Octaves can feel like an endurance test, especially when every passage gets the same fifth-finger treatment and the pedal does the smoothing.
In this lesson segment from Mastering Octaves: Power and Control, Sara Davis Buechner reframes the keyboard as two levels: white keys for the fifth finger, black keys for the fourth.
Her thumbs-only practice technique might be the most valuable octave exercise you'll try.
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