"Scale in thirds" vs "scales a third apart" - what is the difference?
I was just browsing through ABRSM syllabus and found two different things, as mentioned in the title.
What is the difference?
The syllabus is here: in.abrsm.org/fileadmin/user_upload/PDFs/Piano_Syllabus_2019___2020_complete.pdf. And the page number is 27.
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I guess:
Regarding the piano
scale-in-thirds
will mean thirds played with one hand
scales-a-third-apart
played with both hands.
In addition to other ways of separating the two, I've also heard guitarists playing scales in thirds, playing (C-E-D-F-E-G-F-A... one after the other). They seem to call that playing the C major scale in thirds, but I'm not sure exactly how widespread that phrasing is.
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