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.

Contemporary Classical, solo piano piece suitable for Grade 5 - 6, intermediate players.

'Sixth Sense' is an intricate cinematic piece which explores some wonderful harmony. This main riff is a real joy with both hands working in partnership to create beautiful texture and sound. The introduction of the melody comes in with grace and adds another dimension to the piece!

Key techniques

- 8th note left hand spread arpeggios over a 10th
- Right hand octave melody playing
- Contrasting dynamics left and right hand

Composer Tips

- In preparation for learning the piece, practice Ab major and F minor harmonic scales hands together.

- Keep the quaver movement steady throughout and be careful not to over emphasise the first note in each bar.

- Keep a very loose wrist to help perform the left hand extended arpeggios

Sixth Sense is suitable for home performance, practice pieces, ABRSM grade support pieces, professional performance, school and student learning.

Influenced by the current top pianists in this field such as Ludovico Einaudi, Alexis Ffrench, Olafur Arnalds, Luke Howard etc. Piano Hive always aim to write and produce music that is clearly laid out, very readable and will help improve several aspects of your playing whilst sounding great at the same time. We hope you enjoy and please come over to our socials to leave some feedback or send us an email!

Book includes all major 5-finger scales, sight reading and vocabulary for beginning students.