The School of Velocity Op. 299 No. 3

Carl Czerny · Level 4 (Intermediate) · study · Piano

Broken sixteenth-note arpeggios ranging over the keyboard in the right hand, over short chords and basses. From Czerny’s School of Velocity Op. 299 (1833), forty studies for speed and evenness. C major, 4/4, 24 bars (about one minute), complete score.

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How to practise it

• Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
• Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
• Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
• Keep the hand supple and the wrist mobile in the arpeggios, with no bumps at the changes of position. For chords, shape the hand in the air before landing, all notes together. Start hands separately in Wait mode, then put hands together at a slow tempo before speeding up gradually.

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• Eight-Measure Exercise Op. 821 No. 13
• Eight-Measure Exercise Op. 821 No. 14
• Melodic Study Op. 840 No. 1
• Melodic Study Op. 840 No. 6
• Melodic Study Op. 840 No. 9
• Eight-Measure Exercise Op. 821 No. 3
• Eight-Measure Exercise Op. 821 No. 10
• Eight-Measure Exercise Op. 821 No. 15

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