Españaña
by Erik Satie (1866–1925) · Early modern · Intermediate
Versions
| Version | Level | Key | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate · Level 3 | 3 of 5 | A minor | 1:15 |
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- Era
- Early modern (1890–1930)
- Mood
- Dramatic · fast, in a minor key
- Versions
- 1
About this piece
Written by Erik Satie (1866–1925), Españaña is quick and stormy, in a minor key, in the early-20th-century style. There is one arrangement: Intermediate (level 3 of 5), 1:15 long, in A minor.
About Erik Satie (1866–1925): French composer whose spare, quiet pieces, above all the three Gymnopédies (1888) and the Gnossiennes, sound modern even today.
How to play Españaña on piano
- Split the piece into sections and learn them one at a time, hands separately first.
- Loop the bars that keep going wrong. The app's per-bar feedback shows exactly where they are, so you don't waste time on the bars you already know.
- Move up the play-along speeds in steps, 50% then 75% then 100%, only when a section is clean at the current speed.
- It's a fast piece. Resist playing it at full tempo until it's accurate at a slower one; speed built on wrong notes doesn't last.
- Short daily sessions beat one long weekly one. Ten focused minutes a day is enough to make steady progress.
In the PianoKite app you can learn it with your own digital piano over Bluetooth or USB, or with any piano through the microphone: the score scrolls past a playhead, the keys light up, and every bar gets a score so you can see what's learned. See how it works. New to the piano? Start with the beginner lessons. Get early access.
License and credits
Typeset by Knute Snortum for the Mutopia Project. License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Source: Mutopia Project.
The source file may be shared and adapted, also commercially, with credit to the typesetter and adaptations under the same license; the preview on this page is an excerpt of it, under that license.
Text events such as lyrics were removed; the notes are as published. The player on this page plays the first 20 seconds.
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