OCTAVES! 👀👇 (Part 4 of 8)

If you have an extra key to spare (meaning you can play a ninth), that means you can kind of contract your hand in for the octave, which means you can play it above the key instead of under and on the side!

James Giles of North Western University heard me in a masterclass. I played for him Liszt’s Funeraille’s which has this horrible chromatic scale in triplet octaves.

I was like, “how will I ever get through this?” And he goes... “well, first of all, you’re at the edge of the white. So you’re going about an inch in, an inch out every single time. More than half of your energy is wasted.”

Once I figured that out and got used to minimizing my movement... the video shows the results. 😉

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