Study Group #1: Chopin's Prelude in E minor

Aleksandra Bogomaz Beautifully tender.

Victoria Macdonald thank you, dear ❤️

Aleksandra Bogomaz Thank you for sharing that Aleksandra -- it seems to me you are well on your way to playing this really well. Since you wrote that you are open to feedback, perhaps one practice method/way of building the piece would be to focus just on sections instead of the whole piece (like, split the first 12 measures into the 3 groups of 4 measures each (e.g, "b" is the sustained RH note for first 4, then "A" is sustained RH note for next 4, etc)) and work on playing with a flowing pulse (maybe a bit faster, to feel the large 2 counts per measure) just through those 4, measures, then the next 4, then connect to 8 measures, etc. Perhaps!

Aleksandra Bogomaz  beautifully played. Your melody sings over the soulful accompaniment. The hardest part for me is getting the LH chords even. Maybe then I can control it enough for some voicing. Maybe I'll never get there. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Andrew Smith thank you, being used to Russian school, I’m actually craving for feedback - my professors usually chop me to pieces bar by bar, but for me that’s just fine as then I know what to do. Thank you very much, I’ll do it - it will help that the melody doesn’t stuck here and there, will automatize LH and harmonic changes which I want to bring out better and liberate my RH for lamenting and crying all over. 

Randi hey dear! Thanks a lot. Perhaps try what Dominic suggested - using fingers 1, 2 and 3 in LH whenever possible. It’s much easier to control the chord and the tone yu want to sound a bit louder. To me it helped. Obviously I can’t do it everywhere, but where I can, makes my life easier.

Aleksandra Bogomaz Did he say that? I thought he said 1-3-5. I'll have to rewatch the video. I tried 1-3-5 at the beginning and my teacher is insisting 1-2-4 makes a smoother transition to the F# in the base. Everyone's got an opinion 😂

Victoria Macdonald 🤣

Victoria Macdonald 😂 Learn Liszt's Lugubre Gondola next! He’ll love it!😂

Victoria Macdonald I find I'm apologizing to my husband when he's in the room. I don't want him to do anything drastic at the end. I don't have the option of head phones. But he does. 😆

Kerstin It says the video is unavailable.

Victoria Macdonald Really, I pushed on the link right now and it works. 🤷‍♀️

https://youtube.com/shorts/fjkY7I-dTu8?si=M26pYWbUNXBPizCr

Kerstin Sorry, it's still unavailable since is's marked as Private. You can see it since it's your video, but we can't. You will need to change the privacy setting on the video.

Victoria Macdonald I got it - sorry. Now it should work. https://youtube.com/shorts/fjkY7I-dTu8?si=N-SUkfA3SEddZ6GK

Kerstin Wow, that was gorgeous. You play with such fluidity. So glad I got to see it!! Waiting to hear the rest.

Victoria Macdonald Thank you so much. I have a little concert with a singer next Friday. Not much time to practice something else. But I‘ll try. 🙋‍♀️