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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2:13 for the final "Happy Birthday" in the Style of Chopin 🙌
Have you seen Edoardo Brotto's happy birthday in the style of Chopin? Thank you for your videos, i have only been playing 3 years and progressing well and it's very enjoyable/motivating to watch someone with such high level of technique. Keep up the good work!
Hey Nahre, you should consider adding a synthesa display to your playing! You play so well that it would look amazing!
today i learned the name of one of the techniques i love hearing in any type of music and its called a trill! thank you so much for your amazing videos.
@@OceanBannanas Edoardo Brotto's happy birthday is plagerized from Tartarov's Improvisation and the parts that are not are hardly impressive.
Nice video, something interesting I always wanted to learn from chopin is how he transforms simple melodies into complex scales with extensive ornaments, I believe he used to teach this to his students and would love to learn it myself, sadly there is very little on it. Kinda similar to the V-I resolutions you showed near the end. Also Transformational harmony is incredibly important in Chopin's harmony, but its seldom taught. People think its outdated/incorrect
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!
Thank you!! 🙌
And with Wienavski the beast thing wat happend to poland in last 200 ears. 😢😂
I would love to understand all this
You can! Believe in yourself! Try to learn them step by step and level by level, I am trying to learn them in this way :)
@@Bati_ what do you mean with "them"
@@amoryblaine2123 I meant music theory in general. I don't know your level, however, if you want to start with basics my advice to you is to check Clendinning's "The Musician's Guide to Fundamentals" textbook. It starts from a really basic level and even conservatories and music schools use it as prep material as I observed. Other than that, you can subscribe to Reddit's Music Theory subreddit group, it is really functional to ask questions and get answers from a variety of people who knows music at different levels out there.
@@Bati_ Okay sounds good I will do it. Im playing okay but I know nothing about theory I cant even read notes properly
I started making music at 18 and now I'm 23 and last year I started learning the piano, my adventure is more like a compositional one rather than performing, I tend to compose and I realized that reading music is a must to acquire other further skills so I'm also trying to improve myself on sight-reading and reading music in general. Start with learning to read music staff, it would really enhance your understanding on theory. All the best to you. Greetings from Turkey!
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.
1:54 . Совершенно верно, это очень характерная черта , гармонизация, столь узнаваемая музыки Шопена.
Casual reminder, Rachmaninoff's birthday is exactly 1 month away 😝
Casual reminder, Vivaldi's birthday is tomorrow.
"Start by borrowing a hand from someone at least 2m tall" :)
Thanks for remembering.
Oh man... haha
@@NahreSol 😝
I love your approach to teaching piano... the combination of bird’s eye view piano-cam and your annotations/images is excellent! 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
YOO. I know I'm replying 3 years later but cool to see you here. I watch your videos and I'm a hardcore Beatles fan so I enjoy when you talk about their stuff.
I think I need to learn more music theory.
@@musik350 Yeesh, do you have any constructive criticism? Or did you just need to feel a bit better about yourself there? Nothing to be ashamed of, by the way. We've all been there. As long as you don't make it a habit.
Yes I actually do, @@HueNost . The first step would be to accept that noone but Chopin will be able to compose like him (no rating of Chopin's composition skills though). Shall I go on, or are you again one of those super smart people who just think they're entitled to be the morality police?
@@musik350 I doubt that was Nahre's intention, but rather to deconstruct and analyse (or, at least try to) his work to better understand it.
I was going to do the whole "To be fair, you have to have really high IQ" bit, but I'm a little bit tired, and honestly it's not worth your time or mine. I'm sorry I was being petty, but it irks me when people just post stuff for the sake of being destructive rather than actually contributing to the discussion. Something I guess I was also guilty of doing. again, sorry about that!
@@HueNost after your honest excuse, I'll do the same. Maybe I was a little too direct, too
HueNost +RDVMusic This is a pretty wholesome thread. Good job, guys. We need more people like you on the internet.
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.
You must be referring to Listz. Chopin was talent and hard work.
@@vcemurder6851 actually that was a joke. But yep, Listz seem more, well... "devilish".
Fernando Nunes Oo and Be depressed and be really sad to have emotion in your life
@@fernandonunes7608 youre too sensative bro. its the internet No reason to apologize.
