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Can you please elaborate, I didn’t get the question 🙁

Yes, like majority of piano pieces 😁

Thank you for the kind words! When you see sharp or flat signs in the beginning of the musical stave, it means that notes these signs are pointing at are altered (becoming sharps or flats) in every octave of the piano, not just these two. So in D major every C and F notes become sharp, unless otherwise stated in the sheet music. In sheet music composers are indicating only the minimum amount of notes in the beginning, because if every note will be deliniated as sharp or flat sheet music would be a mess, so they just give you a solid hint how it should be played, no more.

@@darkwaspspiano Fantastic! Thank you for your swift reply. I knew the sharp and flat signs in the beginning of the stave applied to all notes on that octave, but I ignored they also applied to other octaves as well. Thanks!!

Yes

Thank you!

Thanks!

Thanks! Just to clarify, this arrangement wasn’t made by me, it’s from NieR piano scorebook made by Monaka 👌And original song is indeed amazing!

Thanks, glad to hear that! I am actually thinking about setting up camera above the keyboard, it’s definitely a better angle for viewers

Thanks, much appreciated!

Sorry, can't post it here for copyright reasons, it's an arrangement from piano score book that's sold separately (

@@darkwaspspiano okay thank you 🥲 The book is so expensive in EU

Have you checked Playasia site? That’s where I got my book, it may be cheaper there even with shipping costs

@@darkwaspspiano Yea i checked everywhere. The cheapest for me would be with ebay... i think i will just ask a relative in japan to ship it to me. But thanks tho

@To04G Alright, you’re welcome! Good luck!

Hi, thought to direct you to Zacky's channel (he is the one who made the arrangement), but now I see that his website where sheets are is down. Not sure that I can post his sheets here openly, so write me something (an email) on av42925@yandex.ru and I'll send you a reply with sheets attached.

@@darkwaspspiano Could I also email you for the sheets as well? I tried looking and haven't been able to find many arrangements for this song.

Hi, yes, sure! Same email, av42925@yandex.ru

I think it's free on musescore here: musescore.com/leonardc/canon-d-dur-pachelbel

@@darkwaspspiano Thank you so much.....

@@evelynlysander You are welcome!

Thanks!

Thank you!

Yes, printed version is pretty rare, because it is shipped exclusively with Yamaha pianos, but I did a quick Google search and confirmed that digital version can be easily found online!

Thanks! I hope to learn Tabi no Tochuu too some day

@@darkwaspspiano ohh that one is amazing, im sure u enjoy it

Thanks, i'll try to!

Thank you! Unfortunately, I don't have a pdf file of this piece, because it's from a book that came with my piano, and I shouldn't share it anyway because of copyright reasons

On the other hand, I've found it on Musescore uploaded by someone else, this should be a free download available in pdf too, try it: musescore.com/user/35914165/scores/7878719

@@darkwaspspiano thanks a lot sir

No problem, enjoy practicing it!

Thank you!

Thanks!

Thanks!

Well, this particular arrangement is actually a beginner level, it's literally the first piece in the book "50 Classical Music Masterpieces" that came with my digital piano. But that doesn't mean that learning it should be an easy task, especially if you are new to piano. I don't remember the exact timeframe, but I definitely spent more than a month learning and perfecting that arrangement despite it being on the easy side and me already having 3.5 years of everyday practicing piano at the time of the recording. Learning piano is not easy at all, so struggling and overcoming all sorts of problems is normal. There are many myths around learning and playing piano that are embedded in the mind of an average person, these myths are discussed in this brilliant series of videos by Ilinca Vartic which I highly recommend to watch to anyone who is serious about learning piano: ruclips.net/video/2vCiYULr2K4/видео.html (check video description to understand how to get more episodes). As for suggestions, number one advice that I will be giving to any beginner is to not practice the whole piece from beginning to end hoping that it will somehow sort itself out (every beginner has that habit). Instead, break it to small, digestible chunks, preferably musical phrases, but if that's too much - then even less, one bar, half a bar; and perfect it until you will be absolutely sure you are playing it right - first, with one had, then the other, and only then both. Do not move forward to learning the next section until you fully learn the previous one. This will require a lot of patience and restraint, but sadly that is the only way to really learn the piece. That's what every pianist does, not only beginners, professionals simply do this faster, that's all all the difference between them. As for confidence and satisfaction - you will never be completely satisfied with your playing, and again, that's normal. There is always room for improvement, no matter how easy the piece is, because there are so many different elements you can work on and improve upon. I personally decided that I will be recording my performances once it takes way too much time and effort to improve it further, and then I just round things up, do a recording and move on to the next piece. I'm not satisfied with any performance I've put on my channel, but each time I'm making sure I did the best I possibly could with the skills and the time I had available at that moment. Hope this helps, if you have more questions, please ask away!

