Chopin Prelude in C minor

[dancer8164]

Why doesn't anyone play this piece Largo?!

[iliketheoldfashioned]

i love this alot.. the mood it brings: the sadness and delight at the same time. PERFECT piece of art right there.

[Spignelli]

Where is the love?

[612curtis]

I would play it a little louder at the beginning :P Great playing :D

[GabinRevolution]

INSTANT song download to mah mental mind...because I CANT READ! : D

[justinwatersify]

I particularly loved the phrasing. You don't see it in a lot of the self taught you tuber's playing piano. 

[drewdaman13]

Well played, sir! Your crescendos and decrescendos were well played.

[jpmctigue]

Well done. Those who criticize you should post their own version. How many umpires have ever hit a home run? How many refs have scored a touchdown? The guy in the game needn't answer to those on the sidelines.

[emilamirg]

lol i hear a woman talking in the background (headphones)

[teph2222]

wow at the useless critics

for me, perhaps a bit more dynamic, perhaps a bit slower, like tolling church bells for a funeral

well it is a funeral march so..

[PickleHead60]

Third measure fourth note is E natural, not E flat, fuckwit.

[mission2marsden]

I played this song a while back at a Halloween recital.

Love it. :)

[ponyboygod]

Tempo...no. Feeling...no...

[28880]

i have no clue what the hell ya'll are arguing about, this is amazing!

[babygrand3]

This is such a beautiful piece of music. Yes, I know it's sad, but sad can be beautiful too. Alex, You did a great job playing this sorrowful piece of music. I give you a ***** rating. Keep up the good work!

[Motive11331]

Fantastic piece, fantastic rendition.

[SockPixie]

Hey great dynamics!! I really like the tempo u play it at!! I know loads of ppl keep sayin to play it at painfully slow rate but this pace allows u 2 appreciate the melody rather than waiting half an hour for the first bar to be over :P tnx for posting! Hopefully I`ll be able to play it like this! :D

[mimaxworld]

this digital piano sounds really like my keyboard. It's the PSR-K1. I guess they used almost the same samples. I can play this song too:)

[Centaury666]

that piece have led?? pleace tell me!!

[Timetraveler7777]

Thank you for the beautiful music.

[daqono]

I like it, like this, or played slower, or the Barry Manilow (sp?) and even the Donna Summer disco version which was very danceable by the way. Please disregard negative comments and continue to offer beautiful music for us all. Cheers!

[456jay123]

sry, if I posted my comment 50 million times, i apologize, my computer was doing stuff to me.

[456jay123]

I do wanna just say that, in measure 3 of this piece, the last chord is C major, not minor, check the music, the E that was natural at the beginning of the measure isn't reflatted later, it's still natural because of the accidental that made it so in the first C major chord. It's a beautiful harmony part, and so I thought to mention it so you get the full effect, too. :) I'm arranging this piece as the theme for a theater production I'm doing - awesome song, and you've got good feeling to it!

[31557600]

okay what you need to do is ignore all youtube comments! and learn more chopin.. I have all his books. love love love it

[Mimmisy123]

love the angle!!! GREAT JOB!!! :)

[paprata]

Dynamics sound good to me.. this piece is such an emotional one .. loved it actually! keep posting!

[Iisflippinout]

look I've only been playing for about 2 mounths now but I know for a fact that you rideing the sustain makes this song sound like shit and by the way smart6166 it's NOT a fucking pedal it's a sustain

[issyco]

I love your talent and the way you played this :D

Check out my rachmaninov piece. I sent it to you as a vid response.

Again, great talent!

[SiT1986]

Chopin is amazing!

[kmatson07]

Bravo! Very well done! BTW love the G minor Ballade! Kevin

[setunle]

Barry Manilow's "Could it be magic" is supposed to be based on this, but as I am not very musically percipient, I find it hard to spot exactly how. Can one of you please explain ?

Thanks

[issyco]

@setunle , Barry Manilow got his inspiriation from this song.

[arundul12]

Good Job...a little too choppy. I know that this song is written like that at the beginning, but all the way through it was a bit jerky...i was nodding with it. I need to feel likke i am about to cry, but i just felt 'Oh this is pretty'.

