Hi Paul. Here’s my piano life story. Age 4 started lessons-hated it Age 4-9 Had many teachers. Couldn’t sit still, had no interest reading music because I could pick up songs by ear Age 9 Never had another lesson. Didn’t learn much from the teachers. Age 12-15 Picked up a few tunes my friends liked like The Peanuts Theme, Music Box Dancer and busted my chops to learn the Maple Leaf Rag. Took 40 years off. At age 55 I started renting half a studio space with an electric keyboard. Was playing around on it and decided to learn mov 3 to see how far I could get before I quit! I’m about 3/4 of the way through learning it and am pretty proud of myself I must say. My fingering is atrocious but I’m getting it done albeit with mistakes here and there. There it is!
I heard this piece and immediately fell in love with it. when I asked my professor if I could play it he kinda laughed at me. so I decided to learn it on my own. I started learning it before the pandemic and now I can play it all (not in the actual speed, I'm working on increasing my speed). I wish I had seen this video before, it would have definitely helped me to not go through this alone, an awesome video!
hey! I totally encourage you to learn it! My previous teacher also limited me to learning the campanella, and here I am with several sections learned from it. Your will and constancy can make everything possible!
Dear Paul Barton, you should be rewarded a noble price for helping so much people with your outstanding explanations of each and very work you tackle. Thanks a million for all that you do for us ... Genuinely appreciate every minute Im on your tuitions :)
Paul Barton is the Alton Brown of piano. Very insightful and intelligent about every piece. Plays every one amazingly, and with purpose. Not just randomly out of passion, like myself. Every tutorial is an episode of Good Eats, but for piano.
13:12 This is to me the hardest part of the piece, it deceptively sounds easiest to master but it’s hard as hell, practice is the only way to master this section
Такого чудового піаніста і вчителя, чудову людину, я ще не бачила в своєму житті. Здоров'я Вам і благословення Божого в житті, Вашій донечці і дружині. ❤❤❤ ❤❤❤❤
Sir Paul, a grand salute to you for a continuous help you are doing for the learners , I’m a church pianist and love to play classic music. God bless you more
The first time I heard these three sonatas by Beethoven I was 12 years old, and my grandfather played these on his Steinway XR and since that time I've had the burning desire to learn how to play these all my life. Of course the third movement is the hardest to play but with your tutorial, I totally went and revisited this music again with more confidence! Thank You for your excellent well put together video! You totally cover all aspects! 😊
First class tutorial and outstanding playing. I did this piece for diploma some years ago, and it took me a few months to learn the third movement. I could have done with some of these practice tips at the time as my tutor really had little input beyond play slowly and accurately and then speed up. Having not played it for 15 years I am just working it up again to performance standard and found this video super helpful.
this is gonna be a two year project for me, hopefully not more. the last time i played the piano extensively was about 18 years ago. your teaching style is just perfect for me. thanks!
I started to play piano after I retired. While learning to play the first two movements I happened to be riding my bike listening to random music on Pandora and heard the third movement without knowing what it was. I thought to myself, that I could never play that and out of curiousity I stopped pedaling to see what it was that was playing. To my shock I found that it was the third movement on Moonlight Sonata. I mentioned this to a concert pianist and teacher who told me that perhaps I could learn to play it. My goal is now to play it at full speed before I die. I am struggling to do your exercises and hope that they will help me accomplish my goal! I wish I had started when I was a child.....
I learnt to play piano at music school from my 6 y.o till 14 y.o. Unfortunately the educational programme was awful and I stopped playing after I finished school. When I turn my 30's I started to play piano again. Unfortunately I lost my technique 😢 Now I'm 39 and try to learn to play 3rd movement. It is very hard 😢 But I want to support you❤ I hope, you will make your dream come true! And I wish you to make a perfect performance of 3rd movement ❤
Actually I heard this piece at a theatre play around a year ago. I was so utterly impressed and captivated that I decided to start properly learning the piano (I had played a little over the years as I had 8 years of accordion lessons) with this piece being my goal eventually. I have since found a magnificent teacher and progressed a lot and honestly your videos have some stellar practice techniques and general ideas and tips for playing in them which helped and still help me a lot!! Thank you for everything!
I'm a 31 year old beginner and started piano on Christmas . I can't believe the progress I made on the first few bars with the broken chords thanks to your exercises and explanations. Like you said it's all about passion and thank you so much for this video
my brother used to play it over and over during my childhood. So I learned it out of boredom. Now it's getting more and more interesting, i'm learning on myself and the nature of my emotions.
