5 Classical Pieces Beginners Shouldn't Skip (Part 2) | Piano Lesson

you're a beginner pianist and you want to work  on some great classical works unfortunately there are thousands of pieces to choose from  and it's hard to know where to even begin hi i'm jaisa there was a lot of requests for a  part two in the series so here you go here are another five classical pieces that beginners  should not skip for each piece i'm going to play the start and then briefly talk about the  educational benefits of playing these pieces i'm going to count them down from the easi

est  or the hardest so make sure you stick to the end to find out what number one is and just  before we get to the countdown of these pieces make sure you subscribe to this  channel to make sure you stay in touch with more of these free piano lessons and  tutorials now number five on the list is so number five is the bach minuet ng now this  piece is really good for teaching your hands to coordinate with each other generally speaking  in piano music right hand has a slightly more difficult part

than the left hand but in this  one the left hand is actually not too much uh easier than the right hand okay so in right  hand you have parts like that you have this kind of scale part where there are fast moving notes  but left hand also has that later in bar eight so okay so i think both hands have  relatively equally difficult parts so it's a good one to try to play to  coordinate your hands the minuet ng is also really good for learning ornaments in  music now what are ornaments in the old

en days composers use ornaments to basically  beautify the music so instead of instead it was written as so this okay some people also call these grace  notes and this piece is a great introduction to playing these grace notes or ornaments  okay they're not easy to do so they are very beautiful but also require  a great level of technical execution so this is really great for  that number four on our list is so so so on and so forth number four on the list is  the starting part of clear to loon

by debussy now this piece is really great for  learning legato what's legato legato is smooth playing or joined playing so  beginners when they start to learn this piece if we're practicing without the  pedal they'll play something like that which is not what we're supposed to do we're trying to join each thing  and that's not easy to do did you hear that this one double notes but we  still need to join them as well so it's great for legato practice and the next thing this piece  is really great

for is actually tied to the first point and that is that this piece is really  great for learning how to play expressively now a teacher i had in the past told me  there were only two levels of pianist level one were pianists who played notes and level  two were pianists who played music and the only difference between these two groups is expression  now clear to loon is a really deep piece that actually takes a bit of time to understand so  now instead of playing just straight notes like inste

ad of playing that i want to encourage you  beginners to try to think about longer phrases so trying to think about how i can create life out  of just these notes instead of just trying to hit the right notes i want to encourage you  to get the right notes and then on top of that think about how am i going to  make this beautiful sounding now if you want to play the entire clade alone  piece that's probably not going to be the best piece for a beginner because there are some really  difficult pa

rts towards the end but clearly is a really familiar tune to a lot of people and a  lot of people love it so if you're a beginner why not just try the start part of it get a good  sense of what that feels and sound like and then when you get better at piano you know two three  years down the line when you get enough practice and you can take on the technical challenge then  you can complete the whole clearly piece i think these kind of things they act as a great motivator  when you learn a part

at the start of your journey and then when you get better to work towards  completing the piece when you are better at piano i think that's an incredible motivator for  yourself to practice now moving on to number three on our list number three is my personal  favorite one out of these five number three is so on and so forth so number three is to a wild  rose by mcdowell now i really recommend you go and listen to the full piece of this on youtube  because this one is so stunning it just melts m

y heart this piece is really good to learn because  it will teach you how to control your dynamics now in the two phrases that i played the first  time it was supposed to be piano which is soft and in the second time it's supposed to  be pp pianissimo which means really soft okay so this is really good  for just teaching you how to basically have enough control to play even softer  and then there are also a whole bunch of other crescendos and demeaning windows everywhere so  a good one to learn

how to control your volume also similar to the previous piece this one is  really good for learning how to play expressively so instead of just playing the right notes have  a think about how you can play the right notes and create some live from them moving on  to number two on our list number two is so number two is the sharpened  prelude in a major number seven now i recommend this piece to beginners  because it's pretty short it's only 16 bars if you really work hard at it you could probably

  finish learning it in one day this piece is particularly good also for volume control between  your two hands so generally speaking right hand should always be louder than the left hand  okay so just to demonstrate beginners when they play this piece they'll probably probably  something like that okay so hopefully you can pick up that this doesn't sound really good  the better way to play is something like that where the right hand is standing out a little  bit more okay this piece actually is

takes this volume control actually to another  level because even within the right hand whenever there are two or three notes you  want the top one to stand out even more so do you see that this b i want to try to make that  a bit louder than even this g sharp or this d so beautiful so this is a great piece to work on  volume control between your two hands okay moving on to the number one  piece for this video number one is so so so number one on the list is the sonatina in  c by clementi now i

f you're listening to this piece and you're going oh gee that's pretty  quick i don't know if i can pull that off now everything should always start slow when i  first learned this piece i started learning it really really slowly and then only step by step i  would increase the speed this piece is really good to learn because it has a lot of scale passages  so you could see it had a lot of things like so do you see that that's a c major scale and then  throughout the piece there are a whole bunc

h of other running passages as well so this piece is  really great for working on your music but also a bit of a technical exercise i guess you could  say this piece is also really great to work on because if you complete the whole piece this  whole work actually takes about seven to eight minutes to perform so i think it will also build  your stamina for piano playing and lastly i think this is a really great introduction to the  classical sonata genre so once you study this piece you'll get a

bit of a good introduction to  a lot of the famous works by mozart beethoven and haydn so i really recommend you to learn  this one it will teach you lots of things so there you go guys here are another five  classical pieces that beginners shouldn't skip which one of these pieces are your  favorite and do you have any suggestions of other pieces that you think beginners shouldn't  skip let me know in the comments below thanks for watching have a great day subscribe to this  channel and i'll cat

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