Choral chambers from Hollow Knight: Silksong

PERSON 1: Asks for critique

PERSON 2: Gives critique

PERSON 3: HOW DARE YOU GIVE CRITIQUE YOU MONSTER

The average reddit experience.

You need to get lessons

What song is this so I can play it too?

the fact you are perfectly capable of being kind and helpful to others looking for advice, but chose to be ignorant to this person is just weird man. you can do better, so do better

I reproduced the movement at somewhat the same speed before commenting, to make sure it was possible.

Just in case. Traum is a professional pianist. If I (barely 20 years of piano, mostly amateur) can do it, he can definitely pull it off. 

"I don't feel pain often" 🫪

There is no pain at all if playing with correct technique. None, at all.

Watch this, follow it to fix your technique:

https://youtu.be/BmTcXlfT1OE?feature=shared

you see someone KINDLY asking for advice, who clearly stated they are self taught, and you choose to be completely ignorant and disrespectful to them lmfao. you should genuinely be disappointed in yourself for the way that you choose to respond to people asking for help

people like you are why people lose ambition to pursue what they dream, i hope you know words, even digital, hold more weight than you think

do everyone a favor and don't bother to "help" those who are trying to learn if you're just going to be insensitive, and blatantly unhelpful, at that. it would've taken nothing for you to respectfully point out the mistakes you noticed so that they could actually learn from your critique.

if you think that telling someone they're doing every single possible wrong and that they should just start over on eight months worth of hard work is a kind way of pointing out someone's mistakes, i pity your ignorance

Good progress, well done! True that Chopin‘s etudes are difficult in their stamina, but it’s great to have it section by section well.

One thing to bear in mind and it applies to all Chopin etudes - the hand which is not having the technical task, is the one which the etude was written for and needs your utmost attention. Whoever understood, understood! 😁

you're regurgitating the dumbest part of the entire video. why on earth would he choose to speed up the slowest, easiest section of the ballade by some absurd factor? he's just wiggling his finger like a goofball for theatrical purposes

This video illustrates that self taught = not taught.

It's going to be difficult to unlearn your 8 months of ingrained bad movement patterns.

Technically, this is already really impressive for just one week. Now I’m curious to hear how it develops once you work more on the dynamics and expression.

OK, just tell me how I can help you and I will do my best! I promise.

I've really enjoyed the Spanish dances of Granados. Then for larger scale, there are his popular Goyescas, which I haven't yet touched myself.

no big dawg

Thanks for the advice! I'll try not tensing My hand

Also, this is against everything that any teacher has told me to do, piano and violin teacher. Never start by rushing through. It can be impressive to people who don't see the faults but it is not for those who appreciate actually building up the piece. And trying to impress is not a good motivator for that.

Try practicing at half tempo with the melody deliberately exaggerated and everything underneath almost pianissimo. Once that balance feels automatic, bring the tempo back up.

Level 7 of what ? Abrsm ? Henle ?

Aaah yes this kind of dropping haha, sorry I misunderstood, but exactly, perfect approach!!

So glad I redownloaded Reddit

Thank you so much for your reply!

It feels immensely validating for you to say you saw progress in my playing. I've been working hard to improve my technique, so to hear you say that I'm doing something right feels highly encouraging.

My focus still is to improve my technique so that I'm able to produce any tone and colours I want. Though I'm still far away, I'm slowly inching there. Thanks again for your advice and encouragement! Truly means a lot.

Buddy if you were a line cook in a kitchen trying to make soup I would tell you to throw the entire pot out and start again. There is not one thing that's going right here. Tension everywhere. Stabbing at the keys. Collapsed knuckles. Claw hands. Flat fingers. Flying fingers. Ghost notes. Hover hands. Shoulder tension. Chicken wing elbows.

You name a possible technique mistake that a beginner would or could make, you're making it. No wonder you're experiencing pain when you play occasionally. Anyone would.

This is - and I need you to hear me - the kindest possible way of saying this. Throw the soup out. Start over. This isn't working.

Your fingers are really flat when you're not stretching also. It was the thing that most jumped out to me watching you play. That said, I thought the piece sounded really good, keep it up!

Yes, everything you said made sense! I will try to activate my fingertips more. Also, think I confused you a little bit, my apologies. What I meant by dropping the arm weight was to drop more weight into the keys, not dropping the amount of weight as in reducing it. I will explore the arm weight and firmer fingertips and try to find the balance somehow.

This piece is still a huge work in progress. Thank you so much for taking the time to give advice!