Inspiring and very helpful, thank you for sharing the row of excercises. I will recommend to watch this video some of my friends who don't play at all. So they could realize how much work, time, effort and engagement playng piano requires. Especially when it concerns beautiful pieces of music composed by Chopin. When learned it seems so easy and light. Everybody knows you need tp practice to be good at it, but actually nobody knows details which make all the difference. Playing piano is very demanding, hard physical work of both hands, fingers,wrists - almost like sport I would say. Moreover it is also mental work, you need to study the piece of music you want to play, you need to choose strategy to be prepared before you even start and must be very persistent in order to achive your goal. It's almost like runnig marathon. Very difficult task, and in the end playing one such etude takes only a couple of minutes. Respect! Great video! Thank you again for sharing
Thank you Pattie! Yes indeed! It's so true! Actually in my videos with analyses of all the Chopin's Etudes I'm also talking about difficulties of each Etude and explain to people that's it's not easy at all! Thanks for your comment!
I am now learning this etude. It works well with separate hands. I start putting my hands together. And - surprisingly for me - how much dexterity of the left hand is lost in 1/16 when chords are added in the right! It's excruciating!!! And it's the same for the right hand! I'm moving to a slower pace, I guess so!
@@gregniemczuk Dear Greg! I'm so happy to inform you that I play this etude without any difficulties from the beginning to end by heart. Of course not in tempo as this is my first touch of this etude. Your system including Hanon in cis dur works perfectly! It is the key to many other pieces that were impossible for me. I feel my hands unbended and I'm happy! Thank you so-so-so much!
I've seen many of your videos and as you take the difficulties apart, it would be increasingly helpful for you to play through the entire etudes at the end so we can see the difficulties actually be mitigated. Thank you.
Thank you! I actually played them through at the end of my videos with analyses. Please find the playlist on my channel with analyses of the Etudes and you will see.
And I do realize my ability in speed and flexibility (clearly Chopin had naturally) are greatly diminished in pieces that require such speed. Your teaching is appreciated by many here. Thanks for heartfelt teaching with honesty ❤💯🎉
@@gregniemczuk Wish me well! I'm tackling Tristesse! so lovely and yet full of chaos and confusion his life became, (enter George Sands) Yet through his pain such works were created, for our eternal enjoyment! If I can play but only the 1st page I will feel very satisfied. Thank you for in depth lessons & great insight ! the best players are on the Bench🌹🌹🌹🌹🎶👍🏼
Your advice on Hanon is very helpful & I gave started implementing in my practice. Thanjs very much. But I can tell you I've never heard Hanon sound so beautiful as what you demonstrate in this video. I love hearing it.
Ah! I just started this, and you answered my first question, whether to redistribute the hands in the last two bars, but even though it had been suggested I do that, I think it’s doable in one hand as you’re doing. Good suggestions! Isn’t this a great étude such a great chord changes.
Please correct me if I am wrong Mr. Niemczuk, I have been having difficult practicing at my own home on an upright piano and performing it in front of my teacher with a steinway which has in my opinion quite an heavy action (the key descent is much slower) that I can't control in terms of evenness in the attacks/briskness of the fingers then ultimately the tone. Then I changed my strategy, while I have always practiced slowly, I never had the intention of practicing slowly in a staccato manner, I watched carefully when I played in this manner how I played/attacked/touched the keys, such as feeling the attack is even in the fingertip (But never lifting the fingers above the knuckles), lo and behold, I have a much better control. Why is this the case? Is playing a fast piece in a staccato manner one of the keys in gaining control on different pianos?
Thanks for showing so many examples and variations of how you practice individual sections. I found that very inspiring and helpful to see. 🙏🤩 Do you have a tip on how to practice bar 3 with both hands together? The little arpegios in the left hand are irritating me because the notes have to be played slightly shifted between left and right hand. With Hanon I always have the problem that it quickly becomes boring when I practice it slowly with metronome. Is it better to do the exercises faster from the beginning but with pauses and with very small sections (as you showed in the video)? How do you manage to keep the exercises exciting?
I think it's useful to practice fast from the very beginning, but small parts. Hanon excercises should be a kind of routine. Hard way to perfection... The motivation should be based on the visible progress and realized goals (e.g. numbers of excercises in a week or certain tempo goal). I had bad schooling at the beginning of my school, so it was also my motivation to get better and reach the level I wanted to rich. You'll never get discouraged if you'll feel the progress!
