you're a beginner pianist and you want to work on some great classical works unfortunately
there are thousands of pieces to choose from and it's hard to know where to even begin
hi i'm jaisa there was a lot of requests for a part two in the series so here you go here are
another five classical pieces that beginners should not skip for each piece i'm going to
play the start and then briefly talk about the educational benefits of playing these pieces
i'm going to count them down from the easiest or the hardest so make sure you stick to the end
to find out what number one is and just before we get to the countdown of these
pieces make sure you subscribe to this channel to make sure you stay in touch
with more of these free piano lessons and tutorials now number five on the list is
so number five is the bach minuet ng now this piece is really good for teaching your hands to
coordinate with each other generally speaking in piano music right hand has a slightly more
difficult part than the left hand but in this one the left hand is actually not too much
uh easier than the right hand okay so in right hand you have parts like that you have this kind
of scale part where there are fast moving notes but left hand also has that later in bar eight so
okay so i think both hands have relatively equally difficult parts
so it's a good one to try to play to coordinate your hands the minuet ng
is also really good for learning ornaments in music now what are ornaments in the olden days
composers use ornaments to basically beautify the music so instead of
instead it was written as
so this okay some people also call these grace notes and this piece is a great introduction to
playing these grace notes or ornaments okay they're not easy to do so they
are very beautiful but also require a great level of technical execution
so this is really great for that number four on our list is
so
so on and so forth number four on the list is the starting part of clear to loon by debussy
now this piece is really great for learning legato what's legato legato
is smooth playing or joined playing so beginners when they start to learn this
piece if we're practicing without the pedal they'll play something like that
which is not what we're supposed to do we're
trying to join each thing and that's not easy to do
did you hear that this one double notes but we still need to join them as well so it's great
for legato practice and the next thing this piece is really great for is actually tied to the first
point and that is that this piece is really great for learning how to play expressively
now a teacher i had in the past told me there were only two levels of pianist
level one were pianists who played notes and level two were pianists who played music and the only
difference between these two groups is expression now clear to loon is a really deep piece that
actually takes a bit of time to understand so now instead of playing just straight notes like
instead of playing that i want to encourage you beginners to try to think about longer phrases so
trying to think about how i can create life out of just these notes instead of just trying to
hit the right notes i want to encourage you to get the right notes and then on top of that
think about how am i going to make this beautiful sounding
now if you want to play the entire clade alone piece that's probably not going to be the best
piece for a beginner because there are some really difficult parts towards the end but clearly is a
really familiar tune to a lot of people and a lot of people love it so if you're a beginner
why not just try the start part of it get a good sense of what that feels and sound like and then
when you get better at piano you know two three years down the line when you get enough practice
and you can take on the technical challenge then you can complete the whole clearly piece i think
these kind of things they act as a great motivator when you learn a part at the start of your journey
and then when you get better to work towards completing the piece when you are better at piano
i think that's an incredible motivator for yourself to practice now moving on to number
three on our list number three is my personal favorite one out of these five number three is
so on and so forth so number three is to a wild rose by mcdowell now i really recommend you go
and listen to the full piece of this on youtube because this one is so stunning it just melts my
heart this piece is really good to learn because it will teach you how to control your dynamics
now in the two phrases that i played the first time it was supposed to be piano which is soft
and in the second time it's supposed to be pp pianissimo which means really soft
okay so this is really good for just teaching you how to
basically have enough control to play even softer and then there are also a whole bunch of other
crescendos and demeaning windows everywhere so a good one to learn how to control your volume
also similar to the previous piece this one is really good for learning how to play expressively
so instead of just playing the right notes have a think about how you can play the right notes
and create some live from them moving on to number two on our list number two is
so number two is the sharpened prelude in a major number seven
now i recommend this piece to beginners because it's pretty short it's only 16 bars
if you really work hard at it you could probably finish learning it in one day this piece is
particularly good also for volume control between your two hands so generally speaking right hand
should always be louder than the left hand okay so just to demonstrate beginners when
they play this piece they'll probably probably something like that okay so hopefully you can
pick up that this doesn't sound really good the better way to play is something like that
where the right hand is standing out a little bit more okay this piece actually is takes this
volume control actually to another level because even within the right hand
whenever there are two or three notes you want the top one to stand out even more so
do you see that this b i want to try to make that a bit louder than even this g sharp or this d so
beautiful
so this is a great piece to work on volume control between your two hands
okay moving on to the number one piece for this video number one is
so
so number one on the list is the sonatina in c by clementi now if you're listening to this
piece and you're going oh gee that's pretty quick i don't know if i can pull that off
now everything should always start slow when i first learned this piece i started learning it
really really slowly and then only step by step i would increase the speed this piece is really good
to learn because it has a lot of scale passages so you could see it had a lot of things like so
do you see that that's a c major scale and then throughout the piece there are a whole bunch of
other running passages as well so this piece is really great for working on your music but also
a bit of a technical exercise i guess you could say this piece is also really great to work on
because if you complete the whole piece this whole work actually takes about seven to eight
minutes to perform so i think it will also build your stamina for piano playing and lastly i think
this is a really great introduction to the classical sonata genre so once you study this
piece you'll get a bit of a good introduction to a lot of the famous works by mozart beethoven and
haydn so i really recommend you to learn this one it will teach you lots of things
so there you go guys here are another five classical pieces that beginners shouldn't skip
which one of these pieces are your favorite and do you have any suggestions
of other pieces that you think beginners shouldn't skip let me know in the comments below thanks for
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