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Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement bar 20-23 left-hand technique
My question is what technique should I focus on. In bar 20, I am using the tremolo, but in the passage of the chord there are 2 doubts: do I need to keep finger 1 pressed D # while I bring the other ...
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"Moonlight" sonata fingering
I noticed there is a similar post here:
Strange fingering in "Moonlight" sonata
but that does not answer my question. I can't even play the first triplet.
I use finger 5 to play and hold the ...
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Preparatory studies for "Moonlight" 3rd movement
I can successfully play the first movement and would otherwise consider myself to be at Canada's Royal Conservatory of Music level 8 to 9. (I can play Chopin's Prelude Op. 28, No. 6 with my own ...
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Should I connect the top melody of the "Moonlight" Sonata 1st mvmt using my fingers?
I'm a beginner piano player and have started learning the 1st movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata. I've read many suggestions, and almost all recommend connecting the top melody (ta ...
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How to play "Moonlight" sonata with pedal
Here is tact #20 of "Moonlight" Sonata:
My right hand position (B + B - C# - G#):
The hand is definitely overstressed. Plus I am inadvertently pressing the G key in order to press G#. I ...
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Strange fingering in "Moonlight" sonata
This is an except of bars 47-50 from Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata, from the Henle edition.
In bar 49, in the middle of the second triplet, there is a fingering of 2-1 (pressing with ...
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Trill measure 29 3rd movement "Moonlight" sonata (Beethoven op. 27 no. 2)
How do you play the trill in measure 29 of Beethoven's "Moonlight" sonata?
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