Octaves with Sara Davis Buechner
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Yes, good ideas there. Some of those things I do unconsciously, and some are new to me. I like that she has concern for the causes of muscular stress and tells students not to stretch to what they can’t really reach.
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I listened to her Mozart d minor fantasy and was surprised by the interpretation. But I like it quite a lot; I think it's very convincing.
Link to video
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Seems like some very useful tips here.
Link to video@Bernard ooh, thanks for this, I’ll listen later today.
I don’t know if she talks about this, but there’s a piece I used to play (like, 20+ years ago) that I recently returned to. It’s mostly easy, but at the end there are several measures of arpeggios where the right hand is stretched out the whole time. I find myself having a lot of tension and feeling like my technique is making it harder for me. I’ve been planning to talk to my teacher about it, but we’re working on prep for my jury so I have put it away until that’s done….
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Ok I watched the video. that was super interesting. But now I need to watch it when I’m in front of my piano
I wish she had talked more about releasing tension during octave playing.
Does she have large hands? Probably? I need to go to the keyboard bride so think more about it…
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Ok I watched the video. that was super interesting. But now I need to watch it when I’m in front of my piano
I wish she had talked more about releasing tension during octave playing.
Does she have large hands? Probably? I need to go to the keyboard bride so think more about it…
@ShiroKuro From watching the videos, it doesn't look like she has really large hands, but not small either.
Yeah, you definitely would not want to hold tension in your hand for the duration of the arpeggios.
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@Bernard said:
Yeah, you definitely would not want to hold tension in your hand for the duration of the arpeggios.Exactly. I worked on this (score below) in one lesson with my teacher a bit and it’s better in terms of less tension, but not great. I’ve found spots/ways to release the tension, but it seems to me there shouldn’t be tension in the first place. So I want to take it back to my lesson, but we’ve been busy with my jury piece, so I’ve put it on hold until that’s finished.
But in this one (score below, which is octaves) and the other score I posted (which are the arps), I think my problem, or whatever it is I’m doing, is the same. My hand isn’t that small, I think one problem is that I might be stretching more than I need to. And then another problem is not releasing that stretch, so the tension builds. And then I think I need to use my arm, wrist, move my elbow etc., in ways that I’m not doing ….
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