Octaves & Power Technique

Orchestral Power, The Octave TechniqueOctave playing is the piano's equivalent of an orchestral TUTTI, maximum power, maximum register span, maximum projection. Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky all wrote extensive octave passages that require a SPECIFIC technique fundamentally different from single-note playing.The Octave Technique, Physics-BasedHand shape: Pre-form the octave (thumb and pinky set, middle fingers RELAXED, not clenched). The hand is OPEN,..

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