Rachmaninoff Prelude Op.23 No.5 Tutorial - Paul Barton, piano

[Jahuu78]

Wonderful, Paul! just found your tutorials here. Amazing!

[Yepesman]

Could you please upload a fingered version of this piece's sheet music for us?

It would be of great help! :D

[mushroom69690]

i like your kitchen :D

[belegSJ]

Harry Potter -books spotted at 5:36!

[taksa123456]

does anyone know where can i get the sheet with fingerings?

[markaustin]

great tutorial! Thanks!

[owenlo1994]

thank you, Can you teach me the fingering idea in bar 17 - 20? Using 4-5-4 is so difficult to perform fast, are there any other fingering idea? I also face the same problem in bar 24

[PaulBartonPiano]

@owenlo1994 -- If you have difficulty with 4-5-4 I guess 2 solutions come to mind: Octave fingering 1-5 would work, you can get a fair amount of speed if you keep your fingers close to notes, slide rather than jump helps join them together in legato. Alternately, practice the chromatic scale 3-4-5 rather than 1-2-3 (see my 2nd tut. Chopin's Etude 10/2 for explan.) 10/2 is a great study for legato octaves, strange though that would might seem. Also, relax your wrist, tension slows you down.

[kyoutojun]

thanks for sharing....i try to practice this piece....some chord so difficult but i will my very best to play all the note.....

[wwinterwind]

thank you, this is very helpful! exactly - what crippled me to learn this is the memory of my favorite performance, which of course i can't match at the time. :)) i'd really like you as teacher, everything seems so easy with you! greetings from europe

[nickapd]

is that a yamama b1?

[MusicClassical1]

Are they your piano books behind you?? If so, around how many do you have??

[MusicClassical1]

Are they your piano books behind you?? If so, around how many do you have???

[BassicStorm]

great tutorial Paul! continue with great works :)

[houlucai]

Thanks for this video, even I still doubt I can ever play it, it is amazing to see how you enjoy music! greetings from Germany

[55rollsroyce]

You are a Chopin person. What about Grieg's concerto 1 or Mozart con. 1.please consider putting them as tutorials.It is a piece of cake for you.It is a piece of cake for you and it is a pain in the a....for me.Thnx again.

[55rollsroyce]

You are the best on YouTube.I have a suggestion to make.In advanced cases please slow down the instructional chords.

[vladbob495]

thanks paul for this very instructive tutorial, well done !

tris

[andrejko3005]

Great video - tutorial,thanks

[543693The]

BELLE FORMATION.........

avoir un tel professeur .....

Magnifique !

[jbsemple2010]

That's inspired me to relearn this. You'd better go into hiding, because my wife's going to be after you with a baseball bat!

[PaulBartonPiano]

@jbsemple2010 ha! - I'm in Thailand, I can get to a remote island until you're finished :) message me when it's safe to return ...

[Mynoufou]

Thanks much Paul for this tutorial. I like the way you explain very much. Nice work.

Cheers ! ... and cu next.

Cyrille.

[afertyus1000]

Hi again Paul a very nice tutorial again,i played this years ago and struggled i think playing it mf first and not crashing out the chords help a lot to solidify the piece without burning out too soon,i once read somewhere that it's like a great funeral procession to the graveyard then the middle section is weeping over the lost beloved then the retreat again from the cemetery?? russian piano music is beautiful though cheers again

[alterI4]

THANK YOU!!!

[tunglour]

Oh lol, I was playing it at about half the speed. Now it makes sense :\

[tunglour]

Do you think I could play this with 2 1/2 years of playing if I can play about 6 total measures fairly well? I don't why everyone says this prelude is harder than the famous C# minor one, at least I find this one way easier to memorize.

Awesome tutorial!

[guruofpiano]

Great stuff my friend, Excellent, Keep up the great work. Cheers G.

[pianogirl98]

Love the way you teach!

[animalmother1065]

love how you end with a cup of tea! very nice! i am grateful for my subscription to your account, especially since my piano playing has improved as of late. I may be able to tackle some of the pieces you provide instructions for!

[bossel100]

did i see the harry potter books in your left shelfXD?

