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Monday, March 12, 2012

Lightly Row, HT B section, Suzuki Book 1

Now that your child is getting more comfortable with hand independence involving legato touch, he should be zooming ahead with putting hands together on many of the pieces we've worked on hands separately!  What an exciting time!  Here is a quick refresher of how legato in the left hand and lifting in the right hand would work in the B section of Lightly Row:




Next up, French Children's Song!   And for a refresher on starting Lightly Row hands together, or how to slow down and practice that hand independence, go back to this post.
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Christmas Day Secrets, LH B section ending, Suzuki Book 1

I've already shown you how this works in lesson, but in case you or your child has forgotten the fingering we discussed, here is a quick example of how it should be played.


We are looking at the very end of the B section of Christmas Day Secrets; left hand.  The fingering should be as follows:

1     2     1     2     3
G    A    G    F     E          and the 3 on E begins the return of the A section seamlessly.