Thread:Zippy130/@comment-27681107-20170501213036/@comment-27914031-20170502211152

I don't agree with that YouTube tutorial. The wrist movement she demonstrates during the arpeggiations is something my current piano teacher specifically said NOT to do when I raised that issue on the first day of covering that piece (and BTW my piano teacher has a doctorate from Julliard). She showed me a way to do it fast and still keep it legato, without the superfluous wrist rotation (which would present a problem at faster tempi -- and apparently DOES cause the YouTuber problems late in the video when she speeds it up). And practically all piano teachers say not to stick your elbow out like in that early part of the demo. And I find it odd that the tutorial is trying to teach phrasing with the right-hand part of that piece/passage, which is basically just harmonic filler/filigree. It's the left-hand part that has the melody, so that's the impetus for the phrasing effort/dynamic shaping (and my teacher has been guiding me on that too).