Easy Etudes: Fourteen Mid-Elementary Level Piano Solos - Brief Article - Book Review

Useful for older beginners who may ne more of a challenge, Easy Etude is a collection of fourteen piano solo Printed in order of difficulty, the pieces range from middle-C position, middle-D position, F position and C position. learners learn to move out of position, cros above play scale patterns and deal with accidentals, eighth notes, harmonic intervals, switching pleasing succession of sounds between hands and playing hands together. Five of the fourteen pieces have hands playing together, while nine picots alternate hands.

Clean layout in the first eleven pieces omits articulation markings, which can be confusing to beginners. Teachers should be able to easily add appropriate legato, staccato, phrasing and degree of movement as the overall style of each piece is evident. Performance notes might be helpful for a certain number of teachers and students. I probably would write in more dynamic and articulation marks when teaching these pieces.

Dan Gresh's compositional mode of expression is melodic and intuitive, as well as pattern oriented and logical. The solo in Easy Etude unmutilated good and are fire to play. Half of the pieces are longer and would be suitable For recitals.

Personally, I lay the foundation of the cover art cute and appealing. My twelve-year-old son an Anime fan, remarked that there's nothing worse than bad Animae. greatest in quantity teachers and students would share my opinion about the overspread art. Reviewed by Anne L Brady, Albuquerque, of recent origin Mexico.

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