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My piano teacher taught me this one when I was a teenager. First full-difficulty Bach piece I ever learned. He described the way to play the ending as "the whole song is a thunderstorm, then at the very end the rain starts dying down and the G Major chord at the end is the sun breaking through the clouds."
This is my favourite Bach prelude. I used to play this a lot, years ago. My teacher said that this piece messes with your head because Bach reversed the dominant hand: the emphasis in this prelude is on the left hand, not the right, as per usual. You need to use more force on the keys with your left and go lightly with your right. It's hard to play, but well worth the practice. It is absolutely glorious.
Pounding this song out on my key board was my passive aggressive way of telling my parents I was pissed. I realize now as a parent 15 years later that they were probably amused and NOT appalled like I had intended. 😂
This is my I had enough of this shit piece... Probably the only piano piece I still know after I played it on my exam and whenever I am mad when I practice I just play this....
"Each morning I go to the piano and I play two preludes and two fugues by JS Bach. It is like a blessing, a benediction, on my house". Pablo Casals. I did this today, albeit with four beautiful renditions I found on UA-cam, not actually on the piano. What a wonderful way to start the day! Incidentally, when I learnt to play 999 on the Spanish classical guitar it was in D Minor.
This is a deceptively challenging piece. I've learned this and performed this at a recital when I was much younger but I never truly mastered the intricacies of it. I am in awe of those who truly manage to make this piece sound as it should. This was an example of this piece being played properly. Excellent job! ❤
This is the best interpretation I’ve found on UA-cam so far, no rushing through the piece at a blistering speed. I believe the perfect tempo is a tiny bit slower than this and I like that the notes aren’t played as staccato as most performances. I believe this song should let the notes ring At 1:00 I like to slow down a bit and play lighter and built up to the part at 1:06 and then just slam the G and repeat that measure a second time just to reinforce it
Only when it comes to the repeated rythmic pattern and the form. The harmony is quite sophisticated. If it hadn't been that, it would have felt too simplistic.
Exactly ! When I first saw this piece, my brain was like oh this seems great and easy lol . Then when I started to play ... opps , did I say something wrong 🌝 My eyes were flying everywhere and my fingers were out of control tying a knot :)
When I started learning this there was no internet and I had no access to other versions. I played it slowly at the encouragement of my teacher, a bit like this version. I was very surprised to hear it played at twice the tempo when I finally got it on CD. I still prefer the slow version as it allows for much more nuance
I haven't tried this on piano. I have guitar transcriptions which are transposed to Dmin (you've got to use drop D tuning for that). I've noted that a number of pieces that are relatively simple on paino become rather difficult on guitar. This piece pairs so well with the first Prelude in C. Also, I've heard this piece played rather slowly on the guitar. I thought I was playing it really fast. Apparently not.
Although a popular keyboard piece, it was in fact originally written for lute. The J.P. Kellner manuscript gives the title as "Praelude in C moll pour la Lute di J.S. Bach". Most guitarists play it in Dm. More great fun from the master Bach.
@@escopiliatese3623 Actually there *kind of* is. It is just arpeggiated and hidden. Think of the voice leading of the chordal tones as subtle independent voices.
@@kiren3168 Indeed. You can even track it visually - if you focus on a particular note in the arpeggiated chord (that is, occurring on a specific beat of the bar) and follow it like a melody. Or, unarpeggiate (don't think I've ever used that word before) the chord, and follow each individual note as it moves through the chords - the uppermost/highest is usually easiest to follow. Quite delightful how you can imply movement in several voices using only a single voice.
I learned this song off of The Faded cassette tape years ago, so I never knew the name of it. Now I do. I'm impressed with myself for learning Bach on a cassette tape. Haha. If I can do it, so can you guys!
I love this piece. I insisted on learning it in my sixth month of piano study, over my teacher's objections and hot on the heels of the Minuet in G. Good times.
The thing about this piece is that the maestro himself never wrote it for the keyboard, but for lute. And when played on piano, the sound is incredibly different. When on lute, it sounds much more calm, but still very fearful. So I think, when playing this piece, it must be played like it would be on the lute. Don't be so aggressive. Not like a thunderstorm. This was written after the storm had passed. The piece is about what was left.
