How to Play Moonlight Sonata Part 2 - Piano Tutorial

Part 2 of Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven in C# Minor.

Hey guys, here's part two - I hope you find it useful.
Part three will be posted soon.
Please leave me some notes on how to improve my tutorial videos - Any comments are appreciated.

Here are all the notes for Part 2. (Big thanks to lordsunglass for typing the rest of these up for me.) This should be used in conjunction with the video as this will probably be hard to follow if just read by itself.

Notes to the left of the slash are what the left hand plays and what's right of the slash are what the right hand plays. Notes that are together with no commas in between are to be played together (as can be seen by octaves in the left hand). If there is a dash to the left of the slash, nothing is played in the left hand.

When there is a x2 or x4 with the notes, only the right hand is to be played that many times. Hopefully this can be of help, if not I'll try to make it easier to understand. :)

EE/G#E, B, E
-/G#, B, E X3
EE/G, B, E X3
-/GG, B, E, G(High)
DD/GG, B, F
-/G, B, F X2
-/GG, B, F, G(High)
CC/GG, C, E
BB/G, B, E
A#A#/G, C#, E
-/F#F#, C#, E
BB/F#F#, B, D
-/F#, B, D
E(Single note)/GG, B, C#
G(Single note)/EE, B, C#
F#(Single note)/F#F#, B, D
-/F#, B, D
F#F#/F#F#, A#, C#
-/F#, A#, C#
BB/B, D, F# x2
-/B, D#, F#
-/BB, D#, F#
BB/BC (long stretch), E, G
EE/B, E, G
GG/B, E, G
EE/BA# (long stretch), E, G
BB/BB, D#, F#
-/B, D#, F# x2
BB/BC, E, G
EE/B, E, G
GG/B, E, G
EE/BA# (long stretch), E, G
BB/BB, D#, F#
-/B, D#, F# x2

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[PhamLily]

JJ ... You do good work.Thank you so much!. Watch your videos and the way you are teaching, i can remember the notes much better ... but i am confussing at the minute " 5:54 ". My hands are not Big like yours ... i tried by my best but i can't touch the " high C " ... what should i do? I tried to changed the " high C " to the " B " ... Is it ok? Or anything else better? ...

[JJBartleyMusic]

@PhamLily Hi PhamLily, if you can't reach both together I would suggest just playing the "high C". The same with the upcoming BA# stretch if you have trouble with reaching that just try playing the A# by itself. Both sound fine. Hope that helps :)

[miamibadboy11]

SLOW DOWN! lol

[JJBartleyMusic]

@miamibadboy11 Lol I know sorry about that! But you can always rewind if you have to :p

[Bugsy0001]

hi man great lesson and great playing thanks its realy nice to have a lovely piece played and explained this way

[ItalianStallion919]

@OhYesLightShow This. This is true lol your right :P

[lapalomaish]

WoW, just after this, I think I wanna marry you :D

great tutorial, i wanted to play the moonlight sonata for so long but it just got boring learning it by notes..but with this tutorial i finally managed to do it!

and, of course, just rewind a scene if you haven't understood it...otherwise there would be 100 parts of "how to play moonlight sonata" and THAT would get your goat, friends ;) so just learn learning faster :D

[ThePianoman454]

Good tutorial.!!

[johnnyweston2]

I like to be learned by u!

[OhYesLightShow]

@ItalianStallion919 That's great, but you also have to keep in mind that some of the people watching these videos may not have been playing for a long time. For example, I started playing piano 2-3 weeks ago and it took me like 2 hours to get the first part down to a point where I could play at an even tempo.

[drmkeon]

@ItalianStallion919 high five! me too :P

[ItalianStallion919]

Am I the only one who is able to keep up with him??

[Rosi3e8701]

if its too fast..just pause and write the notes down ppl!!

[VaughtD14]

@TaylorSwift1OV3 Oh dear Jesus,