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Title: Thirds Excercises
Post by: TremolO on February 19, 2005, 04:06:39 PM

I'm having trouble doing these.  My instructor says you're supposed to do these with the arm and wrist rather than the fingers.  However I can't do them right!  They have to be legato and I always fumble through them.

Title: Re: Thirds Excercises
Post by: anda on February 20, 2005, 07:35:55 PM

actually, only the external voices have to be legato (the upper voice for rh and the lower vice for lh). and, anyway, thirds legato is mostly a problem of fingering.

what exercises are these? and do you have good fingerings? if not, ask your teacher to write down the best ones for you.

best luck

Title: Re: Thirds Excercises
Post by: will on February 21, 2005, 03:12:27 AM

Check out https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2477.0.html for descriptions of the movements required for thirds and https://www.leopoldgodowsky.com/jonas5.pdf for a list of common fingering used for thirds.