Chopin Etude Op. 25 No. 2 - EFFECTIVE EXERCISES to learn it // Practice TUTORIAL // Danae Dörken

Chopin’s Etude Op. 25 No. 2 probably is one of the most played and practiced Etudes of the piano repertoire. I also think it is a great study to get into and begin your journey with the Chopin Etudes.Take a look at these very simple exercises that you can incorporate into your practice routine that will help you gradually increase your abilities with this piece and eventually be able to play it comfortably in every situation!
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[@sofiae8123]

This is the only video that actually gives practical instruction and explanations for the problems. finally, thank you!!!

Thank you, so glad you find it helpful!

[@СветланаЧеснокова-к2ъ]

05 of February of 2023 Year ! BRAVISSIMO to You, Dear ! GRATE Thank You ! Teacher. I Learn this Etude op. 25 , number 2 !

[@LRPMQLRPC]

I started the piece this week, I think the approach given in this video could be very helpful! Thanks

[@feliciaxie7868]

I was working so hard on trying to make triplets and this helped a lot! Thank you so much!

I'm so glad! 🤗🙏🏻

[@andy85s71]

You make appear all these difficult pieces so easy! Very impressive your tutorials! Thank you so much! Please keep makin videos about Chopin studies!! ❤️👍🏻💯

Thank you so much 😊

[@alainspiteri502]

op25-2 is easy to work no pb notes are under fingers

[@keramatkhajavi9671]

You are unique, dear teacher...As always, it was great and professional. Thank you very much for this tutorial ... Please continue sending the video. It is very useful. And we appreciate you

[@TanjaHahnewald]

Thank you. Helps me a lot

[@Sokolovpianist249]

YES!!! Finally another Chopin Etude tutorial, I can’t wait to watch it - thanks for uploading! 🙏🏻

I hope you enjoy it :)

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[@UltraLeetJ]

bravo, tons of info for speeding up figures with a solid well rounded technique. This is helpful for pretty much anything that is fast and continuous. Love the tips on being patient and let the phisiological changes happen. For me I knew this to be true with op 25 no. 12. Took me about 2 months to play it decently. I am confident that I can achieve the same for this one with your tutorial, thanks a lot for so generously making and posting it.

That’s amazing, well done and all the best for this one! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@SynthWoof]

Crisp, perfect interpretation at the end. So clear and such a legato left hand.

Thanks so much!

[@delaynomore3648]

Thanks for the video Do u mind to explain ur pedaling of this etude?

[@aliciabai8927]

You explain it so clearly!❤❤❤

[@pianodar]

Amazing video, so helpful! Wonderful sound, so light and gentle! Thank you❤🌹🙏

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@murielkhelifa5587]

Vidéo très intéressante .merci pour tous les bons conseils et exercices

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[@JW9545able]

After a space of about 60 years I decided to go back to this etude and also the Revolutionary. I started playing piano professionially when I was 15. To earn money I usually had to play unchallenging music in the theatre or 'lounge' style jazz. There was no time or need to practice. Now I intend to reawaken the skills I left behind. Your tutorial on Etude Op.25 No.2. is so excellent I can now play the right hand and most of the left hand fairly well BUT putting them together is another matter. I need a method for getting this right. It all falls apart after a few bars. What I need is advice as to how to get this polyrhythmic problem solved. By the way I am 80 years old, probably your oldest fan!

Thanks so much, so glad to hear the exercises have been helping. And how great that you are dedicating your time to piano playing now in your life, very inspiring! As to putting both hands together, I would suggest practicing slowly of course and also in sections at a faster tempo. So for example, take half bar sections, and practice them until you feel confident, then start practicing one bar sections, then 2 bar sections and so on. All the best with the study!

[@BakusZD]

Thank you!

[@enikagjokoreci6666]

Very instersting....I'm practice. I will practice how you are explaining it.

Thanks for watching:)

[@musicmajesty373]

Love the way you play this! Looking forward to these exercises.

Thank you very much! Have fun with them :)

[@MarkEisenman]

I want to buy the ETUDES. What edition do you recommend. THANKS for the great videos.!

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Ekier for sure! It's the Polish national edition :)

[@alyav.b.1243]

Thank you so much for this video!! It is very helpful!!!

So glad to hear that!!

[@erickenn96]

Thank you for the tutorial. Way out of my league but something to look forward to.

Thank you, I wish you all the very best for your piano journey 🤗

[@jokelly6707]

This is really helpful thx, just subbed 👍🏼

Thanks so much, so happy you liked it! 🙏🏻

[@pennysalvetti7085]

Thank you so so much for sharing!!!!

[@LRPMQLRPC]

wow, great video! I'm starting this piece this week. I'm surely use some of your recommendations.

Have fun with it! :)

[@LRPMQLRPC]

@ Yes. I'm having fun indeed, two months after starting it I can play at around 75 bpm more or less fluently. Still a long way to go but fun.

[@giuseppeT8091]

beautiful! subtitles in Italian! Perfect

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[@gervasiomontenegro569]

Thanks Danae, very helpfull! Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Thank you! Glad you found it helpful :)

[@reynardmoses]

Thankss, nice vid as always, waiting for the rest of the set , keep up your good work !!

Thank you 🙏🏻🤗

[@SariSaiz]

Thank you

[@timsheffield7464]

I love this. Can I ask, is it a big disadvantage if you’re left handed? Even after all these years my right hand is still slower vs the left. Thank you so much. I love your videos and never tire of listening to you and your playing. Such a gift!!!!

I wouldn’t say that it is a disadvantage at all, I know many amazing left handed pianists and you get to play great virtuoso accompaniment figures in the left hand. I think you just have to probably spend a bit more time training the right hand than a right-handed person. Thanks so much for watching 🙏🏻

[@timsheffield7464]

@ thank you, Danae. I do work a lot on the right hand. I so appreciate your videos. It’s like a workshop each time I watch. I can’t get enough!!!

