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  • nailed the page turn! :p great performance! in my opinion the tempo is spot on, possibly a tad faster in the mind of daquin.

  • @Pingus175 ~Thank you. I have been critiscised for pulling back a little between sections, but that was really to bring out the bass notes which are rather weak on my piano!

  • WOW, thats really good! I'm learning this piece for my grade 7 exam in March!

  • @musicgirl857994 Thank you - and the very best of luck for the exam. I suggest you listen to as many performances as you can, and take the best features of each for your own!

  • That's great sounding. How much practice did it take. It seems to me that you are very skilled pianist. How long have you been playing piano. I am practicing that song. You played it great though . It's a lot faster than I thought it was.

  • @shark2235 Thank you very much - sorry about the sound quality, which is better on my more recent videos. I have played for over 45 years, but first learned this piece when I was a teenager. Good luck with your study of the piece!

  • good but terrible sound quality

    

  • @toushibaby I agree about the sound. This was one of the first videos I made, and I have since replaced the camera and changed my editing procedures!

  • geniuses these days :P

  • @amdag1 I wish I were a genius!

  • @PSearPianist you are have you sir seen the number of likes you've received?! perhaps your definition of genius is a bit too much :P

  • 謝謝你的演奏 很好聽 好棒

  • @twgirl1 非常感谢您为您的评论!

  • Lovely performance - good tempo too, I love playing this one fast!

    May I just ask why you slurred the 'cuckoo'? I have always played it non-legato but perhaps I'm wrong!

  • @pondwatcher Thank you for that. I can't remember why I did what I did, but if the touch of your piano suits, I think the 'cuckoos' would work fine staccato.

  • @PSearPianist Quick response! I always hear the cuckoo sound as two separate sounds, not a slurred sound :)

  • @pondwatcher in my edition, it is detached, and the emphasis is on the second note, but different editions do it differently :P

  • Awesome.

  • @thedemon51015 Thank you!

  • Hooray! Finally I find a melody on You channel that I know! My uncle plays it on Russian balalaika :-) It was a pleasure to hear You play it!

  • @MarianneAlkonost That's good to hear. I'm sure it would sound great on balalaika!

  • Wow , you are such an amazing pianist, Sir! And it's so kind of you to reply to each one of your comments.

    May I request you to play "One summer's day" by Joe Hisaishi? It's such a wonderful piece and I'd love to listen to your rendition.

  • @Shawty453 Thanks for your kind comment. I don't have the Hisaishi piece, but I will certainly look out for it!

  • needs a lot of finger practice ?

  • @MegapPlayer Either you need to do a lot of practice especially to play this piece, or (better) play lots of other music and studies so that your fingers are ready to learn and play this without too much specific work.

  • @PSearPianist thanks for replying my comment

  • @MegapPlayer That's a pleasure!

  • i love all of your performances! whenever i want to hear how to play a piece correctly and with feeling, i always come to your channel. sure, it's great that a 4 year old may be able to play the notes with a semblance of rhythm, but they can't master the emotion or technique that a more mature player is able to.

  • @brokenlock037 Thanks very much for your kind comment. Of course I can't guarantee that the odd wrong note or (worse) rhythmic misreading might not creep into my videos, but I try my best - especially with little-known music which maybe I am giving its first ever chance to be heard in the 21st century!

  • ชอบเสียงคุณปู่ครับ..

  • @0872531415 ขอบคุณสำหรับข้อคิดเห็นของคุณ

  • :D Very good!!! Good job

  • @mcdomino24 Thank you!

  • i can play that and i'm ten. seriously.

  • @electromoo Well that's great. But of course, you may well still want to play it when you are 50 too. One never gets tired of playing good music!

  • @electromoo its possible that he learnt it when he was eight noone knows, so dont tkink you are better than him, maybe he wanna show people how to play this piece so others can learn how to play it correct like he does

  • @electromoo shut up kid, music isn't a race of age

  • @electromoo fag

  • I like it VERY MUCH ^^

  • @yearjudy That's GREAT!

  • =) woow

  • @oOMagic666 Hope you liked it!

  • I can play at this speed, but it sounds totally wrong from yours

  • @TheScrabbleAddict I hope mine does not sound too bad!

  • ... Sorry, I am currently Learning this myself, and I can only play it half this speed. Tell me, why aren't you famous?!?'

