challenge to opus10no2

[pianistimo]

ok.  today i'm working #19 of czerny's 'the art of finger dexterity.'  by noon tommorrow - i want to see who can play this faster.  you or me.  are you on?

ps i just found it today.  the reason i'm working it is because i have  asort of medium to small hand and want to improve my reaches. 

i'm going to win, btw.  reason being is that i will play it fairly slow - and thus get through the piece no problem at all.   you will play it very fast and end on page 2.  claiming it is too easy - though the last pages will show who has superior technique.

[pianistimo]

just as i thought.  now you are very quiet.

[pianistimo]

forget it - i've got hives from pracicing too much czerny.  let's move on to something else. 

[pianistimo]

i found a use for it.  i am now using it to time my hair coloring.  exactly 3 more minutes to go. 

[opus10no2]

 

[pianowolfi]

lol

[ahinton]

i found a use for it.  i am now using it to time my hair coloring.  exactly 3 more minutes to go. 

And what colo(u)r are you now, Susan? (photographic evidence might answer this question best of all...)

Best,

Alistair

[imbetter]

pianistimo enough with playing with opus10no2 i  challenge you to a speed duel on chopin etude opus 10 no1


opus10no2 obviously isnt interested

[opus10no2]

Well, I'd be interested if it was 10/1 or 10/2.

[pianistimo]

i was afraid of that.  as it stands i have nothing to lose - so i will start practicing both.  one after the other.  i will not, however, use them to time hair coloring.  otherwise i would be a bleached blond instead of blondish brown.  does that answer your question, alistair.  i might post a pic at the piano sometime.  my daughter got a new cell phone that takes better pics than mine.

ok.  opus 10 no1 and opus10 no2 - any suggestions for practicing them? 

[imbetter]

opus 10 no1 is a study in arpeggios but it has some very tricky runs.

opus10no2 is VERY hard, much harder than it seems. Try it and youll know what i mean

[imbetter]

oh yea: no digitaly speeding up the recording 

[soliloquy]

Susan I challenge you to Hanon study No. 1


I will give you 6 months to learn it.

[pianistimo]

six months?  why these harsh words soliloquy.  i challenge you soliloquy to the chopin etude opus 10 no 1 in two weeks.  i challenge opus 10 no 2 and imbetter to the opus 10 no2 in four.  everyone ok with this?

[imbetter]

opus 10 no2? how about susan and i go hardcore and do scriabin sonata no5?

[opus10no2]

opus 10 no2? how about susan and i go hardcore and do scriabin sonata no5?

10/2 is more difficult in many ways.

[pianistimo]

besides, i truly can't play scriabin yet with any sort of comprehension. 

[imbetter]

i cant play chopin etude opus 10 no 2 :s

my last three fingers just dont work that way

[rach n bach]

erm... that is why one would play it...

[soliloquy]

I challenge you soliloquy to the chopin etude opus 10 no 1 in two weeks.

Accepted

[rach n bach]

Finally, a real dule. 

*kicks back to watch the fun.*

[imbetter]

*imbetter practices scriabin sonata no.5*

[ihatepop]

*ihatepop watches in the background, wishing that someday he can play just like these musical masters*

*ihatepop practices Waltz Op34 No1*

ihatepop

[pianistimo]

ok.  we're on.  two weeks from sunday.  or perhaps even sat. night - but probably sunday.  that's the second week in may i guess. 

no scriabin for me, imbetter - you have to duel with someone else on that one.  how about doing the opus10#1, too? 

[imbetter]

opus10no1 i can do. feel your not up to scriabin sonata no5? i have the first 3 pages learned to a degree.

ihatepop that chopin waltz 34/1 is SOOOOOOOOO gorgeous.

[pianistimo]

i have the first page to opus 10 #1.  all in a day's work.  (hope i don't forget it by tommorrow).  if all goes well - in six days i will have the entire work. then, it's one week to get as fast as possible.

hopefully that dratted Eb in measure 60 won't cause a headache.  it's an E natural in measure 12.