[@LRPMQLRPC]

@@timsheffield7464 I am left handed too. I have 2+ years of piano so I'm not expert at all, but at least in my case I can confirm that if you practice consistenly there will be almost no difference.

[@PianoStudioNancy]

thanks a lot Danae to share, great advises ! But let's speak now about left hand ! Prélude Numéro 3 please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So interesting to see how you've managed it...

That’s a great idea! Will definitely try to make a video on the left hand soon 🤗

[@PianoStudioNancy]

@ ok Danae, but I spoke about prelude 3's left hand... when you want

[@richardforshaw8479]

Hi Danae! How do you build the volume in the right hand? Is it just a mental thing, or do you physically feel more weight from the shoulders?

It’s a bit of both, I would say! :)

[@bettylee1816]

Awesome video! I had no idea Op.10 No.1 was supposed to be on the harder spectrum, no wonder it's taking me months and I'm still having a hard time. I guess this means it's way above my skill level. In what order do you recommend to learn the Etudes? Should I also abandon 10-1 and work on something more appropriate instead?

Thanks for watching! I would say that op. 25 no. 1 and 2 are good beginner etudes when getting into the Chopin studies. For the left hand, I would recommend op. 10 no. 9. Op. 10 no. 1 is definitely not one of the easy ones, at the same time, I wouldn‘t suggest stopping it altogether, but rather just doing the exercises at your speed on a regular basis. That way, you will be able to play it in a year or two as your technique grows. It just isn‘t one of the studies you can learn immediately and in a short period of time, in my opinion. Have fun with it! :)

[@bettylee1816]

@ Thank you!

[@reynardmoses]

@@bettylee1816 i'm not an advanced pianist, i tried many chopin etudes but i can only manage op 10 no 12 until the end, i can't play even a page for the rest, maybe you can try op 10 no 12?

[@alainspiteri502]

good ex for egality of the five fingers in a slow tempo also the same thing for study op10-4 ( left-right hand ) better for me .

[@zhenyuw2542]

so helpful

[@advaithkaruna6199]

Hello dear Danae , I haven't searched this level yey but I know this vedio will be helpful cause I will study this maybe in some years. But my question is apart from the Czerny hanon kullak etudes u did do a vedio. Do u feel Heller's op 45 , steibelts op 78 , cramer and Clementi useful?? At technique . Also i wish to do Hummels op 125 ( it's from where Chopin got his etudes from ( ain't a rumor)) I future.

Sounds great! I personally have studied only Heller and Clementi which I also found very useful. And Hummels is very virtuoso, so you can definitely learn a lot of technique from that. :) Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@calvinhu8922]

can you make a video how to put two hands together, you said it's poly rytham

[@i9avici7a5]

Wow I am subscribing. I never thought of using these techniques. Thank you!

Thanks so much! 🙏🏻

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[@preludefugue4859]

Wow, excellent explained how to play this piece>. Thank you so much. Do you teach online course?

Thank you! I don’t at the moment, but maybe in the future, who knows. 😉 thanks so much for watching! 🙏🏻

[@goognamgoognw6637]

i get a tense thumb with this etude, the muscle between the thumb and the index in the hand. I know the etude well, but it's preventing me from getting it to tempo.

[@EFDNora]

Thanks! My teacher Just gave me this and wants it ready for the next week 0-0 fu*k me hahahahah

Wow 😮 - I hope you have fun with it! :)

[@pianoforte17xx48]

Thank you for sharing! However, I've been playing this etude for 2 years, tried all exercises, changed fingerings mny times, and I still can't play it on pace :( I feel like only some people in this world are able to play this at speed. I literally don't know what to do :'(

In my experience, what helps in situations like these is to very very gradually increase the tempo from rather slow to end speed. Spend a week or so with a slower tempo until you feel very comfortable with it, then increase it by only one metronome line and spend a week with this new tempo. Continue doing that until you reach the final tempo. I find that this process usually works very well as it gives muscles and brain time to process every note in the new tempo. Hope this helps! Thanks for watching! 🙏🏻

[@pianoforte17xx48]

@ I'll try your method. Thank you for sharing

[@pianoforte17xx48]

Update: actually I've tried playing slower, and you're absolutely right, this made my fingers and brain process every note more deliberately than before which I lacked and rushed, I also curved my fingers more, and that seems to bring clarity, lightness and more evenness! Very positive results after years of struggle! I think now what I lack is the emotions, the right pedaling, and the correct phrasing (especially the diminished chord part). Any insight if possible? Thank you again for helping, you are very kind and supportive!

[@UltraLeetJ]

@@pianoforte17xx48 practice arpeggios as chords. Group everything you can and play it, even if its two notes at a time. I promise if you group say, thhat diminished arpegio and play it grouped for 5 eternal, torturing minutes, the moment you go back to try it as an arpeggio it will become MUCH easier. As I telll my students, we have gone to infinite speed when blocking that arpeggio, now the hard part is to slow down :) . Pedaling and emotion are more intuitive and easier to solve, so hear many recordings and take note. Good luck!

[@micheldupaul7768]

We don't feel the 2 against 3 between the two hands. You play it like a 6 / 8. You should practice it with 4 half notes (one and two together) at the left hand instead of 6 notes. Practice it as fast as you can with precise accents at the beginning of the triplets then and only then put the 6 notes at the left hand. Rare are pianists who play it the right way. This makes this study a real challenge.

Yes, that is what makes it a challenge! Thanks for the practice suggestions!

[@maddalenasodo9566]

Thank you!