10 Levels Of Piano
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2021
- A video about what I think are the 10 difficulty levels of piano. This is an updated version of a video I made 3 years ago. Enjoy!
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UPDATE 3: Yes. I know that some of you are 12 and already know how to play all the Transcendental Etudes blindfolded, with one finger. Sure, you are far better than me. No, you don't need to humble brag about it in the comments. True pianists keep that to themselves.
UPDATE 2: The piece I rated as level 1 is "Au Clair de la lune", NOT "Clair de Lune". One is a nursery rhyme, one is a Debussy piece.
UPDATE 1: I've been asked many times to rate what level some pieces are, so I've prepared a list featuring some of the most common:
Moonlight Sonata, 3rd Mvt: Level 7.5
Pathetique Sonata, 1st Mvt: Level 6.5
Pathetique Sonata, entire piece: Level 7
Hungarian Dance N.5 (Easy Version): Level 3
Hungarian Dance N.5 (Original Version): Level 7
Most of Bach's 3 part inventions: Anywhere from Level 4-6
Hammerklavier Sonata: Level 10+
Transcendental Etude No. 4 and 5: Level 10+
Paganini Etudes 3 and 6 (La Campanella and Caprice No. 24): Level 10
Flight of the Bumblebee (Rachmaninoff Transcription): Level 8.5
Chopin Ballades: Level 9+ (Taking into account interpretation)
Ravel-Scarbo: Level 10+
Ravel-Ondine: Level 10
HR6: Level 10
Reverie (Debussy): Level 5
Etude Op.10 No.4-Torrent: Level 9+
Grand Galop Chromatique: Level 10
Rach Prelude No.3: Level 5.5
Rach Prelude Op. 23 No. 5: Level 7
Clair De Lune: Level 5.5
Chopin-Grand Valse Brilliante: Level 6
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Imo grand gallop chromatique is just as hard as Liszt’s transcendental etudes
@Andy Thatcher you guys related?
@Ruqi Zhang it is only the two most difficult transcendentals that are at 10+, Mazeppa and Feux Follets
If you are 12 you have not developed the musical and personal experience necessary to truly make music out of those etudes, so if you can play the notes fine but you can't play the music in my opinion
The piece of Mozart is Ah! Vous dirais-je maman
Not d'irai je though
I love how Asian is officially recognized throughout the internet as a unit of measurement for difficulty lol
@@ronan1686 above*
@@ronan1686liszt don juan its vray vray hrad its dimon man
*Everybody gangsta till the time signature changes to 1/66*
1/63*
Wtf
What the-
@@jamesm4334 1/64
@@mella1113 depends on the piece
"Asian"
"Asian with Glasses"
*Cites European white composers during both songs and every "other pieces" song*
Chopin and Liszt are honorary Asians by this point
@@HinLunChen You mean Ascendant Asian?
@@HinLunChen they are already asian
Wtf are you trying to prove? Classical music wasn’t in Asia at that time so duh.
Hey guys… i t ‘ s a j o k e
The composer of Level 10+ really put an amusement park in the sheet music
literally though you can see similarities
Thank you. That is right
That is a whole city dude
Franz Liszt Hi
@@ruthsalgado6775 Nice to meet you here
This is a logarithmic scale, 10x harder at each level
I think having a mistake counter is sad, most of those music isn't about mistake but feelings...
I had it because in my last video, a lot of people complained about wrong notes and stuff. I got tired of those comments so I put the counter up so they can shut up :D
@@HinLunChen I like how you said "... so they can shut up *:D* "
I wouldn’t say feelings, I would say accuracy
@@awe331 no, feelings too...
@@HinLunChen I kinda like the counter and the humour around it near the end.
