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Nope not even close. Waldstein has a total of 2 difficult sections. Even op. 101 is twice as hard as waldstein.

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99% of students don't have that much level to play the Ballades. Especially, Ballade No.1 and Ballade No.4 are almost impossible for teenagers (only if you are not Arima).

@@Magzhan-o3s He was just joking. And Ballade 1 is the 2nd easiest ballade. 2nd and 4th is the hardest

@@Magzhan-o3sFor starters, the notion that these works are almost impossible for teenagers is plainly laughable. If anything, learning a virtuoso piano technique is EASIER, not harder, for young people due to our brains being able to much more quickly route new connections. Furthermore, and I speak from experience (the piece has been on my repertoire since I was 16, which is over 22 years ago and I recorded it multiple times and performed it in public): Ballade no.1 is absolutely not as hard as people often say it is. There are no, and I literally mean not a single one, passages in there that are ergonomically awkward, assuming you don't have unusually small hands. You make the classic mistake of conflating 'hard' with 'a lot of work'. The 2 differ: when a piece is hard, it's ergonomically awkward and requiring all kinds of tricks to get right. Chopin's 24th Prelude comes to mind here. The G minor Ballade doesn't. Take the fear-instilling coda for instance: it lies perfect under the fingers, you just use a 5-1 pivot motion to rapidly cover several octaves after another. This isn't hard, it's just an awful lot of work to get ingrained in your motoric memory but is perfectly doable and that coda can be practiced for hours a day without experiencing numbness. You could even learn this without having a solid technical basis. The hardest thing about the coda is the octave jumps in the repetition of the 2nd passage but again, that's just a matter of motor memory and they're not ergonomically taxing and do not cause fatigue during repeated practice. Plenty of other passages in there that are fast and require lots of practice but again, all comfortably under the fingers and lending themselves for an awful lot of repeated practice and getting them up to speed. Ballade no.4 is harder because of its musical complexity and sheer length, but again not ergonomically awkward. By far the hardest of the Ballades is no.2, due to it's fiendishly difficult coda with tons of finger substitutions. That is hard. It's ergonomically awkward, requires oodles of short practice sessions with plenty of rest in between because it literally will make your hands go numb after a while. And again, speaking out of experience here.

Sweet. That's why I wanted to make the video, I feel like more people should know about it. What's your level?

@@ryanabshier I don’t exactly know my level, but I started learning by myself like 4 years ago because no piano teachers in my school wanted students, then 2 years ago I was able to get one by playing 1 or 2 pieces. I can’t tell my level because I usually play stuff too hard for me, so I improve but I can’t play it properly while learning it. I’d say I’m able to learn upper intermediate pieces pretty easily but I’m not really advanced