How to thank you? It's so rare that a concertist of your level share how she works on a piece. That' awesome, thanks a lot! Please keep going posting videos, that's very very helpful.
Very useful recommendations- I've been trying to play this piece for many, many years but don't have a teacher. Inevitably, I have not made much progress but these exercises give me hope that I might one day succeed in playing this magnificent piece "tolerably"... Thank you very much for sharing these ideas.
3 года назад+9
I wish you all the best on your journey with this piece, it’s so rewarding when you finally get to the point of being able to play it. 🤗
You play this study so comfortably, even the most awkward moments, and because you‘ve lived with this since you were in your early teens, it flies off the fingers with ease. Wonderful.!
You are lucky to have a great teacher. My teacher was a child prodigy, he just does not know how to teach. He thinks either you can do it or not. One time, I wanted to learn Revolutionary. He said it is impossible..... He was wrong....! I love to show him that I can play Revolutionary. I even played in a competition.
3 года назад+3
Good for you! Nothing is impossible and I love your mindset! 💪🏻👏🏻 Keep going strong!
I’m learning it now. Tried it last year and got sore right hand. Coming back to it now after working on releasing tension a lot. It really is a major milestone. I can hardly believe that I’m even able to play it at 100bpm. It’s such a rewarding piece as it slowly comes together.
I like how she plays the dynamics of this piece. Sometimes dreamy and grand , sometimes cautious. It’s nice to listen to it. Also , she is really right about the patience you need for this piece. It’s so transparent that you can hear every mistake. Unlike some other etudes, you can’t muffle it away with pedal. Slow but stead really wins the race. Personally I am not a fan of accentuating all 4 16th’s separately. It can cause unnecessary up and down wrist movement as shown in the video slowing you down. Especially when you use this piece also to strengthen the hand. Which for many is mostly the case. Grouping together the 2nd and 3rd 16th note will both strengthen fingers, and help coördination of the hand and train the wrist movement or flexibility you need for this piece. Also these chopin etudes you need to learn by heart. Start with learning the harmonic progression and framework of this piece. It helps with wrapping everything together. Otherwise nice tutorial. 👍
3 года назад+1
Thanks so much for your comment, such great input! 🙏🏻
This is one of the hardest Etudes by Chopin. Had watched many tutorials about this etude and will definitely try your advice .. thank you soo much! more power
2 года назад+1
Thank you, have fun with it! 💪🏻 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Thank you for this!! I have started on this first Etude, and knew to work slowly and patiently, also the groups of four notes. Your other tips were new to me: I am excited about putting them to work. Also I will take to heart your teacher's counsel to play something from these etudes every day. It is going to be a long time before I have much fluency with this, and that is fine with me. Again, thank you!!!!
3 года назад+1
Thank you, I am glad you liked it and keep up the great work! 👏🏻👌🏻
You are unique, dear teacher...As always, it was great and professional. Thank you very much for this tutorial ... Please continue sending the video. It is very useful. And we appreciate you
I was hoping you would have a video on this. You’re so generous with your time - thanks for sharing your expertise!!! After so many years I am hoping to make some progress in this etude.
2 года назад+2
All the best for you and have fun with the exercises! :)
Thanks a lot for the lesson. For many years, I have been thinking about playing these Etude without much courage to start. (don't have a teacher). Then saw other video a month ago, that gave me some hope. So I started, but the progress has been slow. I will incorporate your recommendation to practice everyday. Hopefully one day, I can play this piece from start to finish. Not in a hurry. Just any in my life time will be fine. Thanks again.
Your videos have helped me so much! I’m ready to tackle these pieces but there aren’t any instructors where I live. Keep up the good work and hope to keep learning from you!
2 года назад+1
Thanks so much! So glad you are finding the videos helpful :)
@@ericastier1646 I appreciate your support. I have the fear of playing something, and getting into bad habits with my hands. But I’ve been doing it on my own for a few years now and relying on content this like one for help.
@@JoelHernandez-yl6yw You're welcome. If that helps your motivation, i have no teacher and never had a piano at home. I have to go elsewhere and am learning this etude. I had piano teachers before and i can assure you these videos are more useful then they were.
@@ericastier1646 I promise you this is not spam. I just got this recommendation for a video on Chopin’s hand and finger movement. Cheers and good luck in your piano studies. ruclips.net/video/_sm8UqTtsXE/видео.html
I have been playing this study on and off for the better part of 15 years, some of those years I didn't even touch it but have been revisiting it again recently. I have tried multiple teachers, any and all practice methods, tutorials I could find. I still cannot get that damn descending A major arpeggio and descending B7 arpeggio during the climax (before the E major) at tempo. I will try these out! I''m still determined. I have a very strong love/hate relationship with this piece lol.
I am just back from practicing this in the first exercise, and i wanted to watch you demonstrate again because it is much harder than it looks when you do it.
Very inspirational, and so beautifully presented. I discovered this etude when I was 18 and a beginner and tried to play it! I saw middle C in the first bar and thought, ok this should be easy. I was trying to do things myself without a teacher. Too bad because some guidance would have been most helpful at that point. Now I have recital plans, an encouraging instructor, and a couple of etudes (not #1) are performance candidates.
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Wonderful! All the best for your further piano journey and thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Thank you 1000 times for giving us some cues to work on this piece. I love it and couldn't play it as a kid, now I will get back to it and practice with your exercises.
