Patterns

The material is based on Berklee College of Music's Level 1 and 2 piano provciency requirements and provides a solid foundation for advanced keyboard study. Challenging exercises in twelve keys will help you:
- advance your performance skills and build fluency at the piano
- increase your speed and agility on the kyboard
- internalize common chord patterns
- improve your sight - reading skills
- memorize new material in less time
- improve your tone, dynamic range, and sense of rhythm

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The first comprehensive source for keyboard grooves complete with transcriptions and tips on loop construction! Covers: dance, funk, jazz, Latin, reggae, R&B and rock 'n' roll grooves. All loops are fully scored and fully compatible with all samplers and recording software. This book/CD pack can serve as a sample library or a style manual for keyboardists who want to learn new patterns. The CD is filled with keyboard grooves that can be sampled and looped in a groove and includes MIDI files that can be edited (as far as tempo & key), then used in songs, as play-along tracks, or as a learning tool for knowledge of voicing and style. Files are in .wav audio and MIDI format. The book includes sampling tips, notation for all grooves, and much more helpful info.

Les Petites Images is a perfect introduction to Jennifer Linn's popular intermediate-level book in French style, Les Petites Impressions. Like that book, the seven solos in this easier collection in impressionist style evoke detailed images of the titles. Although these solos are at a late-elementary level, there are quite a few easy-sounds-hard gems in this book that will make those younger students sound very accomplished. Early-intermediate students may also find these pieces very enjoyable to learn or read through. To familiarize students with notation found in Debussy and Ravel, titles have been written in French with English subtitles: expressive instructions are in French as well, and a glossary is provided in the introductory pages. Level: Late-Elementary piano solos (Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Level 3); Keys: F, C; Meters: 4/4, 2/2, 6/8; Range: full staff and leger lines; Note Values: whole notes to eighth notes; Technical features: remains mainly in 5-finger patterns or slightly extended hand poisions; some double thirds; some interlocked h. pos. (R above L in same register), legato pedal, pedal points. Length: 2-4 pages long. Average performance time: 1 minute, 30 seconds.

This masterful collection of mildly contemporary solos for young students explores clusters, pedal effects, and whole-tone patterns in an evocative, imaginative way. Each piece beautifully describes its title with inviting sounds and colors. Great recital material! Features mainly 5-finger position, easily-learned solos; eighth notes; whole-tone patterns; damper and sostenuto pedal; hands-together passages; some register shifts; simple meters. 7 Solos: Angelfish Arabesque • Ghosts Of A Sunken Pirate Ship • Invaders Of The Reef • The Jellyfish • The Lonesome Hermit Crab • The Sea Anemone • Starfish Serenade.

New Age sounds blend with hints of Native American melodies and flute songs in this beautiful collection of six solos for the early-intermediate to intermediate-level pianist. Each solo stands alone, but the entire book can also be played in recital as a suite - the tempos alternate in a pleasing way to create a tightly woven, finely detailed desert landscape. Level: Early-Intermediate/Intermediate (Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Levels 4-5); Range: full grand staff and leger lines; Meters: 2/2, 3/4, 4/4, 7/8; Technical Features: broken chord accompaniments, some double-note intervals in both hands, cross-hand patterns, interlocked hand position, legato pedal, pedal points, multiple textures. Length: 2-5 pages; Average performance time: 2 minutes, 30 seconds. Performance time for entire suite: 10 minutes, 3 seconds.

The third book in the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library 'Piano Technique' series builds upon skills learned in Piano Technique Books 1 and 2, adding six Major and minor five-finger positions, extended hand positions, and introducing moving from one position to another. Warm-ups and Musical Fitness Plans introduce each new skill, and Etudes follow that use the new skill musically. The exercises in this book are carefully correlated to the music in Piano Lessons Book 3 of the HLSPL, and continue to emphasize our message that 'the music makes the difference!' A corresponding CD and GM accompaniment disk are available. Each Warm-up and Etude has a corresponding, fully orchestrated accompaniment arranged by method author Phillip Keveren.