[SHINYamAHA21]

Great tutorial~

A Ha! The Lucky Red Elephant Kettle.

Paul, you are the best!!

cheers.

-KJ-

[logman135]

Wow Paul thanks for the tutorial. I will be playing this for a solo and ensemble in about a month and a half and i think this will really help me. thanks.

[darx117]

hello Paul!! i love this video it is helping me very much!!! Do you think you could mabye go through a bit of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor, Op. 18. im having a very difficult time learning this wonderfull peice.

It's soooooooo long.lol

[clavis55]

....and you really say all problems we have while practice this piece!

[clavis55]

Hey Paul. It's amazing: You make this video and i also practice this Piece in the moment. Very great Paul!!!

Best regards,

Markus

[nikipianist]

Very interesting information, ideas and tips.

Thank you so much!

[ilwmb]

Thanks Paul! Eye opening ideas again. Sometimes I have had those thoughts on passionate playing and maximal controle at the same time but they revealed themselves to me more as emotions.. which made it hard to recognize this problem... thanks for sharing your experience!

[scottg4life]

Minute Waltz Tutorial maybe?? And how many piano books do you have on that shelf?? :)

[Eldalomelin]

00:58

you have The Lord of the Rings on your bookcase!!!

\o/

[Gusakov]

Great Tutotial ...

Thank you so much, Paul !

[moe210333]

WOW...i think i am in love with u paul.....U ARE AMAZZZZING.....i wish i could play like u..p.s u have alot of collection of music

[Runnerduck16]

This is an amazing piece. I haven't tried learning it. However, his C Sharp Minor prelude is one I'm learning. Do you play it?

[pianistboy2000]

It's so unfair that this prelude sounds wonderful but it's so difficult to my small hands, especially at section B slow part with the big jump. Thanks for sharing with this tutorial and I will learn this piece with your instruction now.

[pligana]

Paul I love this video! the tutorial is great and the performance is fantastic! Thank U!

hugs!

marzia

[tunglour]

Thank you so much for this!

[carr9790]

Hey Paul, great advise as always!

[ZainEldean]

could u plz make a tutorial 4 sight reading :) what is the best way so i can practice it ?

[logman135]

I do say there is one mistake in this. Rachmaninoff could reach way more than a twelfth. I have relatively large hands (8.3 Inches) and i can hit a twelfth. what Rachmaninoff did was a twelfth chord which was c, e flat, g, c, g and he could easily do that so i would say he could hit more like a sixteenth.

[Bramborail]

A.D.M.I.R.A.B.L.E !

wow, well :)

What an inspiration :)

[abhikmazumder]

Very impressive! And very well made video.

[Martel211996]

Amazing video. Thank you so much for this. You really need to start being a teacher Paul. Ive never seen someone make learning a piece of music so fun. Its really great.

[AltoSaxOlly]

I am eternally grateful to you for this video Paul, this has been my favourite work for piano for the last 4 years, it is one of the only pieces that i can listen to again and again and never get bored of it. I'm coming close to my grade 8 piano exam and im starting to think about what im going to learn afterwards and I hope that this is one of the pieces that I could achieve (with considerable work). This is and will be a great help i'm sure. Thank you x

[SammyP321]

Excellent tutorial Paul! Thanks very much

[angelfuree]

Absolutely love your videos, man. I'm far from playing at the level of most of these pieces but still thoroughly enjoy watching them.

[K46620]

I felt like I was watching tv. Great video. This was the first time I've heard that piece *blush*

[martinadler73]

Thank you Paul for this fantastic tutorial - and the others, too, of course! They are all great and something special.

[HjalmarGuitarMaster]

Really great lesson! I tried to play this song a while ago but it was really hard to play.

the Best on Youtube

[LoftyProduction]

Fantasic work paul, this has helped so much! You make it look so easy!

[chairiffic]

this is the piece that started it all for me.

love your explanations. love your work. keep it up brother

[senatormari]

Haha, love the sound effects Paul. This has been one of my most favorite pieces by Rachmaninoff for sooo long! I've tried out the sheet music but it's so technically difficult to learn by myself. Thank you for all the tips! You've inspired me to try again!