I love Chopin very good news then !! I started as beginner straight to learn nocturne op 9 Eflat major ... ! ( Specific method ... will help !!! ).. oww what a beautiful piece !!
Complimenti, davvero ottimi i suggerimenti per affrontare questo studio possente. Ho tentato varie volte di affrontarlo, ma lo scoraggiamento ha sempre prevalso. Il tuo video mi ha invogliato nuovamente 🤞
Thank you for your great ideas! I am hoping that practicing this etude will eventually increase the stretch of my right hand to roughly where my left is now.
3 года назад+1
Thank you! Your stretch will definitely improve when practicing this study. Have fun with it! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
12:25 somehow if the movement just passively happens, and if it is a very small, it shouldn't be a problem. Great tutorial
3 года назад+2
Thank you! :) And yes, I definitely agree. If it is just a small movement and isn‘t actively led by the elbow, it doesn‘t create a problem. Have fun with the study! :)
Excellent exercises. It would have been helpful if you had given us the respective bar numbers in the second exercise (and if the grand piano had been tuned . . .).Really, thanks very, very much!!
If Op 10 no 1 was a mountain and me a mountaineer then i would describe my 15 years of trying to learn it as the whole history of the Everest ascent with failed expeditions and aborted routes and falling down the mountains and having to restart from base camp. I'd say i have never reach camp 6 but sometimes stayed at camp 4 and a few times just a few hours a camp 5 before it all fell apart with tension setting him, cramps and the hand becomes rigid and being forced to descend back down to camp 1 and even base camp ! The progresses are never permanent you keep seeing your technique fall apart and delearn your progress, exactly as Chopin said. I know the notes of this study as if it was the C major scale but still haven't summited this beast.
Hello, I made an experiment in my youtube channel, just spent 2 weeks practising this piece and then made 2 videos (1 at the end of each week), and I was able to do it because of your tutorial, (i mention that in the description of my video), thank you very much!! :)
3 года назад+1
Just watched the video, great job!! Thanks so much for watching and I am very happy that you found the exercises helpful. ☺️
You are incredibly good, i know how difficult it is to play this etude. For me the first page of this etude are the hardest arpeggio especially C major. The middle pages arpeggio that everybody finds so difficult actually are not. Everybody is using the wrong fingering and jumping on the wrong notes. I don't know why Chopin didn't write the fingering but once you find it (it took me years !) then that middle section is almost easy, it's even the place i rest my fingers because there is less difficulty. The hardest bar in the whole etude is the return of the C major arpegio.
Very cleaver practice suggestions! Just as an improvement tip, try to re-study everything without using your thumb (yes, it's obsessive stuff, I admit it)
I feel more comfortable with Op 10 n 2 than n 1, BUT n 2 injures my hand even though i feel no cramp or tense playing it. So i avoid practicing it even though i can play it through (almost).
Realmente muy buenos tus ejercicios. Los estoy aplicando en el N2 op 25 cada 2 compases.. Pienso ayuda mucho a enfrentarse de a poco con la velocidad final Desde ya Muchas Gracias Santy
One lmore thing I do with this study is take each arppeggio (every 4 notes) and turn them into triplets like this: 1 note / 2 notes together / 1 note . . . C / G-C / E . . . etc. All the way up AND down. Slow tempo, of course and all that good stuff. I'm sure you could do something similar with various permutations of triplets.
Most tutorials on this piece recommend practicing in alternative rhythms or making the arpeggios into chords. I would ask why this is better than just playing the notes as written at a tempo where you have 100% accuracy and evenness.
2 года назад+1
Practicing the arpeggios in chords helps secure the exact hand position for every arpeggio and creates very helpful connections between brain and muscles. However, of course you still need to practice the notes separately to achieve accuracy and evenness. 👌🏻 thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@@Lindsaayyy because some are like me pure beginners they need and deserve more info to introduce a specific coaching lesson 🙂 ... results are wonderful !!
Your suggestions were good. But one difficulty of this piece is also the stamina. The final performance you have done, it has been cut 4 times. I do not find it honest. 14:50, 15:28, 15:49, 16:16.
Amazing tutorial. Thank you very much! I wondered if you have a video or suggestions to practice repeated notes. I am practicing Ravel's "Alborada del Gracioso" and struggling with the sections where repeated notes appear..
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Here is a video on octave repetitions: ruclips.net/video/AtZApTRBCHM/видео.html Hope this helps! But also, I will make one on repetitions in general in the future :)
@ Hi Danae. Thank you very much for taking the time to reply to my request and the link to the video. I really appreciate it. I have been looking at your other videos and I really enjoy the content. Thanks again!!!
I already know it by heart. Now I´m practicing at a 55 tempo and I plan to slowly, maybe after a week or ten days, increase the tempo in 5-10 points. I began faster but I saw that I lost control and that in a piece so technically demanding I had to do it in other ways more accurate. Within a month? I´m planning months lol
2 года назад+1
Take all the time you need, that’s exactly how you should do it! 👌🏻 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@ Sorry I did not see your response. Thanks for your answer. Practicing this stude so much almost caused me a tendinitis in the right hand or something. My hand did not feel normal 😁🤦♂It´s not carpal tunnel because I don´t have the symptons, but now I´m taking it in easy. Just playing it very slow now and then so that I don´t forget what I learnt but giving my hand a rest. This etude is not hard in the sense of that it´s difficult to learn it, but playing it fast with the perfect tecnique and without tension is the problem and the key.
