Wonderful music. This has permeated our modern Culture in ways most of us take for granted, especially if you've ever hummed this out loud doing chores. ^^; Must say, I was most suprised and impressed when Deadmau5 used it in his Hard Intro version of Ghosts N' Stuff.
FINALLY!!! a video of someone who can actually play the song as it was intended!! Thank you DEARLY. I was about to abandon hope! stunning... you clearly respect Chopin's brilliance AND the artistry of the pianist. LOVELY. SIMPLY LOVELY.
Já que não vou mais viajar de trem para visitar meus parentes...gostaria de ganhar de presente...não, umtrezinho, mas o seu caixão, seu jazigo e com essa orquestra que soa muito sereno no mundo do Além de nossas vidas terrenas!
to tell you the truth, i really love this piece. but it is "funeral march", so i can't play this at anywhere....sad. i love the middle part. see the sunshine for a while. and go right back to the sorrow part again......
Thank you for the praise for the performance! :-)
I love this piece as well, even though it really isn't the sort of piece to play at get-togethers and parties. The middle part is like a haven of tranquility before the return of the main theme.
@badbadger888 actually, I wouldn't consider the middle section as sunshine - i think it sounds just as sorrowful as the main section, and even more so at some points.
Very well played. Also quite unfortunate for the thunderstorm to become evident in perhaps the most uplifting part of the piece - but amusing nonetheless!
Things like the thunderstorm are what make each video unique. ;-)
Glad you liked the playing; you might like to check out the higher audio version I've uploaded of this piece. No thunderstorm in that one & it's played on a concert grand.
I LOVE this piece! You are awesome for playing it. I wanted to learn it so badly but could only play the first page. The rest was way beyond my level...
It is extremely hard. I cannot get the middle part at all. (1:10) The first part is not easy either because you have to make your brain keep track of what the left hand is doing, and keep up with the right too.!
understanding the chord progressions and the melodic movement... I think the more I learn about harmony the better a pianist I become. And yes lots of practice. break it phrase by phrase. measure by measure if you have to. You can do it.
Very good =) Could you please please give me the sheets??! I'd thank you a million, I've been looking for it literally everywhere and can't find it. Thanks a bunch
Did Chopin intend this as a funeral march? Or did it just get associated with funerals some how. Just basically the beginning is the actual "funeral march" that most people think of.
It's a funeral march; it's called 'marche funebre'. One of Beethoven's sonatas has a funeral march in it too, but Chopin's is much more the famous one!
The piano in this video is an 1895 Smith & Barnes upright. It's in fairly rough shape after all the years (including the 17 years of workout I gave it); I hope someday to be able to afford to restore it, as I think it has a nice sound. (*The concert grand I'm referring to in the note is a 50 year old Yamaha F.C.)
I'd say parts of the song are, if not exactly uplifting, are 'reaching upwards' so to speak, but on the whole, to me, the piece is about Chopin's feelings of sorrow, terror, sadness about the inevitability of his death. (I feel the fourth movement is his imaginations about what might lie just after death. I do have my pet theories about the various movements of this sonata, and what they are intended to mean.)
I think this piece is misunderstood. People always think of death and loss when they hear it. When in itself it actually quite nice and relaxing.... I might just be creepy. I think its a beautiful song though n.n
It is a beautiful song and I do find the middle section very tranquil and relaxing; I try to make it 'floating'. For myself, I do find thoughts of death and loss in the rest of the piece, but I don't think it's creepy if you find it relaxing. :)
An interesting comment. I haven't been to enough funerals to know for sure, but you're probably right. I guess the reason for that might be that at an actual funeral, the music that one wants played is music that will bring some measure of peace or comfort to the bereaved, and this funeral march, while having a serene middle section, is more about the anguish that goes with the inescapability of loss - and of impending death. Not the sort of thing most people bereaving a loved one need to hear!
Although, it's a funeral march isn't it? So if it were to be played it were to be played during the march from the church to the graveyard. But you cannot have a piano getting pushed along during the march can you? So that may be a reason it is not played. Though i haven't been to enough funerals to judge. Maybe it gets played as the coffin leaves the church.
i wouldnt call you a hermit. i think you have a talent for music, thats different from popular beleifs. beauty is shown in many ways you just show it in a lesser known fashion.
I have to admit i just learned that Chopin wrote this after some research on Wikipedia....hearing the full version i think its really pretty, i think popular American culture just focuses on the just the first sad parts of the song but if you listen there is a certain calmness and peace to it.
