Do this

1. Find your 4 chords. In the bass clef, look at the lowest note at the start of bars 1, 2, 3, 4. Those roots are E, G, B, D → the chords Em, G, Bm, D. Pencil the chord name above each bar. (Confirm the order matches your sheet.)
2. Play each chord as a solid block first — all three notes at once, left hand, fingers 5–3–1 (pinky on the bottom). Get the shape under your hand. See the diagrams.
3. Now roll it (arpeggio) the way the music does: bottom note up through the chord, smooth even eighth-notes. Read the exact note order off your sheet — it just walks through these same chord notes.
4. Metronome ~50. Play the 4-bar loop. Get your eyes off your hands as soon as you can.
5. The automaticity test: loop it while saying the chord names out loud (“Em… G… Bm… D…”). If you can talk and keep playing, the left hand is going automatic. That — not speed — is the whole goal of this page.

Your four chords (left hand, fingers 5–3–1)

Do this

1. Two tunes to learn: the A-theme (starts bar 5) and the B-theme (starts bar 13 — mostly long held notes, so it’s easier). Right hand only.
2. Chunk the A-theme into single bars. Learn bar 5. Then play 5–6. Then 5–7. Add one bar at a time (“chaining”) — never the whole thing at once.
3. Count out loud while you play: “1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &.” Notice the melody does not start on beat 1 — there’s a short rest, then it enters just after. Feeling that “late” entry now is what saves you later.
4. Right-hand fingering: thumb = 1 (your lowest finger here), pinky = 5. Keep the hand relaxed and curved — no tension.
5. Bring each tune up to a comfortable speed, hands separate. Comfortable, not fast.

Mark where the melody lands (fill in from your sheet)

Do this

1. Find the sync points. Play bars 5–6 very slowly and watch: each time a right-hand note sounds, which left-hand note is happening at that exact instant? Mark it on the grid below.
2. Block them. For each sync point, press the left-hand note and its matching right-hand note together, as one chord. Ignore the in-between left-hand notes for now. This teaches your hands the alignment.
3. Expand, very slow (metronome ~40). Now play the full left-hand arpeggio and drop each right-hand note onto its sync point. Say it out loud: “… right-hand note — now.”
4. Loop 2 bars. It will feel clumsy and slow. That clumsiness IS the learning — don’t rush it away. Raise the tempo only after 3 clean reps.
5. Keep the left hand running like a motor. The right hand simply drops onto it.

The sync-point grid

Do this

1. B-theme hands-together first (bars 13–16). It’s the easy one — long held right-hand notes over the same left-hand loop. Quick confidence win, so start here.
2. Now MIX it up. Instead of drilling one bit over and over, rotate randomly: A-theme → B-theme → intro (LH only) → back to A. Pull a “card” at random. It feels messier — that’s the point: it builds memory that lasts, not memory that vanishes overnight.
3. Drill the joins. A join is just “last beat of one bar + first beat of the next.” Isolate each as its own 2-bar chunk: 4→5 (LH-only into the melody entry), 8→9 (A repeats), 12→13 (A into B).

Map of the piece (▲ = the joins to drill)

Shuffle these — random order, not blocked

Do this

1. Continuity pass at ~50–60. Play the whole thing hands-together. Rule: do not stop to fix mistakes. If you stumble, keep the left hand going and rejoin with the right. Flow beats perfection today.
2. Find your 2 worst spots. Isolate each (back to the chunk method, 3–4 min each), then drop it straight back into the piece.
3. Finish on a win. Play one clean, slightly-slower full pass so the last thing you play is a success — that’s what your brain keeps overnight.

The full lap (play it through, start to finish)

The weekend plan