How to thank you? It's so rare that a concertist of your level share how she works on a piece. That' awesome, thanks a lot! Please keep going posting videos, that's very very helpful.

It's such a rarity for a professionally trained pianist to give advices on youtube. Thank you so much! Your job is much appreciated

Very useful recommendations- I've been trying to play this piece for many, many years but don't have a teacher. Inevitably, I have not made much progress but these exercises give me hope that I might one day succeed in playing this magnificent piece "tolerably"... Thank you very much for sharing these ideas.

marvellous piece.I'm trying to work it.I'm 65.It's now or never ! ty !

I’m learning it now. Tried it last year and got sore right hand. Coming back to it now after working on releasing tension a lot. It really is a major milestone. I can hardly believe that I’m even able to play it at 100bpm. It’s such a rewarding piece as it slowly comes together.

You play this study so comfortably, even the most awkward moments, and because you‘ve lived with this since you were in your early teens, it flies off the fingers with ease. Wonderful.!

cool, dass du das machst! 👍🏽👍🏽🔥

You help me immensely, I was a bit scared when I was given this to try, I just had 3 years playing, many thanks

Very helpful thank you!

You are lucky to have a great teacher. My teacher was a child prodigy, he just does not know how to teach. He thinks either you can do it or not. One time, I wanted to learn Revolutionary. He said it is impossible..... He was wrong....! I love to show him that I can play Revolutionary. I even played in a competition.

This is one of the hardest Etudes by Chopin. Had watched many tutorials about this etude and will definitely try your advice .. thank you soo much! more power

I like how she plays the dynamics of this piece. Sometimes dreamy and grand , sometimes cautious. It’s nice to listen to it. Also , she is really right about the patience you need for this piece. It’s so transparent that you can hear every mistake. Unlike some other etudes, you can’t muffle it away with pedal. Slow but stead really wins the race. Personally I am not a fan of accentuating all 4 16th’s separately. It can cause unnecessary up and down wrist movement as shown in the video slowing you down. Especially when you use this piece also to strengthen the hand. Which for many is mostly the case. Grouping together the 2nd and 3rd 16th note will both strengthen fingers, and help coördination of the hand and train the wrist movement or flexibility you need for this piece. Also these chopin etudes you need to learn by heart. Start with learning the harmonic progression and framework of this piece. It helps with wrapping everything together. Otherwise nice tutorial. 👍

You are unique, dear teacher...As always, it was great and professional. Thank you very much for this tutorial ... Please continue sending the video. It is very useful. And we appreciate you

That's so clear,and so helpful. Really nice of you to share your knowledge this way. Sat at the piano today with this one for the first time.

This is by far the best tutorial on this particular Chopin etude. Thanks for you hard work on the video and thank you as well for sharing!

Thank you for this!! I have started on this first Etude, and knew to work slowly and patiently, also the groups of four notes. Your other tips were new to me: I am excited about putting them to work. Also I will take to heart your teacher's counsel to play something from these etudes every day. It is going to be a long time before I have much fluency with this, and that is fine with me. Again, thank you!!!!

You are one of the best professors to clearly teach how to separate the difficult big one to easier small pieces.

Thanks a lot for the lesson. For many years, I have been thinking about playing these Etude without much courage to start. (don't have a teacher). Then saw other video a month ago, that gave me some hope. So I started, but the progress has been slow. I will incorporate your recommendation to practice everyday. Hopefully one day, I can play this piece from start to finish. Not in a hurry. Just any in my life time will be fine. Thanks again.

Thank you 1000 times for giving us some cues to work on this piece. I love it and couldn't play it as a kid, now I will get back to it and practice with your exercises.

Complimenti, davvero ottimi i suggerimenti per affrontare questo studio possente. Ho tentato varie volte di affrontarlo, ma lo scoraggiamento ha sempre prevalso. Il tuo video mi ha invogliato nuovamente 🤞

Great tips on how to practice. Thank you so much.

Thank you!!! Will try these exercises out :)

I'm also trying to bring this piece back, and I found so many interesting ideas from your video, thank you so much for sharing!!

I was hoping you would have a video on this. You’re so generous with your time - thanks for sharing your expertise!!! After so many years I am hoping to make some progress in this etude.

Thank you a lot dear Danae. Your tips are so useful. It's really kind of you to share your mastery. Your videos are really the best. Hugs from Paris.

I have been playing this study on and off for the better part of 15 years, some of those years I didn't even touch it but have been revisiting it again recently. I have tried multiple teachers, any and all practice methods, tutorials I could find. I still cannot get that damn descending A major arpeggio and descending B7 arpeggio during the climax (before the E major) at tempo. I will try these out! I''m still determined. I have a very strong love/hate relationship with this piece lol.

brilliant! bravo!!!