By the time I learned this piece I wasn't bothered much by the five flats that I can recall. I'm afraid it's just one of those things one has to learn with practice!
I'm glad you liked the playing! :) I've been playing this piece since high school.... so that's around 25 years. It doesn't take that long to learn the piece of course, but the longer one has been playing a piece, generally, the better it gets (at least that's what we all hope!).
How many years would it probably take until one could potentially play this? I play the guitar, but every time I hear this I am a bit sad that I didn't choose to learn playing the piano. The middle part of this piece is incredibly beautiful.
It's never too late to take up a new instrument! :) ;) (Says the guy with 60 - 70 bamboo flutes, a clarinet, a silver flute, a glockenspiel.....) I think this would probably be something like a 'grade 9 or 10' piece; I've been playing it since my teens, so that's some 20+ years. I think it took me a few months to learn it to begin with.
The middle section is a haven of rest in this piece; I try to give a tranquil, almost floating tone.
Thanks for your reply. What does "grade 9 or 10" mean? Anyway, when you learn a new instrument, patience is important.
It is rather funny that there is an instrument called a "glockenspiel" in English. "Glocke" means "bell" in German, and "Spiel" basically means "to play", or in this case it refers to an instrument.
Music pieces are sometimes 'graded' to indicate their difficulty. Our education system has 1-10 grades, and then above that ARCT (which basically is everything harder than grade 10). So.... a child starting music would typically reach grade 8 or 9 by the time they were 18 years old. When you're an adult, though, you learn faster. So grade 9 or 10 is pretty difficult, but not the most difficult.
I played the glockenspiel as a kid in a Sea Cadet band; when I saw one second-hand, I bought it!
Thank you! :) I've been playing for around 30 years or so.... maybe someday I'll be perfect. ;) I think I first started learning this piece when I was around 16 (I'm 42 now).
Well, 6th grade is where the good stuff starts! :)
I'm hoping to re-post this piece in the next week or so; I got a concert grand (no, I'm not rich: I had a really good opportunity & I took it!) a while back, & only recently got access to some decent recording equipment (so that now it SOUNDS like a concert grand in my recordings - my little video camera really did not capture the sound very well).
i have had 3 losses in my life my grams (Anuersyms) my sister (Overdose) my girlfriend (House fire) when i die i wanna be buried next to her in LA so we can be Reunited
When I die I am going to have my body donated to science. It will be an attempt to be useful even in death. Maybe someone will learn something from me or possibly cure a disease!
Your recording equipment doesn't do justice to your piano. Invest in something with more clarity. And, you know, you could record a nice landscape from your window, and the audio of you doing this, and paste them together, putting the thunder where you want it.
It didn't do justice to my old piano (an upright grand) and REALLY doesn't do justice to the newer one (a 9' concert grand). I'm hoping to get some better recording equipment from a friend sometime soon; I then need to get a camera that I can run the mic through (or software to splice audio & video). My remark about the thunder is half in jest; I DID record that day because of the thunderstorm, but I'm willing to accept the thunder when it choses to come, not when I want it to come. :)
If i die i wanna be buried next to my cousin in LA so that we can reunited again when she first died i wouldnt eat sleep talk or work all i would do is cry myself to sleep at night
I'm sorry to hear you lost someone close to you, and at such a young age. Crying is better than not crying, at least to a point; I know I am still crying a lot these days (my partner of 17 years died of stomach cancer in January).
I'm sorry that happened to you guys. Before the age of 16, I had lost my grandfather (cancer), my grandmother (cancer), my great-grandmother (old age), three cats (illness and old age), and a very young friend (house fire). I miss them a lot.
awesome song nd well played as well but the sound quality is really ruining it even with the speakers turned down!- sorry i dont like being mean!!!! lol
I'm hoping in the future to do more (I've posted one or two) videos with a better view of the hands. I don't have a tripod at the moment, so I jury rigged an artist's easel.
The sound quality is degraded a little bit by YouTube, but I just don't have particularly good recording equipment. A friend might be helping me out with that in the near future. Don't know when I might repost this piece on my newer piano, but once I get better recording equipment I will probably repost a lot of pieces.
Thank you for the compliment. So many people have commented about the sound quality (here and elsewhere), I really hope I get some better recording equipment in the not too distant future. (*PS: Cool user name; maybe not as good as 'bambiraptor', but still cool! ;) )
This music (along with a lot of other stuff) is available on line at a site called sheetmusicfox. YouTube won't seem to let me post the link, but if you 'google' that name, you will find the site.