At what grade level should you approx be at when trying or attempting to play any of chopin's etudes. I made it to grade 8 RCM years ago in my early to late teens then stopped. I recently picked up playing again a year or so ago . Bern Been relearning my scales again.
3 года назад
I would say that you could definitely start practicing these exercises at a very slow tempo. The earlier you get your hands into these partners and the more you practice it at a slow tempo often, the more effective the end result will be. 😊
@ ok thank you for your reply and that totally makes logical sense . I love your explaining style on camera and your approach to teaching. Very unique and pleasant. I subbed , thanks again!!
Any tips to release tension and fatigue while playing this etude?
3 года назад+7
I would say to 1) make sure that your left hand is completely relaxed while holding the octaves so that there is no extra tension translarinf into your right hand. 2) move your body with your right hand to make the hand position as easy as possible. 3) use some of the high notes (5th finger) as “release points” in which your wrist quickly releases any built-up tension through a short forward motion. Hope this helps! :-)
Although, undoubtedly, Chopin's etudes are very useful and artistically brilliant, they still lack some fundamental building blocks. First of all, fast repeated notes techniques are missing. You need some complementary exercises from Czerny or Liszt (La Campanella) to fill that hole. Secondly, this collection still very much focuses on right hand techniques. Though 'Revolutionary' and 'Cello' are introduced to put a bandage on the wound, they are still not solid enough.
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Yes, adding some other studies to the mix will definitely help you cover all of the technical difficulties of piano playing. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Tempo mark Quaver note = 176. There are so many strict tempo in Chopin Etude Op 10 no 1 and Op 10 no 2 and Op 10 no 4 and Op 10 no 5 and Op 10 no 7 and Op 10 no 8 and Op 10 no 9 and Op 10 no 10 and Op 10 no 11 and Op 10 no 12 and Op 25 no 1 and Op 25 no 2 and Op 25 no 3 and Op 25 no 4 and Op 25 no 5 and Op 25 no 6 and Op 25 no 8 and Op 25 no 9 and Op 25 no 10 and Op 25 no 11 and Op 25 no 12. polish original Chopin Etude Their fast tempo presto are 176, 144, 176, 116, 88, 176, 96, 152, 76, 160, 104, 112, 120, 160, 184-168-184, 138, 138, 112, 144-120-144, 138, 160.
3 года назад+1
Thank you so much for sharing the information here!
Fantastic! As an amateur I probably don't live long enough to learn to play in that final tempo you use. I have struggled some years with op10 #3 but it is still not floating. Hard work and harder the older you are. Anyway, good to have fun during the path. I wounder how professional pianists take care of their fingers. It would be a disaster to have a finger damaged so you couldn't place for some days. Sometimes I get the outside of the right thumb acing. Probably because it touches the left key when doing downwards arpeggios and not using the correct position of the wrist. Sometimes the fifth fingers could ace because they have been too straight and not bent enough when pushing the keys. How can a professional pianist play for hours in practice or consert without damaging any finger. Is it only a question of relaxation. Relaxation I have understood is very important. In the beginning it is very difficult and almost impossible. The more you play and practice the easier it gets. Maybe a tip to talk about in a video of yours is how to treat your fingers and hands as a professional. Nails not too short or long, exercises to perform outside the piano, good to strengthen the hand muscles by digging in the garden but not too much, use fingertip papertape if you haven't practiced for a while and lost the extra skin on the fingertips, etcetera. Regards /Henrik
2 года назад
Thanks so much! It always makes me very happy to encounter auch dedicated amateur pianists that are working towards improving their technique in order to make music with many different kinds of pieces. Keep going, that’s so wonderful! And yes, op. 10 no. 3 isn’t an easy one either. 😉 Thanks for the video idea, I will definitely add it to my list! 🤗
It really is about developping the brain perception of your body involved in piano playing. Much of piano playing is about muscle memory and the ability to create them. It is as much a study of the human learning process than the instrument itself. You have to learn to learn. Flexibility is crucial but comes from good practice. Progress depends very much on the type of brain activity you have while practicing. Nothing will miraculously be learned by osmosis over time, you have to develop a conscious intent of learning bit by bit and monitoring how your brain and body is learning. Regularity in practice is the most important. No special care is needed for fingers. If anything pianists hands are stronger than normal.
I am total amateur, and my dream is to play some day at 75% speed as you and other pianists are playing. I do small exercises and indeed there are progress. Fingers somehow has some memory how to hold your hand.
2 года назад+1
Yes exactly! Keep going, that sounds great and wishing you all the best progress with the piano! 🤗
These are great exercises and I have been working diligently on them. But I have found that I can only practice this etude for a limited time every session. My wrists and arm muscles reach a limit where I can't play effectively any more. My limit is ~ 10 minutes at most, then I have to stretch, relax, rest, try again, or move on to a different piece. I thought at first that I would build strength and ease of playing with repetition. But it hasn't happened yet (I've been working on it several months, and have it memorized.) I do not have this problem with other music. I can practice Bach, Mozart sonatas, and Beethoven for long periods - no problem. I keep a relaxed flexible wrist. Do concert pianists ever have this problem with music that pushes your technical limits? It would be great if you could do a session on how to address this kind of challenge in practicing.
2 года назад+2
Yes, if something is technically very demanding and requires extreme strength from your hands, this can happen. I think you are doing the right thing exactly! As soon as you feel tired, stretch, rest, relax, then try again. It will improve with time. Another important aspect is to practice with a positive mental mindset. This can also drastically change your practicing experience.
