The position ladder
Stage 8's taking-more-help-away taught you a five-rung scaffold (A: everything labelled → E:
a clean score) and told you to re-run it every time the material jumps to something new. A new
position is exactly that kind of jump — and it gets its own trip up the ladder, same as a
new key did.
The ladder, aimed at a position
| Stage | What the page shows | What you supply |
|---|---|---|
| A | note name + string + finger, fully labelled | nothing — just find the position and play |
| B | notation only, labels hidden, tap to reveal | working out the note, string and finger yourself |
| C | a passage mixing this position with 1st position | recognising when to shift, not just where the notes are |
| D | a passage with no numeral cue at all | judging from the notes alone that a shift is needed |
Try it
Try
Pick whichever position you learned most recently. Play its note map with the labels showing
once, then again with them hidden, working each note out before you check. Once that's easy,
find a moment in a piece — or a fragment from third-position-in-your-tunes — where you have
to decide whether to shift there at all, with no numeral telling you.
The usual mistake
Assuming a position you know well in isolation is automatically ready for Stage D. Reading a note map cold is not the same skill as recognising, mid-phrase, that a shift is the right move — that judgement is its own rung, and it's usually the last one to feel solid.