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  • You are very cute! Youre neck is very nice, but this is chopin! You cant play it on this kind of piano like autist! I am sure that you really dont know what the real music is! I'm sorry

  • im depressed these days and this is my feelings

  • I have to learn this shit in a week i am so fucked

  • Isn't this the tune to a popular song from the 1970s or so? Sounds familiar.

  • @tempetiger I am learning this now, and my teacher said Barry Manilow did a rip off of this...I really love Chopin....I was actually in Warsaw and saw the pillar where his heart is entombed....

  • @tempetiger You are thinking of Barry Manilow's Could it Be Magic. He used it as a tribute to Chopin.

  • I play it on my keyboard and also wish to play this on a grand..... it would be really fun!!!!

  • i like this better than the new version.

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

  • @PickleHead60 actually, it differs based on what book at what publisher published it. Some show e flat, but some don't.

    I personally have the version w/out the e flat.

  • A bit to fast and not the expressions I would go for, but I would still listen to this 1000000000 times.... great job

  • Well I can play that but I've never realised it before.

    I mean, I learned it from the Barry Manilow song, not realising it was Chopin.

  • Actually, it's not exactly the same is it?  Trouble is I have learned a "wrong" version of it now. Oh well.

  • Yuck, nothing can replace acoustic.

  • I think the dramatic ending is a good twist from how I play this piece. I barely bring a crescendo, and it also has a very good effect on the piece. I might try playing a very dramatic crescendo at the end.

  • slower slower =)

  • You're playing wrong notes! In measure 3, 3rd beat, it is G F E-flat, not A-flat G E-flat. Also, you have no phrasing. Every chord sounds like a blow to the head, instead of being connected to the overall phrase.

  • You must play this music more slow

  • VERY VERY FAST, NOT GOOD WORK. !

  • @leojor7576 Actually, this is how it's supposed to sound.

    Very good job ! (:

  • Just cause were not Chopin or Bach or a Ludwig ,''or even a concert pianist doesn't

    mean your a bloke?,''That means I'm a bloke,cause my timing is off and i make up with rubato,'' improvising till it sounds like finger exercises or on a good day my own song,''hA! Making girls think i'm great,''(the clueless ones always,like blokes)'' That i will be a great composer soon,''LOL,''I gotta find out what the hell a bloke is? !aH

  • zoom in on that wrong note at :30

  • Depends on the key board. I have a roland and it sounds pretty near like a grand piano. A good quality keyboard will run five grand plus. If you buy a keyboard from Radio Shack, you get what you pay for.

  • Keep it up! don't listen to the haters... Of course concert pianists are going to sound better than you. Good job mate.. CHOPIN FTW

  • With a song like this you should play with your heart. It's filled with sorrow and Im just not feeling it here.

  • how did you get that sound quality? Did you use an external mic?

  • yes u shuld slow it down, but i think it wuld b much btr on a grand piano (w/ it open) and prob a bit louder at end

  • Do you happen to have the sheetmusic that I can have please.

  • omg i tried to play this but my hands r still too small...  :(

  • @nos0323 lmao after learning this, both my hands can reach a ninth--it totally messed me up, because now, for every other piece I play, when I have to play an octave I instinctively go to my max hand-span, which is too much.

  • ok I dont know many of Chopin ,but I think that we dont have to be very agrssive because everyone have mistakes

    and that its all.

  • pathetic, even for an electric piano

  • have you played this before? and you could have been nicer

  • @penguinluvgirl

    I'm not here to be nice. I'm here to be honest. This is terrible. And yes, I have played this before.

  • @gozhn well you could have been alittle nicer at least. you could have at least said nice try tho or something. goodness.

  • @gozhn well you could have been alittle nicer at least. you could have at least said nice try tho or something. goodness.

  • You missed a vital Bb on beat 3 of the second measure.

  • too fast

  • I really like this song.

    Some kid played it at my piano concert today and he was good at it.

    :)

  • nice

  • The electric keyboard really takes away from hearing the melody - because it's not using hammers to control the speed of the attack of the note. Good melodic and rhythmic accuracy. I think the pedal could add a lot more, and really bring out the top notes in the right hand. You looked very tense. I think you could relax a little bit, and get away from using the sheet music. Add some expression and it would be a fantastic performance! Good work thus far!

  • good! :)

  • I liked it. What book is that you are using?

  • Probably could be slower -- there's really great harmonies in there that need time to be absorbed. Nice dynamic contrast on the higher registers, though.