Wow; Mr Paul Barton is a top quality of artist in everything; I did find him can teach the elephant to hear the music; teaching everyone to paint and music.....He is a top quality teacher not including to teach human being ; even the animal....etc...We do respect Mr Paul Barton long forever and ever.....
The first movement was what got me to fall in love with piano. Now that I have it reasonably under control, I've been working on the second movement, and taking my first steps into the third. The technical difficulty gap between the movements is immense, but I'm sure I'll get there eventually.
Thanks for the fantastic video on this amazing piece of music by Beethoven. The first time I heard it, I was astounded! I played it over and over again. It was so wonderful! I've finally memorized all of section 1 and wanted to progress to the next section. It's such a huge piece to learn, but it just leads you to want to learn the next piece and then the next piece, regardless of it's difficulty! I will have to keep coming back to this video over the next few months for guidance, thank you again!
My God... I gave up twice on piano because I couldn't play this piece at tempo after months and months of practice, 60 minutes a day 5 days a week. I'm clearly not the best player, but I try hard because I love it. Thank you for the nudge back WITH INSTRUCTIONS! Something i never had before.
As always, a great tutorial! Paul, to answer the question you pose at the end, my interest in playing the piano (keyboard actually), was b/c at age 13 I wanted to play like Laurie Partridge on TV. Once I started lessons with a classic teacher, I heard an LP compilation of L. Pennario playing the 1st mvt. I told my father it sounded simple, and I will never forget (+40 years later) what he said: that with Beethoven, every note has ultimate meaning and it - and not another - is there for a reason. All 3 mvts have been a cherished friend for most of my life.
Thank you again Paul for everything, and thank you for the final words of encouragement, you are a wonderful person, artist and teacher. Cheers from Italy.
I have started to play the piano two days ago and can only play Für Elise now(what else), the easy part only of course, but I want to practise this, until I can play it. The third act is so beautiful that I almost cry all the time, its something that feels like a life goal.
Ok this is the first I have seen a melody demonstrated as chords. Re learning again and working on my chord placement. Use to be able to go major, minor, diminished with ease. I have a song long in progress I may apply this technique you showed. Just imagine Moonlight Sonata was from a drill, pretty crazy.
Thank you ❤ It is very useful video tutorial for me. I dream to play 3rd movement. But my technique is very poor now😢 Should do a lot of practice to some results. With your video I feel like I listen tips from my personal music teacher ❤
THANKS PAUL! I GOT another alternative way to practice for technique of this piece. After watching your tutorial video, it really worked and effective.
Thankyou very, very much. Just ehat I was looking for. A method to get into this movement. Now I have work to do ,.... A lot of work....thankyou again....
I recently heard this piece and it was astonishing😱😱😱 I only new the basic piano movement for each hand😂 and I did not know who to read a piano sheet. I had printed this piece sheet in A3 size and I started to learn all the cute music symbols step by step. And I thought that the best way to learn how to play this impressive piece was going step by step like you have showen in this tutorial. 🙌🙌🙌. And I am considering buying a piano next year 😊😊😊 I fall in love with Bosendorfer 214VC. This was an absolute surprise for me. And I have listened professional pianists playing this piece like they were running the Olympics 100 meters final 😂😂😂. Of you can dream you can do it😊😊😊
Thank you Sir Paul. Did not start piano for this piece but fell in love with it long time ago. You have inspired me to learn and start this piece today. Leyenda by Isaac Albeniz, g minor by Rachmaninov and many more like winter wind by Chopin. Thank you Sir.
Call me a fool but I've only been playing a month and I'm going to learn this.. May aswell jump in at the deep end. May take me 10 years to get there but I'll do it 😊
I would literally sell my soul for a Piano: I am currently playing/practicing on a Roland Fantom FX 88 key - but again; I would sell my soul for a Piano: Its my biggest obsession [Piano] I am completely addicted to every aspect of it: Oftentimes doing 12hours a day practicing: Who wants a trade off ? :-)
Dear Paul Barton, thanks so much for the awesome tutorials. I have a request: a tutorial on Liszt's song, "Consolation No. 3, S. 172". Thanks again and a big hug from a fan from southern Brazil (Porto Alegre-RS).
