Chopin Etude Op 25 No 11 (color coded by technical difficulty)

[@vanek_9397]

The technical difficulty is of course extremely individual. However, it's very interesting to find that the bars I personally struggle the most were signed as yellow. And the most difficult bar by the video (somewhere before coda) I always thought of like it's just OK. Indeed not the most comfortable but no kind of really hard. There is probably some specific technic that helped me a lot with this one, so I didn't have to practice it a lot and found it pretty comfortable to play

[@RoninsMusic]

Bar 82 is borderline light-red but I just wanted to give this legendary piece one very-hard bar. I can pretty consistently play it and actually find the LH accuracy more of an issue lol

[@ExeAction]

didn't heard Maurizio Pollini until now and he is amazing

[@GDosiris314]

Hmm. A entire paged filled with red highlights… must be inpossible to play…

[@RoninsMusic]

Yeah those are some gnarly passages but overall not as bad as some in 10/4, 25/6, or 28/16. Just need a lot of endurance/be tension free.

[@nicholashenleybeats]

@@RoninsMusic 28/16?

[@LucasMLopes26]

​@@nicholashenleybeatsit's a prelude titled Hades

[@RoninsMusic]

# Measures at each difficulty level (omitting intro): Very easy: 3 Easy: 32 Moderate: 39 Hard: 17 Very hard: 1 Total # measures: 92 Mean difficulty level: 2.79

[@ThaPAnthem]

What do you mean by 2,79?

[@Mitya-g9f]

​ @ThaPAnthem He assigned points from 1 to 5 according to the difficulty of the bar, where 1 is very easy and 5 is very difficult, then he got the total number of points by multiplying the points of difficulty by the number of bars with that difficulty (1*3 + 32*2 + 39*3 + 17*4 + 1*5) = 257. Then divided by the number of all bars 257/92 = 2.79. In general he got a mathematical mean of difficulties relatively to bars. Although this method of distributing difficulties is useless for 95% or smth of pianists, who can't play very hard passage, because if you have a piece with, say, 99 very simple measures and 1 very difficult, although the difficulty level is really low (1.04), most pianists will not be able to play it because of that difficult bar.

[@RoninsMusic]

@@Mitya-g9f Lol exactly. Assign 1-5 to very easy-very hard, then take the weighted sum (dot product) with the # measures at each difficulty level, then divide by the total # measures.

[@다.쓰레기]

You know what? I admit I'm blind. I asked you to do Op. 10 No. 1 and Op. 25 No. 11 in many videos, but I realized you already did them. Can't wait to see more though Keep up the good work.

[@stevowilliams8279]

2:55 for the very hard bar

[@hihihihihihi05]

great video (and gtreat channel) ! At first I thought maybe ud be some random ignorant KZbinr who blindly put bar 5 and so on with red highlight just because it sound hard lol. I totally agree with your difficulty grading, I'm learning this piece too :)

[@alexanderchisholm-loxley2426]

Great idea

[@unidentified1935]

Can you explain your reasoning for the difficulties? For example, measures 13 and 15 are pretty much the same runs but just octaves lower yet they’re different difficulty?

[@mariosvourliotakis]

They're not the same, the notes are different and they are actually harder on the bottom

[@johnchessant3012]

interesting

[@sogbeyejones7937]

I can't see.. my eyes... 😵

[@dunkleosteus430]

Is there a pattern to the runs that make them easier to learn?

[@DPNack_]

I think it's about wrist rotation but I'm not sure nor do I have the level of piano playing to be 100% sure

[@joeldepadua]

The descending runs can be understood as a compound line of 2 voices: a chromatic scale on the upper layer, and a chord arpeggio (A minor in the beginning) on the down layer. The ascending runs outline chords with appoggiaturas and their resolutions.

[@dunkleosteus430]

@@joeldepadua I see. Thanks. I got the chromatic part, but didn't see what the lower voice was.

[@octopuszombie8744]

measure 19 goes crazy for me.

[@stevowilliams8279]

This is an excellent idea, I would love if you kept making videos like this for as many composers as you can. Also, I see that you’ve played some scriabin on your channel. Would you ever do this for his late sonatas? That is probably a herculean task but I’d love to see it.

[@RoninsMusic]

I recorded a WIP sonata 6 already so wouldn't be too hard to color code the sheet music