
One of the song that I'm working on the piano is Fredric Chopin's Etude. Etude is a french word meaning "study." Etude is a music sheet for improving technical skills. Of course, it is technically difficult, and the difficulties are determined by which technique you try to improve . I'm playing one of the Etude called "Torrent" its specific name is Etude Op.10 No.4. It is inhumanly fast, and in the olden time, they said that it is a composition that can't be played by a human being.
This composition is the hardest etude that Chopin wrote. It is C sharp minor, with continual sixteenth notes that changes theme back and forth. The last part is what you can call the "CLIMAX" it's when the fingers have to move as fast as sewing machines to hit the right amount of power and time. You have to finish this in 1 minute 50 seconds appromixately; and it's difficult to actually succeed in that tempo. But a pianist called Sviatoslav Ricther broke the record to 1 minute and 30 seconds. You can see the video of him playing "Torrent" in the following hyperlink.



