Once again, learning this piece by thinking about the chords can really help to minimize the amount of memorizing it feels like you have to do between each figure. Much like the “Little Prelude” piece we saw earlier (also by Ludwig Schytte, you may have noticed…), this piece contains almost exclusively broken-up chords, this time two per measure.
This piece, by Danish composer Ludwig (often seen as “Ludvig”) Schytte (1848–1909), shows off a very clear theme of movement that persists for the entire piece. 5 - Ludwig SchytteĮtude pieces are great because they often let us focus on a specific movement or technique, without sacrificing musicality in the process.
Broadly speaking, the first piece ranks around the middle-beginner mark (meaning you’ve had some experience with playing pieces like this, and know how to play 8th notes), and the last piece should be no problem for someone playing at an intermediate level.Ĥ. These pieces are presented in a graduating difficulty scale: the easiest is first, and the most challenging is last. There are actually some good reasons for this - minor scales and chords can be more complicated to consider than simple major ones, and there tend to be a few extra moving parts in the way classical music in minor is put together.įortunately, as long as you’ve been keeping up with your basics, the pieces featured here should prove fairly easy to learn. If you’ve been learning piano for any length of time you may have noticed that minor pieces are few and far between at the earlier difficulty levels. Many of these pieces may not be familiar to you, but they’ve been hand-picked for being fun to play, educational, and yes, for being easy.īut wait, there’s more! each piece is presented with a high-quality video performance by Liberty Park Music piano instructor West Troiano, and comes with a downloadable, custom-edited version of the score!įor this article we’ll be checking out 10 easy pieces from classical learning literature that all share a notable characteristic: they’re all in minor.
Here at Liberty Park Music we decided to put together an article series showing off satisfying, well-constructed repertoire and arrangements that actually fall into the “easy” category for different difficulty levels.
Some of them are good, some of them are not, and many of them throw big, famous titles into their list of offerings, such as Beethoven’s “Fur Elise,” or Claude Debbusy’s “Claire de Lune.” You might be familiar with these pieces by name, and through hearing snippets of their most well-known sections, but have you ever tried to play them? Or even listened to a complete recording? Doing so in either way reveals that these are hardly “easy” pieces, and the closest many beginning or intermediate players can come to playing them is to risk learning one of the many “easy” arrangements roaming the internet, many of which are of suspicious quality, and not all of them, again, are really that easy. There are lots of articles out there claiming to contain “easy” piano pieces.