Leila fletcher piano course book 1 pdf free download

The young pupil will manner. Never allow a pupil to sing the counts! The Rote with their descriptive titles, and the Pieces, are necessary for finger independence and tone control, harmonic backgrounds supplied by the teacher's Demonstrate to the pupil how easUy the piano keys are accompaniment, stimulate the child's imagination. The student played: when depressed they drop only a short distance, is immediately interested in the SOUND of their playing.

When the pupil regards playing as Follow this up through-out music study. In beginning music, have the pupil. Muscular rigidity, Good playing conditions affect the tone; good tone will which causes harsh and uncontrolled tone, is usually the induce good playing conditions - the usual cause and effect result of mental tension. A somewhat relaxed hand and arm circle.

Finger 3 of both hands, plays this piece. The finger plays in the centra of the keys sides. The arm should be free, the elbow loose, the wrist flexible. Touch the surface and not near the of the key about to be played, with the finger tip; then push the key down gently so that it sounds softly.

It should be played mezzo-piano, with the thumbs. It may also is balance which is be played with the second fingers, and again with the third fingers. The words text supply a rhythmic sense of caught by the pupil. Use the words in teaching this piece. It is played mezzo-piano and black keys left. Legato may be likened to finger-walking; each key is released when another key is played, not before, not after.

V - Stormy Weather. NOT show the pupil the notes. Have the pupil say the letter-names of the keys as he plays them. C-D-E and finger- walking on the white keys. Find different D's. Find highest D, and lowest D. Find different G-A's; look carefully for G-A's. Find different F-G-A-B's. Note to Tkacher: Review the Piano Keyboard often to make sure that the pupil is thoroughly familiar with it and can find anykey quickly and easily.

J A two-count note: J A three-count note: J- A four-count note: O This a one-count note: is dotted half-note, 3 beats whole note, 4 beats quarter-note, 1 beat half-note, 2 beats.

From bar line to bar line A double bar line marks is a measure. Three counts in a measure. Four counts in a measure. Adjust the height of the chair so that the. BAD: fore-arm and hand are about level. The feet rest on the floor. If the feet do not reach the use a foot floor, rest. The music should be placed slightly below eye-level, and not too far back When you playing position. The fingers are curved, to practise by artificial light, be sure you play on the soft finger tips just back of the BAD: have sufficient light, and that the light is finger nails.

The finger-nails should be kept short enough Fingers are too straight ,. The fingers lift and drop from the knuckle. The thumb lifts and drops from this joint.

The knuckles curve outwards, The thumb plays on its side, It is always Play in the centre of each key, and not they do not sink in. The finger tips are firm; over the keys. When the fingers are nicely near the side of the key. Go slowly and when the key is played the finger tip does curved, the thumb will naturally remain watch to see that each finger is in the over the keys. DO NOT count the note-values. Counting in two ways: first, play and say the letter-names; second, play and say the Circus 1.

Setting Up Exercises First,play and say the letter-names of the notes. Second, play and say the finger-numbers. Here We Go! Time Signature: J -one-count note 2 beats in each measure. J -two-count note. Left Hand IrVoi Fingers 1,2,3, plays these notes. Off to the Circus.

Find these three groups 4. Then close the book and play it without looking at your hands. First, find your hand position on the keys, then look away from the keyboard and play. As you play, feel the keys beneath your fingers, and listen to the melody. Fishing Track 8 -Practise.

Just one note, the last C. Say: "Right hand, finger 3, over to low C. Phrasing is really punctuation in music, and there is a slight "break" at the end of the phrase, just as there usually is at the end of a line of poetry.

This slight break gives meaning to the music, as it also gives sense to the words of a poem. Begin to think and play a phrase at a time, so that your playing will have meaning.

The Giant beginning and play it again! Flute Song The one-beat rest: i. An Octave higher is eight keys higher. Tiny drums Trumpets. The notes should sound detached, but should be played with a very small movement of the hand. Focus the attention on the sound effect. In all playing, in order to avoid harshness and to have tone control, the wrist must be flexible, and if neces- sary this may be recalled to mind.

In order to play softly, the wrist must be loose In first staccato playing, direct the attention to tone; the use of this approach method is an excellent preparation and will ensure a more successful technic when the staccato touch is taken up more fully later on. Notice that this piece begins with an incomplete measure - it begins on the fourth beat of the measure. Also notice that the very last measure of the piece has only three beats!

