Provides elementary-level students with a valuable resource for basic keyboard skills, including five-finger patterns, I-V7-I chords and arpeggios in all major and minor keys. Students learn to apply these basic skills through improv exercises and reading pieces. Includes a helpful keyboard chart of the I and V7 chords in all keys. A perfect choice for students preparing for auditions!
Category: Piano Studies & Etudes Item: 111403 Grade: Grade 1 - Elementary Price: $6.99 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
Scales, Patterns and Improvs Book 1 provides elementary-level students with a valuable resource for building technique through -I chords and arpeggios in all major and minor keys. Students apply these basic skills through improv exercises and reading pieces in every key. The accompanying audio features MIDI orchestrations for all improvs and exercises. Plus the online audio includes playback tools to help with practicing. The book includes a helpful visual chart of all five-finger patterns, I and...
New from the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library - Basic Skills Series. Scales, Patterns and Improvs provides students with a valuable resource for building technique through one octave scales, I-IV-V7 chords and arpeggios in all major and minor keys.Students apply these basic skills through improv exercises and reading pieces in every key, and by learning to transpose, create an accompaniment and play from a lead line.
Category: Piano Studies & Etudes Item: 111405 Grade: Price: $6.99 Availability: Ships in 10 to 15 Days
Scales, Patterns and Improvs provides students with a valuable resource for building technique through one octave scales, I-IV-V7 chords and arpeggios in all major and minor keys. Students apply these basic skills through improv exercises and reading pieces in every key, and by learning to transpose, create an accompaniment and play from a lead line. The accompanying audio features MIDI orchestrations for all improvs and exercises. Plus, the files include playback tools to assist with slowing dow...
To the modern listener, Fritz Kreisler evokes the elegance, romance, and old world charm of the Viennese ballroom, with sweeping cantabile melodies and bubbly arpeggiated passages that delight audiences and players alike. Violinists are already aware of Kreisler's rich, romantic, and crowd-pleasing repertoire for the violin, but he was a prolific composer and transcriber for piano as well. Pianists will love to play the sweepingly romantic and melancholy melodies of Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow), j...
Kuhlau's Six Sonatinas, Op. 55, prepares the student for study of the easier classical sonatas. While several of the sonatinas in this collection are standard teaching repertoire, others are not as readily accessible and present teacher and student with fresh choices for study and performance. Also included is an outstanding recording from the Naxos Label. Titles: Sonatina No. 1 in C Major, Op. 55, No. * Sonatina No. 2 in G Major, Op. 55, No. 2 * Sonatina No. 3 in C Major, Op. 55, No. 3 * Sonati...
The piano series entitled Games, written from 1973 onwards, was conceived originally as a piano method. Its early volumes introduced children to the basic elements in piano-playing and musical thinking, and, more importantly still, taught them to play music without inhibitions. As the years went by, the view of the series lost its didactic character. It came to be seen as a document from Kurt g's workshop, offering a key to his grander symphonic, chamber and vocal works as well. This change is ex...
Talent Night At The Zoo is a small album with seven charming and imaginative short pieces which can be considered as "early to late intermediate", although, with all the octaves, a child would have to be physically advanced enough to do those pieces justice. Some tricky rhythms and fingerings can also be challenging them. But the pleasure to play these pieces will give them the will to surmont them. -the publisher
Category: Piano Composer Folios Item: 114524 Grade: Intermediate Price: $21.95 Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours
Lang Lang Piano Academy: Daily Technical Exercises is a collection of scale-based warm-ups, work-outs, and routines that no aspiring pianist should be without, providing a perfect follow-up to the Lang Lang Piano Academy: Mastering the Piano series. Ideal for mastering keys and developing essential technique, this book provides flexible and progressive routines ideal for intermediate-level players upwards. Elements include a comprehensive warm-up section, advice and tips from Lang Lang himself, ...