(The Funeral March is from Chopin's 2nd Piano Sonata.)
I hope someday to post the rest of the sonata from which this piece comes; I do play it.... but it needs more work before I'd be comfortable posting it.
This is the first playing of the march that actually moved me to tears. It is not quite polished as some, but you should keep working and enter it in a chopin competition.
So how old are you? I played piano from age 10 to 19, then gave it up for almost 10 years. What I would have given now to have never stopped and advance myself and compete. I'm now 31 and wish I could compete, but I also realize I may be too old for that as well. I take lessons at a music school and I'm the only adult there! The rest are elementary school aged children.
I'm 42. I went a few years without playing the piano, but took it up again in my mid-teens. I've also taken up other instruments in the meantime which have eaten at my piano practice time (@ 2+ hours weekdays, 2-4 hours weekends). I don't know how long you've been taking lessons, but it 'comes back' (or came back for me) fairly quickly. You can learn faster as an adult; I hope you will stick with it. So long as you can play to please yourself and some others that's what counts. :)
I've found that as an adult, I take my music much more seriously and am more mature about it. I don't have my parents constantly bugging me to practice. I practice because I love it so much and it's a part of my life. I'm also more advanced than I ever was. I'm currently learning Prelude Op 23 No. 5 by Rachmaninoff and Fantasie Impromptu by Chopin. When I quit playing piano, I was playing Chopin waltzes and nocturnes. So in 1 yr, I've caught up plus have advanced some.
Heh! When I was a kid, my mom used to punish me by threatening to cancel my lessons. :P I got sick of the threats & canceled them myself (crying all the while!). I'm not familiar with the Rachmaninoff, but the Fantasie is a fun piece. Glad to hear that I was right about it coming back quickly for you! :)
While I'm a big fan of this, my funeral dirge will be written and performed by Taranchula.
"Brotha in a jaaaaaaaaaaar!!!!
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Brotha in a jaaaaaaaaaaar!!!!
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Brotha in a jaaaaaaaaaaar!!!!
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brothainajar!"
BTIsaac 2 weeks ago
Wonderful music. This has permeated our modern Culture in ways most of us take for granted, especially if you've ever hummed this out loud doing chores. ^^; Must say, I was most suprised and impressed when Deadmau5 used it in his Hard Intro version of Ghosts N' Stuff.
Daftbutstillalive 3 weeks ago
@Daftbutstillalive
Yes, I remember being surprised when first learning the piece: "Oh, so THAT's where that tune comes from!"
Kamibambiraptor 3 weeks ago
OH CRAP!
TwilightZero09 3 weeks ago
What a nice video :) Brightness is very good for this piece
MegapPlayer 4 months ago
Ideal for
Weddings
Gradulations
House parties
345kll 6 months ago 24
@345kll
Snerk! :-D
Someone did a version of 'Happy Birthday' to the tune of the "Volga Boatman"; something like:
Happy birthday, happy birthday,
People grow old and die,
Happy birthday, happy birthday,
Every day people grow old and die,
Happy birthday.
Someday I intend to post my version of that.
Kamibambiraptor 6 months ago 9
FINALLY!!! a video of someone who can actually play the song as it was intended!! Thank you DEARLY. I was about to abandon hope! stunning... you clearly respect Chopin's brilliance AND the artistry of the pianist. LOVELY. SIMPLY LOVELY.
Softmachine505 6 months ago
@Softmachine505
Oh, well... what can I do but blush? Chopin's been my favourite composer for as long as I can remember!
Kamibambiraptor 6 months ago 2
@magpie4321 that's a joke :))
clautodor 7 months ago
Thank you for this beautiful piece!
magpie4321 7 months ago
"Pray for the dead
and the dead will pray for you"
magpie4321 7 months ago
I know you say you have uploaded a more updated version, which is supposedly "better" but I like this one better.
Blackbird112290 11 months ago
@Blackbird112290
Oh, well, I'm certainly not going to argue! :-)
Kamibambiraptor 11 months ago
vc errou feio heim...
heliezerccb 11 months ago
Breakdown<3
XInFramesX 1 year ago
great
vaclav97 1 year ago
Já que não vou mais viajar de trem para visitar meus parentes...gostaria de ganhar de presente...não, umtrezinho, mas o seu caixão, seu jazigo e com essa orquestra que soa muito sereno no mundo do Além de nossas vidas terrenas!
josepintodeoliveira 1 year ago
That's what you hear when someone eated the last cookie
iownage4youi 1 year ago
not bad....to hell with rhythm......
svjatazarov 1 year ago
sorry, but the rhythm you play is not correct. you should keep it strictly because it is a march.
hanniswurst 1 year ago
it's my fav music
altronxxxg 1 year ago
thus death comes for us all......
alexgomez83 1 year ago
Undertaker's theme anyone?!?!?!
