LESSON PAGE.  STEINBERG

SEPTEMBER 17
Next two lessons from Boston using a digital piano.

I may need to rebuild and somehow simplify your student page because it feels very heavy and takes a very long time to load on the editor.  This may take place within the next week or two.

TECHNIQUE AND THEORY

BASIC TECHNIQUE PRACTICE CHART

Choose one key. For example: C Major

Practice the elements on the right column.

Then practice all three diminished chords:
Starting with C
Starting with C#
Starting with D
​C Major scale
C Major arpeggio
C Major chord and all inversions
C minor chord and all inversions
C7 (C Major chord + minor 7) and all inversions
CM7 (C Major chord + Major 7) and all inversions
Cm7 (C minor chord + minor 7) and all inversions
C dim (C diminished chord) and all inversions
 in this order​After you have practiced C Major and you feel comfortable, we will add the following keys:
G Major (F#), D Major (F#+C#), A Major (F#+C#+G#), F Major (Bb)
COMPLETE BOOK OF SCALES
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MAJOR AND MINOR CHORDS

DIMINISHED CHORDS

Chords with 7th (four-note chords)

Keeping your eyes on the score.
New short exercises in C position
Single notes
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NEW: Fully written.  Piano Man

SEPTEMBER 17
Today's lesson was based on this song.
Today we leaned heavily on building the basics to arrange the song so that you carry the melody and chords on the RH, while playing a simple bass on the LH.  

When I have a chance, I will record a video showing my hands playing slowly these chords. 
PIANO MAN -easy version-
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NEW: Fully written.  The Windmills of Your Mind

September 13
I just added a recording of myself playing slowly and with metronome.
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IN PROGRESS Fully written.  New York, New York

JULY 16
When we focus on measures with syncopation:
  • Visualize how the song sounds like, and hum or sing it.
  • Use a blend of counting and also intuition. More intuition for complex counting sections, as if you were playing it by ear.
  • Keep the LH notes simple when necessary. Just the "structural" notes (the first notes of every measure are enough
  • If you want to resolve the counting, try subdividing to the eighth note
NEW YOUR NEW YORK easy piano
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NEW: Maybe This Time (from Cabaret)
Maybe This Time from Cabaret
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"Romanze" from Sonatina in G by Beethoven

JUNE 25
Excellent playing, following the pulse without the help of the metronome.
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NEW: Song for Phoebe (no title yet)

Song for Phoebe. DRAFT 3/28/2024
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SONGS

Blueberry Hill
Blueberry Hill MAY 7
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JUNE 4
Two techniques available here:
1- Broken 5th plus chord 
2- "broken chord" like a small arpeggio with the LH. I recommend that you add an extra note at the end, which would be the same note as the first, duplicated one octave higher

Don't let the sun catch you crying
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JUNE 4
Keep in ming the broken 5th are now 8th notes, so they go as fast as the melody, which is also 8th notes.

On a clear day
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January 16
Yes, you can use two different values on the bass-chord format:
​1- play the bass as half-note and the chords as half-note.  the result is more relaxed.
2- Play the bass as quarter-note and the chord as dotted half-note.  The result is a bot more upbeat (this is the arrangement you are naturally applying).
Which arrangement would I apply?  I myself I would do the half-note arrangement to Gove the song a more relaxed ballad sound.
Nevertheless, the idea here is that you learn to do both,. so while you are playing the song, sometimes apply to the bass the half note values, sometimes apply the quarter-note value.  This way you will be versed in both.

More songs added October 12. (look at them and start with those that are familiar)

Bewitched

November 21
​Let's start with block chords rather than bass and chord format.
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My Favorite Things

January 2
Bringing it back into shape:
  1. melody alone
  2. chords alone
  3. RH melody, LH single note
  4. Hands together LH as blocks
  5. HT LH bass-chord
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How High the Moon
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There Will Never Be Another You
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Alice in Wonderland
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Easy to Love
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IN PROGRESS: "FUR ELISE" by Ludwig van Beethoven
The original version
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Take the "A" Train
take_a_train_real_book.pdf
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Satin Doll
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44 Amazing Grace
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"Hotel California"
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HOTEL CALIFORNIA January-4 with SOLO
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138 Greensleeves
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"Bye Bye Blackbird" p. 75
bye_bye_blackbird_real_book_-simplified_chords.pdf
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"Getting to Know You" p.130 
getting_to_know_you_real_book_-simplified_chords.pdf
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"Rock a Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" p. 317
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"2nd Hand Rose" p. 325​

MAY 7
REMINDER: Play the same chords in the measures that have no chord symbols, using the same system (bass chord for example)
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"I Left my Heart in SF" p. 325​
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MARCH 19
We refined a bit talking about specific places where we are spreading the notes on LH.  Remember the two options:
1- Fast notes (more difficult) as if they were 8th notes.  Better for matching a melody that has 8th notes
2- Slower notes (easier) as if they are quarter notes.  Better for a melody that has quarter notes.

