This piece of music by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) is from 1847.
Youtube comments ...
rallyabc123: Stress relieving yes. Cramps.....sometimes.
just stressing a point, okay. Can everybody
leave me alone now about a comment I made almost
a year ago?
rosie16LRS: hey thats not true!!! i play this and its so
pretty its such a stress reliever for me. but it
does turn my fingers bright red...
Everisingstar W: This is so beautifully played. One of my all
time favourite pieces from Chopin. anyone know
where I can find the sheet music for this?
Thanks! ^_^
andrescabreraf: I have tears in my eyes :')
rallyabc123: Sounds like something interesting I could try
out. Thnx.
Impromptux3: Then there are pianists who rely mostly on
muscle memory. People who repeat passages 1000x
over until it's 'perfect'. It can be an
effective practice technique, but you become too
familiar with it and it no longer becomes
interesting and unique. Too much practice on one
thing will make it seem boring and repetitive,
unless you have a very open and creative mind,
it won't work. Just a few things to keep in
mind. Hope you found that interesting. :D
Impromptux3: Well, you should never spend too long on a piece
anyway. By not working on a piece too much, you
help to keep it fresh and alive. Do some
research on Krystian Zimerman. He NEVER
practiced his repertoire, instead he'd memorize
them and perform them in front of an audience,
and it would be the first time he'd ever played
the piece, hence keeping it fresh and new to not
only him, and the audience. His interpretations
were interesting and unique, because the piece
was 'new' to him.
rallyabc123: Oh no, that's what I meant. That's why I felt
a bit offended. I guess I should have been clear
though. Whenever I say "learn" I always mean
perfect. That's why Winter Wind took me 8 years.
I am never satisfied until I perfect a piece.
Besides, I feel Chopin's ocean etude is much
harder. Once you get past the complications o
winter wind, it's easy. I just hurt my hand
practicing. Now typing w/ one hand.
Impromptux3: Pianists can spend years perfecting a piece, but
when you said 'learn' I thought you meant
'studied' and 'memorized'. A piece might take
you 8 years to perfect, but it shouldn't take
you more than a few hours to learn. Memorization
is the easy part, then you need to work on
things like being able to play the difficult
passages comfortably at tempo, then focus on
things like dynamics, articulation and color
etc...
rallyabc123: Ohh, now I understand what you mean. I agree, it
just sounded like you were trying to make me
look unprofessional or look like a fool, not
that I needed you to do that since I feel I make
a fool of myself in the past 3 days. I agree
with you, but consider that the length of these
pieces, the difficulty and in my case, very slow
sight reading. Then between my daily life (I
was going to college when I learned this) it
took 3 years. Okay then.
Impromptux3: Still, it's a long time for anyone. Unless you
can fit in at least an hour a day to practice,
there's no point playing the piano. But still,
even in an hour you can achieve a lot. You can
split it into 3 sessions, 20 minutes each and
learn 3 pieces. 20 mins a day, 7 days you can
learn 3 pieces a week if you out your mind to
it. If you have another hour to spare, you can
learn 3 more pieces, or spend 20 mins doing
exercises and 20 mins sight-reading. It's all
'mental'.
rallyabc123: And I also learned that piece years ago, back
when I was still a Level 3 I think. I never paid
any attention to my "level". I was always the
type of person to challenge myself. Back then,
this piece was hard for me. Every person is
different. Not everybody is like Lang Lang.
And as I said before in my previous comment, I
don't have unlimited time to work. I have bills
to pay and a secondary job with long hours.
Being honest, I have to worry about my debts
before I worry about this.
rallyabc123: Well then I agree, but etudes are hard and you
have no idea the kind of schedule I live on a
daily basis. And by the way, I haven't
researched Lang Lang, but I assume that he has a
lot of time on his hands to be doing that. I
have a life. You probably don't know how to
play the piano. Who am I kidding? You wouldn't
be the first person to have an answer for
everything and then it turns out you know
nothing. Thank you for being persistent, but I
have a schedule to stick to now.
Impromptux3: For pianists that have strong hands, and have
developed their abilities on the piano, playing
a piece like winter wind might only take a few
hours to learn. I know people who can sight-read
pieces really well, and they use knowledge of
music theory, and techniques to help memorize
pieces quickly and efficiently. If you've been
playing piano for a few years, you'd more than
likely have the ability to sit down and
sight-read a chopin waltz, let alone have to
learn it. :)
Impromptux3: But that's a long time to spend working on a
piece don't you think? For anybody, regardless
of talent or whatever. If you spent 8 years
learning an etude on and off, then that's
understandable. But pianists Lang Lang were able
to play all 24 of Chopin's Etudes in only a few
years. Unless you spend 1 minute a day working
on a piece, or only spend 20 minutes a month,
then it might take 8 years, but a piece like
winter wind shouldn't take you more than 20
hours total to master.
rallyabc123: In my culture, it is good to use exaggeration to
get a point across, but I think you missed it
completely.
rallyabc123: 1. Your last comment was just an exaggeration
and you are showing off.
2. No my comment was an exaggeration to get
my point across about the difficulty of this
piece. It is hard to learn the part at 1:08.
Learning the entire piece really took me two and
a half years. But I kept practicing until I got
it with emotion. That's what made up 5 years.
And it took me 8 years to learn Chopin etude
Winter Wind. Now stop showing off. Maybe it's
because I am not from America.
Impromptux3: Dude, I learned it before Chopin was even born,
and it took me 5 seconds to learn.
Impromptux3: IT TOOK YOU 5 YEARS TO LEARN THIS PIECE!??
Impromptux3: People can 'copy', yet still create magnificent
interpretations, but I think for youtube
purposes, it's more suitable to compose,
arrange, improvise or create original content.
Why listen to this guy when we can listen to
Yuja Wang or Cziffra's interpretation? Right? I
think youtube thrives for more original content,
pianists like Kyle Landry do a very good job
of creating interesting compositions,
arrangements of improvisations. That's what we
need to see more of on youtube.
TheBlackandwhitecow1: I'm learning this. But this guy plays it better
than I do. Well, I'm learning it.
yuki3115: played this at my 5th grade piano recital(:
plentyofouts: Who cares if youn learned how to play it...?
It's still objectively a minor achievement.
It's not exactly Oscar Peterson or Art Tatum or
even one of Chopin's more technically difficult
pieces. A parrot can learn to repeat most
things. Try composing something equivalent to
this rather than just copying it...
IaxobusJames: he wasn't commenting on its possibility. He was
saying he hates when they boast in themselves
like that. I go no further. That's what he
was saying.
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