176 bpm Just Pure Practicing Chopin Etude 10/1 (March 9, 08)

[slicejl152]

hey keep up the good work :) I've been working on this etude for years.. and I still can't play it. I guess chopin etudes are the kind of etudes that take a lifetime to master. maybe a couple of lifetimes..

good work though!

[AlfaAxel]

Super! Thanks for sharing how you practice! :-)

Kudos!

[ldailey06]

I hope I'll be as good as you some day

[Egide0]

How long would it take a 18 year old person to learn this???

[jiririji]

@Egide0 Minimum 5 years

[About14Pandas]

@Egide0

depends if you've already been playing piano and how much you practice a day/week.

[jwunschie14]

Great job, a little slippery but you definately got the jist of this piece, which is very difficult to do!! The tempo has a habit of speeding up as your right hand moves to the right on the standard progressions up the keyboard. Thanks for posting :)

[miststalker06]

Sorry for double-posting, but I had to tell you that Chopin wrote these for himself, and there's no "correct" speed whatsoever. There's the speed you choose--it's an etude, a practice, so you'll have to think of it as a practice as well :)

[schumannetudes]

chopin didnt right the tempo he didnt right any tempo at all for this one ,176 was writen by the chopin academy in poland(warsaw) when thay were righting the paderewski editions witch became the standerd edition,chopins point for this one is to strech between fingers 1&2 and 3&4

[loverofsounds]

WEll this is so enlightening to find out! I have been looking for an answer to this for a while now. So any editions prior to the Chopin acadamy's would also be that of an editor? And so I am guessing that Chopin did not write any metronome number for any of the etudes? Thanks for your scholarship!! This etude often sounds so much more profound if played slower than it generally is.

[ulsbolde89]

You betcha, "more profound if played slower." You're right on point.

[kasyapa]

beautiful sound in the arpeggios - bravo!

[noisense]

Wow, even though it wasn't perfect, you were able to sustain that speed. Still impressive in its own right. I'm still having trouble getting the notes right at a measely 104 mm. I'm not increasing the metronome unless I can perfectly control it at that speed. I think 140-50 will be my target as the virtuosos seem to hover around that mark.

[piano6861]

Impressive. This is a tough etude. I agree with Aul1kki. 5 stars anyway.

[Aul1kki]

Practise this piece with lesser speed and after you control it 100%, then up the tempo. Keep your hand fully relaxed and try to make there more sound variety.

[piano5050]

Thank you Aul1kki! I will try to practice this at a lesser speed and learn to control it 100%. Relaxation is key! And I'll try to make different sound varieties besides pure junky noise!

[miststalker06]

Like Aul1kki said, you'll have to take yourself more time, if you want it to be close to perfect. Chopin is hard to play. 10-1 is very hard as well, but if you don't slow down and play ALL notes, listening closely to them, you'll tense your arms and they will get used to the tense, therefore making your version of this fine Etude less perfect.