Juliusblue 1 year ago
at my weadding:X
clautodor 1 year ago 10
@clautodor
Ha ha! :-D
Kamibambiraptor 1 year ago 2
@clautodor at your wedding you played this?
magpie4321 7 months ago
enter to my channel n listen the electronic version of this beautiful piece of art !!
kTpReCoRdS 1 year ago
enter to my channel n listen the electronic version of this beautiful piece of art !!
kTpReCoRdS 1 year ago
it was very nice. I enjoyed listening to it !
MetropolisAtMyTube 1 year ago
to tell you the truth, i really love this piece. but it is "funeral march", so i can't play this at anywhere....sad. i love the middle part. see the sunshine for a while. and go right back to the sorrow part again......
your performance is brilliant!
badbadger888 2 years ago 19
Thank you for the praise for the performance! :-)
I love this piece as well, even though it really isn't the sort of piece to play at get-togethers and parties. The middle part is like a haven of tranquility before the return of the main theme.
Kamibambiraptor 2 years ago
hardly party fare but a wonderful piece expertly played. I envy your talent. God bless
coh12520 1 year ago
@badbadger888 actually, I wouldn't consider the middle section as sunshine - i think it sounds just as sorrowful as the main section, and even more so at some points.
308813062 1 year ago
Beautiful music expertly played with fantastic chords. Great.
Thank you so much.
normken 2 years ago
You are very welcome; thank you for the kind words! :-)
Kamibambiraptor 2 years ago
I love it, but its so depressing....... sigh
AustinJohnson07 2 years ago
Thunderstorm!!! I really love that sound, very well played. That thunderstorm is priceless, you picked up a very good time to play.
MarkFidelio 2 years ago
Glad you enjoyed the thunder! :-)
Kamibambiraptor 2 years ago
2:40 the light!!!
Wonderfull!
fdscasti 2 years ago 2
Thank you; It's a moment of rest amid the sorrow.
Kamibambiraptor 2 years ago
practise makes perfect they say! WELL DONE
meldster 2 years ago
Thank you very much! :-)
(In my my case, I tend to say "practise makes less imperfect", but I have been playing this piece for a number of years. )
Kamibambiraptor 2 years ago
Very well played. Also quite unfortunate for the thunderstorm to become evident in perhaps the most uplifting part of the piece - but amusing nonetheless!
AJSBoxer12 2 years ago
Things like the thunderstorm are what make each video unique. ;-)
Glad you liked the playing; you might like to check out the higher audio version I've uploaded of this piece. No thunderstorm in that one & it's played on a concert grand.
Kamibambiraptor 2 years ago
could u make a tutorial i love this piece sooo much i want to learn it!!!! btw niice job u play fantasticly!!!
gabfrede 2 years ago
I LOVE this piece! You are awesome for playing it. I wanted to learn it so badly but could only play the first page. The rest was way beyond my level...
ribosomalRNA5 2 years ago
Thank you! Just keep practicing. ;-)
Kamibambiraptor 2 years ago
Will forever remind me of 11/25/63 on the way to Arlington.
gaserjd 2 years ago
that makes me shiver, lol.
lucasbastos10 2 years ago 7
anyone know where i can get the sheet music for this?
Psychopath132 3 years ago
If you do a google image search, the sheet music for this is available on the net in various places.
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
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Angel94angel94 2 years ago
I have it but i need your addy
rkcahagen 2 years ago
I have the sheet, Psychopath132, Send me a message with your email.
By the way Kamibambiraptor, This is wonderful 5/5.
MusicIsMyLife6991 2 years ago
sorry i wrote that comment by mistake
numbahoneknd 3 years ago
pbs segement
numbahoneknd 3 years ago 3
excellent job!