About bar 3, try to treat the left hand as a chord, as one note rather than arpeggio. It should be as as fast arpeggio as possible and in your brain it should be just one NOTE.
@@gregniemczuk That is a very interesting approach on practicing this exercises. I really like your mindset and I am going to follow your instruction and play it every day. Now I am looking forward to it. Thank you! :-)
I wonder if I could practice this kind of left hand with this approach: 1 8 5 8 3 8 5 8 ? My hand aches when I speed up with this schema :/ Thank you very much for this lesson :)
@@gregniemczuk If the numbers are the chord elements 1 (pryma) 3 (tercja) 5 (kwinta) and 8 (pryma/oktawa). And I will play the schema above with my left hand, can I practice this with a similar approach, like you presented in the video? Playing parts of the schema, then stoping and releasing the tension? Or here I should do some other exercises? (sorry, if it is still unclear 😅)
Inspiring and very helpful, thank you for sharing the row of excercises. I will recommend to watch this video some of my friends who don't play at all. So they could realize how much work, time, effort and engagement playng piano requires. Especially when it concerns beautiful pieces of music composed by Chopin. When learned it seems so easy and light. Everybody knows you need tp practice to be good at it, but actually nobody knows details which make all the difference. Playing piano is very demanding, hard physical work of both hands, fingers,wrists - almost like sport I would say. Moreover it is also mental work, you need to study the piece of music you want to play, you need to choose strategy to be prepared before you even start and must be very persistent in order to achive your goal. It's almost like runnig marathon. Very difficult task, and in the end playing one such etude takes only a couple of minutes. Respect! Great video! Thank you again for sharing
Thank you Pattie! Yes indeed! It's so true! Actually in my videos with analyses of all the Chopin's Etudes I'm also talking about difficulties of each Etude and explain to people that's it's not easy at all! Thanks for your comment!
I am now learning this etude. It works well with separate hands. I start putting my hands together. And - surprisingly for me - how much dexterity of the left hand is lost in 1/16 when chords are added in the right! It's excruciating!!! And it's the same for the right hand! I'm moving to a slower pace, I guess so!
Yes, slower will help you. And practice faster but really short parts! Only 4-8 notes
@@gregniemczuk Dear Greg! I'm so happy to inform you that I play this etude without any difficulties from the beginning to end by heart. Of course not in tempo as this is my first touch of this etude. Your system including Hanon in cis dur works perfectly! It is the key to many other pieces that were impossible for me. I feel my hands unbended and I'm happy! Thank you so-so-so much!
Excellent. Thank you!!!
Thank you so much for the Hanson advices! It’s very inspiring 😊
So happy to hear that!
I really appreciate everything you teach us, it means a lot🤍🙏🏻
You are a brilliant teacher 👍
Thank you! I love teaching!
I've seen many of your videos and as you take the difficulties apart, it would be increasingly helpful for you to play through the entire etudes at the end so we can see the difficulties actually be mitigated. Thank you.
Thank you! I actually played them through at the end of my videos with analyses. Please find the playlist on my channel with analyses of the Etudes and you will see.
Thank you love you my friend i will soon master this one and opus 10no 1 thanks to your tips fine tuning what i had
I believe you will!
This is very good instruction and advice. Thank you!
Thank you very much!
And I do realize my ability in speed and flexibility (clearly Chopin had naturally) are greatly diminished in pieces that require such speed.
Your teaching is appreciated by many here. Thanks for heartfelt teaching with honesty ❤💯🎉
Thanks!
@@gregniemczuk Wish me well! I'm tackling Tristesse! so lovely and yet full of chaos and confusion his life became, (enter George Sands) Yet through his pain such works were created, for our eternal enjoyment! If I can play but only the 1st page I will feel very satisfied.
Thank you for in depth lessons & great insight !
the best players are
on the Bench🌹🌹🌹🌹🎶👍🏼
@@thewordbtrue2461 good luck!
Hello! Thank you for this tutorial, I am learning this now! Greetings from Singapore!
Hello! Thank you! Good luck with that!
Your advice on Hanon is very helpful & I gave started implementing in my practice. Thanjs very much. But I can tell you I've never heard Hanon sound so beautiful as what you demonstrate in this video. I love hearing it.
Ohhh, really?? Thank you!! I try to play beautifully everything, whatever I play
@@gregniemczuk really! I love your playing.
Thank you so much for the wonderful teaching!
