I really enjoyed listening to this. I thought the tempo and the feeling that you put into it was beautiful. Your interpretation was perfect because it was your expression of the music.
Wow this sounded so good and I had goosebumps while u were playing that part :00 honestly this is so inspiring😭😭 I’ve been stuck at that part for a long time now and didn’t have the courage to continue with because of how complicated it seems. This really opened my eyes to looking at harder pieces. Keep it up with the amazing quality of your vids
Im really glad you decided to post this. I cant wait to come back to pieces im learning and play them again in a years time with all the knowledge I’ve learnt.
Hello Stanley. I'm really impressed with your performance and that you came that far with this Etude. Congratulations. I have recently picked this piece up, so I'm at the initial stages of practising and I'm not even sure if I will be able to make a level that it is listanable. Anyway I would like to share some thoughts about practising this passage and how I'm trying to approach it. When I first encountered it, it seemed to me completely unmanagable. I'm not a bad sight-reader but playing this is from the score it just too much for my brain. I had to have it somehow memorised even to start practising. So I decided first to figure out the structure and it turned out to be pretty simple. There are only diminished seventh chords and if one forgets about inversions there are just three different dim7 on a piano. Two sixteens under a slur are always a spread dim7 chord: you play 1st and 4th note and then either 2nd and 3rd but an octave down or 3rd and 2nd octave up. These are two basic figures (up and down) from which I created two longer patterns to practise without even looking at the score. The first pattern is about moving within a single chord only. The upper voice in the right hand goes like 4-2-1-3 (and the lower voice of course the coresponding notes diminished fifth down). I choose any dim7 chord I like and practise this pattern in a loop. The second pattern is as follows - I start with any dim7 chord, play a basic figure down, then go down by a minor second and play the basic figure up, go down minor secon and so on. Be practising these two patterns I can learn the building blocks that the whole passage consists of. The passage starts with the first pattern, then there is first pattern again but with different chords and for six sixteenth, the last two notes are also beggining of the second pattern for and then back to the first pattern (and so on). For me such an approach not only lower mental load during practise but also helps to memorise whole passage on an early stage and to put it into a long term memory. Sorry for this rather lengthy comment (I tried to make it as short as possible but probabely it is still too brief to be clear). I hope that, even though you already know this piece very well, you'll find it interesting and maybe someone watching your vidoes will find it useful. Keep growing and have fun practising and playing beautiful music! And thanks for your beautiful videos!
I really enjoyed listening to this. I thought the tempo and the feeling that you put into it was beautiful. Your interpretation was perfect because it was your expression of the music.
Thank you so much Elaine! That means a lot!
Wow this sounded so good and I had goosebumps while u were playing that part :00 honestly this is so inspiring😭😭 I’ve been stuck at that part for a long time now and didn’t have the courage to continue with because of how complicated it seems. This really opened my eyes to looking at harder pieces. Keep it up with the amazing quality of your vids
Thank you so much Tien! I hope that you try learning it! If I can do it you can do it too!
Im really glad you decided to post this. I cant wait to come back to pieces im learning and play them again in a years time with all the knowledge I’ve learnt.
Thank you I’m glad I did too ☺️ It feels really rewarding to see your growth when you come back to old pieces.
I thought it was wonderful. I liked the tempo and the emotion you put into it.
Sounding convincing to me.... I like your interpretation.
Thank you!
Hello Stanley. I'm really impressed with your performance and that you came that far with this Etude. Congratulations. I have recently picked this piece up, so I'm at the initial stages of practising and I'm not even sure if I will be able to make a level that it is listanable. Anyway I would like to share some thoughts about practising this passage and how I'm trying to approach it.
When I first encountered it, it seemed to me completely unmanagable. I'm not a bad sight-reader but playing this is from the score it just too much for my brain. I had to have it somehow memorised even to start practising. So I decided first to figure out the structure and it turned out to be pretty simple. There are only diminished seventh chords and if one forgets about inversions there are just three different dim7 on a piano. Two sixteens under a slur are always a spread dim7 chord: you play 1st and 4th note and then either 2nd and 3rd but an octave down or 3rd and 2nd octave up. These are two basic figures (up and down) from which I created two longer patterns to practise without even looking at the score. The first pattern is about moving within a single chord only. The upper voice in the right hand goes like 4-2-1-3 (and the lower voice of course the coresponding notes diminished fifth down). I choose any dim7 chord I like and practise this pattern in a loop. The second pattern is as follows - I start with any dim7 chord, play a basic figure down, then go down by a minor second and play the basic figure up, go down minor secon and so on. Be practising these two patterns I can learn the building blocks that the whole passage consists of. The passage starts with the first pattern, then there is first pattern again but with different chords and for six sixteenth, the last two notes are also beggining of the second pattern for and then back to the first pattern (and so on). For me such an approach not only lower mental load during practise but also helps to memorise whole passage on an early stage and to put it into a long term memory.
Sorry for this rather lengthy comment (I tried to make it as short as possible but probabely it is still too brief to be clear). I hope that, even though you already know this piece very well, you'll find it interesting and maybe someone watching your vidoes will find it useful. Keep growing and have fun practising and playing beautiful music! And thanks for your beautiful videos!
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