Easy Technique Fix: Broken Octaves & Chords in Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt

[@DavidMiller-bp7et]

This is indeed helpful; all I need to get started on these spots figures. I wrote a long comment, erased it by pushing the wrong button. Will come back again as it took energy. Today's practice will begin to play around with your suggestions. I'm sorry but, frankly, I have never seen the like of your instruction level and easy to engage manner in all my life. It calls for more detail in my appreciation. Those quick, humorous blips, are downright brilliant, relaxation of the focus briefly, similar to wrist and hand tension relief, in the piano tutorials. As I'm thinking about it, as a lifelong singer and technique maven there, too, you can sing high very fff briefly or longer lighter; it is impossible to sing fff on extreme high notes a long time; against the nature of the instrument. Doing so is a quick Rx for diaster and serious damage very soon, maybe within seconds. The guys who do that end up in the hospital insane asylum ward, similar to the masochistic torture that your Liszt example presents; it is a form of madness, as your aninmated shorts indicate. Brilliant, baby! Keep it coming. In all my schooling years, the best teachers always were the most humorous with their lessons. Now pressing the comment button.

[@da__lang]

This is some of the best technical guidance I've seen online. Thanks so much. That passage in Vallée d'Obermann really vexed me for a long time. Your advice was immensely helpful!

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for your feedback!

[@ProudOne]

Been practicing Beethovens sonata op. 13 and I was stuggling with tension during the exact part you showed. This is exactly what I needed. Now I just need to practice

[@EmogeneHBedrosian]

Helpful. Thank you.

[@HPYB]

thanks for the help! ur channel is underrated

[@janhon824]

Thank you for your sharing! So informative! Your playing technic is very good!

[@windfishletusdream]

Great video

[@bluepearl4806]

Thank you SOO much!!! You explain everything so we'll thank you!!!

[@arlarl7176]

Thank you very much - this is very helpful and well explained. 🤩

[@goldie5788]

Thanks! Very helpful 🙏 you're such a smart, talented and cute young man. Im so proud of you 🎼❤️🎼

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Thank you so much, it’s so sweet!😇🤗🦄

[@ml4119]

As always very helpful. I am currently learning Burgmuller's The Storm, which has similar broken chords in the right hand. Thank you!

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Cool! I am going to release a course on this and some other etudes from op.109 next week!

[@ml4119]

@@DenZhdanovPianist Excellent. Thank you Denis.

[@homayousefzadeh3635]

Thank you so much.

[@dorisgoso8985]

Excelente explicación, muchas gracias por compartir.Quizá podrías ayudarme aconsejándome ejercicios para aquellos alumnos que no arman el arco de la mano.

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

I had a video on fundamentals of piano technique released in the beginning of 2023, I think I mentioned some hand positioning exercises there…

[@cesaralves2303]

Thanks for the amazing tips ♥️ It is very interesting that the most stable position for the pinky is mostly straight 🤔 Furthermore, are you familiarized with the arm movement terminology? The "vertical" wrist movement is called extension / flexion, whist the rotation movement is actually forearm rotation, done by the radius 🤓

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Do you want to say that my explanation wasn’t clear? Sorry about that. Yes, I’ve heard this terminology through some familiarity with American physiology methods, but English is not my first language, and I have never been a permanent resident of an English-speaking country, so of course I may use different words. Tut mir leid, ma cosa si può fare, с'est la vie😂

[@cesaralves2303]

@@DenZhdanovPianist not at all, your explanation was perfectly clear. I was just nerding out 🤓 pas de problème!

[@yvanphilippeluxembourg4009]

Hi, can you please do a lesson for Liszt Doppelganger ?

[@DavidMiller-bp7et]

How might you present this "differently" if you were to update?

[@willowisp_01]

Wonderful tips! Would they apply for the coda of the 1st Ballade?

[@DenZhdanovPianist]

Yes absolutely. A special video on the coda of the first ballade, as well as a detailed course on the whole piece is already filmed, and coming in the next couple of weeks🤞