Post on 31-Aug-2018
Technique 5
ContentsEdited by Morton Manus
Cover Design by Ted Engelbart
Interior Design by Tom Gerou
Illustrations by Jimmy Holder
Music Engraving by Linda Lusk
Copyright © 2013 by Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in USA. ISBN-10: 0-7390-7071-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-7390-7071-0
A Note to Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Technique Tools Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Artistic Etude 1 (Music with Action) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Hands-Together Workshop 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Primary Chords in D Minor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Technique Tool 1 (Even Sixteenth Notes) . . . . . . . . . 8
Artistic Etude 2 (Dueling Melodies) . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Masterwork Etude 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Technique Tool 2 (Playing Grace Notes) . . . . . . . . . 12
Masterwork Etude 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Playing Augmented Triads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Technique Tool 3 (Body Balance) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Technique Tool 4 (Over and Back) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Artistic Etude 3 (Long Phrases) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
The Primary Chords in A, E, and B Major . . . . . . . 18
Technique Tools Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Masterwork Etude 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Technique Tool 5 (Building Scale Velocity) . . . . . . .22
Hands-Together Workshop 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Hands-Together Workshop 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Technique Tool 6 (Sustained Notes) . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Masterwork Etude 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Triads and Inversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Masterwork Etude 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Two-Octave Arpeggios Beginning on White Keys . .30
Technique Tools Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Building Scale Velocity in Bb Major . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Hands-Together Workshop 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
The Primary Chords in Bb Major . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Building Scale Velocity in G Minor . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Hands-Together Workshop 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
The Primary Chords in G Minor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Artistic Etude 4 (Finding the Heart Note) . . . . . . . .38
Technique Tools Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
3Use with Alfred’s Premier Lesson Book
Level 5, pages 2–3
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Technique Tip: Gently transfer your arm and finger weight from key to key as you open your hand .
Technique Tip: Drop on the first note of each measure with arm weight.
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Technique Tools ReviewDemonstrate the following Technique Tools introduced in Technique 4.
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4Lesson Book: pages 4–5
Artistic Etude 1
A Cliff Hanger!
Music with ActionAction and adventure movies have exciting background music that is an essential part of the overall effect . After playing A Cliff Hanger! a few times, write a few words in the blank boxes to describe the action or scene you imagine for those sections of music . Then, as you play, imagine the action or scene you have described .
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Technique Tip: Play the eighth notes evenly and smoothly connected .
38 Lesson Book: pages 44–45
Artistic Etude 4
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Finding the Heart Note
A Note from the Heart
In Technique Book 4, you chose your own heart notes from the choices marked in the music . Now, you are ready to find your own heart notes . If needed, review Technique 3, page 4, and Technique 4, page 32 .
• Play A Note from the Heart and choose where you would like to play your heart note in each phrase . Draw the heart with a red pencil .
• Add and to indicate how the other notes in the phrase lead to and go away from the heart notes .
Technique Tip: Play the RH chords lightly in measures 1–22 to allow the LH melody to “sing out .”