| Fur Elise is a very popular piano solo by | | | | There are many ways to practice and learn a |
| Beethoven and many piano beginners want to | | | | piano piece. How you practice will determine the |
| learn how to play this piano sheet music. If you | | | | results. If you know how to play piano notes fairly |
| are committed to learn this composition even if | | | | well you might play through the piece from |
| you are a beginner piano student you have to | | | | beginning to end and you will have practiced |
| practice in a way that will make the composition | | | | reading piano sheet music but will probably never |
| musically enjoyable. Here are a few tips on how | | | | learn Fur Elise good enough to be able to perform |
| to practice the piano notes to create a musical | | | | in front of an audience. |
| performance! | | | | I suggest that you practice one bar or maybe |
| Beginner motivation | | | | two at a time first with your right hand only and |
| Many beginner piano students want to play this | | | | then your left until you can play the bars with |
| piano solo hearing other beginning pianist making | | | | ease and then you can proceed by slowly playing |
| the endeavor but this composition only appears to | | | | the bars with both hands. Connect the bars you |
| be fairly easy. Technically it is not very rapid | | | | have mastered as you go along! |
| passages in the music notes but the actual musical | | | | To commit to memory or not |
| interpretation of the piece often seems to be on | | | | The Fur Elise piano sheet music can be played |
| a musical level that only appeals to the player | | | | perfectly by a skilled pianist by just reading the |
| himself. | | | | music notes but ordinary beginner piano students |
| If you insist on learning this piece of music even if | | | | will probably not learn to play this way because of |
| you are a note reading beginner but have the | | | | poor sight reading skills. If you insist in learning the |
| motivation necessary, what can you do? Here are | | | | melody on a performance level I suggest that |
| some suggestions from my own experience with | | | | you commit the melody to memory as you |
| having motivated beginner music students! | | | | practice the bars one at a time. Later on you can |
| Listen to Fur Elise | | | | connect the memorized bars until you master the |
| The most important part of learning this piano | | | | whole composition. |
| piece is to create music as you perform. This is a | | | | The biggest mistake is to make mistakes |
| piece of music that has been played so many | | | | I suggest that you always practice the piano |
| times by people who just barely made it through. | | | | sheet music slowly enough so that sloppiness will |
| They played on a very basic musical level | | | | not creep into your playing. When you play slowly |
| because they were not really prepared musically | | | | and correctly you will begin creating new |
| to play this piece of music. Fur Elise contains | | | | pathways in your mind. If you play faster than |
| hidden musical challenges for the piano beginner | | | | your present piano skills allow you or if you start |
| even if the sheet music appears to be fairly easy | | | | to play sloppy or without concentration you will |
| technically. | | | | make mistakes that will pollute these pathways |
| I suggest that you listen to a good piano | | | | and slow down your progress. |
| performer that will help you understand how to | | | | Create music as you practice |
| create music and making music notes come alive. | | | | As you learn Fur Elise one or two bars at a time, |
| There are many versions of this piece available so | | | | learning to play the right keys and memorizing |
| you can listen to it with the aim to find the music | | | | you might as well memorize your musical |
| that is hidden behind the notes! This will be your | | | | interpretation. That is, practice the mastered bars |
| most important preparation! | | | | the way you would play them in front of an |
| The goal with listening is not to be able to copy | | | | audience! |
| the actual interpretation of Fur Elise from | | | | The most important part of learning to play piano |
| someone else but rather to help you be more | | | | is actually to create music that you yourself and |
| aware of the music that is played and hear the | | | | your audience want to listen to. If you practice |
| composition in its musical context and of course | | | | every bar with this musical goal in your mind you |
| enjoy the composition and let these feelings be | | | | will enjoy the journey as well as the accomplished |
| present as you practice. | | | | goal to learn how to play Fur Elise as a musically |
| You learn what you practice | | | | enjoyable piece of piano sheet music! |