I know many of you have been waiting for this for years, based on the many requests I've received for this piece...thank you for your patience! I hope you enjoy it! Also, please ignore the pink tabs on the keys. They are part of an Early Beginner Course that I'm filming concurrently with these other tutorials. Have a great week of practice!

God your videos are seriously the best. Your dedication to teaching is awesome. Amazing content as always

Playing this etude two times a day is guaranteed to keep you in a great shape.

I recently started to use forearm rotation to play octaves, with good results.

Thanks for a lot of very helpful tips and observations. For me, loosening up the fingers and wrist enough to do as much crawling along on the fourth and fifth fingers as possible together with half peddling and tapered pedaling, just enough to sustain the half notes but not too much to smear all the octaves, is the key to this étude.And I try to bring out how the middle section is essentially the same succession of notes but with more 3/4 feeling, i.e. really simultaneous 3/4 and 6/8 feeling. It’s really tough, but I think a lot of Chopin benefits from using two kinds of accidents, they agogic (lengthening) and the dynamic ones together, to bring out the constant multi-metric treatment of themes which is going on. Got to remember that French (and maybe Polish) are languages with dramatically different kinds of accentuation than English. Less hammering away on particular syllables and more flexibility and use of lengthening as an accent.

Thank you Josh for your good work! You give me courage to get a head start on this piece!

Please get Bob Durso back for a discussion of Taubman octaves. Very helpful!

oh gosh this crazy etude, have u heard Pollini's recording on Deutsche Gramophone? Insanity

You should do more Beethoven sonatas or Bach preludes and fugues

I've never closed Paul Barton so fast

For which reason do you have that red markings on your Piano

Hi Josh, I’m a bit lost in my piano practise. I play a lot, but I’m not sure how to maximize my progression. I do have a teacher, and right now I’m studying Chopin Nocturne no. 19, and Etude 25 no 12. Any idea how I can improve my skill and technique in a more efficient way? There are so many pieces I want to master and life is so short. Should I just keep playing a lot and with time my overall skill will improve? Perphaps you have some tips that can help me to speed up my progression. And thank you for the video btw, very helpful as always. 👍🏻

Is it normal that I my wrist hurts a while practicing octaves? I don’t know why. Does it disappear while studying the etude longer, do liek muscles build up?

I am totally puzzled but what's happening to me with this study. My left hand can play through it like it's not hard, even with ease, and i am not making this up, it does not get tired but my right hand is the total opposite, it struggles and can't seem to grab those octaves but at a cost of getting tired. So that i have to focus 95% on my right hand. I am left handed but never notice it in any pieces (and i learned 21 other etudes). My left and right hand are the same size (obviously but just saying). So i don't understand what's happening. I studied what my left hand is doing to try to teach the right sofar it made no difference. It's crazy.

Hi josh ! Very good episode. Do you think that you could do a propractice on scriabins etude op 8 no12 in d# minor ? Good day

So basically you play accelerando and crescendo at the beginning as well as humming to save energy? Am I getting this right?

É um estudo muito complexo. Difícil relaxar o punho.

1:48 Vadim Chaimovich ( ;;;;;

he's playing octaves with 1 and 4. Too bad he doesn't have an oversized piano to help people with small hands lol

audio is very very very very very low