Legato Teaching Legato Legato playing does not come naturally to most students.
Little kids are another matter.
They have real physical problems getting the fingers to work so that one comes up exactly when the other comes down. I ask the student to demonstrate those two ideas to me. When asked to attend to the difference, the student immediately can differentiate them. We work together until we have at least a couple of notes strung together legato. Sometimes the student can do two sets of fingers.