3 Easy Chopin Pieces For Beginners (Classical Piano Lesson)
It's time to delve into the magical world of one of the greatest composers in history: Frédéric Chopin. Your favorite piano teacher Lisa Witt is here to teach you how to play simpler but stunning arrangements of Chopin's most famous piano pieces.
Chopin was a Polish composer and pianist of the Romantic era, known for his technical skill and poetic musical style. He composed almost exclusively for solo piano, and his music remains some of the most beloved and enduring in the classical canon. Chopin's works are renowned for their emotional depth, technical brilliance, and subtle beauty, making them a joy to play and listen to.
In this lesson, you'll learn how to play three of Chopin's most famous pieces in simplified arrangements that still capture the essence of that beauty. These pieces are perfect for beginners who want to start exploring the world of classical music or for experienced players who want to brush up on their Chopin repertoire.
Lisa will guide you through each piece, breaking down the notes and providing tips and tricks to help you play with confidence and grace. By the end of the lesson, you'll have the tools you need to impress your friends and family with your newfound piano skills
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:28 - Nocturne in Eb
4:00 - The Melody
9:44 - Prelude in E minor
14:12 - The Melody
21:15 - Waltz in A minor
26:16 - Closing thoughts
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▶️ Nocturne in Eb: d1923uyy6spedc.cloudfront.net...
▶️ Prelude in E minor: d1923uyy6spedc.cloudfront.net...
▶️ Waltz in A minor: d1923uyy6spedc.cloudfront.net...
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ABOUT LISA WITT
I love to help students unlock their full musical potential. I have taught in a wide variety of settings from Music for Young Children to helping recording artists prepare their songs for the road. I also have specialized experience working with children that struggle with learning, developmental, and physical disabilities. While my background is classical, I’m currently focusing on helping my students play the music they love by ear! I’m excited to be a part of YOUR journey as you learn how to sight read, play by ear, and progress through musical theory. It is going to be fun!
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I have always heard the saying "those who can't do, teach"......you break the rules!! You DEFINITELY can do AND teach!!! You have helped me soo much....I cannot walk past my piano without sitting down for a practice session. ..so much fun!!!
@PianoteOfficial
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for being here and learning with us 🙏 lots more to come i promise
@mateus994
Ай бұрын
Don’t think that rule ever applies to piano instructors though.
I have to thank Pianote and Lisa for your wonderful and engaging teaching style... I've learned Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata thanks to your lessons, and these three Chopin pieces are next. The emotions that are stirred by listening to these beautiful pieces is one thing... the emotions stirred by playing these pieces is next level... I keep coming back to pianote for my lessons because Lisa really is such a wonderful teacher... I'm sure every student here feels like she is speaking solely to them... Thank You so much from one very happy older (58) piano student
All three are simply beautiful. Thanks for simplifying them. They will provide hours of enjoyment.
Prelude in E minor! I absolutely love Chopin! Thank you for sharing this lesson❤
This is one ☝️ f my most favorite pieces . You are a gentle , enthusiastic and technologically strong teacher . I ordered your book and can’t wait to receive it. Thank you .
I’ve tried a number of different videos and methods online and Lisa’s style and methods have by far been there most helpful/motivating for me personally. I hadn’t played piano for 25 years because I was never very good and didn’t enjoy it before. Now I look forward to playing everyday and progressing my playing. Thank you!
You are so animated and make learning SO MUCH FUN! THANK YOU! My favorite is the Waltz in A minor!
Timeless!.. simply magic.. thank you 👍🎹🇳🇿
Thanks again Lisa for another wonderful Tutorial! Your enthusiasm is infectious! thank you so much!
Love your teaching style! You’ve taught me so much Lisa , I’m forever grateful. Many blessings from Miami.
Love you Lisa
Wow! What a Beautiful sound. You are an Amazing Lady, for sharing this beautiful music. Thank you Lisa. DB
Preciosos temas y excelente explicación, siempre con esa simpatía. Da gusto ver éstos vídeos. Enhorabuena. Thank you very much. ❤❤❤
Hi Lisa and team 🙂 Thank you so much for the sheet music and tutorial. I play it with a smile on my face.
This is absolutly awesome and professional. I'm so grateful with you!!
Amazing lessons, truly amazing.
Excelente su pedagogía. Una obra musical tan compleja, nos muestra Ud. a nosotros los novatos también querer tocarla. Gracias.
Muchas gracias .
Thank you so much! I was looking for playable Chopin...Awesome!