This video is awesome! I'm young and still a beginner, so I'm trying to learn Canon in D so far, but this video is super motivating to watch! This song is one of my favorites, and I hope to learn it someday :3
Wow Paul! Magnificent! The whole thing! The tutorial. You playing, on several rhythms, all perfectly! The motivation! The encouragement in the end! Wow!
11:45 my hand is too small for that 😂 there is no chance for me to play the higher note with my middle finger while playing the lower note with my thumb :(
@E H - There is no law that says you must keep that G sharp depressed with the thumb. I would release the G sharp just as soon as finger 5 goes to the B. and I would catch all of that with the pedal. That makes for a very exciting sounding trill.
I’m actually blown away right now. I’ve never been able to play with it always looks overwhelming but I followed you and I’ve been playing the first part perfectly! You’re amazing!
Hi Paul, I love your Tutorials. I Play Piano since 20 years and had a Piano teacher Till I was 18. I Would say I play very well piano (surly less good than you 😄). Anyway, My biggest weakness is reading or rather the understanding of the more complicated notes… Your tutorials are genius and helped me through Rachmaninov’s G minor and now Beethoven’s moonlight 3rd movement in the last 1,5 years. So a big thanks to you. I hope I can learn more pieces like these guided by you 🙂 All the best and keep going Julian
When i was 8 I was overwhelmed with the First movement of the sonata. I learnt how to play it althought wy hands werent stretched enough. Following years i stopped playing the piano but i have always wanted to play all three movements. It's like a dream. Now I'm 26 and i resumed my playing lessons and I can say for sure that is so difficult to make your fingers move faster. But the further you go the more chance to achieve what you want. So i've been practicing playing the 3rd movement for some months and Haven't finished learning it. I have some problems with the parts where you ned to switch hands and arpeggios are so difficult. But the most frustrating thing is that when i try to play quickly I miss the keys, although i know all the notes perfectly. II don't know maybe I'm tend to ovetrhink sometimes and should switch off my ming while playing. Anyway thank you Paul. There were some difficult parts where i got some struggles and your tutorial helped so much! Keep going! Hope in some time i will manage and the dream will come true!
You just got to play slowly to a metronome and very slightly increase the tempo over the span of a few days or weeks if you struggle with missing notes. Also try learning the chord progressions in the piece as it’ll help your mind recognize what you are playing
@@jacobhoover4393 Thank you, Jacob. I 've already tried, in vain actually but i cannot say that i was practicing with metronome fr long. I hope yur advice will help) best regards)
@@raynev8369 I know the feeling trust me, but after a long time of very slowly increasing the tempo it helped a lot and got me through that very same plateau. You got this!
@@jacobhoover4393 If you also have some advice how to play Fantasie Interompu by Chopin, I'm in all years)) One of the most beautiful and difficult pieces! Hands play differently each...
I took about 2 months to learn the opening 30 seconds and about a 1/3 slower... Thought I was a legend then I watch this and dusted off my L plates 🤣 loved watching this thank you 👍
I would like some advice on studying. It is better to work in small sections or play the whole piece slowly with the metronome, increasing the metronome click every day. Thank you
Thank you very much Paul for sharing with us the practice exercises and trills fingering of this piece. It has tremendously helped my learning. Incredible 👍
Of course I am doing some drills but I don't know where they will get me. For example I do the first exercise of hannon but in a way that I bang the first and last fingers while pressing the middle fingers pianissimo.. I know you are a great artist and teacher, you will help with some objective drills and tips.
Thank you Paul! You were exactly right about how I started to learn playing piano because I fell in love with this Sonata during pandemic. I'm still working on 1st movement though.
I'm pretty sure there are people like me who can't play this piece at all no matter how much they practice. I started playing 1 year ago and I'm doing very well with other pieces and songs but I can't even make the beginning of this one even in slow tempo, it doesn't seem possible.
Looks like your on day 4 of simple piano.
Lmao 🤣
@Isaac Lehrer first time?
Brooooo🤣🤣🤣
I get adds for that all the time
Same I just got one of those adds
No more timelife to learn...70y old...but your lesson helped me to understand Ludwig
You can still definitely play.
Jcabsa1 yes you can!!!
It's never too late.
One of my students is in his 70s. You can do it if you have dedication and patience.
Tks You all ❣️❤️
Hi Paul. Here’s my piano life story.
Age 4 started lessons-hated it
Age 4-9 Had many teachers. Couldn’t sit still, had no interest reading music because I could pick up songs by ear
Age 9 Never had another lesson. Didn’t learn much from the teachers.
