How to Sound Like Chopin

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As has become a tradition on this channel, here is "How to Sound Like Chopin," in celebration of his birthday today (March 1, 1810) and "Happy Birthday" in the style of his waltzes. Stick around until the end for bonus ideas!

Please note: This type of analysis and imitation is purely for educational and entertainment purposes to celebrate this day. Also, if you didn't notice, I recorded this on a Yamaha digital piano because I'm currently out of town and don't have access to an acoustic piano -- but I actually loved recording on it! :)

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[NahreSol]

2:13 for the final "Happy Birthday" in the Style of Chopin 🙌

[SahilSinghSidhu]

Chopin’s music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. I do not know what I did to deserve this! Thanks!

[richardlee]

One of my favorite characteristics of Chopin's music is how he modulates unexpectedly. I'm not a piano player so I can't give an example in music terms (other than modulation) so I will use a metaphor: It's like you're walking along a main street, you turn a corner quickly and suddenly you're in a different neighborhood with a completely different character. I love that and he seems to do it more than any other composer I'm aware of.

[DavidBennettPiano]

I love your approach to teaching piano... the combination of bird’s eye view piano-cam and your annotations/images is excellent! 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

[trevorwhat]

Your visuals are stunning. both for content and style. You've compressed so much key analysis therein. Superior work!

[kimyim]

Casual reminder, Rachmaninoff's birthday is exactly 1 month away 😝

[ElmerTheOne]

I think I need to learn more music theory.

[lyrafiel]

Hard to believe; there is sooo much to learn in these mere 5 minutes. Thank you so much!

[fernandonunes]

It's easy to sound like Chopin. All you need to do is to go to a isolated crossroad at 00h00min and make a pact with the devil. Because only this way you're able to write such beautiful and marvelous works.

[ajostuder]

This is very fine.

I’ll add two things I’ve noticed.
- subtle variations in the left hand harmonies sympathetic with what the right hand is doing.
- subtle symmetry breaking ( for example in the section of scherzo 2 in your previous video about practicing) where broken chords or arpeggios don’t quite repeat themselves as they go up or down the keyboard.

[greob]

Magnificent tune!
As a huge fan of Chopin, you totally nailed everything. Excellent execution as usual, very impressive. Also great video editing and annotations. Thanks!

[adab.]

So beautiful! And great explanation of the used techniques. Thank you for the invaluable content you're creating, Nahre. Greeting from Germany 🌹

[johnwallace]

"Trilly-things" is a description of such sublime genius and artistry that it deserves wider use.

[Crisruim]

Chopin style seems so soft, romantic and unique he is definitely my favorite pianist

[dovane]

That confirms that Chopin was a great jazz improviser!😂😃. Seriously, you are amazing!

[LinhNguyen-dzpq]

0:58 Two slit diffraction. Hello physics people!

[holtsanders]

Absolutely amazing! I love everything about it, but especially the common upper tones. I really admire your ability to identify the specific features that characterize Chopin's music.

[quananginh]

This is one of the few excellent tutorial videos on YouTube. Your deep knowledge in music surprises me so much, you are truly amazing!!

[stringbenderbb]

So much to learn on this channel, great presentation. Thanks for the awesome work!!

[Bati_]

Enchanting! Nothing can easily compete with the quality of this material, really, recently I have been looking at so many music theory books from beginner to intermediate-advanced and their way of presenting the information is not that systematic and creative at the same time and they are not interactive, easy to understand because they lack the visual material most of the time. What you're trying to do is so valuable that even textbooks can envy and take it as a magnificent example of how you should do it! It's like picture child books which depict Chopin's greatness! Since I have discovered your "How to Sound Like" series, I became a more of an active listener rather than listening to these great composers' work passively. You've helped me to open this "third ear"! The hearing, as Joachim E. Berendt emphasized as well, rather than seeing is the key of a spiritual experience of consciousness and I am sure that so many of us as humans out there don't attempt to hear more closely. Even one and only Stravinsky said that "Hearing is an effort, and just to hear is no merit..." Thank you so much Nahre for providing this high-quality material which enhances my hearing abilities, there are so many details that constitute these great composers' works and you can see it only if you can show a remarkable effort! Btw, it's great that even though you don't have your natural environment around, you can easily adapt yourself to new ones with the same success! I really appreciate the hard work! Thank you Nahre!! 😊🧠🎶