Hungarian Rhapsody 2- velocity scales

[jehangircama]

This piece has been a project of mine for quite some time now, and I think I've sorted out most of the technical issues. But I just cannot play the scale runs (A and F# major) before the finale at full speed, I think I'm at about 70% of what's required.
 
I've been trying things like 'grouping' a few notes, say 3 or 4 together, and trying to use my arm in an almost wavy motion to connect different groups, but am not getting very far with anything. I've obviously never come across a section at this speed before. Can someone give me an idea on how to work this through? Thanks a lot.

jc

 

[pianoghm]

Scale is 22 notes long. Try splitting it on 3x7 +1. Practice like 3 different groups. Important notes are 1st (where group starts, where both hands are together) and 4th-5th (because left hand has 2nd note between them). First play 7 notes up and down without stopping (ONLY RIGHT HAND) (a, h, cis, d, e, fis, gis, fis, e, d, cis, h, a, h...) with different accents (e.g. harder hit every 2nd note... 3rd, 4th, 5th...), and also with 1st note of next group. Then practice just left hand two notes that goes with those 7 notes you practiced, maybe sounds stupid to practice 1 chord and 1 note but try to get realy fast tempo although if you don't need it for final interpretation, make yourself felling comfortable on any part of composition. Also try simplifying chord (play only one note of it, then just two, there are 6 combinations you can make here). When this is done it is time to get your hands together, ONLY on 2nd critical place, where 2nd note of left hand goes between 4th and 5th of right hand. Play 4th(right), 2nd(left), 5th(right), 2nd(left), 4th(right), 2nd(left)... Play that circle of four notes in different tempos as all other stuff already mentioned. I dislike F# fingering 1,2,3,1,2,3,4; i like 2,3,4,1,2,3,1. And of course, practice places where you have changing of position, if you use this F# fingering than u need to do it only at A scale, by connecting last 3-4 notes from first group to the one or two notes from the next group. Next step, play together hands only one group, up and down, with 1st note of next group. And finally, when all parts are done, merge them into 22 notes passage. Hope this helped you even a bit. I support your:"This piece has been a project of mine...", that's the spirit! I did not played this piece, but I use same method on polyrhytmics, and i think polyrhytmics is what bothers you here. Speed is never problem, when you know crystal clear what are you doing.

[jehangircama]

Thanks a lot. Will try it out and see what happens.