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Prelude in E - A. N. Skryabin - ABRSM 2017/18 Grade 6 Piano B3 with TEACHING NOTES

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TEACHING NOTES
There are some big stretches in this Prelude by Skryabin, but there are several places where the LH can help out (although not shown in this video). If you find stretching a 9th difficult in bars 5, 14 & 16 try taking the lowest note of each 3rd beat chord with the LH. Any other widely chords can be spread as in this video e.g. 0:22 and 0:56 apart from the ones marked in the ABRSM edition.

Pedalling will be essential, generally once every beat, as this is the rate at which the harmony changes. Take a careful look at the last two bars. IF YOU CAN STRETCH the 10th in the RH then release the pedal for the last bar. Technically, the very lowest E in the LH should not be sounding in the last bar (yes look again - it's not there - easy to miss). If you can't then in examination it would be OK to pedal the WHOLE last 2 bars.

Be quite free with your timing, not too metronomic, letting the music ebb and flow with the indicated rubato.

Finally - how to master the triplet against duplet in bar 9. First you could practice the triplet straight (not dotted) with the phrase "nice-cup-of-tea" where the words nice/of/tea belong to the triplet and the words nice/cup belong to the duplet. Try this slowly a few times building the speed. When mastered, simply delay and shorten the final note of the triplet. Listen to 0:33 again for example

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