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Melody Adventures (MA)
- Very beginner to about 4th year.
- Chord understanding progresses together with technical, sight-reading and interpretive skills.
- Fully-arranged melodies and duets stay within the learned chord structure.
- Interesting arrangements in the MA Basics A & B give support to students providing their own accompaniment for many of the same melodies in the
KA Basics Series.
- Duets provide excellent reference for 2-hand accompaniment.
- Information windows give clear, concise explanations.
- Realistic storyline unfolds within the lyrics, titles and captions.
- ‘Note Find’ exercises are both fun and challenging.
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Keyboard Accompaniment
(KA) Basics
- Provides a wide variety of melodies.
- Generally, only the staff with the melody is
given.
- 4 major & 4 minor keys.
- Chords indicated by letter and/or Roman numeral
name.
- Chords: I(7), Im, IV(m), II(7), V(7,9) altered &
diminished.
- 20+ rhythmic styles.
- Accelerates the choosing of appropriate chords &
rhythm.
- By repeatedly choosing chords, chord
progressions and bass patterns, both the
decision-making and hearing skills are strengthened.
- A ‘Review Melodies’ section without any chord
indications concludes each of the books.
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Keyboard Accompaniment
Course This course gives the knowledge and skills
necessary to look at a melody in any key and create a
great accompaniment. With 45+ styles/rhythms and 330
songs, the course progressively includes all keys and
chords while giving effective tools for key-changing,
modulation, fills and embellishments. By routinely
preparing accompaniments for 2-3 new melodies, harmonic
intuitiveness accelerates and creativity is stimulated –
to a point where creating an appropriate accompaniment
becomes instinctive. The same as for learning any
subject (or a new language), hearing & anticipating
harmonic changes and creating accompaniments in a style &
rhythm that suits the melody can require regular
practice! QuenMar music is confident however, that you
will find the whole experience very enjoyable! |
