Help with grace notes

[sunshine_keys]

hey everyone,

i've been playing River Flows In You (see audition room) but I've been having a really hard time with 8th notes that are grace notes.. did that make sense? anyhow.. is there anything i can do that will help me to play them correctly?

[prongated]

...just don't think about it so much. You don't really want to hear the grace note because it's only supposed to embellish the principal note. Therefore, crush that grace note. So to speak, of course.

[pianowolfi]

I listened to/watched that video and I don't think that you have a big problem with those grace notes. Those in measure 2 you might want to first just play as a block chord A-C#-A and then start to slightly move your hand and arm weight from the left to the right, playing the grace notes only with your fingers and putting the weight (loosely of course) on the upper A. Most people play these grace notes too slowly because they don't have an idea about what grace notes are, but you have an idea, of course. There should be no weight on grace notes, they sound best if you play them only with your (of course very awake and free/relaxed) fingers.

[sunshine_keys]

Thanks guys! that was very helpful! I've continued to practice it a lot and I think it's helping