Shimmering water

[ranjit]

I got a new digital piano! Here's something I improvised yesterday which I thought sounded nice. I discovered yesterday that certain kinds of rapid scales in both hands can generate excellent textural effects, and I set about exploring them.

[quantum]

Congratulations on your new piano!  The excitement of a new instrument in certainly evident in this piece. 

I hear some Debussy and Liszt influences in the music.  The technical work you are doing on the Chopin piece is also evident here in the sustained episodes of fast passages.  Good stuff!

[ranjit]

Thank you! I was able to do fast passages with the right hand before working on Chopin, but now I'm able to sustain passages in my left hand as well, which I attribute to the technical work I've done over the past year. Even if it's not perfect, I find that working on Chopin etudes is really opening up my technique. Another point which I found very interesting is that I realized that I had, in the course of my improvising and experimenting with piano technique, independently "reinvented" many of the techniques Chopin uses in his etudes, especially those involving jumps which are almost absent in beginner or intermediate repertoire. It's a bummer to realize I was 200 years late to the party!