Yes, you CAN play Chopin Fantaisie-Impromptu, Op 66, with some guidance.
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- For those self-studying pianists who have been dying to play this piece...
0:00 What this video is about
0:50 Prerequisites to Play the Piece:
1:15 Overall Structure
2:30 Playing Through the First A Section
A SECTION
Bars 4-12 Learn the Left Hand First
4:00 Phrasing in the Left Hand 4’ 00’’
6:00 Movement of the Left Hand 6’00’’
A SECTION Bars: 13-24
7:00 Practice What Aligns First Before Putting the Two Hands Together
7:45 Movement Of the Right Hand
A SECTION Bars 25-32
8:45 Reading (and playing) in groups of notes
11:00 B SECTION Bars 41-82
11:25 Polyrhythm 3:2
14:35 Phrasing
A’ SECTION Bars 83-118
16:45 Polyrhythm 3:4
18:10 Playing Fast and Smooth
19:00 CODA Bars 119-end 
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I played it pretty well in my 20's . I forgot EVERYTHING. I'm 83 now and trying to play the piano again. So far so good......
Good for you! I am in my sixties and doing the same. Having music in one's life is wonderful.
Good Luck!
This is easily the best teaching video I've seen on this piece. It's very easy to understand and gives me complete confidence I can do this. I was never taught HOW to practice so this is wonderful beyond words. Thank You!
Thank you. The video is just a small part of the piece of course, sometimes self studying pianists just need a little nudge in the right direction to get started. I think I will be making the next part to this video. Please stay tuned!
many of her videos are!
I am so glad I have found your website! The fantasy impromptu is one of my all-time favorites but I’ve had mental blocks against it for years and what you said has made perfect sense! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I look forward to more instructional videos from you.
It is so wonderful to hear that. I had no idea this video would be so helpful to so many people. I am thankful as well!
You are highly skilled and an excellent communicator. I appreciate the musicality of your own playing which is important. You prove your own approach works from a point of actual musicianship. While you talk about mechanics, it's directed at creating lyrical music in the end. When you demonstrated the melody by itself it was as it should be.
Thank you! I could have gone into the touch/sound/phrasing for the slow section and realized the video was filling up my hard drive! Thank you for your kind words💕
@@JeewonLeepiano Maybe you need a bigger HD. Are you familiar with George Kochevitsky's "The Art of Piano Playing: A Scientific Approach" You are following his approach, as best as I can tell. For those not familiar with the book, it is required reading for anyone seriously interested in learning the best approach to practice. Essentially you are training your brain, not your fingers.
@@JoeLinux2000wow I need to read this. I have always been interested in mind-body connection because ultimately, piano playing is a skill which we build using our body and mind. How I explain things on these videos are influenced by my interest in neuropsychology and yoga I think. I am looking it up now. Thank you!
@@JeewonLeepiano You are already doing much of what is in the book in terms of learning a specific piece of music. However just being able to play a piece reasonably well is not enough. You need to make your performance compelling to an audience. About the only way to do that is by performing as much as you can in front of a live audience. Making RUclips videos is probably beneficial, but not the same as performing in front of a live audience where there is no going back in terms of editing, aand you have to deliver actual emotional impact. Music schools don't concentrate enough on the importance of costuming and staging productions. Yuja Wang knows what she's doing in spite of some very undeserved virtue signaling criticism by a few stuffed shirts. She is in fact a very remarkable pianist who understands that music is actually the art of entertainment. Jazz musicians are critical oi Kenny G, but he is one of the most financially successful musicians.
Thank you for explaining the mechanics of the fingers, wrist, and arm! This is a wonderful video! Your explanations are so clear and so helpful!! Please post more!!!
Very interesting explanation. Thank you, it's very helpful!
You are such an excellent teacher! Please keep them coming!! ;-
I certainly will😀
Thank you, it was encouraging! I thought I’ll never get to “that” level. Just performed the op. 18 waltz. Can’t wait to learn the fantasie impromptu!
Very nicely explained - and very helpful. Thanks
You are such a great teacher! So well explained and you give me hope!
Thank you so much. 💕 Will hope lead to action? That’s MY hope!😀
More than excellent... I subscribed... thank you.😊😊😊
Very Great and helpful teaching!!!
Thanks for your valuable tips❤
Thank you, you are an excellent communicator, and it is a pleasure listening to your explanations
Thank you😀
Excellent, thankyou so much this is extremely helpful.🤗
This Chopin piece is my all time favorite. I can play it really well ONLY in my dream. Watching your video and listening to your instructions, I have hope and the desire to make my dream into reality! Thank you very, very much. I will watch this video again & again. Thank you. Thank you.
