Pieces and exercises for one-hand only...

[perfect_pitch]

Greetings forum members - most of you may remember me from the never-ending 'Last post wins' thread, to which I will in time be declared the winner    

BUT... for now, I wanted to know if anyone had any good scores or knew pieces/technical exercises for students who may be clumsy enough to say break an arm, and put themselves out of playing their 'normal' repertoire for a while??? Have you ever had a student who broke an arm, fractured a wrist etc... What do you do with them, without resorting to half an hour of scales and arpeggios???

If you have any good repertoire (or better yet - links to scores) for some pieces for either just the RH, or LH - I (and I'm sure many others) would appreciate it being posted here.

PS. The easier, the better for now... Don't suggest anything like Alkan's 10 min etude for the LH. We're talking about for students - not masters.

[stevenarmstrong]

Go through this https://imslp.org/index.php?title=Category:For_piano&intersect=Studies&transclude=Template:Catintro

[perfect_pitch]

Go through this https://imslp.org/index.php?title=Category:For_piano&intersect=Studies&transclude=Template:Catintro

Oh Goody... Thanks for that...

The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 15,374 total.

SH!T...   



I've already gone through the pieces for Left hand, left hand arranged, Right hand, and right hand arranged. There wasn't much for your standard student.

[g_s_223]

I hear the point about students; however, for the more advanced at least, this can be an opportunity to master comprehensively one hand's part of a Chopin prelude or etude. Usually we rush to do HT, but such an incident can stop that...

[liszt1022]

Solo cello works are fun for piano left hand.

[chicoscalco]

I understand that you said you wanted pieces for students, but I just can't see the phrase "left hand" and not mention Rave's concerto in D. Take a look at it. There is a slow section in the middle that has some very interesting polyphonic writing for the LH. Even if you're not going to play it, it's highly rewarding as a study, I believe.

[perfect_pitch]

...I just can't see the phrase "left hand" and not mention Rave's concerto in D. Take a look at it. There is a slow section in the middle that has some very interesting polyphonic writing for the LH.

OH FOR GOODNESS SAKE...

PS. The easier, the better for now... Don't suggest anything like Alkan's 10 min etude for the LH. We're talking about for students - not masters.

Thank you, but not the slightest bit relevant considering my main goal is to find repertoire for students as a short-term on the off chance they have an injury that stops them playing with one hand for a number of weeks. I am VERY aware of works for the Left hand, or for the right hand, but not relevant for students.

[j_menz]

Rave's concerto in D.

Is that what happens when Ravel starts to un?

[theholygideons]

What about Godowsky's Prelude and Fugue on B.A.C.H, for the left hand alone?
...I'm being serious 
or,
maybe not  , HA..

[perfect_pitch]

What about Godowsky's Prelude and Fugue on B.A.C.H, for the left hand alone?
...I'm being serious  
or,
maybe not  , HA..

Although I am not a Star Trek fan, I hope this picture will express just what I'm feeling right now...



You DO realise that I asked, as it may be very handy for other piano teachers as well...?

[theholygideons]

Although I am not a Star Trek fan, I hope this picture will express just what I'm feeling right now...



You DO realise that I asked, as it may be very hand for other piano teachers as well...?

not really... nothing in the piano literature is actually hard to play, some just take longer to memorise. Plus, it's only for 1 hand. You can focus more of your brain power on that one hand as opposed to having to synchronize two hands together. 

[chicoscalco]

not really... nothing in the piano literature is actually hard to play, some just take longer to memorise. Plus, it's only for 1 hand. You can focus more of your brain power on that one hand as opposed to having to synchronize two hands together. 

Nothing in the piano literature is hard to play? 

[perfect_pitch]

nothing in the piano literature is actually hard to play, some just take longer to memorise.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT STUDENTS HERE... NOT PIANISTS!!! People who are in the attempt of bettering their skills, but probably won't ever get to the skill of playing Ravels frickin' one-handed piano concerto.

[theholygideons]

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT STUDENTS HERE... NOT PIANISTS!!! People who are in the attempt of bettering their skills, but probably won't ever get to the skill of playing Ravels frickin' one-handed piano concerto.

Such little faith in your students?  . I think we should purposely break off the right hand of students, since the left handed repertoire is so small, that eventually they will be playing ravel's stinkin' one-handed piano concerto.

[j_menz]

Who cloned Jean-Luc?  

Most of the one hand only pieces around are for more advanced pianists, it would seem.  I suspect the reason for that is that to sound like anything reasonable, the player needs a high degree of control of the dynamics between fingers, which is not normally the case for more elementary players.

[theholygideons]

Who cloned Jean-Luc? 

Most of the one hand only pieces around are for more advanced pianists, it would seem.  I suspect the reason for that is that to sound like anything reasonable, the player needs a high degree of control of the dynamics between fingers, which is not normally the case for more elementary players.

but it's only one hand!!! = half as difficult... 

[j_menz]

but it's only one hand!!! = half as difficult... 

Spoken with all the confidence of someone whose never attempted one. 

[alkan2010]

Nepomuceno wrote five easy (too easy, perhaps  ) pieces for left hand alone; Scriabin's Prelude and Bridge's first two pieces are more advanced but nonetheless manageable by an intermediate student!