Only 7 people replied then. I am 67 and about grade 3/4
Thank you for those who replied to me with ideas on how to successfully play legato with the write hand and staccato with the left, I think i am improving but still find it difficult. So for those who did not responed back in July and have suggestions please feel free to do so.
Only 7 people replied then. I am 67 and about grade 3/4
Only 7 people replied then. I am 67 and about grade 3/4
Can't remember if I did reply to you.
Try playing really really slowly. Any two notes - play two notes together, one staccato and the other you hold. Keep practising this, you don't need to put any rhythm or sense of time with it yet. Try it out with lots of different finger combinations. When doing this it doesn't matter when the long note ends just that both notes start at the same time and you have a good crisp staccato tone.
Get used to how it feels. When you can do this get out the old metronome and set it slow see if you can continue to do this with the two notes but with the added pressure of playing in some time.
Try playing really really slowly. Any two notes - play two notes together, one staccato and the other you hold. Keep practising this, you don't need to put any rhythm or sense of time with it yet. Try it out with lots of different finger combinations. When doing this it doesn't matter when the long note ends just that both notes start at the same time and you have a good crisp staccato tone.
Get used to how it feels. When you can do this get out the old metronome and set it slow see if you can continue to do this with the two notes but with the added pressure of playing in some time.
It's impossible . . . until you get the hang of it, then it's easy, or so I'm told! Have faith, keep practicing, good luck! 
Play hands separately until you can do them ABSOLUTELY PERFECT every time whatsoever. Then hands together slowly with a metronome, then speed up 5 or 10 'notches' when you get it at that speed perfect 3 times in a row. Repeat if neccessary.
I'm presuming this question is in regards to a keyboard instrument... but as others have said, start slowly and work with the metronome. Play the right hand as crotchets and the left hand as semi-quavers, and raise the tempo at the rate you can cope with. Note the note values really depend on the piece more than anything else in deciding 'how staccato' you play the left hand.
As an exercise, you could try playing scales for both hands, the right hand playing quavers and the left hand semi-quavers. Play them 'out-of-sync' by a semi-quaver. First, try with the right hand starting - so, basically, this is the right hand plays the first note of a scale and holds it, then the left hand plays a semi-quaver an octave below for the remaining value of the right-hand note (keeping the right hand note held), before the right-hand plays the next note. After this, you could inverse it to start with the semi-quaver of the left hand...
~Wobby~
As an exercise, you could try playing scales for both hands, the right hand playing quavers and the left hand semi-quavers. Play them 'out-of-sync' by a semi-quaver. First, try with the right hand starting - so, basically, this is the right hand plays the first note of a scale and holds it, then the left hand plays a semi-quaver an octave below for the remaining value of the right-hand note (keeping the right hand note held), before the right-hand plays the next note. After this, you could inverse it to start with the semi-quaver of the left hand...
~Wobby~
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