  • nice dude!

  • slow down man. all of chopins songs are very expressive. be more expressive. but its still. im not sayin its bad. 4 stars!

  • You should try to play it a little more legato.

    And you're lacking a note in the Eb 7/13 chord in the third beat of the 2nd measure. Try to use the thumb in both the Db and Eb keys.

  • Don't be in such a hurry... listen to the music

  • I agree, this piece needs to be slow and have a lot feeling injected into the music. So many YouTubers play like they have to run to the bathroom.

  • thannksssssssss alottttttttttttt nice interpretacion but a little equivocation goot job

  • He was a very sickly young man. I guess I  too would have been "angry" being dealt that "hand". Died so young. Love playing his music.

  • this is like the perfect song for the story of Chopin's life, he was a pretty troubled, sad dude

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  • Also, does anyone know why in some performances of this piece (such as the Rubinstein and Alfred Cortot performances) the performers play a C major instead of a C minor chord on the last beat of the third measure (heard at about 0:32 of this video)? I've only noticed this in what seem to be older recordings, so I wonder if maybe a more accurate score was discovered recently? Or if the interpretation just changed over time?

  • In the third measure, third chord (with the dotted eighth-16th), you went too high with the soprano voice. I believe you played an Ab to G when the music reads a G to F. Not too big of a deal, I know the ledger lines above the staff can seem to get jumbled sometimes haha. I don't mean to be nit-picky, but I'm analyzing this piece for a theory class, so I figured I'd point it out

  • too fast.

  • I hate the forte in this pice, my god, why did chopin writte in F forte_

  • do you know a better forte? for this ????

  • ok... i will just ignore youre comment because it made no sence...

  • it made no sence?! okay sorry ...

  • @puchalaka whoa 2 people in a row that can't spell sense. CRAZY

  • Why?

  • It was a mediocre rendition. I don't think that you really did the song justice with the pieces of the piece that you pieced together. Two boos for you.

  • yayforcomments???,use your real channel,to comment

  • beutiful

  • I am learning to play this now..i love itt!

  • this sounded okay...the player could have accented the melody notes a bit more by having more wieght on the pinky. This skill is very difficult to achieve...so i give the player a thumbs up anyways :)

  • I think you have a musical heart. I can hear that the left hand octaves are almost imperceptively slightly late but if you listen carefully you can hear it.

    Great vava voom!

  • absolutely wonderful! Bravo! I know this piece inside out because it's been one of my favorites since i learned it about 6 years ago. There's only ONE thing i could suggest you could improve on. On the octave graces notes in the slower section on page 2 you could make the top note sing out and really ring like you're playing a bell almost. Imagine grabbing in with your pinky while slightly tilting your hand to the thumb. ^_^ you played it SO good though. A ++++

  • sorry but you need a real piano for chopin it does not sound near as good on keybords. but you did awesome playin

  • No, i think you did a very good job conveying the sorrow of this piece, even though it was on keyboard. Great job, i JUST finished this piece today. =D

  • hey u have the same book i have haha

    good book

  • does any body know a web site i can get this piece on for FREE for baritone T.C.

  • 04/12/09 If capitalism worked properly, Bill Gates or Warren Buffet would just send you a piano.

    For you to play so well has been a lot of work and dedication on your part. You should have your piano. You would be able to produce much more if only because you would blend so much better with your instrument.

    Good luck to you and thank you for sharing your gift...wish I could say the same for capitalism.

  • So random but I completely agree with this guy on capitalism.

  • I wish I could play this well :C

  • "poco a poco accelerando"??? nonononononononononononononono­no

  • I read a lot of things about the tempo, but personally, I think people usually play it too slowly. Having said that, tempo is dependant upon many factors, and the other characteristics of your performance don't quite line up with this tempo. To make any specific judgements wouldn't be fair considering the limitations of an electric keyboard. But there are some wrong notes, too many for a piece like this. They seem like misreadings rather than accidents. Just review the score more carefully

  • TEMPO!!

    but..it's good.

  • GREAT! I played this song but now i forget how. YOU ARE AWESOME!!!

  • Piano playing is not necessarily a contest of dynamics, nor is it necessarily a contest of speed. The heavy handedness of this playing is reminiscent of the weight borne upon the feet of a person carrying a coffin, so in that sense, interpretively this is a quite excellent piano player

  • Yes this is a sad but beautiful song, imagine staving off Tuberculosis for 22 of 39 years of your entire life time, how happy would be your music?

