2 Really easy guestions about technique

[dependable]

Hi!
I've been lurking on this great forum for a couple of months and managed at last to gather my courage to subscribe here. Now I'm in need of your wisdom. These questions are propably obvious to all of you but for me, since I don't have a teacher, these things get really tricky because I'm doing my best not to adopt bad habits.

I know this piece is way above my head but I find playing too difficult pieces a good way to clearly see what I'm still missing techically. I've been looking into Chopin's revolutionary etude, the fifth bar and RH actually. What puzzles me is the point where I should play D sharp with my ring finger after hitting D with my thumb. I think the fingering is 43214321 and I mean the spot where I should use fingers 1 and 4 successively (I hope this makes sense to someone). I've been thinking whether I should rotate my wrist to the left to quickly bring my ring finger to D sharp or should I move my whole hand with out rotating my wrist? Or is the answer somewhere in the middle of those extremes?

My other question concerns pieces where RH and LH are out of sync (Sorry for not knowing music theory/right terms). I mean for instance Fantasie impromptu. To make thing more clear I also emphasize my question is not about playin HS. This is about the point where I try to combine right and left hand. Should I try to learn to play both hands so that they are independent? In other words, should I just play RH without trying to bind it to my LH in any way being happy as long as both hands start and stop certain bar at the same time? Or should I try to make my LH/RH dependant of how my RH/LH plays?

Now I'm confusing even myself... I really hope someone understood what I was trying to say. It's been too long since the last time I wrote something in english. I'm not trying to play these pieces for real yet. I'm still finishing Debussy's Arabesque 1 +some others and I find I still have a lot to learn before I can tackle the pieces mentioned earlier. I've been playing for ~9 months more or less intensively partly because I managed to fracture my right wrist a couple of months ago. I've had some earlier experience with piano but thats more than 10 years ago.

Thanks

[abell88]

My other question concerns pieces where RH and LH are out of sync (Sorry for not knowing music theory/right terms). I mean for instance Fantasie impromptu. To make thing more clear I also emphasize my question is not about playin HS. This is about the point where I try to combine right and left hand. Should I try to learn to play both hands so that they are independent? In other words, should I just play RH without trying to bind it to my LH in any way being happy as long as both hands start and stop certain bar at the same time? Or should I try to make my LH/RH dependant of how my RH/LH plays?

There are a lot of posts about this very topic...try searching on Fantasie Impromptu and also on 3 against 4 (or three against four).

(Your English is fine, by the way. )

[ardor]

The cross-rhythm in fantasie impromptu becomes second nature pretty quickly. I practice them hands alone first. Once I get the notes down, I basically play one hand (usually left) and not think about it...let it run on auto-pilot, then I concentrate on getting the rhythm for the right hand correctly. You'll get a feel for it, and it'll come together. This is the strategy I used for the last couple lines of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G major (op. 32, is it?), which has a bunch of 4's against 5's.

If you can play the 3's against 2's in Debussy's Arabesque well, the Fantasie Impromptu shouldn't be a problem. Just keep at it.