The Intermediate Pianist Book 1

Contents

• Getting started: Ode to Styles (Beethoven)
• 1 Learning to swing
• Quick learn: Black Cat Swing
• Know your major scales and bass-clef note revision
• Recital piece: The Bear (Rebikov)
• 2 Using the pedal
• Technique: Kleine Studie (Schumann)
• Repertoire: Für Elise (Beethoven)
• 3 Let’s tango
• Quick learn: Tango Time
• Recital piece: Por una Cabeza (Gardel)
• Key signatures and minor scales
• Recital piece: Sorrow (Bartók)
• 4 Exploring march style
• Quick learn: March of the Marionettes
• Repertoire: Soldiers’ March (Schumann)
• The circle of fifths and treble-clef sight-reading
• 5 All about minuet
• Repertoire: Minuet in G (attrib. Petzold)
• 6 Learning about lullabies
• Quick learn: Lullaby
• Repertoire: Hine e Hine (Trad. Maori)
• How to give words a rhythm
• 7 Playing jigs
• Repertoire: Gigue à l’Angloise (Telemann)
• Finger warm-ups
• Recital piece: Wow!
• 8 Let’s boogie
• Quick learn: Eager Beaver Boogie
• Repertoire: Bubblegum Boogie
• Recital piece: Arabesque (Burgmüller)
• 9 Getting to know the blues
• Repertoire: Flying Scotsman Blues
• 10 Concert pieces
• Quick learn: Menuetto (Hässler)
• Recital piece: The Toy (Anon.)
• Recital piece: Menuetto (Scarlatti)
• Quick learn: Song without Words (Spindler)
• Recital piece: Rainbow Reflections
• Recital piece: Sam’s Jam