When a piece of music begins with an incomplete measure, then the last measure contains only the counts not used in the first measure. English Folk Song Arr. And finger three plays E! Westminister Chimes. CD Track 29 - Performance. Be sure accompaniment softly so to play the Primo American Traditional Arr. Yan - kee Doo - die, keep it up,.

Mind the mu -sic and the step, And. You ore ready to play "The Hikers" on Progress page Preparatory Exercise 1-Relaxation of arm: Hold arm out from side; suddenly remove all muscular support—the arm drops to the side in a completely relaxed state. Now, very slowly drop the wrist relax wrist and arm without depressing any of the five piano keys, the fingers re- main in contact with the keys but do not depress the keys and very slowly bring the wrist back to playing position.

The more slowly the wrist moves, the more effective this exercise will be. Down-Arm Chord Playing Exercise: Place the hand over a 3-note chord, the fingers touching the key surfaces. Play the chord, and immediately on first hearing the sound allow the wrist and arm to move downwards that is, relax—remove enough muscular support to allow the arm weight to rest buoyantly on the finger tips.

The keys are held down by the weight of the arm balanced nicely on the finger tips. The keys are held lightly, no pressure is used after the sound is first heard. By releasing the arm weight the wrist and elbow acting somewhat in the manner of the springs in a car we produce a beau- tiful, sonorous tone, free from harshness. The Chord of C Major Play the following chords down-arm: 5 3 i — z 8 ; fics Practise all triads, with inversions, down-arm.

Volume in Chord Playing Speed is force. Therefore, the greater the speed with which the piano keys are depressed, the louder the sound will be Place the hands over a chord on the Keyboard, the fingers touching the key sur- laces Play the chord, pushing the keys down gently; now play the chord again, this time putting the keys down very swiftly.

Notice the difference in the volume of sound Experiment with this—try getting different degrees of volume in chord playing. Be sure to use arm-weight relax arm for all chords, whether soft or loud, so that the tone will always be mel- low and pleasing. Notice how you conserve onergy in playing loud chords when you play in a scientific way, using speed to obtain volume. He composed music and played in public when he was very young.

His parents sent him to the University to study law, and while there he became so deeply interested in music that he decided to devote all his time to it In he married Clara Wieck, the daughtor of hie music teacher, who was hersel very talented musician and w! There is a wistlul dream quality in the ever-changing harmonies of the chords.

Play softly, fingers close to the keys; use alittle arm weight. Careful use of the pedal will help to keep the chords connected tad sagtoy! Count 4 to each boat 1 to each sixioonth note. Practise this exercise counting al 4 Here is a very musical excerp! Later, when you play it without counting, you will still have cn accurate eppreciation of the rhythm Play with warm tone, and follow expression marks. In the seventh measure, the right hand plays notes on the bass staff stems turned upwards.

Bring out the melody of the upper voice in right hand. To assist in this, furn the hand a little, so that the fingors that play the melody are near the front edge of the piano keys.

Feel that you transler arm weight gently from note to note, and listen for mellow, singing tone. Faith of Our Fathers HF. These notes should be held down lightly, tho wrist loose; put no pressure on the sustained notes after they have been played. The quarter-notes in lelt hand must be played sollly The right hand must be very legato. Give careful attention to gradation of tone, The sustained notes in meacures 6 and 7, 21, 22, and 23, must be held lightly.

The Key Signatures are the same: no sharps, nor flats. You will notice that the notes of the minor scale are the same notes as those of the major scale, but that the minorscale begins and ends on A. This gives a different order of tones and semi-tones in the minor scale. The seventh degree of the Minor Scale is always raised by an accidental.

For example, C Minor, and C Major. Memorize this pattern for building the harmonic minor scale: step, hall, step, step, hall, skip, half. Major 6th—contains 9 semitones Cto Eis a Major 3rd—contains 4 somitones to B is. Many melodies are harmonized by the use of these three chords only; the chords may be used in root position or they may be inverted.

A seventh chord may be formed on any nole of the scale, The most important seventh chord, the one most commen! This chord of resolution is usually the Tonic chord.

How many are there? As you transpose, write on the key Chart the name of each Key in which you play the study. Opginal No. IV-the Sub-dominant Chord, which is used here in second inversion. Vr-the Dominant 7th Chord, in first inversion and with one note omitted.

L-the Tonic Chord. Play these chords: Ww ot vit Vio. The Dominant chord has three notes. In the Key of C, the three notes of the V chord are g,b,d. The Dominant- seventh chord composed of the dominant triad and the minor seventh has four notes.

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