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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Little Waltz - RH B section

By Book 3, Suzuki students are very comfortable with larger gestures to create groupings of notes.  After all, they've been doing it easily since Little Playmates in Book 1!

Little Waltz though, has a B section that is often awkward for students who approach it in the same manner as the A section.



Practicing the gestures that will group these notes together will make the section much more fluid:


Go Tell Aunt Rhody - RH

In Go Tell Aunt Rhody, students are faced both with a finger switch and multiple repeated notes in the melody.  To keep the melody fluid, from the keys, and relaxed, I have students practice their repeated notes as follows:


Practice Variation B for the same feeling.