My favorite is moonlight sonata 1st mvt :P I can play the entire song now :) I don't learn another song til I master the current one. Next week is my next piano lesson so my teacher will get me my next song to pratice which is plucky daisy by kevin macleod :P
Also @Learn Piano with Jazer Lee thank you this is perfect as I have a goal to learn 3 classical pieces in the next few weeks. How much time do you think I should devote to learning pieces each day?
I’ve played piano for about 16 years. I stopped for 5 years and lost some of my technique and etiquette. I felt like a complete failure 😭. Watching this video made me realize that I can still play most of these pieces , so not all hope is lost . I just need to clean up my technique. Thanks for bringing me back home 😌
As someone who’s been playing piano for 8 months, I’ve been practicing “comptine d’un autre été” for a couple weeks, it’s definitely my favorite piece yet, and it upped my playing skills by a lot. It's so satisfying to play. Love the list!
I started to learn piano, without any formal lessons, in October last year. After becoming comfortable with the notes I picked up both Gymnopedie No.1 and Moolight Sonata Mvt.1 within a couple months of playing and I have moonlight memorised but still struggle with the technique of the gymnopedie. Just recently I also learned Gnossienne No.1 by Satie and have been learning pieces, with relative success, that the person I play piano is surprised I can learn considering how short I have been playing for. I think Moonlight Sonata should be encouraged as a first year piece because of it's length and for the reasons listed. It is a challenging piece that requires a lot of interpretation and skill to play well (I personally like playing slower than 60 bpm bc of how it sounds and feels to play). these videos are great btw :)
@@ryukplssteponme2203 all it takes is a piano and a piece music to get you started! If you don't know someone who plays then get some lessons too but otherwise just enjoy the music :)
@@Birch37 it's still only been about 16 months since I started playing but I've gotten the hang of the pedal pretty easily :) I kinda just feel my way through the pieces I learn and reset it as need just by familiarity
I’d recommend beginners to learn Mozart Allegro in B- flat major, K3, between years 1-3 depending on how fast they progress, it isn’t too difficult and it’s a short piece. Also quite fun to learn.
Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi is such an amazing, heart-touching piece. I stumbled upon it randomly one day. I think It is a great benchmark for a person in their 2 year of playing.
I dont know the piece u mentiond but i learned his piece expirience... Its awesome... Now im excited to listen to the one u said and see if ill be able to enjoy and play It
Very interesting. I started 11 months ago (at 58 years old) and these are songs that immediately interested me and i learn by myself. I play Fur Elise more or less appropriately, I play the Gnossiènne n ° 1 by Satie and I'm learning the Moonlight Sonata. It seems that I'm going a little too fast but at my age i have no time to waste :-) In any case, these are all very pleasant pieces. Personally I also try my hand at jazz and I learn The Entertainer from Scott Joplin. Not easy at all but I also like jazz. It would be easier if I knew music theory but I'm learning that too. The days are not long enough. I would like to be Bill Murray in Groundhog day :-) Thanks for your videos.
@@penknee3094 Yes, reading music is not easy so for the moment I'm memorizing the notes. The songs for beginners are often repetitive and therefore it is not too difficult. And remembering all the notes in Beethoven's moonlight sonata, I admit, it's not easy. But if I had to wait to master music theory I would be discouraged. For the music theory i use Earmaster on my PC. It'a good application.
I love your videos so much. At 60, I take piano lessons (with a man whose last name is also Lee), more for my brain than desire to perform. Your videos compliment my lessons so well, as you have a similar teaching personality. I appreciate the way you explain things in a way that is supportive, positive, and easy for my "mature " brain to process. I also love hearing you play. Beautiful.
I’m a senior and beginner playing a piano, but thank you I’ve learned a lot from your teaching, I’ll continue practicing until I can pray today’s pieces that you recommended.
As someone who’s been playing for about a year and a half I also suggest Mia and Sebastian’s theme from La la land , Le caire by Sofiane Pamart and Haendel’s Passacaglia. Chopin’s waltz in A minor is also relatively approachable. However I don’t necessarily like the idea of thinking you should be able to play a certain piece at a certain year of playing the piano , because everybody progresses in a different way , hence some disappointments or frustrations may occur ;)
It totally depends upon so many different variables. It didn’t matter how much I practiced. I could not play Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu until I developed the correct technique with the right teacher who taught and knew the right technique. Of course that is an advanced piece, but I’ve seen third and four year students struggle in pieces they have not developed the correct technique to make it effortless and simple sounding.
Just started playing the piano in November 2021 and the very first song I learned is Comptine d'un Autre été. Took me 2-3 months to be able to play it flawlessly but I had to practice almost every single day. So it's quite encouraging that you put it in the 3rd year of piano playing in this video 😁 Love your videos btw, they are really encouraging!
Your teaching is so good, especially now I cannot attend classes. I’m first year and have practiced prelude in C! I am so inspired by these choices and your teaching. Thank you very much for your gift of playing and sharing. A blessing.
I played piano from 5y to 12y and stoped. When I became 15 I got a piano and restarted playing, but that time without classes! Now I'm 20 and have reached a level where it seems impossible to develop more by myself, so I've restarted lessons a couple of months ago! I love your channel, everything you say matches my journey, so I'm really glad I found you! (I've been playing the second year pieces for a while now, so I'm going to move to the third year one's!) Thank you!
I am a beginner (7 days been playing piano :D), and I wanted sooo much to learn Grieg's "In the hall of the mountain king". Well, the melody itself probably not too hard, had a hard time to make staccatto and pianissimo at the same time, but I learnt everything till it starts going fast. Just practicing it every day, lots of stuff happening there, there are chords, volume control for both hands, wide range (Famous saying: I paid for the whole piano, so I'm gonna use the whole piano). I wanna say thank you to Jazer, because it was a first channel I found in youtube, with such a great amount of tips for beginners! The tip about slow repetition, I knew it before (guitar player for almost 10 years, self-taught though), but your magic number 7 - I dunno how it works - but it does! The tip about hand separation: first try to play with right hand only, then with left, then put them together. The tip about giving a rest and stop practicing when you feel a bit tired, so that you don't squeeze all of your energy. And many more other tips! Thank you for them! Sure I know that the Grieg's piece is not for a beginner, but I want to have it for a sort of training piece and also one that I love, and while learning the beginner's pieces like those that were mentioned in the video I will revisit Grieg's piece and improve myself in it. Also, I record my playing, so I can see the progress which gives me a lot of motivation to go further. And yes! No synthesia! It is a great tool, but I will read notes instead, they contain tons more information about how to play this or that piece of music For those who read till here, I wish you guys a great journey in your piano learning!
If you plan to make your learning of `in the hall of the mountain king` a long term goal, I would recommend learning progressively harder arrangements as you go through your learning journey. Start with a simple arrangement, melody and maybe basic chord accompaniment, once you get that down, move on to something a bit harder and take it one step at a time. Eventually you can reach the full unarranged piece (aside from being arranged for piano). Just remember to always have fun with it, don't feel forced to learn stuff you dislike, find pieces at your level or just above that you would look forward to practicing. Good luck 😉👍
I’d recommend “mirage d’amour” for 3rd year, it’s fun to play, and it can help you develop sense of rhythm and it personality taught me to count when playing lmfao, because of the time signature changes
Jazer LEE!!! can you do a video on proper fingerings? I haven't finished watching your video yet but I wanted to post this early so you might have a chance to read this. Your videos are always Great!!!!
OMG YOU JUST MADE MY DAY WITH THIS VIDEO! I’ve been looking for the piano piece that you played at 8:09. I heard it somewhere and I loved it so much and wanted to learn it, but I never knew the name of it. Omg, this made me so happy. I really love this piece, the comptine d’un autre, it’s so beautiful and whenever I hear it I get this euphoric feeling. I’ve been looking for this piece forever. Thank you. 🙏🏾
I am playing the piano for 20 years now, and seeing that I learned playing with these exact pieces, brought a smile to my face. I think you nailed it, these pieces are a great to learn with!
I am working though Bartok's Mikrokosmos books--just finishing Vol. 1. I am an accomplished flutist, and one of the biggest challenges for me is reading two staves in two clefs simultaneously. Although the Bartok starts at a very elementary level, I have found that the steady progression of the exercises has helped my brain to read both staves. And some of the pieces are really lovely! I am also working on the Petzold right now and some Bach. And scales, of course.
I am a casual piano player, don’t know how to read music. I am amused with how accurate you identified the pieces I learned per year hahaha. All of them I learned through YT following along with pianists. I wish I could learn to read sheet music.