Thanks Susan!!!
Thank you very much
Thank you, teacher! I am from Brazil! 🇧🇷
Muito prazer!
Beautiful!!!
Very helpful 🙏 thank you
Very nice and helpful advices! 👍 Your approach on the piece is also very interesting, thanks for sharing I'll try it out 😃.
love your video as always! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Another very helpful video. Thank you
Ah! I just started this, and you answered my first question, whether to redistribute the hands in the last two bars, but even though it had been suggested I do that, I think it’s doable in one hand as you’re doing. Good suggestions! Isn’t this a great étude such a great chord changes.
So helpful....thank you so much!!
Thank you so much!!
thanks again! Excellent
thank you for you tutoring
Many ideas of this etude are from Bach prelude f#m WTK 1 (BWV859), which is basically also an invention.
Good point. Thank you!
Very good...Thanks
........🙏🙏🙏..........
Thank you Christopher!
Dankeschön 👍
Very interesting and difficult. To much for me at the moment. I stay with number 5 and try to bring it to a good tempo. 🙋♀️🎹🌼
I'll publish number 5 soon
Please correct me if I am wrong Mr. Niemczuk, I have been having difficult practicing at my own home on an upright piano and performing it in front of my teacher with a steinway which has in my opinion quite an heavy action (the key descent is much slower) that I can't control in terms of evenness in the attacks/briskness of the fingers then ultimately the tone. Then I changed my strategy, while I have always practiced slowly, I never had the intention of practicing slowly in a staccato manner, I watched carefully when I played in this manner how I played/attacked/touched the keys, such as feeling the attack is even in the fingertip (But never lifting the fingers above the knuckles), lo and behold, I have a much better control. Why is this the case? Is playing a fast piece in a staccato manner one of the keys in gaining control on different pianos?
It definitely is!! But I don't exactly know why . But it's a great way of practice
Thanks for showing so many examples and variations of how you practice individual sections. I found that very inspiring and helpful to see. 🙏🤩
Do you have a tip on how to practice bar 3 with both hands together? The little arpegios in the left hand are irritating me because the notes have to be played slightly shifted between left and right hand.
With Hanon I always have the problem that it quickly becomes boring when I practice it slowly with metronome. Is it better to do the exercises faster from the beginning but with pauses and with very small sections (as you showed in the video)? How do you manage to keep the exercises exciting?
I think it's useful to practice fast from the very beginning, but small parts. Hanon excercises should be a kind of routine. Hard way to perfection... The motivation should be based on the visible progress and realized goals (e.g. numbers of excercises in a week or certain tempo goal). I had bad schooling at the beginning of my school, so it was also my motivation to get better and reach the level I wanted to rich. You'll never get discouraged if you'll feel the progress!
About bar 3, try to treat the left hand as a chord, as one note rather than arpeggio. It should be as as fast arpeggio as possible and in your brain it should be just one NOTE.
@@gregniemczuk That is a very interesting approach on practicing this exercises. I really like your mindset and I am going to follow your instruction and play it every day. Now I am looking forward to it. Thank you! :-)
Great 😄
Bom demais !!!!!!!!
I wonder if I could practice this kind of left hand with this approach: 1 8 5 8 3 8 5 8 ?
My hand aches when I speed up with this schema :/
Thank you very much for this lesson :)
I don't understand exactly what you mean...
@@gregniemczuk If the numbers are the chord elements 1 (pryma) 3 (tercja) 5 (kwinta) and 8 (pryma/oktawa). And I will play the schema above with my left hand, can I practice this with a similar approach, like you presented in the video? Playing parts of the schema, then stoping and releasing the tension? Or here I should do some other exercises? (sorry, if it is still unclear 😅)
@@iwiwiwimusic aaaaa, now I understand. Yes, of course it should also help!!!
You sound like gru from the minions
Thank you for the lesson, very helpful!
Sounds like your hammers are in desperate need of voicing ;)
Definitely! Typical problem of a concert pianist, who practices 5-6 hours every day
youre the super guy. i want to take your powers
"Quite demanding" ;) ?
😀😀😀
@@gregniemczuk probably come across this piece in a few years. Right now, no. 1 and 12 is enough
@@Heroicpolonaise perfect choice!
@@Heroicpolonaise It makes my hands tired
Oh wow, well at least i have one thing in common with Chopin!!!
👎🏼 Hannon😂
😬 I cringe at the word
Thank you very much