Age 12-15 Picked up a few tunes my friends liked like The Peanuts Theme, Music Box Dancer and busted my chops to learn the Maple Leaf Rag.
Took 40 years off.
At age 55 I started renting half a studio space with an electric keyboard. Was playing around on it and decided to learn mov 3 to see how far I could get before I quit!
I’m about 3/4 of the way through learning it and am pretty proud of myself I must say. My fingering is atrocious but I’m getting it done albeit with mistakes here and there.
There it is!
5:08 exercise 1
Jane is fantastic, she has helped me MANY times.
I heard this piece and immediately fell in love with it. when I asked my professor if I could play it he kinda laughed at me. so I decided to learn it on my own. I started learning it before the pandemic and now I can play it all (not in the actual speed, I'm working on increasing my speed). I wish I had seen this video before, it would have definitely helped me to not go through this alone, an awesome video!
please tell me that you’ve played it infront of ur professor by now :)
hey! I totally encourage you to learn it! My previous teacher also limited me to learning the campanella, and here I am with several sections learned from it. Your will and constancy can make everything possible!
Dear Paul Barton, you should be rewarded a noble price for helping so much people with your outstanding explanations of each and very work you tackle. Thanks a million for all that you do for us ... Genuinely appreciate every minute Im on your tuitions :)
* Nobel
@@damienx0x I'm quite sure it's spelt "Noble" though?
@@Enorazzz no. It’s named after a guy with the last name “Nobel”
@@MsSmokeNmirrors Oh, okay, thank you :)
Paul Barton is the Alton Brown of piano. Very insightful and intelligent about every piece. Plays every one amazingly, and with purpose. Not just randomly out of passion, like myself. Every tutorial is an episode of Good Eats, but for piano.
"You can do anything, you set your mind to" ~Paul Barton
13:12 This is to me the hardest part of the piece, it deceptively sounds easiest to master but it’s hard as hell, practice is the only way to master this section
imo its the easiest of the piece with the transition before each sequence
Its hard in the beginning but it's easy in the end
01:48
14:08
21:53
30:06
5:08
8:26
9:06
10:05
11:34
12:25
17:36
19:38
20:24
24:59
26:16
27:41
29:26
33:29
35:29
@@user-ws3uq9ji8m ?
@@fredericfrancoischopin4646 ㅎㅇ
Такого чудового піаніста і вчителя, чудову людину, я ще не бачила в своєму житті.
Здоров'я Вам і
благословення Божого в житті, Вашій донечці і дружині.
❤❤❤ ❤❤❤❤
Sir Paul, a grand salute to you for a continuous help you are doing for the learners , I’m a church pianist and love to play classic music. God bless you more
wow i just realized my question was featured in this video!!! I feel famous!!! Thanks Paul for actually reading our comments :D
Haha i saw your comment :)
The first time I heard these three sonatas by Beethoven I was 12 years old, and my grandfather played these on his Steinway XR and since that time I've had the burning desire to learn how to play these all my life. Of course the third movement is the hardest to play but with your tutorial, I totally went and revisited this music again with more confidence! Thank You for your excellent well put together video! You totally cover all aspects! 😊
First class tutorial and outstanding playing. I did this piece for diploma some years ago, and it took me a few months to learn the third movement. I could have done with some of these practice tips at the time as my tutor really had little input beyond play slowly and accurately and then speed up. Having not played it for 15 years I am just working it up again to performance standard and found this video super helpful.
this is gonna be a two year project for me, hopefully not more. the last time i played the piano extensively was about 18 years ago. your teaching style is just perfect for me. thanks!
I started to play piano after I retired. While learning to play the first two movements I happened to be riding my bike listening to random music on Pandora and heard the third movement without knowing what it was. I thought to myself, that I could never play that and out of curiousity I stopped pedaling to see what it was that was playing. To my shock I found that it was the third movement on Moonlight Sonata. I mentioned this to a concert pianist and teacher who told me that perhaps I could learn to play it. My goal is now to play it at full speed before I die. I am struggling to do your exercises and hope that they will help me accomplish my goal! I wish I had started when I was a child.....
I learnt to play piano at music school from my 6 y.o till 14 y.o. Unfortunately the educational programme was awful and I stopped playing after I finished school.