Fernando Nunes it didn’t offended me I was joking too
Your visuals are stunning. both for content and style. You've compressed so much key analysis therein. Superior work!
Thank you !! 😊
Hard to believe; there is sooo much to learn in these mere 5 minutes. Thank you so much!
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.
Yes!!! 😊🙌
"Trilly-things" is a description of such sublime genius and artistry that it deserves wider use.
0:58 Two slit diffraction. Hello physics people!
Double slit experiment intensifies
Lmao the particle b acting wierdly when is not observed tho 😳
It could also be seen as the interaction between two sound waves
It’s either a melody or an arpeggio depending on how you observe it
That confirms that Chopin was a great jazz improviser!😂😃. Seriously, you are amazing!
Back then improvising was just a part of classical music, but if you define jazz as a process of transforming musical idea then yeah he's one of the best jazz improviser.
@gbbzhgvbgfjzffvvzgdf I didn't thought of it as a joke because the great jazz pianist Bill Evans said in an interview that he define jazz as the process of transforming musical ideas, and that jazz is no different from Classical improvising, and by that definition you could say that Chopin was playing jazz back then.
Thank you!! 🙏
@gbbzhgvbgfjzffvvzgdf r/ihavereddit
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!
Thank you!! 🙌
Absolutely wonderful! Your videos are mesmerizing. The level of thought, creativity and effort is incredible. You are a truly amazing person Nahre. All good wishes to you.
Very good crash course on Chopin's Waltzes! Wonderful editing too! :D
In addition, I would add that Chopin's use of the Neapolitan often involves it being is ROOT POSITION rather than the more common Neapolitan 6th. He embraces the leaping tritone to the V. I'm sure you know this, but I imagine those that are only familiar with the standard method of N6 might be missing out.
Another aspect is that Chopin does not care about AVOID TONES. AT ALL. He had absolutely no problem using the dissonant minor 9th interval in any manner, nor did he care if he used cross relations in different voices. For example, playing the minor 7th of a given chord in the left hand right as a Major 7th is used as an embellishment leading into the Root of the chord in the right hand. Very crunchy... very crunchy indeed. Sometimes this results in a minor 9th other times in a minor 2nd. Either way... CRUNCH!
Counterpoint is also a big part of Chopin's style and I think that a lot of times people assume other wise sense he voices his accompaniment so vertically. It's not written so much in the conventional "Canon and Fugues" format, which is only a type of counterpoint, but in the more general sense of controlling individual voices. And despite all of the chromaticism and wild passages, it is very often that he treated dissonances and embellishments in a rather traditional manner which make for some painfully beautiful moments!
Again, Nahre, great stuff!
Thank you!! 🙌
So beautiful! And great explanation of the used techniques. Thank you for the invaluable content you're creating, Nahre. Greeting from Germany 🌹
Thank you!!
Couldn't have said it better 👍
This is so cool! Great video!!
This is one of the few excellent tutorial videos on TH-cam. Your deep knowledge in music surprises me so much, you are truly amazing!!
That was really beautiful. Thank you!
Thank you!!
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.
Thank you!! 🙌
So much to learn on this channel, great presentation. Thanks for the awesome work!!
Thank you thousandfold for this video! ^_^ I absolutely adore the videos in which you break comoser's styles and I would love to see many more, especially on baroque and romantic composers! They are inspiring and educational as well as thoroughly enjoyable due to your musicality and playing!
Chopin style seems so soft, romantic and unique he is definitely my favorite pianist
@Radical Pianist Beethoven?
His études:are you sure
@@Ind0nesiannationalteamgoated etudes are for show off and practising technique. Totally different
just... love the style of every video you make!
Thank you! ❤
Incredible. Your ability to dissect his style into a sum of parts is nothing short of astonishing and brilliant. Very impressive. I wish I could pay you what you merit to play personal favorite songs of mine in his style. Tremendously cool concept, please continue playing.
Absolutely fantastic - thank you so much for making these videos!
Awesome! Very beautiful melody and performance. When I look at people's hands when they are playing in most cases it's boring, feels like fingers are not enjoying playing they are kind of just doing they job. But in rare cases like in your videos you can see that hands are really like what they are doing every move is so expressive and lively pleasure to watch not only to listen to.