Love your video! I think there's mistake with the note played at @1:15 though I'm not a musician. It sounds like that note is different (higher slightly?) than in other recordings but i could be mistaken! Thank you for your video though I enjoyed how this piece was played
@@WolfieNamira Thanks for confirming this. I used to play this piece (memorized after learning it from sheet music), and I recognized that there was that one wrong note.
Hahah that caught me massively off gaurd, i got taught the first half of this as a kid (5 or 6) by my parents, i never even knew the name or that it was bach (makes sense now i think about it) , but i played it all the time untill we moved and we didnt have a piano anymore, hearing it out of nowhere in this video which was just in my recommended, like i said before took me by suprise, i probably havent heard anyone else but me play this for over 13 years.
It's funny that this is actually quite easy to play if you're a practiced pianist. Might as well be Moonlight Sonata. Lovely composition, not difficult to perform.
My twelve year old daughter just finished this piece. So I challenge her to who can play it faster! I'm still winning...but soon, alas, she will pass me
I played this on a piano exam two years ago and I practiced a lot and I was so annoyed that I tried to play it as fast as I could. Next lesson my teacher told me I somehow messed up the whole rhytm..... Well...
C’est quoi le morceau ? Toute mon enfance defile sous mes yeux, seul devant le clavecin à bouffer du bach toute la journée pour préparer les concours et les exam
Pedal gives the damper less feeling to the piece. Harpsichord had pedals but for other functions. Like all classical music it's up to the performer to communicate what he wishes. I myself don't use pedal when playing Bach. It's best not to use pedal when learning any piece.
Trying to learn this right now because it’s good sheet music reading exercise and it’s beautiful but I’m a bit confused with the tempo. Other performances are so quick and I’ve seen it to be called con moto 112 bpm and I wonder if that’s a good tempo? I like the tempo in this video a lot though
If you intermediate level 4 and practice like minimum 3hrs per week you don't have to play fast maximum 100 per beat when it is learned and start learning in very slow tempo like 40-50-60 /depends on your pace learning skills/ try not to stop when u learn it will help you to feel the constant beat. If you will start playing fast you will learn with many stops mistakes wrong notes and wrong rhythms ....little by little step by step with time when you can manage to react and play with no stops you can increase your tempo by 10 when you can manage in this tempo add another 10 by speed
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I would really like to enjoy the Great Repertorie with you
My piano teacher taught me this one when I was a teenager. First full-difficulty Bach piece I ever learned. He described the way to play the ending as "the whole song is a thunderstorm, then at the very end the rain starts dying down and the G Major chord at the end is the sun breaking through the clouds."
man I just was working in this piece today I wrote next to the G chord the word "sun" because I feel that!
This is my favourite Bach prelude. I used to play this a lot, years ago. My teacher said that this piece messes with your head because Bach reversed the dominant hand: the emphasis in this prelude is on the left hand, not the right, as per usual. You need to use more force on the keys with your left and go lightly with your right. It's hard to play, but well worth the practice. It is absolutely glorious.
My favorite as well. Haven’t done learning it tho
@@fchild Keep going! It is SO worth mastering. I felt amazing when I could play it well.
I learnt this for my piano exam two years ago and the stress I was in because I was scared that I would accidentally emphasise the right hand....
@@fannikepenyes3152 I'm sure you played it really well! 👍😊
Thanks for the notes!
My professor gave me this piece to study for final piano exam (on music school)
Pounding this song out on my key board was my passive aggressive way of telling my parents I was pissed. I realize now as a parent 15 years later that they were probably amused and NOT appalled like I had intended. 😂
Lol
The whole left-hand melody from bar 2 onwards seems to sound like someone saying ‘I am pissed’ over and over!
"song"
@@27dimes I can hear that too!!
This is my I had enough of this shit piece... Probably the only piano piece I still know after I played it on my exam and whenever I am mad when I practice I just play this....
"Each morning I go to the piano and I play two preludes and two fugues by JS Bach. It is like a blessing, a benediction, on my house". Pablo Casals. I did this today, albeit with four beautiful renditions I found on UA-cam, not actually on the piano. What a wonderful way to start the day! Incidentally, when I learnt to play 999 on the Spanish classical guitar it was in D Minor.
