. I really love the mixture and even if you’re not completely ready for the second part you can still achieve a very nice version of the first part in my opinion, and I think sometimes it’s worth it to try to play just parts of a piece, it still is an achievement 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@Lotte-xw3ze The difficulty of that one is on the interpretation, if you can´t even realize why the first part is harder than the fast part then don´t bother

@@miguelfernandez5583 Ah come on, It's pretty obvious we were talking about technical difficultiy here (and in the video as well) I just argued it can be worth a try, not that beginner to intermediate piano players should necessarily perform a piece like that early on. But interpretation is highliy personal and I believe your kind of thinking is such an ego thing, you can't forbid people to do their own thing even with difficult pieces. I often tried stuff that was to difficult at that time and came back later and was able to see the progress I made, and how much more capable of playing what I heard in my mind I was. Because the interpretation and the ideas were always there, but it often is the technicality that holds you back.

@@Lotte-xw3ze Of course, people can do whatever they want, and yes, if you see it only on the thechnique side it is easy, but I don't see the point on playing a segment where the difficulty lies on musicality for thechnique, that's why i said "if you are not able to see the difficulty then leave it for when you are able". Now, I'd love to hear your explanation on why my ego was envolved.

Also I've been playing for almost 3 years

That's an epic jump from The Am waltz to Fantaisie-Impromptu!

I'm already getting into Chopin and Liszt, and I have played for as long as you have. :)

I'm learning it too! Have you finished it by now? Since your comment was posted 4 months ago..

Amanda M You'll get it! Fantasie Impromptu was actually the first Chopin piece I learned (and believe me I had to REALLY convince my teacher to relent and let me do that) but the truth is, once you get comfortable with the notes in the runs ( c# minor is such a clunky key to play in, at least for me lol) and once you get that 3 against 4 fluid between your hands, you'll find the piece to just begin to flow really comfortably. Now I was so pleased at how I was able to handle the Fantasie that the very next year, I got a bit carried away and decided to try the Op. 25 No. 11 Etude "Winter Wind". Now that... did not go so well!

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they are both

wrong, songs have words idiot.

Lucas Gottfried Piano what is the difference between them??

No one likes a pedant.

Lol the way she pronounces ballade and scherzo lmao

I'm learning it right now atm, and I must say there are some easy parts indeed but some really take time (and I really mean lots of time) especially when you're a beginner.

I can perform it quite good, I like to believe. The only part I struggle with are the runs in the end, can't get those as clean & fast as I wish I would. I suggest you to learn it. It is one of the more managable ones for me.

I believe its rcm 9 (if u mean the op posth one)

And incredibly beautiful, its my favorite one from chopin, but it just get hard in the middle of the piece, the begining is not that easy but not that hard neither ^^

some parts but it is definitely possible to learn

the beginning is really easy to play but you must put a lot of emotion in it

1 and 3 are actually not so difficult because they have more consistent themes throughout, which aren't really as apparent in 2 and 4. I'd rank them 3-1-2-4 in order of easiest to most difficult. I've got 3 and 1 down, and I'm working on 2 now, which looks considerably more challenging than 1. 4 looks impossible, though, at least for the time being.

Yeah righrt, try playing ballade no 4 😂

Again she was pointing out these pieces that are ideal to start. And any, and I mean AAANY piano teacher/professor/college would always disagree with "play whatever you like". Unless you don't want to take classical music seriously or you don't mind sounding bad/lacking technique at all. I've had a teacher that taught students that want to play what ever they like whenever they want, I was the only one who had a music background starting from the basic to advanced. And let me tell you they all sound horrible. And it's not my teacher that was bad, he helped me learn ballade 1 in a month easily because I had a PROPER music background. where as most of them want to play Chopin's op 25 no 5(wrong note) or op 25 no 11(winter wind) just because they watched it in an anime.

Plus she wasn't being negative at all, she was just stating the obvious of which ones are ideal for beginner, intermediate and advance pianists. Cause if what you're saying has a point to it, then you're basically saying "oh hurrdurr play whatever you want, no one can stop you. If you want to play Chopin's op 10 no 2(hardest etude) go for it, follow your dreams! Or if you want to start his adante spianato and grande polonaise, do it! Hurrdurr if it sounds beautiful like his ballade 4 play it I won't judge you hurrdurr." People like you encourage others to be lazy, and believe in themselves that they can do it without proper training. No they can't. Not everyone can unless you have pure talent. Which would obviously show if you can play his etudes at the age of 12 or below. Every professional pianist starts from the bottom. The very bottom, minuet in g minor bottom, then work their way up. There is no easy route, babyfied easier way, if you want to play Chopin's advanced pieces you have to start at least 2 of his beginner pieces then slowly work up to advanced. No one can learn advanced pieces the way they want it to be quick and easy.

25/11 is eons more difficult

25/11 is more repetitive and contains more arpeggios idk. i think they are both equally hard or might be different for different people

Fantasie impromptu is one of Chopin's most repetitive pieces. Technically there is no comparison, I suppose an argument could be made that the fantasie impromptu is more musically challenging.

25-11 is multiple thousands of times more difficult.

Winter wind. Fantasie impromptu sounds harder than it actually is.

In my opinion that one was pretty easy...

Phantastick...

Chris ! Lol that's not the reason she called it songs... btw Schubert beats Chopin with the song thing

Triggered?

