Ten levels of octaves 

Thanks so much for including me in your video! 👋

you know shits gonna go crazy when le preux is only a level 6

what was so insane with lvl 10 is the keys he had hit previously hadnt even recovered fully before he returned to them he was moving so fast

Cziffra's Flight of the Bumblebee remix sounds more like a swarm of bees tho.

Thanks for including me in your video! Although I disagree with the placement of Le Preux, the Tchaikovsky should be switched with it. It is easier to play the Tchaikovsky super fast than it is to play Le Preux even slowly. Great work though.

Dreyschock was the first one to play Chopin's revolutionary etude in octaves, and at the correct tempo. It's said he incorporated this octave version in every performance he gave. According to Kullak (a famous music teacher who taught royalty), he said that Dreyschock's technique was even finer than that of Liszt's. There's an account of an interaction where Dreyschock showed Liszt this octave version and Liszt responded with playing Chopin's op25 no2 in octaves (at correct tempo). Not sure what is more impressive, but would've been amazing to see! I don't think any pianist today could do this, and if they could, probably not at the correct tempo.

No. 9 is just diabolical!! Very well executed too

This is an amazing comparision! Also I love that you used caleb hu's recording of le preux! also damn I remember watching that revolutionary etude arrangement a few months ago and I was astonished

That Chopin Revolutionary Etude arrangement sounds so "Godowsky"

Chopins octave etude could have been here

That Mereaux is brutal 😂

Then someone will casually say “is just having the right technique” like BRUH.

Your videos are great more of these please

man i desagree so bad with the tchaikvosky, le preux octaves are much harder tbh, because le preux octaves jump so much more, and even if the tchaikovsky ones are faster, you dont have to be super precise in jumping

Absolutely bonkers. When I saw "octaves in the title" I immediately thought of hungarian rhapsody no 6 and i thought it would be like the last one but OHH BOIII I WAS WRONG 😂😂😂

The octaves in Le Preux are harder than those in Tchaikovsky and those in the Cziffra transcription for sure.

I missed the Brahms Concerto No.2 (second movement), that octaves passage is hard as fuck

i think le preux should be above evil bumblebee and tchaikovsky

Although Le Preux should go 7th or 8th place I think, thank you for making this list. agree overall

4:59 ARE YOU SERIOUS

Dat Mereaux's reminds me of Schumann's Toccata, but with LH octave barrages 💀💀💀

Level 2 is so beautiful! Like level 4. And level 8. But level 7 IS MADNESS OF HELL. Mereaux' music is excellent!

I love the Alkan etude op. 35, it’s such a pretty and fun piece…to listen to, at least 😂 I’ve tried playing the Tchaikovsky octaves, and the only really hard part (in that specific octave passage, there’s also a few in the first movement) is the jumps at the end. Which is why a lot of people either slow down at the end or play the end messily. But Argerich plays it perfectly 😮🤩

I'm 11 and my dream piece is the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 lol (and you know its bad when the entire left hand is octaves for 50 measures straight)

Godowsky's study on chopin's op 25 no 2 should've been here

I love octaves

1:15 should also be in ur "10 levels of left hand jumps" vid

Great video once again, I've heard of all of these, me personally I loved the Tchaikovsky octaves, even if I'm quite a huge fan of Alkan lol. Le Preux is just a bit overrated imo

I suggest adding something by prokofiev in your next "10 LEVELS" video, if there's going to be one

was lvl 10 even possible? Amazing.

10 levels is repeated notes? pls? I sub

Of course it’s subjective, but I personally think that the Liszt rhapsody #6 is MUCH harder than most things on here - at least to play well enough to be deemed acceptable by the standards of most people today. It takes incredible endurance and is harder than any pieces I have played with difficult octaves - definitely more difficult than say Erlkonig or the coda of the Liszt b minor sonata, and harder for sure than the octave passages in the Tchaikovsky B-flat concerto. It’s not all that difficult to hit the right notes, but it is difficult to last for that long and to take a fast enough tempo and then speed up, as the music says to do. Props to anyone who can do it well.

Should have put Schubert Wanderer fantasie

NICE

yea course preux octaves are make me sweating

I’m exhausted

I knew there was something wrong with you if you already had the rondo as level 1

What the hell was wrong with mereaux. What could we as pianists possibly have done to him.

What about an octave + a fifth

I'm surprised Schubert D. 760 and/or 784 didn't make the cut...

Look up gallop in a minor by Liszt, level 11 for sure

Alkan's 35-12 is actually not that hard, immensely easier than HR6. The other day I managed to sightread through it pretty well lol

Shit you lost me at level 3 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hungarian rhapsody no 6 in level 4💀

2:44 HOW TF BRO PLAYS THAT FAST

La campanella by Liszt:

when i saw the last level is chopin etude i said are you seriouse u said yes XD

Glissando octave should be somewhere in this ranking 🙈

I would argue the Flight of the Bumblebee octaves are easier than Le Preux from my own experience with the pieces.

Mereaux was kind of a sick F, huh?

Pov: you saw le preux on level 6 💀

Yes

1:21 I actually have seen this recording before

Wait no 10/16!!!

Sees Hr6 in 4/10, *visible confusion*😂

Bè a voi piace lo studio di chopin così?

I dont get the explaination of why Tchaikovskys PC being level 8...

Everything from le preux and on doesnt look real lol

Let’s be real revolutionary etude in right doesn’t sound good at all

Where does Schubert Der Erlkonig fit here?

For a Turkish march is ez so don’t even say it’s my dream bruv, I can already play nocturne op 9 no 2 bro rn

Spero mi rispondiate nel modo giusto..

hungarian rhapsody 6 wins because liszt

In my opinion, Level 7 is already hard enough. But I think actually Level 10 is not harder than Chopin Octave Etude

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not a good list at all... try Scarlatti Sonata K 44 , Grieg/Ginzburg in the hall of the mountain king. Volodos Alla Turca...Least you got alkan, that's nice...but still...cziffra sabre dance...