I don't recommend beginners to play Satie or the Bach Prélude, because to play it anywhere good you need to have a good tone. If you don't, you will ruin or at least strech the learning of building your tone. Same thing with the Beethoven Sonata. I would just stay from year 1 to 3 to the books which we're designed to build a tone. (Recommendations: - Kuhlau Sonatas - Czerny Op. 139, 500, 851 - First Mozart pieces, KV 1 to 18 - Beethoven menuetts WoO 10 - Nearly everything Vasily Prisovsky did.)
I've played piano for about 4 days now. And I'm 70% done with river flows in you. I'm pretty proud of myself. Just need to work on the right timings if notes and the pressure being correct
The Comptine, d'un autre Ete (Rhyme of Another Summer) is very beautiful. I just watched Amelie last night and thought that this theme was really pretty. Could not believe when you started to play it! Will definitely try that one.
Good stuff, Jazer, thanks! I'd like to mention the "A First Book of ..." series, by Dover Publications. There's a separate book for many classical composers, like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and Rachmaninov. What I especially like about them is that they contain popular pieces that have been arranged for beginners, oftentimes transposed into a key that it easier to play. For example, Chopin's Etude No. 3 Opus 10 ("Tristesse") has been "downsized" to two pages, and transposed from E major (4 sharps) to F major (1 flat), making it easier to play, without losing its feel. This approach allows the beginner to play interesting, lovely pieces that he or she is not yet capable of playing the way they were written. Oh, and they're very inexpensive. Highly recommended! :-)
I am not a fan of hard pieces made easier because it could be a bad habit to learn it. So if one is not able to play a piece cause it's too hard one should go to easier ones. Thats life...
@@Tobi619Nr12 I understand what you mean. But i find it much easier to maintain interest in practice if I am learning something I actually want to learn how to play, and sometimes that means an easier version
My teachers in college had me start with Bach’s Inventions, played incredibly slow to start, but they were endlessly fun and brought greater coordination to both hands. Then I had to work on one of Chopin’s easier pieces (still hard at intermediate level) and Scott Joplin’s Peachrine Rag at the same time. Both were challenging, but fun because they were so different, and they made me grow tremendously.
For 2nd year, I think Joe Hisaishi's "Summer" is a good add. The timing in left & right hand can be tricky in some parts. There are a lot of reaches up and down the keyboard, as well as several chords spanning an octave. And it's just fun to play :)
Coming back to piano late 50s after many years away. I played nearly all of these when younger. I think it's vital to learn what you love - part of my passion as a teenager was killed by exam pieces I hated. I would love to see a video like this of pieces for late beginner/early intermediate that are also good for development - like the Amelie piece is. I am learning Bach's invention 8 and finding it a workout for brain and fingers, for instance. Despite slow progress still love it enough to look forward to my daily wrestle! I find your videos invaluable - you are a great teacher and communicator and have helped me enormously as I reconnect with my favourite instrument.
My piano comes tomorrow! I took a course in college...many years ago...it was music appreciation and we were assigned the final on the first day to study it and practice. I chose piano of the three instruments you could choose...and I wish I remembered the piece, but I studied it everyday for the entire semester in the library and when I performed the piece, I didn't think anything of it when I finished but everyone was shocked and the professor said in 20 years he has assigned these pieces, he has never seen or heard anyone perform like I did. My brain was very young and immature at the time so I didnt fully understand what was said and what I had accomplished until now. I finally am in a position in my life where I can afford a piano and have time to study it...and also teach my son to play! Thank you for devoting your time teaching to us! I will update you in a few months!
I am into my 2nd year and been learning the pieces you recommended in one of your previous videos. I will be definitely attempting moonlight sonata in the new year. Your tutorials are invaluable! Especially like the video memory vs sight reading!
Hi Jazer I’ve watched heaps of your videos and I like the way you teach. Thank you. I’m 64 and started playing at 58. So that’s 6 years. In the early days I got lessons and I progressed at my pace. I’m only now tackling gymnopedie no 1 lovely piece. One comment I’d like to make is I don’t feel you should put timelines on being able to play these pieces by any period. Everyone learns at their own pace. If you are a child learner you may be ready to tackle these pieces by your timeline. I guess my point is some slow learners may stop playing if they can’t reach the standard you set (being able to play these pieces). I’ve learnt along the way that everyone learns at their own pace. I love playing the piano and really enjoy your videos. I just wanted to make a point. Cheers
Hi Jazer. I’ve been playing the piano for about 18 months now and I’ve played most of the pieces you’ve listed (except the Amelie theme). Even though I’m not quite at the 3 years I’ve gotta say your list is spot on! The pieces are not too easy but also not too difficult either and keep the challenge up for a beginner. Good video!!
as a piano beginner I've been playing for 5 months and I first learned comptine d'un autre ete, so it doesn't matter which you choose because you can reach all of them if you really want.
I started teaching myself to play piano two weeks ago at 20 years old and the day I hit two weeks was the day I played für elise all the way through with no mistakes. It took me about 3 days to learn. Im super excited about all of the other pieces that I will be learning on the way! It’s such a beautiful instrument and all I ever think about at work is coming home and practicing
That's good to know. I'm 7 and just finished high school, so I was thinking of picking up the piano before going to college next year. My mom says that I need to get my driver's license before that so that I can transition there on my own and at the moment I cannot properly reach the pedals -- so next year it is!
I had never played a piano before and first time I sat down I played Fur Elise. There were 3 mistakes, in the fast second movement, but to be expected. A month later and I am about to go to the Paris Conservatorie, I'm only 9 years old. Thankyou.
I really love your piano lessons. I use to play when I was young. We'll say life moved me away from the keyboard. But I always kept a small keyboard at hand just to some what keep in touch. It only has 66 keys. Nothing like a REAL piano. In answer to your question. I feel all the pieces you introduced in today's lesson were really great. Music that one has often heard and wished he could play. I am going to attempt some of these pieces. I had music for five years but now I am very rusty. I plan to start over with your lessons. Thanks so much for coming to You Tube,
A very fun one I found helpful for things like finger placement is Lost Woods (Saria's song) from The legend of Zelda. I'd say it's a first/second year song, not very hard to learn, but challenging to play right as it's a very fast song. It might also appeal a bit more to the younger students. :)
I found Yann Tiersen’s “La Dispute” is quite simple for beginner, n “Porz Goret” also not so difficult, although it really tense my wrist because of how the octave works (idk what it’s called 😅) but it’s a beautiful piece.
You, by far, have the most enjoyable piano channel in RUclips- I have a great teacher, but sometimes I pick up on something you say which clarifies what my teacher was saying and the lightbulb goes off, “oh, that’s what she meant!” As an adult learning midlife, I’ve been a terrible student, but I’m getting better. I was guilty of learning by trying to play start to finish and now I’m breaking them down - thanks for that! My first “big piece” (in my mind) was Nuvole Bianche - I started that 12 months into playing, and it took me too long to learn, but it was a big confidence booster. At 18 months I’m doing Moonlight Sonata and it’s been taking me too long - I’m focusing in sections now instead of the whole song and I can already see progress increasing much faster. Thank you 😃
River Flows in You was one of the songs that made me want to learn piano to begin with. Since I tried it right away it took abt three years to become decent 😂 Because of your previous video, 5 songs beginners shouldn’t skip, I’m now almost done with fur Elise. It’s such a fun song to play. Thanks as always Jazer!
I am 15 years old and have been playing the piano for 3 months. I started the piano with Movement 1 of the Moonlight Sonata. It was a little difficult at first, but I got used to it easily. For those who will play this composition, I can say the following; The composition is a bit difficult at the beginning, but it gets really easy towards the middle and you repeat the notes you learned.
I love topics like this! Could you share more similar contents for adult beginners ? Besides pieces, could you add content about skills , technics or anything that would be essential for beginners to master in the order that should be learnt? Many thanks!
Started piano 2 weeks ago, picked up canon in D because I like how it sounds, I can play like half the piece right now, wish me luck I'm going to try and play the whole song by the 30 day mark
What about "Chopin - Nocturne in E Flat Major (Op. 9 No. 2)" or "Waltz in A minor, B. 150, Op. Posth."? Are they appropriate for the first 3 years?. Great video BTW. Thanks!