  • I enjoyed it. Thank you.

  • Too fast, no emotion

  • This music is absolutely beautiful!

  • Many wrong notes in the beginning. Maybe you learned it wrong.

    Also, you had a lot of tempo shifts throughout the song. Not in a good way.

    Do you have a damper pedal? It didn't sound very smooth.

  • He play false, but i like the sound

  • Ive heard that it was Chopin's funeral march but i don't know how true that is so dont take my word for it

  • good job, but I can't stand hearing this on an electric piano - give the song justice and play it on a grand piano

  • not everyone has $10 000 to throw away

  • boo!!

  • It would sound better on a grand paino. Doesn't have to buy one - come on - he's gotta know of a grand paino somewhere to play on.

  • Where I live, the only grand piano is at the high school. It is in very bad condition. Some people cannot afford to spend a lot of money on a better piano. I have an excellent piano, which I have never heard equalled by a grand piano. The sound has a quality that I've never heard anywhere else. I do somewhat agree with you, though, an electric piano is not right for this. It needs an acoustic.

  • @utubestas My aunt has a grand piano.

  • @utubestas how about 5k? If you're quite passionate for the piano than it's an investment.

  • the chords shouldnt be so overwhelming. stress the melody note in the right hand. obviously thats usually the top note

  • You are false. It`s not the Funeral March.

  • Actually the 'Funeral March' is the Chopin Piano Sonata Op. 35 No. 2 in Bb minor, so named for the third movement (Marche funèbre: Lento).

  • You gotta give the guy a break considering the piano, liszt-faust. I play different acoustic pianos for about 20 hours a week, but this one house to which I go has an electric piano and it drives me FUCKING NUTS every time. I know what you mean, it's a little terse, but the electric piano generally eliminates about 90% of the sensitivity you put into your playing. This is fine work.

  • "Like someone died or something"? lol... well, whatever visual you need to play is up to you, but musically, it's very quater-notey... there's no shape to the phrases, its just a pounding on every single quarter note. There should still be depth to the sound, but the melody needs to be what's moving the music, not the chords. I know you're limited by an electronic piano, but if you listen for it, you'll be able to do it. Follow the slurs in the score to help you make the phrasing decisions.

  • Nice :) I like to play it with more feeling, much harder.

  • Well played

    A lot of Chopin's songs sound very sad. He was a brilliant, but also a very troubled man.

  • very good .... i think your version of op 28 no 20 is the best one in youtube!!! its sounds so aggressiv and i like that (the other sound more happy..:( ).... so i like your version ^^

  • Why are so many of you so proud and critical?! At least he has learnt it!!

  • Hooray! I agree.

  • me too

  • pedantic

  • The title is correct, it is not in c sharp. Also, Barry Manilow based his song 'Could it be Magic' on this prelude. Well played.

  • Prelude in C sharp minor by Chopin? need more technical improvement, hand finger technics too.

  • Didn't Barry Manilo use this song in the 1970's...

    Come into my arms???

  • to harald5000: fuck off.

  • to leifman7:well said

  • where could i find this online? (the sheet music i mean)

  • look it up on google images

  • You aren't really playing with much expression

    It may be because your using a keyboard

    It's really meant to be played on at piano with deep tones

    I can see you made with what you had,though

    good job! A beautiful choice!

  • It is a piano. It is not a keyboard.

  • come, come, come into my arms, let me feel the wonder of all of you... : ) hehehe...

    Nice playing though, a little hard edged for my liking but good...

  • what version is that sheet music? Who published it?

  • Well its not the version I play which is the URTEXT.

  • You really think he played it too fast? I'm learning it and I play it about that fast. I should slow it down, huh?

    Actually, it is a funeral march, written for the death of Poland, as Chopin knew it.

  • u sped it up kinda. dude it shud be played slower for added freakiness :)

  • It has a very good rytmh but you should hear the prelude in sharp c from rachmaninov, that really express sadness and death feeling.

    But congratulations!!

  • łaaaa, I can play this XD buhaha ^^

  • I like the way you play music... but I don't like your back...lol

  • wicked ass piece.. makes me a little depressed

  • i'm in love with your piano, man.

    great job! :)

  • I agree.

  • the best part is from 0:40 to 0:50, the descending chord progression is awesome. But I find that the 3rd chord in that progression works better as a F half diminished 7 with a B root, as opposed to the B diminished 7 that Chopin uses. In other words, change the D in that chord to a D#. I think it sounds much better.

