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- 62 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- 62 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Tutorials on late elementary pieces build on initial whole-body concepts, including 2- and 3-note slurs, the basic three-dimensional form, parallel chords, pedaling, and new coordination challenges. Musical concepts include tied notes, melodic inversion between the hands, left-hand cantabile playing, tone clusters, voicing, chord ensemble, and an introduction to ornaments.
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[description] =>The Tarantella by American composer Frank Lynes is a fun, late-elementary piece that features fast-moving eighth-notes in compound meter.
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This elementary piece is Chopin's own adaptation of one of his 17 Polish Songs for voice and piano. It features a lilting siciliano rhythm, a beautiful cantabile melody, and a right-hand part dominated by just different two five-finger spans, so pianists of any level can enjoy playing it.
- 58 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- 58 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Four early elementary pieces to teach three-dimensional movement from the very beginning. Arm-weight drops, staccato and legato, hand-to-hand arpeggios, and early application of the vibrato technique are covered in attractive, easy repertoire.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 27 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Lessons on four elementary pieces lay the groundwork for good work habits to cultivate healthful, effortless playing at all levels. Hands-together coordination, portato, legato, animated left-hand accompaniment, alternating-hands arpeggios, alignment, and three-dimensional shaping are among the topics covered in this repertoire set.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 35 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Tutorials on four late elementary pieces develop more whole-body concepts, including 2- and 3-note slurs, the basic three-dimensional form, parallel chords, pedaling, and new coordination challenges. Musical concepts include tied notes, melodic inversion between the hands, left-hand cantabile playing, tone clusters, voicing, chord ensemble, and an introduction to ornaments.
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[description] =>The Tarantella by American composer Frank Lynes is a fun, late-elementary piece that features fast-moving eighth-notes in compound meter.
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- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 48 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
The full 17-lesson set of early intermediate masterclasses is available for non-subscribers to purchase. Three-dimensional concepts continue to advance versus earlier repertoire, including faster scalar passages, the vibrato technique for repeated notes and waltz accompaniment, cultivating a light thumb, leggiero touch, and fingering for smaller hands. Musical elements include energized and differentiated rhythm; waltz and minuet styles; harmonic analysis; articulation and shaping; and effective practice strategies for learning any piece at any level. Other topics include playing with good ensemble, contrasting articulation between hands, faster scalar figures with turnarounds and the basic three-dimensional form, integrated rotation, sensitive pedaling, lilt, cantabile, and much more.
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accents in jazz style.
Fred demonstrates several ways to “scat” the melody in Ella Scats… and inspires you to take chances to express yourself.
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This work is one of two sonatinas long attributed to Beethoven but is almost certainly not authentic. Nevertheless, the piece remains popular as an appealing entry into early-intermediate level literature in Classical style. The first movement features balanced phrases, two-note slurs, and flowing, lyrical melody throughout.
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The Waltz, Op. 39 No. 9 is included in many anthologies and is a hit with piano students and teachers. It’s a great piece to study the lilting waltz style, expressive accents and elegant inflection.
In 1878, Tchaikovsky expressed his desire “to create a series of little individual pieces just for children, and with an attractive title, like Schumann’s.” Once he set to work, the sketches of all 24 miniatures of his Children’s Album came together quickly, in just a few weeks. The full set contains so many beloved pieces that have entered the standard literature of intermediate pianists. In recent years, it has become increasingly common to see professional artists featuring the entire set on their concert programs.
The Waltz, Op. 39 No. 9 is included in many anthologies and is a hit with piano students and teachers. It’s a great piece to study the lilting waltz style, expressive accents and elegant inflection.
Diane Hidy wrote the following about Just for Now: “I wanted to write something for young pianists to help them express what they’re going through. It’s designed for people who are old enough to understand what’s going on, but not advanced enough to play Chopin Nocturnes or Rachmaninoff Preludes to help them through.
“I called the piece Just For Now to remind us all that, though we can’t do the things we love right now, we will do them again. We will be with our loved ones. We will take walks on the beach."
