10 Levels Of Piano
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- 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
*Everybody gangsta till the time signature changes to 1/66*
1/63*
Wtf
What the-
@@jamesm4334 1/64
@@mella1113 depends on the piece
I love how Asian is officially recognized throughout the internet as a unit of measurement for difficulty lol
@@trivekz above*
@@trivekzliszt don juan its vray vray hrad its dimon man
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
"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
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.
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.
Liszt at level 7: *sigh* here I come guys..
Lolllll
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
I have just noticed the ''Mistakes counter: pathetic'' and I couldn't help but roll on the carpet
Oh my-
After almost 10 years of playing the piano, I am proud to announce that I'm a level 2 pianist
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
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.
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. 🙂
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 😂
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!
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.
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.
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
After around 14 years of playing I can proudly say that I am a high class Level 5-6 🤣
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 😌
no the level 0.00 should be the absolute ramdom notes
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
Kinda questioning my musical "talent" right now.
Great work :D
Same, the hardest piece I know is Art of Fugue Contrapunctus I
Wait let me get my glasses so I can play Hungarian rhapsody
5:15 looks more like an Egyptian heiroglyph rather than a music sheet lol
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
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
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 is so funny, and everybody knows that you're not pathetic.
Like your video, bro.
Honestly not a bad channel and deserves more subs
I died laughing when I saw Asian with glasses 🤣
Me thinking I’m level 6, scraping 7, and then I see Revolutionary Etude at level 9, which I’m learning right now💀
The last level should be named“russian“
(Horowitz, Rachmaninov, Katia buvunshivili i forgot how her name is written, Alexandra dovgan , Volodos , sokolov ...
Wait, I am Asian with glasses but so sad didn’t know how to played this hard lol
Lies. You know how to play the hardest ones in here, I know it.
Level 10+ sheet looks like an IKEA manual🤣
When you're small hands gang so even as a university music student, the levels become difficult but exponentially :'(
There are 2 sides of Don Juan:
- Minuet from Don Juan
- Reminescences de Don Juan (and also Chopin's Op. 2 Variations)
Everybody is vibing till the 5 year old asian kid with glasses walks on stage
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!!
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.
I just learned the first movement of pathetique, which i am very happy about, and i have been playing piano for about 3 years
When you play a fast arpeggio halfway into the video... it makes me wonder how many years it takes
Level 7: chill
Level 8: time to practice...
nice video. according to this im prob learning lvl 7 songs this summer
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.
your hands playing are so smooth ! like you are touching cloud
Yooo wasn’t that lvl 10 one played in a tom and jerry episode or am I wrong
Yes, it was
Thx for the video love it
5:07 the more I look at this image, the more it gets cursed
True
Ravel's Scarbo would like a talk
Check pinned comment, I've rated it there
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:/
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 🙌
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!
I Have played piano for 3 years on music school and im still level 2 - 3
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.
Omg I got goosebumps from that sheet music
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😅
Everything level 8+ is just scary stuff 🤣
Congrats my dude you earned yourself a new sub!
Entertaining to watch lmao
That last level got me tho xDD
How old are you uwu?
Thanks man, I appreciate it. I'm 16
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..
Him: mistake counter: pathetic
Me: i didn’t hear you make any mistakes 😂
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 :)
I’m level 0.5, I’m able to use my right hand and I know the notes, but I’m completely clueless on my left hand.
„Arranged by accident“
Let me say, this is one of the most generous of this videos, but it makes me feel better 🙂
I can't understand how you have so few subscribers, you have incredible talent, congratulations and I subscribe🔔🙂
Thanks! :)
I can play the Sheet Music Boss version of In the Hall of the Mountain King, but without the octave parts for the main melody, which is partially because my piano is too small, I'm guessing that's like level 2.
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
You know someone's a true pro when they put more expression into *Ah! Vous Dirai Je Maman* than life
3:30 legit thought that was flight of the bumblebee
I thought my level was a begginer. Turns put I am between a pre-intermediate intermediate
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
Its a bit weird to comparise one self to these levels because sometimes you think like "I couldnt play these" but the in ther other pieces you actually find a piece you play
funny enough i had more problems trying to learn impromptu than the whole fucking moonlight sonata
this is awesome!!
thanks to you I know my level
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!
level 7 after 1 year of piano🥳
That's crazy. I got into level 7 after 5 years.
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
Not to flex I can play the entertainer that makes my dads heart pressure go up every time I play the infamous start.
Same and the Maple leaf rag
My teacher is Philippino and has glasses and he's super saying level 😭
Super sanin* excuse me
Very positive!Very Nice!
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 👍😂
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! 😆😂
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?
level 11 - wonderwall
I think Beethoven sonata no21 is absolutely much much more playable compared to other pieces of lv9+ list
As a pianist, the best way for me to guage how difficult a piece is, is by seeing the sheet music. That way, I can see the scale, time signature, tempo, the patterns, the distance between notes, and how awkward some of the chords are.
That piano sounds so good
Thanks for your unconditional love and support all these years 🤗...where are you watching from sweetheart 😘
@@paulbarton4558 bruh
I’m very glad to know you love my songs thank you so very much... let’s have a steady communication, I’ll like you to send me your hangout email so we can get to know each other more better.
I'm in Level 3. Love Clementi's Sonatina :)
Great. Hungarian rhapsody 2 is level 10!
for level 7 i’d say that all of the pieces listed as other are way harder than the schubert impromptu having played all of them myself
after two years i am level 7
好鍾意睇呢類型嘅片，好清楚咁俾人知道自己練到咩階段😌
2:36 are you saying liebestraum and fantasie impromptu are equally difficult
They aren’t?
I've played both and I'd say that liebestraum is a bit harder, but they both fit under this level perfectly
They are
They are equally difficult they are just not at the right difficulty rank
@@solar_aintdead4270where should it be? I think that they are j. The right level but Schubert impromptu should be the example of level 7,Schubert impromptus are more lv 6
Your pianos sound is so deep❤
“Impromptu Op 90. 2 (very advanced)” who are you kidding lmao.
Its main technical difficulty is the fact that it is relentless, with no chance of a break or stop, compared to other pieces of its level.
To put it in the same level as fantasie impromptu.... What?
@@HinLunChen I get it but no matter what I would not consider it very advanced just yet, lol. Maybe early advanced.
level 9 before one year of playing piano lol.
5:08 "Arranged by Accident" 🤣
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 !