  • haha, are you joking

    chopins way is always better, and almost always for a reason

  • I'm sure there's a reason. I'm looking at chord structure only, with no melody. Add the melody and I wouldn't be surprised if that D# clashed horribly. But if you wanted to just take these chords, play 'em on the guitar in some sort of rocking fashion, the F half diminished 7/B is definitely the way to go.

  • wow nice, I wish I had that kind of insight

  • can anyone please tell me what prelude is this?

  • op. 28 no.20 and it's Chopin's prelude

  • thanks buddy

  • it's ok.. keep playing, check the notes you play, and try to keep a rythm. Look the Tempo, you're very slow. It doesn't seem like a song. Search some continuity, basicaly in the beggining.

    Congrats!

  • I love this song, it just feels a little too fast for some reason.

  • that's the dumbest thing i've ever heard....that has nothing to do w/ how the pianist plays!

  • YOu have great muscles in your fingers. It hurts me to stretch mine to play this piece. You are very, very good. One of my favorites.

  • It seems that some people are just trying to help... sure, others might be leaving mean comments but some of this advice really could improve someones skills... after all, it's disrespectful to a composer not to play their pieces the way they originally wanted....

  • Wrong. I didn't criticize your criticisms Captain Shitstains, I merely criticized you.

    However, you were right, I didn't catch your sarcasm cuz it's a little hard on the internet.

  • Me isn't the only way to interpret the music, don't be a snobby dickbutt and let him play the song his own way.

  • Me N'Longa. me great juju-man. This one and his fellows understand not my prickly sarcasm. ha!

    now you call me pompous. I call this one phlegmatic as a shard of silicon. Find humour in my post. not... "snobby dickbutts." A critic criticizes a critic's criticisms.

  • Me can play this better. you need quieter in second bar. make the intermediate transitions between chords more syncopated. More crescendo! Me like to stick some rubato in for the heck of it but that is just I.

  • Advice advice advice. Heres some advice in return: Learn english before attempting to give advice in english :)

  • Ha! if this one has nothing nice to say then it should say nothing. me great juju man N'Longa Me do GREAT voodoo on yoo. :P

  • I am all for comments to make people better but you sound like a jerk starting off with "me can play this better"

  • anus

  • you speed up a little on the mezzo-piano section, no need. Very even playing though with no mistakes! let the chords ring a little more as somebody said before.

  • Nice strong chords, crisp and crystalline!

  • good playing im learning this one and im only in piano grade 1 but this one is grade 6

  • and your point? god man, let someone have just 1 minute of fame, a minutes where they can be recognized. Your criticism was very useless for everyone. but yes, the song is a bit overplayed, but should that stop you from enjoying it? you knew what it was by the title, if you don't like it, don't watch it.

  • @LeecH999 child

  • @YayforComments wtf ?

  • it's not a "song"!

  • let thwe chords really sound. make them grande. pass.

  • is there a slower movement than addagio sustenuto?

  • you know what you want to play, but you are not playing the real chords, read the sheet music carefully again

  • one of the times it's not right:

    at 0:29 - 0:31

  • you played it perfect sounds like barry manilow. you add a little more passion

    to the work.

  • not Barry Mainlow, CHOPIN! I hate it when people refer this song to Manilow.

  • definitely slow it down. let the chords ring out and resonate.

  • very nice

  • i think you shld slow down. (: But great job!

    LOVED

  • Good job, but I think you are playing way too fast...This piece needs to breath, since its mostly large chords, slower playing will let the chords ring out a bit more. IMO

    Still nice job.

  • my kind of music.  with dark, sad notes and a hint of hope.

  • I like your interpretation of the song.

  • @ Carebear

  • I think you played very mechanic and expressiveless, but, is technically good.

  • How do know that Chopin didn't intend for it to be...as it was to be played like a funeral march? Though his music is technically demanding, its style emphasizes nuance and expressive depth rather than technical virtuosity. You are right!

  • Regarding the question of E natural or E flat at the top of the last chord in bar 3, my edition (edited by Willard A Palmer, Alfred CD edition) says "According to the editors of the Oxford edition, Chopin is supposed to have added a flat sign before the E in a copy belonging to one of his pupils. It does not appear in the Autograph or the original editions." (Autograph meaning the hand-written score from Chopin.)

  • Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • relax, don't thump as much in the loud bit