A Dozen A Day: Pre-Practice Technical Exercises For The Piano [Book 1 Primary]

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Hussey has also written a new performance piece to conclude each of the six books, bringing the total exercise count up to 366. With its brilliant Thematic Index, and kept ever within reach, this bumper book succeeds wonderfully as a teacher’s companion, making Burnam’s exercises ever-accessible without encroaching too seriously on lesson time.

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It is also worth noting at this point that Burnam herself suggested learning a couple of exercises at a time, playing them slowly and softly at first, then introducing a range of dynamics and speeding up the tempi. compound), writing in different octaves, key signatures and clefs can all be explored as they relevantly relate to the learner’s ongoing music tuition.

A bonus: it can be helpful to talk to the student about technical problems the exercise helps with, asking them to identify passages in their new, active and recent repertoire which will benefit. Dozen A Day exercises can equally make great quick studies for the learner to work on during the week, without hearing or watching any teacher demonstration first.

A Dozen a Day, Book 3 - Edna Mae Burnam: 9780711960985 - AbeBooks A Dozen a Day, Book 3 - Edna Mae Burnam: 9780711960985 - AbeBooks

I would suggest this may depend on other factors, of course, and much can be gained from targeted use of individual exercises from within the cycle, as I will explain later. Each book offers six groups of twelve exercises, totalling 60 exercises per book and thus 360 across the full series.The Dozen a Day books are universally recognized as one of the most remarkable technique series on the market for all ages! In addition to including the complete content of the six books in one, All Year Round includes some additional features, of which the Thematic Index is a particular bonus which teachers will find incredibly useful. Paul Harris’s superb Piece A Week series ( reviewed here) is of course an ideal resource for this, but before it appeared, A Dozen A Day was my go-to, and proved very effective. Used efficiently, effectively and within a holistic musical learning programme, A Dozen A Day: All Year Round is undoubtedly as indispensable a resource today as Edna-Mae Burnam’s original books were back in the 1950’s. While A Dozen A Day exercises can be taught by rote in lessons as a quick fix when the primary objective is to understand and develop the technique they are introducing, they offer great sight reading material too.

A Dozen a Day Book 3 Willis (414136) by Hal Leonard A Dozen a Day Book 3 Willis (414136) by Hal Leonard

Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. It tests and improves different aspects of your piano practice and should be done daily to achieve the best results.Can a basic Dozen A Day exercise be used as the core material for a piece which expresses a particular emotion, idea, story, mood or colour? The combination of simple joy and pedagogic value embedded in this classic material has not only stood the test of time, but remains as accessible, worthwhile and engaging as ever, seemingly transcending the fads of fashion.