Lol... I self taught this piece to myself as well... after 13 years of professional coaching.

@josealbertoviartmunoz9509

4 жыл бұрын

Same but 75.

@frankmcnally5993

4 жыл бұрын

Same but I never learned piano

@im_mr_garbage2498

3 жыл бұрын

@@frankmcnally5993 ?

@paolo6219

3 жыл бұрын

Same but

@kahtanalobaidi1550

9 ай бұрын

Same

The guy sitting on the bench at 1:29 listens to it till the end. Love him.

@janm5854

4 жыл бұрын

I do the same

@owen4082

3 жыл бұрын

Plot Twist : He is wearing earphone

@viktorzozulia9258

2 жыл бұрын

@@owen4082 Plot twist number 2: he was waiting for somebody

@jadenasis921

Жыл бұрын

My favorite thing about chopin is the way he uses the grace notes to make a peice sound so romantic

A self taught pianist playing Chopin, and Ballade No1 of all things. Talk about jumping in at the deep end... Well done, if I was told you were classically trained I'd believe it.

@SeanRooneyMusic

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Gerry.thanks for the kind words

@MA-ke7rx

4 жыл бұрын

@ivan y. If I taught myself Nocturne Op.9 No.2 in a month, how long would it take to teach myself ballade in g minor would you say?

@angianggia4409

4 жыл бұрын

@@MA-ke7rx quite a FEW more months depending on how you are able to play Nocturne Op.9 No.2 in term of dynamics.

@bogdannowak2320

4 жыл бұрын

GerryBolger first 2 mins are easy ;)

@cxacmp5583

4 жыл бұрын

Yea iv had two years of learning with a teacher, then I started teaching myself, when I stopped having lessons with my teacher I was just able to play Beethoven sonate op 49 no2

8:36 When you never saw "The pianist"

@papermachevolcano1480

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh

@zip3355

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha 🤣 lol

He even has the same outfit as Chopin

Damn, Skrillex really let himself go

@eli1513

5 жыл бұрын

Other way around

@hihello-sx1sx

5 жыл бұрын

@@eli1513 damn, let him self go really Skrillex

@fattit7598

5 жыл бұрын

@@hihello-sx1sx HAHAHAHHHAHHA

@RADIOACTIVEBUNY

4 жыл бұрын

He's actually talented, now.

@janm5854

4 жыл бұрын

Skrillex fixed himself

that lady at the end was so cute, her reaction was priceless

Nice work. Despite the piano being a wreck, a train blazing through at the prettiest moment, and 2 random people stopping to intensely stare at exactly the most stressful part of the piece. A little miracle in a train station.

Jesus, man you inspire me, not for the piano, but for the violin, if you can play chopin's fist ballade, and you're self taught! I can surely get somewhat close to your level with pure determination!

lol the lady that just clap. But this is truly amazing! I too was self taught until I went to a piano school so I can learn more things that I have never been taught by myself.

@johnnyq9007

3 жыл бұрын

How do you get in piano school?

She clapped early asf

@SeanRooneyMusic

5 жыл бұрын

Ah she can clap whenever she wants I dont mind haha.just glad somebody liked it enough to clap.I made a balls of the last section anyway

@bmwforlife6951

4 жыл бұрын

Tip for every audience: start clapping when the performer puts both hands on their knees, that is how a professional performer lets you know it's finished.

Now if I heard that being played in a station I would gladly miss my train What a talented young man bravo 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

I love your attitude at the end! You're like: well, I just do this because it's no big deal....

Beautiful!

Such a piece. Bless you Sean, top man 👍

awesome! such amazing technique!! I too am self-taught, and play classical music by ear. I'm trying to teach myself how to read music. I'm glad to see that lack of training opportunities did not stop you from pursuing and mastering what you love.

Beautiful. Well done man. Truly inspiring

No words!!! Awesome...

The best version of the ballad I've heard yet!

You have talent, very few have it.. with a good teacher you could become even more amazing..

Self taught pianist myself, so badly wanna make it to this piece but it's just a tad too above my level. You did amazingly well! love the atmosphere

Incredible talent. I dream of being able to play this piece.

Nice effort Sean. Self teaching Ballade No 1.. especially Coda.. amazing.

@SeanRooneyMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Amazing job..... wow such a chopins piece

Bravo! self taught? to this level? and very musical! Amazing! Must be very smart!

Your style makes this piece unique. You took a masterpiece and made your own :D

you're my inspiration. I too am now able to read music, but I still go on trying to learn pieces. So far I finished Pirates of The Caribbean by Jarrod Radnich.

perfect.

