Norton, C: Microjazz Beginners

Contents

• Chapter 1 In this chapter you will learn how to: • build and play major scales • read and play music written within key signatures Introduction
• A new piece
• Left behind
• Building a major scale
• Walkung tune
• Key signatures
• Swap over
• Delicate touch Chapter 2 In this chapter you will learn how to: • read, play and follow rhythms which include quavers • play using a new hand position for the left hand, with new notes (C and D) • play two-note chords in the left hand • recognise and desc
• Step time
• A waltz tune
• Buttercups
• Standing alone
• A new rhythm
• Jumpy
• Calm waters
• A new position for your left hand
• Cathedral Close
• Echoes
• Chords
• Folk tune
• A little raggy
• Intervals Chapter 3 In this chapter you will learn how to: • play using a new hand position for the right hand, with new notes (A, B, C and D) • play using a new hand position for the right hand, including a new note (B flat) • play music in a ‘blues’ sty
• Climbing
• Snowdrop waltz
• Going somewhere
• More new positions for your right hand
• Two can play
• Got the blues
• In a flap
• Ledger lines
• Hymn tune
• Mule train Chapter 4 In this chapter you will learn how to: • play using a new hand position for the left hand, with new notes (G, A and B) • construct and play two-note chords in the right hand • adopt good fingering technique to play scales smoothly • m
• Slow lane
• Never catching up
• More about chords
• Bus lane
• Step up
• Playing scales
• Ledger line scales
• Moving your hand
• Finger swapping
• Fancy that Chapter 5 In this chapter you will learn how to: • understand, clap and play rhythms which include dotted notes • build and play minor scales • play using a new hand position for the right hand, with very high notes • recognise and understand q
• On the dot
• Two-timing
• Oboe tune
• Scale of E minor
• Last chance
• A new scale to play
• Ups and downs
• A new position for your right hand
• All change!
• Quaver rests
• Rock steady
• Scale of F major
• Into the sun Notes