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Hands, Touch, and Slow Scales

The physical foundation. Four lessons that never really end: this module stays in the daily warm-up for the whole program.

4 lessons · 8 weeks

Hands, Touch, and Slow Scales illustration
A1

Slow scales up and down the keyboard with proper fingering

The standard fingering system, hands separate then together, four octaves, slowly.

2 weeks
A2

How to touch the keyboard: the literature and the daily practice

Sandor, Taubman, Fraser, and the touch-and-tone science, turned into a daily warm-up.

2 weeks
A3

Minor scales, natural, harmonic and melodic, and the blues scale, with fingering for every key

Natural, harmonic, melodic, and blues, with the fingering for all twelve keys.

3 weeks
A4

Practice method: the schedule, slow practice, and how not to practice

How to practice, how not to, and your written weekly schedule for the whole program.

1 week