By Dennis Alexander, Gayle Kowalchyk, E. L. Lancaster, Victoria McArthur, and Martha Mier
Premier Piano Course, Level 4 students explore the full range of the keyboard, playing motivating, fun pieces that use triplets and sixteenth notes. Styles range from jazz and ragtime to original pieces by master composers. New concepts including natural and harmonic minor scales, one octave arpeggios and chord inversions are skillfully woven into intriguing pieces. Each piece on the CD was recorded at a performance tempo and a slower practice tempo. 48 pages.
Contents
| Title | |
| Premier Music Review | |
| Minor Scales | |
| Relative Minor | |
| A Natural Minor Scale | |
| A Harmonic Minor Scale | |
| The Primary Chords in A Harmonic Minor | |
| New Italian Terms---cantabile, simile | |
| Triads in Root Position | |
| One-Octave Arpeggios | |
| Alberti Bass Accompaniment | |
| E Minor---Relative Minor of G Major | |
| E Natural Minor Scale | |
| E Harmonic Minor Scale | |
| The Primary Chords in E Harmonic Minor | |
| 1st Inversion Triads | |
| 2nd Inversion Triads | |
| Cadenza | |
| Triplet | |
| New Italian Term---tranquillo | |
| Sixteenth Notes | |
| New Tempo Marking---scherzando | |
| Tenuto Mark | |
| New Tempo Marking---allegretto | |
| New Italian Terms---sforzando, leggiero, dolce, risoluto | |
| Practice Plan | |