How to play staccato, octaves and chords - movements of the MA (Schubert, Dance op. 33 n° 1, 8 bars)

[@ciararespect4296]

Excellent description of the claw type movement playing the piano

[@E.X.P.]

Thank you very much, what a generosity. At the end of every lesson of yours I feel my health being saved. Best regards!

[@Zhinarkos]

Wonderful and helpful demonstration as always, thank you. So much effort goes into figuring out the proper way to apply pressure that the other 50% - letting go - gets ignored a bit. Practising good staccato to me has been the easiest way to learn not just how to play short and detached but also how to let go and reset effort while playing legato. And the faster things go and the more continuous movement there is - I've been warming up with exercises for Chopin's op 10 no 2 recently - the more important that tiniest bit of relaxation between key activations becomes. It gets incredibly tricky when one realizes that you need to practise letting go and keeping yourself attached - two very contradictory things - at the same time. If all it took to play the piano was to get the movements "sort of" right we'd all be playing chopin etudes and ravel's gaspard de la nuit. However it would appear that "sort of" isn't good enough. And personally I'm not there yet.

[@SonusProj]

Thanks again for sharing. Your sound is so crisp it makes me want to feel this movement.

[@stringendo]

With this method, I believe it will benefit the practice of Liszt Wilde Jagd too. Really appreciated!!!

[@aw4piano]

Not only Wilde Jagd :) By the way: do you know this video? kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWHcpWx5ash0mbc