Marcostr91 3 years ago
It is extremely hard. I cannot get the middle part at all. (1:10) The first part is not easy either because you have to make your brain keep track of what the left hand is doing, and keep up with the right too.!
unbreakable0717 3 years ago
How the hell do you play this...The music is too hard for me to play
mitchskater 3 years ago
Lots of practice! :)
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
Well I can play the first couple minutes...but I guess it is practice i need ahah
mitchskater 3 years ago
understanding the chord progressions and the melodic movement... I think the more I learn about harmony the better a pianist I become. And yes lots of practice. break it phrase by phrase. measure by measure if you have to. You can do it.
SangpourPlaisir 3 years ago
I was actually looking at a different piece that was not as hard as the funeral march...it was a different chopoin piece
mitchskater 3 years ago
Perhaps his 20th prelude, which seems as though it might have been a 'sketch' for a funeral march.
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
Rest In Peace
Undertakerdeath90 3 years ago
Very good =) Could you please please give me the sheets??! I'd thank you a million, I've been looking for it literally everywhere and can't find it. Thanks a bunch
romymistique 3 years ago
Did Chopin intend this as a funeral march? Or did it just get associated with funerals some how. Just basically the beginning is the actual "funeral march" that most people think of.
ianfigures 3 years ago
It's a funeral march; it's called 'marche funebre'. One of Beethoven's sonatas has a funeral march in it too, but Chopin's is much more the famous one!
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
What is this piano you're playing on, if I may ask?
Camilliya 3 years ago
The piano in this video is an 1895 Smith & Barnes upright. It's in fairly rough shape after all the years (including the 17 years of workout I gave it); I hope someday to be able to afford to restore it, as I think it has a nice sound. (*The concert grand I'm referring to in the note is a 50 year old Yamaha F.C.)
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
times and concepts have changed people tend to look for something more uplifting, secular music is now more important
cremulator69 3 years ago
I'd say parts of the song are, if not exactly uplifting, are 'reaching upwards' so to speak, but on the whole, to me, the piece is about Chopin's feelings of sorrow, terror, sadness about the inevitability of his death. (I feel the fourth movement is his imaginations about what might lie just after death. I do have my pet theories about the various movements of this sonata, and what they are intended to mean.)
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
I think this piece is misunderstood. People always think of death and loss when they hear it. When in itself it actually quite nice and relaxing.... I might just be creepy. I think its a beautiful song though n.n
BlueLupus1980 3 years ago 3
It is a beautiful song and I do find the middle section very tranquil and relaxing; I try to make it 'floating'. For myself, I do find thoughts of death and loss in the rest of the piece, but I don't think it's creepy if you find it relaxing. :)
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
strange to report this does not get played at funerals
cremulator69 3 years ago
An interesting comment. I haven't been to enough funerals to know for sure, but you're probably right. I guess the reason for that might be that at an actual funeral, the music that one wants played is music that will bring some measure of peace or comfort to the bereaved, and this funeral march, while having a serene middle section, is more about the anguish that goes with the inescapability of loss - and of impending death. Not the sort of thing most people bereaving a loved one need to hear!
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
Although, it's a funeral march isn't it? So if it were to be played it were to be played during the march from the church to the graveyard. But you cannot have a piano getting pushed along during the march can you? So that may be a reason it is not played. Though i haven't been to enough funerals to judge. Maybe it gets played as the coffin leaves the church.
UnionJaked 3 years ago
It is used at some official funerals. Like a military funeral etc.
stickdude913 3 years ago
Is it played at (a leader of a country) State Funerals?
10size 3 years ago
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it was played at my funeral
lestube001 3 years ago
So sad, that I want to CRY!!! :.(
But oddly, what a piece of BEAUTIFUL music!!!
10size 3 years ago
Emo
ThePatrioticPotatos 3 years ago
my teacher put this song on her radio and said that it will make us cut (we were cutting things-.-) faster
LittleLeaf3 3 years ago 2
kewl man, kewl ^^
I play the guitar, BTW x3
R0CKbird 3 years ago
cadaverica!!! proprio come piace a me!!!
affarimie 3 years ago
oh gawd i think i'm going to kill myself now!
sdc1977 3 years ago
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sdc1977 please take me with you...i will dive into a sea of razor blades
castlesxx 3 years ago
Beautiful, though downbeat. Probably due to it's pacing.
Lst123321 3 years ago
Chopan actually requested Mozart's Requiem Mass in D minor at his funeral.
