Pianist | The Ultimate Guide to Mastering The Piano
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO MASTERING THE PIANO gives you 15+ articles on how to improve your playing – including fingering, perfecting scales and arpeggios, sight-reading, memorising, returning to the piano and more – all brought to you from our expert teacher/pianists.
Plus, over 30 scores to learn in over 70 pages of sheet music – from beginner to advanced level, with helpful learning tips and step-by-step lessons!
CHAPTERS
1. Rediscovering the Piano
2. Chords
3. Lesson on 'The Moonlight'
4. Sight Reading
5. How to Memorise
6. Lesson on Bach Prelude in C
7. The Subtle Art of Fingering
8. Lesson on Chopin Prélude Op 28 No 7
9. Scales, Arpeggios & Runs
10. Lesson on Debussy Clair de lune
11. Creating the Perfect Sound
12. Pedalling
13. Gershwin
SCORES
- Henri Bertini: No 10 from 12 Little Pieces and Preludes
- Arcangelo Corelli: Sarabande Op 5 No 7
- Friedrich Burgmüller: Discomfort, No 18 from 25 studies of progressive difficulty Op 100
- Antonín Dvořák: Grandpa dances with Grandma, No 2 from Two Little Pearls B156
- WA Mozart: Sonata in F K280, third movement (presto)
- CPE Bach: Pastorale
- Max Bruch: Klavierstück Op 12 No 1
- Stephen Heller: L'avalanche from 25 Melodious Studies Op 45 No 2
- Ludwig van Beethoven: 'Moonlight' Sonata Op 27 No 2, first movement
- WA Mozart: German Dance in F K605 No 3
- William Mason: Lullaby Op 10
- Joseph Haydn: Gypsy Dance in C minor
- César Franck: Prélude in C minor from L'Organiste
- Erik Satie: Gymnopédie No 1
- JS Bach: Prelude in C BWV 846 from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1
- JS Bach: Minuet No 1 from Suite in G minor BWV 822
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Italian Song, No 15 from Album for the Young Op 39
- Mily Balakirev: Mazurka No 2 in C sharp minor
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Pianist The Ultimate Guide to Mastering The Piano.