This piece is so much fun to play, you might be forgiven for not realizing it’s a great etude as well!
This easy late elementary piece is full of sequences, hence the title, making it an excellent etude. But it’s also an enjoyable piece of music: the sequences give it a video-game quality: imagine the character traveling through the in-game universe.
Key: C major
Mood: happy, determined
Pedagogy: sequences, syncopation
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This collection has the famous jazz standard in lead sheet form (with verse and chorus) and six realizations from James L. King III for early to late intermediate players. Starting with just playing single notes in the left hand to playing full, professional-style arrangements, students will gain confidence and experience in playing from lead sheets.
Students who are eager to play the great masterworks will appreciate this simplified arrangement of the first theme from Chopin’s Étude in E major.
It’s 1917 all over again, and the new moving pictures are all the rage! Pianists and organists were hired to perform along with the movie, and James L. King III’s A Night at the Silent Movies captures this style in an epic recital-ready work.
Vanessa Flemington –
Very good