Repertoire and Technique advice for the Left Hand!
Our Left Hand deserves just as much attention as our Right! Today we take a look at repertoire of varying difficulty levels, with recommended technical advice to bring confidence and prowess into our playing!
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https://app.tonebase.co/piano/live/player/repertoire-technique-left-hand
We are going to be using this thread to gather suggestions and questions!
- What questions do you have on this topic?
- Any particular area you would like me to focus on?
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Hi Dominic was there going to be links to the books you were mentioning, is it here where you were going to link them or somewhere else? Thank you in advance.
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Julio Jauregui Here They are!
Czerny: Etudes for the Left Hand
Berens: Exercsies for the Left Hand
Godowsky: (Select Etudes for the left hand)
Nepomuceno: 5 pieces for the Left hand
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Dominic Cheli I was about to ask too, thank you very much!
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Dominic Cheli Thank you very much!
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Thank you very much. I’m looking forward to working on these studies and pieces!
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I finally got around to watching this. Thanks Dominic Cheli for the really helpful video! I went through a phase of learning left hand only pieces a couple years ago, so I found this talk really interesting.
Another really nice book for left hand only pieces is "Piano Music for One Hand" by Raymond Lewenthal: https://www.amazon.com/Piano-Music-One-Hand-Collection/dp/0793552680 . The book includes a lengthy preface describing some of the challenges and techniques for left hand music.
I recorded a few of my favorites from this book a couple years back.
1. Blumenfeld - Etude for the LH alone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCTUxrjoQbI
2. Chopin/Godowsky - Op 10 No 6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPcZOQTdzrk . Dominic mentioned a few others from the Chopin/Godowsky collection.
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There are some specialized categories for the left hand repertoire on IMSLP :
https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:For_piano_left_hand
https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:For_piano_left_hand_(arr)
Among them, I was moved and surprised by Paul Wittgenstein's works.
https://imslp.org/wiki/School_for_the_Left_Hand_(Wittgenstein%2C_Paul) -
Hello; Dominic showed Suite by Erwin Schulhoff. Do you know where we can download the complete work? thanks
