The third movement of the moonlight sonata sounds like a great deal of booming bass notes. And if you look at it from the standpoint that your left hand maintains a series of octave 16th notes rolling back & forth, it’s not that difficult achieve some left-hand speed. Sure, there are some quick right hand passages, but by selective practicing of “just “these tricky scale work; this movement can easily be performed with some speed. I’d say that it took me [an average player] about six months to perfect a somewhat fair performance.
Good luck!
I started piano lessons at age 7. For my recital at age 16 I played Moonlight Sonata. I was not a gifted child,and was forced to study piano. If you are really interested,and have any talent at all,I’m sure you could get to that goal much quicker than I did. I no longer play as an adult,but don’t consider all those years a waste,because I now have a deep appreciation for all music.
Or on how much you want to play it. I played it myself a few times – I didn’t really study it like most people do – I just played it for fun. It is hard to play in some parts but somewhat easy on the others. ^^ The only problem is that I have short fingers & can’t reach some tones.
You don’t have to play it perfectly – just start with small stuff – like one line at a time at slow pace & then when you’re confident you know it well, then go to the second line & so on. When you’re confident that you can play it at the slow speed all through, then speed up a little, & practice that until it’s perfect & so on until you reach the right speed for it.
Then it’s the volume you have to work on – piano, mezzoforte & so on.
Hope that helped a bit.
Give yourself at least a year before you pick up this one. You don’t have to learn the entire 3rd mvmt at one go, you can break it into pieces & then learn one piece at a time. The first few lines are easy to play & that is what most people will recall when they talk about moonlight sonata.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
It depends on how much you practice.
November 25th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
The third movement of the moonlight sonata sounds like a great deal of booming bass notes. And if you look at it from the standpoint that your left hand maintains a series of octave 16th notes rolling back & forth, it’s not that difficult achieve some left-hand speed. Sure, there are some quick right hand passages, but by selective practicing of “just “these tricky scale work; this movement can easily be performed with some speed. I’d say that it took me [an average player] about six months to perfect a somewhat fair performance.
Good luck!
November 25th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
I started piano lessons at age 7. For my recital at age 16 I played Moonlight Sonata. I was not a gifted child,and was forced to study piano. If you are really interested,and have any talent at all,I’m sure you could get to that goal much quicker than I did. I no longer play as an adult,but don’t consider all those years a waste,because I now have a deep appreciation for all music.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Or on how much you want to play it. I played it myself a few times – I didn’t really study it like most people do – I just played it for fun. It is hard to play in some parts but somewhat easy on the others. ^^ The only problem is that I have short fingers & can’t reach some tones.
You don’t have to play it perfectly – just start with small stuff – like one line at a time at slow pace & then when you’re confident you know it well, then go to the second line & so on. When you’re confident that you can play it at the slow speed all through, then speed up a little, & practice that until it’s perfect & so on until you reach the right speed for it.
Then it’s the volume you have to work on – piano, mezzoforte & so on.
Hope that helped a bit.
November 26th, 2009 at 2:47 am
this depends on your how good a teacher you had & how talented you are
November 26th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Give yourself at least a year before you pick up this one. You don’t have to learn the entire 3rd mvmt at one go, you can break it into pieces & then learn one piece at a time. The first few lines are easy to play & that is what most people will recall when they talk about moonlight sonata.