Skeleton Practice


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Skeleton Outlines: Playing One Hand While Making Varied Skeletons of The Other

Mozart: Sonata in C, K545 To return to the Mozart K545 example, in the second phrase we can make a skeleton of the RH scale patterns by playing the lowest and highest notes of each scale only. This is valuable as an interim stage, since it is shows the simple design of the music and eliminates the technical difficulty of managing the semiquavers. It also makes it much easier to put hands together. The original: A basic skeleton RH version: And a fuller skeleton version: You might proceed with another skeleton...

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