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Playing with speed    18:59 on Friday, May 18, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

agent3x
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I want to learn to play faster songs. For example, I can play the beginning of Rach's Prelude in C# minor, but I'm having trouble with the "Agitato" section. My fingers just can't move like that; they get all caught up in between keys. To avoid this, I generally play slow to moderate songs, but I really love that prelude and want to get better so that I can finish it. I do Hanon exercises in different keys, but that doesn't seem to be helping much.
Any advice?

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Re: Playing with speed    08:34 on Saturday, May 19, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

milos
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Your fingers don't move because their reflexes haven't been trained. To train your reflexes you need the right conditions. First discover the skeletal structure of your fingers/hand by standing up on them, and overholding a group of let's say three notes from that Agitato section. Secondly, play very slowly but LIFTING your fingers extremetly high. This teaches them how much they can move by reducing the stress of speed but increasing the effort to do a BIG movement. This exercise I call "Wake-Up Time." Thirdly, begin to go a LITTLE BIT faster, still trying to lift your fingers extremely high, and ALSO making sure you don't lose the wonderful sense of secure structure you gained from overholding. This is enough for starters. You should do this for some time, several weeks, before you attempt to go much faster. At that point I will have some other advice for you, but right now I will not confuse the picture... I hope this helps!

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Re: Playing with speed    17:42 on Sunday, May 20, 2007 Vote for this post Vote against this post 0 votes

PianoMan91
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my teacher always tells me to do scales...they suck but they do help you move faster.

   

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