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Andrea Buckland good that RH is helping LH with larger chords - it’ll make them sound like more controlled strumming and you’ll be able to do it softer and softer the more you get used to the piece. The mazur here is rather vigorous yet tender, with the rhythmic accentuations delicately placed between dotted rhythms and second beat chords. It’ll come with time. Good work, Inspirujący!

Andrea Buckland accents Herę are more leaning (oprzeć) than emphasizing with more sound. I’d suggest the kind of breathable sound at 0:33 more often, this was a good colour change. Less hand throwing directly onto the key will soften the attack on octaves considerably, feel your arm descending with gravity but let your fingers be more tender at the keyboard itself. Lovely dim. to long F at 1:21, this was good Chopin sound. Don’t accelerate or make any obvious accents from 1:30-1:40, this is better placidly played. At 2:03 good sound again. Next step: having chords sound a bit softer (miękkiej) in tone and accents leaning on the time rather than a noticeably larger  sound at the attack itself. W kierunku subtelnością!

Jarred Dunn Many thanks, Jarred, for this truly intensive TWI! I will gain from this for a very long time! 

Andrea Buckland lovely playing, Andrea! That's a very complex mazurka that you are working on. Hope you play hands together for us sometime!

Natalie Peh thanks, Natalie!

Andrea Buckland What a wonderful mazurka you have chosen, Andrea!. It has a lot of work to do of course, but you are practicing step by step very beautifully and I wish you can play it for us very soon.

Monika Tusnady So beautiful and elegant playing! Love the kind of sudden heartbreaking ending. You could be playing this in a Parisian salon during Chopin’s time

Vidhya Bashyam thank you!!! How I wish for that Time Machine that could take me there! Perhaps I would dress in men’s clothes like George Sand, too!

Monika Tusnady Monika, this would be a pity! I love your dress! And your playing! 

Monika Tusnady I have to agre with Vidhya! Very elegant playing! Love it that you are nicely dressed too. 

Monika Tusnady beautifully played!I

Monika Tusnady What a beautiful interpretation, Monika! Deeply emotional. It's one of may favorites mazurkas. Love it!

Monika Tusnady whenever you play I can hear your love of piano and Chopin. This mazurka is a good choice for you. Its core mood, żal (regret) is immediately felt by the indecision of the lines (for a few beats falling and in a moment jumping up, etc), but this quality is veiled under a 144 tempo marking (which you reached every once in a while). My remarks below technical because the sense of your playing is that you know exactly what mood Chopin was expressing and your mazurka antenna is improved (you have several new qualities, like rubato, accentuation (akcenty), variety of sound (różnorodność dzwięku), and melodic flow (tok melodyczny). First, relax your shoulders a bit more and giving your elbows more work. Second, use wrists to help the hands breathe/move more elegantly. Third, as much as possible keep your neck and head still, allowing the listening to guide you rather than monitoring the hands. Finally, allow your fingers to touch keys without curling them tightly to gain speed (eg. triplets, leggiero passages) so that the sound is an extension of your body rather than an execution of the fingertip alone. The finger pads can help transmit a natural sense of whole body unity better than pointing them like we're holding a pencil tightly. Powodzenia i brawo!