"On the Street Where You Live" p.285
On the Street Where You Live
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"Wouldn't it be Loverly" p.436
Wouldn't it be loverly
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"Younger than Springtime" p. 447
Younger than Springtime
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"The Show of Your Smile"
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OLD REVIEW: "Yesterday"

OLD REVIEW: "I could write a book"

IT HAD TO BE YOU

NEW SCORE OF "IT HAD TO BE YOU" WITH SIMPLIFIED RHYTHM
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IT HAD TO BE YOU marked March-9
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IT HAD TO BE YOU with GRB notes and changes
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IT HAD TO BE YOU with BASS-CHORD color coding
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JAZZ FAKE BOOK

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EARL SELECTIONS fakebook
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446 You'll Never Walk Alone

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE
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305 Put on a Happy Face

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406 Unforgettable

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422 What a Wonderful World

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD October-5 version
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247 Some Enchanted Evening

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Summertime.
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SUMMERTIME -INTUITIVE CHORDS-
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119 Fly Me to the Moon

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138 Greensleeves
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59 Bill Bailey

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As Long as He Needs Me

​March 7
Chords are all fine
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Who Will Buy

March 7
Chords are all fine
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Old Man River
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March 19
When the melody is playing one of the notes of the chord, just feel free to drop any notes that coincide with the melody

364 Strangers in the Night

PENDING
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383 That's Life

PENDING
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176 If Ever I Would Leave You

176 If Ever I Would Leave You
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145 Hello Dolly

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153 I Could Have Danced All Night

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Somewhere (West Side Story)
SOMEWHERE. melody and chord symbols
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SOMEWHERE. melody and broken chord
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Tonight (New version in C Major)
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BORN FREE

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Classical review: DANCE by James Hook.

12/1
​Sounds like you still think of the LH as individual notes rather than a chord concept played note-by-note.  No worries, we will eventually develop that ability.

Song review: ALL OF ME
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Irving Berlin's "ALWAYS"
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ALWAYS study chart with LH written chords
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THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME (transposed to F Major)

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THEY CAN'T original E-flat
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THEY CAN'T TAKE melody + symbols
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THEY CAN'T TAKE melody + symbols + LH written out
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Pieces already worked on:

DUNCOMBE Sonatina p 57
​BEETHOVEN German Dance p.89
DIABELLI Bagatelle p 98
DUNCOMBE Fanfare p 55
JAMES HOOK Dance p 58
Ecossaise p ?
p96 GERMAN DANCE by L. van Beethoven
FUR ELISE
p76    MINUET by W.A. Mozart (in F Major)
p57.  Sonatina  by William Duncombe
MINUET by Lully    PASSED
MINUET IN G
CAREFREE P. 59
MINUET by Leopold Mozart
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How High the Moon
Someday My Prince Will Come
​The Shadow of Your Smile
​Michelle
​Yesterday
​Let It Be
​A Fine Romance
​I Could Write a Book
​Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Autumn Leaves
MOON RIVER
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW.  Level 3
OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING
SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW.  Level 3
EDELWEISS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SONG
TURK Arioso
MOZART minuet p 69
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LET IT BE
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YESTERDAY
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MICHELLE blank
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DANCE James Hook -score-
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Future songs and pieces:

NUMBER? ​All in love is fair (check difficulty)
427 They can't take that away from me (in E-flat)
Transpose to G Major
105 DAYS WINE AND ROSES in F Major

DUNCOMBE. Sonatine.  page 57

THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA (Chorus only)

12/8
Very difficult song to play, even for professionals.
​Still in the stage of set-up by playing the melody and the chords, and paying attention to the flats and sharps.  Some chords are difficult.​
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GIRL IPANEMA chord replacement
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COLE PORTER.  Choices of songs:

320 Night and Day
I LOVE PARIS
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I LOVE YOU
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I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN
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MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY
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YOU'D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO
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Working on Night and Day 320

Real Book NIGHT AND DAY
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Beethoven.  GERMAN DANCE (page 93)
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BACH/PEZOLD Minuet p 22

​BEETHOVEN German Dance p 89
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DUNCOMBE Sonatine p 57
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"Arabesque" by F. Burgmuller p 104
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"Innocence" by F. Burgmuller
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"Minuet in G minor" by Petzold
page 26 in your book "Beginning Piano Solos"
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"Enchantment" by Howard Hanson
page 142 in your book "Beginning Piano Solos"
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"Fifty Ways to Leave your Lover" by Paul Simon
Reading straight from a lyric chord chart
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"Dance" by Bela Bartok
page 121 in your book "Beginning Piano Solos"
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"Polka" by Michael I. Glinka
page 103 in your book "Beginning Piano Solos"
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"Morning Song" by Cornelius Gurlitt
GURLITT Morning Song
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"Pastorale" by F. Burgmuller
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"La Candeur" by F. Burgmuller
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"I Don't Know How to Love Him" by Andrew L. Webber
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM easy piano
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"Send in the Clowns" by S. Sondheim
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"Little Piece" by Robert Schumann
page 112 in your book "Beginning Piano Solos"
SCHUMANN little piece
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