Octaves and stretches
Reach, play, release; roll or share wide chords if the hand is small.
- Category
- Technique concepts
- First taught in
- 2.3 Count long and short subdivisions
- Theory cards
- Reaching an octave (Level 2)
- Octaves and stretches (Level 4)
- Practising octaves and double notes safely (Level 6)
In the lessons
6 lessons and 6 pieces where the Method teaches or uses it, in teaching order.
| Lesson | Lesson and piece |
|---|---|
| 2.3 | Count long and short subdivisionsPolonaise in G minor, BWV Anh. 119, Anonymous (Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach) |
| 4.6 | Open the tonic arpeggioBallade, Op. 100 No. 15, Friedrich Burgmüller |
| 6.9 | Clear the sound with half pedalWaltz in A-flat major, Op. 39 No. 15, Johannes Brahms |
| 8.7 | Plan a four-octave journeyImprovisation, Op. 46 No. 4, Edward MacDowell |
| 9.7 | Move a scale in octavesSong without Words in A minor “Volkslied”, Op. 53 No. 5, Felix Mendelssohn |
| 10.7 | Keep octaves light at speedPiano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2 No. 1: IV. Prestissimo, Ludwig van Beethoven |
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