Positions - one sheet.

Although I introduced the half-way harmonics very early on (within weeks), actual position work was delayed quite a lot later than Rolland originally envisaged, and then with a special four-page pack of which this Positions sheet was the first page.   The main concept though is fully covered here, and there is no shortage of practice material for 2nd and 3rd positions.

The sheet explains itself - stage one though must be perfectly in tune, with just the 3rd finger covering the stopped notes, the teacher playing the actual melodies.

I have used this approach with thousands of children, and I do not recall ever having a problem getting them to move up their hands one step, so that the notes are now covered by the second finger - or later by the first finger.  The focus is on the tuning, not the finger.

Stage three takes them one small but logical step further on, replacing some of the open notes with stopped ones - after that it is just a matter  of sufficient practice!

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