Quick Technique Fix: CHOPIN Fantasie-Impromptu op.66

[@khangduongphuc3782]

Thank you , you help me to learn the piece in my first year

[@alifari214]

Thank you for your advice! This was the last piece I played before I stopped playing the piano around two years ago. A few days ago I got motivated to try play this beautiful piece again and I'm at a point where these tips are exactly what I need to get the hang of it again. So thank you!

[@sleepy4205]

Have you gotten the hang of it?

[@SergeyPushkin]

Hi, Denis! I'm far from playing such complex peaces like this one since it's my first year of learning but these videos are inspiring anyway and very well done. Thank you.

[@homamellersh8446]

Thank you very much Denis, you make it look so easy 😊 .

[@shanshandeng8576]

This is very helpful! Thanks so much for putting this tutorial together!

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

You are so welcome!

[@furkansahan5826]

This video is a true jewel, thank you! Im playing piano for 3 years now and im trying to finish this piece in 2024. You really help me with that Denis❤️ i will definately buy your course for this piece

[@rafaelyosua932]

bro is speedruning piano, good luck 😄

[@welovecastingspellss]

it’s impossible to learn this if you’ve only been playing 3 years

[@maite1506]

¡¡Muchísimas gracias!! Siempre explicas muy muy muy bien y cosas que muchos profesores no enseñan (pienso que no lo enseñan porque no lo saben ni ellos). Eres un gran pianista. Esta pieza la estoy mejorando desde hace mucho tiempo y sigo con ella quiero llegar a tocarla a un ritmo muy rápido. Qué casualidad que hayas sacado este video!!

[@lingling40hour]

Any tips on playing faster without missing notes and smoothly?

[@n.s.3410]

This is excellent information

[@annzhao678]

Hi, I am having trouble since this is my first year of piano, but this is so easy, now I am brag to my friends! Thank you!

[@devota]

Great content!

[@ildarich999]

Thank you.

[@KezSingChong]

Very useful tips

[@hanchobarbi8266]

Superb information! 🎉😮❤

[@peterbrenton410]

I have worked on this and find your comments helpful. I find the phrase after the first phrase is repeated from A up to high B and down tricky to shape nicely ,and am aware of overaccenting some notes to prevent a smooth flow .Any ideas welcome

[@AltaenaHD]

Por fin un video que entiendo haci no hable en ingles me sirvio mucho gracias bro

[@ClassicalPianoDreams]

Awesome man!

[@linglingluxury]

Thanks ! ☺️

[@YaLi126]

Thank you so much for your very helpful instruction❤ subscribed

[@RadicaLxIce]

I played from ages 5-17, quit during college and just started playing again at 22. About two weeks into this piece I have everything up to the slow part down EXCEPT THE DAMN CHROMATIC STUFF. I don't know why, but I'm REALLY struggling to bring the downward chromatics up to tempo, its infuriating. Any tips?

[@RolandHuettmann]

Hello Denis, I am a subscriber of this course offered by you. It is great fun for me. So, thank you so much for sharing. Recently, I got involved in learning about the Taubman method (Golandsky Institute). I wonder what your opinion is about this approach. As i understand it, there is never a relaxation of hands because hands never get tense in the first place. This basic idea I really like. And what you are telling here in this video about forearm rotation, releasing fingers, grouping even using minute groups, not activating fingers that are not used (for example, I stretched the thumb unnecessarily before reaching a key), in-and-out movements, and shaping (moving in hands slightly up- or downwards in circled shapes) sounds very similar. To me, technique (that is fun and enjoyable in itself) became so much more important as I recognized that without technique, musical expression becomes difficult, and extensive playing may even create pain and injuries. According to Taubman, even wrists are never stretched beyond a certain level, they do not fall, or go up, or stretch to the sides, but are still flexible forming a unit with fingers, hands and forearm. What I really struggled with in the beginning was the polyrhythm in this Fantasie. If my teacher (you know here) hadn't had the patience to allow me to learn it even in tempo 15 bpm for weeks))), the rhythm would never have been quite right throughout this piece. Once technical issues are mastered in time, this Fantasie expresses a wealth of details and beauty. Not long ago, you performed it in a public concert which my friends and I visited. This Fantasie you played absolutely brillant, you received overwhelming applause. I never had heard any pianist playing it the way you did. Hats up!