@@darkwaspspiano I really astonished your diligent intervention in replying my question and also no words to express that you have taken your precious time to focus your views. It is exactly 11 months since I had bought my YDP 164 piano and started playing on my own with the help of hearing knowledge and also learnt musical notes to some extent. As you clearly advised ,patience and practice are two vital keys and I have confidence in learning piano till my life. With the help of hearing knowledge, most of the time I can play pieces without concentrating notes fully. I don’t know whether this method of practice is recommended or strictly I should concentrate only on notes . I joined my first classes recently and my teacher advised me to practice JOHN THOMSON Grade TWO based on my hearing knowledge but I discontinued due unavoidable circumstances. Thank you once again for your kind suggestions and concern. I am 63 years old now. GOD BLESS YOU EVER. Regards 🌹

You are welcome, thank you, God bless! 🙏 Patience is key to everything.

Sure. Please write me an email on av42925@yandex.ru, and I'll think of something 👌

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you for your comment, I'll gladly try to answer your question a bit later today or tomorrow!

Hello! So, this is the kind of question that should really be answered with a whole book on the subject, because there is just so much nuance to learning and playing a musical instrument, you can’t pack it all into a simple answer :( I wish I could, but it’s just impossible, I’m sorry :D But, if I could point out just some major, most important things that anyone learning piano should know in my opinion, I’d mention the following, by order of significance: You have to really like it, despite all the things I’ll mention below. In my opinion, if you are motivated only to impress someone (or even yourself maybe, some sort of challenge), or you just think you are gonna be good-looking while playing piano - you’ll quit it in a year or two of more or less serious study, you’ll just decide it’s not worth the effort, because in initial years gains are so minimal (they are not minimal actually, but it’ll feel that way). So you have to really enjoy the process - the feel of the keys, the sound of the instrument, the look of it, the history of its development, the history of music and composers - everything. Also, I think you should have some kind of list of “dream pieces”, something that you think is almost out of reach for you, but you wanna try nevertheless and put all the effort into it, even if it takes years or even a decade. That's the kind of dedication that’s required in order to succeed. Not because you “must” for some reason, but because you love it! You have to be patient. In these 4,5 years I’m studying the piano, I’ve came to a conclusion that in order to be able to play the majority of classical pieces everyone likes (with maybe exception of especially difficult pieces like famous 3rd movement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata) you don’t need any sort of “musical talent”, just patience. A LOT of it. For example, right now I’m learning a really challenging piece, I’m at the most difficult section, and it can easily take a week of 1 hour-long work sessions every day to learn just one line of the score (4 bars). And that’s normal - I’ve asked my teacher about it, I’ve read forums, watched some RUclips videos of teachers discussing the subject - it’s just that hard, yes, especially if the piece is above your level and you don’t have that many years of experience under your belt. Sometimes you can spend an hour on some section and the next day you feel like you haven’t improved at all - that’s normal too, keep working and you’ll get it. Divide the work on small, very small chunks and work only on them until they are solid. Rookie mistake everyone makes in the beginning, and I’m no exception, is playing the piece from the start to the end all the time, hoping it’ll somehow work out after X number of iterations. Well, it does work with easy and short pieces, but leads to a lot of wasted time and effort with more difficult ones. Ideally you should learn one musical phrase at a time, because it’s just easier for the brain to remember how it sounds, but oftentimes it’s too difficult. So you have to learn one bar at a time, sometimes half a bar, hands separate and then together, and then do the same thing with the next bar/half a bar, building a sort of musical train car after car until you have a complete train. As for the bad habits you mentioned, it’s a pretty vague subject because I think bad habits are unique to each person, but I can list the ones I had and how we (with my teacher) corrected them: Playing very lightly, without using the full weight of your arms and sometimes even the whole upper body. This is the one thing that will seriously hinder your progress in the long run if you don’t correct it for sure. Do not be afraid of putting the weight behind your fingers, if you have a good piano that’s not a child’s toy - it will handle it. It’s not like you should be dropping your hands from half a meter height, you just have to let the hand sink into keys using its own weight, and not hold it with muscles. If it sounds too loud, bring down the volume if it's a digital piano, and engage a middle “practice” pedal if it's a real thing. If you are playing on a baby grand - well, you are out of luck, these things are loud by design :D Tendence