Finally a realistic video that doesn’t have pieces like flight of the bumblebee as level 5-😂👏🏻
HAHAHHAHHA
SACRELIGIOUS
I feel like the difference from 1-4 isn't that big but then from 4-7 for example it's gigantic
I had to put fantasie impromptu on level 5
I was playing Chopin's winter wind at school and my friends thought it was flight of the bumblebee
weirdly, this has given me a lot of confidence. I was essentially an irresponsible loser for about 6 years, hardly touched the piano etc, and hadn’t really made much progress to start with (started later in life). Still, I’m like a shaggy intermediate. Good to know and encouraging.
Yeah pretty much the same for me but for like 4 years, in the last 2 years i made some big progress and i think i can safely say that im at advanced
Good luck-it's never too late to restart an instrument! :)
Definitely no problem! To me, everyone who decides to learn an instrument starts like that. Totally normal I think. I play piano about 7 years but started "really" practicing 2 years ago. Now I'm struggling with Fantasie Impromptu. Also I started learning violin 8 months ago. It's just terrible. I don't even touch it unless I'm in a lesson.
That’s me.
I have just noticed the ''Mistakes counter: pathetic'' and I couldn't help but roll on the carpet
Oh my-
Liszt at level 7: *sigh* here I come guys..
Lolllll
After almost 10 years of playing the piano, I am proud to announce that I'm a level 2 pianist
Me : no pb with winterwind or other etudes from Chopin.
Me : struggles with La Fantaisie Impromptue
My Teacher : WHY EVEN
But the rhythm really is harder 😅
I played Fantasie Impromtu and it wasn't that hard, also some Chopin Etudes have not equal rthymn, like op 25 Nr. 1 2 vs. 3 in the right hand and op 25 Nr. 2 and others as well
@@katharina_klotz Yes sure i shouldn't have generalised that before. There are to many etudes to do that. Some of them aren't easy at all
@@julianpletl3061 none of them are actully easy
@@coringaindiano256 I'm not on that level yet, but everything is easy if you practice a lot.
I am level 9. Through playing the piano, I have successfully changed my race to Asian. Someday I hope to reach the coveted title of "Asian With Glasses" 😂
Hahahaha
Kousei Arima*
Lol we can only hope 😂
You know, piano is surprisingly underrated. We may not know this because we already love it so much. And I'm really glad you are not masking your mistakes. You are admitting them which is great. Even someone really experienced makes mistakes. And people can play beautifully behind camera but can be really nervous and so make mistakes on camera. I have been playing for 27 years which seems very much now that I look at it. This is what I love and it's nice you love it too. Don't let anyone tell you you are bad because you are not. Keep it up and please let's keep it real. 🙂
Level 11: Gaspard de la Nuit, Islamey, Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini
Level 12: Liszt 4th Paganini etude (1838 version)
@John Tse liszt's paganini etude 1838 is impossible to play at tempo.. so it's hard to rank anything higher than that.
@John Tse nothing is harder than Liszt’s original Etudes lol
Level 12 also liszt's beethoven 9th transcription
@Felis Skalkotris Sorabjitus You must be better than Franz Liszt himself.
@Felis Skalkotris Sorabjitus nah
4:30 I love how it went from 14 mistakes to 69, then to 420 then to pathetic. Well done bro.
Btw I get the 420 train home from school every day and I’m proud of it 😌
After around 14 years of playing I can proudly say that I am a high class Level 5-6 🤣
It's hard to imagine none of those composers was Asian...
Hmmhm, most of them were European
It’s western classical lol back then there wasn’t much Asians in eroupe
@Home Banger I know I’m Asian I know it’s hard I’m just saying in context of writing and composing music
Sorabji was Indian, he composed the hardest music for piano.
Being a Level 7 after 8 years of learning seems fine to me. I'm not Asian either, yet I someday hope to convert my race, so I can play some Liszt too lmao
I'm Asian and level 7 fantasie impromptu after 2 years.
@@kfirmazor1273 I'm in level 9, currently learning Winter Wind.
no the level 0.00 should be the absolute ramdom notes
5:15 looks more like an Egyptian heiroglyph rather than a music sheet lol
Kinda questioning my musical "talent" right now.