This was very helpful! Thank you!

Thank you for your sharing.I'm practicing this piece and your video is quit helpful.

Brilliant stuff. Many thanks maestro.

I am just back from practicing this in the first exercise, and i wanted to watch you demonstrate again because it is much harder than it looks when you do it.

Ottimo video, bellissimo. Utile, didattico. Infonde serenità. Complimenti

Muy buenos ejercicios muchas gracias, estaba un poco perdida, respecto a como empezar a estudiarlo...

정말 도움이 많이 됐어요 감사합니다 연주도 정말 훌륭해요 !!

Thank you so much for the video!!

I love Chopin very good news then !! I started as beginner straight to learn nocturne op 9 Eflat major ... ! ( Specific method ... will help !!! ).. oww what a beautiful piece !!

Great advice thank you! I just order the book Chopin 10 and been waiting. For now I am still practicing Czerny

Good tips, and your playing is incredible.

Very good! Thank you!

KHK's most favorite etude along with no.2! It's Phu here! greetings from Bangkok!!

Excellent

Great stuff! Thank you!

Very inspirational, and so beautifully presented. I discovered this etude when I was 18 and a beginner and tried to play it! I saw middle C in the first bar and thought, ok this should be easy. I was trying to do things myself without a teacher. Too bad because some guidance would have been most helpful at that point. Now I have recital plans, an encouraging instructor, and a couple of etudes (not #1) are performance candidates.

Thank you for your great ideas! I am hoping that practicing this etude will eventually increase the stretch of my right hand to roughly where my left is now.

Hello, I made an experiment in my youtube channel, just spent 2 weeks practising this piece and then made 2 videos (1 at the end of each week), and I was able to do it because of your tutorial, (i mention that in the description of my video), thank you very much!! :)

Безусловно у Вас дар педагога,но имея такую широкую звуковую палитру,вдохновляете к творчеству.Спасибо.

thanks for the tips. very helpful.

Please, more video like this! I have subscribed your channel! Very very interesting!

Excellent. Thank you.

Realmente muy buenos tus ejercicios. Los estoy aplicando en el N2 op 25 cada 2 compases.. Pienso ayuda mucho a enfrentarse de a poco con la velocidad final Desde ya Muchas Gracias Santy

The first excercise are nr.12,13,14,15 taken from Alfred Cortot's methode du Travail.

That you, I believe I shall apply those tips to other pieces as well 😊

12:25 somehow if the movement just passively happens, and if it is a very small, it shouldn't be a problem. Great tutorial

Thanks a lot 😊

Great advices! Txs! Sounds relaxed, how you played it.

Your videos have helped me so much! I’m ready to tackle these pieces but there aren’t any instructors where I live. Keep up the good work and hope to keep learning from you!

thank you I apreciate you cause you helped me a lot

Excellent exercises. It would have been helpful if you had given us the respective bar numbers in the second exercise (and if the grand piano had been tuned . . .).Really, thanks very, very much!!

wow ..... clean

Please make a video about op. 10 n. 4 and one about op. 10 n. 12

Wonderful tutorial! I've been practicing this Etude and I will introduce these new exercises. Thank you.

amazing 🤩

You are incredibly good, i know how difficult it is to play this etude. For me the first page of this etude are the hardest arpeggio especially C major. The middle pages arpeggio that everybody finds so difficult actually are not. Everybody is using the wrong fingering and jumping on the wrong notes. I don't know why Chopin didn't write the fingering but once you find it (it took me years !) then that middle section is almost easy, it's even the place i rest my fingers because there is less difficulty. The hardest bar in the whole etude is the return of the C major arpegio.

thank you so much for this lecture. pls how about the finger placing on the keys . what and what fingers are to be used ? thank you

hey!could you do a video for chopin op 10 n 5?it would be really helpful

I wish l can play this beautiful chopin l will do my best. You are so nice person!♥️

Great！

WOW, 1000th follow =) Thanks Danae.

Very cleaver practice suggestions! Just as an improvement tip, try to re-study everything without using your thumb (yes, it's obsessive stuff, I admit it)

If Op 10 no 1 was a mountain and me a mountaineer then i would describe my 15 years of trying to learn it as the whole history of the Everest ascent with failed expeditions and aborted routes and falling down the mountains and having to restart from base camp. I'd say i have never reach camp 6 but sometimes stayed at camp 4 and a few times just a few hours a camp 5 before it all fell apart with tension setting him, cramps and the hand becomes rigid and being forced to descend back down to camp 1 and even base camp ! The progresses are never permanent you keep seeing your technique fall apart and delearn your progress, exactly as Chopin said. I know the notes of this study as if it was the C major scale but still haven't summited this beast.

