Tuesday 1/20

60 Minutes

Right and left hand exercise, "Flying Home", reviewing "Love is Green", "Morning Has Broken"

With the left hand work, learning to differentiate between the release and return of the wrist and the twisting of the arm. The feeling in the left wrist is slightly different than in the right, because there is a gentle arch in addition to releasing/returning action. There is a clear difference in the fullness of the tone with sensitive use of the wrist. "Flying Home" will provide good exercise in this area throughout the week.

For "Morning Has Broken", practicing playing the chord progressions smoothly. I noticed that they often get cut off when moving to the next chord shape, so I took the advice of "deciding when the fingers will change" and worked with that. Also, practicing playing thechords in 6/8 rather than 3/8. Rhythmically, this means 1 2 3 ^4 5 6, instead of 123 123 etc.