@ Thanks for the tips! I like your suggestion about a positive attitude. It is hard sometimes when progress feels slow - when you can "hear" it in your head, but your hands can't keep up. So, I'll try to practice looking at what I *can* do.
@@highharmonics I have not reached the tempo yet but i am a bit more ahead of you, i remember the time when my experience was exactly yours. If I could have talked to myself back that time, i would say that is normal and will go away as you start to become more aware of the articulations and muscle needed to relax the hand (wrist, elbow and shoulder not just fingers). For now your brain has too many parameters to and does not know which path to choose to relax muscles best. Your work should be to make it more clear to your brain what the possibilities are by playing the arpeggios in various dynamics and rhythms. Can you play all the rhythm she proposed very slowly or is that too difficult ? if you cannot you need to memorize the jumps and be able to play the whole piece slowly without mistakes. Also you are on the right path if you can hear every note slowly but are unable to play them without mistake. That is a corrected stage of learning this piece.
The only problem I have with this piece is that my fingers are not long enough and it's very painful to stretch, After playing 10 No. 1 during practice, 10 No. 2 because impossible to finish. why? pains. I wish piano companies build custom pianos.
Danae, what is the difference between an opus and an etude?
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The opus is the „work“ of the composer and often also serves as a cataloguing help of all their pieces. An etude is a composition that is geared towards further developing technical abilities on the instrument. :)
Hi, my hand only can reach 8th, is possible to play this?
3 года назад+3
Hi! Yes, absolutely. I think that as long as you can reach an octave, you should be able to play this study. I have also made a whole video on hand span and how to increase it, which you can check out here: ruclips.net/video/m31AJwDNqEQ/видео.html Hope this helps! :)
I really stuck on 8:46, measure22, first of all, I can't play fast, and then i will stop at the middle, it's like D#BA~BD#BA. i really hope this exercise will help me! Thank you!!
and also measure 33,34,64,70,72 is extremely difficult too... if I can play these fast and smoothly, I think I can finish this study...can u help me a little bit pls :(
3 года назад+1
The bars you mentioned are definitely among the most uncomfortable ones for me as well. Besides the exercises I mention in the video, I would also say that it could help to give the 5th finger a bit of an extra impulse (especially in the bars where there are the accents). When the harmony changes within the bar, you could also take a little bit of extra time to make it a bit easier. Generally, take your time and increase the tempo very very slowly, as soon as you feel comfortable with the tempo that you are in right now. Have fun and enjoy it! Hope this helps🤞
@ Thank You! i will work hard on it, its a short piece, but really need to take time on it. I think it is because my technique is not as high as that level, but it is an Etude, I think it will definitely let my technique higher and higher! if I can play it smoothly! I will share it with you! you video l think can really help me, anyway I need to work hard haha
How to thank you? It's so rare that a concertist of your level share how she works on a piece.
That' awesome, thanks a lot!
Please keep going posting videos, that's very very helpful.
Thank you so much 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you for that ur so sweet
Very useful recommendations- I've been trying to play this piece for many, many years but don't have a teacher. Inevitably, I have not made much progress but these exercises give me hope that I might one day succeed in playing this magnificent piece "tolerably"... Thank you very much for sharing these ideas.
I wish you all the best on your journey with this piece, it’s so rewarding when you finally get to the point of being able to play it. 🤗
I have the same exact experience! Lol
It's such a rarity for a professionally trained pianist to give advices on youtube. Thank you so much! Your job is much appreciated
So glad that I am able to share my experiences! 🤗🙏🏻
You play this study so comfortably, even the most awkward moments, and because you‘ve lived with this since you were in your early teens, it flies off the fingers with ease.
Wonderful.!
Thank you!
You are lucky to have a great teacher. My teacher was a child prodigy, he just does not know how to teach. He thinks either you can do it or not. One time, I wanted to learn Revolutionary. He said it is impossible..... He was wrong....! I love to show him that I can play Revolutionary. I even played in a competition.
Good for you! Nothing is impossible and I love your mindset! 💪🏻👏🏻 Keep going strong!
I’m learning it now. Tried it last year and got sore right hand. Coming back to it now after working on releasing tension a lot. It really is a major milestone. I can hardly believe that I’m even able to play it at 100bpm. It’s such a rewarding piece as it slowly comes together.
cool, dass du das machst! 👍🏽👍🏽🔥
marvellous piece.I'm trying to work it.I'm 65.It's now or never ! ty !
That’s amazing, have fun with the study! 👏🏻🤗
You help me immensely, I was a bit scared when I was given this to try, I just had 3 years playing, many thanks
Very helpful thank you!
Glad you liked the exercises!
I like how she plays the dynamics of this piece. Sometimes dreamy and grand , sometimes cautious. It’s nice to listen to it.
Also , she is really right about the patience you need for this piece. It’s so transparent that you can hear every mistake. Unlike some other etudes, you can’t muffle it away with pedal. Slow but stead really wins the race.
Personally I am not a fan of accentuating all 4 16th’s separately. It can cause unnecessary up and down wrist movement as shown in the video slowing you down. Especially when you use this piece also to strengthen the hand. Which for many is mostly the case.
Grouping together the 2nd and 3rd 16th note will both strengthen fingers, and help coördination of the hand and train the wrist movement or flexibility you need for this piece.
