Hand Independence
I think you’ll agree that the passage of time is captured quite artfully in this music. Like much of Richter’s music, the piece uses elements of minimalism, like regularity and repetition to evoke a contemplative and introspective state of mind, but, in a twist, incorporates syncopations in surprising abundance as a motivic feature. We will leverage this feature to force the brain to organize the right hand against the left hand in an unusual rhythmic construction.
Stay light and relaxed; don’t push when you play this piece.
This piece is relatively short and repetitive, so I recommend learning it in its entirety. You can find the rest of its tutorial parts here.
Syncopation: a rhythmic feature of music in which one melodic line (usually the main RH melodic line) is written such that its notes appear offset relative to the meter of the music. As a consequence, you find melodic notes that fall on ‘off-beats’, or between the beats.