Here is another online piano lesson on how to play the octaves ; learn new techniques and tips for playing piano better. I now come to Octave Technique for which every sort of studies have been and continue to be written. Now the real octave wrist, combining great strength with high nervous tension and suppleness, is a gift of nature, like the capacity for playing staccato bowing on the violin.

How to play piano octaves : online piano lesson

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Online piano lesson about interpretation and some helpful tips on hot play piano. It is told of Beethoven, who composed the well known piano piece titled Fur Elise, that he played over one of his own compositions to a talented pupil in order to give him some idea of the interpretative side, and then asked the student to play the same piece again. This was done, and the master complimented him, remarking that although it differed greatly from the original, it was decidedly better. This reminds me of Tchaikovsky, who was asked, after conducting a composition of his own, why he did not do so in the same way as he had once done before. “My friend,” the master replied, “if you ever see me conduct this again, it will be different still. It is merely a matter of mood.” To show how different renderings of the same piece may be possible without the structure of the work being in any way altered, I give on page 80 two interpretations of the opening subject of Frederic Chopin’s Prelude in F Major, which both possess equal merit. (See Figs. 31 and 32.)

Piano interpretation : online lesson

FIG. 32. Another rendering of the same subject.

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