Chopin nocturne is actually much harder then it looks. If you have no problem with practice it really much, then you can do it. If course it's really good but even after many many years of piano playing I can tell you that I always have to come back in practice it for a while until it is at the state I like it and can leave it for a few months. What ever you do, it's no mistake to play it and you can be proud of you self if you make it. God luck!
I‘d recommend the nocturne After 6-7 years of playing. Chopin pieces are Not easy although very pianistic in writing. The waltz might be Chopins easiest piece and can be doable after 2-3 years of playing.
Just found your channel. Great suggestions, thank you! The first piece I tried as a beginner was the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata, mainly because it was the reason I wanted to learn piano at all. Most beautiful thing I ever heard as a child so I'm afraid I chucked all the sensible beginner stuff to the back of the pile and focused on that. It was difficult as a first piece, but if you love something and are inspired by it, maybe it's better to choose that piece so that it keeps you working and focused. Once I could play the first movement I decided I'd try the third. Yeah, that didn't work out! 🤣 I'm coming back to piano now after a few years (lured back by a late appreciation for the delicate beauty of Chopin - I was all about the passionate darkness of LVB, but I listened to so much Chopin in lockdown and came to realise just how much restrained passion and heartache there is to be found in his work), I think a couple of Chopin waltzes would be suitable for beginners too - B minor certainly. And a few of the nocturnes maybe? I know it takes great technical mastery to play them well, but not too daunting for a beginner - E flat major etc. And the most depressing prelude of them all of course, beautiful and fairly simple to learn. Also - Satie's Gnossiennes. Gorgeous and not too many notes to scare newbs.
Im a little over a year and a half now, and played Gymnopedie 1 my first year. It's been a joy to come back to it now that Im better and have a lighter touch and better keyboard geography. Can really milk it now!
Great songs list, Jazer! Surprisingly enough I have learnt or am learning most of these. A particular mention for Für Elise by Beethoven whose first part is certainly suitable for years 1 to 3. Playing it at the right tempo and from the beginning to the end is a different story, though... I've been playing this pice for at least three years and mastering it's really hard.
1:29 Minuet in G - Petzold/Bach 2:37 Gymnopédie No. 1 - Satie 4:03 Prélude in C Major, BWV 846, The Well-Tempered Clavier - Bach 5:18 Für Elise, WoO 59, Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor 6:28 Canon in D, P. 37 (from Canon and Gigue in D Major) - Pachelbel 8:09 Comptine D'un Autre Été - Yann Tiersen 10:01 River Flows in You - Yiruma 11:15 Moonlight Sonata, 1st Movement - Beethoven
as I approach the end of my first year as a beginner I can play 12 bar blues, Playing the intro to and learning 'New York State of Mind ' by Billy Joel, 'Imagine, John Lennon, Mascarade ' , Leon Russel, I've worked out the melody and cords to, Summertime, Georga On My Mind, Moon River, Improvised simple notes of nursery rhymes to corded melodies and trying a Jazz touch. Watching videos like yours I have learned finger ing patterns, shapes, wrist use and position, and so much more. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Pretty hard disagree on some of these. Let's talk Beethoven, for example. Für Elise and Moonlight Sonata 1st are late intermediate pieces that nobody new to the piano is going to be able to master in their third year. If you had specified the easy part of Für Elise, that'd be dpable, but you didn't do that. The late sections are difficult and will frustrate a lot of learners who will miss a lot of musicality and nuance. I agree with you that Moonlight *sounds* a lot easier than it is, but you didn't go far enough; the first movement is RCM grade 7! (Same with Für Elise), which takes most dedicated adults many years to work up to. I'm all for playing pieces a grade or two higher, but that much of a skill gap is going to frustrate people *or* they're not going to have the ear yet to know what they are missing out on, musically. Why not recommend pieces that are level appropriate that they can master in a month or two, rather than recommending the same old "iconic" pieces that they will do a shit job of after three times that long? I... I'm not angry, just disappointed. 🙂I've just talked with too many people who take on pieces that are way beyond them and get super frustrated by their lack of progress.
Exactly this, he’s just naming crowd pleasers so people go ‘amazing, that’s a thing I’ve heard before’. These are too difficult for most beginners to play well
Liszt refused to teach his students any of Beethoven’s moonlight sonatas. There’s a reason for that. I personally also agree that it’s not a beginner friendly piece.
I started teaching myself piano with the song Faded about 1 year ago at the age of 52. And I really like the songs you've been choosing. I guess I will choose them for my next challenges.
Moonlight sonata was one of the first for me and in my opinion the only hard part is timing and placement. For everyone learning- things get easier once you are flexible with those. Still in first year and learning Chopin currently
I started half a year ago, my First piece was fur elise. Then I practiced it a lot and also tehnicques. Then I learnt turkish march by Mozart. After I was able to play, I saw a guy playing la campanella on RUclips. So in 3. month of learning piano, I started learning it. And here I am now 6 monts of learning and I can play 4 minute of la campanella, fantasie imromptu and some other chopin etudes like revolutionary and torrent.
OMG ! I love all these pieces , I'm in first year and wishing to play rivers flow in you and Fur Elise! I guess i'm dreaming! What is hard for me is to follow thoses traditionnal note sheets, which I really don't understand, It is much easier for me to follow the chords or the notes names! or fingerings but im 65 lol! Thank you so much for sharing all your expertise !👍🏽
I love most of your choices. Of the overplayed ones the only one I can still tolerate hearing is Fur Elise. I now find Moonlight Sonata unbearable. I can’t imagine learning it but of course people’s tastes may change over time. I would have to substitute parts of Beethoven’s Symphony Pathétique. Another wildly overplayed piece I would love to learn is Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turca but I’m not sure how many years playing that requires. Thank you for your inspiring tutorials!
I really wish the trend of calling ancient beloved pieces "unbearable" would stop. Every year millions of people are born that have never heard them before, and are going to discover them and fall in love with them like we all did. They have the right to learn and enjoy playing these iconic pieces without pedantic snobs like you telling them that you're sooooo bored with it.
I'm self-taught and surprisingly have already got 4/7 of these down, so imma find the music for the next and try to nail those too. I'm lucky in that I can already read sheet music since I learnt recorder at 4 and cello at 7, meaning reading both clefts comes naturally to me. Helps more than u think when playing piano! Thanks for the tips :)
Me in my first month of self-learning the piano hearing him recommend the piece I started with as a piece to learn in the third year of learning the piano: 🤡
I started to play 2.5 years ago, and I can play "La campanella". If someone doesn't believe me I can give u link) I think u can learn to play all of this pieces in 1 year and then start to play something harder. "Fantasie-Impromptu" for example. I learnt this pieces when I was playing 1 year 9 months. I play piano 5-6 hours a day, and I feel happy about my level(I am kazakh, sorry for mistakes in the comment)
Dear Jazer, would you please recommend some other pieces more same like these? Your list is so great and I get benefits from it. I'm grateful. Just want more to play 😂😂 Thank you 💐
I love you Jazer but most of these pieces make me think of the video title "How to become the stereotypical annoying beginner pianist everyone hates". 😂
That is a problem for the people that you play for, not you. Besides, these pieces did not become popular because they annoyed people. If they ask you to play, then they have no business being annoyed. Only you, the player, have to listen to it a few thousand times to the point of hating it and, another few thousand times until you love it again.
I think playing what's fun for you or has meaning for you would be amazing. Especially in the beginning. The first piece I've learned to play was To Zanarkand ... which is a song from a video game.
This video has given me motivation and hope. All these beautiful pieces are some of my favourites and I am relieved that these do not need grade 5 or so something to play.
just learning the wonderful Moonlight Sonata, & it's quite an art to emphasise the notes with the pinkie of the right hand, but it CAN be mastered, which it must be to sound as it should - magical. How fantastic it feels when it's played correctly. Also I've found it takes quite a bit of practice to run all the phrases of the music together without stopping, so it sounds like continually flowing water rather than a barge getting stuck in a canal....
These are all beautiful but one of my all time favourites is Gymopidie no1. I have been playing for about 2 years and can't play anything as I forget , I love the piano but over the last month have hardly played. I would love to know how to get back into it and some help with HOW to learn and retain. in the past I learned daily at least and hour, nearly all techniques and scales etc.
