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raidogebodagaz

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pathetique

on: October 31, 2004, 06:46:19 PM

im learning the pathetique sonata and i cant seem to get the chromatic scale fast enough....any suggestions?

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faulty_damper

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Re: pathetique

Reply #1 on: October 31, 2004, 08:57:31 PM

Practice more. Speed takes time.

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mound

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Reply #2 on: October 31, 2004, 09:00:33 PM

take a look at Chang's book Fundamentals of Piano Practice and search around this forum for "repeated note group set" for various types of exercises and learning techniques you can apply to develop speed with these types of passages.

-paul

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jlh

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Reply #3 on: October 31, 2004, 10:36:35 PM

Check out this thread for some more ideas:

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4648.0.html

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