Preludes VII VIII IX

Hello M G,

It's fun to hear your latest batch of music. In the Prelude IX, those hands are having a good time with the diminished chord arpeggios, which always fit the piano fingers so well compared to other chords.

Cheers
-- Mark

Hi Mark, Fred,

I don't know about hands having a good time with diminished arpeggios. As an exercise it was set up so the thumb went under every few notes, and played as fast as possible and as loud as possible for a half hour could create an ache from thumb up to the elbow.

We lived in the South for four years and on the Navajo Reservation for ten. While my wife avoided speech sprinkled with local idioms, I was pretty easy prey. When we returned from the Res, you should have seen the look on faces (which said, I suppose, 'and you're an English teacher?') when I mentioned all the traffics on the road.

all best,
mgj