Holding the full length

Learn first

• Keeping an inner pulse

Next skills

• One hand holds, the other moves
• Two speeds on one beat
• Long–short & ties
• Triple time 3/4
• Chords as one sound
• Legato, staccato & accents
• Hands first, foot after

Practised in these lessons

1. Lesson 52

   Long notes still count

   Tell apart whole, half, quarter and dotted half notes.

   In Piano for adult beginners

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2. Lesson 180

   Complete piece: Hot Cross Buns

   Your first complete piece: all eight bars, keeping the beat through long notes, eighths and rests.

   In Piano for adult beginners

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3. Lesson 165

   An unsent letter

   Dotted notes and ties holding the sound

   In Peaceful Days · 18 short pieces

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