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Post by hoxie on Jul 3, 2006 19:42:53 GMT
Please has anyone got any suggestions - I have to learn scales in all the major keys for double 8ves, 4 8ves I think...I'm fine with what notes to play, but I just can't relax my hands at all so they end up really really staccato which is wrong  My teacher said to imagine a bird, but it doesn't work! ;D Double 3rds are a nightmare too, but at least that's hands separately  |
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Post by princessmoose on Jul 3, 2006 19:59:56 GMT
Imagine a bird?? Odd   . I don't really know what to suggest, you know you have to relax, what relaxes you? |
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Jul 4, 2006 17:09:36 GMT
Double octave scales will always be staccato - supposed to be, too. Only pianists with colossal hands can relax them whilst playing double octaves because your little fingers need to be rigid. Tired muscles are inevitable when playing them - that is why no composer wrote page after page of them, even though they are so exciting. Liszt managed a page and a half in the B minor sonata; the passage is a real killer. Martellato is not usually required for double octave scales, so you can play them fairly lightly. Very small wrist movements are the order of the day, to gain speed and alleviate tiredness - don't flap like a waving child ;D Steve  |
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Post by hoxie on Jul 4, 2006 18:57:36 GMT
;P Thanks for the replies! The bird thing was sort of your hand is a bird and sort of wafts up and down like wings... (help me...) . It doesn't work, mainly because I can't play them at any reasonable speed without ending up really tense ;P The small wrist movements sounds good Steve, thanks! I'll try that (will have to be tommorrow now, youngest bro in bed ) The relaxation has got to be einaudi or the song 'awake' performed by scala, kolacny brothers & anton walgrave! *drifts off* love hoxie xxx |
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