Overfinger Issue - Can you play Chopin's Sunshine etude RH smoothly?

[yadeehoo]

I posted about my underthumb issue, but I also have to opposite problem, the overfinger issue.

Just from the first bar, getting the 4th finger with a fluid motion seems awkward and breaks the flow. What's your experience with it?

Ref : Chopin etude Op10 No8

Any answer helps, I wanna get to the core of this

[adodd81802]

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[yadeehoo]

Yeah I've seen Paul Barton tutorial, it doesn't really help, Im not very comfortable with his approach.

But I learn so much form Chopin Etudes, I use them as warm up exercises, and I think it was basically the point of it, right. Op10 No1 has helped so much to get right hand flexibility, and same with the Op10 No12 for the left hand. They might but hard at first, but definitely doable.

You're right tho, I should relearn some stuff, cause I have problems mostly on the pieces I've learned earlier.

What are you into these days, what moves you?

[adodd81802]

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[yadeehoo]

That sounds like a lot of motivation and limitations at the same time right here.

I'm proferssional, but piano is just a thing I started doin at 33, and I'm 35 now. I'm mainly a songwriter/singer/whatever instruments need to be played for the rendering.

Goin with a inspiration from a piece I found is best. First song I learned was Moonlight sonata, but then I haven't realized there was other movements, so I started to tackle the 3rd movement, after 2 weeks of playing piano, why not? But then halfway I realized I really want to play Liebestraum from Franz Listz, so, that's the second song I learned, an the 3rd one was a arrangement by Horowitz. I never cared that I didn't have the skills, the knowledge, a teacher, or not knowing anybody playing piano, it just felt right.

So yeah, like you said, just a matter of perspective. I like to start with a vision of an end performance, and just work till I'm able to produce that. Being a musician before hand might have surely helped, and even starting off my music life as a drummer helped even more, cause I got the rhythm embedded in me now.

I'd rather practice on a Chopin etude I really like, and make my micro etudes of this piece as drills, rather than aimlessly play Hanon or whatever, cause every piece you learn has it's own challenges, right? Even Martha Argerich said she never did any drills or scales.

Regarding Horowitz, I've spent months on the same 2 bars. Why? I dunno, I just need to crack it