Technical Exercises and Regimes

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Double notes (5)

I will cover the subject of double notes in depth in further articles and resources dedicated to the subject. My preferred double note exercise for warm-up and for building technique is one that modulates through the keys, the pattern changing from major to minor to diminished, and then to the dominant 7th in the new key: Variations Play the exercise in parallel motion between the hands. Also experiment with different fingerings: There are many variants of this exercise in any of the books of technical exercises you care to list. I especially like most...