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Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 1

Left hand!

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Okay quick technique tips for the Chopin Etude Opus 10 number 1 C major. Left hand don't slam the octave grow the octave. When your hand does this the sound actually sustains of course you can't pull the fingers together but you can try to pull the fingers together in that establishes elastic loading in the hand if you consciously and rigorously do that on every left hand octave that galvanizea the right hand and you'll find it you're going ... hand is elastifying itself as well through the group now people play it........., right hand but if you know and feel the force between the 5th and the thumb.

At that point, I am sorry, I was making it very rude gesture there story, at that point the sense of Legato has not been lost the sense of the hand growing in elastically charged arch has not been lost because when you go bye-bye bye-bye you elastically charge your arch and now you're going to lose it and start all over again there's no time so keep that elastic charging by joining with this and then that up to the stop sign in that scenario that accept what she wrote on the fifth finger here use the standing on the thumb when you're going down to  power the accent that you want to happen on the fifth finger if you like.... If you let go the thumb then the firth finger is going to be an accent in the vacuum...  that way of joining one group to the next with an absolute physical legato may at speed disappear the actual physical look at it but the organization of the hand that the actual physical Legato developed will remain and that's what gives you your singing line even in super fast 16th notes.

*This transcript is machine generated.

Nov 29, 2018

Alan Fraser

Quick Technique Tips for the Chopin Etudes

Episode 1 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 1 02:21

Episode 2 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 2 02:41

Episode 3 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 3 02:40

Episode 4 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 4 03:19

Episode 5 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 5 04:48

Episode 6 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 6 02:55

Episode 7 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 7 03:07

Episode 8 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 8 02:52

Episode 9 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 9 02:52

Episode 10 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 10 03:33

Episode 11 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 11 02:44

Episode 12 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 12 05:27

Episode 13 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 1 02:39

Episode 14 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 2 01:48

Episode 15 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 3 02:20

Episode 16 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 4 02:02

Episode 17 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 5 04:04

Episode 18 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 6 04:50

Episode 19 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 7 04:26

Episode 20 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 8 03:38

Episode 21 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 9 03:38

Episode 22 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 10 04:08

Episode 23 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 11 04:05

Episode 24 - Quick Technique Tips - Op 25 No 12 04:40

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Quick Technique Tips - Op 10 No 1

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Quick Technique Tips for the Chopin Etudes