to stretch the hand instead of moving it - this is pretty dangerous because it overloads tendons inside the hands, therefore leading to possible injury. If you feel uncomfortable while reaching from one note to the next, you have to move your entire hand in order to reach that next note. Pretty hard to do the first time you’re learning that trick, but after a while when your brain sees that it’s not that difficult - you’ll do it automatically. I actually have a recording of a piece on which I’ve trained that move, it’s called “Étude in F Minor Op. 10 No. 9” by Chopin, the left hand part right in the beginning is perfect for that sort of training. In theory I could’ve played that section “normally”, without moving my left hand at all, but then it would get cramped very quickly to the point it becomes painful to continue playing. And by the way, if you feel any pain during playing or practicing - it's a 100% sign you are doing something wrong, in fact, even after 2 hours of practicing you shouldn't feel any pain or tiredness anywhere; well, your brain can and should feel tired, but that’s all. Muscles that move fingers only need to support the weight of the arm, or change position slightly in accordance to the shape required to play the music. Never use them to “press” piano keys, it won’t end well! Underused 4th and 5th fingers on both hands and overused 2nd and 3rd. Since we basically don’t need 4th and 5th fingers in our daily life, they tend to be very weak and underdeveloped, this is the case especially with adults, and this leads to the habit of playing everything with the first three fingers and not using the rest because it’s not comfortable. There are exercises and etudes aimed specifically to correct that issue, if you want to know which ones I’ve used - ask me and I’ll point them out. You really need functioning 4th and 5th fingers, because you just can’t play advanced music without using them. These fingers will never be as strong and agile as our first three, but it is possible to develop them enough to use them freely in piano playing. Posture while sitting at the piano is very important. I’ve tried different heights and distances, and finally figured out my personal most comfortable position, though I’m still slightly adjusting it sometimes. It’s actually very close to that “classical” posture that you can find in books and the internet: forearms almost parallel to the floor, spine and neck on one line, slightly bent knees etc., but for a long time I couldn't sit in this position for a prolonged period because it was uncomfortable for my back. It’s funny, but I found a relatively simple fix to that: 15 minutes of back massage with a cheap $30 Chinese “shiatsu” electrical massager every morning for a month, and back pain disappeared (but I’m still doing massages, just in case). I’m saying this because posture and position behind the piano has a huge impact on how comfortably you can play, and improper posture can limit your movement to the point where you can’t play certain things, like wide chords just because you can’t flex your hand enough because you are sitting too high up. But what’s comfortable for your hands may not be comfortable for the rest of your body, so you have to find balance. No warm-up. There is a very simple sequence of exercises approved by my teacher that helps stretch and warm up your “piano playing apparatus” so to speak, and over a course of months you can feel the effect: more relaxed movement and way less tension, even on prolonged practice sessions. After a bit of practice the whole thing takes less than 5 minutes, here’s the link: ruclips.net/video/zYLHJqnzpxU/видео.html As for the sight reading, in my experience its significance is overstated because you are going to play pieces from memory anyway, and developing sight reading to the point where you can easily sight read pieces of classical music is just not feasible because it takes too much time. We do sight reading exercises from time to time, but overall my ability to sight read (meaning being able to play the score I’ve never seen before right off the bat) remains very underdeveloped for two reasons: one, it requires playing blindly therefore leading to shallow touch which is never a good thing as I pointed out above, and two, it just takes too much time with very little gains to show for it. Basically I was put before two choices: learn how to sight-read on the piano or learn how to play music on the piano, guess what I chose in the end :) Of course, knowing overall musical notation is a must, it’s not that hard to learn (though a bit tedious in the beginning) and it will absolutely 100% pay off in the long run. You already mentioned that you can’t get lessons with a teacher, but if your circumstances change, I very much recommend enlisting with someone, because a good teacher makes a huge difference, both in quality of your practice time and speed of learning. And a feedback from a professional is always priceless! I’m running out of character limit here, so the last thing I’ll recommend is to watch this series of videos by Ilinca Vartic, only a fist video of the series is on RUclips, the rest you will get once a week via email (you have to subscribe to the mailing list on her site): ruclips.net/video/2vCiYULr2K4/видео.html There she debunks some widespread myths about playing and practicing piano, and gives some really good recommendations which I can confirm are very solid! Hope this helps, thank you for reading!

