Finger Gymnastics: 25 Daily Piano Scales and Technique in F Major is great for beginning piano students of any age that want to learn quickly. Perfect for having fun, building confidence in reading, and playing music. A perfect music teacher resource to add to your piano sheet music collection. (40 plus pages, 8.5X11 inches, print color or black and white) These 25 exercises are designed to encourage: ✔sensitivity ✔strength ✔endurance ✔independence ✔freedom How to get the most out of your Finger Gymnastics Daily Piano Exercises: finger gymnastics are arranged in to practice sets. Practice the exercises individually. Don't move to the next exercise until you can play each exercise without tension, hesitation, or deviation. Once you've mastered an exercise, don't be afraid to add different textures, such as dynamics, and articulation. You may even want to try your hand at transposing. Make Finger Gymnastics your own.

Derek Hasted writes "This fantastic theme was written as an integral part of the film of the same name.

Ennio Morricone and his son Andrea rightly received a BAFTA award for the gorgeous soundtrack music.

My arrangement captures the four ?verses? that feature in this piece - each verse maintains the same thematic material but the accompaniment becomes more involved and with a thicker texture, before the piece fades away again. The guitar accompaniment is styled on the piano solo score, but tailored here and there to fit the guitar like a glove.

The key here isn?t the same as the original, but it fits right into the ?sweet spot? of the flute?s pitch range and allows for a guitar accompaniment that can use open strings to improve the sustain. Unlike other arrangements, this has plenty of space and few finger gymnastics, so the gentle movement of the original is easy to reproduce.

I also have an arrangement for two guitars which moves the melody between the guitars as the piece progresses.

I hope you enjoy playing this piece!"

This is one of a large and growing range of accessible ensembles from experienced arranger Derek Hasted, and is supplied as full score and parts. Check out Derek's other arrangements - search SheetMusicPlus for Derek Hasted and you'll see the full list, all with soundclips and sample score. Derek's website at www.derek-hasted.co.uk/smp has all the arrangements grouped by "number of instruments".