Tomasz Matuszewski What a tool bag you are.

came to make this comment song: a vocal piece with lyrics piece: just about anything else peace

Tomasz Matuszewski Sometimes you get confused as you got to remember all that involves the making of this video. You cant Do anything about it. Just listen and stop being analithical WITH her. Enjoy videos. We arent perfect. Are you?

Yes, Bach pieces take so much energy to learn. They might sound "simple", but in fact, Bach wrote, arguably, the hardest pieces, ever. But my teacher taught me one very important lesson- we have to dirty our hands, too. We have to sometimes play what we don't like, so that we improve. Bach teaches us so many important piano skills, that in fact his pieces are some of the most important in technique. You could compare them to études, but more often than not, his pieces focus on musical hearing, since playing a 3-part symphony or a fugue is no joke, in terms of splitting the theme evenly into your hands/fingers. But after all is done and all is played, we can return to our "oasis", the music we enjoy, the music that truly fuels us to keep going. My point is, you have to play what you don't enjoy. But if you listen closely enough, you can find beauty in any piece. From the simplest to the most complicated. :)

Exactly my point, thank you. :)

The thing is, you can *play* pieces that are hard, in the sense that it will sound close enough that people can recognize what you're trying to play. But you won't be able to play them **well**.

Simple reply: No. Not so simple reply: I said I try to squeeze every last bit out of the piece that I can, perfect it as much as my hands will allow me to. You can learn piano "grade 8" pieces as a 2~ish year beginner. Most of chopin's etudes for example aren't even as difficult as she implies here- they are designed to fit into your hand snugly, so it's really all about practicing for long periods of time and playing them over and over again, also changing the rhythm on them and/or playing them staccato/legato/portamento etc... To build confidence. That's all it takes- you will build tempo naturally this way. As for the "feeling" part- this is what Chopin's pieces are notorious for, they require a very sensitive touch, which many people cannot build even after years and years of practice, which is where I believe the "chopin pieces are hard" idea comes from. They're not, they're just difficult to express properly. That wasn't even my point, my point was that the grade system is rubbish. End of story. :)

Um, actually, no. There's just so much wrong with that. Chopin etudes are NOT designed to "fit into your hand snugly" LOL. In fact, just the opposite; many of them are designed to be extremely awkward, to train your hand into being able to play awkward positions. Key examples are Op. 25 no.3, Op 25 no.6, and Op.25 no.5. Secondly, how long it takes obviously depends more on effort, time spent, and to a much lower extent, talent. The timelines Piano Teachers gives in Canada tend to be extremely relaxed, following the least enthusiastic and least talented students. Many people I know managed to pass the Grade 10 exam within 1-2 years of starting the piano. 3rd, obviously things aren't that simple. Sure, it's not like a student at Grade 5 can't learn a grade 6 piece. That would be silly. But the amount of time spent is proportional to your skill level. It might take a grade 1 student 5 months to learn a grade 10 piece. An experienced teacher might be able to sight read it better than that grade 1 student after 5 months' worth of effort. It obviously makes sense to improve your overall skill rather than to struggle over months and months for every single piece you want to learn, unless you only ever want to learn 1 or 2. Furthermore, you can play a piece to the best of your current ability, but that doesn't mean that it's good. If you improved your overall skill level, then the "best of your ability" also improves; the ceiling is higher, and the quality that you are able to reach is higher. Finally, OBVIOUSLY it's not like math, where 1 is obviously bigger than 2. Sometimes, some pieces are easier for some people but harder for others. There's a lot of subjectivity involved. But everyone can agree that the trascendental etudes are harder than london bridge is falling down or hot cross buns. There obviously are different levels of difficulty, and while the grading system is not 100% perfect, it does a good job of giving people an idea of roughly what to expect.

I'm a bit late, but if you're on a budget you can get M-Audio Keystation 49, it's only a hundred Dollars and really worth the price, atleast that's what I started out with.

Not op.53, a different one which is op.posth

Sergei Rachmaninoff so u call yourself a master?

Sergei Rachmaninoff U iriot

Yall got wooshed

you must play it like shit edit: it does sound shit. you can't just start learning the piano with liebestraum no. 3, and if you do you're *not* going to get very far in the piece anyway. so you're stuck on an unfinished, horrible sounding liebestraum. it might be cool to brag with, but in the long run someone who starts out playing songs appropriate for their level will play everything better than you do if you play way too hard songs. harder songs often times develop bad habits on uncapable players, like me when i just started out and let met tell you, fixing these bad habits because you were too cocky at first can really, really slow you down. so i suggest learning pieces that fit your level of playing.

Cobblie lol I'm pretty sure it was joke

I started that song two months ago and I played most of the first page without that much effort, but the rest is a lot harder and has been taking a lot longer

Lol

Andrew Nicoll it dipends how property you can play it, record yourself and listen it...After go on RU-vid and digit fantaisie impromptu rubinstein or tzvi erez and see if there is any difference, in case there is not my apologies.

Sergio Sergio thank you, I will give it go. I mean I can't be 100% perfect, there's probably some mistakes here and there.

I think he did not mean the mistakes you do but the way you interpret and shape it. Playing pieces is the one thing but really mastering them is a long process (most of the time you change your interpretations after a while depending on your situation, so I guess we can never truly "master" a piece but play it as best as we are able to)

Lucas Gottfried Piano good point

Lucas Gottfried Piano you are completely right. Thanks for the help. ;)