ChrisAlmighty4 3 years ago
You're right! Oops! :")
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
beautiful. its a shame what pop culture has made this peace into...
fullmoon2mitsuki 3 years ago
Thank you; I guess I'm glad to be a bit of a hermit! :)
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
i wouldnt call you a hermit. i think you have a talent for music, thats different from popular beleifs. beauty is shown in many ways you just show it in a lesser known fashion.
fullmoon2mitsuki 3 years ago
I play it with guitar :)
Lordwarship 3 years ago
I have to admit i just learned that Chopin wrote this after some research on Wikipedia....hearing the full version i think its really pretty, i think popular American culture just focuses on the just the first sad parts of the song but if you listen there is a certain calmness and peace to it.
FleshofSwans 3 years ago
The middle section is very calm and peaceful indeed; I try to depress the notes as gently as possible when I'm playing it.
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
Chopin actually had this song played at his funeral.
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
this song is gloomy yet beautiful at the same time.. its so sad, but i guess thats why its called the DEATH MARCH. :) :(
crazitaco 3 years ago
i love this piece. i'm wondering if you could send me the score as well. i'd really appreciate it!
mathwpmusicgeek 3 years ago
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man it makes me want to kill sum1
cerberusrider300 3 years ago
hi, i wish to know if you have the scores??
i will be thankful if you have it and send it to me...
pauligothik 3 years ago
i have the scores, message me your email address and i'll send it to you.
rawrxninjaskillz 3 years ago
but i like this piece because of it's creepiness....heh heh...i'm learning to play it now,ya know! :D
PureInnocencez 3 years ago
Well, yes, I do find the piece gloomy (but not creepy); it IS a funeral march, after all, but sometimes one is in the mood to hear gloomy music.
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
oh i see. :) don't you find this piece a tad gloomy and a lil creepy?
PureInnocencez 3 years ago
By the time I learned this piece I wasn't bothered much by the five flats that I can recall. I'm afraid it's just one of those things one has to learn with practice!
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
how did you first learn to play this piece? i'm trying to learn to play this piece now,and the 5 flats and the chords stumped me!
PureInnocencez 3 years ago
Your playing is great=) how long did you take to master this piece because its quite hard to master it i think.
hwz91 3 years ago
I'm glad you liked the playing! :) I've been playing this piece since high school.... so that's around 25 years. It doesn't take that long to learn the piece of course, but the longer one has been playing a piece, generally, the better it gets (at least that's what we all hope!).
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
For my dear Father
mostar12 3 years ago
How many years would it probably take until one could potentially play this? I play the guitar, but every time I hear this I am a bit sad that I didn't choose to learn playing the piano. The middle part of this piece is incredibly beautiful.
asdewq80 3 years ago
It's never too late to take up a new instrument! :) ;) (Says the guy with 60 - 70 bamboo flutes, a clarinet, a silver flute, a glockenspiel.....) I think this would probably be something like a 'grade 9 or 10' piece; I've been playing it since my teens, so that's some 20+ years. I think it took me a few months to learn it to begin with.
The middle section is a haven of rest in this piece; I try to give a tranquil, almost floating tone.
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
Thanks for your reply. What does "grade 9 or 10" mean? Anyway, when you learn a new instrument, patience is important.
It is rather funny that there is an instrument called a "glockenspiel" in English. "Glocke" means "bell" in German, and "Spiel" basically means "to play", or in this case it refers to an instrument.
asdewq80 3 years ago
Music pieces are sometimes 'graded' to indicate their difficulty. Our education system has 1-10 grades, and then above that ARCT (which basically is everything harder than grade 10). So.... a child starting music would typically reach grade 8 or 9 by the time they were 18 years old. When you're an adult, though, you learn faster. So grade 9 or 10 is pretty difficult, but not the most difficult.
I played the glockenspiel as a kid in a Sea Cadet band; when I saw one second-hand, I bought it!
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
Excellent job!
BandiditoGangsterito 3 years ago
quite not bad but a bit to fast for me ;)
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago
I don't understand why this piece is so difficult. The left hand just repeats itself after all.. although it's in a really annoying key
Ecthelon 3 years ago
why this music seems to be so sad??? srsrsrsrsrsssrsrsrsrsrssr
claudemiresantos 3 years ago
...cuz it's a funeral march. >_>;;;
Ecthelon 3 years ago
Bravo! I favorite this version.
miraclemike2 3 years ago
it is beautiful, nice job
Skjoldr16 3 years ago
Thank you very much; I am honoured! :")
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
I love your progression in this song.
I've been looking up alot of people's vifro of this on here, and your's is the first to not be missing the feeling that there's a human playing it.
Yay, my faith in humanity is pushed slightly above E again.
