From the course: Piano Lessons: 3 Sight Reading & Classical Pieces
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Introduction to "Prelude in C Major"
From the course: Piano Lessons: 3 Sight Reading & Classical Pieces
Introduction to "Prelude in C Major"
- This Prelude in C Major by J.S. Bach is a great exercise in understanding different chord positions. You're going to be playing different chords in different, in really different settings, and getting used to the idea of breaking them apart. So we're not gonna go into all the chord names, or all the chord theories, but just be aware, that's what's happening. This piece is basically a big broken chord exercise. It's a great note reading exercise, given all the pieces that we've gone through, I really want to challenge you to try to read through this carefully, and get the notes down yourself the first time, and then, refer back to the performance of this to make sure that you've gotten your notes right. The challenge of this piece is that there's basically no place to stop, so it can be hard to hear where are their phrases. One simple way to work on this will be to work on it four measures at a time, OK? That's typical, and then connect it to eight measures at a time. But whatever…
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