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Topic: Etudes Tableaux op 39 no 6 "little red riding hood"  (Read 1834 times)

Offline wwalrus

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Etudes Tableaux op 39 no 6 "little red riding hood"
on: September 11, 2013, 12:37:56 AM
Hi,

I'm having a lot of trouble with the repeated notes in the beginning: my thumb tenses up and makes it difficult to do the broken chords (dont know what else to call them) up to speed.

Really, my problem is bringing up to speed which is something around 165-180/quarter.