Okay, I will admit. I am a self taught pianist, I just got my first piano this past Christmas and I've learned Married Life from Up, can't help falling in love with you by Elvis and I have the first 10 seconds of the catalina wine mixer from Step Brothers (yes I know that's not the name of it i can't remember what the exact name is) down to a T on my right hand. Not so much the left on the last song i mentioned. My youtube recommended your channel so I've been sifening through your videos, I came across Midnight Sonata prior to seeing your videos and I have the first part of the intro down (mind you I can't read sheet music) and i found it very difficult to memorize the finger pattern because my pinky isn't strong independently. When you mentioned midnight sonata should be something to learn at the end of the 3rd year I can definitely see why, it is a very emotional beautiful piece but I do need to pace myself!! Thank you for your videos I've gone through all of the advice videos you have and they've helped me in so many ways!!
i recently started learning to play and the pieces that made me fall in love with piano was canon in d and river flows in you so those were the first 2 i ever learnt
I think another fine piece to learn for begginers and which is pretty short (only one page !), with the same difficulties as the menuet here would be "fuggetas" of Pachelbel. That was the second piece my teacher made me learn in first year. It's in C major so only the easiest keys on piano and you have to move along the piano but only with small intervals so I find it very interesting at beggining ^^
Excellent examples rendered by you , it’s really lulling and reverberating. Please suggest whether is it in order for playing maximum number of pieces first to have the feel in learning notes and fingering, then mastering each piece one by one. I remember your suggestion that flawless playing is must but time taken for each piece consume more days for my practice. For your kind information, I am just 62years old started playing piano for the past 5 months. Your valuable suggestion is expected. Regards,
A beginner should consider (2nd, 3rd and 4th year): - Op. 65 Prokofiev - some Tchaikovsky pieces from the youth album - a lot of pieces from Italian hapsichordist repertoire - and Bach: 23 easy pieces and inventions.
The BONUS Piece, yes, the Moonlight Sonata (1st mov), I love it. I have just been learning to play piano for 7 months. Now I can play it. I don't think it is difficult in technical, but it is very difficult to remember the notes.
I learned comptine d'un autre été about 2 months in using RUclips tutorials. I'm just now learning sheet music after learning how to play by ear a few ludovico & yiruma pieces. It's fun to play songs I like but I'm glad I'm actually learning how to play now & sight read. River flows in you was the 1st song I learned, jumped right into it right away and got it surprisingly easy in about 2 weeks. I could not use sheet music to play any of the songs I learned using RUclips- been learning the entertainer from sheet music for a few days now lol it's so much harder that learning the keys
Year 1 : Satie Erik : Gymnopedie n°1 Bach Jean Sébastien : Menuet Anh 116 Kabalevski Dmitri : Valse Lente Year 2 : Katchaturian Aram Illitch : Scherzo Haendel - Halvorsen : Passacaglia Tchaikovsky Piotr Illitch : Mazurka Year 3. : Satie Erik : Gnossiennes n° 1 , 2 et 3 Burgmuller Johann Friedrich : Arabesque Bach Jean Sébastien : Invention n°1 + Prélude de Bach + Yann Tiersen + Pachelbel + Beethoven + Schubert + ………………6 / year Thank you Jazer. 👍
I started playing piano about 3 years ago but never stayed consistent due to mental health issues. I recently am getting back into it again but i lost pretty much everything i knew. Thank you so much for this video as it will help me relearn again :) love ur channel!
I play piano since the Beginning of this year, so i play for 3 months, and the piece i learned on my first month was waltz in c sharp minor op 64 n2, it's super easy and beautiful
I learned moonlight in my first 1.5 years, not that I’m gifted or anything but it was such a life goal for me that it is what kept me playing for hours every day. If you’re like me, and get disinterested when you learn a piece you don’t like that much, go for pieces that will keep you working every day! A cool one I learned too, maybe for year 1 or 2 is Plus tôt from Alexandra Streliski, a very cool young up and coming pianist from Québec.
I think you have given a perfect direction to keep going on the piano journey in a definite way sure way. thank you soooooo much. you are indeed a fantastic teacher.
Would love to hear more of your thoughts on Fur Elise - the beginning section is something I feel comfortable at 2 months, but the fast arpeggio section (theme B) is a completely different beast. Would you say mastering the whole piece is something beginners should aim towards?
Hi! Thanks so much for all your work! You are a fantastic teacher. Any suggestions on where to get musical scores for these pieces or in general. Many thanks !
I just bought a keyboard today and already started having a crack at Gymnopedie before seeing this. The left hand position changes are tricky, but hey, it's only day one. Thanks for the videos!
Hi Jazzer. You also mentioned to play chopin prelude no 4 in E minor, which I have. I took me a few months as a beginner but ok with it now. Thanks for the posts. Simon. Middle England.
What a great "Ah-Ha" moment. Thank you so, so much for your words of wisdom. I just finished watching your video for the first time, but realize I should have watched this a year ago when you first published it. I am guilty of the scenario exactly you explained it. By the time I finished my usual warm-up, I was already feeling "expended", and frankly a bit bored----not realizing what I was doing to my practice session. Your practice suggestions make perfectly sound sense. I really enjoy your videos, and find them inspiring, helpful, and full of valuable tips. Thank you, thank you.
Having grown up with a now professional classical musician for Oboe and Piano I know every single one of them off by heart by having to listen to these over and over and over and over and over and over again and again and again :) So I assume they are great pieces to learn the Piano
I started learning the piano at 5 and my first piece was Fur Elise and then Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement. I think my first piano teacher was a sadist ;-) I like your comment about revisiting earlier pieces. I do that a lot and the difference is amazing. I often mix up the genres (classical and jazz) in a practice session which although it is still practice, somehow seems to be like a break. I am glad I found your channel even though I am an amateur musician like both of my parents and have now been playing for 55 years.
Comptine was my first piece, month 1. 😂 but it took me about a full month to truly get under my fingers. Working on sonata now, month three. My brain doesn’t like the dissonance in spots. Great video!
I’ve been playing piano for less than a year and I can already play 5 of these pieces. The order in which I learned them however is very different to the order you have them. 1. Fur Elise 2. River Flows in You 3. Prelude in C 4. Gymnopedie 5. Moonlight Sonata I’ve also started to learn Comptine D’un Autre Été.
@1 No, my teacher gave me the sheet music for the shortened one and once I learned it I moved on but this was only about 1 month into playing the piano. I just figured it counted because the person in the video played the shorter version.
Which of these pieces are your favourite?
0:00 Intro
1:29 Piece 1 (Year 1)
2:37 Piece 2 (Year 1)
4:03 Piece 3 (Year 1)
5:18 Piece 4 (Year 2)
6:28 Piece 5 (Year 2)
8:09 Piece 6 (Year 3)
10:01 Piece 7 (Year 3)
11:15 BONUS Piece 8 (Year 3)
Canon in D Pachelbel
Piece 6
My favorite is moonlight sonata 1st mvt :P I can play the entire song now :) I don't learn another song til I master the current one. Next week is my next piano lesson so my teacher will get me my next song to pratice which is plucky daisy by kevin macleod :P
Piece 6
Also @Learn Piano with Jazer Lee thank you this is perfect as I have a goal to learn 3 classical pieces in the next few weeks. How much time do you think I should devote to learning pieces each day?
I’ve played piano for about 16 years. I stopped for 5 years and lost some of my technique and etiquette. I felt like a complete failure 😭. Watching this video made me realize that I can still play most of these pieces , so not all hope is lost . I just need to clean up my technique. Thanks for bringing me back home 😌
How do you quit after so long
@@XJokermanX Adulting😂
@@XJokermanX adult life can be a proper b****!
@@tomaszwota1465 yeah but piano takes time to learn and is so satisfying to play and to quit all the that work is crazy to me
@@XJokermanX it requires dedication. Sometimes in life there are other things that require our undivided attention and you need to make sacrifices.
As someone who’s been playing piano for 8 months, I’ve been practicing “comptine d’un autre été” for a couple weeks, it’s definitely my favorite piece yet, and it upped my playing skills by a lot. It's so satisfying to play. Love the list!
Started learning it today and i can play it slowly to the end already! Its a really great one
I started to learn piano, without any formal lessons, in October last year. After becoming comfortable with the notes I picked up both Gymnopedie No.1 and Moolight Sonata Mvt.1 within a couple months of playing and I have moonlight memorised but still struggle with the technique of the gymnopedie. Just recently I also learned Gnossienne No.1 by Satie and have been learning pieces, with relative success, that the person I play piano is surprised I can learn considering how short I have been playing for. I think Moonlight Sonata should be encouraged as a first year piece because of it's length and for the reasons listed. It is a challenging piece that requires a lot of interpretation and skill to play well (I personally like playing slower than 60 bpm bc of how it sounds and feels to play). these videos are great btw :)
Thanks for the advice!
wow that’d so cool ! I want to learn to play piano too !
