Long Shadows

F.13 Carry sound and silence

Study Long Shadows, an original single-line miniature. Count four beats through each whole note, two through each half note and one through each quarter. Bars 4 and 6 end with a half-note rest: count it in silence and come in again exactly on the next bar. Let the last phrase end quietly.

Ideas

• Time signatures: simple time
• Note values
• Rests
• The phrase

Theory cards

• The beat and note values
• Rests
• The phrase

Technique

• C major five-finger pattern, hands separately