to stupid, to bad or is the piece just to hard?

[Stefan83]

Hi everybody! I am new to this forum. I have once posted this question in another piano forum, but have only received unfair and offending answers... I hope that was not due to the question, so here it goes:

I can't play certain parts in "great balls of fire" by jerry lee lewis.
please go to this website and listen to track no.4 , it's a piano only midi playing exactly what i obviously am not good enough for:

https://www.hamienet.com/midi4521.html

Now, this midi captures quite well what jerry does in the original. he plays extremely fast notes in the right hand this song is originally played at 160 beats and I just can't  figure out how he does it. Does he play with emphasis on his wrist or his fingers. 160 beats and notes that are faster the 32nds for me is unbelievable...

can you help me learn this?

please don't make fun of me like the others did...

thanks

Stefan

[Hmoll]

Jerry Lee Lewis listened to, and immitated a lot of blues and barrel-house style piano players from his time. I was always amazed at the repeated chords in that song. Also, if you listen to the piano player - can't remember his name - in some of the Chuck Berry songs, you hear the same technique - very fast repeated chords adding an upper register texture.

You don't find this technique a lot in classical music, but it does exist - the coda of Chopin's f major Ballade, Erlkonig by Schubert, and even the tremelo of Ondine by Ravel.

There are various ways to solve this technical problem. You always have to stay relaxed, use a combination of shoulder, upper arm, forearm, wrist, and find the balance between them where you can achieve speed. Also, I think Jerry Lee keeps the keys depressed when he plays this, so there is not as much up and down motion. At least that's what it sounds like.

Hope that helps a little.

[Dave_2004_G]

Eh I can't see how to make it play  :-/

Dave

[leemay001]

Eh I can't see how to make it play  :-/

Dave

Dopey bugger...  
  ~Lee~