When I turn my 30's I started to play piano again. Unfortunately I lost my technique 😢 Now I'm 39 and try to learn to play 3rd movement. It is very hard 😢
But I want to support you❤ I hope, you will make your dream come true! And I wish you to make a perfect performance of 3rd movement ❤
Actually I heard this piece at a theatre play around a year ago. I was so utterly impressed and captivated that I decided to start properly learning the piano (I had played a little over the years as I had 8 years of accordion lessons) with this piece being my goal eventually.
I have since found a magnificent teacher and progressed a lot and honestly your videos have some stellar practice techniques and general ideas and tips for playing in them which helped and still help me a lot!! Thank you for everything!
I'm a 31 year old beginner and started piano on Christmas . I can't believe the progress I made on the first few bars with the broken chords thanks to your exercises and explanations. Like you said it's all about passion and thank you so much for this video
Thank you very much. Now, I have the confidence to play this piece. Before watching this tutorial, I had never thought of trying this.
I have been waiting for this for years! Thanks Paul.
my brother used to play it over and over during my childhood. So I learned it out of boredom. Now it's getting more and more interesting, i'm learning on myself and the nature of my emotions.
As you say: I've heard it, instantly fell in love with it and now I've been working on it for the past half year.
Wow; Mr Paul Barton is a top quality of artist in everything; I did find him can teach the elephant to
hear the music; teaching everyone to paint and music.....He is a top quality teacher not including
to teach human being ; even the animal....etc...We do respect Mr Paul Barton long forever and
ever.....
This is an unbelievably amazing video. Will watch and watch again
The first movement was what got me to fall in love with piano. Now that I have it reasonably under control, I've been working on the second movement, and taking my first steps into the third. The technical difficulty gap between the movements is immense, but I'm sure I'll get there eventually.
you’re the greatest piano teacher on youtube
Thanks for the fantastic video on this amazing piece of music by Beethoven. The first time I heard it, I was astounded! I played it over and over again. It was so wonderful! I've finally memorized all of section 1 and wanted to progress to the next section. It's such a huge piece to learn, but it just leads you to want to learn the next piece and then the next piece, regardless of it's difficulty! I will have to keep coming back to this video over the next few months for guidance, thank you again!
My God... I gave up twice on piano because I couldn't play this piece at tempo after months and months of practice, 60 minutes a day 5 days a week. I'm clearly not the best player, but I try hard because I love it. Thank you for the nudge back WITH INSTRUCTIONS! Something i never had before.
jesus your playing is beyond clean
As always, a great tutorial! Paul, to answer the question you pose at the end, my interest in playing the piano (keyboard actually), was b/c at age 13 I wanted to play like Laurie Partridge on TV. Once I started lessons with a classic teacher, I heard an LP compilation of L. Pennario playing the 1st mvt. I told my father it sounded simple, and I will never forget (+40 years later) what he said: that with Beethoven, every note has ultimate meaning and it - and not another - is there for a reason. All 3 mvts have been a cherished friend for most of my life.
28:19 was kind of funny
Yeah, poor "Beethoven."
Beethoven needs help in playing piano 😅
Goldy Olvido Baroa he needs help playing his own piece
legit made me laugh hard😭
Totally
Thank you again Paul for everything, and thank you for the final words of encouragement, you are a wonderful person, artist and teacher. Cheers from Italy.
I have started to play the piano two days ago and can only play Für Elise now(what else), the easy part only of course, but I want to practise this, until I can play it. The third act is so beautiful that I almost cry all the time, its something that feels like a life goal.
Gleichtritt why use that profile picture
You inspire me. Thank you for everything. I appreciate you. (:
Ok this is the first I have seen a melody demonstrated as chords. Re learning again and working on my chord placement. Use to be able to go major, minor, diminished with ease. I have a song long in progress I may apply this technique you showed. Just imagine Moonlight Sonata was from a drill, pretty crazy.
Thank you ❤
It is very useful video tutorial for me.
I dream to play 3rd movement. But my technique is very poor now😢
Should do a lot of practice to some results.
With your video I feel like I listen tips from my personal music teacher ❤
I just found ur families channel and it’s the most purest most sweetest thing I have ever come across on. I am so thankful for you guys.
You're an excellent teacher! Thank you very much indeed for your work.
Even my teacher didn’t help me as much as you did😂
THANKS PAUL! I GOT another alternative way to practice for technique of this piece. After watching your tutorial video, it really worked and effective.
@Arkin Chong - Do you mind sharing with us they alternate practice method you came up with, please?
Thank you so much, Mr. Barton... this goal of mine to learn this movement is now attainable.
