Piano Forum

I've been playing/learning scarbo (the whole of gaspard, actually) for a while now, but i've never really mastered it technically.  Of the 5 times I've played it in public only one of them actually sounded decent.  I've browsed the forums and google quite a lot, but ill ask again anyways.  You never know unless you ask!

I lent out my copy with bar numbers so i'll just give a video and time stamps (sorry!)

Going into the actual issues, I'm primarily struggling with the repeated notes.  I can hit 80 per measure comfortably with control, sometimes 84, but anything faster and the notes sound uneven, or they come out metallic sounding and i start tensing up. 

Then theres the double note passages that are placed between those repeated note passages (37:23) .  its the grouping of 5 consecutive ones in the RH that i have issues with.  A fun piece of advise i got was to just omit a note reason being, who would notice ? lol.

some less pressing issues would be the left hand passage after the bell like E's  (36:16).  My arm gets tense 4/5's of the way through and i'm not sure how to build endurance or if I'm playing it wrong.
 

Then theres the big sweeping arpeggios (36:51).  I currently just add an extra beat because i can't make the sweep in the allowed time without making it sound scrambly.

I'm not sure if theres any other info that would be helpful (maybe what i've tried doing? IDK).

Thanks for any advice!