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Piano Technique: Obtaining Velocity and doing the groundwork

When faced with a composition in Presto tempo, it's best to practice slowly, preferably separate hands, (at first) to secure a good fingering, understand HARMONIC flow (or progressions) and piece out the phrasing, that encompasses articulation and dynamics.

In my own baby-step maiden journey through Tchaikovsky's "Baba Yaga" (The Witch), Op. 39, No. 20, I followed my own model above, and set down a substantial learning foundation that should bode well for playing this piece briskly once it ripens.

Perhaps my learning paradigm might help others along the way.

Play through:

http://youtu.be/2JGFYEgxNcM

Instruction

http://youtu.be/PdnYGaYuoRc

Tchaikovsky "Baba Yaga" (p. 1) is attached

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