What a great video! Amazing playing and great editing! =D
Thank you!!
Whew! I'm in awe. Everytime I see your analysis of different composers, it's completely spot on
Chopin would be proud
Incredible work!
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!! 😊🧠🎶
Thank you Bati!!! 😊😊😊
Nahre, you rock! You classical! You jazz! You.....well.....you....fabulous! How I envy you your many "mad skills"! Your videos are wonderful and also great musical "edutainment" as well!
How long have you been playing, mark?
It's amazing, your recomposition. Mainly, I like all the pictorial representations for each section or component. Seen your Wired video about different complexities. It's brilliant. Cheers.
This is so beautiful i love watching it!!
sublime as always.
Thank you!!
Gotta thank God every day for Chopin, I couldn't imagine my life without his amazing gift which he so humbly shared with the world
Congratulations. This is a awesome work. Keep doing these videos!
this is amazing i'm so glad to have found this channel and series of videos, I was already a huge of Chopin but this gave me a new appreciation for him
Thank you!! :)
Been waiting for this video ever since you made the Satie one lol good job!
Thank you!!
Chopin is probably my favorite composer, IDK there is something about his music that is just unique, different, beautiful, romantic and peaceful, while also being very difficult at the same time.
YEAHHH! I AM REMEMBER REQUESTING THIS! You finally did it! ! Thank you so much! ! Your channel is so underrated! !
😊😊😊
Decided to finally get a piano (arrives tomorrow:) so I’ve been binge watching piano and music theory stuff all week. Plus reading articles and free books online. I’m surprised how much of this I’ve read about. But seeing you preform these techniques at such a level... amazing! I know it will be a challenge to even master the basics but I’m already feeling addicted to just learning and memorizing this stuff. You’re channel is one of the most impressive I’ve found so far :) I will definitely sub and watch more! Thanks Nahre
This is really great! Do you maybe have sheet music for this variation of happy birthday or maybe a Midi file?
Thank you!! Sure, I'll put something out later today :)
@@NahreSol Thank you! Very kind.
@@NahreSol I'd like it too.
@@ChizFreak I want to know tooo
That feeling when Chopin wants the sheet music of your tribute to him XD
Great visuals. I loved the ballerina.
Thank you!!
Impressive, as always, the quality of both the music and presentation ! Thank you so much for your work!
Thank you!! 🙏
Beautiful tutorial!
Now Nahre, I’m sure you probably hate me by now, but this video was actually quite interesting and it seems you’ve done great research in how to sound like Chopin, this type of ‘exploration and practice’ as you called it, is great!! Keep this up ( don’t touch the scherzo again) justttt kidding relax
Marshan122 why would she hate you do you guys have a history
Lol yes thank you 😊
Always A Complicated Affair no but I’ve posted comments on some of her other piano videos that she may not smile at exactly
Heck yes
This is absolutely spot on. You've done a terrific job in taking the core features of his pieces and implementing them on different stuff. I think I get how you approach the music while you're listening for reappearing patterns in different pieces and this video has also inspired me to dissect other pieces from other composers as I find this idea extremely intriguing and useful for just overall researching and understanding different approaches to composing music. This is great content, keep up the great work, Ms. Sol!
Thank you!! 🙏
I have been waiting for this! Finally it is here!
😊🙌
Makes me wanna grind out arpeggios and my scales so I can improv like Chopin with good fingering
Nice
What a great find this channel is. So much useful information for the tourist of, or newcomer to, composition in classical styles. That's not to say that she's unfairly dumbing things down; her videos seems extremely comprehensive for what can be done in a TH-cam tutorial. And I imagine many pop musicians would benefit considerably from absorbing some of the lessons these videos contain, as I have! Kudos.
I was waiting for this video :)
Thank you!
Thank you!!
Happy Birthday just ain’t it when it’s minor
rEaL sAd BiRthDay bOi HouRs
Step 1:
Practice
Step 2:
Practice
Step 3:
PRACTICE
Amazing video , thank you so much !
Greatly done!
Wow very interesting
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If you want happy birthday in the style of Chopin
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Play Waltz in B minor op. 69
That is so impressive Nahre! Such a good video!
Absolutely phenomenal...
Such beautiful playing.
