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caperflutist

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Legato 6ths

on: January 27, 2006, 12:29:54 AM

I am learning a piece on organ (yes I know..not piano) that has a lot of 6ths and I am having problems getting them legato! Any tips, exercises I can do to help with this..or fingering? If the organ had a damper pedal I could do it, but no such luck

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abell88

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Re: Legato 6ths

Reply #1 on: January 27, 2006, 02:51:07 PM

I'm no expert, but one thing I remember being shown by a good organist was how you have to do a lot of finger switching on the keys. An exercise was to play an ascending scale in 6ths; on each step of the scale you switch from fingers 2 and 5 to 1 and 4. Similarly, for 3rds you switch from 4 and 2 to 3 and 1.

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