inheriting

Hello, I’ve got three students whose private music, found and sourced by themselves, is Moonlight Sonata. Two are teenagers in FDN 2 and 3 and one is early in TFMM and in FDN 8.The teenagers use youtube tutorials. All love the piece and I admire…

• Last updated 2 years ago
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Is there an easy way to teach diminished 7th chords? Is it a 4-note chord? I’m thinking in terms of the way we teach chords with half and whole steps related to the triangle. Good question. The accompaniment program chord diagrams are intended to teach…

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“I Can Only Imagine” contains a C#m11 chord. Looks like C# in LH, and RH has G#, B, D#, F# in the music. Can y’all help me with how to inherit this chord from C#minor? The RH chord will most likely move down a whole step,…

• Last updated 6 years ago
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Some of my students want to know how to quickly find I, IV, and V in the minor keys. They want to know if the same shortcut (from the Accompaniment Program), works. Well the answer is good news, and absolutely the ’shortcut’ works. The I,…

• Last updated 10 years ago
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At what point do you starting allowing students within a group to be working on different accompaniment projects from each other, i.e., one’s they’ve chosen for themselves and that not everyone is required to learn? How do you manage the process of students working on…

• Last updated 10 years ago
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