Chopin Études (practice diary 33)

Feeling reinvigorated after a day off! Just looking at op.10 no.4 and no.1, then a bit of memorising of no.6 and a read through of a line of no.7.
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[@alexitcruz]

Have you practiced the revolutionary etude?

[@AlexanderChisholm-Loxley]

Not on this series yet, I half learnt it about a year ago, but only pretty superficially. It’s no.12 so when I get a bit further on I’ll start it again, only coming up to no.7 now!

[@JohnBrown-u2l]

Getting there. Imo if you're playing the piece all the way through you're wasting valuable time playing stuff you already have under your fingers. The way I do it. Find your problem areas write down which bars they are and play each problem section at least 100 times each. Only then until you can play it perfectly a few times in a row or near perfect do I bump up the tempo. Just how I do it tho. Very difficult music. Coming along tho

[@AlexanderChisholm-Loxley]

Good tips, I’ve probably swung too far the other direction; I used to practice things almost exclusively piecemeal and then struggled to consistently perform them because I never practiced consistently connecting and contextualising those difficult bars, but I think you’re right. I probably need to let go of that fear a bit.