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Thread #71277 Message #1220168
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
06-Jul-04 - 05:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: ...Funeral For My Hen...
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: ...Funeral For My Hen...
Sorry- At beginning of the third line, "And ev-ry day she..." go back with right hand (finger!)to the beginning- the third or highest black note- THEN cross over to the left or lower 3-group notes for, "And Sun-day she..." etc.
I apologize if I labor uselessly on a child's keyboard trick which everybody already knows. I hope I haven't killed your thread, Alice! But, in thinking about this- there are quite a few tricky games like this, that we kids used on the black notes. Did any of you ever roll your knuckles (right hand, usually) left to right over the three-note group, striking the first-encountered of the pair of two notes, Pom-pom., then repeat the knuckle-again, accenting it with the higher note of the pair- repeat the action with the knuckle-roll to the right, accentuating each roll with the Pom-pom on the lower two-note "group," finally finishing with, left to right playing all the five keys, "Ta-ra-la-la-LA-LA-LA?" More childhood foolishness I guess.