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

[richard_strauss]

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?)! 

[johnmar78]

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

[richard_strauss]

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).   

[iratior]

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: 
               5
               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!

[richard_strauss]

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.