  • @sockmonkeyzruleXD Thank you very much for your comments. I wish you luck with your study of the piece! I am not famous because I never had any 'lucky break', and never won any piano competitions or prizes. Also, anything I can do, a lot of other pianists could do if only they had time to learn the little-known repertoire I play.

  • @PSearPianist people are so silly, you sshould be famous. totally.

  • This is amazing. I hope one day I can play as well as you. I am currently

  • Wonderful job; this song is simply beautiful.

  • @B0Ygenius Thank you very much!

  • wow you are amazing i am trully jelous . well done mate :)

    I am in the middle of teaching myself fue elise.

  • @sarahb401 Thank you very much - and I wish you every success with ' Für Elise ' . You will find a video of me playing that on this channel!

  • seems very, very hard...but well played!!! how long did it take to master the piece?

  • @andreagwlo It took me a couple of hours to get ready for the video - but I had learned it when I was around 12, when I would have taken much longer over it!

  • What do you think of playing the "cou cou"-s as staccato-tenuto rather than legato? Do you agree that it makes the motive sound closer to the naturally produced cou-cou it is inspired by? That is what I think.

  • @BjornHegstad I fully agree - and that's I hope what I did on my video. The not-perfect sound might make it a bit more legato than I would intend!

  • @PSearPianist Indeed, it sounds very legato! However, should perhaps the cou cou-s that move upwards (seconds 18-22 in the video) be played legato? My scores suggest so, however, my copy has been revised by a modern pianist. You don't happen to have access to scores closer to the original, do you?

  • @BjornHegstad I don't - but I am pretty sure that an original score would probably give very little indication of how the notes should be attacked.

  • omg sir you need to please be my piano instructor. you are soo talented. Ive been playing piano for four years and i really wish i started when i was little but i hope to become harvard material in the next year. lol

  • @gbombb22 Thank you! Alas I do not teach piano, but there are lots of teachers out there. If it is any encouragement to you, there is a guy playing piano in the upcoming ' Britain's Got Talent ' final who has only been playing for four years. I have to say, I was not very impressed by him - but then I have never made a big show like that!

  • nice job i had no idea this song would be this hard!!! you play it very well

  • @brianyzhang Thanks, and good luck with your own study of the piece!

  • well done

  • @5um4nu3l Thank you!

  • @deathlioness125 Thank you - and good luck with your own study of this enjoyable piece!

  • i find the B minor bit really hard. well done sir.

  • @CheekyVimto08 Thank you - and keep working at it the B minor section and you will master it!

  • any tips for a broken middle C key?

  • @0xXxXfactorXxXx0 Not really. If I had one, I would get someone in to fix it as soon as possible, and I would play my electric piano while I was waiting for the repair!

  • I know this probably sounds wierd, because I can play this song well, but I can't turn the pages! Whenever there is a page turn I have to do an awkward pause and it ruins my whole song. Thumbs up if you agree!

  • @guggle690 Well, because I am bad at memorizing, I probably spend as much time on organising the page turns as I do for learning the music I play on this channel. The edition of this piece that I use has the page turn at quite a convenient place. I always turn up the corners at the bottom of the pages to make the turns easier. Good page turning is something that comes with a lot of practice, and there are some accompanists out there who make the page turning process part of their 'act'.

  • @guggle690 You could also just photocopy the pages separately and spread them out on your stand.

  • bravo, thats amazing, i wanna play like that!

  • @MzzzChristina I'm sure you could do it - keep practising!

  • @freyalovemiley Well, I've been playing for a long time. Alas I am (and would look) too old to appear in any competition! I wish you luck in the events - when you play just imagine you are providing what you would want to hear were you sitting in the audience.

  • I used to play this piece as a kid, and i went on to have an obsession with some major french composers, namely Debussy & Ravel. Whilst at uni i thought, i know i can play technically, but i can't seem to always read and play when it gets really tricky. The answer was to composer my own hommage to Debussy. I hope this inspires any other children out there learning the piano today. enjoy! (i've created a video response called "Ballade Des Cascades"

  • @jameslerouge Well, I am not sure what a homage to Debussy has to do with Daquin. Nevertheless, I am happy to leave the link there!

  • @PSearPianist only that the earliest french composer that i personally came to realise through my piano playing was Daquin. I am merely reminiscing, and i always thought it interesting that most of the french composers that i know and love are very much from the 19th/20th century. Thank you

  • bravo!!!!!joli travail

    ca donne envie de sy mettre!

