F. Chopin - Etude Op. 10 no. 4 - "How to practice?" tutorial - Greg Niemczuk's lecture. 

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

Excellent. Thank you!!!

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!

Thank you so much for the Hanson advices! It’s very inspiring 😊

I really appreciate everything you teach us, it means a lot🤍🙏🏻

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.

You are a brilliant teacher 👍

Beautiful!!!

This is very good instruction and advice. Thank you!

Thank you so much for the wonderful teaching!

Hello! Thank you for this tutorial, I am learning this now! Greetings from Singapore!

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'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, teacher! I am from Brazil! 🇧🇷

Thank you very much!

Very nice and helpful advices! 👍 Your approach on the piece is also very interesting, thanks for sharing I'll try it out 😃.

Thank you very much

Dankeschön 👍

love your video as always! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

Another very helpful video. Thank you

Very helpful 🙏 thank you

So helpful....thank you so much!!

thanks again! Excellent

Thank you so much!!

thank you for you tutoring

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.

Many ideas of this etude are from Bach prelude f#m WTK 1 (BWV859), which is basically also an invention.

Very good...Thanks ........🙏🙏🙏..........

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. 🙋‍♀️🎹🌼

Great 😄

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?

Bom demais !!!!!!!!

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?

youre the super guy. i want to take your powers

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 :)

You sound like gru from the minions

Thank you for the lesson, very helpful! Sounds like your hammers are in desperate need of voicing ;)

"Quite demanding" ;) ?

Thank you very much