Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 30 minutes ago
This piece is designed to maximize the "show". It sounds fast and the constant crossing of the left hand over the right hand also makes it look very virtuosic, but the notes are actually easy to play. However, some other things make it more difficult than the average "easy piano" piece: the right hand in particular gets quite a bit of work: try to remain maximally relaxed and if you experience discomfort while playing, stop playing. After letting it rest for a few days practice slower and softer. (Sorry I should have practiced a bit more myself - the playing is sloppy in this piece.) Scores: github.com/shimpe/easy_piano_scores
Next week we'll do the exact opposite and make very deep music with a minimum of notes!
"Easy Piano" consists of a series of pieces for which you don't need to be a very advanced player. Despite being called "easy" the pieces are not trivial, and will most likely take some practice. In the "Easy Piano" playlist, the pieces are ordered from easy to more difficult (but even the hardest piece in this series remains accessible for players that are yet to reach intermediate level of playing). Some pieces are only easy if you first take the time to work out a good fingering (ask your teacher to help you :) )
Note: more advanced players can use these pieces as sight-reading exercises, or as a basis for improvisations, either at the piano by enhancing the music as written, or using a second instrument by adding extra melodies on top of the piano music
This piece is designed to maximize the "show". It sounds fast and the constant crossing of the left hand over the right hand also makes it look very virtuosic, but the notes are actually easy to play. However, some other things make it more difficult than the average "easy piano" piece: the right hand in particular gets quite a bit of work: try to remain maximally relaxed and if you experience discomfort while playing, stop playing. After letting it rest for a few days practice slower and softer. (Sorry I should have practiced a bit more myself - the playing is sloppy in this piece.) Scores: github.com/shimpe/easy_piano_scores
Next week we'll do the exact opposite and make very deep music with a minimum of notes!
"Easy Piano" consists of a series of pieces for which you don't need to be a very advanced player. Despite being called "easy" the pieces are not trivial, and will most likely take some practice. In the "Easy Piano" playlist, the pieces are ordered from easy to more difficult (but even the hardest piece in this series remains accessible for players that are yet to reach intermediate level of playing). Some pieces are only easy if you first take the time to work out a good fingering (ask your teacher to help you :) )
Note: more advanced players can use these pieces as sight-reading exercises, or as a basis for improvisations, either at the piano by enhancing the music as written, or using a second instrument by adding extra melodies on top of the piano music
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Just last week someone asked me how I write music. I told that person: usually I find a text that inspires me and then I just write down the music that comes to me naturally.
The music in this video was written in exactly this way. You can find the poem (and other poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Jessie Lemont) here: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924026255822
The music may sound a bit weird at first, but the more you listen to it, the more accessible it becomes.
Im rather glad with the harmonic colours Ive managed to produce here (I believe you can hear harmonic influences of the late russian romantic era (e.g. Scriabin), from the impressionist era (Debussy) as well as contemporary jazz harmonies).
Some technical data:
The piano is a yamaha gt2 digital grand piano. The sound is recorded on a boss br600 multi-track recorder in dry recording mode using two different tracks (you will hear the synchronization problems - its hard to record a second track if you play rubato :) ).The texts are generated using a python script that drives the incredible imagemagick program (the same script I used to generate the subtitles in the requiem; this time I found out why those were looking rather awful in the end result and I fixed that problem[1]). The sound and the texts were mixed in a recent svn version of kdenlive on linux debian unstable.
[1] the problem was that kdenlive (or one of its helper libraries) doesnt seem to like .png files with partially transparent pixels (unless you composite them with another video track). Those come out fully opaque. Evening](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kaSxS-RIfpE/mqdefault.jpg)









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