[@markus7894]

Dear Denis, your videos are extremely useful! These is the kind of knowledge you get from an excellent teacher for 200 EUR/hour... and here it is free! It worked instantly! 🙂 I dream of my unlived piano career under your teaching!

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Glad to hear that! Thank you for commenting!

[@pianodudeler]

Chopin often demands LH rotation(as in LH this piece) while balancing on a middle note and seems to address this in a large number of pieces and sometimes at extremes of span as in the last prelude - I wonder if you could make your own selection and address this technical issue?.

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Good idea, I think your comment gave me an idea for a video. Thanks for a suggestion!

[@TomD67]

Denis, thank you for this detailed advice about technique -- I will definitely be trying it! One note about this video: at 2:43 - 4:05, where you show the score while demonstrating the right-hand technique, you use 3 on the first C# and the last E in the pattern, whereas the score uses 4 on both. I have found 3 on c# in this pattern comfortable except in m. 10, where I find 4 easier. Does that change sound reasonable?

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Thanks for commenting You have to try different fingering yourself and see whether it changes the sound for you, it’s personal

[@kayne2075]

Thanks so much! Would this be called developing better voicing because I am unsure how to phrase practicing like this?

[@darcya7991]

What exactly is meant by releasing fingers that don't work? (5:56) Thanks!

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Complete muscle relaxation in the muscles that drive those fingers

[@YaLi126]

Can you also give instruction on the techniques for playing impromptu in Eb major Schubert more smoothly ❤

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Yes, I hope to create some videos on op.90 in a visible future… but no promises because there are so many pieces, and just me alone haha

[@במהאחרת-מופעיחוצותאומנותיים]

תודה!

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Thank you!😊

[@algalgod159]

In my scores i have the first note of each phrase doubled and tied to the next phrase note (white). How do we play that, pls?

[@maite1506]

Podrías sacar un tutorial completo de pago de la Polonesa Heroica porque es una de las piezas que quisiera empezar a estudiar y explicado por ti sería increíble. ¡Muchas gracias!

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Yes, that one will be covered in a hopefully not too distant future.

[@maite1506]

@@DenZhdanovPianist Me alegro muchísimo. Muchas gracias y también estoy agradecida por los subtítulos en español.

[@Hobbyist387]

With these combination of motions, how do you determine where to coordinate the in/out/left/right? For example with the first 2 notes "in" and the second 2 notes "out", then its a group of 6 - how do you know that? Is that stated somewhere or part of music theory or are you just using your intuition?

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

A profound interest in efficient piano playing approaches (Chopin, Chou, Woronicki, Bullet, Taubman) + many year playing and teaching experience. But the most important - before getting into any of this I had strong pains caused by overuse and lack of such knowledge myself, so for quite a while I had a great immediate indicator (pain, very limited mobility) to develop and test out the most ergonomic way of playing. However, such tips might be a subject to adjustment, some students need to tweak motions a bit depending on their hands.

[@paulzarvisMusicProducer]

At 3:04 your fingering suggests using 3 and 2 on the d# and C#. I’ve found a much better fingering using 2 & 4 which rests the 3 finger for a sec which helps with what’s coming. Do you agree.? LMK

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Fingering is a quite personal thing, can’t suit everyone!

[@paulzarvisMusicProducer]

Oh I totally agree. This video is very helpful I was just Suggesting not complaining. LOL thanks for the video. It helps a lot!

[@IrisSaul-Barnes]

Hi Denis, I tried to buy the course through the link you have above but it says the course is full for enrollment. Will it be open again soon? Thanks.

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Thanks for reporting, it was some weird bug. The course should be available now, here is the direct link to the checkout page: sso.teachable.com/secure/1064224/checkout/4511712/chopin-fantaisie-impromptu-op-66-extensive-tutorial

[@IrisSaul-Barnes]

@@DenZhdanovPianist Your full lessons on Op 13 & Op 66 (which you have kindly sorted out yesterday) are really helpful, thank you! I noticed you have a Brahms 51 exercise course, would you consider doing a similar one on Chopin's 27 Etudes? I'm sure many Chopin fans like myself would love to have that!

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Sure, I am considering it, but this needs a lot of production time, so it’s in the “hold” stage now.

[@joekahn7486]

I just can’t do the different times in left and right hand it’s so hard

[@UltiametsIgsmas]

tbh i’m just here to steal the fingerings 🔫🔫🔫

[@Amthaus2600]

😅😂😅😂😂

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

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[@philkelly5568]

Thanks!

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Thank you 😊😊😊