Coordination and rhythmic awareness
- Play with a secure pulse:
- coordinating and integrating a right-hand melody and left-hand full-fingered chords
- keeping time with an auto-accompaniment and including varied changes of registration
- listening to and controlling the balance between melody and accompaniment
Devise suitable exercises for learners to develop their two-hand coordination skills.
Emphasise the importance of practising the tune and chords without auto-accompaniment.
Ask learners to play a pattern of chords (one per bar) adding fills, auto-accompaniment, voice and other registration changes between each four-bar phrase.
This activity is an effective extension to the previous activity, the emphasis now being on coordinating changes of registration.
Encourage learners to include in their pieces spontaneous changes of registration, including using one-touch settings where available.
Registration changes are an important element of musical keyboard playing.
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