  • @37000lydie Mercie beaucoup!

  • Guys checkout Wargasm- Le Cou Cou, it's a cover by a thrash metal band from 1986. They cover this in guitar.

  • @ala0ngr I had not heard of that!

  • @PSearPianist did you check it out?

  • @ala0ngr I have done that - someone has put a recording on YouTube. It is interesting to hear it, and to note that at around 0:46 (on the recording, not my performance) they pull back slightly between sections to make the bass project clearly - exactly what I do on my video, and some viewers did not like!

  • You look a bit like Larry David from this angle haha. Very good performance!

  • @aStrimbu I'm glad you liked it!

  • How do you play it so fast? I cant seem to catch the notes when i play it like your speed.

  • @mangogal I guess I try to keep a loose wrist and arms when I play this.

  • i had this stuck in my head all day, i came here to get rid of it. its very catchy :D

  • @myco578 I'm sure the composer would be pleased to hear that.

  • Beautiful >0<

  • @Mizuki7Ray Thank you!

  • Wow ;)

  • @xxFuncAttYxx Thanks!

  • WOW! BEAUTIFUL! I'm learning this song and I am not even at a quarter of that speed!

  • @rtrrnjjan94 It is the spirit you convey, not the speed, that is important. Good luck with your study of the piece!

  • M A G N I F I Q U E

  • @bridjette2008 Merci beaucoup!

  • It's wondrous

  • @katiecylaw Thank you!

  • Woah, I'm still learning but I'm at about a quarter of the speed! Haha :)

  • @neoflowers1234 Keep working at it. Remember, it will work at various different speeds - after all, I've no idea how fast the composer played it!

  • you play very well

  • @pianomaster11385 Thank you, and good luck with your study of the piece.

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  • @casutal I think that if you could memorize a piece after playing it once you would be a phenomenal memorizer. I can play a piece fifty times and still not memorize it. Some people will naturally remember a piece after working on it for a while without even thinking about the memory process.

  • I chuckled when I saw u turn the page so quickly not sure why. Probably cuz i have to do the same thing

  • @thebestateverythin If only I were a natural memorizer.....

  • I love your trills. They sound so natural.

  • @PrincessArnika That's very kind. I try to play them in a relaxed manner, from the wrists rather than the fingers.

  • yep now i learning this song but i cant play as fast as you play :(

  • @belladilah Thank you. Keep up the practising!

  • the sound was kinda blurred, but splendid performance overall! Good job!

  • @xfightxnick Thank you. My more recent videos (February 2008 on) use a different camera, and hopefully have clearer sound!

  • really great impression of this masterpiece! I hope I will ever be capable of playing it this well :D

  • @RefluxRepresentative Thank you. Work hard on it, and I am sure you will.

  • @PSearPianist thanks :D if I ever manage to do it I'll post it as a vid response, maybe you can tell me what you think then :D

  • @RefluxRepresentative Alert me when you do, and I will take a look.

  • I'm learning this piece now, and it's so stunning!!! Btw wonderful job :)

  • @daisylover93 Thank you - and good luck with your study of the piece!

  • best performance on YT this piece!

  • @guitarviet That's very kind. Thank you!

  • cool. :P

  • @Akerutari Thank you!

  • is that seriosly the tempo? haha i play it much slower

  • @comandertomas Well, it's the tempo I like. No-one knows how fast the composer would have played it!

  • @comandertomas this is the tempo that is supposed to be played

  • im going to play this for recital song!

  • @JoeArcane2 That's good to hear. Good luck with your performance!

  • Hello. Would you please listen to my composition? I have a composed a piece in a similar style to this and think you will be pleasantly surprised. My composition utilizes a variation on the main theme of this composition and is overall baroque in nature.

    When you click on my name, it is the first upload on my channel "Baroque Rondeau by Christian Chuquihuara"

    Please give me a thumbs up if you like it, or a thumbs down if you do not.

    Thank you for taking the time to watch and listen to it.

  • This song isn't that hard. I learned it over two moths and I don't even play the piano

    this is the first song I learned, and now I trying to get like as fast as that and with a metronome LOL.

    Here is some advice I find to be very helpfull :The trick with playing the piano is to do it one hand and a time and then after play it hands together

    Could you answer me one question what is your favorite song on piano??(^_^)

  • @yellow774 That's a very hard question. I have heard and played too many pieces in my life to choose one!

