Fantasie impromptu - sustain

[japie]

Hello!

I'm new to to forum, but I've been walking around with a question for a while maybe theres someone around here to help me.

For the past 2 months ive been working on the fantasie impromptu by chopin, wich is a hard peace for me and probably a bit to hard, but i can play it fairly well now.

But for some reason i cant get it to sound the way i want it to in the first and the last movenent, and I KNOW it has to to with my pedaling. I just dont know how to do it right, so i was wondering if anyone could give me any tips. (since i dont take lessons since about 7 years, I will when i got the money)

Pls dont shoot me for playing pieces out of my league, im just having fun on the piano and i had lessons so im not a beginner.

Thank you in advance and kind regards,

Jacob

[gyzzzmo]

Fantasy Impromptu (FI for short) is indeed a hard piece, and for that 'smooth light and legato' sound you probably want to have is a very good technique needed.
You might think that your pedalling is the issue. Well the way i play it is by using half-pedal for like 1/4 of each measure for wich you usually need a grand to do properly.
So most of the pedalling (or legato) is actually in technique of your hands, not the pedal itself.

Ofcourse to give more personal advice you'll have to post a good recording, but this is what usually the problem is.

Gyzzzmo

[japie]

Hey! Tnx for the tip, i've tried it and its accually better now, I play a grand once a week so I'm still gonna have to wait to hear the full effect i guess..

Your also probably right about the fact thats its a bit lack of technique as well..
My technique is good but its not outstanding.. Maybe its a good idea to pick up some old (easier) works ive played from chopin first?

I'll keep practising for a few more weeks and i'll see where I get:)

The only thing I reaally need now is a teacher first!
Tnx for the post!

[gyzzzmo]

Hey! Tnx for the tip, i've tried it and its accually better now, I play a grand once a week so I'm still gonna have to wait to hear the full effect i guess..

Your also probably right about the fact thats its a bit lack of technique as well..
My technique is good but its not outstanding.. Maybe its a good idea to pick up some old (easier) works ive played from chopin first?

I'll keep practising for a few more weeks and i'll see where I get:)

The only thing I reaally need now is a teacher first!
Tnx for the post!

I'm afraid that the kind of technique i'm talking about, takes more than replaying a few old pieces
Getting really full control of all your fingers requires playing a broad scala of different pieces like Czerny, Bach, Schubert, Chopin etudes and go on. Later (months or years?) you'll notice that you can play pieces entirely different than you play it now.
If you play a piece now that you struggled on 2 years ago, you also notice that you can do very different things with that piece than 2 years ago and that it sounds way more 'controlled'.

Its not bad laying aside a piece for some time and practise other things. A piece like Fantasy Impromptu can be a very good stimulance for spending time on practise, practise and more practise of technique

gl,

Gyzzzmo

[tangy111]

Yes, it took me about 3 months, but i've finally finished the fantaisie impromptu. Chopin may have hated this piece - but i love it. I listen to it about 5 times a day - not including when i'm playing it.