3 Easy Chopin Pieces Beginners Shouldn't Skip | Piano Lesson
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- This lesson is for the upper beginner/intermediate pianists out there. Are you intimidated to tackle Chopin? Well here's 3 easy pieces (I say easy for those who have moved beyond the beginner stage) that would get you playing Chopin music. Stick to the end where I give helpful notes on depth, technique and how I rate these pieces.
Let me know if you have tried these or if you have played them before. 🤓
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0:00 Intro
0:18 Chopin Piece 1
2:29 Chopin Piece 2
4:35 Chopin Piece 3
6:48 Helpful Notes
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🕘 Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:18 Chopin Piece 1
2:29 Chopin Piece 2
4:35 Chopin Piece 3
6:48 Helpful Notes
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As a self thought pianist, I know all three and I can say that they are pretty easy and beautiful. Fun to play.
Thanks for not writing the actual names🙂
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My very favorite. Nocturne Op.9 No.2. Took me forever to learn 😊
Prelude in E Minor is one of my most favorite pieces of music of all time, not even just from Chopin. You can learn how to "play the notes" of this piece in a few days, but you could spend a few YEARS figuring out how to play the dynamics to really portray the emotions of the piece properly.
I’m a teacher and I learn so many useful tips from you! For my teaching as well as my own playing! Thank you for this great resource!
I am so glad to have found Jazer's channel! I have been playing for 50+ years, and here is this amazing younger gentleman with a wealth of experience, generously sharing insights and suggestions that really work!
Jazer Lee, I cannot thank you enough! You are so gifted, both as a pianist and as a teacher. I wish you continued joy and best continued success: you are "The Real Deal!"😊
For beginners 🤣🤣🤣
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Alternate Title: _Three Beginner Pieces You Will Drive Yourself Crazy for the Rest of Your Life Trying to Get to Sound Exactly the Way You Want Them._
AGREED !
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"Go on. Mock me. Laugh! That was not Chopin laughing, Father. That was GAAAAAWWD!".
Spot on
Thank you! Just what i was looking for and then my favorite youtuber posts this ❤
I’ve learned all three … you are correct great introduction to Chopin..I love Chopin and playing these pieces has challenged me and improved my range … feel more confident and encouraged … I love your channel … I am a true Chopin fan … he’s emotional and lyrical etc… his music brings out the best in me … the music keeps me motivated
Thanks a lot for this video! Could you do something similar but for Schubert? I'm studying his Waltz in B minor D. 145 and I love it ❤
Morning Jazer! Thanks for all of your instructional videos! They are so helpful to me and I appreciate it.
Chopin's music is daunting to me but I will take your good advice as it is gold to me!
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Thanks you Jazer! I am an intermediate pianist and I worked for many weeks (last year) on Prelude in A minor- the challenges you mentioned are very accurate. The movement in both hands was hard for me, but I finally got it. And the "stamina" comment is accurate. It's great to watch and hear you discuss these songs, as I feel that you intimately understand the challenges of piano for students. I am curious; do you have many "older" (> 50 years of age, beginners) students? I haven't found much online at all about the challenges of learning as an older adult. I began two years ago at age 61. Thanks for your excellent teaching!!! from Indiana USA
Fond memories of those pieces! In high school i relaxed w those pieces which were in my very good anthology of Classical music...so relaxing break from the hard stuff like Chopins Raindrop prelude...just lovely to hear you play these...Thanks so much! I had a wonderful teacher...in fact all my teachers were so kind and good!
What a wonderful teacher you are. I’ve learned so much from your videos. Thank you.
Great video lesson and music. Thanks, Jazer!
Waltz in A Minor is my goal piece. I love that piece. I feel like once I get it down, I'll be able to actually say I'm a pianist. But, yes, the jumps in the left hand are the hardest thing for me. Just have to keep working on it.
It's what I'm currently trying to learn too. It's driving me crazy!
I love it too, and it's very doable. Good luck learning it!
