Chopin Etude Op. 25 No.10 “Octave” Tutorial

As the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung Heidelberger described, “Shijun Wang is a fascinating, serious and sensitive musician” As a solo pianist and orchestral soloist, Shijun Wang has performed in California, New York, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia, Utah, Connecticut, New Jersey, Indiana, Idaho, as well as Germany, Spain, France, Norway, China, Mexico, and Japan. Under one of the most prestigious artists management, 100 arte, he plays concerts in most of major cities in China each summer, and he also gave master classes, lectures and recitals in more than half of the major Chinese conservatories includes Shenyang Conservatory, Xi’an Conservatory, Harbin Conservatory, Sichuan Conservatory and Jilin College of Arts. He was appointed as the youngest ever visiting professor of Xi’an Conservatory where he would give concerts and master classes for two months each summer. He serves as piano faculty in the East/West International Piano Festival in South Korea and piano faculty at The Puigcerda Music Festival in Spain each summer.
Dr. Wang currently teaches as a assistant Professor of Piano at Weber State University. He received the Bachelor of Musuc and Masters of Music degrees at The Juilliard School studied with Oxana Yablonskaya and Joseph Kalichstein and Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at Eastman school of music studied with Nelita True. His mentors have included Thomas Schumacher, Dan-Wen Wei, Alfred Brendel, Emanuel Ax, and Richard Goode.
In this series of piano tutorials videos, Dr. Shijun Wang will perform and share useful insights on his solutions to many of the technical and musical challenges of Chopin's 24 Etudes.

[@purpleAiPEy]

I just wanted to say it was this video and 25 no 1 that truly taught me to listen. You changed the way I thought and listened.
My ears have been permanently opened!
Thank you so much, you really are a teacher.

[@Ignacio_Suarez]

From my point of view this etude is one of the most important Chopin etude's (op 10 no2 for right hand, op 10 no 8 for both Hands, op10 12 for left hand, op25 no6(thirds), op25 no11 (synthesis).

[@donvarner3891]

Thank you for this video! I’m working on this Etude along with his Op. 10 No. 8 at the moment so I appreciate this a lot. 谢谢!

[@ShijunWangPianoChannel]

Best luck learning this piece!

[@pianist_depandaland4145]

Thanks for for these helpful instructions 🎉

[@culturehorse]

Liked the performance; great lectures too. Thanks; and two more to go.

[@ShijunWangPianoChannel]

Thank you! Yes, two more to go. Two hard ones.

[@ozcan999]

Thank you this is very helpfull lesson and explanation. But we can not see your hand and forearm motions. İ think there should be a camera on top of that. And if you show thecnics slowly we will be thankfull 😊

[@micverno]

Great tutorial and excellent tips to take away. May i suggest getting a microphone as it was hard to hear you.

[@ShijunWangPianoChannel]

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[@YeungMing007]

i wanna ask that, we are expected to play legato at some places of this piece, You didn't seem to talk about it, any tips for that tho ?

[@ShijunWangPianoChannel]

Yeah， legato in sound doesn’t alway require physical connection. Deep sound and sharping the melodies!

[@YeungMing007]

@@ShijunWangPianoChannel Thank's a lot !!

[@YeungMing007]

@@ShijunWangPianoChannel i think the most difficult part of this piece is actually the pedal connection, in order to connect all the rhythm and be legato, a smooth pedal is imperative.
Can u give us some hint of the pedal tho ;-;

[@ShijunWangPianoChannel]

@@YeungMing007 that’s hard to explain. It requires good training of the ears.

[@purpleAiPEy]

Ok the switching of octave fingers is cheating! Here I am banging away at it... either my hands are too small or it’s a weird feeling switching back and forth... sort of like op 10 n 7?

[@ShijunWangPianoChannel]

The switching of fingers required the flexibility of the wrists and better way of grouping. And it sounds more connected

[@purpleAiPEy]

@@ShijunWangPianoChannel sounds exhausting! but i bet in the long run it makes it way easier... did Chopin specify the switching of fingers?

[@ShijunWangPianoChannel]

@@purpleAiPEy yes, he provided fingerings using 4-5 switches

[@purpleAiPEy]

@@ShijunWangPianoChannel dangit i was hoping to get away with it... Thanks! Your videos always make me want to practice more

[@purpleAiPEy]

@@ShijunWangPianoChannel So it turns out it was easier than i thought, however once the middle note comes in the 4-5 switches get way more difficult, does the middle note finger switch mid way through? Unfortunately I dont have accurate sheet music so its difficult to know.
thanks!