Chopin's Revolutionary Etude Resource guide: tutorials (LRSM/LTCL standard) Opus 10 number 12

The art of piano technique has a 32 minute tutorial, mainly on how to achieve a better quality of runs in the left hand virtuosic scale paterns.

Chopin (source: wikipedia)

Have a free lesson by using the power of Youtube. Pianists have been putting their tips online of very popular piano repertoire.



Another popular Youtuber, Paul Barton describes the "Revolutionary" as one of the masterpieces of piano literature. This Etude  captures the sentiment of the Russian army capturing Chopin's homeland in Poland and concern for his father.

Barton's tips:

• The mood during performance is very important, but emotionally draining.
• Right hand, chords- play deep into the key as if you're playing through the keybed using armweight as opposed to a harsh tone from striking too high into the piano.
• Observe the pedal markings for the minim chords only (in the opening, bars 1,3,5) Try to not overpedal.
• Metronome practice - helps evenness.
• The rhythm is part of the drama (the dotted quaver to semiquaver characteristic)

 


Josh Wright pro practice tips below!


Josh Wright goes over fingering, pedaling, dynamics, voicing. So Josh starts with the opening left hand fingering (left hand). His key ideas are:

• Counting the semi quavers but being mindful of when the right hand changes within that counting. 
• Jumping chords in the right hand, Josh uses the thumb by itself (the bottom of the hand) to practice the jumps then doing the whole hand. Also use the top notes of the jumps. 
• Rhythmic practice to get the evenness of the left hand runs, dotted (long short, short long, clusters of 3 notes, 4 note rhythms, even 5 note rhythms!)