[Frank Smithers]

Hello,

I am new to piano and have been confused by lesson twelve (page 24) in "The Complete Keyboard Player Book 1" (Revised) by Kenneth Baker. This is regarding fingering of the notes A B and C(high).

It mentions a new hand position, but never shows where it is. The notes (high)C C C B A G E E A G E are played. It mentions bar three and bar four, but there is only three bars! It talks about stretching and I am not sure what finger to stretch out with to play the E in the excerpt from Mr Tambourine Man.

I assumed it was 5 5 5 4 3 1 (on E). It mentions a stretch for this, which makes sense as there are no fingers over it. Then E A G E is played with ? 5 ? 2. What is odd is that it mentions a stretch to play E, when finger two is already over it if you use a new hand position of 5 on C and the rest in sequence down to F. I assume for the question marks it was 2 5 4 2. What was intended or what is the correct method. With such a brief mention on an important technique I am very surprised to hear people recommending these books for beginners.

Thanks in advance,
Frank.