Great video! I love Chopin's music, but it's difficult to play, so thanks for making simplified versions of some. Prelude in E minor was actually the first song I taught myself after having bought a second hand Casio Celviano AP-450 digital piano a few years ago. I play acoustic guitar, but I've never learnt the piano. I heard the Prelude in a Remington Steele episode (Laura plays it on a grand piano Remington has bought for her) and wanted to play it. So I got notes and looked up tutorial videos on how to play it. In about a month with daily practice (about 15-30 minutes each day) I started to get the hang of it. Now I play it fluently (if perhaps not beautifully ;) ) So I think it is possible for beginners to learn the more complicated version with three fingers on the right hand, especially if one has practiced this simplified version. They are all very beautiful in my opinion, and I really appreciate all your videos which has taught me a lot :)
All of them I loved to play and hear iit all over again.
Thank you for breaking this done. Now I can try playing it ❤
Wow !! So Amazing have today's playing piano with Lisa Witt I loved you 💓😘. 🎹
Superthanks! I love Chopin's nocturne op. 9 no. 2, it's the reason why I want to learn how to play the 🎹
THANK YOU FOR SHARING, THAT IS FIRST CHOPIN I LEARNED FROM MY PIANO TEACHER DIANE PERRY 45 YEARS AGO WHEN I LIVED IN WASHINGTON STATE. SHE IS GONE, BUT EVERY TIME I PLAY THAT SONG I MISSED HER. THANK YOU FOR SHARING
Thanks for the great video. Would love more lessons on Chopin, especially Nocturne in C sharp minor.
Good teaching, thank you.
Thank you!!!❤
Wow, simplified Chopin, that is exactly what I have been looking for in the last couple of days and it has materialised on Pianote channel.. Thank you for listening to my thoughts 🙂
my favorites Like watching the fingerings, the R hand I notice she used only her fingers not the thumb. Fingering and moving to the correct position has-been my headach. Thank you for clear instruction. Lisa - your looking more beautiful every year.
Thank you for this video! You look stunning 😍
I ve been stop playing piano,,until i found this link,,,thank you,,,i can play fur elise and canon in D☺☺☺
Whoa! I've been searching a lot lately for someone to explain these amazing Chopin pieces to me, specially op9 no2, Thanks pianote for this amazing tutorial!!!
@PianoteOfficial
Жыл бұрын
You got it 👍
These are great, fantastic work...
I love your energy❤
You're such a wonderful human being ❤
Super ❤ Love It, Thank's 🎶
Just a moment ago I thought: What if Pianote made a Video on Chopin? And suddenly this gem appears! TELEPATHY!!!😂 I can't believe this magnificent content is free😍 Please make a series out this where you present easy pieces from other composers.
@PianoteOfficial
Жыл бұрын
We really do try to make some really cool stuff available for free to get people excited about playing piano again. The free trial is worth checking out one day if you wanna see what more we have to offer as well! ;)
Thank you
I saw this headline and it immediately caught my interest. Then I noticed these are all arrangements. One can find beginner arrangements for most (not all) pieces. Something that’ll really help beginners is learning the keyboard and accomplished note reading so one can play without looking at the keyboard.
I just have to get better at sight reading. Memorizing all these chords and finger patterns is going to be a monumental task.
I'm a Pianote member. Finding these KZread videos just adds to the fun. Thanks.
@PianoteOfficial
Жыл бұрын
I will allow it!
Hi Lisa, you are a great teacher, can you make a video on advance checklist like you made for intermediate checklist so that people can know are they an advanced player or not😊
Well-done Lisa.
You a good Piano player. Thank,s for you leccion,s
Woww. Nice teaching. My Snowball the Hamster loves this melody. Stands still while listening it.❤
@PianoteOfficial
Жыл бұрын
That is the best news i have heard all day
Thank you for your video, i like chopin so much and you are so funny I like how you learn . You are Great, please make more videos
Such beautiful pieces! I'm already done with the waltz in A minor, and I'm currently learning the waltz in A flat (the Farewell Waltz) and I'm very excited. The Nocturne in Eb is my next milestone.
@JD-72191
10 ай бұрын
I started playing piano about 18 months ago. Nocturne in Eb was a goal of mine. I learned an easy version but it eventually was not satisfying to me. I decided to learn the original version. It took me 2-3 months but I can now play it. I play it EVERYDAY and try to make it more expressive now that I know the mechanics of the piece. I really recommend learning the original because if you’re like me, you will love playing it everyday till forever. Every thing worthwhile takes a lot of time and dedication. 😊
Amazing 😮
Finally! A video on Chopin
@PianoteOfficial
Жыл бұрын
we had to keep everyone waiting because its the best one!
You are the best ❤
Loved them all, but. I loved Prelude in E minor just a little more. (Maybe because I have played the other 2) I can picture myself walking down a sidewalk in London on a rainy and foggy evening just strolling along with that music in my head. (To much time on my hands.)lol
I always appreciate ur videos, u make everything so easy!!