Thanks for sharing!
Good! He was called Pau though, not Pablo. He was a Catalan independentist.
@@tonicorella2822 ok! Good to know!
It sounds great on the guitar.
Yes, it does. I think John Williams played it best. @RodericSpode
I played this on a piano test. It was a bit stressful but I actually didn't mess up.
Same
It took me 4 month to learn it
Lol
I did this for my senior college piano recital. The song has an intense feeling that could go together with a stressful situation.
Phil_06 it shouldnt really take very long to learn this but okay
Sam Li Jie i know I’m just bad at reading music
When i sight-read this
My eyes are like ↙️↖️➡️⬅️➡️↔️
I thought it was just me :-)
Helps to keep left pinky always anchored on the bass and sometimes only use thumb for tenor
literally me
You can change the speed
This is a deceptively challenging piece. I've learned this and performed this at a recital when I was much younger but I never truly mastered the intricacies of it. I am in awe of those who truly manage to make this piece sound as it should. This was an example of this piece being played properly. Excellent job! ❤
I love how it ends on a g major chord. Like it’s dark and then it’s not
The G major chord is setting you up for another piece in C-minor, hence this being a “prelude”
@@harpsichordkid Bach often uses a major chord at the end of a minor piece.
welp i hate it
I hate it
@@pianoconcertono2 bruh
This is the best interpretation I’ve found on UA-cam so far, no rushing through the piece at a blistering speed. I believe the perfect tempo is a tiny bit slower than this and I like that the notes aren’t played as staccato as most performances. I believe this song should let the notes ring
At 1:00 I like to slow down a bit and play lighter and built up to the part at 1:06 and then just slam the G and repeat that measure a second time just to reinforce it
lots of people play piano too fast. check out the Gould appassionsta movement 1, it elucidates the whole piece by not playing too fast
Simple is best. Bach makes it look so easy. This piece even feels good under the fingers.
IT' SO TRUE I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY MY HANDS FEEL LIKE TINKERBELL'S FEET
@@martinasavarese6011 ikr my hands feel like they're dancing lol
Only when it comes to the repeated rythmic pattern and the form. The harmony is quite sophisticated. If it hadn't been that, it would have felt too simplistic.
Exactly ! When I first saw this piece, my brain was like oh this seems great and easy lol . Then when I started to play ... opps , did I say something wrong 🌝 My eyes were flying everywhere and my fingers were out of control tying a knot :)
But I’m finding it so hard to get it right… Beena month already
DOOD DOD DUUUN
Bach est le plus grand artiste ❤ merci infiniment pour ce partage
This piece is an easy way to summarise why I love J. S. Bach
Such a beautiful piece of music! Timeless
Dee doo dum, Dee doo dum, dee doo dum....
Siuuu
So simple, and yet almost crystalline in it's perfection.
I played this 2 years ago in church, messed up. I was 9 tho, but...
It's very stressful.
Did you mess up Badly?
That bass movement cracks me up! I've never had a bass line crack me up before!
what is so funny about it ?
When I started learning this there was no internet and I had no access to other versions. I played it slowly at the encouragement of my teacher, a bit like this version. I was very surprised to hear it played at twice the tempo when I finally got it on CD. I still prefer the slow version as it allows for much more nuance
Been searching for this almost for a month. Thanks a lot
the absolute greatness of Bach!
My piano part in college. I had a hard time, but it was worth my work, it's a very nice piece😌🎹🎶
I haven't tried this on piano. I have guitar transcriptions which are transposed to Dmin (you've got to use drop D tuning for that). I've noted that a number of pieces that are relatively simple on paino become rather difficult on guitar. This piece pairs so well with the first Prelude in C. Also, I've heard this piece played rather slowly on the guitar. I thought I was playing it really fast. Apparently not.
Playing this rn ! As a 13 yr old with tiny hands this will be hard
Wowww!!! Atta beautiful and sensitive playing!! ❤
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it! 🎶
I like this piece, interesting that it end on the dominant
I just started playing it and I already really like it.
