Chopin's Etudes

I have a Love/Hate relationship with Frederic Chopin's Etudes.


I love his etudes but I hate it that I can't play them.


I'm just not good enough.


Do you know how that feels - to want something so badly - but
you just can't have it?  To tell the Truth - I think Joe knows.
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When I was studying piano about six or seven years ago with
a real Professor/Classical Concert Pianist/Best Jazz Pianist Ever - he
assigned me Opus 25 no.1 Allegro Sostenuto in A flat M - and
I had no trouble simulating this great work of art.

but I simply cannot play it well enough to perform it in Carnegie
Hall.

Hard as I try  - I just cannot.


but let me tell ya folks i can kill it with the best of 'em

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