BOOK TWO: Elementary
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A DOZENA DAY
Pre-Practice
Technical Exercises
FOR THE PIANO
Edna-Mae Burnam &
CHAPPELL & CO. LTD.
LONDON, W.1
THE WILLIS MUSIC COMPANY
CINCINNATI, OHIOTo my fanily
A DOZEN A DAY
Many people do physical exercises every morning before they go to work.
Likewise— we should all give our fingers exercises every day BEFORE we
begin our practising.
The purpose of this book is to help develop strong hands and flexible fingers.
Do not try to learn the entire first dozen exercises the first week you study
this book! Just learn two or three exercises and do them each day before practising.
‘When these are mastered, add another, then another, and keep adding until the
twelve can be played perfectly.
When the first dozen—Group I—have been mastered and perfected—Group
IL may be introduced in the same manner.
When the entire book is finished, any of the groups may be transposed to
different keys. In fact, this should be encouraged.
EDNA-MAE BURNAM.CONTENTS
GROUP I
1. Walking and Running
2. Skipping
3. Hopping
4 Deep Breathing
5. Deep Knee Bend
6. Suetching
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Morning Stretch
Walking
Running
- High Stepping
& Jumping
Kicking Right Leg
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1, Deep Breathing
2. Rolling
3. Climbing (in place)
4 Tip-toe Running (in place)
5. Baby Steps
8. Giant Steps
GROUP IV
1, Morni
2. Climbing (in place)
3: Tip-toe Running (in place)
4 Running
5; Cartwheels
6. Touching Toes
GROUP V
1. Deep Breathing
2, Touching Toes
3- Hopping
4. Climbing a Ladder
5, Jumping Rope (Slow, and“ Red Pepper)
6. Swinging Arms
. Stretching Right Leg Up
. Stretching Left Leg
. Cartwheeis
. The Splits
. Standing on Head
12
10.
. Jumping Rope
Fit as a Fiddle and Ready to Go
Kicking Left Leg,
1. The Splits
Leg Work (Lying down)
. Sitting Up and Lying Down
. A Hard Trick
, Fit as a Fiddle and Ready to Go
Somersaults
. Touching Toes
Ballet Exercise (“ Enire chat quatre)
. The Splits
. Fit as a Fiddle and Ready to Go
Hopping
. Baby Steps
. Giant Steps
. Flinging Arms Out and Back
Standing on Head
. Fit as a Fiddle and Ready to Go
|. Hand Springs
Walking like a Duck
. Bear Walk
Sliding Down the Bannister
| A Hard Trick
. Fit as a Fiddle and Ready to Go
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9. Giant Steps
10. Flinging Arms Out and Back
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