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PIANO PLAYING - MAIN PAGE
Below are tips and videos related to becoming the best Pianist you can be!
PARTS OF THE PIANO:
FINGERING CHARTS:
TIPS and More:
| Piano Care: | This page tells how to care for your trumpet: Piano Care |
| Piano Tips: | This page offers tips on hand positions, finger shape, note cut-offs, use of your hand and arm weight and more!: Piano Tips |
| Piano Tips (sound): | This page offers tips on improving your sound on the piano: More Piano Tips |
| Piano Exercises and More: | This page shows several Piano exercises examples and more: Piano Exercises |
| Piano Upgrade: | This page shows information on purchasing a high quality Piano: Purchasing a High Quality Piano |
Piano Tips
- trills: | This page offers tips on playing various types of trills: Playing Trills |
Piano Tips
- staccato: | This page offers tips on playing staccato: Playing Staccato |
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| Theory Related |
| Key Signatures: Learning Key Signatures (.pdf file) |
| One Minute Club: One Minute Club - Study Sheet (.pdf file) |
| One Minute Club: Flash Cards (to print) (.pdf file) |
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Dynamic Levels in Music;
Modes of Music (.pdf file);
4 Basic Chord Types (.pdf file);
Chords and Their Positions (.pdf file);
Circle of Fifths (.pdf file);
Instrument Ranges (.pdf file);
Learning Intervals (.pdf file);
Main Scale Types (.pdf file);
How to Read Ledger Lines (.pdf file);
Ornaments (.pdf file);
Roman Numeral Chords (.jpg file);
Scales to Triads (Treble Clef) (.pdf file);
So There! (plagal, half, authentic, deceptive) (.pdf file);
Songs for interval recognition (.pdf file);
Triads in Groups - Major (Treble Clef) (.pdf file);
Working Transition Spots (.jpg file, .pdf file)
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Piano Repertoire:
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Original Compositions (audio), as referenced in the Faber Books
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| Certificate of Merit: |
Marlais Preparatory Level (0,1)
Marlais Level 1 (1,2)
Marlais Level 2 (2,3)
Marlais Level 3 (3,4)
Marlais Level 4 (4,5)
Marlais Level 5 (5,6)
Marlais Level 6 (6,7)
Marlais Level 7 (7,8)
Marlais Level 8 (9)
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Magrath Levels 1-2 (0,1)
Magrath Level 3 (2)
Magrath Level 4 (3)
Magrath Level 5 (4,5)
Magrath Level 6 (-----)
Magrath Level 7 (-----)
Magrath Level 8 (-----)
Magrath Level 9 (-----)
Magrath Level 10 (-----)
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Snell Preparatory Level (0)
Snell Level 1 (1)
Snell Level 2 (2)
Snell Level 3 (3)
Snell Level 4 (4)
Snell Level 5 (5)
Snell Level 6 (6)
Snell Level 7 (7)
Snell Level 8 (8)
Snell Level 9 (9)
Snell Level 10 (10)
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Master List of all Marlais, Magrath and Snell books, sorted by Time Period/Composer |
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| Paul Hindemith - Kleine Klaviermusik (1929): |
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| 1 | MaBig schnell | audio |
| 2 | Ruhig bewegt | audio |
| 3 | Munter. Schnelle Viertel | audio |
| 4 | Lebhaft, sehr markiert | audio |
| 5 | Schnell. Ganze Takte | audio |
| 6 | Gemachlich | audio |
| 7 | Schnell und wild | audio |
| 8 | MaBig schnell | audio |
| 9 | Langsam, ruhig schreitend | audio |
| 10 | Munter, ziemlich lebhaft | audio |
| 11 | MaBig schnell | audio |
| 12 | Bewegt | audio |
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| Paul Hindemith - Wir Bauen Eine Stadt (1931): |
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| No. 1 | Marsch | audio |
| No. 2 | Lied: Wir bauen eine neue Stadt | audio |
| No. 3 | Musikstuck: Man zeigt neu ankommenden Leuten die Stadt | audio |
| No. 4 | Lied: Ich bin ein Schaffner | audio |
| No. 5 | Man spielt "Besuch" | audio |
| No. 6 | Die Diebe kommen in der Nacht | audio |
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Music by the Masters (audio)
(includes intermediate pieces by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Mendelsohn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, and Tchaikovsky) |
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Sonatina Album (Schirmers) (audio)
(includes Sonatina's, Rondos and other pieces by Kuhlau, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Dussek, Bach, Schubert, Weber, and Mendelssohn) |
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Piano Duets!:
Great duets for 4 hands!
Great duets for 8 hands!
Piano History:
The Greatest Classical Pianists!:
| Best Classical Pianists Ever
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The Greatest Jazz Pianists!:
| Best Jazz Pianists Ever |
| Some of the Best Jazz Pianists as Composers |
| Jazz Piano Solos - Audio Links (for my several books of jazz piano solo transcriptions, and for more transcriptions not in the books!) |
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| Bill Evans Related |
| 5 Ways to Play Like Bill Evans (.pdf file) |
| How to Sound Like Bill Evans [Jazz Piano Tutorial] (YouTube) |
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| The Sacramento Classic Jazz Messengers |
| Timeline of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (.jpg file) |
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| Jazz Lingo |
| Hepster Dictionary of Jive (apassion4jazz.net) |
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| 12-Bar Blues: List of Blues Heads (sorted by title, .pdf file) |
| Jazz Standards: Sample Jazz Standard List (concert parts) |
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| Jazz Listening Worksheet (online form) |
| Jazz Listening Worksheet (.pdf file) |
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| The Jazz Piano Book (Mark Levine) |
Scale warm-ups, Various Patterns, LH Accompaniment Styles (Harry Likas, 2007, 2001) (3 pages, .pdf file)
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| Jazz Inventions for Keyboard (Bill Cunliffe) |
Scale warm-ups, Various Patterns, LH Accompaniment Styles (Harry Likas, 2007, 2001) (3 pages, .pdf file)
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