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Technique 5

ContentsEdited by Morton Manus

Cover Design by Ted Engelbart

Interior Design by Tom Gerou

Illustrations by Jimmy Holder

Music Engraving by Linda Lusk

Copyright © 2013 by Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in USA. ISBN-10: 0-7390-7071-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-7390-7071-0

A Note to Teachers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Technique Tools Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Artistic Etude 1 (Music with Action) . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Hands-Together Workshop 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

The Primary Chords in D Minor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Technique Tool 1 (Even Sixteenth Notes) . . . . . . . . . 8

Artistic Etude 2 (Dueling Melodies) . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Masterwork Etude 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Technique Tool 2 (Playing Grace Notes) . . . . . . . . . 12

Masterwork Etude 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Playing Augmented Triads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Technique Tool 3 (Body Balance) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Technique Tool 4 (Over and Back) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Artistic Etude 3 (Long Phrases) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

The Primary Chords in A, E, and B Major . . . . . . . 18

Technique Tools Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Masterwork Etude 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Technique Tool 5 (Building Scale Velocity) . . . . . . .22

Hands-Together Workshop 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23


Technique Tool 6 (Sustained Notes) . . . . . . . . . . . .25


Triads and Inversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28


Two-Octave Arpeggios Beginning on White Keys . .30

Technique Tools Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Building Scale Velocity in Bb Major . . . . . . . . . . . .34


The Primary Chords in Bb Major . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

Building Scale Velocity in G Minor . . . . . . . . . . . .36


The Primary Chords in G Minor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Artistic Etude 4 (Finding the Heart Note) . . . . . . . .38

Technique Tools Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

3Use with Alfred’s Premier Lesson Book

Level 5, pages 2–3

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Technique Tip: Gently transfer your arm and finger weight from key to key as you open your hand .

Technique Tip: Drop on the first note of each measure with arm weight.

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Technique Tools ReviewDemonstrate the following Technique Tools introduced in Technique 4.

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Artistic Etude 1

A Cliff Hanger!

Music with ActionAction and adventure movies have exciting background music that is an essential part of the overall effect . After playing A Cliff Hanger! a few times, write a few words in the blank boxes to describe the action or scene you imagine for those sections of music . Then, as you play, imagine the action or scene you have described .

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38 Lesson Book: pages 44–45

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Finding the Heart Note

A Note from the Heart

In Technique Book 4, you chose your own heart notes from the choices marked in the music . Now, you are ready to find your own heart notes . If needed, review Technique 3, page 4, and Technique 4, page 32 .

• Play A Note from the Heart and choose where you would like to play your heart note in each phrase . Draw the heart with a red pencil .

• Add and to indicate how the other notes in the phrase lead to and go away from the heart notes .

Technique Tip: Play the RH chords lightly in measures 1–22 to allow the LH melody to “sing out .”

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