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Pianists: Can you play Mozart's Sonata Facile?

  • 13-05-2009 11:14am
    #1
    Dave!
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    Hey folks,

    I've loved this piece for a long time, and am teaching myself piano at the moment, so would LOVE to be able to play this!

    I can read a bit of sheet music, though it takes me hours to decipher it :) Needless to say I cannot sight-read

    Anybody got advice on how to learn this particular piece? :o It's my 'Everest'

    Thanks


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  • #2
    TheBandit
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    I just had a listen to it myself there. Tis a nice piece. What pieces can you play at the moment? just to gauge your level

    Checkout pianoworld.com/forum. Its a great place if you play piano


  • #3
    joeswatch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭joeswatch


    Watch nkabbani play this on youtube
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJyyagBryzM
    He plays it twice, he's fast and a joy to watch. He makes it look simple but that only comes with practice. Learn the right hand first (mainly scales - with regular scale fingering - from what I see), then the left and then put them slowly together.
    Sometimes there are tutor videos on youtube for certain songs so there might be one for this. Good luck.


  • #4
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Thanks guys

    I'm really just learning the piano, so can't play any pieces as such :o Thus far I've really just been getting chords for songs and hammering away at them

    This'll be the first real piece I attempt :pac:

    I've got the opening few bars pretty good, left and right hand seperate. Just gotta put them together now :D


  • #5
    jimi_t
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    joeswatch wrote: »
    Watch nkabbani play this on youtube
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJyyagBryzM
    He plays it twice, he's fast and a joy to watch.

    ?? He bollaxed up at least 3 scale runs and a couple of trills that I counted at a cursory example, not to mention he drops in and out of time on the more cluttered passages. I don't mean to be pedantic but he's not a great pianist


  • #6
    OK-Cancel-Apply
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    jimi_t wrote: »
    ?? He bollaxed up at least 3 scale runs and a couple of trills that I counted at a cursory example, not to mention he drops in and out of time on the more cluttered passages. I don't mean to be pedantic but he's not a great pianist

    You're right he did. I noticed a good few mistakes. I'm no expert on piano, but I'd agree with this comment about the dynamics:

    "Great job! Personally, I try to play the left hand a little lighter in order to bring out the right. You also may want to try and add variation in the dynamics."


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  • #7
    Bosphorus
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    any jazz pianists on this thread in cork??


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