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Friday, 28 October 2022

Part 2, John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course

                                     
School Days

Playing Tag


Through the Woods


The Trombone Player

Oh, Susanna
                                        
Ten Little Indians

The Bells Ring Out

Sunrise

The Ballet Dancer
 

Three Blind Mice

The Dancing Kangaroo

Setting-Up Exercise


Serenade (For the Left Hand)



The Pipers are Coming!



Once Upon a Time


The Wishing Star

Mountain Climbing



Maypole Dance

Little Bo-Peep

 
Duet

Evening Song

Duet

The Skater


The Dancing Bear

Skip to My Lou

The Giant Steps

Indian Tom-Toms

Sweet and Low

Duet: Sweet and Low



Duet from Prelude, Op. 28, No. 20


Primo

Primo, The Band Played On

Secondo, The Band Played On

Duet: The Band Played On 乐队在演奏2013


If you are interested in playing along with me online, please find the link below. The Secondo  http://youtu.be/WF1u_l2UYD8. The Primo is on page 45, Part 2 John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course. Enjoy it!

Friday, 18 December 2020

The Himalayas, a Tibetan folk style song, The Chinese Folk Songs Series


The Himalayas is a mountain range in Asia separating the Plains of the Indian Subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. It’s a home to the planet’s highest peaks, including the highest Mount Everest. Many Himalayan Peaks are sacred in both Buddhism and Hinduism. 

The Himalayas 合唱《喜马拉雅山》
The lyrics are very simple, keep repeating The Himalayas in Chinese Mandarin.
There're 3 verses in total. 
The 1st verse: in unison.
The 2nd verse: in round, 1 beat behind.
The 3rd verse: adding the chant: 4/4  亚索,亚索,亚拉索 (in Tibetan)
4/4   ♫          ♫            ♫     ♪ ן
      Ya Suo,Ya Suo, Ya La Suo.  In English, it means Good, Great, Come on! Image you are travelling in this snowy area just like those people in the picture. No matter you are challenging the peaks or on the way to worship.  
The ending: (in Tibetan) 扎西德勒 Zha Xi De Le. In English, it means Blessings, Best Wishes.


This short song was written mainly for those non Chinese who are interested in learning Chinese or Chinese colorful cultures. You can also add an alto line by humming the bass notes and improvise along the melody line.
Music, words, piano arrangement, piano accompaniment, vocal, video edited by Y Jones.

The piano accompaniment 合唱《喜马拉雅山》钢琴伴奏

The preview of the next lesson, a Han race folk song/dance
Jasmine Blossoms 汉族江苏民歌《茉莉花》


The preview of the next lesson, a Mongolian folk song
Dating at Ao Bao 蒙古民歌《敖包相会》



Yan won a singing silver in the UK China Talent Show 2014 London
A Tibetan folk style song called The Tibetan Plateau 参赛曲目《青藏高原》




                 《天路》A Road Through The Sky





Tuesday, 2 June 2020

Grade 1 ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces

Selected from the 2019-2020 syllabus 
B:1 Wiegenlied/Cradle Song by J. Brahms

C:1 Happy Day by Ian King

A:1 Theme


A:2 Minuet in C by William Duncombe

When The Saints Go Marching In C:3 2017-2018.

Selected from the 2013&2014 syllabus 

A:1 Minuet in G by W.A. Mozart (1756-91)



B:3 In a Boat by Feliks Rybicki (1899-1978)


C:3 Chattanooga Choo Choo (middle eight) by Harry Warren (1893-1981)
and Mack Gordon (1904-59)



Grade 5 ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces

Film Noir (Black Film) C:3 2019-2020

A:1 Prelude in C minor by J. S. Bach 2015-2016 Syllabus

B:3 Am Abend (In the evening) 2015-2016 Syllabus

C:3 60s Swing 2015-2016 Syllabus 


  
2013-2014 Syllabus
Samba-lele, Grade 5 (2013-2014) 巴西桑巴舞曲 2014

No. 4 from Guia pratico(Practical Guide), Album 2, C:3 Grade 5 ABRSM piano exam 2013-2014. Heitor Villa-Lobos was the best-known and most admired Brazilian composer of the 20th century. Immensely prolific, he united the techniques of contemporary European art music with elements of the folk and popular music of his native country. In the 1930s and early 1940s he was much concerned with music education and for this purpose used many traditional Brazilian songs he had collected as the basis of his Guia Pratico. Under this title he published a choral album and 11 piano albums.
Heitor 是20世纪最有名的巴西作曲家。 他融合了欧洲印象派音乐艺术的技巧与本国流行,民族音乐元素为一体。在30年代和早期40年代时期,他对本国的音乐教育已表现出担忧的一面,在此基础上他搜集了大量传统的巴西民歌,开始编写这本应用指南,在此本名录下还出版了一个合唱曲集和11部钢琴曲集。

To A Wide Rose, Grade 5 (2013-2014) 致野玫瑰

No. 1 from Woodland Sketches, Op. 51. By Edward MacDowell(1860-1908). List B:1 ABRSM  Grade 5 piano exam. The link:   http://youtu.be/HOxSRzFOydM

Minuet in D, Grade 5 (2013-2014)
Watching my video by clicking the link:   http://youtu.be/f8tH7VXmd7U
Watching my pupil by clicking the link:   http://youtu.be/dtQLz4s8UFA
 
Beethoven's 12 Minuets, WoO 7, belong to his early period in Vienna (1792-1802), during which he established a formidable reputation as a brilliant young pianist and composer, playing regularly in the homes of the Viennese aristocracy. The original orchestral version of this collection was composed free of charge, 'out of love for his fellow artists', for a masked ball held by the Pension Society of Viennese Artists on St Cecilia's Day(22 November) 1795. Owing to the great popularity of Beethoven's dances, they were repeated at the same event two years later, on 26 November 1797. The piano reduction of the minuets, of which No. 7 is selected here, appeared only three weeks after the original masked ball of 1795-another sign of their great success. In No. 7 characteristic Beethovenian touches are already found-for example, the fortissimo chords on the flat supertonic in bb. 13-14. Grade 5 ABRSM piano exam 2013-2014.


Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Grade 8 ABRSM Piano Exam Pieces

2015 & 2016 syllabus
C: 3 Waltz in B minor Op. 69, No. 2 by F. Chopin



A: 3 Sonata in F minor, Kp.239 by D. Scarlatti



B: 8 Allegro con spirito: 1st movt from Sonata in D, K. 311/284c. by Mozart