Paul thank you, especially for the kind encouragement at the end!
Absolutely astonishing how clean and effortless it looks when you play this piece 🤌
Before I watch the video. I want to thank you for the toturial.
The "messed-about" Beethoven in the advert was really rather pleasant.... but prefer the original....simple and sublime. xx
Although I do not play piano, I find it so fascinating how your fingers fly over the instriment that makes then such a beatifull 'noice ' (!!!)
Nobody:
Piano adds after 1 year:
what are you talking about?
person next door to my house:
youtuber:
make sense please.
@@b33p Your comment is very confusing and do you understand the joke
I’ve been playing for a year and I’m starting to learn it
It’s hard af but I feel like I’ll regret it if I don’t keep learning it
@@samautrey im also learning it after a year and its not as difficult as it looks but is still pretty difficult at times
What a GREAT tutorial. I'm just an intermediate player but following this lesson I can actually play the first two lines...SLOWLY of course👍❗
Thankyou very, very much. Just ehat I was looking for. A method to get into this movement. Now I have work to do ,.... A lot of work....thankyou again....
I recently heard this piece and it was astonishing😱😱😱 I only new the basic piano movement for each hand😂 and I did not know who to read a piano sheet. I had printed this piece sheet in A3 size and I started to learn all the cute music symbols step by step. And I thought that the best way to learn how to play this impressive piece was going step by step like you have showen in this tutorial. 🙌🙌🙌. And I am considering buying a piano next year 😊😊😊 I fall in love with Bosendorfer 214VC. This was an absolute surprise for me. And I have listened professional pianists playing this piece like they were running the Olympics 100 meters final 😂😂😂. Of you can dream you can do it😊😊😊
I am struggling with this piece and this is helping me a lot, thanks !
This truly changed the scene..
Yes, I began piano especially for this piece.
I wish I would've seen this a year ago. I am able to play this piece easily today but this would've sped things up... Great tutorial!
I'm having a big struggle with the tempo but your excercises are so incredible! Thanks alot!
Thank you very much for your tutorial.
Thank you Sir Paul. Did not start piano for this piece but fell in love with it long time ago. You have inspired me to learn and start this piece today. Leyenda by Isaac Albeniz, g minor by Rachmaninov and many more like winter wind by Chopin. Thank you Sir.
Geez your dynamics is flat out superior.
Call me a fool but I've only been playing a month and I'm going to learn this.. May aswell jump in at the deep end. May take me 10 years to get there but I'll do it 😊
Managed to learn it?
Thank you Paul. I’m learning this one now. And your tutorial has helped me tremendously!
I also find it very helpful to practice these broken cords as blocked and broken Russian style.
I would literally sell my soul for a Piano: I am currently playing/practicing on a Roland Fantom FX 88 key - but again; I would sell my soul for a Piano: Its my biggest obsession [Piano] I am completely addicted to every aspect of it: Oftentimes doing 12hours a day practicing:
Who wants a trade off ? :-)
Dear Paul Barton, thanks so much for the awesome tutorials. I have a request: a tutorial on Liszt's song, "Consolation No. 3, S. 172". Thanks again and a big hug from a fan from southern Brazil (Porto Alegre-RS).
This video is awesome! I'm young and still a beginner, so I'm trying to learn Canon in D so far, but this video is super motivating to watch! This song is one of my favorites, and I hope to learn it someday :3
Wow Paul! Magnificent! The whole thing! The tutorial. You playing, on several rhythms, all perfectly! The motivation! The encouragement in the end! Wow!
Looks like you r on day 2 of Simply Piano 😍
11:45 my hand is too small for that 😂 there is no chance for me to play the higher note with my middle finger while playing the lower note with my thumb :(
If it helps-
Why not just use the pedal? It helped me
@E H - There is no law that says you must keep that G sharp depressed with the thumb. I would release the G sharp just as soon as finger 5 goes to the B. and I would catch all of that with the pedal. That makes for a very exciting sounding trill.
You can skip the trill if you find it difficult
You're a fantastic teacher Paul!
This tutorial is AMAZINGLY helpful. Thank you!
Bravo!!!
I’m actually blown away right now. I’ve never been able to play with it always looks overwhelming but I followed you and I’ve been playing the first part perfectly! You’re amazing!
As someone trying to learn this song, thank you so so much for this. It is like having a piano teacher with me.
Hi Paul,
I love your Tutorials.