@@ryukplssteponme2203 all it takes is a piano and a piece music to get you started! If you don't know someone who plays then get some lessons too but otherwise just enjoy the music :)
That's the same for me. Congrats. How are you going with the pedal?
@@Birch37 it's still only been about 16 months since I started playing but I've gotten the hang of the pedal pretty easily :)
I kinda just feel my way through the pieces I learn and reset it as need just by familiarity
I’d recommend beginners to learn Mozart Allegro in B- flat major, K3, between years 1-3 depending on how fast they progress, it isn’t too difficult and it’s a short piece. Also quite fun to learn.
hmm strange why is there no sonata in c major K.545 im in my third year - fourth year because that piece is so fun and really helping my scale
I leaned Mozart allegro in b flat major in repertoire 1
Exactly. Need speed technique
Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi is such an amazing, heart-touching piece. I stumbled upon it randomly one day.
I think It is a great benchmark for a person in their 2 year of playing.
I dont know the piece u mentiond but i learned his piece expirience... Its awesome... Now im excited to listen to the one u said and see if ill be able to enjoy and play It
I started out with that piece alongside River Flows In You when I was 17. Really great pieces to get used to developing muscle memory.
Second years i dont think so depending of your level after 4 or even 3 month go for it
@@steelmonkeygaming1502 it’s so weird you said that because I started learning it around 2-3 months into playing Piano😂😂
@@shakespearsplat very true, River Flows in You was the next piece after Nuvole Bianche that I learned🙂
There is something truly magical in the way you play the Amelie piece at 08:09. Simply the best version I have heard. Soulful. Beautifully played.
Very interesting.
I started 11 months ago (at 58 years old) and these are songs that immediately interested me and i learn by myself.
I play Fur Elise more or less appropriately, I play the Gnossiènne n ° 1 by Satie and I'm learning the Moonlight Sonata.
It seems that I'm going a little too fast but at my age i have no time to waste :-)
In any case, these are all very pleasant pieces. Personally I also try my hand at jazz and I learn The Entertainer from Scott Joplin. Not easy at all but I also like jazz.
It would be easier if I knew music theory but I'm learning that too.
The days are not long enough.
I would like to be Bill Murray in Groundhog day :-)
Thanks for your videos.
Age is just a number am I right ;)
never too old
Are you learning to read music on your own? Or just memorizing the notes? I’m interested in learning but reading music looks difficult to me. Thanks!
@@penknee3094 Yes, reading music is not easy so for the moment I'm memorizing the notes. The songs for beginners are often repetitive and therefore it is not too difficult. And remembering all the notes in Beethoven's moonlight sonata, I admit, it's not easy. But if I had to wait to master music theory I would be discouraged. For the music theory i use Earmaster on my PC. It'a good application.
@@ace-smc not elderlys tryna show off😭
I love your videos so much. At 60, I take piano lessons (with a man whose last name is also Lee), more for my brain than desire to perform. Your videos compliment my lessons so well, as you have a similar teaching personality. I appreciate the way you explain things in a way that is supportive, positive, and easy for my "mature " brain to process. I also love hearing you play. Beautiful.
I’m a senior and beginner playing a piano, but thank you I’ve learned a lot from your teaching, I’ll continue practicing until I can pray today’s pieces that you recommended.
As someone who’s been playing for about a year and a half I also suggest Mia and Sebastian’s theme from La la land , Le caire by Sofiane Pamart and Haendel’s Passacaglia. Chopin’s waltz in A minor is also relatively approachable. However I don’t necessarily like the idea of thinking you should be able to play a certain piece at a certain year of playing the piano , because everybody progresses in a different way , hence some disappointments or frustrations may occur ;)
It totally depends upon so many different variables. It didn’t matter how much I practiced. I could not play Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu until I developed the correct technique with the right teacher who taught and knew the right technique. Of course that is an advanced piece, but I’ve seen third and four year students struggle in pieces they have not developed the correct technique to make it effortless and simple sounding.
Just started playing the piano in November 2021 and the very first song I learned is Comptine d'un Autre été. Took me 2-3 months to be able to play it flawlessly but I had to practice almost every single day.
So it's quite encouraging that you put it in the 3rd year of piano playing in this video 😁
Love your videos btw, they are really encouraging!
Your teaching is so good, especially now I cannot attend classes. I’m first year and have practiced prelude in C! I am so inspired by these choices and your teaching. Thank you very much for your gift of playing and sharing. A blessing.
I played piano from 5y to 12y and stoped. When I became 15 I got a piano and restarted playing, but that time without classes! Now I'm 20 and have reached a level where it seems impossible to develop more by myself, so I've restarted lessons a couple of months ago!
I love your channel, everything you say matches my journey, so I'm really glad I found you!
(I've been playing the second year pieces for a while now, so I'm going to move to the third year one's!)
Thank you!
I am a beginner (7 days been playing piano :D), and I wanted sooo much to learn Grieg's "In the hall of the mountain king". Well, the melody itself probably not too hard, had a hard time to make staccatto and pianissimo at the same time, but I learnt everything till it starts going fast. Just practicing it every day, lots of stuff happening there, there are chords, volume control for both hands, wide range (Famous saying: I paid for the whole piano, so I'm gonna use the whole piano).
I wanna say thank you to Jazer, because it was a first channel I found in youtube, with such a great amount of tips for beginners!
The tip about slow repetition, I knew it before (guitar player for almost 10 years, self-taught though), but your magic number 7 - I dunno how it works - but it does!
The tip about hand separation: first try to play with right hand only, then with left, then put them together.
The tip about giving a rest and stop practicing when you feel a bit tired, so that you don't squeeze all of your energy.
And many more other tips!
Thank you for them!
Sure I know that the Grieg's piece is not for a beginner, but I want to have it for a sort of training piece and also one that I love, and while learning the beginner's pieces like those that were mentioned in the video I will revisit Grieg's piece and improve myself in it.
Also, I record my playing, so I can see the progress which gives me a lot of motivation to go further.
And yes! No synthesia! It is a great tool, but I will read notes instead, they contain tons more information about how to play this or that piece of music
For those who read till here, I wish you guys a great journey in your piano learning!
If you plan to make your learning of `in the hall of the mountain king` a long term goal, I would recommend learning progressively harder arrangements as you go through your learning journey. Start with a simple arrangement, melody and maybe basic chord accompaniment, once you get that down, move on to something a bit harder and take it one step at a time. Eventually you can reach the full unarranged piece (aside from being arranged for piano). Just remember to always have fun with it, don't feel forced to learn stuff you dislike, find pieces at your level or just above that you would look forward to practicing. Good luck 😉👍
Just realized I'm about a year late lol. Hope you're still going at it and that you've made progress you can be proud of!
I’d recommend “mirage d’amour” for 3rd year, it’s fun to play, and it can help you develop sense of rhythm and it personality taught me to count when playing lmfao, because of the time signature changes
Lol I learned this after 4 months of piano
@@MannyFreshhh23 years*
Jazer LEE!!! can you do a video on proper fingerings? I haven't finished watching your video yet but I wanted to post this early so you might have a chance to read this. Your videos are always Great!!!!
OMG YOU JUST MADE MY DAY WITH THIS VIDEO! I’ve been looking for the piano piece that you played at 8:09. I heard it somewhere and I loved it so much and wanted to learn it, but I never knew the name of it. Omg, this made me so happy. I really love this piece, the comptine d’un autre, it’s so beautiful and whenever I hear it I get this euphoric feeling. I’ve been looking for this piece forever. Thank you. 🙏🏾
Yann Tiersen, it's from the movie Amelie
Awesome. Very inspiring. Love the Bach c prelude and moonlight sonata Beethoven! At 69 years of age a one year old student! 🙏
I am playing the piano for 20 years now, and seeing that I learned playing with these exact pieces, brought a smile to my face. I think you nailed it, these pieces are a great to learn with!
I am working though Bartok's Mikrokosmos books--just finishing Vol. 1. I am an accomplished flutist, and one of the biggest challenges for me is reading two staves in two clefs simultaneously.
Although the Bartok starts at a very elementary level, I have found that the steady progression of the exercises has helped my brain to read both staves. And some of the pieces are really lovely!
I am also working on the Petzold right now and some Bach. And scales, of course.
I am a casual piano player, don’t know how to read music. I am amused with how accurate you identified the pieces I learned per year hahaha. All of them I learned through YT following along with pianists. I wish I could learn to read sheet music.
