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Topic: A very difficult etude I made.  (Read 1891 times)

Offline winterwind888

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A very difficult etude I made.
on: June 01, 2009, 02:08:00 AM
This an etude I made. And I am a bit obsessed of etudes especially the chopin ones. Because of their technical difficulty and brilliant musical quality. This really needs power on both hands. The left hand is made to reach 2 octaves of the 2nd and 3rd note which is very demanding. The right hand must use power to play the five notes and the sixteenth note before it must be also played by the 5th finger. The start is quite okay, well for me, for some maybe a bit nonsense. But the later part seems to be senseless too. But I am still working on it. But before that I would like to see others comments.

Any comments on the etude I made?

Offline fenz

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Re: A very difficult etude I made.
Reply #1 on: June 01, 2009, 01:55:33 PM
many octave in there...
Hope someday I'll be a good pianist ^.^

Offline kiwi_bd

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Re: A very difficult etude I made.
Reply #2 on: June 02, 2009, 04:57:48 PM
Is the first notes of the forth last bar even playable? ::) ::)
anyway, thank you for sharing your composition with us..
That's so nice to see our member's brand new creation...though that's difficult to convince me to play without having listened to the music...
That would be fantastic if you could play it for us...coz it's quite difficult to evaluate it without listening to it = =

Offline lontano

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Re: A very difficult etude I made.
Reply #3 on: June 03, 2009, 12:03:26 AM
Interesting use of syncopation within the rather insane layout of the octave+ work. While this is a very difficult, and catchy little number I wonder if it can really be played as written (not to mention at tempo - anything can be impossible beyond a certain point). This midi realization, imho, seems set too fast to fully appreciate what's going on. I'd be interested in hearing it a little slower - keep up the frenzy, but let the music be heard before it's gone.

A good start, and nice job posting the score and mp3. I hope others can find ways to do the same.

Lontano
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