Scan 34
Guckert's Illustrated Self Instructor for the Violin, 1900
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125th Lesson
2Key of G Flat Major, or Six Flats
4The Key of G Flat Major is not often used in Violin music. I therefore only give one octave of scales and arpeggios. I wish to call the students attention now to the similarity of the keys in Sharps and Flats, using this Key of G Flat for example you have learned that A# raises a note half tone and Ab lowers a note a half tone. When you flat G it gives you the tone of F# and is made on the Violin where F# is made. Therefore the Key of G Flat (6 flats) is identically the same as the Key of F sharp (6 sharps) only of course the signature of one key is flats and the other sharps. The signature of a key is always placed on the staff at the begining of the piece, exercise etc., showing what notes are to be sharped and flatted throughout the piece. But I have overstepped the rule in this new method, and have in most of the keys, placed sharps and flats before the notes to be sharped and flatted, thus giving the pupil no chance of making or practicing a mistake, as one is apt to, without a teacher, being dependent entirely on their own ear to tell them when they are playing correctly.
6CHORDS IN G FLAT
8ARPEGGIO IN G FLAT
10EXERCISE IN CHORDS OF G FLAT Arpeggio Style
12AULD LANG SYNE
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