Thanks a lot!! These advices are gold for me!! ❤️

One lmore thing I do with this study is take each arppeggio (every 4 notes) and turn them into triplets like this: 1 note / 2 notes together / 1 note . . . C / G-C / E . . . etc. All the way up AND down. Slow tempo, of course and all that good stuff. I'm sure you could do something similar with various permutations of triplets.

Super 👍 🎹😊

Thank you so much for your clear explanation! It's so helpful! I find your wrist going up after each four notes look very tiring.

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Amazing tutorial. Thank you very much! I wondered if you have a video or suggestions to practice repeated notes. I am practicing Ravel's "Alborada del Gracioso" and struggling with the sections where repeated notes appear..

Skip to 4:30 for the first exercise discussion.

some of these exercises are contained in cortot's edition

Most tutorials on this piece recommend practicing in alternative rhythms or making the arpeggios into chords. I would ask why this is better than just playing the notes as written at a tempo where you have 100% accuracy and evenness.

When do you think somebody should start learning chopin studies?

I feel more comfortable with Op 10 n 2 than n 1, BUT n 2 injures my hand even though i feel no cramp or tense playing it. So i avoid practicing it even though i can play it through (almost).

Q: Would you recommend transposition into other keys?

I already know it by heart. Now I´m practicing at a 55 tempo and I plan to slowly, maybe after a week or ten days, increase the tempo in 5-10 points. I began faster but I saw that I lost control and that in a piece so technically demanding I had to do it in other ways more accurate. Within a month? I´m planning months lol

Would it be worth an intermediate piano player learning this piece at a slower tempo?

Hi Danae.....would you practice Op.25 no12 the same as this etude or with hands together? What tips do you have for no12?

Any tips to release tension and fatigue while playing this etude?

Should all the notes be played legato? I have seen some ytebers in the descending runs actually shifting the hand rather than playing them all legato?

Hi Danae. Thank you for your advice. I have a question on the page 2 (bar n°15 --D,G,D,E). How I must rotate my hand? because when I increase the tempo I lose my hand position.Ty

Fantastic! As an amateur I probably don't live long enough to learn to play in that final tempo you use. I have struggled some years with op10 #3 but it is still not floating. Hard work and harder the older you are. Anyway, good to have fun during the path. I wounder how professional pianists take care of their fingers. It would be a disaster to have a finger damaged so you couldn't place for some days. Sometimes I get the outside of the right thumb acing. Probably because it touches the left key when doing downwards arpeggios and not using the correct position of the wrist. Sometimes the fifth fingers could ace because they have been too straight and not bent enough when pushing the keys. How can a professional pianist play for hours in practice or consert without damaging any finger. Is it only a question of relaxation. Relaxation I have understood is very important. In the beginning it is very difficult and almost impossible. The more you play and practice the easier it gets. Maybe a tip to talk about in a video of yours is how to treat your fingers and hands as a professional. Nails not too short or long, exercises to perform outside the piano, good to strengthen the hand muscles by digging in the garden but not too much, use fingertip papertape if you haven't practiced for a while and lost the extra skin on the fingertips, etcetera. Regards /Henrik

I am total amateur, and my dream is to play some day at 75% speed as you and other pianists are playing. I do small exercises and indeed there are progress. Fingers somehow has some memory how to hold your hand.

Your suggestions were good. But one difficulty of this piece is also the stamina. The final performance you have done, it has been cut 4 times. I do not find it honest. 14:50, 15:28, 15:49, 16:16.

At what grade level should you approx be at when trying or attempting to play any of chopin's etudes. I made it to grade 8 RCM years ago in my early to late teens then stopped. I recently picked up playing again a year or so ago . Bern Been relearning my scales again.

How long did it take you to play this etude up to that speed?

Which etudes would you say are the most crucial to learn from op 10 and 25 for a solid basis.

I've gotten used to doing the first one in many different keys . BMajor and Db are easier .Bb is very uncomfortable . GM is difficult a are A and Ethe black and white together make more difficult . I play 2 ,5,7,8,9 of opus 10 and 12 ,2, 11 aminor I used to practice every day now right hand is weak .

I really stuck on 8:46, measure22, first of all, I can't play fast, and then i will stop at the middle, it's like D#BA~BD#BA. i really hope this exercise will help me! Thank you!!

How long did it take you to master this etude.?

Hi, my hand only can reach 8th, is possible to play this?

5:02 What's the purpose of the wrist lift?