14 Moonlight' 2nd Movement L. Van Beethoven Op. 2 Allegretto 4. This is only a short portion of the Moonlight Sonata-the portion that everyone is most familiar with. It's for a beginner piano player but it sounds quite lovely.
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The first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata provides the piano student with an excellent study in memorizing by chords and harmony. It consists almost entirely of rolling chords, with a beautiful melody floating above. So not only do you get to strengthen your ability with chords, you also get to work on your ability to bring out individual melodic notes as you roll the chords.
All in the same hand.It's called 'voicing' the melody, which refers to making the melody sing out above all the other notes being played. By working on this skill in the Moonlight Sonata, you will be improving your piano playing in a way that will affect all the other piano pieces you play. Making your melody sing out is a huge part of piano music, no matter what the style or genre.In the video tutorials provided here, I'm trying to show you how to go about learning and memorizing the music at the same time. To get the most out of the videos, print out the music and follow along carefully as you work your way through. You will need to be constantly pausing the video so that you can work on playing whatever segment of the music you are shown. It's up to you to do each part over and over again, as I do not take video time to show the tremendous number of repetitions that it takes to really learn every single part.Also, in the videos you will hear me continually reminding you to go slow.
To keep the videos a decent length (I hope), I couldn't play everything as slow as you should be going when you are first learning the piece. So keep in mind that the videos are designed simply to help you see the process.
It is up to you to take it slow enough to learn effectively.Along those same lines (slowness), remember not to be in a hurry as you work through the videos. Take your time and learn each section well before moving on to the next section. The process of learning, memorizing, and mastering the entire piece should take you several months. So go slow and enjoy the journey. Thank you'Nothingin this world can take the place of persistence.Talentwill not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.Geniuswill not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.Educationwill not; the world is full of educated derelicts.Persistenceand determination alone are omnipotent.Theslogan 'press on' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the humanrace.'
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-Ludwig van Beethoven'I do not have a single white note on my piano; my elephant smoked too much.' -Victor Borge'Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark too read.' -Groucho Marx(Advertisement)(Advertisement).
This is a video from a 2013 advertisement for Lenovo technology company. In the final seconds of the above-displayed video, the logo for “Lenovo” appears on the screen.
This video, which features Bryant and the Loring String Quartet playing the “Moonlight Sonata,” won a.While commercials often stretch the truth in order to draw in viewers (we’ve covered that were later as videos), Bryant was truly capable of playing the “Moonlight Sonata.” In fact, the above-displayed commercial was by a brief video Bryant posted to Facebook in 2013 with the message: “Just got to Miami, felt like the Sonata. Thanks to my lil bro Darius for taking video.”. Bryant shared another social media a few months earlier that showed him sitting at a piano.
That image was captioned, “Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata calms me down when I reach my breaking point.”Reporter Ramona Shelburne told the story of Bryant’s love for the “Moonlight Sonata” in a 2016 article published by ESPN. Shelburne explained that Bryant first learned to play it as a gift for his wife Vanessa in 2011. The two were heading for a divorce and Bryant wanted make a grand gesture to keep her.And if playing the composition wasn’t enough, Bryant learned this classic piece by ear.Here’s an excerpt from Shelburne’s:“I wanted to play something nice for Vanessa,” he says. They’d been fighting again. Vanessa filed divorce papers in 2011. Kobe was desperate to hold on to her.
He wanted a grand gesture.“Sitting down and taking lessons would be too easy,” he says. “So I taught myself by ear.”It was harder than he thought. His fingers have been broken and jammed so many times over the years that they don’t really bend anymore.Taking lessons would be easier, yes. They’d also be a way of learning to read sheet music so he could play other songs besides “Moonlight Sonata.” But Kobe had to teach himself how to play to prove his love to Vanessa and reinforce his own sense of exceptionalism.“That’s the song I wanted to learn,” he says. “There’s so much beauty and agony. If you watch Muse, we use the chords from ‘Moonlight Sonata.'
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