Full Course Curriculum

    1. Intro, Score, and History

    1. Details about Staccato Articulations

    2. Arpeggiation Practice

    3. 2-Note Slur Fingerings

    4. 2-Note Slur Wrist Movement

    5. Wrist Circles and Rotation

    1. Score Annotations

    2. Analysis of Form

    3. The "Blank Slate," Tempo, and Character

    4. M. 5-8 and Adding Articulations

    5. Some Clues from My Own Interpretation

    6. Deeper Understanding of the B Section

    7. A Quick Note on Pedal

    8. The Coda

    9. Your Challenge

    1. Charles' Performance

    2. Links to Great Pianists Performing This Work

    1. Final Thoughts and An Invitation

About this course

  • $25.00
  • 18 lessons
  • 1.5 hours of video content
  • Lifetime Access

Meet Your Teacher

Charles Szczepanek

Charles is an international prize-winning pianist, has collaborated with GRAMMY Award winners, and has taught music for over 20 years to everyone from his next-door neighbor to finalists on NBC's America's Got Talent. Through Pianist Academy, he now brings that wealth of knowledge to you: the beginner, the intermediate, the professional, or the fellow music teacher. Music for his own projects and those collaborating with other musicians has been streamed tens of millions of times via YouTube, Spotify, and other major platforms. He was a precollege student of Dr. Daniel Paul Horn, and an undergraduate and graduate student of Professor Robert Hamilton,and he also studied with such notables as Vladimir Feltsman, Alexander Korsantia, Susan Starr, Phillip Kawin, and Paul Ostrovski.

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