Dd has been learning for a couple of years and enjoys it. She has been learning third position for about 2 months now (grade 3 level) and I am not sure about how she is being taught this.
So, she started a new piece and the teacher marked out which strings she should be playing on since it's not as immediately obvious as for first position (she's gone from first straight to third).
Dd asked me, what I thought was a valid question, - 'how do I know just by looking at a piece that I should be playing 3rd position?' I didn't know and asked the teacher who said it's a bit tricky so dd needs to be told by her.
Is this how it should be? should a child not be able to work out when she should be playing in 3rd (or any other position appropriate to level of playing) and should she not be able to work out which of G,D,A,E strings she should be playing on?
Thanks for any help.
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maggiethecat · 16/01/2011 20:14
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