relevance of accompaniment variations

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Complex Chords Beyond Accompaniment 1

First, how do you teach all the complex chords beyond the last Danny Boy piece in Accompaniment Book 1? Do you choose other lead sheets? Work on exercises with the other chords? Second, after Accompaniment Book 1, when is a student ready for Accompaniment Level…

Accompaniment Variation Duplicates

Question about Acc Var (Accompaniment Variations). Is Var #6 intentionally duplicated to #18? Is this just because we’re working within different song? It’s not intentional but not necessarily an error; Neil just didn’t realize it was a duplicate. Would the same be true for 16…

Relevance of Accompaniment Variations

I’ve been evaluating the relevance and contribution of the accompaniment variations, and a few of the conclusions I’ve drawn are… The AV’s are vital in helping you get very familiar with: the keyboard itself, rhythmic (?) use of upbeats, on sight as well as improvisational…