Godowsky Exercises (not studies)

[pabst]

I did a search on the forum and only came up with a mentioning of this exercises but nothing further. I was wondering if anyone here plays them? They look like a sophisticated warm-up, nowhere near the complexity of Brahms 51 or Liszt exercises tho. But they look a lot with what I always do when I sit down at the bench Finger independence, finger mental practice and stretching (I had one go at them before a chopin etude practice and I could clearly notice the improvement). Anyway, thoughts!

[arensky]

I did a search on the forum and only came up with a mentioning of this exercises but nothing further. I was wondering if anyone here plays them? They look like a sophisticated warm-up, nowhere near the complexity of Brahms 51 or Liszt exercises tho. But they look a lot with what I always do when I sit down at the bench Finger independence, finger mental practice and stretching (I had one go at them before a chopin etude practice and I could clearly notice the improvement). Anyway, thoughts!

Godowsky Exercises, i didn't know, how cool! Who publishes them? Definitely worth checking out...

[brewtality]

I played through a few of this but didn't like them much. I don't have the patience for technical exercises.

[stevie]

i think they are on https://www.leopoldgodowsky.com/downloads.shtml

i recommend cortot's book of exercises, its very comprehensive

[pabst]

Yes the Cortot are great too, a lot more of pedagogy in it. His prefaces to the chopin studies are always useful and I never skip them Good exercises.