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Recording during 2 days and processing the 3rd.

Op. 821 n°34
Key: E Major
Difficulty: 4/5
Comments: The staggered scales were hard for me to practice. I took a long time. Difficult to play both hands synchronized.

Op. 821 n°35
Key: E Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Classic arpeggios. With or without pedal, this is the question.

Op. 821 n°36
Key: E Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Trills on the last fingers of the right hand while playing other notes.

Op. 821 n°37
Key: A Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments: Regularity, and be careful not to get mixed up with the tricky patterns.

Op. 821 n°38
Key: A Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments: Nice piece, it's possible to play very fast. Too fast makes me skip some notes, what a pity.

Op. 821 n°39
Key: A Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments: Duos of notes in the left hand.

Op. 821 n°40
Key: A Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments:Classic scale at the beginning, but little tricky patterns after.

Op. 821 n°41
Key: D Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments:Duos of staccato notes at the right hand, down and up.

Op. 821 n°42
Key: D Major
Difficulty: 4/5
Comments:Very hard to keep the 2 hands synchronized. Nice piece.

Op. 821 n°43
Key: B Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments:Scales and scales. Still the problem of regularity

Op. 821 n°44
Key: B Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments:Regularity while playing fast.

Op. 821 n°45
Key: B Major
Difficulty: 4/5
Comments:Wow it's so hard to be regular! When I play I don't realize how I'm irregular.

Op. 821 n°46
Key: B Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments: Nice piece with scales and arpeggios. Regularity.

This is the next episode of my Czerny personal challenge. I played today pieces n°19 to n°33. This was another pain in the ass to play them.

As a reminder, I don't mean to play well these studies. I know they are not good to hear because I make so many mistakes, I don't play regularly, it lacks of work. I do that to force myself to play them and to improve on the piano techniques. I'm ready to hear any constructive critics, advices for improving some special patterns, etc... Yes I'm not a professional pianist, I just play for the pleasure, and I hate exercices, that's why I suck on technique :p

This is the time to explain how I do the recording:

• I put my webcam on my guitar which is next to my piano. Yes it's ridiculous, but my guitar is the best spot to put a webcam on, in order to see the most of the keyboard!
• I use Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder to record the videos in .flv
• For each piece that I already know, I start the recording, and I play from 5 to 20 times the piece. I make mistakes in all attempts, I just hope that there are one or two acceptable attempts to select.
• When I'm tired, I stop and edit the videos with Avidemux, a great tool I discovered after VirtualDub which is a bit complex for me... This takes also a long time to select, save, append the files
• Then I upload that on Youtube, write the annotations, the descriptions.

Here is the video:

Op. 821 n°19
Key: D Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Playing with the double notes in staccato mode is easier than in legato mode. However, regularity is still hard to obtain

Op. 821 n°20
Key: D Major
Difficulty: 1/5
Comments: The main difficulty is to link the double notes at the left hand.

Op. 821 n°21
Key: D Major
Difficulty: 1/5
Comments: Play the left hand with legato.

Op. 821 n°22
Key: D Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Regularity, and also velocity. Sometimes my fingers get mixed up

Op. 821 n°23
Key: Bb Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Regularity: the left hand begins, the right hand completes. Not so easy.

Op. 821 n°24
Key: Bb Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments: Scales, I don't like scales. Playing the same thing with both hands requires to be synchronous...

Op. 821 n°25
Key: Eb Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments: Regular Trill at right hand with fingering 4-5 while playing other notes. It hurts after some minutes of practice!

Op. 821 n°26
Key: Eb Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Regular Trill at left hand with fingering 1-2. A tricky passage at the left hand when you have to maintain a quarter note while playing the others.

Op. 821 n°27
Key: Eb Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Little notes mixed with rapid trills at right hand.

Op. 821 n°28
Key: Eb Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments: Lots of conjoint notes at the left hand: it's hard to keep the regularity and not making mistakes... A real pain in the ass this one.

Op. 821 n°29
Key: Ab Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: "Broderies" on double notes. It hurts when practicing a long time...

Op. 821 n°30
Key: Ab Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Playing Ab scale with a third between the 2 hands. A bit hard at the beginning, especially because the left hand tends to be slower than the right hand.

