How fast can you play?

[amelialw]

the actual speed of chopin etude op.10 no.8

[forester]

How long is a piece of string?

[andyd]

Fast and happy :

[counterpoint]

Fast and happy :

I didn't know, George Bush does play the piano so well 

[ramibarniv]

Billions upon billions of dollars are spend on the olympics every 4 years.
People admire speed, those who claim not to are mostly pretentious people who wish they had it.

That's the difference between Olympics and the art of piano playing... not enough money is being spent on piano playing, not enough people understand that the art of music is not about speed...
I have all the speed I need and I don't admire speed for speed.
As a matter of fact, I never in my life measure the speed of my scales, etudes, or anything else.
Normally I play most things slower than most pianists and it is out of choice and not necessity...
I like to hear all the notes...
I also have relatively big hands and a very big span, but will mostly use "small hands" fingering and also recommend it to others and teach it.
In general, I believe that one should not use all the time everything within the ability and capabilty, but save and when necessary, give/do...
Best,
Rami
https://www.youtube.com/user/barniv
https://ramisrhapsody.tripod.com/

[elevateme_returns]

here, let me do it for you;

PS. visit my piano summer autumn camp

[ramibarniv]

here, let me do it for you;

PS. visit my piano summer autumn camp

Thanks for the extra mention of my piano camp.
First comes my concert tour and piano camp in New Zealand in September and then Oct in the States.
https://ramisrhapsody.tripod.com/

[soliloquy]

I played Michael Finnissy's History of Photography in Sound between writing this post...

[soliloquy]

I played Michael Finnissy's History of Photography in Sound between writing this post...

And this post.


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Edit: I just played Sorabji's Symphonic Variations while waiting for this page to load so I could edit it to say I played the Sorabji.  And no, I'm not on dial-up

[leonidas]

Listening to Finnissy is arguably as great a feat as playing it.

So congratulations.