Contents

SECTION 1

SECTION 3

UNIT 1

35

SECTION 5

UNIT 7

100

Freeing-up

Posture and technique

Couplets

Reading

Phrasing

Alberti

Stress
Black-key

Black-key

scales (2)

Black-key

arpeggios

Hand positions

and fingering

Hands separately

and together

Classical

175

The keyboard
music

the wrist

UNIT 13
style

Sonata form

scales (1)

bass
(2)

The passing thumb

UNIT 8

Scale and triads

UNIT 2

53

The black notes

Keys & key signatures
Major

& minor

Intervals
Major

& minor scales

Broken

109

Legato pedalling
Tone control
Repeated

(1)

& gradation

Rubato

hand staccato

Legato

Staccato

Black-key

arpeggios

sca Ies

Chromatic
Two-octave

UNIT 15

arpeggios

123

Jazz, rock, & blues (1)

Jazz chord
Two-hand

progressions
voicings

Chord embellishment
(1)

Legato & staccato

SECTION 4

Triplets

UNIT 10

Hand position
Chromatic

changes

SECTION 2
74

Rhythmic

shaping

Extended

hand position

Cantabile

(1)

(2)

81
time

control

Direct

Pedalling

Melodic

minor

scales

hands together

Chromatic

scale hands together

scale

chords (1)

90
& improvising

layout
Prog.ressions

Cadences
Melody

& harmony

& variation

Jazz scales and soloing

Rhythm

Changes

211
playing

Wrist staccato
Four-octave

Ornamentation

UNIT 17

Left-hand

20th century

leaps

up the hands (2)

arpeggios

scales & arpeggios

225
piano

(1)

music

Tonal colour

(1)

Modern

scales

music

Irregular

UNIT 12

Voice-leading
Chord

Development
Texture

metres and rhythms

Contemporary

Harmony
Keys
Chord

Theme & motive

Ragtime

145

Four-octave

UNIT 6
Composing

harmony

Contrast;

Hand independence

Arpeggios

Mixing

chromatic
broken

Chromatic

Contrapuntal

Black-key

Espressivo (1)
Four-note

voicings

SECTION 6

Tonal balance
Two-octave

Left-hand
Off-notes

Finger independence

U IT 5
Compound

Modes

UNIT 16

up the hands (1)

(2)

Beethoven

arpeggios

Thumb

& improvising

Espressivo (2)

UNIT 11

Sca les
One-octave

197

Composing

Mixing
Rotation

UNIT 4

133

Interpretation

scale on D

(3)

scale on A flat & C

Expression
hand position

(2)

scales (3)

Articulation
Tempo
Extended

pedalling

Black-key

Scales & scale theory

Dynamics

playing

Left hand melodies

UNIT 9
66

189

Romantic

chords (1)

UNIT 3

U IT 14

160

music

Scales in 3rds & octaves

Jazz, rock, & blues (2)

Syncopation,
Rhythmic

grooves

& swing

idioms

UNIT 18

238

Latin styles

Riffs & licks

Arranging

Song form

Reharmonisation

12-bar

blues

Bebop & modern

Lead sheets & standards

Ethnic,

Embellishing

Odd-time

Pentatonic

a tune
& blues scales

7th chord fingerings

urban,

jazz

fusion,

crossover

Free improvisation
Creating

a performance

Reference Section

259