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So. I recorded 2 films. Quite far from what I'm expecting but maybe it's better to watch yourself because this gives you a clearer picture of your real level. Hanon 1st drill from The Virtuoso Pianist C# minor scale I was reading everything posted up to this one where i saw your videos. One word of advice,unless you are a very dedicated pianist that has done extensive research into playing or knowing the piano mechanics very well,you won't progress when you study with an electric piano. Too many reasons for me to post here.But any action you do on a real piano has some feedback on you,there is a whole mechanism of levers and other micro mechanisms inside that have to do with the way you manipulate your finger or the piano. You can easily forget that on any electric piano,no matter how good it is the real feeling of having a true piano,you won't get it from that. Now if you have problems creating good sound,or your fingers are not doing what they should,an electric piano is not the assisant you want. Try to find a real piano,open it up,remove all the covers like the piano tuners do and try to play and observe what is going on. I think following Alan's advice or Andrew's advice will definitely help you as long as you have a real instrument. Again i am against electric pianos in teaching piano techniques,they are dangerous and disasterous for those that do not know.Doing hanon mechanical exercises on an electric piano is certainly not the way to get the feeling of how to produce a good sound. Now electric and stage pianos are excellent for going and doing a live with other electric instruments,but certainly i can say during the first development years or when you are struggling to find the way to use your body,this will hinder you and make you do serious mistakes. 1)Sound control means that you turn up the volume,or you turn it down when it is not allowed to play and disturb the neighbors,but if you dont know you can easily play with more force and hurt yourself if the volume is down and you have to compensate by playing more loud. 2)Piano mechanics are gone,vibrating strings or pedal trciks of the real piano just forget them 3)Crecendos or decrecendos may be completely not real 4)Bass notes on real pianos tend to need more force to play them (only a tiny sometimes),i have observed this on many Concert grands,and generaly produce different timbres,on an electric piano that is not there. 6)one advantage is tha the piano never goes out of tune,but i think even a slightly off tune piano is better than a electric one. See for yourself why would all the great classical pianists record the works on real pianos and not on electrical ones?Why do they play Liszt's sonata on real pianos and not on stage keyboards? Word of warning you can easily destroy your hands and technique with digital pianos. Kind regards

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Finally managed to upload the videos. Here they are. Mainly they contain the same drills only that I play them in slow tempos too. Added the broken chords and the octaves drills. I noticed a lot of hand swivelling in the first video only when you were playing in the right hand,Is there a reason why you do it?Does it help you somehow?Generally i think you should avoid hand swivelling at all costs,as it will hurt your phrasing and natural legato phrasing.

1)Sound control means that you turn up the volume,or you turn it down when it is not allowed to play and disturb the neighbors,but if you dont know you can easily play with more force and hurt yourself if the volume is down and you have to compensate by playing more loud. 2)Piano mechanics are gone,vibrating strings or pedal trciks of the real piano just forget them 3)Crecendos or decrecendos may be completely not real 4)Bass notes on real pianos tend to need more force to play them (only a tiny sometimes),i have observed this on many Concert grands,and generaly produce different timbres,on an electric piano that is not there. 6)one advantage is tha the piano never goes out of tune,but i think even a slightly off tune piano is better than a electric one. See for yourself why would all the great classical pianists record the works on real pianos and not on electrical ones?Why do they play Liszt's sonata on real pianos and not on stage keyboards? Word of warning you can easily destroy your hands and technique with digital pianos. Most of my tehnique was learnt on digitals. Seldom do I get the opportunity to play on an acoustic instrument. Unfortunately a real piano is kind of unaffordable and space-needing for most of the players. Even Alan said that his students from Novi Sad were mainly practicing on digitals at home. 600-800 Euro is very cheap compared to more than the double of this sum.

Most of my tehnique was learnt on digitals. Seldom do I get the opportunity to play on an acoustic instrument. Unfortunately a real piano is kind of unaffordable and space-needing for most of the players. Even Alan said that his students from Novi Sad were mainly practicing on digitals at home. 600-800 Euro is very cheap compared to more than the double of this sum. I'd be surprised if you couldn't find something half decent in the same range. I do agree that these things make a big difference. If you're playing on something real at least some of the time it's not so bad, but if you're only practising on a digital then there's a lot of feedback that you just cannot access.