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Garden Gate

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Key
G major
Style
Classical
Level
Level 1
Roughly
RCM 1 · ABRSM 1 · Trinity 1 · Henle 1
Lesson
Musicianship
Focus
Play a G-major tune with the right hand in the G five-finger position, move up for the F-sharp phrase, and keep the left hand on G and D.

What its lesson teaches

1.12 Find the key of G

Play Garden Gate in G, written for this lesson: the right hand stays in the G five-finger position and then climbs the upper tetrachord D–E–F sharp–G. Find F sharp in the key signature and play it on every F. Hear where the bass rests on G, the tonic, and where it moves to D, the dominant. In bar 12 a fermata holds the D that ends the high phrase: wait on it, breathe, then bring the tune home. Türk’s Hans ohne Sorgen, also in G, shows the same key signature beside written accidentals.

Technique
  • G major scale, hands separately, 2 octaves

Edition and licence

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