Advice on Debussy's D. gradus ad parnassum

[chechig]

Hi everyone
My teacher gave me doctor gradus ad parnassum to start this new course. It was at the end of the lesson, so he didnt' gave me any tips to start learning it. Any advice, please?
I'm going to use the metronome, I think is very important for eveness
Should I also practice the arpegios as chords? I'm a bit lost as you can see, so any advice will be great, thanks a lot!

[adodd81802]

.

[chechig]

Thank you very much Adodd!!! Great ideas, I should be more confident on my self, last spring I studied his Reverie, and previously The girl with the flixen hair and his album leaf, so it's not my first Debussy, but all of a sudden, When I red the score this morning it scared me!!!

[briansaddleback]

Love this piece; I can play it to suggested tempo and fluidly. I had a remarkably difficult time trying to learn this piece 2 years ago when even though the memorization of the piece was quick in a few days, the problem was fluidity of the fingers during the repeated phrases in right hand. I had to figure out a better fingering method slightly as when tempo increased, the original fingering did not fare well, certain fingers (like 3 and 4 ) would block one another and so forth. Multiple issues.

the last thing I had worked on was playing it P or PP. That is the only dynamics for this piece up until the end. It took a long time to understand how to play pp at a fast tempo. This was a step in piano knowledge for me at that time. and now. I appreciate more so fast tempo pp than any crashing FF play anyday.

Have fun. I still play this when I am just in the mood (which is always). A very beautiful and spirited piece. My wife always exclaims "I love that piece!" after everytime I play it. The only time she has not said it was when she was asleep. I guess.