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Offline paoloo

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playing manner
on: September 30, 2006, 11:03:59 AM
i'm from holland, and i'm new here in this forum. I think it's
a great forum and you can learn much here. Forgive me for my incomplete english ;)

But i have a question about the famous appassionata. I am learning it now
for a month, and i't's going very well. Except one thing. The first difficult lines after the
more easier and slower lines. You know, then it's going real fast. My problem is, i can play it but for a reason it's not good, I can't get the same sound as on a cd or something. Maybe i don't play it fast enough. I don't know.

Somebody who's also playing the appassionata, any tips. Also over other things in this piece. Thank you very much.
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Offline zheer

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Re: playing manner
Reply #1 on: September 30, 2006, 11:16:42 AM
, I can't get the same sound as on a cd or something. Maybe i don't play it fast enough. I don't know.


  Hi paoloo, welcome to pianostreet, well you know it is a bad idea to compare to CD, for a number of reasons, first the performer is usually a professional pianist, secondly he or she will have recorded the music in a recording studio, and probably on a 9ft grand.
     I love the Appassionata sonata, and we all play in different ways, some play fast and some slow.
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Re: playing manner
Reply #2 on: September 30, 2006, 06:27:48 PM
i'm from holland, and i'm new here in this forum. I think it's
a great forum and you can learn much here. Forgive me for my incomplete english ;)

B Except one thing. The first difficult lines after the
more easier and slower lines. You know, then it's going real fast. My problem is, i can play it but for a reason it's not good, I can't get the same sound as on a cd or something. Maybe i don't play it fast enough. I don't know.

Share the first fast run (the diminished triad downwards) between the two hands. When this comes later in the piece that is not possible, but this first time I would do it. That is an advice from experienced concert pianists. Hope that helps.

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Re: playing manner
Reply #3 on: September 30, 2006, 07:34:06 PM
Share the first fast run (the diminished triad downwards) between the two hands. When this comes later in the piece that is not possible, but this first time I would do it. That is an advice from experienced concert pianists. Hope that helps.
I screwed that up yesterday, twice. I started practicing it with two hands today, and it's sooo much easier, only the second time you can't do it :( . What's your fingering btw? I use 4 - 2 - 5 - 1 - 4 - 2 and then 2 - 1 with left hand and then 2 - 4 - 1 - 2 with the right hand and so forth. Is that the perfect fingering, or are there better ones?
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