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Offline mozart404

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Trying to finally get good at realizing figured bass...
on: August 09, 2014, 11:13:09 AM
I have been working on realizing figured bass seemingly forever now and I still really struggle with it. It's part of the ABRSM Grade 6 theory syllabus.

I can figure out the chords, I have a good knowledge of all the rules of part writing (counterpoint) , but when I actually sit down to do it's a nightmare. I'm ridiculously slow, it'll take me an hour to do about 2 questions. And when my teacher marks it there will always been the odd awkward leap, parallel fifth or wrong chord.

I just always seem to work myself into a corner where the top voices have ended up too long, or I can't resolve a 7th or something. Here are some examples (written for keyboard, no SATB):





The top line always seems to just keep descending when I write for keyboard, I'm not sure why that is.
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