I don't recommend beginners to play Satie or the Bach Prélude, because to play it anywhere good you need to have a good tone. If you don't, you will ruin or at least strech the learning of building your tone. Same thing with the Beethoven Sonata.
I would just stay from year 1 to 3 to the books which we're designed to build a tone.
(Recommendations:
- Kuhlau Sonatas
- Czerny Op. 139, 500, 851
- First Mozart pieces, KV 1 to 18
- Beethoven menuetts WoO 10
- Nearly everything Vasily Prisovsky did.)
What do you mean by tone?
I've played piano for about 4 days now. And I'm 70% done with river flows in you. I'm pretty proud of myself. Just need to work on the right timings if notes and the pressure being correct
bruh
The Comptine, d'un autre Ete (Rhyme of Another Summer) is very beautiful. I just watched Amelie last night and thought that this theme was really pretty. Could not believe when you started to play it! Will definitely try that one.
Go ahead man I learned how to play it and I've just played for 6 months. Its not as hard as it looks just practice.
Good stuff, Jazer, thanks! I'd like to mention the "A First Book of ..." series, by Dover Publications. There's a separate book for many classical composers, like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and Rachmaninov. What I especially like about them is that they contain popular pieces that have been arranged for beginners, oftentimes transposed into a key that it easier to play. For example, Chopin's Etude No. 3 Opus 10 ("Tristesse") has been "downsized" to two pages, and transposed from E major (4 sharps) to F major (1 flat), making it easier to play, without losing its feel. This approach allows the beginner to play interesting, lovely pieces that he or she is not yet capable of playing the way they were written. Oh, and they're very inexpensive. Highly recommended! :-)
I am not a fan of hard pieces made easier because it could be a bad habit to learn it. So if one is not able to play a piece cause it's too hard one should go to easier ones. Thats life...
@@Tobi619Nr12 Thanks for chiming in! I'd be interested to hear Jazer's opinion on the subject. Could be a good topic for a video...
@@Tobi619Nr12 I understand what you mean. But i find it much easier to maintain interest in practice if I am learning something I actually want to learn how to play, and sometimes that means an easier version
I learned Moonlight Sonata in my 3rd month of piano, I really love that piece!
My teachers in college had me start with Bach’s Inventions, played incredibly slow to start, but they were endlessly fun and brought greater coordination to both hands. Then I had to work on one of Chopin’s easier pieces (still hard at intermediate level) and Scott Joplin’s Peachrine Rag at the same time. Both were challenging, but fun because they were so different, and they made me grow tremendously.
For 2nd year, I think Joe Hisaishi's "Summer" is a good add. The timing in left & right hand can be tricky in some parts. There are a lot of reaches up and down the keyboard, as well as several chords spanning an octave. And it's just fun to play :)
Coming back to piano late 50s after many years away. I played nearly all of these when younger. I think it's vital to learn what you love - part of my passion as a teenager was killed by exam pieces I hated. I would love to see a video like this of pieces for late beginner/early intermediate that are also good for development - like the Amelie piece is. I am learning Bach's invention 8 and finding it a workout for brain and fingers, for instance. Despite slow progress still love it enough to look forward to my daily wrestle! I find your videos invaluable - you are a great teacher and communicator and have helped me enormously as I reconnect with my favourite instrument.
Could you do another one of these videos please? It’s quite helpful for something to aim for and to follow progression
My piano comes tomorrow! I took a course in college...many years ago...it was music appreciation and we were assigned the final on the first day to study it and practice. I chose piano of the three instruments you could choose...and I wish I remembered the piece, but I studied it everyday for the entire semester in the library and when I performed the piece, I didn't think anything of it when I finished but everyone was shocked and the professor said in 20 years he has assigned these pieces, he has never seen or heard anyone perform like I did. My brain was very young and immature at the time so I didnt fully understand what was said and what I had accomplished until now. I finally am in a position in my life where I can afford a piano and have time to study it...and also teach my son to play! Thank you for devoting your time teaching to us! I will update you in a few months!
I am into my 2nd year and been learning the pieces you recommended in one of your previous videos. I will be definitely attempting moonlight sonata in the new year. Your tutorials are invaluable! Especially like the video memory vs sight reading!
Hi Jazer I’ve watched heaps of your videos and I like the way you teach. Thank you. I’m 64 and started playing at 58. So that’s 6 years. In the early days I got lessons and I progressed at my pace. I’m only now tackling gymnopedie no 1 lovely piece. One comment I’d like to make is I don’t feel you should put timelines on being able to play these pieces by any period. Everyone learns at their own pace. If you are a child learner you may be ready to tackle these pieces by your timeline. I guess my point is some slow learners may stop playing if they can’t reach the standard you set (being able to play these pieces). I’ve learnt along the way that everyone learns at their own pace. I love playing the piano and really enjoy your videos. I just wanted to make a point. Cheers
Hi Jazer. I’ve been playing the piano for about 18 months now and I’ve played most of the pieces you’ve listed (except the Amelie theme). Even though I’m not quite at the 3 years I’ve gotta say your list is spot on!
The pieces are not too easy but also not too difficult either and keep the challenge up for a beginner. Good video!!
as a piano beginner I've been playing for 5 months and I first learned comptine d'un autre ete, so it doesn't matter which you choose because you can reach all of them if you really want.
I started teaching myself to play piano two weeks ago at 20 years old and the day I hit two weeks was the day I played für elise all the way through with no mistakes. It took me about 3 days to learn. Im super excited about all of the other pieces that I will be learning on the way! It’s such a beautiful instrument and all I ever think about at work is coming home and practicing
You mean the main theme that everyone knows or truly the whole thing? It gets a lot more complex after the first section
that was my first song I learned too... well done. keep it up.
That's good to know. I'm 7 and just finished high school, so I was thinking of picking up the piano before going to college next year. My mom says that I need to get my driver's license before that so that I can transition there on my own and at the moment I cannot properly reach the pedals -- so next year it is!
I had never played a piano before and first time I sat down I played Fur Elise. There were 3 mistakes, in the fast second movement, but to be expected. A month later and I am about to go to the Paris Conservatorie, I'm only 9 years old. Thankyou.
I really love your piano lessons. I use to play when I was young. We'll say life moved me away from the keyboard. But I always kept a small keyboard at hand just to some what keep in touch. It only has 66 keys. Nothing like a REAL piano. In answer to your question. I feel all the pieces you introduced in today's lesson were really great. Music that one has often heard and wished he could play. I am going to attempt some of these pieces. I had music for five years but now I am very rusty. I plan to start over with your lessons. Thanks so much for coming to You Tube,
What other pieces do you recommend beginners play? Share with our community :)
A very fun one I found helpful for things like finger placement is Lost Woods (Saria's song) from The legend of Zelda.
I'd say it's a first/second year song, not very hard to learn, but challenging to play right as it's a very fast song.
It might also appeal a bit more to the younger students. :)
Nice bro..... 🤗
Plz can u make Turkish March and 5 symphony plz plz....
Love your video 🥰🥰❤️
Would chopin's waltz in A minor be a good piece for someone on their third year? 🤔
I found Yann Tiersen’s “La Dispute” is quite simple for beginner, n “Porz Goret” also not so difficult, although it really tense my wrist because of how the octave works (idk what it’s called 😅) but it’s a beautiful piece.
Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
Lmao jk
You, by far, have the most enjoyable piano channel in RUclips- I have a great teacher, but sometimes I pick up on something you say which clarifies what my teacher was saying and the lightbulb goes off, “oh, that’s what she meant!”
As an adult learning midlife, I’ve been a terrible student, but I’m getting better. I was guilty of learning by trying to play start to finish and now I’m breaking them down - thanks for that!
My first “big piece” (in my mind) was Nuvole Bianche - I started that 12 months into playing, and it took me too long to learn, but it was a big confidence booster.
At 18 months I’m doing Moonlight Sonata and it’s been taking me too long - I’m focusing in sections now instead of the whole song and I can already see progress increasing much faster.
Thank you 😃
River Flows in You was one of the songs that made me want to learn piano to begin with. Since I tried it right away it took abt three years to become decent 😂
Because of your previous video, 5 songs beginners shouldn’t skip, I’m now almost done with fur Elise. It’s such a fun song to play. Thanks as always Jazer!
