Microjazz for Beginners

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 describe intervals using numbers Quavers - 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’ style • understand ledger lines • play using a new hand position for the right hand, with a new note (G) A new position for your right hand - 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 • move your hand position during a piece A new position for your left hand - 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 quaver rests Dotted notes - 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

Specificaties

Uitgever

Boosey and Hawkes

Uitgeversnummer

BH13864

ISBN

9781784546793

ISMN

9790060138645