ALFRED EXPLORING Piano Classics Technique Level 3 For Piano By Nancy Bachus

Exploring Piano Classics Technique, Level 3

A Masterwork Method for the Developing Pianist

By Nancy Bachus
Piano Book
Level: Early Intermediate
Item: 00-31350

The Exploring Piano Classics series pairs motivating performance repertoire with thoughtful technical studies. Each level contains a Repertoire book with CD and a Technique book, both with convenient page-by-page correlation. When used together, the books give students a deep understanding of the art of music, performance practices, and the necessary skills to play the piano with technical ease. The Technique books are designed to give students a highly structured program of technical development. They include basic keyboard patterns (five-finger patterns, scales, cadences, and arpeggios in the major and minor keys of the Repertoire books), exercises and etudes, and other necessary technical drills for mastering each piece in the Repertoire books. Suggestions for efficient practice are also included. Internationally known clinician and teacher Nancy Bachus is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music with an M.M. in Piano Performance and Literature. She has performed solo recitals across the U. S., Canada, and Italy, and appeared in the original "Monster Concerts" in venues such as Lincoln Center and the White House. Nancy owns an independent teaching studio in Ohio.

Contents

• Balancing Focused Fingertips on the Keyboard
• Black Key Exercise
• Warm-Up Patterns in C
• Exercise No. 1 in C Major Hanon
• C Scales in Progressive Rhythms
• Contrary Motion Scale Pattern
• Inversion Hurdles
• Cadences (Three Positions)
• Arpeggio Exercise
• Slurs of Five or More Notes
• Fall---Feel---Transfer---Pull
• A Variety of Slurs
• Motive and Sequence
• Allegro Biehl
• Pedal Marks
• Legato Pedal Exercise Bertini
• Building Music: Motive---Phrase---Sentence
• Play Song Bartók
• Singing on the Piano
• In the Garden Gurlitt
• Warm-Up Patterns in F
• Exercise No. 1 in F Major Hanon
• F Scales in Progressive Rhythms
• Contrary Motion Scale Pattern
• Inversion Hurdles
• Cadences (Three Positions)
• Arpeggio Exercise
• Articulations According to Béla Bartók
• Slur Groups with Staccato
• Smiles Handrock
• Warm-Up Patterns in G
• G Scales in Progressive Rhythms
• Contrary Motion Scale Pattern
• Inversion Hurdles
• Cadences (Three Positions)
• Arpeggio Exercise
• Important and Less Important Notes
• Detached Notes
• Gavotte Telemann
• Warm-Up Patterns in D
• D Scales in Progressive Rhythms
• Contrary Motion Scale Pattern
• Inversion Hurdles
• Cadences (Three Positions)
• Arpeggio Exercise
• Balancing on Fingers 5 and 4
• Allegretto, Op. 599, No. 16 Czerny
• Grouping by Motion
• Gavotte, Op. 210, No. 9 Gurlitt
• Warm-Up Patterns in A
• A Scales in Progressive Rhythms
• Contrary Motion Scale Pattern
• Inversion Hurdles
• Cadences (Three Positions)
• Arpeggio Exercise
• Rotation
• Dynamic Shaping of Two-Measure Phrases
• Rotating in A Major Beyer
• Playing a Minuet
• Minuet in G Major Handel
• Speeding
• Grouping Le Carpentier
• Reading Broken Chords
• Blocked Chord Patterns
• Broken Chord Patterns
• Repeated Notes
• Repeated Note Exercise
• Warm-Up Patterns in E
• E Scales in Progressive Rhythms
• Contrary Motion Scale Pattern
• Inversion Hurdles
• Cadences (Three Positions)
• Arpeggio Exercise
• Repeated Notes and Chords
• Throw and Bounce
• Left Hand Study Bartók
• Warm-Up Patterns in B-flat
• B-flat Scales in Progressive Rhythms
• Contrary Motion Scale Pattern
• Inversion Hurdles
• Cadences (Three Positions)
• Arpeggio Exercise
• Continuous Two-Note Slurs
• Alla Tedesca Vanhal
• Waltz Patterns
• Waltz in C Major Gurlitt
• Crossing Hand Over Hand
• Prelude in A Minor, Op. 37, No. 2 Concone

Series: Exploring Piano Classics
Instrument: Piano
Format: Book
Page Count: 52
Item Number: 00-31350
ISBN 10: 0-7390-5555-0
ISBN 13: 978-0-7390-5555-7
UPC: 038081334936