Love your playing and interpretation!!!

Great 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Amazing. And then I’m here playing Prelude no. 1.

@caiza8441

4 жыл бұрын

Jan 2 😂😂😂

@rishbub

4 жыл бұрын

That's a great piece too...

@Prod.Protonic

3 жыл бұрын

@Gizio the Jackal I think he means Bach, but idk

@heromang

Жыл бұрын

3 years passed, can u tell me your evolution please?

poor girl in 8:36; she though it ended and clapped her hands, and then it continued so she felt awkward and went off.

GOOD!

Nice!!

Wow props to you for learning this pice by youself... espacially the last movement is damn straight Even tho you have a few mistskes Here and there but thats what makes it so beautiful

@jakobiwells1718

5 жыл бұрын

Blablo Blub And yet you could barely type this comment without as many mistakes as he made during the entire performance

@blabloblub7664

5 жыл бұрын

Lik Chalko so what?

@kratos9740

4 жыл бұрын

@@jakobiwells1718 stupid hater

@hirofumi3123

2 жыл бұрын

​@@blabloblub7664 do you realize how hard this piece is? the thing that makes Chopin amazing is that you can play his pieces with your own style

@killer_queen4062

Жыл бұрын

​@Hirofumi chopin's pieces, especially this ballade, are extremely strict in terms of how they need to be played. you can't get carried away by your own interpretation

Молодец. Чувственно, правильно. Шопен прекрасен.

Good stuff dude

Niceeee

Truly amazing regardless of how he learned it, not just "good for self-taught" but good music without considering it.

2:54 pigeon bowed ?

@happypotter23

5 жыл бұрын

XD

@fattit7598

5 жыл бұрын

The pigeon had mad respects to the man lmao

I love how every single person is confused by the ending because it goes to I like 4 times in a row lol, never will know why chopin wants to confuse the non-knowers

This video should have more views🙃

I am also teaching myself how to play this right now.

Por lo visto hay muchos genios anónimos. Se necesita ser un genio para tocar la balada número 1.

@Llanos191

4 жыл бұрын

No tanto. Depende del tiempo que le tomó aprenderse esa balada. Además hizo algunos errores notorios durante el koda, cosa que les suele pasar a muchos profesionales en conciertos incluso habiendo aprendido y practicado por años esta pieza y es completamente entendible que no la haya tocado a la perfección en notas y tempo. Eso no quita que sea muy habilidoso. Siempre he pensado que un buen pianista puede llamarse como tal cuando es capaz de tocar este tipo de piezas y vaya que ese tipo lo es!

Any YLIA fans? This piece is one of my bucket pieces! Excellent performance!!!

classic fm brought me here

Did you receive any formal training or are you completely self taught? What age did you start playing?

Wow absolute perfection, this really is the dream piece. Next the Chaconne? Just wow

@SeanRooneyMusic

3 жыл бұрын

I wish

@rowanwild8445

3 жыл бұрын

Busoni bach chaconne.. well it's about the same level, maybe a bit higher. And an absolutely worthy piece of having in hands I can testify, you should go for it budd

@rowanwild8445

3 жыл бұрын

Wait I just read down below, you don't know how to READ ? Is this some kind of joke ? Who the hell would so far in piano playing without at least take a few months to learn music theory ?

how long did it take to play chopin as a self taught pianist?

9:01 “just a simple relaxing piece”

Im self-taught as well, but can't play this ballade, really challenging. Out of tempo and with mistakes I can handle Berceuse op57

Fucking amazing. I would have stood and applauded until my hands fell off x

Trully amazing for self taught.

amazing job. also, that coke machine in the back has left me baffled. idek what is up with that man.

Thanks for the comments everyone.follow me on Instagram @Sean_r_pianist for more videos

This guy looks like the polish guy who argued with a British dude on the train

I would have stayed there for the full 9 minutes

This is NOT a “self taught” pianist, but a pianist with obvious considerable training. He has technical ability, understands harmony, knows what is important in Chopin and for interpretation. Not that this is perfect rendition, but it isn’t a rendition of a “self taught” pianist.

@seanrooney3315

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I spent a lot of time away from the piano reading about what it was that made up Chopin's own "style" I read every book and researched every source I could about his playing for years and I still havent found something that satisfies me as to how he sounded.must have been something beyond our understanding. and I appreciate the comment, but I basically locked myself inside for 3 months and did nothing but learn this piece with KZread tutorials.was extremely difficult and unpleasant and I dont think I'll be learning a piece this big again until i can read it from the score. Learning this by ear was not enjoyable but playing it is.