Hey at least you can play it in your dream. I would love dreams like that! I only have nightmares when it comes to performing/music related dreams. 😅
레슨 너무 감사합니다. ⚘️
이교수님 렛슨도 보고싶은데….
Hello, thank you!! I've been struggling with this one forever. This was the best motivational video ever, I think I'll be able to get it together now. I've also been trying to transpose the themes into different keys, play it as a tango in C-minor etc in order to understan how Chopin was thinking. Time to go back into the shed. :)
Wow that’s an interesting exercise to transcribe it into a tango! Post it and let us all hear it. 😀
Thank you so much for this valuable introduction to playing this piece. I've sight read through this piece many times and put it down as too difficult. Now with your guidance I understand how to work on this piece. Your left hand advice is particularly helpful. It prevents fatigue and allows smoother arpeggios. I've subscribed and look forward to more lessons.
Amazing! It looks like I should try making more of these introductory videos! Thank you for the comment and for subscribing!
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Chopin's Waltz in c# minor, Op 64 .#2 comes to mind.. It has a similar ABA harmonic structure to the Fantasie-Impromptu (c sharp minor, d flat major, c sharp minor) but is somewhat easier to learn having no polyrhythms. Still, it's very beautiful. Again, thanks for providing inspiration!
I feel this video is exactly what I needed, as a self-learner. I have tried this piece many times without success, over the last decade. One problem is memorization. Your suggestion on using right thumb is brilliant to simplify and make it easier to memorize. My another problem is speed, for which you mentioned using gravity... Hopefully, I will succeed this time. Thanks a lot for the lesson. I will start practicing this piece again.
You can do it! I think you just gave me another idea to make a video on to help people with this piece. So thank YOU!
yes it's my big big wish to play this piece !!! wish me luck Pray !!! i get through this with your very valuable tutorial !!! thanks for the inspiration !!!
Yes, I do wish you luck but You won’t even need luck. 🍀 just work at it and it will come naturally!
Video bellissimo molto utile davvero brava livelli altissimi TOP
That's a great lesson! It looks like it's not impossible for me anymore. I play piano for 4 years now and i'm planning to learn this piece next year. Definitely going to watch this video several times. Thank you. Greetings from Brazil!
Yes, You can do it!
so glad to see you are posting more frequently!
Hey there!
@@JeewonLeepiano Hi your 25 6 video really helped me! I hope you can make some videos of you playing pieces such as Chopin Barcarolle or Brahms: Intermezzo in A major op.118 no.2!
Brahms Op. 118 No. 2 "Intermezzo" was my very first video!
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@@JeewonLeepiano Thank you so much! Hope you have a good weekend!
Do you want to post a new video of your performance on 118-2? If you’d like I give you comments on your performance and post it here on RUclips. It will be an interesting video for other people. Or you can pick another piece you need help on. Let me know!
Quality instruction material that will save aspiring pianists the frustration I had to endure. I learned this piece in shortly over 2 weeks in late 2000 but took a brute force approach and had no guidance whatsoever because this was over the Christmas holidays when the music school I attended was closed. I wish I came across a tutorial like this, would have saved lots of junk volume in terms of practice. And been friendlier to my parents' and siblings' ears because they were literally sick of the piece half-way through my learning process.
On a side note: this is the only work of Chopin, one of my favourite composers alongside Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert and Reger, I ever came to dislike. It's a frivolous salon piece which is basically a second rate knock off of the opening movement of Beethoven's 14th piano sonata but without the emotional depth and without any significant sort of development of the material. Especially the ending, it sort of just peters out. However, at the time it did serve its purpose: managed to dramatically improve both my technique in a relatively short while, and, as a psychologically immature teenager who just wanted to impress musically clueless passers-by (especially girls) when playing in public, it worked miracles. Play it in front of someone who's not into classical music and they'll think you're a super virtuoso.
Yes, to be fair though, Chopin titled it an impromptu. It does not have the depth of his B minor sonata but hey it is also easier on the fingers! I think this piece was once upon a time a favorite of every pianist and it is the piece that opens us up to enjoy so much more.
I actually learned this during covid.
I'd done it as more of a test to see how much I could get through, but actually ended up finishing it.
It's still one of my favorites and I never want to lose it.
Chopin actually didnt like this impromptu very much. He didn't think it sufficiently captured the free improvisational quality that an impromptu entailed.
Excellent 😊😊😊subscribed...thank you😊😊
I will work on this piece little by little. I am mainly focused on Mozart, Beethoven and Brshms now, but I always wanted to learn this one and the G minor Ballade. I find the Finale of the Brahms F minor sonata rather difficult, but I can play slowly through it with some stumbling. I suspect these Chopin piecies will not be so difficult as the Brahms op. 5 Finale.
