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Not very comfortable in that other thread (it seems to have an opinion you've got to supply complete performance vids). Here is the first two sections using a Chopin technique. Before decrying my attempt stop and think - how well would Chopin have pulled it off? The ease of this way is refreshing, in fact it's all subtle hand/wrist caressing at even slower tempo. Souplesse, souplesse!

I would say that that, is most like the way my teacher wants me to play the piece.

Very rare teacher then - watch this space!

It looks fine to me.
I have no idea what you mean about "this way," nor what might be controversial about it, nor what you mean by "using a Chopin technique." It just looks like fine playing to me. I imagine other 'ways' would too.

And of course please don't refer me back to the other threads. I'm just saying.

And what's the tempo marking in the original score?

The complaints I'm expecting are about 'floppy' wrists, but to flick up on the up accents and down on the down there is no alternative - and that is Chopin technique.

You think Chopin wouldn't have managed it?

kbk, thanks for video. It would be nice though (as it is still an open request on the other thread) to actually slow it down like to 60-70 and also show a view more from the top. Also no pedal.

I don't have a problem accenting though I don't see my hands/wrist making a terribly big motion and I'm able to reach this tempo (in parts).

If I'm to make an observation on what I see different from what I have come up with, you seem to do it with flatter fingers. There appears to be more wrist sideways motion (can't be sure because of the camera angle), and you don't play higher up the black keys, particularly on F major (bar 3). I don't notice much rotation either. There also seems to be more forward/backward motion than I probably do.

If any of my observations match what you do, perhaps you can explain what you are doing a little more. I came up with my own method from my own trial and error so I expect to do more of it.

The hurdle I expect to have for myself is to reach the written tempo of 176. That's not happening anytime soon but doing it consistently at 140 or so seems a reasonable target for me.

I don't think I do any rotation. I'm using a push in with the arm (flick) though the only evidence is the wrist going up. I don't think there's time for rotation - it would involve supinating and releasing for every accent. Flicking uses gravity (oh dear, I'll hate myself for bringing that word up) to get the wrist back down so only really involves effort in getting the wrist up. Seymore Fink has a good illustration of in-with-the-elbow on his DVD. I'll try and do a slower over head one if it helps. I wouldn't start setting up hurdles!

Here ya go Jazz, to order - only one splash! Quite interesting actually. You may have to watch on youtube if it isn't clear.

No I don't notice much rotation but I was referring to sideways wrist motion. Is that what you call ulnar deviation? Do you do a lot of that?

I worked to figure out how to reduce that thinking that extra motion might be a strain but it appears (can't be certain) that you do that movement that I worried myself about. My solution was to play some notes higher up the key (closer to the fallboard). The problem is more obvious to me when played very slowly.

As far as the wrist going up too much or not, it's hard to tell for me because the natural change in handshape from stretched to closed would make the wrist appear to go up and down.

It's the in/out motion that was more noticeable. Now what are "flicking" exactly. The accents?

Yes, ulnar and radial deviation not rotation -that uses the door knob turning muscle. The flick is an in with the elbow which brings about an up from the wrist. It's the third way to bring about key depression - first being scratch/grip and second being drop/flop (which is what I do on the accents on the way down.

So ulnar/radial deviation is not a bad thing? I presume Ulnar is when the RH fingers move to the right? That's the movement I was worried about.

And when are you consciously doing the flicks here? The accent (finger 5) as you already said is the down. Do you flick starting at finger 2 and also at 3/4?

Ulnar/radial deviation in passing is fine; playing with either fixed is poor technique. All the flicks are done by the elbow using finger 5 on the rising arpeggio accents.

if I watch my hands while I play it makes me nauseous, seriously.... but I can tell you that I hold my hand and wrist higher on the way down. I think my fingers are a bit more arched.

thanks for showing your video

I tried the "flicks".

A little different feel since there's more in/out motion. I now realized that I was doing rotation on 5 before.

I'm not sure why it's called a flick but basically I move the elbow in. Seems natural enough since the 5th is shorter.

Now I presume that N.'s way may be to pull in using finger 5 (or 3/4) and an inactive elbow.

Your way is a more active elbow.

I get the differences now in seemingly 3 variations in the approach (rotation, finger, flick). Can't tell yet what feels better but rotation seems to have more brilliance. Thoughts?

I'm unclear what you mean by rotation. It's a flick in the sense of the tiddly winks movement. Your finger goes down but the wrist goes up - a little counter-intuition there.

What I was doing originally was rotation, though not that much. I think I understand what rotation is (turning the door knob). I was doing it on finger 5.

Your way does not involve rotation, I can see that. But thinking about it for a moment, it felt more jerky, because of the abrubt flicking of 5. Perhaps that's more of a practice of creating a rounded motion. I just tried it for a few minutes so it's a cursory look.

I just want to make sure I understand it completely.

OK, we do understand rotation. Jerkiness will happen unless your wrist is 100% relaxed - that's maybe the big skill.

I don't have any particular complaint with wrist movements- provided that the fingers are both stable on the keys and active in sounding them. However, I do have a complaint with any claim that there is no alternative.

The problem is that your film shows a great deal of uneveness both tonally and rhythmically in many areas. I don't think that makes a very good advert for what you say about the arm. At times virtually all notes but the accented ones are scarcely even audible. This is a classic symptom, when trying to use arm movements as a replacement for adequate finger activation- rather than to complement it. If this happens in practise tempo what happens when you go up to something resembling a performance speed? Despite the slow tempo, we hear a truly substantial emergency slowing for the cadence back to C. I'd be especially interested to see the results of such motions in the countless bars of equivalent difficulty within the middle section- particularly at a faster tempo.