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Great! Keep me posted. I'm especially interested in how long it takes you to feel comfortable with the part taught in the first video, and how many minutes a day you're spending on it.

Note that in my blog, I go over a little bit from the sheet music after each video. My current blog posts might be too basic for you, but it will get more involved as I go. Here is the blog post with the first lesson:

http://www.pianoonlinemusic.com/piano-online-lesson-play-fur-elise-1/

Fur Elise on electric guitar- really the most extraordinary version of anything by Beethoven I have heard on guitar- proof of how timeless Beethoven is- if one had never heard Fur Elise before, one would think
this was a twentieth century composition. What do you all think of it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnc4T26NslA

That's a nice video - I love heavy versions of classical music. Sounds like it's going well for you. Have you learned the whole first movement yet?

You guys should take a look at my Beethoven Fantasy.

That's a nice video - I love heavy versions of classical music. Sounds like it's going well for you. Have you learned the whole first movement yet?

What and where is your Beethoven Fantasy, Poly?

Oddly enough, I posted this to RST two weeks ago. It's a great arrangement of the third movement of Moonlight Sonata. I've always thought some of Beethoven's pieces would translate to metal well.

Anyone know what sonata it is at 38:07?

I've recently joined PW having taken back to the piano in the last year and I've fallen under the spell of Beethoven where it was Bach in school years and years ago. I've also been making my first foray into the Pathetique this past year and enjoy it more and more as the mind gets it under the fingers.

Just recently watched the BBC Beethoven. Very enjoyable.

And currently listening to the Sokolov Paris 2002.
His Beethoven is so fresh and full of life, it is really hard to fathom.

Glad to see this thread.
The reason I got into piano again was first because of Beethoven..my long time goal is to play Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement.
Of course, as I get more and more into classical, I am falling in love with many more composers and pieces. Some which are maybe beyond what I will be able to reach since I started as an adult but I for sure wont quit working to get there.
As my first official classical piece I just finished Fur Elise.
This was a piece I never intended to learn...it seemed so dull and tired already (probably thanks to a version I dislike so much by Richard Clayderman).
In any case, after listening to Valentina Lisitsa, I learned that there is a lot of beauty on that piece again and I am thrilled to be able to play it now.
Next stop is Moonlight Sonata 1st movement (although I am also working On Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K. 545 1st mov.).

You know what I haven't listened to any of Mozart's piano sonatas.I ought to do that- will be interesting to see how different they sound to Beethoven's. I have heard some of Haydn's and all of Chopin's. Both of them are good but, I think from what I have heard, Beethoven was the master of piano sonatas. The Hammerklavier cannot be beaten!