The Contemporary Piano Method is recommended reference material for the AMEB's Contemporary Popular Syllabus. 'Blues for Bill' is set as a Grade Two list piece for the ANZCA Modern Pianoforte examinations.
The overall objective of the material in Book 1A and 1B is to enable the student to play within the five-finger hand position over the range of four octaves, with extensions to the intervals of sixth, seventh and octave, in all major keys, using note-values from the whole note to the sixteenth note.
Book 1A: keys – C, G, D, A, E
Book 1B: keys – F, B, Bflat, Eflat, Aflat, Dflat, Fsharp/Gflat
Contents
- Book 1B continues the topics from Stage 6: Applying the pre-learned block and broken chords to the pieces – this process requires analysis of the musical figures and leads to reading larger units as a whole: (a) five-finger pattern, (b) scale figures, (c) chord figures, both block and broken.
- Stage 7: Additional Skills
- Chord-chart reading
- Improvising
- Adding a left-hand accompaniment to a melody line using close chords
- Adding a left-hand accompaniment to a melody line using stride bass
- Syncopation
- Music in odd times 5/4 and 5/8
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