  • thats a bloody hard song played bloody well. took me forever to learn. good playing!

  • @nixin143 Thank you! I hope that now you have learned it you enjoy playing it as much as I do.

  • Learinf the song right now

  • @brickwarsrunescape Good luck with your study of the piece!

  • years ago I played this for grade 9 rcm exam... I hoped I played as well as you did..but apparently I went way too fast =(

  • @ChronosCypress I guess it can go fast, as long as the articulation is clear and even, and it does not sound 'rushed'.

  • I didn´t wanted to critizise you ;) I like it fast^^ :)

  • @SizilianFreestyle2 No problem - I didn't see your comment as a criticism!

  • Wow i played it too but not soo fast^^ but there are only 16th notes? and you play perhaps 128 xD but respect hehe 5*

  • @SizilianFreestyle2 Thanks for your kind comment. Of course there is no 'right's speed for this piece, as no-one knows how Daquin himself played it. I like it quite fast, but that's just my taste!

  • ur amazing! im playing this song too and i can nevr play it as fast and as well as you!!

  • @doglover4lyf08 Thank you! Work hard, and anything is possible!

  • Wow!!! :X

  • @dieuhg I hope that means you liked it!

  • @PSearPianist : Of course I like it. I'm learning to play this sheet at the moment. I wish I can play as fast as you do. I have problems when trying to play fast :-(. You're so great :X

  • Okkk i am meant to be learning this. Is it meant to be this fast?!!!

  • @alixandthemachine Well, I think you should play it at whatever speed allows you to express to an audience what you think the message of the music is.

  • 乐曲非常流畅,棒极了!

  • @HaHaHaHaSmile 感谢您很客气的评论您!

  • Loved it! I was supposed to do homework lol, but I just had to finish this whole video cuz it was so good!!

  • I love your comment! I hope you got the homework done. Perhaps, after hearing some music (even mine!) you may have done it better than you would otherwise!

  • wow amazing! I really admire people who can play the piano so well... Indeed a piano virtuoso you are. I've been playing the piano, but I'm not goog in sightreading.. This piece is grade 6 in my book...This is so difficult. I wish I could see you some fast etudes of Chopin...

  • Thank you for your kind comments (both). I think this piece is actually grade 7 in the UK (I realised the other day that I had played it for my own G7 exam many years ago). I have played quite a few of the Chopin etudes - but they are 'played to death' by other pianists, including lots of performances on YouTube, and I'm not sure I have anything to new to add. There are some other fast studies and pieces played by me on this channel though!

  • Wow! I really admire those who can play the piano so amazingly well! Indeed a piano virtuoso you are! I've been playing the piano, but I'm not good in sightreading... considering that this piece is a Grade 6 piece in my piano pieces book... It will take me months to master this piece... just like what happen to my studying of Mozart's Rondo alla Turca... Very Good! I'm looking forward to see more of your videos.

  • wow. excellent! this is a hard song, i have the sheets. it's just that i am having a hard time sight reading and counting at the same time. any advice on howto improve sight reading skills? thak you!

  • Thank you. I am not a teacher, but the only advice on sightreading I can give is: do lots of it, in different styles of music, and listen to recordings (easy to do these days) so you are doing a combination of sightreading and playing by ear when you learn new pieces.

  • @PSearPianist ok. thanks for the advice. i am really having a hard time. maybe because i started taking up formal training when i turned eighteen. well, thanks again! :)

  • I'm very pleased to hear that. Good luck with your own study of the piece.

  • I love this very much! Thanks for playing this piece so beautifully,

    Sylvia.

  • Thank you, Sylvia!

  • I love playing it fast although I can hardly keep on the pace over the few bars with semiquavers on the left hand but I keep on training ...ah,ah....

  • Piano practice takes a lot of self-discipline.  Never be satisfied with second-best! Good luck with your work on this piece.

  • it's really beautiful I'll soon make this song

  • Thank you - and good luck with your own study of the piece!

  • I personally have never heard a cuckoo that sounds like this, but its a brilliant song and im learning it at the moment.

  • Well - its an artistic cuckoo! Good luck with your study of the piece.

  • In Canada, it is a Royal Conservatory grade nine piece.

  • Thank you for that info.

  • thankyou!

  • i was wondering what grade this piece is?

  • In the UK it is classed as Grade 7 (I checked in the Edexcel difficulty levels book).