That is such a lie. It doesn't take 3 years to play that song 😂
I am 15 years old and have been playing the piano for 3 months. I started the piano with Movement 1 of the Moonlight Sonata. It was a little difficult at first, but I got used to it easily. For those who will play this composition, I can say the following; The composition is a bit difficult at the beginning, but it gets really easy towards the middle and you repeat the notes you learned.
I love topics like this! Could you share more similar contents for adult beginners ? Besides pieces, could you add content about skills , technics or anything that would be essential for beginners to master in the order that should be learnt? Many thanks!
Started piano 2 weeks ago, picked up canon in D because I like how it sounds, I can play like half the piece right now, wish me luck I'm going to try and play the whole song by the 30 day mark
What about "Chopin - Nocturne in E Flat Major (Op. 9 No. 2)" or "Waltz in A minor, B. 150, Op. Posth."? Are they appropriate for the first 3 years?. Great video BTW. Thanks!
Chopin nocturne is actually much harder then it looks. If you have no problem with practice it really much, then you can do it. If course it's really good but even after many many years of piano playing I can tell you that I always have to come back in practice it for a while until it is at the state I like it and can leave it for a few months. What ever you do, it's no mistake to play it and you can be proud of you self if you make it. God luck!
I‘d recommend the nocturne After 6-7 years of playing. Chopin pieces are Not easy although very pianistic in writing. The waltz might be Chopins easiest piece and can be doable after 2-3 years of playing.
@@Mymusicaldream I played it after 10, but I started with 5 so I think 6-7 Years is a good time
Just found your channel. Great suggestions, thank you! The first piece I tried as a beginner was the first movement of the Moonlight Sonata, mainly because it was the reason I wanted to learn piano at all. Most beautiful thing I ever heard as a child so I'm afraid I chucked all the sensible beginner stuff to the back of the pile and focused on that. It was difficult as a first piece, but if you love something and are inspired by it, maybe it's better to choose that piece so that it keeps you working and focused. Once I could play the first movement I decided I'd try the third. Yeah, that didn't work out! 🤣
I'm coming back to piano now after a few years (lured back by a late appreciation for the delicate beauty of Chopin - I was all about the passionate darkness of LVB, but I listened to so much Chopin in lockdown and came to realise just how much restrained passion and heartache there is to be found in his work), I think a couple of Chopin waltzes would be suitable for beginners too - B minor certainly. And a few of the nocturnes maybe? I know it takes great technical mastery to play them well, but not too daunting for a beginner - E flat major etc. And the most depressing prelude of them all of course, beautiful and fairly simple to learn. Also - Satie's Gnossiennes. Gorgeous and not too many notes to scare newbs.
Im a little over a year and a half now, and played Gymnopedie 1 my first year. It's been a joy to come back to it now that Im better and have a lighter touch and better keyboard geography. Can really milk it now!
Great songs list, Jazer! Surprisingly enough I have learnt or am learning most of these. A particular mention for Für Elise by Beethoven whose first part is certainly suitable for years 1 to 3. Playing it at the right tempo and from the beginning to the end is a different story, though... I've been playing this pice for at least three years and mastering it's really hard.
Can you please make a video of this for year 4-10 please!! This is amazing to use as a guide for what to play!
I really love how you added gymnopedie no. 1 here I just love that piece so much!
true dat
The first piece I ever learned was Fur Elise, I had no previous experience lol
1:29 Minuet in G - Petzold/Bach
2:37 Gymnopédie No. 1 - Satie
4:03 Prélude in C Major, BWV 846, The Well-Tempered Clavier - Bach
5:18 Für Elise, WoO 59, Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor
6:28 Canon in D, P. 37 (from Canon and Gigue in D Major) - Pachelbel
8:09 Comptine D'un Autre Été - Yann Tiersen
10:01 River Flows in You - Yiruma
11:15 Moonlight Sonata, 1st Movement - Beethoven
Oh I think I should’ve seen this video before learning Rach 2 with 2 years of experience-
I def should've watched this before attempting hungarian Rhapsody no2 with 3 years of experience 🥲
as I approach the end of my first year as a beginner I can play 12 bar blues, Playing the intro to and learning 'New York State of Mind ' by Billy Joel, 'Imagine, John Lennon, Mascarade ' , Leon Russel, I've worked out the melody and cords to, Summertime, Georga On My Mind, Moon River, Improvised simple notes of nursery rhymes to corded melodies and trying a Jazz touch. Watching videos like yours I have learned finger ing patterns, shapes, wrist use and position, and so much more. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Pretty hard disagree on some of these. Let's talk Beethoven, for example. Für Elise and Moonlight Sonata 1st are late intermediate pieces that nobody new to the piano is going to be able to master in their third year. If you had specified the easy part of Für Elise, that'd be dpable, but you didn't do that. The late sections are difficult and will frustrate a lot of learners who will miss a lot of musicality and nuance. I agree with you that Moonlight *sounds* a lot easier than it is, but you didn't go far enough; the first movement is RCM grade 7! (Same with Für Elise), which takes most dedicated adults many years to work up to. I'm all for playing pieces a grade or two higher, but that much of a skill gap is going to frustrate people *or* they're not going to have the ear yet to know what they are missing out on, musically. Why not recommend pieces that are level appropriate that they can master in a month or two, rather than recommending the same old "iconic" pieces that they will do a shit job of after three times that long? I... I'm not angry, just disappointed. 🙂I've just talked with too many people who take on pieces that are way beyond them and get super frustrated by their lack of progress.
Exactly this, he’s just naming crowd pleasers so people go ‘amazing, that’s a thing I’ve heard before’. These are too difficult for most beginners to play well
Liszt refused to teach his students any of Beethoven’s moonlight sonatas. There’s a reason for that. I personally also agree that it’s not a beginner friendly piece.
I agree. Can you recommend any pieces for a person just starting out?
I started teaching myself piano with the song Faded about 1 year ago at the age of 52.
And I really like the songs you've been choosing.
I guess I will choose them for my next challenges.
Moonlight sonata was one of the first for me and in my opinion the only hard part is timing and placement. For everyone learning- things get easier once you are flexible with those. Still in first year and learning Chopin currently
This is what I am working on now as a beginner !
These are just great relaxing piano pieces
I started half a year ago, my First piece was fur elise. Then I practiced it a lot and also tehnicques. Then I learnt turkish march by Mozart. After I was able to play, I saw a guy playing la campanella on RUclips. So in 3. month of learning piano, I started learning it. And here I am now 6 monts of learning and I can play 4 minute of la campanella, fantasie imromptu and some other chopin etudes like revolutionary and torrent.
OMG ! I love all these pieces , I'm in first year and wishing to play rivers flow in you and Fur Elise! I guess i'm dreaming! What is hard for me is to follow thoses traditionnal note sheets, which I really don't understand, It is much easier for me to follow the chords or the notes names! or fingerings but im 65 lol! Thank you so much for sharing all your expertise !👍🏽
I love most of your choices. Of the overplayed ones the only one I can still tolerate hearing is Fur Elise. I now find Moonlight Sonata unbearable. I can’t imagine learning it but of course people’s tastes may change over time. I would have to substitute parts of Beethoven’s Symphony Pathétique. Another wildly overplayed piece I would love to learn is Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turca but I’m not sure how many years playing that requires. Thank you for your inspiring tutorials!
I really wish the trend of calling ancient beloved pieces "unbearable" would stop. Every year millions of people are born that have never heard them before, and are going to discover them and fall in love with them like we all did. They have the right to learn and enjoy playing these iconic pieces without pedantic snobs like you telling them that you're sooooo bored with it.
Gnossiene No1 is a very satisfiying beginner piece and should be on the list as well.
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I'm self-taught and surprisingly have already got 4/7 of these down, so imma find the music for the next and try to nail those too. I'm lucky in that I can already read sheet music since I learnt recorder at 4 and cello at 7, meaning reading both clefts comes naturally to me. Helps more than u think when playing piano! Thanks for the tips :)
Me in my first month of self-learning the piano hearing him recommend the piece I started with as a piece to learn in the third year of learning the piano: 🤡
Love how you explain techniques etc....inspiring...Jan
I started to play 2.5 years ago, and I can play "La campanella". If someone doesn't believe me I can give u link) I think u can learn to play all of this pieces in 1 year and then start to play something harder. "Fantasie-Impromptu" for example. I learnt this pieces when I was playing 1 year 9 months. I play piano 5-6 hours a day, and I feel happy about my level(I am kazakh, sorry for mistakes in the comment)
Where link
Dear Jazer, would you please recommend some other pieces more same like these? Your list is so great and I get benefits from it. I'm grateful. Just want more to play 😂😂 Thank you 💐
I love you Jazer but most of these pieces make me think of the video title "How to become the stereotypical annoying beginner pianist everyone hates". 😂
That is a problem for the people that you play for, not you. Besides, these pieces did not become popular because they annoyed people. If they ask you to play, then they have no business being annoyed.
