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Requirements to follow Learning Objective Fluency Skills to follow Interpretation Skills to follow Performance Skills to follow...

Ode to Joy is from the famous Ninth Symphony by Beethoven called the Choral for its use of the human voice as an instrument. You can hear...

Go Tell Aunt Rhody is a folk song of American origin from the nineteenth century. The song is much older originating as a Gavotte in an...

Swap and Change was written by Josie for a student who wanted a quick change piece between staccato and legato. It became a hit with many...

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It is beneficial to record a final performance piece. Set up a camera or tablet on a tripod and press record. Stand near the piano and...

Gently Sleep is also known as Suo Gan, it is a Welsh lullaby that was first printed in 1800. The song's title simply means lullaby (suo...

The song known as Hot Cross Buns is originally thought to be the cry of a street seller or market stall hold. After the cry had made the...

This piece was composed to work on the skill of staccato when combined with piano and forte dynamics. There is only one note which is not...

This piece was composed to work on the skill of staccato when combined with piano and forte dynamics. There is only one note which is not...

This piece was composed to practice the alteration between staccato and legato. Before playing this piece a student should be able to...

This piece was composed to introduce the concept of staccato with an interval and a triad. The rest allows time to think and prepare for...

This piece was composed to introduce the concept of Staccato with enough time to rest and prepare for the next note. One hand uses the...

This piece has been written to learn the note E5. It uses the note values of a crotchet and a minim and introduces the 4 beats in a bar....

This piece has been written to learn the note E3. It uses the note values of a crotchet, a minim and a semibreve. This piece also...

The purpose behind 'Metronome Work' is to introduce the notes C, D, E, F, G in the 3rd and 5th octave (or register) and learn how to...

This piece is inspired by a Czerny piece and is used to give space to think about the note that follows and avoid introducing a pause....

This piece is hands together using the note C, D and E in the third and fifth octaves. The purpose is to hold the left hand notes down...

'After the LP' is a little age pun after a student asked me if we used the black CD's. These notes being the content of this worksheet; C...

'An Active Rest' is influence by the concept behind the word rest. In reality the only thing that rests during that time is the sound....