😳 that intro 😳 this is why I never play other people's music. I compose my own. When people tell me my music sounds terrible, I answer with a smile saying, "It's an avant-garde piece; it's supposed to sound that way." 😂
🤣 How dare they say it sounds terrible!
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🤗you are too kind, Jeewon❤
I played this perfectly when I was 18 but am really having difficulty learning it again 40 years later.😮
I bet it is still in you! Start with what feels easier and expand the horizons. Little by little but surely you will have the whole piece
Played this for my senior recital. If I can do it, anybody can!
Very helpful video!
Which pieces and Chopin-Etudes would you suggest for the preparation of this Impromptu?
None.This piece, along with Waltzes, is great as introduction to Chopin’s musical language and style.
I am not in the level for that song... I play piano only one year, but it is amazing your teaching.
It's a composition, not a song. Whatever your level her approach is on target. In my opinion you need to find well crafted compositions at your level. Some comparatively easier to play music can be very musical. William Gillock is a good place to look.
Bliss ❤
great video! would like to know how you approach Chopin's Ballad no. 1 :)
Maybe I need to make this into a series “Yes, you can play Ballade no. 1,” maybe… ? Will think about it. Thank you for that comment!
With all due respect, um, No I cannot play this, even with guidance 😊😊 But - the video is great and even applying the “method” of learning is very insightful
Any chance you teach online? Thank you. Love your videos
Yes! Please visit my website at www.jeewonleepiano.com to fill out an inquiry.
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Thank you so much for this video Jeewon. I was wondering if you could help me with what I have a problem with in this piece it is that I can set the metronome for mm = 88 bpm for a triplet in the left hand and play it perfectly hands together at that speed, counting 1 2 3 4 for each set of the four sixteenths of the right hand against the left hand triplet but I don't know how to get it up to the incredible beautiful speed that you perform it at that makes it sound so correct and perfect. Can you give me some ideas on how to get the right hand that much faster? Thank you so much. Keep up the wonderful videos. Brian King
Hello Brian, can you now try the whole sextuplet with the right hand? Also, start with mental practicing - if you can’t think it or hear it, you can’t play it. Be able to sing it in your head in the tempo and then work up to that tempo when you are actually playing it. I think I should make the next episode on this piece addressing speed. Thank you for your question. And please stay tuned.
@@JeewonLeepiano Thank you so much for your so wise help Jeewon, I really appreciate your suggestions and will work on hearing it correctly in my head now. Hearing the right hand guided by the left sextuplet will definitely move the tempo forward for the right hand! I don't feel confident on the up and down motions needed in the loose wrists in the going. I really look forward to your next episode addressing speed for sure. I will keep trying guided by your so wise suggestions. All the best, Brian
Thank you for this! Want to learn this so badly, but I’m very intimidated. I am an adult who returned to the piano during the pandemic ( studied for 8 years as a kid). I’d say I’m solid intermediate but can play about 3/4 of Chopins ballade no. 1 😂, and some other less demanding waltzes and nocturnes. Do you think I’m capable of this?
wish I could study with you!
Hello! I think 8 years of piano will back you up! Even if you have been away from the piano for many years, what you did as a kid for so long comes back, albeit gradually. Most of the piece falls under your fingers (ballade 1 is more all over the place with lots of chords also) and just be sure not to get ahead of yourself. So much of it repeats too so work little by little as your time allows. I am in the process of making the second part to this video so please stay tuned!
@@JeewonLeepiano Thank you! So kind of you to reply. Anxious to follow your lesson video!
Could you comment on the final chord? Some scores list it as broken, like how you play it, and other scores instruct you to play it unbroken.
I hear it rolled more often. Think about the final two notes resolving (E# from the previous bar continues down to D# and C#) the notes below it make up a harmony to support the D#and C#. Considering it should be played PPP it would be easier to gently roll it than to place the whole chord together. Also it is a long time to fill that whole bar, i would go for a slow roll rather than play the chord and hold for the whole bar. Final reason to roll vs. block is that the movement of the 16th notes slowly coming to an end sounds more organic with a rolled chord rather than a sudden blocked chord. Hope this makes sense!
She is playing the standard version published after Chopin's death. The version based on Chopin's actual autograph is more difficult and better. It is available in a Peters edition and was first recorded by Artur Rubinstein.
I ve heard about an other coda in the polonaise said "heroic" ... that Chopin did at first but the editors were not ready lol. Maybe you ve heard about this as you seems aware of that kind of preciouss and important informations ! Thanks in advance❤
I am playing the edition I played when I first learned it. 😀 But looking at the other edition Rubinstein played, it’s just different but does not look more difficult. Thank you for noticing and letting the viewers know about diff editions!
