Fast tempo -practice?

[nik0]

I know that when starting a new piece, you must begin to practice it SLOWLY.

But now, after years of piano, I´m having a new kind of problem, and it´s with Chopin´s Fantaisie-Impromptu (I hope many of you have played it). I had practiced the right hand of the fast part of the piece. So I felt comfortable with it. But first when I tried to add the left hand to it, I just couldn´t get the rhythms match. In the right hand there are 1/16-notes, and 1/12-notes in the left, so it´s 4/3. I couldn´t get it work.

So, I practiced the left hand alone. Finally I got both hands ready, but still couldn´t get it. Then it came to my mind: "Maybe I should try it together in a sick tempo, just for fun."

After a few days I was able to play it together allegro. I still can´t play it both hands together slowly, though, because the rhythms get messed up. Does this mean that I can´t handle it right in the proper tempo (allegro)? 'Cause it sure sounds right to me and as well to the others I´ve played it to... If the answer is "yes", could you give me good advice to learn it?

I´m sorry for my lousy English..

[kreso]

Unfortunately, I didn't play that piece but I must say that this is good way to practice in the fast tempo if you can play BOTH hands (together also) in slow tempo.
When I played some fast movments of Haydn Sonatas or some studies, I try also to play fast, and it was much better! I did't excpected that..

But I repeat don't play at the begining fast, play very slow and than slowly speed up your tempo, and the results will come!!

For example: Richter said in his book: However difficlut it may be, there is't a passage that doesn't become easy if practised a hundred times. Sometimes I play the passage slowly, but I do this very rarely, as I prefer to work at the actual speed from outset."

[zheer]

I like what Richter said, it is in line with my teachers belief, that only through very hard work can we achieve great things.

[kreso]

I like what Richter said, it is in line with my teachers belief, that only through very hard work can we achieve great things.

Of course, the results will not come if the hard work is not present..
You can hear that in his playing..

[jamie_liszt]

If you play this piece fast it gets easier hands together with the rhythm, if your doing it slow, try and find what notes come on the beat in both hands, use a metronome if you want and play the notes that come on the beat together, you will get it!