Fantasie impromptu - Chopin

[joanap_vet]

Hi!
Im starting to study this piece and i'd like to know what do you think about it. Any advices? I think its a hard piece, specially to coordinate both hands. My teacher told me to count the 4 (RH) /3 (LH) then do it on my fingers. I can play it fast, but if i play it slow i loose myself a lot.
Thanks!

[antichrist]

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[faa2010]

Well, there can be many advices, like in the next page:

https://www.pianofundamentals.com/book/en/1.II.25.3

I know the piece by heart, however, my problem is the speed, to make it faster.

I can give you two options: 1. Start to memorize the slower part of the Impromptu first(then the faster one),

2. Start since the beginning (4 bars per week), only the you have to do it with hands separated, then put them together once you memorize each part for each hand. And when you are memorizing, play slowly, because when you are memorizing the piece, speed doesn't matters at that moment.

[sheena]

What helped for me was to first learn each hand separately very well and to be able to play them at at least top speed. Try to alter between the first bars of the right and left hand and play at the same tempo, while feeling an accent on the first and forth beat, i. e. where the hands, when joined, will be playing a note simultaneously. Then it should be easier to join hands at a resonably high tempo. This could be done by repeating the first arpeggio of the left hand several time and then let the right hand join in at the same tempo.  Hope this makes sense.