Coordination and rhythmic awareness
- Play with rhythmic control and security:
- coordinating and integrating a complex right-hand melody and a wide range of left-hand full-fingered chords
- keeping time with an auto-accompaniment and including frequent and varied changes of registration
- listening to and controlling the balance between melody, accompaniment and parts
Help learners to evaluate the balance between right- and left-hand voicings when playing pieces with an independent left-hand part.
Ask learners to make arrangements of pieces, repeating the material as necessary. Changes of registration should be incorporated spontaneously, using one-touch settings and learners’ own pre-set registration memories. Encourage them to add harmony notes and include some improvisation.
Teach simple left-hand vamps, e.g. boogie, jazz, rock. Provide suitable exercises to help learners develop the ability to maintain rhythmic momentum against syncopated or cross-rhythmic right-hand melodies/riffs.
This activity may use chord notation but should not use the auto-accompaniment.
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