Post your problems here and maybe other ledgies can help you

[David]

Post your problems here & maybe other ledgies can help you.

I am working on the Menuet from Le tombeau de Couperin (Durand edition) but I am having trouble with pianissimo section after the Sourdine (the recapitulation of the musette although I don't know why Ravel called it a musette). So basically I'm talking about measures 73 to 80. The Menuet is probably considered an advanced beginner's level, but that's about where I am. The left hand chords in measures 73 forward have to be played at a nice clip, & your hand has to jump around quite a bit (which always gives me vertigo), & the chords should be played cleanly & crisply with no roll. So I of course suffer because my left hand lands adjacent to where it is supposed to land, & then my eyeballs start darting rapidly between left & right hand on the keyboard & I get either nausea or a headache. Does anyone have any "fixes"?

"Le Tombeau de Couperin" is my favorite music in all the Earth & the Menuet is the only part of it I can possibly do & so I don't just want to throw it all in. I might also post on the piano newsgroup, but I want to know whether ledgies can help. Thanks, guys.

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