I just played it for a recital, it’s so amazing!! Be sure to practice the 2nd page tho 😭
It's not such an easy piece. I have learnt it alone and it wasn't so easy. I don't know why everyone consideres it as a piece for beginners. Good luck learning it!!!
The jumps are actually not that hard, they will improve as your muscle memory builts. The hardest parts of this piece are tuplets (they appears ALL THE TIME in Chopin music, sometimes you see 35-note tuplets in his pieces) and the E major scale in triplets
I played all three of these pieces as a child. In my 60s now, I still enjoy playing the Waltz in A Minor. Two other Chopin pieces I play that are not too difficult: Waltz in B Minor, and Prelude in C Minor. One piece I love to play even more, which is more challenging, is the Nocturne in E flat, Op. 9 No. 2. Chopin has left us so much beautiful music, and there is always more challenging repertoire to study.
My mom was a very good pianist - she was born left handed and when she was in grade school in the middle 1920's, they forced left handed children to write with their right hand so she became ambidextrous. And as I learned when I started to play, the left hand is the hardest - you are not as agile with it as you are with your right hand. So being able to write with both hands became a real asset to her playing skills and abilities. I wish I could play as well.
Very helpful. Thank you!
Great video! Super helpful! Now I know what to practice next. ❤
Maestro Jazer: very, very useful advices for beginners like me. Thank you very much. Un abrazo desde La Palma.
Thank you so much, Jazer Lee! ❤
I love Chopin. He is what started my dream to learn piano. One day I will hopefully
hopefully…?
@@jonathanparecki I feel like I never have time to start, between working full time and two little ones also terrified of how difficult it will be starting at 41 years old
@@bens9792 if you practics every day you can achieve some big results in one year. Chopin needs lots of techique tho, maybe 2 years of piano lessons will be enough
@@andreapasqualin5958 thank you for your kind words. Her is hoping I can get started!
@@bens9792true, time is the only thing that can stop someone from learning piano
The first piece I learned all the way through was Waltz in A Minor. You’re right - it was the first time I felt I was playing a ‘proper’ piano piece!
Excellent video! Thanks!
Many thanks for this - all things Chopin are brilliant!
Yes. I love Chopin. I’ve worked on Nocturne in E flat before
I literally printed all of these three this week and you made a video about them!
These are the very first pieces I began with, Chopinwise. And thank you for your insights.
I learned Prelude in C Minor recently, simplified a bit, because there are a couple of voicings that seem to indicate Chopin was a sadist. I still have much work to do on expression, I know, but thanks to the slight simplification (which detracts little from the piece, in my opinion), this was a fairly easy piece to learn. I was very glad I took it on. All of these pieces are on my to-do list. I've tried very hard on the waltz, but the stride voicings remain too difficult for me to play smoothly up to speed.
Careful use of subtle rubato is also wonderful opportunity offered in these great little works.
My first Chopin piece was the waltz in A minor. My teacher taught this one and I really love it. After 2 years I am going to go back to it and play it again. I have forgotten it so it was nice to hear your tips on playing it. It’s all coming back to me. When I first learnt it as you said the left hand was very challenging. Hope second time round it will be easier.
Try grande valse brillante
I know it seems hard and has a lot of techniques but when you try to play you are going to say its easier than it looks
I'm learning noctune 21 and I'm following all your tips to really get it 👍
Great video! My first Chopin was actually a nocturne. All the skills you mentioned are important. My teacher used sonatina and sonata to teach those.
I also like the Chopin prelude in B minor. It's not hard to learn, but it emphasizes bringing out the melody in the LEFT hand, and defining each phrase in a singling style.
I’m back to playing piano. Prelude in e minor is one of my favorite pieces. It took me a while to learn it but I played it at one of my recitals.
Great video, thanks much I am inspired to try the Waltz 😀…..
I love your videos. Thank you. :)
Have played both the E minor and the A major preludes. Am looking forward to trying the A minor waltz.
Chopin has always been the Key as a beginner..Love his Waltz Bmin as well as Prelude in A major
thoses pieces awesome!