@@JeewonLeepiano The left hand part was simplified in the first published version, years after Chopin's death. This is the standard but not authentic version.
Honestly, once you get the rhythm , the flow, it’s much much easier!!
You should fix the Camera on top of the Paino keys the your Position Fingring & Teaching easy to Understand Nicely visually.Hope you will be never mind of My suggestion to trying to teach you Becouse you are Expert Teacher of paino.Keep doning stay Blessed.🎉🙏
I was debating on this. I think top view is helpful when you are locating notes on the keys but side view actually allows you to see the movement. But I think I will include top - view next time. Let’s see if it helps! Thank you for your suggestion.
Hi Jeewon , do you provide private tutoring online? I live in Australia 🇦🇺
Hello, I do teach online lessons. You can send me an email if you have further questions. J33won@gmail.com Thank you!
may i ask what piano you played on?
I am playing on a rebuilt New York Steinway B from the early 1900s. It's been with me for,,,,,almost 30 years. Thank you for your question!
Throughout this lesson, you mention pulse and rhythm quite a bit, as someone who struggles with pulse in specific pieces, what would be your advice, to fix any pulse/rhythm issues NAMELY if you realise very late that you have a pulse/rhythm issue in specific parts! And how would you align this with the rest of your piece, which seems to not have such an issue. Does not have to be specifically to op.66, my personal issue with this has been worst with Haydn for example, especially between 'sections' A-B-A-B. Great video however!
Hm, the advice I would give depends on the type of pulse/rhythm issue you are having. But generally speaking we just have to be mindful of pulse. You have to pay attention to it like it is the most important thing. You can argue pulse is the most important element in music but students usually get distracted, understandably, by the technical facet of playing the piano. Try simplifying the music down to the beats (just the bass line, just the harmony for example) and practice the simplified version until you are one with the pulse.
Nice video. I heard some clipping, i.e. distortion. Probably, you need to turn your microphone down or place the recording device farther away. Other commentors may know more.
Yes, I heard that too. I didn’t know how to fix the mic not picking up the full speaking voice after I demonstrate on the piano. I will have to wait a few seconds next time i shoot in this format. Thank you for taking the time to point it out!
I was doing this perfectly up until this point 2:34
😂 used to love it as beginner... Now I had enough of this piece........
6 notes against 4 notes…has a combined rhythm in English similar to “The Golden Butter” or you could break this down to 2 sets of 3 notes against 2 notes as in “You Chatter Box-You-Chatter Box…” oh so my Organ teacher taught (he was a student of Widor, and Dupre). At the speed this is played at concert, and it comes out as Latter Day Saints Latter Day Saints (incorrect), which he warned against.
6 notes against 4 notes isn’t easy….some get the right hand disconnected from synchronization against the left in Chopin, others with difficulty, and more than the precious few who do simply give up as the emphasis in early stages of learning the piano this togetherness of both hands is taught defacto.
As to the many of Chopin pieces with the tiny (and this includes the majority of concert artists) notes completely not in sync this is a lost art.
I don't even try to play it. The frustration would be too.....
Temporary frustration for long lasting enjoyment😀
You're right 😊😅
To play it well is difficult. Any piece is easy to play mediocre. I see it all the time in my class.
Wow!I love your video. you really explained how to achieve the way how should it be played. Thanks to you, you enlightened some ways that I find it really effective. hahaha. i am so happy to have dodged on your video, you are a blessing!God bless you
It’s played too fast very often. Use whole beat metronome theory
Please tell me more!
@@JeewonLeepiano 2 clicks of the metronome gives you the beat. As in 1 and 2 and etc.
I challenge you to piano battle. Face me honorably or admit defeat.
stupid suggestion : music is not Sport but Art !
You’ll probably lose 😂
What’s a piano battle?. Maybe I need to admit defeat on the battle😆
@@JeewonLeepiano back in the time of the Baroque era, there were often duels in improvisation skills on harpsichord. It's fascinating! But for piano, I don't think dueling will be made with improvisation... Maybe he wants someone to randomly pick a piece in standard repertoire and then you're both given 1 month to learn it and show the progress side to side I guess? The concept sure seems quite interesting for sure, so maybe you should give it a try! Just add some rules or something 😄
You will never play it, as a beginner, that way, because all what she is explaining makes sens only if you understand something else, that is a basically move, involved in playing scales : the rotating of the wrist over the scales, 3 + 5 : when the thumb is played the wrist goes down, anyway it's a natural move, with 2, 3, 4 the wrist goes up, an down on 5.
Obviously before playing this you want to play scales, ie, Bach. Mozart only a little because his best compositions are not the sonatas, and then you skip Beethoven entirely : the passionata is recycling Mozart's nozze di Figaro.