Great, I have learned this piece and some days ago I asked you to do it and you have done it! ^_^
Thanks this makes it easier to learn a song
Although a popular keyboard piece, it was in fact originally written for lute. The J.P. Kellner manuscript gives the title as "Praelude in C moll pour la Lute di J.S. Bach". Most guitarists play it in Dm. More great fun from the master Bach.
i think you mean popular piano piece
@@celestyelle6164 doesn't matter really
Playing it in Dm would probably sound like the Cm of Bach's day. The WTC C major sounds more beautiful to my ear transposed to B.
I just started learning this yesterday and well... I am thankful my teacher gave me this opportunity🤭♥️
So many memories with this...
Once we all were kids and my music teacher.
This is incredibly sad and beautiful.
Великолепно! Начала учить❤
Lovely! Short, lively and to the counterpoint.
lol
It has very precise and sharp staccatos not to mention...this piece is really a piece of art if u really know how to play it
No counterpoint in this.
@@escopiliatese3623 Actually there *kind of* is. It is just arpeggiated and hidden. Think of the voice leading of the chordal tones as subtle independent voices.
@@kiren3168 Indeed. You can even track it visually - if you focus on a particular note in the arpeggiated chord (that is, occurring on a specific beat of the bar) and follow it like a melody. Or, unarpeggiate (don't think I've ever used that word before) the chord, and follow each individual note as it moves through the chords - the uppermost/highest is usually easiest to follow. Quite delightful how you can imply movement in several voices using only a single voice.
Loved the rubato at the end
I, too, am learning this ☺️ Got the first eight or so measures down in seven-ish minutes
I learned this song off of The Faded cassette tape years ago, so I never knew the name of it. Now I do. I'm impressed with myself for learning Bach on a cassette tape. Haha. If I can do it, so can you guys!
I'M STUDYING THIS RIGHT NOW I FEEL SO HAPPY
Одна из Вершин Гениальной Музыки.
Here because of the French music group Polo & Pan! They made a song based off this prelude called Artemis and it is fantastic!
i'm learning it
How has it gone?
I’m learning it tooo
@@tiltedtowers1753 1 week after how is it ?
Good for you
I'm learning this too, I started it today
The sheet helped me know the notes. Very good👏👏👏
Great! I'm glad the video helped :-)
Que chopiniano era Bach...😃Como se nota cuan clasico y genial fue Chopin!!!👀👍🎼🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🎼
IsaM Molina si no me equivoco chopin vino después de bach.
Nada que ver, Bach nunca conoció a Chopin, además de ser de épocas distintas
I love this piece. I insisted on learning it in my sixth month of piano study, over my teacher's objections and hot on the heels of the Minuet in G. Good times.
I'm starting my 6th month and currently learning this also
Lol you jumped from the first to the last piece of "my first Bach" music book 😂
The rhythm really sounds like his other piece Suite No. 1 in G major
Love the phrasing
The thing about this piece is that the maestro himself never wrote it for the keyboard, but for lute. And when played on piano, the sound is incredibly different. When on lute, it sounds much more calm, but still very fearful. So I think, when playing this piece, it must be played like it would be on the lute. Don't be so aggressive. Not like a thunderstorm. This was written after the storm had passed. The piece is about what was left.
Estoy aprendiendo esta pieza para iniciar el 2do año de piano. Me parece muy interesante lo increíble que suena. Especialmente en las notas del 0:31
Nice and good exercices piece of Bach prety easy! Idk why its stresul for u. If u are kearinig this good luck!
like life itself - goes through all the tribulations and comes to a sudden peaceful end
At 1:15 wrong note in the treble clef, it should be: B natural, D, F
Actually it is the measure with the a flat as the left hand note.
Oh yeah. Your right!
Análisis please
So nice on guitar, so fun to play as well. 😊
Кто ещё кроме меня слышит ангельское пение во время исполнения этой прелюдии?
The first one I Ve learn ❤❤
I play this. Your performance is perfect.
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it :-)
Love your video! I think there's mistake with the note played at @1:15 though I'm not a musician. It sounds like that note is different (higher slightly?) than in other recordings but i could be mistaken!
Thank you for your video though I enjoyed how this piece was played
It is a mistake, the third note in the arpeggio should be a F
@@WolfieNamira Thanks for confirming this. I used to play this piece (memorized after learning it from sheet music), and I recognized that there was that one wrong note.