I Play Piano since 20 years and had a Piano teacher Till I was 18.
I Would say I play very well piano (surly less good than you 😄).
Anyway, My biggest weakness is reading or rather the understanding of the more complicated notes…
Your tutorials are genius and helped me through Rachmaninov’s G minor and now Beethoven’s moonlight 3rd movement in the last 1,5 years.
So a big thanks to you. I hope I can learn more pieces like these guided by you 🙂
All the best and keep going
Julian
Thanks Paul! I've been learning this piece for 2 weeks, and this video helped me to play very well, thanks You so much!
When i was 8 I was overwhelmed with the First movement of the sonata. I learnt how to play it althought wy hands werent stretched enough. Following years i stopped playing the piano but i have always wanted to play all three movements. It's like a dream. Now I'm 26 and i resumed my playing lessons and I can say for sure that is so difficult to make your fingers move faster. But the further you go the more chance to achieve what you want. So i've been practicing playing the 3rd movement for some months and Haven't finished learning it. I have some problems with the parts where you ned to switch hands and arpeggios are so difficult. But the most frustrating thing is that when i try to play quickly I miss the keys, although i know all the notes perfectly. II don't know maybe I'm tend to ovetrhink sometimes and should switch off my ming while playing. Anyway thank you Paul. There were some difficult parts where i got some struggles and your tutorial helped so much! Keep going! Hope in some time i will manage and the dream will come true!
@JoandSam Totally agree! The more you stop thinking the better you play. I think sometimes this works perfectle for life)
You just got to play slowly to a metronome and very slightly increase the tempo over the span of a few days or weeks if you struggle with missing notes. Also try learning the chord progressions in the piece as it’ll help your mind recognize what you are playing
@@jacobhoover4393 Thank you, Jacob. I 've already tried, in vain actually but i cannot say that i was practicing with metronome fr long. I hope yur advice will help) best regards)
@@raynev8369 I know the feeling trust me, but after a long time of very slowly increasing the tempo it helped a lot and got me through that very same plateau. You got this!
@@jacobhoover4393 If you also have some advice how to play Fantasie Interompu by Chopin, I'm in all years)) One of the most beautiful and difficult pieces! Hands play differently each...
I took about 2 months to learn the opening 30 seconds and about a 1/3 slower... Thought I was a legend then I watch this and dusted off my L plates 🤣 loved watching this thank you 👍
Great tips! Very thorough and easy to understand.
I would like some advice on studying. It is better to work in small sections or play the whole piece slowly with the metronome, increasing the metronome click every day. Thank you
Thank you very much Paul for sharing with us the practice exercises and trills fingering of this piece. It has tremendously helped my learning. Incredible 👍
Of course I am doing some drills but I don't know where they will get me. For example I do the first exercise of hannon but in a way that I bang the first and last fingers while pressing the middle fingers pianissimo..
I know you are a great artist and teacher, you will help with some objective drills and tips.
Thank you Paul! You were exactly right about how I started to learn playing piano because I fell in love with this Sonata during pandemic. I'm still working on 1st movement though.
Such a well done tutorial.
Paul you're one of the best Pianist ever!!!
Started practicing the piano just to play that song and master it !
You do an amazing job of homeschooling your little girl. She is brilliant.
Thank you so so much for your lesson!! It helped me a lot while working on this piece. Very grateful for your channel ❤️
I scared that piece...omg...tnxs for making tutorial....
Your performance on this sounds awesome
This is brilliant! Many thanks - so helpful.
I'm pretty sure there are people like me who can't play this piece at all no matter how much they practice.
I started playing 1 year ago and I'm doing very well with other pieces and songs but I can't even make the beginning of this one even in slow tempo, it doesn't seem possible.
1y is not enough!! Keep practicing and you will get there, I’m sure ;)
I need this dude as a teacher,clearly a real pro.
Paul is an amazing teacher. He breaks all the patterns down and gives creative ways to practice the patterns.
why did i find this channel just now thank you so much
Thank you Paul for another quality tutorial!
Excellent practice exercises. Thank you. Just started learning this piece.
OMG thank you!! can you please do a tutorial for Chopin etude revolutionary? please
The most useful moonlight 3 vido on UA-cam.. Thanx for your efforts🙏
I`m learning this piece. Thank you for this tutorial video.
Love this piece and decided to learn to play! Wish me luck as a beginner at my retirement age. Thank you! Your video is very helpful!