Thanks.
ryanmartin37075 3 years ago
putain on dirait qu'il bug le gars, j'ai une version de Rubestein plus fluide
necrophie 3 years ago
Amazing!:)
You are really good!
How long have you been playing piano?
Im playing it for 7 years now and lately i am really motivated, so one day in future i will be able to play this piece=)
MichaelJackson1234 3 years ago
Thank you! :) I've been playing for around 30 years or so.... maybe someday I'll be perfect. ;) I think I first started learning this piece when I was around 16 (I'm 42 now).
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
wow! I am 17 and there is no way i could play this yet:)
I am currently playing some easy mozart stuff for 6th / 7th grade lol:)
In 4 years maybe i will be able to play this=)
It's my 2nd favorite piano piece, right after hungarian rhapsody no.2...
MichaelJackson1234 3 years ago
Well, 6th grade is where the good stuff starts! :)
I'm hoping to re-post this piece in the next week or so; I got a concert grand (no, I'm not rich: I had a really good opportunity & I took it!) a while back, & only recently got access to some decent recording equipment (so that now it SOUNDS like a concert grand in my recordings - my little video camera really did not capture the sound very well).
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
i love the song i love music is one reason for live
gratthard 3 years ago
Magnificient playing!
PhillipCreeper 3 years ago
Thank you! :)
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
i have had 3 losses in my life my grams (Anuersyms) my sister (Overdose) my girlfriend (House fire) when i die i wanna be buried next to her in LA so we can be Reunited
Andylong99 3 years ago
My heavens! It sounds like you've had your share of misfortunes for this lifetime already! May you lose no more loved ones in such terrible ways!
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
When I die I am going to have my body donated to science. It will be an attempt to be useful even in death. Maybe someone will learn something from me or possibly cure a disease!
UcanbeGOD 3 years ago
nice work. keep up the awesome-tastic music.
hipppiman 3 years ago
Such a beautiful piece ç_ç
SatXII 3 years ago
Thank you! :)
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
Indeed it is. Very nice.
theungreatkahli 3 years ago
Your recording equipment doesn't do justice to your piano. Invest in something with more clarity. And, you know, you could record a nice landscape from your window, and the audio of you doing this, and paste them together, putting the thunder where you want it.
FreeRadical235 3 years ago
It didn't do justice to my old piano (an upright grand) and REALLY doesn't do justice to the newer one (a 9' concert grand). I'm hoping to get some better recording equipment from a friend sometime soon; I then need to get a camera that I can run the mic through (or software to splice audio & video). My remark about the thunder is half in jest; I DID record that day because of the thunderstorm, but I'm willing to accept the thunder when it choses to come, not when I want it to come. :)
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
If i die i wanna be buried next to my cousin in LA so that we can reunited again when she first died i wouldnt eat sleep talk or work all i would do is cry myself to sleep at night
Andylong99 3 years ago
I'm sorry to hear you lost someone close to you, and at such a young age. Crying is better than not crying, at least to a point; I know I am still crying a lot these days (my partner of 17 years died of stomach cancer in January).
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
I'm sorry that happened to you guys. Before the age of 16, I had lost my grandfather (cancer), my grandmother (cancer), my great-grandmother (old age), three cats (illness and old age), and a very young friend (house fire). I miss them a lot.
starrbeatlesqueen 3 years ago
Oh, my! :(
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
wery good wery good chopin :):]:}
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kikapik 3 years ago
wery good wery good chopin :):]:}
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kikapik 3 years ago
i like it. it is played tres well. that is very well for all you out there who dont speak french
goorgus 3 years ago
lol, I really don't think you even speak tres much french. And, I'm only saying this because the only french word you said happened to be tres. :P
flamingblader 3 years ago
i like the sound quality the way it is...it makes it sound more eerie and like an old recording....very good
xusefulxidiotx 3 years ago
I'm glad it works for you just as it is. :)
Kamibambiraptor 3 years ago
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I kept on trying to sing dis but it ended up as the star wars theme lol. CHARLIE THE UNICORN!
Lumberjackish123 4 years ago
quite not bad but a bit to fast for me ;)
Arhornus 4 years ago
awesome song nd well played as well but the sound quality is really ruining it even with the speakers turned down!- sorry i dont like being mean!!!! lol
ChickenGeorge88 4 years ago
Must get better recording equipment! :(
Kamibambiraptor 4 years ago
You are very good. Could you do another of this where we can watch your hands. I got a keyboard for christmas, and I wanna learn this.
