this piece has been the death of me! 3 months and I'm still struggling through the first movement.

my main problem is that i haven't been drilling practices very much, so some technical bits are shaky. but even though i'm putting in the effort now, the kinks won't...unkink themselves.

if anyone is familiar with this piece, i'd really appreciate help with practicing the sequenced multi-voiced section in the first movement in the development section. i haven't got the bar numbers, i'll post them down later. i have trouble reaching an octave which is frustrating me more than normal these days and it's not been good times at the piano (I fear for my Brinsmead's life. it cowers when I approach.). Any help at all would be appreciated as to how to make that fingering easier and more manageable for someone with small hands.

also, though I sincerely hope this will work itself out as i put in more practice time, the 3-1 and 4-3 trills are really bothering me. i don't know why (okay, maybe because 16 years of trilling 3-2 has been embedded in my mind) but i just cannot get comfortable with those trills. i tend to slow down a LOT when playing them with the left hand together. any extra advice would be tremendously, humungously appreciated.

thanks in advance to the kind souls out there.

I learnt the A minor piano sonata about six months ago. With the development - the bass line needs to be quiet and the notes which are stalks up have to be the loadest whilst everything else is the accompaniment. With the trills you have to practice them slowly without the left hand then add the left hand and then gradually speed them up to get used to the fingering. With the octaves, keep practising them - the more you practice the easier the stretch will become (i have fairly small hands too).

Also practice in small chunks during the day as just by doing a few bars concentrated practice really helps. Hope this helps!!