Curriculum

I’m just learning the arrangement for Tear for a Friend, which is in the Arrangements 3 book. The instructions really only gloss over how to play it – I am following the instructions along with the written music at the same time. I am lucky that I…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• arrangements 3, playing-based arrangements, reading arrangements, timing of arrangements

I have been working on the Accompaniment Clues level one and it is a phenomenal program. Now that I know which chords to play, “where” is the best place to play them? Generally speaking, the LH is played in the lower region, and the RH…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• chords, Neil Moore, where do I play them

I’m finding that my students are arriving at the Level 2 Foundation accompaniment songs faster than they’re getting to that point in the Accompaniment program. This results in them still being on triads (major and minor) when dominant 7ths come up (Amazing Grace); and then…

• Last updated 1 year ago
• 7th chords, accompaniment, introducing to students, split chords, streams

I’ve talked with Neil and with a Simply Music teacher friend of mine, and both have communicated their own feelings of awe and excitement about accompaniment skills. In my own traditional background, I have gained accompaniment skills in a confined way, really only major and…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• accompaniment, transposing, value of program

I have an adult student who has had 7 lessons now. She is a very fast learner. She can play 11 songs at this point. (I have thrown in a couple extra accompaniments.) I would like some advice on helping her see the value of…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• accompaniment, adult students and accompaniment, claiming territory, Gordon Harvey

Do songs written in a minor key always have to be transposed to other minor keys? i.e. Night Storm If I move my hands to say Dreams position and play the song, do I need to flat the E? And would that mean that I’m…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• transposing, transposing minor keys

I have three main things I want to say today about the Accompaniment 1 program: 1. Pre-introduction conversations……… 2. beginning the special program with an overview 3. keeping it moving and alive, while keeping it small and manageable. First, I want to talk about the…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• accompaniment program, chat

For my own children as well as my other teen students, any suggestions on popular music books/pieces that they could add to their accompaniment list? Specific titles would be great. I am searching in Simpedia, but haven’t come up with anything so far. Try searching…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• accompaniment, current music in accompaniment, lead sheets, teens and accompaniment

I have a few students who are in the beginning of the accompaniment program. They understand the chord shapes but are not memorizing them. In other words, even after playing Amazing Grace & Auld Lang Syne in 3 keys, they can’t tell me that an…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• accompaniment, chord games, learning chord shapes, memorizing chord shapes, speaking instructions out loud

I decided to bring this up because of the current “Accompaniment Introductions” topic . I am not an accomplished singer but enjoy singing and happily sing to most of our songs. However, I do struggle singing with the accompaniment pieces which makes the demonstration part…

• Last updated 12 years ago
• accompaniment, ratio, singing along, singing while playing struggle, speaking instructions out loud