Week 2 Technique Summary

1. Play everything hands together that happens exactly on the downbeat. Continue through the entirety of the measure playing only the RH. Play hands together again on the downbeat, then continue playing the rest of the measure with the RH only.
2. Switch. Play everything hands together on the downbeat. Continue playing everything in the LH throughout the measure, then hands together again on the downbeat.

We are working on looking at the vertical guideposts of the downbeats, collapsing our vision to follow horizontally along one hand only, opening it up to see both hands vertically at the downbeat, and collapsing our vision to look at one hand only again. This helps our visual flexibility. It also allows us to make either the melodic or harmonic structure needed for the piece while retaining emphasis and structure from the hands-together downbeats.