A# at 12³ of the A major 3:04
Great tips
I have learned these three pieces already. They're great to learn and improve me a lot. Will you recommend some more difficult (I mean " not too difficult" 😂) pieces of Chopin? Thank you for all your good materials.
Thanks for sharing. I am currently learning chopin nocturne op 9 no 2 easy arrangement
Thank you for making me discover the waltz which I didn’t know since it does not belong to the traditional list of the 14 waltzes. Very nice piece!
Good explanations!
Maybe some advice as to the right tempo: one should keep in mind that a waltz is a dance so one should not play it faster than one would be able to dance it.
❤thanks for sharing
I am not so keen on the second piece and haven't learnt that, but absolutely agree that the first (Prelude in E minor) and the third (Waltz in A major) are lovely for beginners to learn 👍 I usually include these in the list I play through most days to 'warm up' before starting on whatever new piece I am learning. I would probably add the following Chopin pieces: Nocturne in E-flat major (No. 2) and Nocturne in C-sharp minor (No. 20). I do love your tutorials 😊
Chopin is by far my favourite composer. But I think that the Waltz in A Minor is not a piece for beginners. Great video!!!
I started with nocturne 21 and now i try noc 9.2, my dream to play is the ballade no 1 ❤
Hi used to play organ as a child and now at 44 I bought a piano and I’m getting into these pieces. I’m practicing the Prelude Em and I’ve found difficult to balance the sound between both hands. Practicing a bit every day I’ll get there!
Thank you ! :)
My piano teacher had me learn that first one when I was in the 4th grade. It made me feel like such a big shot :). Of course, the rest of the book of Chopin pieces were completely insane for someone my level, but...
Might want to check the notes in Measure 12 of the A major prelude. Should be A#.
Yes I have played all these pieces and return to them once in a while. There are also other pieces of Chopin I have played. I really prefer Baroque though, Handel and Bach especially. Its good to ring the changes however. I am currently working on a Schubert waltz in A flat Maj (Op 9a No 12) and finding some challenges! A flat Maj is not my favourite key, though Schubert seemed to like it a lot.
Thanks!
Great video - Chopin E minor prelude. Left hand is sunk deep into the keys and slightly lifted to play. Think of it as a fatally wounded animal lying on the ground - slowly dying - and its life reel is scrolled in front of its eyes. Right hand melody is actually on top so you need to play it in similar way.
I also love the prelude in B minor for beginners
Would love to see you play nocturne op 48 no 1 ! But of course quite a challenge even for experienced pianists
I am finally finished practicing the "Waltz in A Minor" by Frèdèric Chopin.
When I practice my scales I play each scale 3 times. Both hands same volume then right hand loud, left hands soft. The third time, left hand loud and right hand soft. Quite challenging to begin with but well worth the practice.
When I first started to learn piano (by myself) I was just thinking of pieces that sounded easy and tried to learn them. My first piece was Bach's prelude in c Major. Then I wanted some Chopin tho, and without knowing too much, I learnt his Nocturne in C-sharp minor first. Then the prelude in E minor, and now I just learnt the raindrop prelude. I realize only now that probably the Nocturne is the hardest of the 3
😊thank you
This is awesome! I am an intermediate player, and I've been playing the first and last piece mostly. The 2nd piece I found about way later, so I'm working on that right now. I agree with your ranking - the fast, dense part of the Prelude in Em makes it really hard to get it right, although the rest of the song is so satisfying to get to play slowly and emotionally. Especially the trill-tones in the waltz in Am made it hard for me to practice, as that was a new dynamic. Just yesterday actually, I have recorded Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 in Eb - it took me at least half a year to master it because it was actually a little above my level (pretty advanced stuff lol), but the rough road of practicing was so worth it. I'm still hearing so many parts I could improve, but I think it's time (for now) to move onto other pieces. Do you have any other suggestions? I also LOVE Händel pieces, btw. :)
I've only played the 3rd piece, but I feel better knowing that it's the hardest. My teacher gives me a lot of modern pieces so we don't do much Chopin. So I'm glad I did ok with what is considered an intermediate level piece since I've only been learning piano for 3 years.
