Do you have trouble playing octaves in the repertoire? In this video, several Tonebase artists share their diverse strategies and solutions for this controversial topic, as well as looking at some infamous passages in Schubert's "Wanderer Fantasy" and Liszt's "La Campanella". Featuring Jeffrey Biegel, Robert Durso, Penelope Roskell, Henry Kramer and Asiya Korepanova; and hosted by Robert Fleitz.

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0:00 Who's afraid of octaves?
2:40 Opening the Hand Exercise
4:05 Strategies for Smaller Hands
5:08 Balancing the Hand
5:37 Wrist Flick Exercise
7:13 Octaves in Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy
8:42 Octave Passagework in La Campanella



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