Contemporary Piano Method Book 2A by Margaret Brandman

The Contemporary Piano Method is recommended reference material for the AMEB's Contemporary Popular Syllabus. The overall objective in this book is the development of the octave span as a point of reference, and the increase of harmonic knowledge to include all major and minor keys and scales, as well as augmented, diminished, and suspended fourth chords and all standard four-note chords. Throughout there is also a progressive introduction of signs, ornaments and musical features. STAGE 1: Review. All major scales and chords, Primary triads in major keys and the 'chord table', Counting and colouring with proportional diagram. STAGE 2: Minor scales - introduction. Study of natural and harmonic minor forms first, Later study of melodic minor forms, Full major key 'chord table' including minor chords and then the diminished chord, Diminished and augmented chords, Naming of intervals as Perfect, Major and Minor, Diminished, Augmented. STAGE 3: Minor Chord Table. Octave spanning exercises, Pedalling, Dominant Seventh Chords and Suspended Fourth Chords. STAGE 4: Blues Scale; Boogie Patterns; Swing Timing; Shuffle Patterns. Chord progressions; improvising on a chord pattern, Cadences, Diminished Seventh Chords. Apart from the original tunes that have been written for the book, there is music by such composers as Beethoven, Bach, Handel, Purcell. Contemporary Piano Method Bk 2A Composer: Margaret Brandman Publisher: Modern Music Instrument: Piano Pages: 1 Series: Contemporary Piano Method