Thanks for the suggestions. The only piece I have attempted from him is the Waltz in Am. I thought it was that one that was the easiest. My main challenge was to build stamina. Technically speaking, I struggled with the second section very much, with the long ornaments to play fast and clear and synchronize it with the left hand.
The first part that you played was a piece of cake in comparison. It is because for my exam, I played a jazz piece with fast large leap in the LH (Pustilnik's Circus Theme). Therefore, my brain took it as something not so scary to do.
I haven't been playing much lately, have had too much happening. Should be able to get back to it by the beginning of the week.
I also learned the a minor waltz first. But since then I have concentrated a lot on the Mazurkas. There are quite a few that are not too difficult for the intermediate player and they are really beautiful. I have not played a single prelude yet, but 6 or 7 Mazurkas. Maybe I should start with a Prelude soon.
Thank you so much Jazer Lee for this lesson and others I have seen. They are so good. I do have a question please. When you say change the pedal for each chord change, I assume this means to lift/release the pedal at the very start of the new chord? And then how soon to press down again? Would you say almost straight away, or perhaps halfway through the phrase/chord?
Usually I just go by my ear. If I hear too much pedal, I release momentarily and then press it down when I feel it is getting too dry. But perhaps it would be good to have a more organized method:)
Surprisingly, after taking piano lessons for 3 months and learning to play the Great Brilliant Waltz for the first time because of its impression from the Tom and Jerry movie. It's really difficult but the feeling of conquering it is great
Op 28, No. 20 in C minor is also very accessible. There's a few tough chord reaches, but nothing that's insurmountable, even for someone with small hands.
I love Chopin's music and the two preludes you cited were among the first pieces I learned. Interestingly, the Schirmer book of Chopin preludes I'm using doesn't have any pedal markings for the Op. 28, No. 4. It's marked tenuto sempre for the bass clef stave, and I've read that the way to implement that is to essentially restrike the chords without letting the keys fully come up and engage the dampers. I wonder if this is a more or less authentic publication.
I haven't yet tried the waltz. But I love the Nocturne No. 20 in C# minor so much that, even though it's a bit beyond my current technical ability, I continue to routinely work it into my practice sessions. I can play it, but not well. The remaining challenging parts are rolling the arpeggiated left hand chords in the Animato section at a decent tempo and getting that three -octave scale in the right hand, near the end, to be fluid properly aligned with the left and and the tempo for that overall section. I'll get it some day.
I actually think that piece 2 is harder than piece 1 after a quick sight reading but it’s probably because I heard piece 1 way more often than piece 2. Another good piece to help intermediates learn is probably the Cello Etude (op.25 no.7) but only the first 20 bar. It teaches them how to play 2 melody lines and It’s not that hard to get the note right. The tempo is also slow so students won’t be easily discouraged. And if student gets tired of it you can pause and comes back to get the weight of each notes correct later.
I agree with you. I play A-mion op 150
Playing Nocturne in C# Minor is my favourite!
5:40 petite cheinne, is another of these seemingly simple yet mind fkngly alternating hand patterns.
How do we smaller-handed folk manage measure 12 of the A Major prelude? Leave out one of the right hand notes, perhaps? (I sinply cannot catch the A-shrap and C-sharp silutaneoulsy with my thumb .) :'( I've tried rolling the left hand chord to include picking up the treble A-sharp, but that doesn't seem so great.....sounds a bit silly, in fact.
I have found it to be a challenge finding a good piano teacher.
I play the Nocturne in E flat. What make that piece hard for me is the range. For some reason, I've had a hard time with memorization of it; maybe it's full of similar but different sections that are hard to keep straight. Endurance is also a tough one. I'm just mentally spent about halfway through. I can play all the parts with some degree of competence, but from start to finish just wears on me. And it's not even that long! I also play the Raindrop and Funeral March Preludes. Those are fun and much more manageable.
The Waltz's triplet->quintuplet was tough. Even tougher is playing the whole piece well. The notes are simple, but the slurs and dynamics can be tricky to put all together.