Great work :D
Same, the hardest piece I know is Art of Fugue Contrapunctus I
Nice to know I'm at level 5 (Barely). There's alot of pieces I wanna play and it'll probably take a really long while before I actually get to play them. But it's a good feeling to know that you managed to make progress. The better I get, the closer I become to being able to play what I want.
when u can play pathetique 2nd movement but not fur elise
Lol when you play the whole Appassionata and not Fur Elise
I am confused and my head is feeling slightly odd
I never bothered learning Fur Elise and I hate it so probably never will, but now none pianists will probably think I'm bad even tho I can play way harder pieces 😂
That’s quite pathetique
just want to say, you are very talented! And it’s cool that you put the levels in the video of different pieces(there are 5 of them that I really want to learn one day, so I know what order to learn them in then aha) . Have a great day!
Thank you! I hope you have a great day too!
You be putting a smile on my face! 😊I’m not a pro or anything but this is strangely encouraging. You’re awesome! Keep making these vids 🙌
Wait, I am Asian with glasses but so sad didn’t know how to played this hard lol
I died laughing when I saw Asian with glasses 🤣
This really put into perspective how unskilled I really am at piano even after 6 or 7 years
If you are at 3 then yeah I guess
I had 6 years yet I jumped a lot between levels
I've been playing for two years and I'm level 4
@@georgemoney6893 I have been playing for 10 months now and I am level 10
same except ive been learning piano for almost 10 years
@@jumanawaheib1235 i hope your lying thats impossible
Awesome playing!!! 😍
awesome video! i find the other pieces of the level very useful, thanks!
Hey! I'm an undergraduate piano performance major, who played the tempest sonata for my freshman jury. One thing I noticed in your playing is you treat the triplets like 8th notes. Idk if u did this intentionally but check it out again
I'm certainly not as familiar with the Tempest Sonata, since I haven't played it for a while, so I played the triplets like a tremolo. Perhaps next time, when I have enough practice, I'll upload another video like this
Level 10+ sheet looks like an IKEA manual🤣
I loved the video thank you, now i have a list where i can take new pieces from my lvl ❤️
Let me say, this is one of the most generous of this videos, but it makes me feel better 🙂
Yooo wasn’t that lvl 10 one played in a tom and jerry episode or am I wrong
Yes, it was
5:07 the more I look at this image, the more it gets cursed
True
Honestly not a bad channel and deserves more subs
Great demonstration. Thanks.
Level 10 is so funny, and everybody knows that you're not pathetic.
Like your video, bro.
The last level should be named“russian“
(Horowitz, Rachmaninov, Katia buvunshivili i forgot how her name is written, Alexandra dovgan , Volodos , sokolov ...
nice video. according to this im prob learning lvl 7 songs this summer
i don’t know man about the 12 year olds playing études blindfolded one finger but your doing REALLY well so far it doesn’t really matter about age more about your technique and heart in your pieces yk so keep going your doing great
I'm 15 and I'm now playing the apassionata, maybe I just put it into the 7th or 8th level. But I enjoy a lot this video. ¡¡Congratulations!!
I found myself somewhere between level 5 to level 6. But surely not playing the pieces of level 6 without making countless errors! Nice video!
Thanks! I appreciate it! Also, being at Level 5 is very impressive - that is a ABRSM Grade 8 standard.
your hands playing are so smooth ! like you are touching cloud
Thx for the video love it
Him: mistake counter: pathetic
Me: i didn’t hear you make any mistakes 😂
There are 2 sides of Don Juan:
- Minuet from Don Juan
- Reminescences de Don Juan (and also Chopin's Op. 2 Variations)
this is awesome!!
thanks to you I know my level
Yay! This vid actually made me feel more confident
Level 7: chill
Level 8: time to practice...
Dude I played Mendelssohn rondo when I was just 13(now I'm 15). It was hard but not "as" hard. And I didn't just play it like I wasn't supposed to play it cuz I'm not good for it but I legit played it. (7yrs of piano playing) now I can play it a lot better..... Nice video 🔥you very good at playing the piano.
