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After you complete your order, you will receive an order confirmation e-mail where a download link will be presented for you to obtain the notes. Speaking of Christmas, when is it OK to start playing christmas tunes?Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.This week we are giving away Michael Buble 'It's a Wonderful Day' score completely free. I’m fairly confident that i’ll have the piece ready by christmas. Below is a link to someone playing properly: It seemed to me that it would be faster to just alternate two fingers, but I have finally come round to the idea that my piano teacher knows what she’s talking about, and certainly knows a lot more than me.Īfter today’s session I’m much happier with the piece.OK I still can’t play it all the way through error free, but I can play each of the individual parts. Initially I pushed back against this fingering. This is a disadvantage when performing trills, where the fingering of the two notes should be done with the finger pattern of 2-4-3. I don’t curve my fingers enough, I.e I hold my hands too flat, and need to lift my wrists up. I know that my hand position is generally poor. I can’t quite understand why I have struggled so much with this part, although I suppose the trills must be part of the reason. My piano teacher has a lot of child students so I guess she uses these terms for them, and doesn’t see the need to change the words for her adult learners.Īnother section which has required a seemingly inordinate amount of practice has been bars 33 to 38. The three syllables of Elephant representing the triplet, the Hippopotamus representing the quintuplet and the tiger for the final two notes. I’m learning from book 4 from the ABRSM’s ‘More Romantic Peices for piano’, and my copy my piano teacher has written ‘Elephant Hippopotamus Tiger’ above bar 21. I’m finally feeling that I’ve broken the back of it.īars 17 – 24 have been giving me some of the most grief, especially bar 21. To be honest when I started it was a little above my ability, generally regarded to be an ABRSM grade 6 piece, although it is often described as one of his ‘easier’ works. It is this latter one published after his death that I have been learning on and off since the end of July. There are two different A minor waltzes by Chopin, the first is numbered Op.34 No 2 and the second is normally referred to as ‘Op Post’ or by it’s Brown Index of 150.