Professional Pianist Shares Secrets To Playing Chopin Waterfall Etude

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[kufitop]

Spider-Hands, Spider-Hands, plays etudes like a spider can...

[Herra_Perkele]

remind me in 10 years about this video when i start learning this piece

[drew]

I was self taught as a child then my mom took me to get lessons. I met with the teacher and THIS WAS THE FIRST PIECE HE ASSIGNED ME! My first piece.
I thought this guy is crazy or making some point- which he was- that people can do anything if fear isn’t in the way.
I can play it easily now. It’s not that hard once you know your fingering. I have Rachmaninov 13ths hands so I did it as a 10th, but yes absolutely it’s about stretch and shrimp stretch and shrimp. I fingered it as 1, 2, 4, 5 (1=thumb) with the thumb pulling in towards the pinkie at the moment when the 4 & 5 being played. Once you find your fingering for the one chord form in the song and can do a C arpeggio with it without mistakes- you’re more than half done!
It’s the #6 in G starting with the 16 note quiver between two note chords of b&d# then c#&e and continuing the entire piece as chord tremolo of a half or full step. (Fingering of 1&4 then 2&5 at allegro 16ths) That I’ve never even attempted. Arpeggios are all about sneaky fingering but try now with your hand on a surface going:
thumb and middle then
pointer and ring finger. Very quickly. Oh and there’s also the chromatic runs of chords…..
in 16th notes… allegro….
(A pianist would understand)
For the entire song without a breath….

[DavidMiller-bpet]

Great footage. He gives it short and sweet. The crux of advancing technique. Lateral forearm movement, making hand position natural for each note group. "Stretching and contraction all at once." Super clip. Thank you from the Piano World.

[Sad_cup_of_tea_]

I know nothing of piano but I propose to call this the ' *Jellyfish hand* ' method, if it doesn't already have a name

[alecrechtiene]

I am playing Ballade no. 1 right now. This will be super SUPER useful for this piece too.

[roelweerheijm]

The idea of the etude is very straight-forward, but playing it is so difficult. I never even dared to think of touching the Chopin etudes.

[nylesfrench]

Incredible. We should all Remember that the Great Composer's, Chopin, Bach, etc were all Great Monster Virtuoso's as well as Genius Composer's

[Tr-znob]

Wow, that was insightful! Thank you very much for sharing❤

[meh]

Thanks for sharing! I've got small hands so this helps 😀

[handsfree]

Judicious use of the sustain pedal helpful

[LJMadrigalMusic]

yes, and combine that with muscle memory.. no one can make those glides accurate at first because those are big arpeggios.

[frankmarter]

I’ve played this piece. You have to swivel your hand when playing the large arpeggios. It isn’t all that difficult unless you try Godowsky’s version. It is very difficult.

[jeffclark]

Sweet! I can play it now! Thanks YouTube shorts

[karlrovey]

Having not heard the piece before this video, I still knew exactly where this was going.

[thegreenpianist]

The whole lecture was great! Highly recommend.

[SustainableGal]

"To this day in two thousand and ten" 😂 omg when we thought we thought 2010 was good

[Neon-Geco]

nice tip, wrist movement is important

[LLl-ktdp]

Same goes for his last one. Op 25 no 12

[petarcalic]

I don’t know what advanced piano player would have the idea of playing with a stiff hand position. What he explained is used naturaly in almost all advanced piano pieces