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Bach's Minuet 2 for violin
Confused about the slurred thirds
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JimandThomas
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February 27, 2022 - 7:47 am
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Thomas was just given Bach's Minuet 2 from the Suzuki book and something I just cannot figure out. There are a couple of slurred thirds in this piece and I have always played them faster than the other, non slurred eighth notes when I was younger, but noticed now that I am looking at the music that these thirds are not written as 16th or any faster than the other 8th notes. Yet, every single youtube performance I see of people playing this piece do the same thing I did, and played these thirds faster than the other 8th notes. What is the correct method. I appreciate it and thank you ahead of time.

Jim(Thomases Dad)

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When you say thirds do you mean triplets?

If so, they should be faster than the normal 1/8 notes because you have to fit 3 of them in the space of 2 normal 1/8 notes.

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whoops, yup. triplets

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Not sure if this is helpful, but this Cadenza Strings fellow does a lot of the Suzuki stuff at different speeds on his Youtube channel. 

Here’s Minuet #2 at a slower tempo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?.....w6rcKtQlaQ

And faster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?.....K6eCzgHwc0

And slow, with a metronome:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?.....Y4SOQhDU9A

The Cadenza Strings channel:

https://www.youtube.com/hashta.....astringsnc

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