If you have more questions, ask away, I'll try to answer them to the best of my ability! Sorry for the lack of formatting in the long post, there is a character limit, tried to cramp as much content as possible :D

@@darkwaspspiano You have no idea how helpful this is, thank you so much :D My motivation really lies in my love of music, and an admiration for beautiful sounds. I've played guitar for about 7 years now, I totally concur with what your saying on drive. I have a few pieces/songs I'm aiming to learn in the future. I find Chopin's Etude op. 10 no. 4 to be astounding, for starters. Another song that I'd love to learn is the s1 op of spice and wolf (I think I found you through your playing of the s2 op - super nice, btw) but the full version, and animenz' arrangement, which is currently wayyyy above my head. I also would love to learn Étude in F Minor Op. 10 No. 9, which you had mentioned later, as well as a few others. Addressing what you've said about stretching vs moving the hands - I recently have been practicing Prelude in B Minor (another piece you've showcased on your channel) and it seemed like you could stretch in an inhuman way - I guess my hands are just smaller, and it would make sense to move the hands instead of stretching... I just hadn't considered that yet, so thank you, I'll definitely work on that. I wish I was playing on a baby grand, but unfortunately I'm not rich enough to afford one lol I would love if you were to link the pieces you mentioned to help work on my 4th and 5th finger strength. :) Thank you again for your reply, and I'll definitely be searching for a local teacher if my circumstances change a bit :)

​@@estes_was_here Glad if this wall of text was any help :D If you already played guitar for 7 years, you have the advantage of practicing a different instrument - that should be very helpful, especially with the strength and flexibility of the left hand, which means a lot on piano! I’m sharing your admiration for Chopin Etudes, this is my favourite classical composer, I hope someday I’ll have the skills to be able to play majority of his works! I’m also eyeing Animenz arrangements, but they are out of my reach currently. Some Theishter works seem more approachable, but I have my hands full for now. For the Prelude in B Minor - yeah, these stretches were pretty painful for me, I think my teacher chose this piece only because I could cheat on it with the size of my hands, I think for someone with smaller hands these stretches can be too much, be cautious :) Alright, so the list of pieces we used to help with development of 4th and 5th fingers: - Hanon, first 10 exercises. I know Hanon is super controversial, but my teacher suggested them to me, so I played a bit of it in the very beginning of my study and can say for sure that it helps to develop super basic coordination. I think I did them for about 3-4 months, that was enough to extract value from them; - Bach Prelude (Prelude only, without Fugue) No.2 from Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1. Perfect for developing some strength in 5th fingers on both hands, since they are playing the melody, and overall coordination of fingers inside the hands since all other notes should be played softer; - Rachmaninoff Musical Moment No. 4, first 20 bars, very good for both hands, left one especially. - Debussy Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (from Children’s Corner suite) - first 12 bars, for the right hand - Moszkowski Quinze Études de Virtuosité - No. 8 in C Major - practicing it right now, it’s not that difficult and makes these 4th and 5th fingers work! VERY important thing here is that all these should be practiced at a comfortable tempo (no matter how slow) and should be treated like exercises (well they basically are, since most of them are Etudes), not like musical pieces. My teacher never demanded any musicality or fast tempo when we were studying these types of pieces, the main value here is the workout they give on specific fingers. On RUclips you can find numerous recordings of these works being played at breakneck speed - but remember that this is done by professionals, so do not try this at home :D Hope this helps too! GL on your journey!

Good luck!

Thanks 👊

Yes

I thought piano sounds better that way at the time. Now I'm trying not to mess too much with default settings (sometimes adjusting reverb when I think it's needed), defaults are pretty good overall 👍

Thanks!

Thanks!

Thank you!

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Thanks! Good luck learning the song!

Thank you! Yes, I'm still continuing to practice piano and planning to do more uploads! It just got harder to find time to refine and upload pieces recently.

Your Canon in D was what I used as a reference to correct my playing of the piece. Thank you so much.

I'm very glad, thank you!

Try it! This is relatively easy but nice sounding piece, and these are hard to come by when you are the beginner and lacking skills!

Thank you!

Sorry, I think I can't answer that in detail because pedaling in this piece is very intuitive. In the process of learning the piece I just got to know which notes don't sound good together, so I do not connect them via pedaling.