I am currently playing a Presto movement of a great Haydn sonata, but I am running into a roadblock: the speed. I can get most of the piece up to (or near) the tempo, but on some parts I'm stuck. Those would be the trills and naturally fast parts, where I'm playing D-F#-A-D (notes change, but hand position stays about the same) very quickly.
No matter what I do, I can' seem to get it that quick, and it's driving me crazy. I have trouble relaxing my hand, shoulder, and fingers, and it tenses up when I play those parts. My teacher is helping, but it's not working too well. I practice a lot, but it doesn't help either. I just have no idea what to do, and the competition is in about a month.
Does anyone have any tips/exercises or something? I really need the help.
2007-09-23 17:43:55 · 6 answers · asked by Aegor R 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Classical
you tube - watch hand positions - it's all about efficient fingering - remember - most practicing, is done in your head. THINK what you want. play it in your head - true, although hard to believe
classical pianist
2007-09-23 17:48:28 · answer #1 · answered by Phoenix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just do it very slow, even the mesurement before that.
And then speed it up a tad every time you play that measurment and you'll eventually get it.
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And some exersizes to make you faster, take all your fingers and your thumb and place them one ABCDE and F or anykeys No flats are sharps yet though, and flutter back and forth going faster each time. Then Try for instance F, F sharp G, G sharp and then A.
And do the same thing. Try it with all kinds of different keys or chords.
Hope this helped.
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2007-09-23 17:50:13 · answer #2 · answered by nunya b 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know if this will help you, I only took piano to grade 8 conservatory and you sound like you are past that.
My piano teacher at the conservatory taught me that for "fast and difficult" to let you "lizard brain" do it. By that he meant a small area at the base of your brain that is used to control automatic brain functions like breathing and heart beat. It also has a basic thinking component to it.
For Chopin he would start the metronome at the slowest level and tell me to practice at that speed for a week. Then he would test me and move the metronome upwards only when I could easily play the portions I was having problems with very easily.
Finally I would get up to speed. As you have probably guessed it sounded pretty ghastly -- no expression and attack had to be worked on for some notes and chords.
But only when I was up to speed did he coach me on the phrasing, the expression and attack.
Anyway that's they way he taught. He used to say "for student's like you," it's easier if you break pieces down into different components and then put them togethor.
To do it today I would need to record myself and them compare it against a good artist because I wouldn't have a teacher's trained ear like I did then.
btw, music theory has stuck with me all of my life and it has helped me to do my own arrangements on the instrument's I play now, the tenor and alto sax.
2007-09-23 17:57:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
playing piano trills quick parts
2016-02-02 06:12:41 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, what i have done is rather extreme but it works. You have to be very fluent in the art of mind over matter though. Just force a precise finger spasm and move on.
2007-09-24 11:14:39 · answer #5 · answered by jabberthenut 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Practice slowly and feel the music.dont think too much about your compitition.just enjoy your pieces. Ask help from anyone who are very good. there are many exercises for fingering and for position.
Once again,practice slowly and dont repeat mistakes.
2007-09-24 05:42:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to do the exercises from the "Dozen a Day" books. They are different exercises that help you to develop speed.
2007-09-23 17:51:58 · answer #7 · answered by kriend 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