I play strictly by ear.
the sound problem that you commented on, could that be youtube's fault?
capt777737 4 years ago
I'm hoping in the future to do more (I've posted one or two) videos with a better view of the hands. I don't have a tripod at the moment, so I jury rigged an artist's easel.
The sound quality is degraded a little bit by YouTube, but I just don't have particularly good recording equipment. A friend might be helping me out with that in the near future. Don't know when I might repost this piece on my newer piano, but once I get better recording equipment I will probably repost a lot of pieces.
Kamibambiraptor 4 years ago
you are awesome :)
Onigos2 4 years ago
Thank you! :)
Kamibambiraptor 4 years ago
very beautiful. I am not a pianist myself, but can tell that this is very good!!! Bravo
rlugiai 4 years ago
Thank you very much! :)
Kamibambiraptor 4 years ago
I like it, but the sound quality sucks. You play well.
DeathByMoshPit666 4 years ago
Thank you for the compliment. So many people have commented about the sound quality (here and elsewhere), I really hope I get some better recording equipment in the not too distant future. (*PS: Cool user name; maybe not as good as 'bambiraptor', but still cool! ;) )
Kamibambiraptor 4 years ago
thanx, lol.
DeathByMoshPit666 4 years ago
Quite nice, i wish i could play it :/ I don't have the notes tho...
Nieznany96 4 years ago
I'm glad you like it. This music can be found on-line (the site I mention above, 'sheetmusicfox' has it & I am sure there are others).
Kamibambiraptor 4 years ago
wow very nice.... mmm i like it
oh i see that you have sheets for this... i've been looking for them for years! and my question: could you send me them somehow?
please...
Bionic253 4 years ago 3
This music (along with a lot of other stuff) is available on line at a site called sheetmusicfox. YouTube won't seem to let me post the link, but if you 'google' that name, you will find the site.
(The Funeral March is from Chopin's 2nd Piano Sonata.)
Hope this will help. :)
Kamibambiraptor 4 years ago
beautiful.
mooglepies 4 years ago
WOW!!! i love Copin music andthis one was done spectacular!!!! two thumbs up :)
kel525717852 4 years ago
Thank you very much! :)
I hope someday to post the rest of the sonata from which this piece comes; I do play it.... but it needs more work before I'd be comfortable posting it.
Kamibambiraptor 4 years ago
:/ sorry chopin not copin :/
kel525717852 4 years ago
This is the first playing of the march that actually moved me to tears. It is not quite polished as some, but you should keep working and enter it in a chopin competition.
rebbakkat 4 years ago
Thank you very much; I am honoured! :) But I'm far too old to be entering any competitions (those are for the kids). ;)
Kamibambiraptor 4 years ago
very talented thought!
mulkey00 4 years ago
oops meant though....
mulkey00 4 years ago
So how old are you? I played piano from age 10 to 19, then gave it up for almost 10 years. What I would have given now to have never stopped and advance myself and compete. I'm now 31 and wish I could compete, but I also realize I may be too old for that as well. I take lessons at a music school and I'm the only adult there! The rest are elementary school aged children.
msgorgeous1 4 years ago
I'm 42. I went a few years without playing the piano, but took it up again in my mid-teens. I've also taken up other instruments in the meantime which have eaten at my piano practice time (@ 2+ hours weekdays, 2-4 hours weekends). I don't know how long you've been taking lessons, but it 'comes back' (or came back for me) fairly quickly. You can learn faster as an adult; I hope you will stick with it. So long as you can play to please yourself and some others that's what counts. :)
Kamibambiraptor 4 years ago
I've found that as an adult, I take my music much more seriously and am more mature about it. I don't have my parents constantly bugging me to practice. I practice because I love it so much and it's a part of my life. I'm also more advanced than I ever was. I'm currently learning Prelude Op 23 No. 5 by Rachmaninoff and Fantasie Impromptu by Chopin. When I quit playing piano, I was playing Chopin waltzes and nocturnes. So in 1 yr, I've caught up plus have advanced some.
msgorgeous1 4 years ago
Heh! When I was a kid, my mom used to punish me by threatening to cancel my lessons. :P I got sick of the threats & canceled them myself (crying all the while!). I'm not familiar with the Rachmaninoff, but the Fantasie is a fun piece. Glad to hear that I was right about it coming back quickly for you! :)
Kamibambiraptor 4 years ago
This is such an amazing piece of music by chopin. even tho its a down song its quite relaxin.
lilblackcat69 4 years ago