Beethoven Appassionata

[beanman]

I want to learn this piece because i am injuring myself playing ridiculously hard pieces for my experience. is it likely to cause any injuries? i am talking about injuries from difficult stretches in chords and striking the keyboard hard in awkward positions. (not speed in scalic passages)

also , what is bad technique and what is good technique?

[thalbergmad]

Bad technique hurts

Good technque don't

For a man who can play vers la flemme, this is a piece of cake.

You will learn it in 1 day.

[stevie]

For a man who can play vers la flemme, this is a piece of cake.

You will learn it in 1 day.

[airasia]

If you're ready for the piece there should be no injuries.  I recently started learning the 3rd movement and it's less physically stressful so far for me than learning pathetique 1st movement, probably because I wasn't as technically ready for nonstop octaves when i started the pathetique.  Now the left hand tremolos in the 3rd movement of the Appassionata are no problem, when if i had tried playing it a little while ago it would've felt very strenuous and extremely difficult.

Also another thing, I've been reading a bunch of posts recently and have come across some people talking about playing this piece, but the way they describe it's difficulty, it's hard for me to believe that they've actually played the piece.  So many point out the descending arpeggios in the end as being a very difficult part of the piece, but so far I've found that one of the easiest.  It took me less than a day's practice to learn that, while I've been practicing several other parts for days and still have trouble with them.  I guess my point is don't listen to people on some message board, i guess not even me, but you'll see what i mean, if you're ready for this piece the descending arpeggios should be nothing compared to other much more treacherous sections.

[letters]

ive had a go at the first and 3rd movements and i find the 3rd harder, probably because the only people ive heard play it are richard meyrick and glenn gould both of whom play it like the clappers. bits of it are fine though. the 1st movement i really like, i haven't learnt those arpeggios yet but the rest of it seems fine, the bit where the left hand is in groups of 5s is a bit tricky to sort out! and it doesnt have to go too fast at all.

[zheer]

Bad technique hurts

Good technque don't

 Thats true, infact you can learn a lot from injuring yourself.

    Anyway never feel sorry for yourself beanman, think what Beethoven had to go through, also think what Rach went through he sufferd a lot of pain in his hands and head.