Hahah that caught me massively off gaurd, i got taught the first half of this as a kid (5 or 6) by my parents, i never even knew the name or that it was bach (makes sense now i think about it) , but i played it all the time untill we moved and we didnt have a piano anymore, hearing it out of nowhere in this video which was just in my recommended, like i said before took me by suprise, i probably havent heard anyone else but me play this for over 13 years.
playing this in 6th grade great peice to play
Another sick beats by Bach ：）
*:* - *)*
the easier Bach-Prelude about technic for all biginners -pianists , a miniature of Beauty
One of the few pieces of Bach that dont end on the tonica
1:00 - 1:27 Sid Meier's Pirates (NES version) brought me here.
"Your ship is holed in a dozen places and gradually sinks beneath the waves."
Very good piece to improve your skills.
It's funny that this is actually quite easy to play if you're a practiced pianist. Might as well be Moonlight Sonata. Lovely composition, not difficult to perform.
yeah I actually started to learn this piece today and I am almost finished. This "dee doo dum" is kinda addictive, couldnt stop playing.
Es muy bueno la canción
THANKS!!!!
fantastic work! thank you!
I had forgot I used to have played this piece when I was little until I found this again
gracias por subirlo :D
Very impressive!!
Really great
My twelve year old daughter just finished this piece. So I challenge her to who can play it faster! I'm still winning...but soon, alas, she will pass me
I played this on a piano exam two years ago and I practiced a lot and I was so annoyed that I tried to play it as fast as I could. Next lesson my teacher told me I somehow messed up the whole rhytm..... Well...
Very good❤️🔥
i am learning serious repertoire here thanks so much
Гениально
How difficult would it be to sight read this piece perfectly? I’m asking because I did it.
amazing, sounds like something out of Game of Thrones
That G hit me right on the spot
wow
Funny thing is he actually ends the piece on a G chord 😎
Análisis please
I found another great BWV just now 👍🙂
Bach was a smart Composer
C’est quoi le morceau ? Toute mon enfance defile sous mes yeux, seul devant le clavecin à bouffer du bach toute la journée pour préparer les concours et les exam
Loool the reverb
To really understand this piece, one needs to play the phrases as block chords. You will hear the most amazing transitional dissonances.
I’m working on this now. Do you use the pedal at all?
Barbara Hesselgrave no
I used It . It really depends on the interpretation you want to give to the piece
No. This is Bach piece. We don't use pedal.
He didn't have a pedal back then so no
Pedal gives the damper less feeling to the piece. Harpsichord had pedals but for other functions. Like all classical music it's up to the performer to communicate what he wishes. I myself don't use pedal when playing Bach. It's best not to use pedal when learning any piece.
i Love it
Does anyone know what speed it is played at? Andante, Moderato, etc.
What tempo is this piece played in
Nice! Thank you:-)
Trying to learn this right now because it’s good sheet music reading exercise and it’s beautiful but I’m a bit confused with the tempo. Other performances are so quick and I’ve seen it to be called con moto 112 bpm and I wonder if that’s a good tempo? I like the tempo in this video a lot though
If you intermediate level 4 and practice like minimum 3hrs per week you don't have to play fast maximum 100 per beat when it is learned and start learning in very slow tempo like 40-50-60 /depends on your pace learning skills/ try not to stop when u learn it will help you to feel the constant beat. If you will start playing fast you will learn with many stops mistakes wrong notes and wrong rhythms ....little by little step by step with time when you can manage to react and play with no stops you can increase your tempo by 10 when you can manage in this tempo add another 10 by speed
Nicolas Godin of AIR fame used Bach Prelude of C Minor in the tune Bach Off from his solo album Conttepoint.
Análisis please
Very similar to "Departure Suite" leftovers right?
Maravilloso
I have to listen to this because this is my song
Where is this prelude from?
Bach.
This prelude is a part of Bach's little preludes
Análisis please
how long did you guys take to learn this?
Mój syn 8 lat uczył sie tego 3 tygodnie
2 weeks but it's so stressful lol
Maybe Max Richter took the inspitation from this to compose the Leftovers ost.
I think that playing the 1st gen pokemon games lowkey got me into baroque music
Nice phrasing