Chopin nocturne

[made4music]

I am learning Chopin's Nocturne in C# minor (opus posthumous) - not real hard, but sooooo pretty! on the last page, does anybody have any tips for doing the 18/4, 35/4  ,11/4 and 13/4 timing?? I have gotten the basic idea on the 18/4, and the 35/4 by doing the LH automatically and then just paying attention to the right - not really watching exactly where everything lines up...... Is that OK? It sounds pretty good. On the 11/4 and 13/4, I've tried lining up the highest note with the 3rd 8th - is that OK? Hope somebody can tell what I'm writing......I guess you'd have to have the music in front of you.....    My profuse thanks to anyone who takes time to look at this for me!!

[musik_man]

I'm working on the E minor Nocturne right now (op 72 no1.)  There's a section in that similar to yours.  I tend to assign a certain amount of RH notes to each LH note.  For example, when it's 10/3, I play 3RH for the first LH note, 3RH for the second, and 4RH for the last LH note.  By sticking 1 more RH note on the last LH note, it forces me to play the last few notes a little faster, which I think sounds good.

I do use the method you use when the amount of notes in the LH and RH are closer together, such as 3/4 or 5/3, but in those big cadenza type runs I prefer to split them up into groups.