Chopin - Étude Op. 10, No. 1 in C major "Waterfall"

[ijustwantalife]

synthesia tells you exactly why this etude is called 'Waterfall'

[creamie123]

I played this when I was two. It was one of the first few songs that learnt how to play that year. Been in love with piano ever since.

[ruready619it]

this uses virtually all the keys.

[who8mahbacon]

chopin: "i gave the right hand a workout in this one, suppose the right hand wants revenge?" thats where op. 10-12 comes in.

[powerseriesman]

im having trouble with the first few notes, it says in the sheet music you play two C's, an octave. but then you play it again, C G C ,

[riemanngalois]

can you play the right hand seperately, im having trouble with some of the rhythm and phrasing.

also can you do fingering?

[Beastmast3r5254]

love 0:56

[SunslightAndSong]

quite nice. I'd like to hear it a bit faster. Nice job on getting the melody to come through in the left hand. Now, just speed it up by 1/3rd :) and add some more dynamic changes in the right hand. Let both hands together make the piece sing.

[riemanngalois]

Two questions. First, how do you slow down this piece on youtube so i can follow along. Second, is there anyway you can introduce fingering in your music using numbers, and maybe red for right hand, green for left (or some other 2 colors).. Thanks, this piece is awesome and your video is superb. I am terrible at reading music, but im pretty good at playing piano. this is great stuff!

[Singlerity]

I found the bass octaves very challenging.

[tonyngjichun]

@Singlerity

Yes they does.

It is never an easy job to play even such simple structured octave notes with the feeling of Chopin.

Keep on, pal, music is infinity.

[opuspocus5553]

piano hero..?

[Aqlor]

what software is this?

[scottspianist]

haha im rarther surprised at just how cool and easy to follow this is! Great post sir!

[JproxLeft4Dead2]

@Tonyngjichun

I have a question i have taken a great love in chopin's Etudes.

would this peice be easier to learn then " Etude Opus 10 No. 5? "

[tonyngjichun]

@JproxLeft4Dead2

Certainly negative.

[daytonmlivingston]

I am getting ready to start this Etude but i am seeing a cinfusion in the measures. When you are ascending on the first arpeggio is it C,G, mid.C, E then backwards to mid.C? meaning you go back to the C you already played then keep going up? becuase that seems difficult to play.

[rifqi7san]

THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TandBcomedycreators]

dang could he really play like that lol. i play piano and can play most classical stuff and newer stuff but dang he was good, though my favorite pianist were rachminov an lizt. but i like this alot. great post

[crashpedo]

how do you call this program or game or something?

[DrOli]

@crashpedo

Synthesia, you can find it online for free.

[311Bambino]

holy S!@#@# is this music really possible to play?

[pookiehohn]

This isn't even the fastest speed that's played! God, I'm working on this one and it's a doozy. I've rewrote some parts to sound cooler though.

[xYEAHxKYLEx]

how do you get these on the internet ?? i mean record them like this =)

[FriendshipStar]

woow, if you don't mind, would you please help me learn this one? my hands are slow, I wanna learn how to play fast.

[tonyngjichun]

As if you have deep investigation in Chopin's etudes, you may know that Horowitz had commented that this was the most challenging etude throughout the 24 formal etudes. The common sense is that Oo.10 No.2 is hardest, but i agree about Horowitz's comment too.

You should either practise the whole song in 50% speed, or even slower, than accerlate it, or you practise the song in normal speed, but one by one sentence.(One sentence in this etude means two mearsures.)

Wish you good luck!

[pookiehohn]

I don't know why Horowitz said that. I've worked on both and the No.2 is significantly harder.

[XPJamieXD]

Was this not the one he disliked because his hands were too big or am I thinking of another etude?

[jmcqueen3]

At the indicated tempos? It's nearly impossible to play the middle section of Opus 10 #1 at full speed.

[pookiehohn]

I'm no concert pianist, but for me the section is very doable. I can only stretch an octave to boot.

[FriendshipStar]

@tonyngjichun oh I get it,

[crashpedo]

@FriendshipStar practise my friend ..practise

[FranzLisztian]

@FriendshipStar

learning it from a midi is very hard because you need to know the fingering

[FriendshipStar]

@FranzLisztian oh I see thank you.

[Starbirdy9999]

Remids me of Gilgamesh's theme from Final Fantasy V for some reason.

[Sirius180796]

Very cool