@svalentine4667

3 жыл бұрын

He has some training, but not professional. I’ve been self teaching myself for the past two years (only done classical music for the past 4 months though) and you can tell by how he plays some sections (namely the waltz, the first theme, and the reaffirmation of the second theme) with either iffy fits and starts or improper weighting of the left hand. Like the waltz has two melodies going on at once but you can’t even tell. Fantastic performance on his part, and he’s definitely self taught (at least mostly)!!

Wow.. how long hv you been practicing for this piece from zero? I always wanted to learn this piece myself too😭

@robertimmanuel577

4 жыл бұрын

2 years with zero experience

That was great, can't believe you learned it by yourself. I wonder how much time did it take, this piece is fucking hard.

@SeanRooneyMusic

3 жыл бұрын

4 exhausting months of 6 hours a day working exclusively on this.

@johnnyq9007

3 жыл бұрын

sean rooney came out really good👍

Dublic?

may I ask how long it took you to learn it?, only managed to reach 2:18 lmao took me a couple of days

@kamatayon6380

3 жыл бұрын

For a couple of days, that is good progress

@SeanRooneyMusic

3 жыл бұрын

4 months of 6 hours a day practice

only 8k views??

The coda? Is pretty bad ya it's insanely hard but wow

Codas difficult aint It lol good job tho man I'm self taught aswell I can't even read music lol I learn from synthesia. I need to stop being lazy and learn to read sheets really. I defo feel your pain when it comes to the coda of ballade no 1 though 😂

@SeanRooneyMusic

3 жыл бұрын

I'm just lazy af dude. If I actually made a serious effort I'd probably be able to read really quick. I just find the reading so difficult I just cant stick with it. Love playing though

@kaii7147

3 жыл бұрын

@@SeanRooneyMusic yeah I'm the same I can read music but not very well. Im trying to push my self into switching from synthesia to actual sheet music it's just so much quicker on synthesia. Sheet music is better though as it has alot more information written in the piece than synthesia does

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Wow only one person hung around to listen... For shame. Okay so a few people did. But still not bad for self taught. Got a little off on some of the chords towards the end (theme 4 g minor) but nicely done overall.

@SeanRooneyMusic

5 жыл бұрын

I know.Verrry hard to play this outdoors with frozen fingers.

I only can play half cant pass beyond this piece

@elcanallll

6 жыл бұрын

Random Object yet

@jjmcooljim2082

6 жыл бұрын

dont give up

@granddaddy_funk

5 жыл бұрын

Random Object only in your mind

@koreboredom4302

5 жыл бұрын

Try playing it REAL slow and practice the parts where you're not confident in/really fast and virtuoso. Edit: do some stretches and hanon exercises if you don't already(but I assume you do since this piece is really high level).

@koumusic2600

5 жыл бұрын

Random Object Push past your limits!

he really fcked up that coda

@SeanRooneyMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your input. I'm self taught and I cant read music.. what more do you want?

@mareksmid6906

3 жыл бұрын

@@SeanRooneyMusic yeah thats cool but being self taught just mean it takes longer to learn im self taught too and i dont see why you couldnt just wait until you really mastered the piece why perform when you are not ready to perform? and its not like you had a deadline where you were supposed to perform on street piano but nice work anyways but like a week or month of practice more wouldnt hurt

@davidnyc487

3 жыл бұрын

@@mareksmid6906 Wow that was pretty harsh, are you also a self taught asshole or were you professional taught 😂

Kaori...

@madz3198

5 жыл бұрын

*cries*

@kathreeek

4 жыл бұрын

dID iT reAch hEr¿

Arima

Wow, I would have stopped and listened. Mumble rap generation dont know music!

Classic music has deep philanthropy and history of the composers. Not like this modern music... all music came from classic.

8:35 bruh

He is look like the guy from the pianist

The woman paused for a cola…er, coda.

severus snape lol

@SeanRooneyMusic

3 жыл бұрын

Feck off haha

@olakolade6656

3 жыл бұрын

@@SeanRooneyMusic you played this balade very well! Congrats! You are very talented!

Qué pena que los trenes sean anti claque.

Your lie in April

@SeanRooneyMusic

3 жыл бұрын

No I lie in bed

@SeanRooneyMusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@emmanueldavidferreira1645 yes I know. I was just making a joke

4:45 Imagine the Violin OTAKUS:oh stop sayin nonsense u weeb...

I can't read sheet music or name a single note, I feel no reason to be teached

the piano is very out of tune

@Souls_p_

4 жыл бұрын

It's not that far out of tune, especially comparatively to other public pianos