I just finished learning Fur Elise (I can play it accurately at a moderate tempo) and I learned the 3 movements of Muzio Clementi's sonatina in C. Do you think I could attempt Waltz in A minor as my next piece?
Thanks! I always thought Funeral March was the easiest
The Raindrop is my favourite Chopin piece. I took lessons for 5 years in my 40s but never got competent. I’m so sorry about it. I have achieved several things in my life in the engineering and technical world and I love music, but my attempts to be a decent pianist we’re not realised. 😢
Absolutely love Chopin. Currently working on Sonata in B minor Op.58.
How about the chromatic descending fourth in the right hand at the beginning ?
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Which movement are you talking about?
@@peterchan6082 I said at the beginning ... So 1st one
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But 'descending fourth' at the beginning?
There is only a 5-note descending arpeggio rather than a descending fourth . . .
@@peterchan6082 Yeah sorry I should check it again, thanks anyway !
Could you do a tutorial on Raindrops Prelude? 😊 🎹
I just start to practice the third one. can you show us how to control the pedal ?
The last piece waltz intrigued me. how hard is this compared with Waltz Mystique by Ray Moore? I’m asking this to assess the difficulty level from this point of reference. Thanks in advance.
Also: the Prelude in B minor and Nocturne Op.15 n.3 (if you want something longer).
can you list some chopin pieces to practice after these 3 please?
I haven't played any of these , not that advanced , but was the waltz in A minor the inspiration behind one of your own compositions? Loved the the E minor piece,
Nice list, I would just change the prelude in e minor with the early polonaise in g minor
Thanks for your great content Jazer! 🤩One question regarding the Prelude in A Major. How would you recommend playing the chord in bar 12 consisting of 9 notes to people like me, that can't reach more than a single octave with there hands 🤯😐 My hands feel like i need to go and visit a doctor after my first attempts 😀😀
I play E minor and A preludes.
A minor waltz is not in my book.
I can play C minor and Raindrop preludes, Eb Nocturne and Funeral March. Working on Minute Waltz, Scherzo #2 and Revolutionary Etude (with minimal progress)
I think Prelude in C minor is also good
I love Chopin, I play those preludes, so now to check out that waltz. I love the C# minor waltz, and have played Ab (both) and Db - aka the minute waltz, but not recently. The only A minor waltz, in my book, does not seem to match what you played. ??
Hi Jazer!
Not sure how you have set the tone of your piano... It sounds (to me) with a tremendous metal tone...
Maybe you like it, but on previous videos the tone was way "softer", more beutiful and balanced.
Just an opinion...
Thanks for the video, BTW
Absolutely! I've always loved the sound of his piano and in this video it is just awful... to put it mildly.
"chopin is a great composer" he is the best for piano ever
I'd say Chopin's Polonaise in G minor Op. Posth. No.2 is also quite easy. He wrote is when he was 7 after all...
Iv been working on prelude in E minor for a year now. Really struggled with the pedaling.
Chopin's music demands high professionalism , even ''the easiest'' piece , Beginners have their own great repertoire .
Thanks @jazerleepiano. My 8-year-old boy really loves Chopin and could handle these pieces without much trouble, I think, but for the the fact he can only just manage a minor 7th stretch. I think all of these require octave stretches at minimum, while the A Major Prelude even has a minor 10th, calling for quite large adult hands to play properly. Can you recommend any easy Chopin pieces for small hands, or good reductions? He's just learned an AMEB Grade 2 "Chopinesque" piece called Mazurka for Chopin, by Catherine Rollin, which he plays beautifully. He's hungry for more pieces with that Chopin sound. Would be really grateful for any suggestions you can offer. He particularly likes Chopin. He's listened to the Schumann and Tchaikovsky children's albums, which both have some beautiful pieces, but nothing seems to grab him in the way Chopin does.
I am currently learning waltz in a minor and i am having trouble with the difficult section with the arpeggio. I can't seem to play it at tempo even if i practice it slow a lot.
I play 3 of them and the second one the prelude is the hardest for me because my fingers are short and barely reach one octave