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Musicians, I have a question

#1

I always interpreted grace notes with a slash on the stem to mean you play the note as fast as possible, but listening to recordings I realized that I play them much faster than other people. Can you tell me how you play grace notes, and what the general consensus between musicians is? By the way, I'm an intermediate pianist.

I always interpreted grace notes with a slash on the stem to mean you play the note as fast as possible, but listening to recordings I realized that I play them much faster than other people. Can you tell me how you play grace notes, and what the general consensus between musicians is? By the way, I'm an intermediate pianist.
#2

Advanced(ish) pianist here!

It depends on the grace note! In general, it's not about crushing them, but just making sure that the melody is still heard. A good exercise is to remove all ornaments and voice the melody first to make sure it retains its song when the filigree are added back in. Acciaturas are decorations - too fast and they add nothing to the piece, too slow and they clutter the actual melody.

Advanced(ish) pianist here! It depends on the grace note! In general, it's not about crushing them, but just making sure that the melody is still heard. A good exercise is to remove all ornaments and voice the melody first to make sure it retains its song when the filigree are added back in. Acciaturas are decorations - too fast and they add nothing to the piece, too slow and they clutter the actual melody.
#3

I didn’t understand a single word here. I play+sing Carnatic (South Indian) music so... yeah.

I didn’t understand a single word here. I play+sing Carnatic (South Indian) music so... yeah.
#4

@MantuaUnitedFC said in #1:

I always interpreted grace notes with a slash on the stem to mean you play the note as fast as possible, but listening to recordings I realized that I play them much faster than other people. Can you tell me how you play grace notes, and what the general consensus between musicians is? By the way, I'm an intermediate pianist.

Diploma pianist and violinist here(the highest level of piano and violin grades)
A grace note is an ornament, and is normally played faster than the original tempo, but in the piece— fantasie impromptu op.66 largo, there are many ornamentations here and grace notes are dotted around. These are played using musicality and how you interpret the piece, if you were to connect this to a largo section, I would chose for it to be quite slow, despite it being a grace note.
In other allegro or presto pieces, quite obviously, you would play them very vast, exceeding a demisemiquaver(32th note)
Hope this helped:)

@MantuaUnitedFC said in #1: > I always interpreted grace notes with a slash on the stem to mean you play the note as fast as possible, but listening to recordings I realized that I play them much faster than other people. Can you tell me how you play grace notes, and what the general consensus between musicians is? By the way, I'm an intermediate pianist. Diploma pianist and violinist here(the highest level of piano and violin grades) A grace note is an ornament, and is normally played faster than the original tempo, but in the piece— fantasie impromptu op.66 largo, there are many ornamentations here and grace notes are dotted around. These are played using musicality and how you interpret the piece, if you were to connect this to a largo section, I would chose for it to be quite slow, despite it being a grace note. In other allegro or presto pieces, quite obviously, you would play them very vast, exceeding a demisemiquaver(32th note) Hope this helped:)