Fingering Chopin Etude 10-3 (well yeah...)

[alessandro]

I shouldn't feel ashamed if this question sounds stupid.

Hi everybody,

Second attempt after a few years to get the Con Bravura part well, smooth.   I don't have a teacher.  I know I should try to find out myself what suits best to my hand.   I learned that there is some some "relaxed wrist" involved here.   I do find in 99 % of the given fingering cases, logic.   Call me an amateur.  Though here, I try to find some more confidence before diving into hard study.   Is the "5-2/3-1/3-1/5-2"-system really the standard ? I do feel like having normal hands, normal wrists, normal arms, but it feels awkward.   I sometimes think that "my" fingering would be very different, and not this systematical but do I miss - in thinking this way - some logic in order to tackle the final speed issue.   I do not want to lose time, on my own, and find myself messing the whole passage up.  So, my question, is there anyone on this forum that does not use the system mentioned above and if so, which one.   Or, any thoughts ?

Thanks a lot in advance and very kind greetings to you all !    

[j_menz]

It's pretty standard and almost unavoidable.

As an exercise, try doing the hands (seperate or together) as arpeggios (up for ascending duplets, down for descending ones), using the top not of the first chord, the bottom note of the first chord the top note of the second chord and the bottom note of the last chord for the descending figures, and bottom/top/bottom/top for the ascending. Fingering (RH) 5231 descending, 1325 ascending. Don't rush at the beginning - take it slow and legato.