Superb
Loved your playing
Very positive!Very Nice!
I can't understand how you have so few subscribers, you have incredible talent, congratulations and I subscribe🔔🙂
Thanks! :)
Omg I got goosebumps from that sheet music
Wow! That’s amazing. Good job!
Thank you!
I hope one day to be able to play as well as you do ^^, great video.
I just learned the first movement of pathetique, which i am very happy about, and i have been playing piano for about 3 years
I'm like level 4 or 5 and I've been learning to play piano for about two years so this made me feel good about my progress😅
好鍾意睇呢類型嘅片，好清楚咁俾人知道自己練到咩階段😌
You make it look easy!
lol I play piano and I wish I had your skills-
you're so underrated that underrated can't even begin to describe how underrated you are
Thanks man, I really appreciate it :)
As a part Asian who plays Piano, Guitar, Trombone, and Baritone! I can confirm this is accurate!
Woah! Thanks for the ❤️! I’m subbing!
You have glasses too right?
@@jadfaddil7645 Yes I indeed do have glasses! How’d you know? 🤓
@@musicboy16 intuition 🤔🤔🤔
@@jadfaddil7645 Well, in that case! You have amazing intuition!
nice video!
Your pianos sound is so deep❤
I seem to be Level 5..... AFTER 10 YEARS OF PLAYING THE PIANO. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
dude same omg
im lvl 8 i giess after 9 years
Now 6 years doesn’t even feel dreadful
Hard same. I took piano lessons as a kid, quit after a few years, been playing on and off since then (so total amount of years "playing the piano" in one way or another amounts to a lot) and I'm like a crappy 6
Lool im level 6 after 8 years playing and I dont think im ever gonna be level 7, im good here..
Im an Asian with glasses, but the hardest pieces I can play are all exactly "level 7", lol, Liebesträume No. 3, Fantaisie-Impromptu, Impromptu D.899-2/Op. 90-2 (all a bit rusty), but most perfect Pathetic Sonata, even though it's very draining since I use up all my energy
Honestly probably tristess etude can go like 6-7 idk i can but very influent
I used to play alot of Chopin but now they're kind of either too easy or mostly too hard so i went for beethoven, and my chopin and liszt rusted
@@heartsbreaktwice872 chopin and liszt nor happy
I am level 8.5, but can't play mozart for some reason :(
@@glenngouldschair390 I'm trying more chopin like Heroic Polonaise, but liszt is still too hard for my little stubby fingers:/
I like how this is actually based on piano levels and not like other videos that calls like a Chopin ballade “intermediate” lol
I've never seen anyone who called a Chopin ballade "intermediate."
@@yuk_notkim7658 some shitposts I think do that its always a joke I think
Omg, your hungarian rhapsody nr 2 sounds so good :)
Just that annoying person who wants to had that the French song at the beginning is actually "Ah! vous dirais-je Maman". The pronunciation is the same but this time it means something lmao (an English translation would be: "Ah!" would I say to you, mom... You need the whole context to understand tho)
Great vid, keep it up 👍😂
Amazing
When you play a fast arpeggio halfway into the video... it makes me wonder how many years it takes
Me thinking I’m level 6, scraping 7, and then I see Revolutionary Etude at level 9, which I’m learning right now💀
When you're small hands gang so even as a university music student, the levels become difficult but exponentially :'(
I didn't know that I was an Asian. The fact that I wear glasses is also new to me 😅
Man i wish i would be able to play hungarian rhapsody or campanella
@@wadabid6165 I'm currently learning the friska part of hungarian rhapsody no. 2. This song is above my level, but it's a lot of fun to learn.
Sry but what music school are you in or what music school did you go to
@@yifanzhang6613 When I was 6 I went to a normal music school for about 8 years. I'm 16 now
@Raged Gamer i just finnished nocturne op 9 no 1, is this one harder than op9 no 2?
