Some of the best teaching/advice one will ever receive! An open-minded, MUSICAL approach to playing an instrument. None of that extra-musical nonsense. Fantastic.
Your (and other's) use of "Cheating," I call Procedural Technique, and is consistent with the thought that a score is not a set of instructions for what goes INTO the instrument, but rather a symbol of what comes OUT of the instrument. All of the training a pianist undergoes (especially for independence of the fingers) as well as the differences between many "authoritative" editions of the same work prove this principle.
Idk, I fully agree with music but with Chopin's only study that doesn't sound like a concert study? In practice studies shouldn't really be cheated, in performance it seems fair to cheat, It's just this one is already so musically void (comparatively) most of the joy in hearing a pianist play it comes from their technical finesse
I love playing the B-Major scales with both hands in the 2nd movement of Rach 2! What kills me is playing the scales near the end of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, it's awful!
Hi am Reagan ssewagudde from Uganda am an intermediate pianist i teach my self but how can i practice scales to take away tension in my fingers and i have to first master one key to it at a terrible speed and then i shift to another key i don't know what to do but really i appreciate your teaching thanks
Start really slow, try to play with a metronome, train the motion of changing keys slowly, try to loose your muscels and play with your arm and wrist instead of using only your fingers.
I generally agree with the take on "cheating" in playing piano, but the thing that makes op 10 no 2 one of the hardest chopin etudes is the fact that we have to use the index finger and thumb in order to complete the harmony, and to do this at a recital, concert or any other public playing, to a study which isn't meant to be "cheated" on as you're just "cheating" on yourself and never really learned the technique seems to be a disservice to oneself
@@AshishXiangyiKumar Hi Ashish 😊 I don't think it sounds better than the proper thing, cause the double notes in the right hand are not articulated the same way as the left hand. At speed people won't notice but it's an inferior result and it defies the goal of the etude too. Since it's not exactly Chopin's most beautiful piece to listen to, might as well play something else.
Anything that avoids the pain in the forearm just under the wrist that feels like injury, even after just practicing 10 no 2 for a sort time at a slow tempo and even with the appropriate arm and wrist movements, is not ridiculous.