Only you, the player, have to listen to it a few thousand times to the point of hating it and, another few thousand times until you love it again.
This is exactly what is was searching, looking for inspiration!
I think playing what's fun for you or has meaning for you would be amazing. Especially in the beginning.
The first piece I've learned to play was To Zanarkand ... which is a song from a video game.
wow as an adult it’s interesting to see all the pieces my teacher missed teaching me when I was younger
I was watching your video because I’m really interested in your content, then became mesmerized by you playing gymnopedie ☺️
This video has given me motivation and hope. All these beautiful pieces are some of my favourites and I am relieved that these do not need grade 5 or so something to play.
Thank you, Jazer. I love the pieces you’ve suggested for the first 3 years. From Toni in San Antonio, TX.
just learning the wonderful Moonlight Sonata, & it's quite an art to emphasise the notes with the pinkie of the right hand, but it CAN be mastered, which it must be to sound as it should - magical. How fantastic it feels when it's played correctly. Also I've found it takes quite a bit of practice to run all the phrases of the music together without stopping, so it sounds like continually flowing water rather than a barge getting stuck in a canal....
These are all beautiful but one of my all time favourites is Gymopidie no1. I have been playing for about 2 years and can't play anything as I forget , I love the piano but over the last month have hardly played. I would love to know how to get back into it and some help with HOW to learn and retain. in the past I learned daily at least and hour, nearly all techniques and scales etc.
Okay, I will admit. I am a self taught pianist, I just got my first piano this past Christmas and I've learned Married Life from Up, can't help falling in love with you by Elvis and I have the first 10 seconds of the catalina wine mixer from Step Brothers (yes I know that's not the name of it i can't remember what the exact name is) down to a T on my right hand. Not so much the left on the last song i mentioned. My youtube recommended your channel so I've been sifening through your videos, I came across Midnight Sonata prior to seeing your videos and I have the first part of the intro down (mind you I can't read sheet music) and i found it very difficult to memorize the finger pattern because my pinky isn't strong independently. When you mentioned midnight sonata should be something to learn at the end of the 3rd year I can definitely see why, it is a very emotional beautiful piece but I do need to pace myself!! Thank you for your videos I've gone through all of the advice videos you have and they've helped me in so many ways!!
i recently started learning to play and the pieces that made me fall in love with piano was canon in d and river flows in you so those were the first 2 i ever learnt
I think another fine piece to learn for begginers and which is pretty short (only one page !), with the same difficulties as the menuet here would be "fuggetas" of Pachelbel. That was the second piece my teacher made me learn in first year. It's in C major so only the easiest keys on piano and you have to move along the piano but only with small intervals so I find it very interesting at beggining ^^
After watching your videos I’m starting piano lessons again after not playing for along time. Looking forward to my first lesson on Thursday.
Excellent examples rendered by you , it’s really lulling and reverberating. Please suggest whether is it in order for playing maximum number of pieces first to have the feel in learning notes and fingering, then mastering each piece one by one. I remember your suggestion that flawless playing is must but time taken for each piece consume more days for my practice. For your kind information, I am just 62years old started playing piano for the past 5 months. Your valuable suggestion is expected.
Regards,
A beginner should consider (2nd, 3rd and 4th year):
- Op. 65 Prokofiev
- some Tchaikovsky pieces from the youth album
- a lot of pieces from Italian hapsichordist repertoire
- and Bach: 23 easy pieces and inventions.
The BONUS Piece, yes, the Moonlight Sonata (1st mov), I love it. I have just been learning to play piano for 7 months. Now I can play it. I don't think it is difficult in technical, but it is very difficult to remember the notes.
These are my goals for the next 3 years. Tank you 🎉 You are a 🌟
I learned comptine d'un autre été about 2 months in using RUclips tutorials. I'm just now learning sheet music after learning how to play by ear a few ludovico & yiruma pieces. It's fun to play songs I like but I'm glad I'm actually learning how to play now & sight read. River flows in you was the 1st song I learned, jumped right into it right away and got it surprisingly easy in about 2 weeks. I could not use sheet music to play any of the songs I learned using RUclips- been learning the entertainer from sheet music for a few days now lol it's so much harder that learning the keys
Year 1 : Satie Erik : Gymnopedie n°1
Bach Jean Sébastien : Menuet Anh 116
Kabalevski Dmitri : Valse Lente
Year 2 : Katchaturian Aram Illitch : Scherzo
Haendel - Halvorsen : Passacaglia
Tchaikovsky Piotr Illitch : Mazurka
Year 3. : Satie Erik : Gnossiennes n° 1 , 2 et 3
Burgmuller Johann Friedrich : Arabesque
Bach Jean Sébastien : Invention n°1
+ Prélude de Bach + Yann Tiersen + Pachelbel + Beethoven + Schubert + ………………6 / year
Thank you Jazer. 👍
I started playing piano about 3 years ago but never stayed consistent due to mental health issues. I recently am getting back into it again but i lost pretty much everything i knew. Thank you so much for this video as it will help me relearn again :) love ur channel!
I play piano since the Beginning of this year, so i play for 3 months, and the piece i learned on my first month was waltz in c sharp minor op 64 n2, it's super easy and beautiful
I learned moonlight in my first 1.5 years, not that I’m gifted or anything but it was such a life goal for me that it is what kept me playing for hours every day. If you’re like me, and get disinterested when you learn a piece you don’t like that much, go for pieces that will keep you working every day! A cool one I learned too, maybe for year 1 or 2 is Plus tôt from Alexandra Streliski, a very cool young up and coming pianist from Québec.
I think you have given a perfect direction to keep going on the piano journey in a definite way sure way. thank you soooooo much. you are indeed a fantastic teacher.
Would love to hear more of your thoughts on Fur Elise - the beginning section is something I feel comfortable at 2 months, but the fast arpeggio section (theme B) is a completely different beast. Would you say mastering the whole piece is something beginners should aim towards?
Hi! Thanks so much for all your work! You are a fantastic teacher. Any suggestions on where to get musical scores for these pieces or in general. Many thanks !
I just bought a keyboard today and already started having a crack at Gymnopedie before seeing this. The left hand position changes are tricky, but hey, it's only day one.
Thanks for the videos!
Hi Jazzer.
You also mentioned to play chopin prelude no 4 in E minor, which I have. I took me a few months as a beginner but ok with it now.
Thanks for the posts.
Simon. Middle England.
What a great "Ah-Ha" moment.
Thank you so, so much for your words of wisdom.
I just finished watching your video for the first time, but realize I should have watched this a year ago when you first published it.
I am guilty of the scenario exactly you explained it.
By the time I finished my usual warm-up, I was already feeling "expended", and frankly a bit bored----not realizing what I was doing to my practice session.
Your practice suggestions make perfectly sound sense.
I really enjoy your videos, and find them inspiring, helpful, and full of valuable tips.
Thank you, thank you.
Having grown up with a now professional classical musician for Oboe and Piano I know every single one of them off by heart by having to listen to these over and over and over and over and over and over again and again and again :) So I assume they are great pieces to learn the Piano
I started learning the piano at 5 and my first piece was Fur Elise and then Moonlight Sonata 1st Movement. I think my first piano teacher was a sadist ;-) I like your comment about revisiting earlier pieces. I do that a lot and the difference is amazing. I often mix up the genres (classical and jazz) in a practice session which although it is still practice, somehow seems to be like a break. I am glad I found your channel even though I am an amateur musician like both of my parents and have now been playing for 55 years.
Comptine was my first piece, month 1. 😂 but it took me about a full month to truly get under my fingers. Working on sonata now, month three. My brain doesn’t like the dissonance in spots. Great video!
I’ve been playing piano for less than a year and I can already play 5 of these pieces. The order in which I learned them however is very different to the order you have them.
1. Fur Elise
2. River Flows in You
3. Prelude in C
4. Gymnopedie
5. Moonlight Sonata
I’ve also started to learn Comptine D’un Autre Été.
@1 No, my teacher gave me the sheet music for the shortened one and once I learned it I moved on but this was only about 1 month into playing the piano. I just figured it counted because the person in the video played the shorter version.
@1 yeah I have been thinking about it