Curriculum

I have a quick question about the Arrangements program. Will every student eventually learn all of these? I know that the Foundation songs are absolutely ALL essential for learning and knowing but what about the arrangements? I thought they were but some how I got…

• Last updated 9 years ago
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Gordon (Aus)  The first part of this presentation will be mostly my pre-written notes. We’ll have time for questions after then. This chat is about introducing, justifying and ordering arrangements. We can get into specifics of presenting individual pieces at the next session [More Teaching Arrangements].…

• Last updated 6 years ago
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Knowing that variations and arrangements are primarily memory exercises and secondarily exposure to different performance techniques and only after these things pieces for the repertoire, and if students forget them, it’s on some level “okay” in a way that is not true of Foundation pieces,…

• Last updated 12 years ago
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I’ve been having trouble getting my students through the arrangements and then realized that I wasn’t teaching them sequentially, yet I myself have learned them sequentially (!) How do you all approach them and what kind of results have you been getting? I don’t teach…

• Last updated 12 years ago
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How do I go about learning and/or teaching the arrangements when I am not supposed to be reading music, and there is only audio recordings on how to teach them. This seems like a contradiction to me. Now that’s an excellent question. This will be…

• Last updated 12 years ago
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I am new to both piano and teaching. My order for the newbie pack came in yesterday, and when I opened the Arrangement packet I saw it is written in this foreign language I do not know how to read. Before total panic set in…

• Last updated 12 years ago
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I know that there is not a definite prescribed order to teach the arrangements/variations and am fine with that. I have listened to both of Gordon’s workshop audio recordings on introducing arrangements and have found them very helpful. I’m wondering if there is a certain…

• Last updated 12 years ago
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I’ve actually talked to Neil about this, but I would love to hear what specific approaches different teachers actually take. My question is about when to introduce Blues & Improvisation. The TTM say that B&I should not be started until certain “Basics” are completed, including…

• Last updated 12 years ago
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I was wondering if anyone has identified patterns and sequences for the left hand in Family Tree in the Arrangements 3 book. I have listened to Neil on the audio several times, and I think he is suggesting that we find these patterns for ourselves;…

• Last updated 12 years ago
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I am a little confused with the fingering in the LH on Family Tree from L-3 arrangements. it is not covered in the TTP and there is no marking in the reference yet Neil has mentioned how important it is to have consistent fingering. I…

• Last updated 12 years ago
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