Chopin - Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2

[marcuse]

Hello piano players,

I am Eric and am a self-taught piano player and a big Chopin enthusiast. I have been playing for about 7 months now and thought I should record a piece I played. I also recorded Op. 9 No.1 but it had too much missed notes.

The end of the piece didn't go great (missed some notes), but played reasonable for the rest I think?
Would love to hear any comment (good or bad).

[j_menz]

Generally very good, except your tempo is all over the place and is driven to some extent by what your hands are doing rather than musically.

What you need to do is spend a little time and learn to play it in strict tempo - no variations whatsoever.

Once you can do that, then you can start to vary things for musical effect.

You should also do some reading on rubato.  Basically, it does not mean "do what you like" but rather means "borrowed time" - any variation in tempo needs to be paid back, and usually within the one phrase.

Apart from the odd wrong note, which you already know about, the other aspects of this were very good indeed.

[marcuse]

Thanks for your reply!

I will look into rubato and try to get the tempo fixed a bit.