Chords for How to Play "Für Elise" | HDpiano Piano Tutorial

[F] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ Hello [Cm] everybody, [Dm] welcome to [Eb] HD piano.
My name is Dan and [Cm] in this lesson we'll learn [F] how to play [Eb] Führerlise by Ludwig van Beethoven
[Cm] and [E] I'll teach you part one in this video.
It sounds like this. _ _ _
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[Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ And then we're on to part two.
The rest of the sections are over at HDpiano.com when you wrap up learning part one.
I've got a question for you guys and it's about the term classical music.
That's the term we use to encompass all of the music almost from the 11th century all
the way up to the 20th century.
Now Beethoven was composing during the classical and romantic periods.
My question, it's a little quiz for you guys, is can you name another period that exists
under the classical music blanket?
[E] Comment below with your thoughts.
_ Alright let's break down part one.
_ _ _ [Bm] I'm going to teach [Am] hands together [A] here and I'll tell you why in a second.
Let's first start, this is middle C and we are up on this E [E] with our pinky.
We're going to rock back and forth, pinky and ring between E and D sharp.
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From there we jump down to [Gm] B, D, [C] _ [A] C, and A.
That's our first little [E] phrase. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
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_ [C] Now when we land on this [A] A, _ the left hand plays this lower A. _ _ _ _
And it shoots up through
these three notes.
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_ _ _ _ _ Now the reason I'm teaching hands together should be evident here.
The hands are flowing together. _ _
_ Notice _ how that just passed seamlessly between the left and right hand?
_ That's how we're going to try to make it sound.
So we have A, E, A in the left and then C, E, A in the right leading [E] up to B.
_ _ Now the
left hand is doing its most challenging jump here.
E to E.
_ You're going to lift that bottom note, let the pedal carry the sound through and
play G sharp with your ring finger.
_ _ _ _ _ And that leads right into this right hand playing E, G sharp, B.
[A] So here's when the
left hand comes in.
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The [Am] left hand goes back to that A position.
_ _ Okay, so from the top super slow up to that [E] point. _ _ _
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[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Now we pretty much repeat.
Play the thumb there and then [Eb] repeat.
And [E] _
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[Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ the second time through, the right [Ab] hand just does this [E] differently.
_ _ [Ab] Plays E, C, [E] B [A] and _ we end the thought right there.
_ Okay, so that is part one.
I know there's a lot here to sort of ingest.
Let's go through the whole thing really slowly.
Okay, ready and [Bb]
right [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [Ab] hand [E] changes.
_ [Ab] _ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ Okay, use that slow run through as your blueprint if you're having any questions about which
notes and which rhythms are played where in part one.
That should answer those questions.
Let's play it at a medium tempo now and then later I'll talk about expression.
Medium tempo part one.
Ready [E] and okay. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
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[Ab] _ [E] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Let's try it at recorded tempo.
Or I guess recorded tempo.
Let's try it closer to a performance tempo.
Here we go.
[E] Ready and _ _ _ _ [Am] _
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[Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ repeat.
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_ [C] _ Okay, [E] we're not going to move on to part two quite yet.
That's the next video.
I wanted to, before we move on, I want to talk about expression.
Beethoven was such a dramatic character, right?
His music was very, it was romantic.
He was a composer during the beginning stage of the Romantic period in fact.
And so we want to play this song romantically like this. _ _
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[Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _
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[Am] _ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] There are a million things you could do expressively and that's just my take on it right there.
Right or wrong in [E] your opinion.
_ So I just wanted to touch on a few of the things that I'm doing.
I'm accelerating a lot.
It's an accelerando in Italian.
And _ it happens a lot during this C to D sharp _ _ _ motion.
So we'll play like a slow start and then ramp it up. _ _ _
[Em] _ [Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _
And a lot of sudden [E] stops here.
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And then that accelerando again.
Okay, so that's something that you're going to see a lot in this whole piece.
_ Use the pedal.
Use the pedal, especially when you're blending the left hand in.
_ _ _ _ Notice how the pedal is doing almost all the work there. _ _ _ _
And then I lift the pedal for [E] this new chord. _ _
_ _ Again, pedal doing all the work.
[Am] _ _
Okay, [E] so keep that in mind too.
The sustained pedal, very important in this type of music.
All right guys, I'm going to play it one more time through and then we'll head on to the second video.
Here we go.
Part one to Fiorelisa.
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[E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _
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_ [C] _ _ Okay.
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Again, my [Dm] name is Dan and we're learning Bagatelle No.
25, [C] popularly known [Eb] as Fiorelisa, composed
by Ludwig van [F] Beethoven.
Apologies if I'm butchering that pronunciation.
And we're going to learn the rest [Eb] over at HDpiano.com, the home of the hybrid piano lesson.
[Dm] See you there.
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