Playing without tension
Release extra pressure, breathe, stop at pain.
- Category
- Technique concepts
- First taught in
- F.4 Read both staves
- Theory cards
- Staying free of tension (Foundation)
- Octaves and stretches (Level 4)
In the lessons
7 lessons and 7 pieces where the Method teaches or uses it, in teaching order.
| Lesson | Lesson and piece |
|---|---|
| F.4 | Read both stavesAller Anfang ist schwer (Every Beginning Is Difficult), Handstücke I No. 1, Daniel Gottlob Türk |
| 4.6 | Open the tonic arpeggioBallade, Op. 100 No. 15, Friedrich Burgmüller |
| 4.9 | Keep the dancing bass lightPolonaise in D minor, BWV Anh. 128, Anonymous (Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach) |
| 8.7 | Plan a four-octave journeyImprovisation, Op. 46 No. 4, Edward MacDowell |
| 8.11 | Build even speed in a finger studyThe Art of Finger Dexterity, Op. 740 No. 37, Carl Czerny |
| 9.7 | Move a scale in octavesSong without Words in A minor “Volkslied”, Op. 53 No. 5, Felix Mendelssohn |
| D.13 | Keep a concert study brilliant and relaxedÉtude in G major, Op. 40 No. 1, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
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