Introduction
This
FolkSong should paint for the listener a placid summer scene on a pond. Perhaps we are going to an island for a picnic.
Things To Listen for:
- Beautiful, Singing Legato, especially on repeated notes
- Smooth and steady playing
- Rhythmic integrity, i.e., strong, light, medium, lightest; (especially in the left hand) and
- Dynamic shaping of phrases, in the first line i.e., Loud, soft, soft, - ;Less loud, softer, softer, - ;Softest, louder, louder, louder; Loudest, softer, medium.
Things To Watch for:
Practice Notes:
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- 1st Line
- 1st Note - Get Ready: to catch a deep note (like the middle note in the Twinkle B pattern) by picking up finger 5, right hand, over treble G. Go: move finger 5 quickly into the key catching a big beautiful sound and keeping your balance. Practice many times!
- 2nd Note - After catching a big beautiful note with finger 5, Get Ready to play a soft note by touching E with finger 3. Go: move finger 3 gently into the key making a beautiful small sound and keep your balance. Practice many times!
- 3rd Note - Play finger three by going gently in again before the sound stops from the previous note (legato as in Twinkle D.)
- Notes 4, 5, & 6 - Will be easy to do after practicing first two notes.
- Last 2 measures - Walk steadily up the five note scale, ThumbTucked? and over the white keys as fingers 2 through 5 move into the black keys making good sound all the way.
- 2nd Line - Will be easy to do after practicing line one, ThumbTucked? as soon as you are through with it.
- 3rd Line - Repeated note legato. If you have to count in order to get the right number of D's and E's count, "One, two, three, four, and One more" and remember that "one" is always a deep note.
- 4th Line - You did it already!
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- Practice AlbertiChords? very carefully! The thumb must always play softly.
- Learn each line by ChordProgression? (Lines 1, 2, and 4: C, G, C, C; Line 3: G, G, C, C).
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