Building Your Skills-Book 2 Building Your Skills covers choosing and owning a piano the major scale tied quavers metronome marks triplets plus over twenty pieces including The Entertainer and The Blue Danube. Also includesfascinating items of musical history and biography an easy-to-follow introduction to the theory of music and suggested listening to enhance your musical appreciation.

A multi-purpose resource comprising 12 jazz piano pieces with 24 tracks on the free CD which includes 12 interpretations of the printed page as written plus a further 12 tracks offering jazz arrangements to accompany you as you play!Grade: 4 - 6

This book of challenging pieces aims to establish good practice and develop the essential skills required to sight-read effectively at the Piano.Part 1 works with the basic keys of C G F and D major and A and D minor with exercises limited to steps skips and repetition in a range of five notes. The Three-steps-to-success structure will help you assess your own progress as your confidence and fluidity increase and each piece is accompanied by informative guidance notes to help you at every stage.

Additional books to complement the tutor for adults and young people Play the Piano! Levels 1 & 2 are now available providing specially arranged favourite pieces in keeping with the technical level attained by the end of each course book. Whilst still under Mike's guiding hand here is the chance for players to explore and enjoy more beautiful music in a variety of styles confident that the technical levels are within their capabilities. Includes popular classics by Purcell Handel Bach Mozart Grieg Humperdinck Schumann Chopin Rimsky-Korsakov Brahms Elgar and more. Also included are traditional folksong favourites along with selections of Jazzy Latin and Ragtimepieces by Scott Joplin Mike Cornick and Duke Ellington.

This complete guide is an essential resource for piano students encompassing the Trinity Guildhall scale requirements up to Grade 8 and beyond. Easy reference to all major and minor scales and arpeggios.Approved standard fingerings throughout.Including scales in thirds sixths and octaves and dominant and diminished sevenths.Plus chromatic whole-tone pentatonic and blue scales.With guidance notes helpful practice ideas and photocopiable practice planners.

Nuestro libro dedicado a la armonía y al estudio de los acordes es la continuación del trabajo empezado en el volumen 1... y va un poco más allá en el conocimiento de un tema muy relevante.Siel volumen 1 lo dedicamos al estudio de las bases o sea a los acordes principales de tres o cuatro sonidos mayores menores y séptimos (M7 7 m7 y dism7) este segundo volumen está dedicado a los demásgrados que uno puede añadirle a una armonía principal o a un núcleo constituido: segunda cuarta sexta novena décima tercera... las reglas que rigen los acordes ampliados así conseguidosestán expuestas y aclaradas para guiarle entre las secuencias y partituras de armonías ricas y desarrolladas.Nuestro método quiere ser ante todo práctico y se vale de ejemplos musicalesprecisos y pedagógicos es un auténtico sendero que corre a través de la armonía las secuencias de acordes el acompañamiento y la composición... En el disco de datos (audios mp3 yvídeos mp4) incluido en el método Ud encontrará la demostración grabada en vídeo de los ejemplos tocados en el piano y también las múltiples grabaciones audios que lepermitirán expresarse en los playbacks.

Gabriel Fauré's Nocturnes nos. 1-8. Gabriel Fauré was born in Pamiers (Ariège) on 12 May 1845. Owing to his precocious musical gifts he was able at the age of nine to enter the celebrated Niedermeyer School founded in Paris to train organists and choirmasters. For about ten years he received instruction of great quality centred mainly on the study of sacred music and the great classic masterpieces into which he was initiated notably by Camille Saint-Saëns his Piano teacher. As soon as he left the school Fauré began a brilliant career as an organist. In 1896 he succeededThéodore Dubois as an organist at the Church of the Madeleine in Paris and was appointed professor of composition at the Conservatory where his pupils included Ravel Koechlin Enesco and Schmitt. Meanwhile he had met Liszt in Weimar and had been initiated into Wagner’s art which however never really influenced him. Appointed director of the Conservatory in 1905 after Théodore Dubois’ resignation a member of the French Institute and music critic Fauré spent his last years in solitude suffering from an irreversible deafness that obliged him to resign from the Conservatory in 1920. He died in Paris on 4 th November 1924. The music of this sometimes misunderstood composer who wrote in nearly all genres (except Organ music) is of great refinement. An enemy of bombast Fauré put his elegant counterpoint a highly individual harmonic style unpredictable turns of phrase and the secret of an unusual musical sensitivity at the service of music that is both varied and of very high quality.