Also these chopin etudes you need to learn by heart. Start with learning the harmonic progression and framework of this piece. It helps with wrapping everything together.
Otherwise nice tutorial. 👍
Thanks so much for your comment, such great input! 🙏🏻
This is one of the hardest Etudes by Chopin. Had watched many tutorials about this etude and will definitely try your advice .. thank you soo much! more power
Thank you, have fun with it! 💪🏻 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
This is by far the best tutorial on this particular Chopin etude. Thanks for you hard work on the video and thank you as well for sharing!
Thank you so much!
Thank you for this!! I have started on this first Etude, and knew to work slowly and patiently, also the groups of four notes. Your other tips were new to me: I am excited about putting them to work.
Also I will take to heart your teacher's counsel to play something from these etudes every day. It is going to be a long time before I have much fluency with this, and that is fine with me. Again, thank you!!!!
Thank you, I am glad you liked it and keep up the great work! 👏🏻👌🏻
You are one of the best professors to clearly teach how to separate the difficult big one to easier small pieces.
Thanks so much! 🙏🏻
You are unique, dear teacher...As always, it was great and professional. Thank you very much for this tutorial ... Please continue sending the video. It is very useful. And we appreciate you
This was very helpful! Thank you!
I was hoping you would have a video on this. You’re so generous with your time - thanks for sharing your expertise!!! After so many years I am hoping to make some progress in this etude.
All the best for you and have fun with the exercises! :)
Thanks a lot for the lesson. For many years, I have been thinking about playing these Etude without much courage to start. (don't have a teacher). Then saw other video a month ago, that gave me some hope. So I started, but the progress has been slow. I will incorporate your recommendation to practice everyday. Hopefully one day, I can play this piece from start to finish. Not in a hurry. Just any in my life time will be fine. Thanks again.
Thank you a lot dear Danae. Your tips are so useful. It's really kind of you to share your mastery. Your videos are really the best. Hugs from Paris.
Thank you so much!
Your videos have helped me so much! I’m ready to tackle these pieces but there aren’t any instructors where I live. Keep up the good work and hope to keep learning from you!
Thanks so much! So glad you are finding the videos helpful :)
You don't need an instructor. Chopin never had a piano teacher only violinists teaching piano.
@@ericastier1646 I appreciate your support. I have the fear of playing something, and getting into bad habits with my hands. But I’ve been doing it on my own for a few years now and relying on content this like one for help.
@@JoelHernandez-yl6yw You're welcome. If that helps your motivation, i have no teacher and never had a piano at home. I have to go elsewhere and am learning this etude. I had piano teachers before and i can assure you these videos are more useful then they were.
@@ericastier1646 I promise you this is not spam. I just got this recommendation for a video on Chopin’s hand and finger movement. Cheers and good luck in your piano studies.
ruclips.net/video/_sm8UqTtsXE/видео.html
Very good! Thank you!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I have been playing this study on and off for the better part of 15 years, some of those years I didn't even touch it but have been revisiting it again recently. I have tried multiple teachers, any and all practice methods, tutorials I could find. I still cannot get that damn descending A major arpeggio and descending B7 arpeggio during the climax (before the E major) at tempo. I will try these out! I''m still determined. I have a very strong love/hate relationship with this piece lol.
That's so clear,and so helpful.
Really nice of you to share your knowledge this way.
Sat at the piano today with this one for the first time.
Thank you so much, my pleasure! I am so glad that you found it helpful.
I am just back from practicing this in the first exercise, and i wanted to watch you demonstrate again because it is much harder than it looks when you do it.
Great tips on how to practice. Thank you so much.
Very inspirational, and so beautifully presented. I discovered this etude when I was 18 and a beginner and tried to play it! I saw middle C in the first bar and thought, ok this should be easy. I was trying to do things myself without a teacher. Too bad because some guidance would have been most helpful at that point. Now I have recital plans, an encouraging instructor, and a couple of etudes (not #1) are performance candidates.
Wonderful! All the best for your further piano journey and thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Thank you 1000 times for giving us some cues to work on this piece. I love it and couldn't play it as a kid, now I will get back to it and practice with your exercises.
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I love Chopin very good news then !! I started as beginner straight to learn nocturne op 9 Eflat major ... ! ( Specific method ... will help !!! ).. oww what a beautiful piece !!
I love that piece, absolutely beautiful!
I'm also trying to bring this piece back, and I found so many interesting ideas from your video, thank you so much for sharing!!
So glad you found it helpful! 🙏🏻
The first excercise are nr.12,13,14,15 taken from Alfred Cortot's methode du Travail.
Thank you so much for the video!!
Thank you! So glad you liked it :)
Complimenti, davvero ottimi i suggerimenti per affrontare questo studio possente. Ho tentato varie volte di affrontarlo, ma lo scoraggiamento ha sempre prevalso. Il tuo video mi ha invogliato nuovamente 🤞
Excellent
Thank you for your great ideas! I am hoping that practicing this etude will eventually increase the stretch of my right hand to roughly where my left is now.
Thank you! Your stretch will definitely improve when practicing this study. Have fun with it! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Thank you!!! Will try these exercises out :)
정말 도움이 많이 됐어요 감사합니다 연주도 정말 훌륭해요 !!
brilliant! bravo!!!
Безусловно у Вас дар педагога,но имея такую широкую звуковую палитру,вдохновляете к творчеству.Спасибо.
