Independence
In C: Simple melodies · Major scale · How chords are built · Diatonic chords · Chord changes · Melody and chords · Independence
The right hand is the melodic lead. It sings, and it is allowed to move on any part of the beat. The left hand is the harmonic foundation and the rhythm: the root, then the fifth, and a pulse that does not copy the tune. Melody and chords put both hands on one loop. These twelve exercises are how the hands learn to keep their own jobs.
How to use them
Every exercise has three buttons. Learn the left hand alone, then the right hand alone, then both. Start at 60. If a hand copies the other hand's rhythm, stop and go back one exercise. The early ones share a beat on purpose. Independence begins when one hand can hold still, or play, while the other does something else.
The twelve steps
The next page stretches the Am chord into the minor scale. Faster patterns with no tune — scales, two-against-one, the long arpeggio — stay on Exercises.