Bach C# major fugue WTC book I

[mattgreenecomposer]

Now I know why everyone plays the prelude and not the fugue.  This sucker is long and exhausting!!!  Kinda fun though...

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[pianistimo]

as you get more and more into the preludes and fugues - i feel that artistic license can be taken to speed up and slow down one voice within another - and so forth.  i hear them all at the same speed which (although played nicely) makes it seem boring.  i hate to use the word, though - because it seems like an insult and i don't mean it like that.  i just mean that you could spark this thing up with a little bit more movement.  this is of course, my opinion.

also, on this piece and the other - i feel that your wrist is inflexible.  to loosen it up will give you much more movement and also much more of that flatter hand that you seem to like (and i do too).  i was told to attempt to find the 'center' wherever one is at.  not always to have the wrist exactly centered every moment - but generally to let your arms come out more - from the shoulder and not so much elbow - so that if you want to - you can make your hand absolutely flat with no turning of the hand towards the pinky.  that slight little angle (esp on the other piece) can hinder you.

so, just keep sitting back as you are - but before you play rotate your neck.  roll your shoulders.  spread out your arms.  don't hold everything close in to your body.  i think you are doing this somewhat - but could do it more.  perhaps what is most noticed is that if you angle your hand the other way - toward the thumb - your pinky won't have the seeming solidity of a place to rest - but you'll have a lot more flexibility.  just lightly resting the pinky - but angling the hand towards the thumb to balance it out and make hand flat.

say, back to the first bit about speeding and slowing - perhaps i am thinking also of 'natural groupings.'  they don't majorly speed up the entire thing - but are naturally speeded in little groupings or at times an entire phrase when called for.

ps i don't know what paris hilton would say - but i think you have 'sexy hands.'  you know - a little bit of modest hair growth to the mid point of your hands.  but, not exceptionally gorillaish.