Chopin Preludes Op.28: No.7 in A major & No.20 in C minor (Tutorial)

[@joshwrightpiano]

Thank you to all who have requested a tutorial on these preludes over the years. I wish you all the best in your practicing this week!

[@classicsbycandace]

Thank you, Josh! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@shivang15]

You are my favorite teacher on youtube. Thank you, Mr. Josh

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

The very first Chopin pieces I learned years ago when I was a beginner!

[@Swedishnbkongu]

I literally learned the A Major prelude last night. What a coincidence!!!!!

[@beatlessteve1010]

One of my dogs just had puppies at 3 am and I hear you playing these lovely preludes which for me represent polar opposites in terms of what emotion is brought out ...the Cm prelude is powerful and strong and deep the other prelude is magical and light and reminds me of a spring morning 🌅

[@PIANO_LAB]

Great tutorial Josh! I too love these pieces, They are simple and yet possess a quality that is hard to describe with Chopins incredible writing. Thanks for posting!

[@alchemistofmusic8265]

The beauty of simplicity. Like all simple things, small details make a huge difference. Prelude No 7, as simple as it may seem, is technically very complicated. You know, If you want to test whether a pizzaiolo makes a good pizza, choose a margherita (tomato + mozzarella cheese) :)

[@gisellerz]

Wow!!! Nice and waited pieces to learn! I’m loving ProPractice! Thank you always!!

[@franzliszt3733]

You are a very good teacher, thank you!

[@yannip2083]

Excellent! Those are my favorite preludes.

[@BuggaUgga]

4:43 arpeggio or better all notes at one?

[@BuggaUgga]

Thanks, watching to the end 8:40 you explain it, thank!

[@jordanBpsofjnss]

I learnt these 2 pieces last week. One after the other wtf. You read my mind

[@tomlitterick560]

I love your videos josh. I’ve been playing that piece for a long time and I play it drastically different to how you do. I won’t say one is better than the other. Though there is a thousand ways to skin it. For me personally I like to slowly build all the way to the big chord and then hold that like a femata and then fade away through the following couple bars and finish the last one PPP. I also like to roll the last chord on the last note of the last bar. I do like the idea of rolling that big chord though. Haven’t heard that before and definitely will give that a try

[@tomlitterick560]

Thank you for the video by the way. It isn’t often that your channel puts up music that I play because I typically don’t play/write classical music

[@ignacioclerici5341]

@@tomlitterick560 what type of music do you write play listen to? What country you from ?

[@Somaye_piano]

awesome tutorial, happy to find it 🎶💫

[@alhadeff9797]

Lovely tutorial, Josh. May I ask the Op. 28 no. 22 in Gm? I'm currently trying to learn it.

[@TheTechPianoPlayerKid]

I would consider myself advanced, but I do play these for fun as well. I have to use fingers one and five on that E and C sharp, instead of two and five, just because it feels really weird. I also learned these by ear. Number seven and number 20.

[@leonajones4702]

Great tutorial, thank you! Please tell me what you use get this visual setup. I am teaching young students via Zoom and other formats currently, and they are not seeing my hands well.

[@dagmarintreble]

Do you push the pedal on the upbeats or on 1like written in the score in the A major Prelude? It's difficult to hear.

[@evitanewcombe8792]

Thank you

[@davidkelly1220]

Super thanks for 📫

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

Thanks for the video! I'd borrow some of your tips in the future when I happen to be a piano teacher. But what is the significance of the hand overlapping? Why can't I play the D with the left hand and the E with the right hand? These are a few questions I would clarify because when I learned these, I was too small to ponder over these doubts and ask my piano teacher...

[@AnnaKhomichkoPianist]

I guess it’s more about the voicing :)

[@rootsofdisunity3414]

For pieces like the Moonlight Sonata Mvt. 3 and others where you can't hit the "heart of the key" as easily(especially the arpeggio part in the very beginning) how do you easily play the notes quickly with an upright or digital piano where it is much harder to play notes by striking the key higher up?

[@AnnaKhomichkoPianist]

I believe there is no special technique for playing on the digital pianos, at least not yet :) and for a good upright it should be quite the same as on the grand. If you think it’s only a piano problem, maybe it’s time to slowly move to a better one?

[@rootsofdisunity3414]

@@AnnaKhomichkoPianist I would but I go to college in 2-3 years so my parents think it is a waste(when I am gone the piano will have no use as my parents don't play on it).

[@AnnaKhomichkoPianist]

@@rootsofdisunity3414 totally understand!

[@hiera1917]

1:54 hhhaahhahah me, a late beginner, making myself learn first g minor ballade, op. 23 :)))

[@ronchiles399]

Are these two pieces in a book of his preludes?

[@nicolasmarkham9656]

Yes

[@hinnersmusicstudio]

Please do a tutorial on Chopin's Fantasies impromptu.

[@judithbraun4854]

Here’s the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/m4Kbf5KXd66cnK8 I highly recommend Josh’s propractice course.

[@eroceanos]

You see, I don’t argue, you have any right to interpret n 20 the way you want and I don’t come even close to you in skills… however, in my humble opinion, it’s not how Chopin wrote the end of the first bar… it is crescendo, drama… passion, grief, emotion… not mystery… it is meant to be crescendo, to conrast with the next two bars piano and pianissimo… I just wanted to say that. Besides that, your videos are very helpfull, thanx! But here, we have an artistic difference of opinion I guess… and I realy think to be on Chopin’s side here…

[@moonshifter0]

Wow, I did not know that you could play the big chord in Op.28: No.7 with your thumb on two keys.