This was about 90% accurate. Way better than other tier lists! To fix things, Tempest would be in tier 7 with Hungarian Rhapsody as 9. 10 would ideally be Hammerklavier or something. The other pieces are a little inaccurate, but it’s fine I can’t blame you. Excellent job with the Rhapsody. Keep improving; you’re a grade 10-11 level right now. 👏🏼👏🏼
That was fun. Have to admit, on your mistakes counter I about died when you decided to change the numbers with just the word "pathetic." Sounds like something I'd do if my fingers just weren't cooperating that day! 😆😂
Level 0: first day of piano
Level 1: maybe first week of piano
Level 2: maybe first month of piano
Level 3: sounds difficult, actually isn't
Level 4: you now officially know enough piano to start having fun with it
Level 5: now you start to actually need technique and have your first difficult runs
Level 6: a few difficult runs but nothing too bad
Level 7: OK this is actually getting slightly difficult but not anything a bit of practice can't mitigate
Level 8: fingers are now hurting, practice needs to be here at the max
Level 9: fingers now hurt no matter what, help
Level 10: I paid for the whole piano and I am going to use the whole piano
Level 11: I paid for the whole piano so I'm going to use the whole piano AND make my hands hurt constantly
Level 12: asian
I'm at level 3, I'm currently learning that exactly piece! ^^
It's been almost two year since I started practicing ^^
It is a very popular piece of that level!
@@HinLunChen I’m around level 2-3 after a year of taking piano lessons, I do hope to do even more in the future!
I really like the way you played the Tempest Sonata, full recording perhaps?
I could listen to you play all day
Appreciate the compliment :)
My teacher is Philippino and has glasses and he's super saying level 😭
Super sanin* excuse me
5:08 "Arranged by Accident" 🤣
Do piano covers of tempest. Your interpretation is amazing!!
Your 200 subscriber! Keep it up! :D
Thanks man! Appreciate it :)
funny enough i had more problems trying to learn impromptu than the whole fucking moonlight sonata
Great. Hungarian rhapsody 2 is level 10!
You know someone's a true pro when they put more expression into *Ah! Vous Dirai Je Maman* than life
I don't know why but i think (at least for myself )that the first movement of Tempest is really easier than pathetiq first movement . Loved the video ❤
I didn't realise Sonatina Op. 36 No. 1 by Clementi was "level 3". I started learning as an adult in March with no prior musical training, so ... That's reassurance I'm doing well, I guess. :D
I would say that there is a level 11 that consists of pieces that truly only the masters could achieve to its full potential like the Goldberg Variations or like Hammerklavier which extends even further beyond the solely virtuosic pieces like La Camplanella
Have you not seen Level 10+? :D
And many lesser-known Liszt pieces and Alkan also 😂
goldberg var. may be around 9+ level, slower tempo demanding, it is obviously away from the hammerklavier sonata (level 11), which is the similiar level to that of schumann toccata, rach prelude 23 no 9, brahms rearr. paganini and chopin.
@@tungholau2457 thats why I said beyond just the technical difficulty, all the pieces you just listed technically difficult
La campanella is not quite virtuosic yet
Op 10 no 1 is so beautiful definitely one of my favorite pieces
4:29 don't think you can trick me with speed, I saw the number 69 and 420 bro hehe, nice vid btw like it !
Great job! Btw only I think Traumerei is harder than K545 By Mozart? Lol
Anyway I enjoyed the last piece (prelude no 3), but it's too easy
Hmmm...just talking about technical skill I'd argue that the Mozart is harder, but I guess it's up to anyone!
where would you rank maple leaf rag? anyone else can give their opinion i was just wondering because i just learned that piece and i wanted an idea of where to go next and what i can handle
It's around Level 6 I'd say, if you are to play it convincingly
Wait let me get my glasses so I can play Hungarian rhapsody
Nice Music! ♥️