Mastering jumps for musicality and virtuosity

Jumping at the keyboard can be some of the most difficult challenges we face, but there are considerations that must be made to enhance virtuosity and always be at the service of the music! Tune in today, to find out more and ask about passages in your repertoire!

 

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    • aliceyip
    • aliceyip
    • 2 yrs ago
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    Liszt Spanish Rhapsody Difficulties 

    1.  The leaps with Chromatic Scales from bars 434 to 445 are difficult for me to jump accurately.  From bars 444 to 445, I am not sure whether the right hand fingerings use 123412312345, whereas the left hand fingerings use 32143214321.
    2.  The wide leaps in left hand with right hand broken octave chords from bars 534 to 537 are difficult for me to jump accurately before playing the Sempre Presto eff passage. When playing left hand leaps, my right hand cannot rotate in a relaxing state.
    3.  When playing together in both hands' wide leaps in contrary motion from bars 613 to 620, I tend to rush this passage, my right hand feel so tired when playing left hand leaps. It is difficult for me to playing together well and on beat, control the tempo on and jump accurately.  

     

    Scarbo difficulties
    4.  From bars 357 to 365 and in Un peu retenue passage, it is difficult for me to jump accurately.
    5.  From bars 559 to 563, it is difficult for me to jump accurately on the left hand part.

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    • Norman
    • Norman
    • 2 yrs ago
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    Debussy, Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir:

     

    How to more confidently execute the leap in the LH across the bar line between these two measures. Thanks!

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  • I'm working on Bach Partita 1 Gigue, and planning on Chopin Trois Ecossaises next. Looking for tips on accuracy, security and lightness of jumps at speed, please :)

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  • I would love some tips on the jumps at the end of each of measures 16-19 in Rachmaninoff’s prelude 32 12.

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    • Pauline
    • Pauline
    • 2 yrs ago
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    I am able to watch this lesson now, and I am so grateful for the way you use technology, Dominic! Having the overhead view as you give instruction - in this case, showing the openness of the  hands in jumps - is powerfully efficient! The clarity of your thoughts and demonstrations is superb! With each Livestream that I watch, I am consistently impressed by how well you make complex ideas easier to understand.

     

    Now having the score and the overhead view - Wow! Great! Thank you!

     

    It is fascinating to learn about the finer details of great pianists: dynamics and timing...slowing up on the brakes gradually, not abruptly - unless it's supposed to be abrupt. 

     

    "Con bravura" - written by Liszt. Ah! He's being honest, indeed! "Go for it!" This is delightful in its, as you say, "humility". This - - from the greatest virtuoso pianist of all time.

     

    I like all your points very much. The "tennis" practice makes very good sense. Yes.

     

    Excellent attention to the questions asked. Thanks to Alice for thoughtfully providing clarity in her questions by circling the passages in the score. Thus allowing Dominic to go right into the answers.

     

    Great command of piano literature! I thank you, Dominic!

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    • Jim Gall
    • Jim_Gall
    • 5 mths ago
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    Chopin Ballad No 1 CODA

    LH jumps playing very fast here.    I am struggling to get the LH going fast enough right though this Coda.

    Would be grateful for any tips.    

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