The E Major spot is the only spot my students ever have trouble with and hence the only spot that really needed special attention in my book. Here I wrote out a few different ways of exercising the passage and polishing it up. The only complicated part was the E Major arrpeggio. Since the piece is quite simple to begin with, in my practice guide I just added a few exercises with right hand and then with the left hand. There is a lot more to the music which I did not cover, but the bottom line is that its ten times better to play the book then to follow the usual bad habits that most inexperienced students have anyway. Now, as a disclaimer, I fully understand just how limited my practice guide is. So I decided to write a guide where I showed exactly, note by note, a good way to approach and practice the particular Chopin piece. That's how I knew that this would be a good use of my time. Year after year I was teaching it to my students and always saying the same things to each one. Here is where my Chopin Practice Guide was born. In fact, it was so popular that I decided to write a book about it. This piece is very popular with my students. I would rate this piece about a level 4 or 5 and in any case it is probably Chopin's most played composition. However, we have one piece that is easy and accessible. He was a very virtuositic pianist and wrote music that is not for beginners or intermediates. Just think about his ballades, nocturnes, concertos, and etudes. Most of Chopin's pieces are pretty hard to play.
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