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Topic: Chopin - Etude in c#minor, op 10 no 4 (slow_concert_pianist-ish version) (Read 4709 times)

richard_strauss

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Chopin - Etude in c#minor, op 10 no 4 (slow_concert_pianist-ish version)

on: April 20, 2012, 04:38:52 AM

I've finished "reading" this etude earlier today. In the beginning I was rather stiffed and there're things I do like holding a note to turn the page and then starting at a much slower tempo. Probably the tempo is more than I can handle right now but I'm quite confident that I can play it at this tempo. For the record, I can play this better but I'm exhausted right now so I kept the first take and converted it to mp3. Thanks for listening (suffering?)!

Chopin (first read).mp3 (3448.6 kB - downloaded 318 times.)

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Re: Chopin - Etude in c#minor, op 10 no 4 (slow_concert_pianist-ish version)

Reply #1 on: April 20, 2012, 02:47:38 PM

thanks buddy, nice playing,, :Dnow, you make me want to strife harder for this etude-ARTICULATION..tahnks again.

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Re: Chopin - Etude in c#minor, op 10 no 4 (slow_concert_pianist-ish version)

Reply #2 on: April 21, 2012, 01:01:44 AM

I know, I can play it right at a safer (much slower) tempo. Here there're notes missing and so on. I will make a decent safe recording (when I feel motivated enough to do it) and post it. When I finish this etude (in about 6 or 7 month) I want to post a video version. Right now I'm learning the first 4 etudes and I'm about to finish reading op 10 no 2 but I promise I won't post any of them until they're finished (this one was a moment of weakness because I love this etude so much and I was ecstatic when I reached the last note).

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Re: Chopin - Etude in c#minor, op 10 no 4 (slow_concert_pianist-ish version)

Reply #3 on: April 22, 2012, 12:07:47 PM

Wow, I'm impressed that it would take you only 6 or 7 months to learn the first four Chopin etudes! And you sightread opus 10 no. 4? Now that's going some! What next, transposing it? Here is an "outrageous" fingering that I use for the right hand, first two full measures:
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12123412342345342325232523251215

Just look at that! 4th finger on F# and then 2nd on G#! Czerny would be spinning in his grave! It works for me, though. I still have the opinion, much to the vexation of some people, that Opus 10 no. 4 is not so difficult as Opus 25 no. 4!

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richard_strauss

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Re: Chopin - Etude in c#minor, op 10 no 4 (slow_concert_pianist-ish version)

Reply #4 on: April 23, 2012, 04:27:04 AM

Lol

I'm not sightreading. I took me about a month to be able to read the entire etude. I haven't sightread in years, ever since my teacher told me that it was too much and it was actually hurting me. The reference to slow_concert_pianist was just because it was very sloppy

and about the etudes, I haven't played op 25 no 4 so I can't reallly tell. I only evaluate difficulty in terms of how difficult it is FOR ME! That being said, I don't think op 25 no 4 is gonna be difficult for me since I'm much more comfortable playing anything with huge chords, octaves and leaps than fingerwork.

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