Playing progress

[willcowskitz]

Hey
Just thought I'd stop by now and tell about the progress as it seemed to interest the two of you.
I've been playing this Rachmaninoff's piece, Prelude in G minor, Op.23 No.5.
Its so powerful that I really, really wanted to, and want to, learn it. I've been practicing it for like... 2 months(?) now, and can play 1/6 of it well, except for the pedal-work. I've been pressing the echo-pedal like playing with it and trying to make it sound better but there's still something quite wrong with the sound of it. I have little problems getting the fingers right sometimes, like technically. If I'd only get it to sound good now with help of the pedals I'd really be happy to play it, which I am already.
Besides this prelude I've tried playing Mozart's Fantasy in D minor. That one is kind of tough for me as it is supposed to be played so quickly, like going with left hand from down to up and then follow it with right hand. Stuff like that I'm not good at, at all, so I kind of gave up with it.
But, well, the Rachmaninoff-thing is going pretty well I says. This I says, 'cause I'm actually enjoying playing it and the way it sounds. I so would like to add pedalling to it now that I advance to the next page on it, but I really don't know how to work 'em.
Thanks to Mandy and Diabolos for encouraging, it truly had an influence on me.  

"The solution is always a built-in feature."

[Diabolos]

You're welcome.

Sounds you did a good piece of work, hm? Don't worry about that Mozart fantasy, you don't need to play it that quick. Just remember to put some meaning into it, childish anger in in the first and childish happyness in the second part.
This piece is not about playing it without problems; it just has to sound, well, spoken, especially the long runs you were talking about. They're presto, but not fuoco, so don't think you need to play these parts soo fast; rubatos and accelerandos are allowed, too.
By the way: it's one of my favourites.

Good luck with the Rach!