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Thank you for your sharing.I'm practicing this piece and your video is quit helpful.
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Please, more video like this! I have subscribed your channel! Very very interesting!
Thank you so much! More videos coming very soon :)
Excellent. Thank you.
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Ottimo video, bellissimo. Utile, didattico. Infonde serenità. Complimenti
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thanks for the tips. very helpful.
Thank you!
12:25 somehow if the movement just passively happens, and if it is a very small, it shouldn't be a problem. Great tutorial
Thank you! :) And yes, I definitely agree. If it is just a small movement and isn‘t actively led by the elbow, it doesn‘t create a problem. Have fun with the study! :)
KHK's most favorite etude along with no.2! It's Phu here! greetings from Bangkok!!
Hiiii!!! Yes, so true, KHK loved these two. 😉
Who's KHK?
KHK stands for Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, I think. (Her former teacher)
Thanks a lot 😊
Please make a video about op. 10 n. 4 and one about op. 10 n. 12
Brilliant stuff.
Many thanks maestro.
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Good tips, and your playing is incredible.
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Great stuff! Thank you!
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Excellent exercises. It would have been helpful if you had given us the respective bar numbers in the second exercise (and if the grand piano had been tuned . . .).Really, thanks very, very much!!
Great advice thank you! I just order the book Chopin 10 and been waiting. For now I am still practicing Czerny
Wonderful! And Czerny is s great choice before Chopin 👏🏻
If Op 10 no 1 was a mountain and me a mountaineer then i would describe my 15 years of trying to learn it as the whole history of the Everest ascent with failed expeditions and aborted routes and falling down the mountains and having to restart from base camp. I'd say i have never reach camp 6 but sometimes stayed at camp 4 and a few times just a few hours a camp 5 before it all fell apart with tension setting him, cramps and the hand becomes rigid and being forced to descend back down to camp 1 and even base camp ! The progresses are never permanent you keep seeing your technique fall apart and delearn your progress, exactly as Chopin said. I know the notes of this study as if it was the C major scale but still haven't summited this beast.
That you, I believe I shall apply those tips to other pieces as well 😊
Yes, absolutely, have fun with it! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Hello, I made an experiment in my youtube channel, just spent 2 weeks practising this piece and then made 2 videos (1 at the end of each week), and I was able to do it because of your tutorial, (i mention that in the description of my video), thank you very much!! :)
Just watched the video, great job!! Thanks so much for watching and I am very happy that you found the exercises helpful. ☺️
thank you so much for this lecture. pls how about the finger placing on the keys . what and what fingers are to be used ? thank you
You are incredibly good, i know how difficult it is to play this etude.
For me the first page of this etude are the hardest arpeggio especially C major. The middle pages arpeggio that everybody finds so difficult actually are not. Everybody is using the wrong fingering and jumping on the wrong notes. I don't know why Chopin didn't write the fingering but once you find it (it took me years !) then that middle section is almost easy, it's even the place i rest my fingers because there is less difficulty. The hardest bar in the whole etude is the return of the C major arpegio.
Какая у Вас апликатура в 30,32,36,64 такте ? Спасибо.
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Muy buenos ejercicios muchas gracias, estaba un poco perdida, respecto a como empezar a estudiarlo...
Very cleaver practice suggestions! Just as an improvement tip, try to re-study everything without using your thumb (yes, it's obsessive stuff, I admit it)
WOW, 1000th follow =) Thanks Danae.
Reminder for rythms : First exercise ; 2nd note first day, 3rd second day, 4th third day, 1st fourth day.
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thank you I apreciate you cause you helped me a lot
So happy to hear that, thank you!
some of these exercises are contained in cortot's edition
Yes, a wonderful edition!! 🤗
Great advices! Txs! Sounds relaxed, how you played it.
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Wonderful tutorial! I've been practicing this Etude and I will introduce these new exercises. Thank you.
Thank you! All the best with it :)
I feel more comfortable with Op 10 n 2 than n 1, BUT n 2 injures my hand even though i feel no cramp or tense playing it. So i avoid practicing it even though i can play it through (almost).
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When do you think somebody should start learning chopin studies?
Realmente muy buenos tus ejercicios.
Los estoy aplicando en el N2 op 25 cada 2 compases..
Pienso ayuda mucho a enfrentarse de a poco con la velocidad final
Desde ya Muchas Gracias
Santy
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One lmore thing I do with this study is take each arppeggio (every 4 notes) and turn them into triplets like this:
1 note / 2 notes together / 1 note . . .
C / G-C / E . . . etc. All the way up AND down. Slow tempo, of course and all that good stuff.
I'm sure you could do something similar with various permutations of triplets.
Great addition, thank you! :)
Most tutorials on this piece recommend practicing in alternative rhythms or making the arpeggios into chords. I would ask why this is better than just playing the notes as written at a tempo where you have 100% accuracy and evenness.
Practicing the arpeggios in chords helps secure the exact hand position for every arpeggio and creates very helpful connections between brain and muscles. However, of course you still need to practice the notes separately to achieve accuracy and evenness. 👌🏻 thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I wish l can play this beautiful chopin l will do my best. You are so nice person!♥️
That’s so sweet, thank you so much! 😍🤗
hey!could you do a video for chopin op 10 n 5?it would be really helpful
Skip to 4:30 for the first exercise discussion.
Thanks
Why can’t they just start it when the video starts LOL thanks for the timestamp I always look for these!
