Chopin- Étude Op. 10, No. 12, "Revolutionary"

[perprocrastinate]

Take 1: 3 days after the completion of the piece.

[perfect_pitch]

Okay... Let me say this as nicely as possible.

Your Revolutionary is not complete. Not even close. You need to slow down to about a quarter of the speed and ensure you're hitting EVERY SINGLE NOTE cleanly and synchronised with the left hand.

There are times when you're hitting the bass note well ahead of where the right hand is supposed to play with it, and by the end of the video it was clear that you haven't worked carefully enough to play with steadiness to build up the strength to play it all the way through as it looks as if you're struggling to get to the end passage.

You have a choice to make (and I know how hard it is because I had to make it in the past).

You can really take the time to slow down and re-learn the piece ensuring that you MAINTAIN accuracy over speed, and finnesse over clumsiness...

or you can continue to play pieces in a manner that sounds like you're convulsing as you play.

If you have any love for the piano and any true passion for it, I hope it will be the first option. We've had way too many people in the past who went for option No. 2 and it didn't work out well.

I wish you the best of luck for this piece and hope you'll continue to work for true pianism and not just playing piano.

[johnmar78]

Hey Bro, good to see you have high mental agility to perform this piece from memorey. I noticed Two main things you need to do as people told me to do.

1)Use metronome set at may be 120 per 4 1/16 notes. If too fast, slow further.

2) Too much finger LIFTING actions. I beleive,that renders your speed.
By all means do

1) first with CLOSE hand positions with NO LIFTING if you can.
remeber, you only lift AS REQUIRED.

Keep up your smart work....

[perprocrastinate]

Your Revolutionary is not complete.

I didn't mean 'complete' as in mastered. Just as in every note learned.

I do hope to improve on this piece, and piano as a whole. Thanks for the tips. It's just that (this may seem crazy) this is the third month (add or take a week) of learning piano without a teacher. Perhaps I shot too far.

And thanks for not using term 'butchering the piece'.

[perfect_pitch]

And thanks for not using term 'butchering the piece'.

That's okay... I usually only use that line on people who continuously brutalise their music despite many attempts to help them better their performance.

That or when they insult my attempts to help them.

Best of luck.