[FatMat426]

Well done regarding your piano playing, but the sound quality on this video is lacking.

[64wulf]

i came up with a piece that sounds just like this wtf ughhh, iv never heard of this piece before, haha just when i thought it was original.

[calisienis]

co to za złomrex

[mjabramoff]

this piece is frikin largo its too fast your dynamics are messed up try to start louder then decrecendo towards the cord with 6 keys then gradualy get louder that would help and then play the 2nd time through the 2nd part pp i just went to YAMS with this peice and with beethovens moonlight sonata the first threw 3rd mvmts and this is what she told me i did good on so yeah

[dr0alexander]

What is YAMS? I have not heard of this before and google seems to offer no answer. In reply; in my view this piece is at a slow enough speed. I have read that Chopin never liked to dawdle in his playing, so to play this at a much much slower speed might not be following his tradition, and also it could be a tad overdone.

[cjacob84]

@mjabramoff you are absolutely right

[brentsummers1]

where are your periods?

[brentsummers1]

where are your periods?

[GarrettSnowTV]

@mjabramoff there are like 5 billion tempo/speed markings in music so please don't expect him to know ALL of them.

[smart6166]

well done but to fast, plus you forgot to pedal :P

[loaactnow]

its more challenging to play without the pedal

[superjam18]

which is better a digital piano or an accoustic or does it all depend on the preference of the musician.

[cjacob84]

@superjam18 mostly preference, i like very real, and warm sounding digital pianos and i prefer acoustic pianos that have good key action and a warm or dark feeling.

[nwsrocks]

Well done.

[NoirHammer]

Pretty darn good. I don't know the tempo of the piece but I prefer it much slower because sad songs should be played slowly. However, that's my preference and it doesn't reflect upon your playing which was very good.

[luiscarlossoc]

haha its funny... i been in paino for three years and a week ago I finished the 4th book and this was the last song

[bf812]

in the fifth measure there are two notes in between count three and four most people think it is part of the chord on the third beat. the third beat is just a D octave

[bf812]

sorry I actually was wrong. after looking at the music, your way makes more sense.

[retownsend]

you need to play the first five measures ff !!!!

[cinthiakarenesib]

niiiiice!!!

[reivajthepianist]

in the 0:27 in the right hand , this one is Mib in the higest note, i have some books with that correction, maybe are you wrong ??? mmm..

[Jyhwei0507]

I am a fan of Mi on that note, and I believe in Rachmaninoff's Variations there is Mi

[SireRage]

I love how you you show a great demonstration of preperation. Your fingers are over the chord before it is played, and once it is executed you immediately move to the next chord. a great video.

[murf69]

awesome

[suhwahaksaeng]

I notice you play an Eb on the fourth beat of measure 3. Some teachers say it should b an E-natural because of the E-natural on the second beat.

However, there is a story that one of Chopin's students played an E-natural like a good little boy, but Chopin stopped him and marked an Eb on the score.

So Chopin made a mistake. Too bad they didn't have Finale and Sibelius programs back then; he could have caught his mistake in the playback.

[narniatwilightfreak1]

O.o wow... so pretty but mystified and... i'll admit idk how to explain

[mtysar]

love it so much

[jennyrhapsody]

Thanks Alex! :) your great!!!! that´s a beatiful song, and thanks to your video, I will try to discover what it mean my partiture! xD

(yes... really bad english...IoI!!!)

anyway!!! thanks and kisses!!!!

Jenn

[fashionandmusic921]

lol, petal...

I thought it was a nice performance.

[splendify]

"Could It Be Magic?" Chopin and Manilow....who would have guessed?

[krzyzynski]

takie delikatne, jednak koniec odbiera nadzieję...

[higor666]

you is GREAT

[jaimehxrawrr]

9000th view! haha

[XtheXXgentlemanX]

use dynamics better. and petal.

