Book 8 - Taming The Classics
CONTENTS
Overview of the Pianoforall piano sheet music sight reading aids
(so simple you'll wonder why you haven't seen it before)
Let's review the basics again
Getting to know the keyboard
Understanding musical notation and piano sheet music
Just like reading a book - bars and beats
Additional theory
Memorising the lines and spaces
Note Finder
Piano sheet music - Practice Pieces
Right Hand Only Practice
Lavender Blue / Brahms Lullaby / Auld Lang Sang / Toreador's Song / Greensleaves / Oh When The Saints
Beethoven - 'Fur Elise'
The reason this piano sheet music is often used for beginners is that it makes very obvious use of chord tones and the Left and Right hands are almost separate.
The left hand is also often in the Ballad Style you learned in Book 5
Bach Prelude - Ave Maria
(Explanation and Keyboard diagram of the easy pattern used)
Bach Prelude - complete piano sheet music with key notes named. Amazing piece to start with.
Chopin Waltz in A minor
Analysis of the chords and patterns used (very easy)
Full piece - with chords and key notes named
Full piece - no 'safety net'
Jean Philippe Rameau - Rondino
This is a good example of melody notes being very close together so that you read the 'movement' rather than the note. Good to practice hands separately.
Bach - 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring'
You might recognise this fun piece from the Beach Boys' song 'Lady Lynda'
Piano sheet music in the key of C and the key of G
Bach - Air on a G string
Ok, no giggling over the title. Remember the 'Hamlet' ads on TV. This is the music. Fantastic!
Bach - 'Minuet in G'
You'll know it when you hear it. A lovely yet easier piece to begin with.
Verdi - La Donna Mobile (from Rigoletto)
Just think of a great tenor like Pavorotti singing this
Left hand is a Split Chord rhythm
Strauss - The Blue Danube
Everyone knows this Waltz. It uses an easy 'Split Chord' left hand and the right hand notes fit very neatly with the left hand.
Brahms - Hungarian Dance
Imagine some Hungarian dancers when you play this. The left hand is very chord based.
Bach - Minuet in Bb
Another lovely piece to start with.
Eric Satie - Gymnopedie no.1
This has been used in many a TV advertisement (ie. The Fry's Chocolate Cream ad)
It is a beautiful slow piece and this piano sheet music arrangement is very easy to play.
Mozart - Theme from Sonata in C
You will know this when you hear it - great Practice for scale patterns
Bach - Minuet in G
This is another great little minuet in G.
Bach - Prelude in C minor
Another piece that uses an almost identical pattern in each bar
Key notes written in
Bach - Prelude in C
Another piece that is easier than it looks
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
Great piece for sight reading - this version is in an easier key but still sounds like the 'real thing'
Norman bates played this in Psycho 2 - very apt
Chopin Mazurka in F Major
Another piece that sticks very closely to chord tones
Chopin Prelude 'The Polish Dance'
Easy version with chords and easy right hand
Harder version with added chord tones
Chopin Op.28, No.4 in E minor
Jack Nicholson played this in the film 'Five Easy Pieces'
The left hand uses very slow chords so you have lots of time to find the right hand notes
Easier than it looks on paper and a LOT easier with the Pianoforall Sight Reading Aid.
Scott Joplin - 'The Entertainer'
People forget that this is regarded as a 'Classical' piece of music
Chopin - Prelude in Cm Op. 28, No. 20
Barry Mannilow used this incredible piece at the start of his song 'Could It Be Magic'
It's basically all single chord changes - both hands.
Simplified and full version
Chords and key notes written in
Chopin - Waltz in B minor Op. 69, no 2
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