@@Lindsaayyy because some are like me pure beginners they need and deserve more info to introduce a specific coaching lesson 🙂 ... results are wonderful !!
Some very important things are said prior to this.
Your suggestions were good. But one difficulty of this piece is also the stamina. The final performance you have done, it has been cut 4 times. I do not find it honest. 14:50, 15:28, 15:49, 16:16.
Thank you so much for your clear explanation! It's so helpful! I find your wrist going up after each four notes look very tiring.
Thank you! I actually do the wrist to relax it and make sure that it doesn’t get tense and tired. 🙂
@ so when speeding up and playing the entire piece, should the wrist still be constantly raised?
Would it be worth an intermediate piano player learning this piece at a slower tempo?
Q: Would you recommend transposition into other keys?
Thanks a lot!!
These advices are gold for me!! ❤️
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Awesome. New sub
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Amazing tutorial. Thank you very much! I wondered if you have a video or suggestions to practice repeated notes. I am practicing Ravel's "Alborada del Gracioso" and struggling with the sections where repeated notes appear..
Here is a video on octave repetitions:
ruclips.net/video/AtZApTRBCHM/видео.html
Hope this helps! But also, I will make one on repetitions in general in the future :)
@ Hi Danae. Thank you very much for taking the time to reply to my request and the link to the video. I really appreciate it. I have been looking at your other videos and I really enjoy the content. Thanks again!!!
I already know it by heart. Now I´m practicing at a 55 tempo and I plan to slowly, maybe after a week or ten days, increase the tempo in 5-10 points. I began faster but I saw that I lost control and that in a piece so technically demanding I had to do it in other ways more accurate. Within a month? I´m planning months lol
Take all the time you need, that’s exactly how you should do it! 👌🏻 Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
@ Sorry I did not see your response. Thanks for your answer. Practicing this stude so much almost caused me a tendinitis in the right hand or something. My hand did not feel normal 😁🤦♂It´s not carpal tunnel because I don´t have the symptons, but now I´m taking it in easy. Just playing it very slow now and then so that I don´t forget what I learnt but giving my hand a rest. This etude is not hard in the sense of that it´s difficult to learn it, but playing it fast with the perfect tecnique and without tension is the problem and the key.
I somehow am learning this just from teaching my self the basic music theory
From basic music theory to Chopin studies - love that! ;) Thanks for watching!
At what grade level should you approx be at when trying or attempting to play any of chopin's etudes. I made it to grade 8 RCM years ago in my early to late teens then stopped. I recently picked up playing again a year or so ago . Bern Been relearning my scales again.
I would say that you could definitely start practicing these exercises at a very slow tempo. The earlier you get your hands into these partners and the more you practice it at a slow tempo often, the more effective the end result will be. 😊
@ ok thank you for your reply and that totally makes logical sense . I love your explaining style on camera and your approach to teaching. Very unique and pleasant. I subbed , thanks again!!
Any tips to release tension and fatigue while playing this etude?
I would say to
1) make sure that your left hand is completely relaxed while holding the octaves so that there is no extra tension translarinf into your right hand.
2) move your body with your right hand to make the hand position as easy as possible.
3) use some of the high notes (5th finger) as “release points” in which your wrist quickly releases any built-up tension through a short forward motion.
Hope this helps! :-)
Although, undoubtedly, Chopin's etudes are very useful and artistically brilliant, they still lack some fundamental building blocks.
First of all, fast repeated notes techniques are missing. You need some complementary exercises from Czerny or Liszt (La Campanella) to fill that hole.
Secondly, this collection still very much focuses on right hand techniques. Though 'Revolutionary' and 'Cello' are introduced to put a bandage on the wound, they are still not solid enough.
Yes, adding some other studies to the mix will definitely help you cover all of the technical difficulties of piano playing. Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Tempo mark Quaver note = 176. There are so many strict tempo in Chopin Etude Op 10 no 1 and Op 10 no 2 and Op 10 no 4 and Op 10 no 5 and Op 10 no 7 and Op 10 no 8 and Op 10 no 9 and Op 10 no 10 and Op 10 no 11 and Op 10 no 12 and Op 25 no 1 and Op 25 no 2 and Op 25 no 3 and Op 25 no 4 and Op 25 no 5 and Op 25 no 6 and Op 25 no 8 and Op 25 no 9 and Op 25 no 10 and Op 25 no 11 and Op 25 no 12. polish original Chopin Etude Their fast tempo presto are 176, 144, 176, 116, 88, 176, 96, 152, 76, 160, 104, 112, 120, 160, 184-168-184, 138, 138, 112, 144-120-144, 138, 160.
Thank you so much for sharing the information here!
Fantastic! As an amateur I probably don't live long enough to learn to play in that final tempo you use. I have struggled some years with op10 #3 but it is still not floating. Hard work and harder the older you are. Anyway, good to have fun during the path.
I wounder how professional pianists take care of their fingers. It would be a disaster to have a finger damaged so you couldn't place for some days. Sometimes I get the outside of the right thumb acing. Probably because it touches the left key when doing downwards arpeggios and not using the correct position of the wrist. Sometimes the fifth fingers could ace because they have been too straight and not bent enough when pushing the keys. How can a professional pianist play for hours in practice or consert without damaging any finger. Is it only a question of relaxation. Relaxation I have understood is very important. In the beginning it is very difficult and almost impossible. The more you play and practice the easier it gets.
