Given that I am followed by a teacher, but I do not go to lessons constantly due to
my commitments, I try to do a lot of independent work on studies and technique.
Lately it seems to me that I am managing to master medium-difficulty studies well, such as
Cramer, Liszt op 1 Czerny school of velocity, etc. Obviously, it takes me a while to learn them precisely because I cannot do much; however, for example, today I started Pozzoli's study 2 (the medium difficulty ones) and it seemed quite easy. I finished studying Moscheles' study 15 on the 15th, which still needs perfecting, but it is going quite well...
My dilemma is this: could I start doing the Gradus ad Parnassum studies and double scales?
I know that in words one cannot give too much advice on the matter; one would need to hear a person play to judge their level...
Post some Cramer videos... I'm interested if you have made them: numbers 8 - 13 - 15 - 29 - 35. Pick a couple and send a video. In any case, I think you can start reading something from Gradus ad parnassum.
There was a turning point in my personal piano world. It was thanks to Cramer's No. 1, the one that begins with sixteenth-note groupings in thirds. I wanted to master it at a certain speed and....I dove in. That afternoon I told myself that I had to "not care" about any beautiful position and save as much energy as possible for my fingers. So I surrendered to gravitation and began to not articulate at all. Everything, I wanted, to happen through rotational synchronism on the accents. It was precisely that afternoon that I discovered the importance of finger "collaborators." My speed increased in a short time and I discovered effective fingerings, such as using the thumb on the black keys on the second page with the rightmost edge with 3 5...etc.
I just wanted to refresh this lovely memory of mine that I am fond of and share it with you.
P.S. This étude accompanied me for a long time when I wanted to warm up and wanted to rediscover that coordination and interdependence that I advocate for in piano technique.
Thank you for this intervention of yours, very interesting! I have seen that by making more use of weight on the advice of my teacher, I struggle less and achieve much more in speed, and this has helped me approach more complex exercises that I didn't have the courage to look at precisely because I considered them impossible