[mannmadedesign]

this was a great stumble for me! never heard this song before, don't know alot of chopin to be honest, but this has made me want to find out some more about him... lovely piece, simple, haunting, very nice to listen to... might give it a go myself... good job! and in response to the 'jesustwo' comment, this is EXACTLY why i come to youtube!

[dr0alexander]

Thank you for watching and listening, and please do research Chopin, he was a remarkable person; and his music is some of the greatest written for piano.

[jelloisjiggly88]

I played this and put it up here, and I am suprised how you cant really hear the change in dynamincs on the computer. Fantastic job though!!

[Annie1314168]

its pretty good, but are u playing it ff? cuz it doesnt seem loud, just moderately..

[racert]

Jesustwo, yer an idiot. what do you mean don't post this. why do you think this site exists you FOOL!

[Kurlando]

Does this remind anyone of Saya's Fear from Blood+?

[FREEASTHESTARS]

you're just saying that because you want to. Maybe you don't know that, but I know that I sang it but whatever you thnk it isn't and i think it is let's just leave it at that

[jesustwo]

I don't hear passion, the notes were played, but that doesnt make the sound music. Its good to play, but don't put this on youtube please, it's difficult when you're searching.

[dr0alexander]

Well, I am certainly the stuff of ardent passion for most of the compositions of Chopin, and I hope; therefore, that some emotive elements are presented in my playing. If you know such a great deal about how to play passionate Chopin, why do you not publish videos of yourself playing it?

[JackMather01]

This is supposed to go in a crotchet is equal to c. 50 but this is going at about lento

:( the first line is ff the second line is p and the third line is pp this is about f all the way through it :( Sorry about the comment :(

[123skard123]

@jesustwo Surely YouTube is a place of learning as much as boasting? He can post this on here to get critique, and that is perfectly acceptable.

[FREEASTHESTARS]

i love this and you're very good too. Actually, this is a song i actually sang in choir it is called "December's Keep"

[purplorange]

no it isn't.

[kaixin90]

beautiful.

[bhv2007]

That's very good!!! Do you know where can I find the sheet???

[NiAvBaBy]

i just did my grade 6 piece today and i played that piece.. =]

[BB2nite]

Technically fine...a little mechanical I thought...needs a little "soul", but still, well done.

[dr0alexander]

I think that Chopin's music should have a restrained, unsentimental sound to it at all times. This piece is technically quite simple in comparison to his other works, and so in this piece the majority of all the effectiveness is communicated through harmony and dynamics.

[BB2nite]

Exactly what I meant by needing a little "soul"....

[whateverg0]

i agree. there needs to be more varience in expression. louder at the start!

[we1l]

which yamaha model is it plz....

[dr0alexander]

It is a CVP 203

[we1l]

Thanks very much for the info, it sounds very much like the real thing!

[tqoftu]

I didn't care for the end...I didn't feel like it was powerful enough. I love this piece though. It's simple and yet so pretty. So easy...and yet to play it 100% correct is very difficult.

[dr0alexander]

I do care for the end, I prefer it not to be extremely powerful. There is no such thing as "100% correct" as no one has heard Chopin play it. Therefore every performance is an interpretation. Even if you follow the score exactly the interpretations with be different.

[BrettBrianProduction]

I agree with you. This is a funeral march - what's "powerful" about that? I've played this piece often and prefer a quieter solemn ending.

[bringthesong]

Barry Manilow??

[darthobvious1138]

nicely played - did you know that this is the piece that "could it be magic" by Barry Manilow and more recently Take That recorded?

[rockersp92]

great job! i just started working with this piece three days ago, and i am absolutley in love with it. it is so powerful. kudos on this work!

[mimishell]

Damn I can't play this because my fingers aren't long enough for some of the chords. Curse you and your long fingers.

[cynderfella]

Great job! My piano teacher pulled this out yesterday for me to work on saying "Here's a quick and easy piece to learn." Uh, I think she was smoking something because this is not easy!

[eyko]

I think he meant easy as in slow pace and it's short... This is a very nice piece that can be used to teach and emphasize on the expression with which you play... the score is fairly simple, the interpretation is obviously not that simple. This is a great piece!

[chad410]

nice work.this is diceptively not easy and i can t spell