Maybe a tip to talk about in a video of yours is how to treat your fingers and hands as a professional. Nails not too short or long, exercises to perform outside the piano, good to strengthen the hand muscles by digging in the garden but not too much, use fingertip papertape if you haven't practiced for a while and lost the extra skin on the fingertips, etcetera. Regards /Henrik
Thanks so much! It always makes me very happy to encounter auch dedicated amateur pianists that are working towards improving their technique in order to make music with many different kinds of pieces. Keep going, that’s so wonderful! And yes, op. 10 no. 3 isn’t an easy one either. 😉 Thanks for the video idea, I will definitely add it to my list! 🤗
It really is about developping the brain perception of your body involved in piano playing. Much of piano playing is about muscle memory and the ability to create them. It is as much a study of the human learning process than the instrument itself. You have to learn to learn. Flexibility is crucial but comes from good practice. Progress depends very much on the type of brain activity you have while practicing. Nothing will miraculously be learned by osmosis over time, you have to develop a conscious intent of learning bit by bit and monitoring how your brain and body is learning. Regularity in practice is the most important.
No special care is needed for fingers. If anything pianists hands are stronger than normal.
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I am total amateur, and my dream is to play some day at 75% speed as you and other pianists are playing. I do small exercises and indeed there are progress. Fingers somehow has some memory how to hold your hand.
Yes exactly! Keep going, that sounds great and wishing you all the best progress with the piano! 🤗
These are great exercises and I have been working diligently on them. But I have found that I can only practice this etude for a limited time every session. My wrists and arm muscles reach a limit where I can't play effectively any more. My limit is ~ 10 minutes at most, then I have to stretch, relax, rest, try again, or move on to a different piece. I thought at first that I would build strength and ease of playing with repetition. But it hasn't happened yet (I've been working on it several months, and have it memorized.) I do not have this problem with other music. I can practice Bach, Mozart sonatas, and Beethoven for long periods - no problem. I keep a relaxed flexible wrist. Do concert pianists ever have this problem with music that pushes your technical limits? It would be great if you could do a session on how to address this kind of challenge in practicing.
Yes, if something is technically very demanding and requires extreme strength from your hands, this can happen. I think you are doing the right thing exactly! As soon as you feel tired, stretch, rest, relax, then try again. It will improve with time. Another important aspect is to practice with a positive mental mindset. This can also drastically change your practicing experience.
@ Thanks for the tips! I like your suggestion about a positive attitude. It is hard sometimes when progress feels slow - when you can "hear" it in your head, but your hands can't keep up. So, I'll try to practice looking at what I *can* do.
@ That was a useful answer for me as well. Being positive and enjoying your practice time seems crucial in making progress i found.
@@highharmonics I have not reached the tempo yet but i am a bit more ahead of you, i remember the time when my experience was exactly yours. If I could have talked to myself back that time, i would say that is normal and will go away as you start to become more aware of the articulations and muscle needed to relax the hand (wrist, elbow and shoulder not just fingers). For now your brain has too many parameters to and does not know which path to choose to relax muscles best. Your work should be to make it more clear to your brain what the possibilities are by playing the arpeggios in various dynamics and rhythms. Can you play all the rhythm she proposed very slowly or is that too difficult ? if you cannot you need to memorize the jumps and be able to play the whole piece slowly without mistakes. Also you are on the right path if you can hear every note slowly but are unable to play them without mistake. That is a corrected stage of learning this piece.
The only problem I have with this piece is that my fingers are not long enough and it's very painful to stretch, After playing 10 No. 1 during practice, 10 No. 2 because impossible to finish. why? pains. I wish piano companies build custom pianos.
Danae, what is the difference between an opus and an etude?
The opus is the „work“ of the composer and often also serves as a cataloguing help of all their pieces. An etude is a composition that is geared towards further developing technical abilities on the instrument. :)
@ you are the best, thank you!
Hi Danae.....would you practice Op.25 no12 the same as this etude or with hands together? What tips do you have for no12?
I would practice the first exercises separately, but then the 2-bar-sections in half and full tempo with both hands together.
Hi, my hand only can reach 8th, is possible to play this?
Hi! Yes, absolutely. I think that as long as you can reach an octave, you should be able to play this study. I have also made a whole video on hand span and how to increase it, which you can check out here: ruclips.net/video/m31AJwDNqEQ/видео.html
Hope this helps! :)
@ Thank you so much.
I really stuck on 8:46, measure22, first of all, I can't play fast, and then i will stop at the middle, it's like D#BA~BD#BA. i really hope this exercise will help me! Thank you!!
between A and B is really difficult....(I'm crying)
and also measure 33,34,64,70,72 is extremely difficult too... if I can play these fast and smoothly, I think I can finish this study...can u help me a little bit pls :(
The bars you mentioned are definitely among the most uncomfortable ones for me as well. Besides the exercises I mention in the video, I would also say that it could help to give the 5th finger a bit of an extra impulse (especially in the bars where there are the accents). When the harmony changes within the bar, you could also take a little bit of extra time to make it a bit easier. Generally, take your time and increase the tempo very very slowly, as soon as you feel comfortable with the tempo that you are in right now. Have fun and enjoy it! Hope this helps🤞
@ Thank You! i will work hard on it, its a short piece, but really need to take time on it. I think it is because my technique is not as high as that level, but it is an Etude, I think it will definitely let my technique higher and higher! if I can play it smoothly! I will share it with you! you video l think can really help me, anyway I need to work hard haha