@PianoteOfficial
Жыл бұрын
very happy to help :)
Very very good
"Chopin was a Copernicus of piano"
@ruperthay8439
Жыл бұрын
What does Copernicus mean? Pls?
@krzysztofporadzinski9183
Жыл бұрын
@@ruperthay8439 Nicolaus Copernicus
@SuperFatafati
Жыл бұрын
Copernicus got the model of the Solar system wrong
@jestfullgremblim8002
Жыл бұрын
@@SuperFatafatihahahaha
Thank you for doing this. I thought I would have never be able to play them.😭
Great video and a lovely selection 😊
@PianoteOfficial
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for being here for its premiere!
The left hand is beautiful all on its own
Superb composition and melodious 👏👏👌
@PianoteOfficial
Жыл бұрын
He is truly one of the greatest of all time ❤️
Thank you for this video. Chopin made easy(ier)! Q: The original score for Prelude doesn’t include use of the pedal except in a few spots, but I can’t seem to get the flowing sounds out of the base notes. Is it okay to use the pedal, or not ok?
you save my life :)
Hope that you'll be teaching us etude 25 no. 1 in Ab major.
Hi, love these Simplified version ! Would you guys mind showing in the future how to use the pedal on the nocturne ? As a beginner this version is perfect for me but I struggle a bit with the pedal to make it perfect , would also be good content I guess because I can easily see a lot of people in my situation
@user-ul7dc7uy5x
4 ай бұрын
I'm struggling with the same issue
Can you please please please do a tutorial on Chopin’s Barcarolle in f sharp major? If it’s one song I want to learn to play this is it, yet I cannot find a decent tutorial to it. Thank you so much!
I think i found good chopin lesson
Okay now i want teacher like you 😂🎉
Fantastic video, i have a slightly un related question though, in every video i see those grey shelves in the back ground though i cant find them anywhere, i was just wondering where you got them or if theres a link to them or anything, if any one else in the comments has any ideas id love to hear it
i think you have a simplified version of the prelude in E flat on the left hand, or do i have a expanded version?
Please Please teach the whole waltz in A minor piece. 🤩🥰🎶
Great. Please do Peaches from Mario Bros Tutorial .
After the tutorial of the easy version Chopin - Prelude in E minor, would you like to make with the thesis version or the original? Best regards!
THREE MORE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please do titanic tutorial 😍
This is definitely a challenge for me but what a great video!!
I wonder if I could try this at the end of my lessons - I’m a beginner or should I stay away
Thank you Lisa, I’ve been feeling a bit unmotivated, when I sit on the piano nothing seems to flow. Maybe with this lesson I can start anew and try some Chopin to stir things up! Wish me luck.
@vladimirmarin3072
6 ай бұрын
Hello. Hope you did succeed. How has your piano progress been so far?
Thank you so much for classical pieces simplified lesson~ save me from struggling with the piano sheets 🤣
very nice, the editor could have done a 𝄽 too after the 2nd ;)
Love it but can you make a video foe succession them song please
We need the full cover of noctourne please it will change my lifr
Can you please teach another love by tom odell
He's from Poland and I feel so lucky cause I'm also from Poland
please do nocturne in Eb Full tutorial for beginners
I have loved watching and learning! You are a wonderful teacher! Can you do some more Christmas song tutorials? (E.g. angels we have heard on high, God rest ye merry gentlemen, o come o come Emmanuel)
Hello, please do a tutorial on Oil on Canvas by David Sylvian.
Hello. What piano she using?
Love Chopin ❤️ not the easiest music to play on your piano.
@PianoteOfficial
Жыл бұрын
we tried to make it a little more accessible at least :)
It would be nice if you discussed the pedaling. But loved this as usual.
What piano are you using? It seems to have electronics in it.
I've booked my first concert at Carnegie Hall, but I don't know how to get there. Anyone know the way?
How far along in the Method should you be before undertaking the learning of this piece?
2:34
Why i understand everything you are saying and i am not native speaker😃 do u give private lessons ?
Heard jimmy page play the second piece
Waltz in A minor chopin
Ah! here we are
What program to play piano score under the piano ? Thank you … awesome
@PianoteOfficial
Жыл бұрын
it is called Chordie!
@WahjoeGunawan
Жыл бұрын
@@PianoteOfficial ... big thanks ...
This is nice, but simple versions aren't challenging enough. I play the advanced versions of his songs, and I'm self-taught.
@nedhab
Жыл бұрын
Congrats on your progress! I can only wish to be able to say the same one day. At my stage of learning I really appreciate such simple versions.
🌹🧡🧡👼🏻😘