Chords and Octaves: from Beginner to Virtuoso
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Chords and Octaves: from Beginner to Virtuoso
with Dominic Cheli
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How can I gain precision? The videos I watched deal with relaxation and fingering, and I do work on that and it develops. But I have difficulties with getting the right notes when I increase speed.
My span is a white-key ninth at the evey edges, so small hand but octaves are ok.
When I go slow for relaxation practice, stretch and collapse, it works fine. But when I want to go a little faster (I am intermediate, so "faster" is not really fast) I hit adjacent keys.
I am working on "Idea 10" by Gibran Alcocer. The octaves part is short only 6 steps fast, but I really want to speed it up because if I can't I have to play the whole piece at slow motion... My personal final tempo is fine with around 140-150 (slower than the original). Quarter notes are fine, but there are 6 fast eighth notes.