Op. 821 n°31
Key: Ab Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Arpeggios. Regularity.

Op. 821 n°32
Key: C Major
Difficulty: 1/5
Comments: Nice melody. Regularity. One with the pedal, the other without the pedal

Op. 821 n°33
Key: E Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Arpegiios. Regularity.

Hello guys,

I've decided to come back again in the video world. Because I want to improve in playing the piano. I decided to play the 160 pieces in the book "Les Heures du Matin" of Carl Czerny, famous for his studies for piano.

The challenge for me here is to post a video of me playing each of the 160 little pieces, no matter how many mistakes there are (1st rule).
Because I make a lot of mistakes each time I play, I don't like to post videos. This rule forces me to practice and makes me have an objective.

One of my main weak points is regularity. Practicing these pieces will help me to improve this point. It's less boring than playing Hanon pieces or scales all along.

I will rate each piece with my own point of view of difficulty (2nd rule). I will comment what's difficult and for what piano technique(s) the practice benefits for. This is some kind of experience feedback I can come back to when I haven't played the pieces for a long time.

Today, I recorded 18 pieces and posted them on Youtube. Here are the videos:

Op. 821 n°1
Key: C Major
Difficulty: 1/5
Comments: No real difficulty, you have to be careful with the last finger and not get mixed up.

Op. 821 n°2
Key: C Major
Difficulty: 1/5
Comments: Classic scale. The difficulty is regularity in the 16th-notes.

Op. 821 n°3
Key: C Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments: "Broderie" of double notes: I hate that, especially when you have to play the 2-4/3-5/2-4 fingering. It's not beautiful, sorry...

Op. 821 n°4
Key: C Major
Difficulty: 1/5
Comments: Regularity in the 16th-notes of the left hand, grace notes to place at the right hand.

Op. 821 n°5
Key: F Major
Difficulty: 1/5
Comments: Exercice for regular trills at the right hand.

Op. 821 n°6
Key: F Major
Difficulty: 1/5
Comments: Exercice for regular trills at the left hand.

Op. 821 n°7
Key: F Major
Difficulty: 1/5
Comments: Chromatic scales at the right hand, with diatonic scale too.

Op. 821 n°8
Key: F Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Chromatic scales at the left hand: because I'm not used to these at the left hand, it's less easy than the previous piece

Op. 821 n°9
Key: F Major
Difficulty: 1/5
Comments: Scales going down and up. Cool piece easy to play fast, that's why I play it 2 times, the second time faster.

Op. 821 n°10
Key: F Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Rapid left hand. You have to be very regular in sound, it's not easy.

Op. 821 n°11
Key: Bb Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Depends on what tempo you play it. Because the repetition of the same octavas makes my right arm tetanized: I haven't catched yet the technique to play that without getting my arm tired...

Op. 821 n°12
Key: Bb Major
Difficulty: 1/5
Comments: Patterns and scales on the right hand. Regularity is the key. Cool to play.

Op. 821 n°13
Key: Bb Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments: The 16th notes at the left hand are hazardous, it's very hard to be regular on these. Moreover, the grace notes at the right hand are not helping. Sorry for the result.

Op. 821 n°14
Key: Bb Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Fast little notes at the right hand, some kind of chat between the 2 hands.

Op. 821 n°15
Key: G Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Very fast 32th-notes at the right hand, close to each other. You have to be cautious to the intervals between the fingers so as to play without mistakes. Regularity is also hard to keep, you can easily lose control over your fingers.

Op. 821 n°16
Key: G Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments: Regularity and playing the same note 4 times in a row by changing the fingering. Hard piece, you'll hear that I can't keep the pace...

Op. 821 n°17
Key: G Major
Difficulty: 3/5
Comments: Similar exercise, a bit faster. But I'd like to think it easier than the previous one, because of the left hand doing simple quarter notes instead of 16-th notes.

Op. 821 n°18
Key: G Major
Difficulty: 2/5
Comments: Fast pace at the left hand, you have to control the regularity and not lose the pattern. Hard pattern at the left hand at the end.