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Thanks for the tips.

This explains why my arms hurt so much after just half an hour of practice. The tenths, which appear three times in this piece, are going to be a challenge with only hand movements. Still, I might get it by Christmas!

Thanks for the advice on the sustain pedal.

I'm somewhere between Grade 3 and Grade 4, so pedalling is a new learning curve for me.

Isn't it called a ninth when you play the the first notes of the left hand piece in the second bar of the lower line, or am I thinking of a tenth? Or is it something else? It's certainly the hardest part of this piece, and it appears in other pieces in this book of Christmas carols. It's certainly l...

Thank you for the reply. For clarification, this is actually piano notation, even though it looks as though it is an SATB composition. There is definitely something strange about how often the right hand plays notes that are already being played by the left hand, and the author's obsession with nint...

Could someone please explain what I am supposed to do with the left hand in the final two bars of this piece? The minim is tied to the previous crotchet. I would ordinarily treat this as holding the note for three beats. However, there is a crotchet on the same line of the stave in the same place. D...