Unit 1 of Book 3 opens with eighth notes first in 4/4 time, then in 2/4 time. Swing eighths are also presented in the first half of the book. Folk, jazz, classical, and contemporary selections provide students with an interesting variety of repertoire. In the second half of Book 3, five-finger patterns and triads in C Major, and F Major are presented, as well as their relative minors - A Minor, E Minor, and D Minor. This value-added package includes both the Lessons Book and the accompaniment CD that makes practice and performance more fun for student and parents!

In Book 5, students are introduced to sixteenth notes in various rhythm patterns. The wide variety of student selections include 3 folk, 4 jazz, 13 classical, and 8 contemporary original pieces. Scales (in both 8th and 16th-note patterns) with their cadences are presented in five major and five minor keys. Root, 1st inversion, 2nd inversion, and open position chords for each key center are also introduced.

Book 4 expands on the related five-finger patterns learned in Book 3 to introduce the scales of C Major, A Minor, G Major, and E Minor. Chord progressions in close position are also presented in each of these keys. Syncopated rhythms, syncopated pedaling and opposing articulations between the hands create performances with style, color, and texture.

Unit 1 of Book 3 opens with eighth notes first in 4/4 time, then in 2/4 time. Swing eighths are also presented in the first half of the book. Folk, jazz, classical, and contemporary selections provide students with an interesting variety of repertoire. In the second half of Book 3, five-finger patterns and triads in C Major, and F Major are presented, as well as their relative minors - A Minor, E Minor, and D Minor.

Continues with 8 as the bottom number. The division, counting and patterns between hands is studied through jazz, popular and classical music.

Volume II teaches the piano student how to build a blues repertoire. Classic blues patterns and a myriad of embellishments are included.

The basic organization of Creative Music III is the same as for Creative Music II, with sightreading materials on the left hand pages (even numbers) and creative activities on the right hand pages (odd numbers). Students may continue their creative reading by changing notes, intervals and patterns. As an example, look at page 2, #1 and try these suggestions:
a) Change the interval between left and right hands from a 6th apart to a 10th apart by beginning the left hand of F and the right hand on A.
b) Change the first pattern from prarlell to contrary motion.
c) Invert the pattern by beginning on A in the left hand and C in the right.

Book 4 expands on the related five-finger patterns learned in Book 3 to introduce the scales of C Major, A Minor, G Major, and E Minor. Chord progressions in close position are also presented in each of these keys. Syncopated rhythms, syncopated pedaling and opposing articulations between the hands create performances with style, color, and texture. This package includes the popular CD featuring practice and performance tempo accompaniments of each song.

Spike, Party Cat and friends guide the student through fun and creative assignments that introduce the language of music and its symbols for sound, silence, and rhythm. Ear training and basic theory exercises help students learn to write and play the music they are learning as well as the music they create themselves.

Creative Music I Revised contains materials both for sight reading, transposition, and for improvisation which are closely related to those presented in Music for Piano I Revised. Here the learners reapply in slightly altered fashion the basic musical ideas just encountered. The goal is for students to be able to read and understand music at the level of their current technical advancement and to be able to apply the appropriate concepts to each new example.
This book provides a wide variety of related musical materials to diversify each person's learning experiences. Students should transpose as much as time permits and create literally an infinite variety of musical examples of their own. The nurturing of individual productivity and appreciation of quality performance are crucial components of the growth motivation that will stimulate for further learning.
Students should improvise many examples before notating one and should do that as quickly as possible. Teachers should focus on the learning processes so that students will be able to achieve better, more interesting products.

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From the very first lessons in Book 1, students are making music as they explore the piano keyboard through fun improvisation pieces called My Own Song. The beginning of the book introduces finger numbers, the black-key and white-key groups, and basic rhythm patterns. Directional reading is taught first by finger number, then by note name, and then by interval (stop, skip, and repeat). Once the students are introduced to the staff, they learn reading guides Bass F and Treble G and read by interval in several different hand positions.

A comprehensive tutor series for beginners of all ages. Well presented with color pictures, useful information and guidance material. The aim of the book is to teach in the most natural and enjoyable way, through popular melodies. The method enables the student to progress in a logical fashion through Pre A to F. A recommended and thorough series.

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