Etude

Alan's vision - darkness, delirium, and the fight for ascendancy

Alan breaks down how to make music feel disorienting, tense, and emotionally unsettling

Liszt - Vision - Performance and why the thumb is runining your piano tone

Think softening your thumb makes impressionist passages sound more delicate? Think again. In this lesson, we dig into measures 32–33 and discover how a powerful, accented thumb launch is the secret to fluid, marble-like tone, not the enemy of it

Liszt - C major transcendental etude

Liszt - C major transcendental etude

Rachmaninoff - Etude tableaux Op 39 No 5 in E-flat Minor

Chopin - Etude in G flat Major Op 10 No 5

Always Make Sure it Sounds

Kemal and Rastko keep on working on the etude

Not too much Pedal

and a few other things too. Remember, this is a Paganini etude

This is a Paganini Etude

and it should be played that way

Chopin - Etude Op 10 No 12

The famous Revolutionary etude

Chopin - Etude Op 25 No 1

Kemal plays the Harp etude

Rachmaninoff - Etude Tableaux Op 39 No 9

Etude Tableaux Op 39 No 9

Rachmaninoff - Etude Tableaux Op 39 No 8

Etude Tableaux Op 39 No 8

Rachmaninoff - Etude Tableaux Op 39 No 3

Etude Tableaux Op 39 No 3

Rachmaninoff - Etude Tableaux Op 33 No 6

Etude Tableaux Op. 33 No. 6

Rachmaninoff - Etude Tableaux Op 33 No 2

Etude Tableaux Op. 33 No. 2

Konigsfeld 2015 - Ricordanza

Transcendental Etude No. 9

Konigsfeld 2015 - Wilde Jagd

Wilde Jagd performance

Chopin - Etude Op 10 No 1 - Descending Arpeggio

Snake like rope hand structure because the intervals are too wide

La Campanella - Opening

Ten minute segment on the famous La Campanella opening

Wilde Jagd

Wilde Jagd from Tauberbischofsheim, 2015

Liszt-Transcendental Etude No 8 Wilde Jagd Part 9

Part 9 and the series wrap up. Kemal points out how much the actual performance and playing for audience matters.

Liszt-Transcendental Etude No 8 Wilde Jagd Part 8

Part 8, more on dynamic levels, articulation and voicing.

Liszt-Transcendental Etude No 8 Wilde Jagd Part 7

As we progress throughout the etude, we get to talk about sound levels

Liszt-Transcendental Etude No 8 Wilde Jagd Part 6

We are talking about the main two themes, artistic freedom and getting down to the nitty gritty of this etude.

Liszt-Transcendental Etude No 8 Wilde Jagd Part 5

Metric, dynamic contrasts, a bit more on Liszt and how he composed..all that in part 5

Liszt-Transcendental Etude No 8 Wilde Jagd Part 4

Part 4

Liszt-Transcendental Etude No 8 Wilde Jagd Part 3

Part 3

Chopin-Etude Opus 10 No 1

From a small workshop in Amherst, MA 2016.

Liszt-Transcendental Etude No 8 Wilde Jagd Part 2

Digging deeper into the score, main themes, the opening

Liszt-Transcendental Etude No 8 Wilde Jagd Part 1

A lesson given a few years back in Novi Sad, Serbia. Mini series in a few parts

Chopin-Hand Structure in the Harp Etude Part 2

Alan is throwing a lot of super useful info at the student.

Liszt-Wilde Jagd Part 3

Alan is heloing Remon get a great sound and become one with the piano

Liszt-Wilde Jagd Part 2

In part 2 we continue working on the opening and that great roaring sound

Liszt - Harmonies du Soir

Opening of the second recital in Germany 2015

Liszt-Wilde Jagd Part 1

Alan and Remon are working on the right sound for the opening of this etude

Liszt-Transcendental Etude Chasse-Neige

No. 12

Liszt-Wilde Jagd

Another transcendental etude from Kemal

Liszt-La Leggierezza Part 1

Alan and Marc work on the concert etude [entire lesson]

Liszt-Feux Follets

Transcendental Etude No. 5

Elasticising Sound Aesthetic for the Ocean Etude

The sound picture for the entire etude

Left Hand - Chopin Black Keys Etude

Alan gives useful pointers ofor left hand in Chopin's black keys etude

Elastic Hand for A Chopin Etude

Alan talks about the sound and scouping, fulcrum like movement that induces elasticity in the hand. Via Chopin's Black Key etude

Liszt - Un Sospiro

Smith 2015, unedited lesson

Chopin - Op 10 No 1 - How to Play Faster - Rotation

Alan is helping a student play this etude faster by introducing rotation

Chopin - Ocean Etude Part 1

3 part mini series with Kemal Gekic

Chopin - Etude Op.10 No.1 - Fatigue Part 1

Alan talks about arch, fatigue..

Rachmaninoff - Little Red Riding Hood Etude Part 1

Satchi doesn't know how to produce a good and strong piano sound. Alan is helping via Rachmaninoff's etude

Chopin - Etude Op. 25 No. 1 Part 1

Liszt - Transcendental Etude No. 7

Alan and Marc are discussing passages, octaves..

Chopin - Etude Op.25 No.2 Part 2

On pedaling, tone, old pianos

Chopin - Etude Op.25 No.2 Part 1

Famous F minor etude. See what Alan has to say on it!

Liszt Paganini Etude No 2 E flat

More on arch and hand structure in passages

Chopin - Etude op.10 No.5

Pianistic codependency and hand structure in Op.10 No.5 Chopin's etude

Chopin - Etude Op.10 No.4 Part 2

We dig into the score a bit more

Chopin - Etude Op.10 No.4 Part 1

Kemal is explaining what this etude is all about.