Jumping octaves: Alkan Symphonie Op.39 No.7

[faulty_damper]

I am having difficulty in playing these opening and recurring octaves at a presto tempo.  I am wondering what I am missing in the movement of my body that will make it both easier and faster to play.

For the opening bars I am currently using fingers Bb1-5, Eb1-4, Bb1-4, F1-5, Gb1-4,...

Is there anything I can do to improve upon the choice of fingers and about what I can do with the rest of my body?

[franzliszt2]

Slowy, play a note, holed... jump to next.. stop hold.... jump to next etc, also best thing I find to do where leaps ar concerned...... make the leaps bigger!! Start on Bb, jump to the Eb an octave above the actualy one, learn it like this, then you'll feel so much love towards feeble leaps  thats how I did la campanella, and pieces with similar jumps.

Fingering seems fine, although i have looked at this piece and i used 1-5 all the way but thats just me.

And relax the arms on the leaps

and if you really fancy a challenge, put a blindfold on or turn out the lights 

[franzliszt2]

Iand look forward to the massive leaps towards the end. Page 10 in my edition, those HUGE Lh leaps.

However if your called Al... the I'm sure you "kan" haha

Excuse my humour!! 

[maxy]

I am having difficulty in playing these opening and recurring octaves at a presto tempo.  I am wondering what I am missing in the movement of my body that will make it both easier and faster to play.

I wonder if there is anyone that can play that without any difficulty. 

[faulty_damper]

According to Marc-Andre Hamelin, he uses a combination of 45 together and 4s mostly.  And he also said something very interesting about the piano: "It also depends on the piano."  

[nightingale11]

I have the ultimate help for you check C.Chang's book- there is a section about it with jumps. https://members.aol.com/chang8828/contents.htm

[Ruro]

Nightingale, is it neccessary for 80% of your posts at this present moment of me posting this, to consist mainly of a hyperlink to Changs Book?

Not only that, in the space of about 10.5 Minutes :/

Whatever floats your boat, but someone will flame sooner or later

Please don't let me ruin your day, please continue to enjoy it.