Boosey & Hawkes Microjazz Beginners

Boosey & Hawkes Microjazz Beginners is a multi-faceted piano method designed to get beginners started across all styles. It builds on Boosey & Hawkes Microjazz For Absolute Beginners and teaches piano technique and theory on jazz, blues, rock 'n' Roll or reggae from the beginning, addressing the different characteristics of the genres early on.

For practice-oriented lessons, the edition contains very easy to easy arrangements for piano, on the basis of which the lessons can be immediately implemented on the instrument. Supporting recorded accompaniment tracks are available for download, providing the ultimate and motivating sound experience.

Contents:

• Chapter 1
  • build and play major scales
  • read and play music written within key signatures
  • Introduction
  • A new piece
  • Left behind
  • Building a major scale
  • Walkung tune
  • Key signatures - Swap over - Delicate touch
• Chapter 2
  • read, play and follow rhythms which include quavers
  • play using a new hand position for the left hand, with new notes (C and D)
  • play two-note chords in the left hand
  • recognize and describe intervals using numbers
  • Quavers - Step time - A waltz tune - Buttercups - Standing alone - A new rhythm - Jumpy - Calm waters - A new position for your left hand - Cathedral Close - Echoes - Chords - Folk tune - A little raggy - Intervals
• Chapter 3
  • play using a new hand position for the right hand, with new notes (A, B, C and D)
  • play using a new hand position for the right hand, including a new note (B flat)
  • play music in a 'blues' style
  • understand ledger lines
  • play using a new hand position for the right hand, with a new note (G)
  • A new position for your right hand - Climbing - Snowdrop waltz - Going somewhere - More new positions for your right hand - Two can play - Got the blues - In a flap - Ledger lines - Hymn tune - Mule train
• Chapter 4
  • play using a new hand position for the left hand, with new notes (G, A and B)
  • construct and play two-note chords in the right hand
  • adopt good fingering technique to play scales smoothly
  • move your hand position during a piec
  • A new position for your left hand - Slow lane - Never catching and - More about chords - Bus lane - Step and - Playing scales - Ledger line scales - Moving your hand - Finger swapping - Fancy that
• Chapter 5
  • understand, clap and play rhythms which include dotted notes
  • build and play minor scales
  • play using a new hand position for the right hand, with very high notes
  • recognize and understand quaver rest
  • Dotted notes - or the dot - Two-timing - Oboe tune - Scale or E minor - Last chance - A new scale to play - Ups and downs - A new position for your right hand - All change! - Quaver rests - Rock steady - Scale or F major - Into the sun
• Notes