How to Play the Moonlight Sonata

So this is the first 9 measures. I don't show all of the notes, but rather focus just on the middle ostinato part. (Through most of the piece you hear bass notes in octaves, the middle ostinato part and then a melody part) If you would like to have all the notes written out, consider buying my book on the moonlight sonata.


Check out this adobe acrobat file of a sample chapter from my book. http://www.patternpiano.com/moonlight_preview.pdf

Also, if you want to improve your knowledge of piano chords, I have lots of free tutorials and interactive chord charts written in flash at my website at
http://www.pianochordfinder.org/

and

http://www.list-of-chords.com/

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[Lokorov]

how can you decide this is C# minor rather than E major ?

or what difference it would make if it was in E major?

(please dont say sth like " it sounds sad thus should be minor not major")

[sesameseed77]

Usually you can tell a song is in a minor key because it will start on the minor vi chord, and end on the minor vi chord. If it's major, it'll start on the major I chord and end on the major I chord. Of course, you can have songs that start one way and end another. In fact, many songs will move from one to another. But if the first chord is the minor vi, you can usually say the song "is minor"

[DaveCorpTV]

You know how I started to like this? Resident evil

[nunduforyou]

This is wonderful! I caught on so fast!!! Will you be doing the rest like this?

[ragnaroksama]

thank u

[AlbertoDavtini]

@DaveCorpTV, Yeah, me too!:D

[Nicholasps3]

slow it down

[swishclip]

this could make me fall asleep but not in a bad way

[ih8h8ters1]

what about the left hand???

[1037lex]

@clubs33 oh crap i didnt know that!

[clubs33]

@1037lex no, not always. Minor can be happy sometimes. Like for example, the jew song "ha va nagilah ha va" is in minor but it is happy. Also not every song is easy to classify as happy and sad.

[rightguard88]

how do u know which fingers press which button

[RockMeNm]

C#m ? and without the left hand ? are u kidding me ?

[PoirePerry]

@1037lex LMAO.....