How to modulate like Beethoven: C major to E-flat minor! #shorts #musictheory #piano #beethoven

This is the fifth of C. P. E. Bach's seventeen basses for modulating to all the distant keys, from his *Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments*. It shows how to modulate up a minor third, from a major mode to minor mode key.

The style of this improvisation is heavily influenced by the late piano music of Beethoven.

This series is a continuation of my "Close Modulations" series of #shorts, which uses Bach's ten basses for modulating to the closely related keys.

My #improvisation is played on a Frenzel fortepiano, a virtual instrument modeled by Pianoteq (Modartt). The reverb used is one of Altiverb's (Audio Ease) Esterhazy samples.


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[luisgonzalez-aponte]

This is brilliant! Thank you for making content like this.

[fernandosoaresalves]

"Brilliant, Herr Beethoven! The way you so wittingly used the circle of fifths was so..."
"CIRCLE OF WHAT?!"
"Of fifths. Such craft, such harmonic..."

[andresabarca]

I love these videos man. Top notch, thank you for making them!!

What tuning is this? I played along but it sounds off

[MrTS]

That doesn’t sound like a Beethoven composition, sounds more like Bach? What is that piece, or did you make it up yourself to give an example of how he modulates?

[Innocent_Nilovsky]

What Beethoven's composition it's?