Hi guys, let me introduce myself, my name is Giuseppe, I am from Palermo and I have been taking piano lessons for about 3 years.
I need some advice: I would like to record a CD with some pieces I play for a friend of mine who would like to hear me play (she is currently studying away) and I wanted to include at least one Debussy. I had started studying Clair de Lune, but after a while, I realized it was too difficult for me and I changed my mind for the first Arabesque. In fact, it is a bit simpler, but here too I have some difficulties, especially in the last bars of the first part (before the tempo rubato), when the right hand plays those triplets that begin with the third chord. So, I wanted to ask you: do you think I can do it? Is it a piece I can tackle or is it still too early? (To give you an idea of my level, I have studied Chopin's Waltzes Op. 69 No. 1 and 2, the 4 simplest preludes like No. 20, 7, and 4, and Beethoven's Für Elise) and do you have any advice on how to study this part??
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Reply 2 by ttw
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It seems to me like a somewhat schizophrenic educational path.
To give serious suggestions, one would need to hear you and see you play, but I didn't understand if you can post a video.
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The first arabesque is not that far in difficulty from the pieces you have studied; one also needs to understand to what level those pieces were brought. Anyway, I studied that part by dividing it measure by measure. Then joining two measures together to reach the point of playing the entire musical phrase in full. If you need a listening reference, there is a splendid interpretation by the administrator of this forum.
I chose the first Arabesque using the Urtext website as a reference, which has included a difficulty scale for some of the pieces it has published. If I don't manage to do it, which easier Debussy piece can I substitute it with? I thought of Le petit nègre
Everything is simple and everything is not. You always have to understand to what level the pieces must be brought. Perfecting them a lot involves greater difficulty because especially in Debussy, beyond technical passages, the real difficulty is the search for sound. If I were you, I would take a look at "Children's Corner". Don't be fooled by the name "Child's Corner"; there are pieces, like "Golliwog's cake walk", that have been played in concert and recorded by illustrious names as well.
Dear Giuseppe, forgive me, but how can you go from an arabesque to a little negro. There is an abyss between the two pieces. I remember studying the latter right in the first months of starting out, while the former already has a significant level of difficulty, not only in technique but also in the search for the right interpretation, slurs, etc... forgive me but you are making somewhat anomalous comparisons.
