Friday, February 6, 2009

Speed of Octaves

I'm now in a panic about my right hand octaves...

I found this website regarding playing octaves in Chopin Etudes...It's called "The Truth about Piano Technique and How to Acquire It". If only! I must admit, my eyes glazed over when reading it...

http://www.thefundamentalaction.com/thefundamentalaction.html

and for $100 I could do this...
http://www.pianomap.com/octaves.html

then I found this You Tube video by Edna Golandsky...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwY-pDnmSiE

An excellent reminder on basic techniques showing how to play octaves. (Disclaimer: I've been a student at the Golandsky Institute for two summers, so I've experienced Edna's phenomenal teaching techniques firsthand.)

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