I'm more of a hack jazz player 😅 and I couldn't play classical to save my life. This videos will allow me to hack at least 5% of Chopin 😂. You are Amazing Nahre! 👏👏👏
Can you make "How to sound like Franz Liszt" :>
Step One: Be born with talent
It happened
@Just Chopin i see you everywhere
The video is done
make a pact with the devil
Thank you for your work
Yasssss!!! I love your content, your videos, your passion... You are just so inspiring!!
Thank you!! 🙏
May I ask how long it took you to become able to improvise in Chopin's style this good and smooth? I'd really love to figure it out for me because Chopin is my favorite composer and I'd be over the moon if I could play on spot something similar to what he would compose
What makes you think this was made on spot
Just a small reminder: the composers of old like Chopin were very good, but they spent a loooot of time writing music, and most of it wasn't heard. The music you hear is not everything the composer did, but all he wanted to present. Sure, Chopin probably was a beast at improvisation, but his works weren't just shat out in an afternoon one after the other, so don't set your expectations too high when you say you want to improvise like Chopin. To relate to the video, the entire piece here was probably not improvised but finely curated, and if you'd ask them to improvise they'd start repeating itself after a while... But I'd like to hear some tips too!
now how to sound like Liszt:
have a seizure on the piano.
:)
Nah that's sorabji
I Have been waiting for this!!
You did a good job!!
Thank you!! 🙌
Thank you, Nahre, such a nice analysis of the heavenly Chopin! Side note - your touch is SO nice. Wszystkiego najlepszego!!!
Thank you!! 🙏
Happy Bday Chopin
How long do you take to edit your videos?
A long time 😂
Nahre Sol at least they look so fancy
@@NahreSol You always make it look effortless, which is the surest sign that a lot of work has gone into something :)
Chopin birthday: March 1
My birthday: March 2 😜😁
Love the editting and visual aspects of the video hahaha
I could listen to you for hours. This is the very definition of a sound poem.
In the waltzes he always uses second dissonances
I've already reached my third dissonance today (by mistake, of course) ;)
Most of the Chopin imitation videos are kind of tacky but actually sounded like Chopin!
Oh, what a joy this is. You are inspiring, actually. Thank you!
So much beautiful information coming from every direction.
Thank you!!
Oh I love this type of videos, the only thing I could say is that I find your writing a bit compact compared to Chopin's if you understand what I'm saying, it's like if you wanted only to demonstrate all the types of "tricks" that use Chopin before doing a real composition in the style of Chopin even if.... That's kinda the goal of these videos so... Nevermind, awesome work :')
Same here. Even tho I can definitely hear some chopin in it, I think it's too much or a little too colorful for it to be a real chopin piece. Nonetheless it's really nice to litsen to and maybe aspire one day to be able to improvise to this magnitude.
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Wow! Amazing, but terrifyingly overwhelming... I think I will never sound like Chopin :(
Thank you!!
Then don't. You should sound like you
Nahre...you are such a pure "sol"... I always enjoy your videos...keep teaching new things😃
Brilliant ... I have leant a great deal from you :) Thanks a million ...
More like, "how to sound like early 19 year old Chopin".
Concerto f minor
How to sound like rachmaninov
Yes pleeeeeease
:)
This is awesome!!
I really like the accuracy in your observations and first and foremost that you manage to unshroud the historic genius without beeing in danger to appear presumptuous... makes my heart relax!
Thank you!! 🙌
How to sound like Ling Ling.
1- Practice 40 hours a day
2- Done
I am better than Chopin ever was.
Phenomenal content - thank you for posting!
Great video!!
Great analysis, great video, great playing, everything is great!
These videos are so incredible
Wow this is amazing... so much to learn. Thank you so much Nahre ♥️
So amazed by this video very precise, you make it feel simple, thanks !!
You're so cool. Thank you for sharing such valuable insights with us.
These "how to sound like" videos have instantly become my new favorite thing. Crazy how you can get so into a composers mind just by analyzing their pieces.
So stumbling on this video, watching and be amazed on the accuracy, scrolling for the comments, where i finally understand that it was Nahre Sol playing all along. God damn you woman why are you so good in everthing!!
Wow! That was superb, it’s such a nice piece u composed too!