You can purchase the score of Just For Now as a studio-licensed instant download at https://teachwithdiane.com/product/just-for-now-studio-license/
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Fred Karpoff opens his lesson on Beach’s Polka by playing the opening of Tchaikovsky's work, and demonstrating parallels in articulation, rubato, and spirit
Other topics covered include three-dimensional shaping combined with staccato, and artistic “secrets,” --not only of rhythmic playing, but also of vocal phrasing and breathing--elements that elevate solo performance by integrating chamber music experience.
The Polka, Op. 36 No. 5 is the last of a brief Children’s Album that seems inspired by the more famous volumes by Schumann and Tchaikovsky without being as extensive.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 3 hours of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
The full 28-lesson set of Intermediate masterclasses is available for non-subscribers to purchase. Key Entrada concepts are reinforced throughout, including alignment, released fingers, the quiet hand, keeping the hand small, and a whole-body approach to playing pianissimo. Lessons on favorite repertoire by Bach, Burgmuller, Ellmenreich, Grieg, Heller, Clementi, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and others feature extensive instruction on pedaling techniques, harmonic listening, four-note slurs, rubato and pacing, voicing, and balancing clarity and resonance. Other topics include lilting rhythm, harmonic blocking, playing chords in ensemble, the vibrato technique, mirroring, practicing in overlapping combinations, and the technique of releasing and re-engaging arm weight to produce a continuous legato melody.
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[description] =>Tackling two-voiced counterpoint and melodic inversion, this lesson highlights how to apply three-dimensional solutions to scalar figures, detached arpeggios, and trills.
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This masterclass emphasizes Monk’s style, rhythm, and the spirit of taking greater chances with sounds and attacks that most pianists don't use every day. This piece poses challenges in counting in "swung" rhythm and features huge contrasts in dynamics and unexpected rests.
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“This piece must be performed with much variety in tempo, but always gently, and without abrupt modulation [or change]. The signs [< > ] stand for accelerando and ritardando.”
Although her statement doesn’t fully capture all of the nuances of expression, her intent is consistent with the important research regarding hairpins that spans the compositions of Beethoven through Chopin and Brahms and into the 20th Century. It’s clear that, to Hensel, hairpins signified rubato.
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From the podium, he has introduced major works of African-American composers to audiences in Wisconsin and Illinois. Dr. Cheatham’s research dealing with opera as it relates to the African-American experience has been published in internationally circulated journals of scholarship. His book, Dialogues On Opera and The African American Experience, is housed in libraries worldwide. Dr. Cheatham was a public school music teacher for more than three decades.
Some elements covered in the Masterclass on Poor Mourner’s Got a Home include imaginative pedaling in a pandiatonic work, vocal articulation, and creative solutions for smaller hands.
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Gretchaninov maintained his lyrical, romantic voice throughout his career. This is exemplified by the Prelude in B-Flat Minor, Op. 37 No. 2, an intermediate-level piece published in 1906 while the composer was still under the influence of his teacher and friend, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
This Prelude exudes a kind of resigned melancholy that is still animated with an undercurrent of passion. It’s in a 12/8 compound meter and provides an outstanding example to work on “ebb-and-flow” rubato, particularly with what I refer to as proportional accelerando and ritardando.
I enjoyed experimenting with ways to heighten the music’s impact by taking inspiration from the composer’s hairpins and articulation. In this Masterclass, I demonstrated practice techniques including scat-singing, agogic accents, and isolating different pairs of voices in the right hand while maintaining harmonic resonance in the bass.
This piece is gratifying to practice and allows you to try out a variety of artistic responses to its rhythm while maintaining the expressive cantabile of the top voice. Some pieces feel ‘personal,’ and this work surely qualifies as a vehicle for you to express your own authentic voice.
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[description] =>This beautiful intermediate work projects a melancholic nostalgia. It features cantabile lines in each hand and builds to a fortissimo climax before returning to its main theme, accompanied by expressive counterpoint of two-note slurs.
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[description] =>Albert Ellmenreich's Spinning Song, Op. 14 No. 4, is an infectious piece that continues to be popular with intermediate piano students.
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In this masterclass tutorial, Fred describes his musical and personal experiences as an Artistic Ambassador to Ghana as well as ways to use the Vibrato Technique to more easily bring this piece to life, with less physical effort.
Please note that only one page of a perusal score is provided here; two pages are included in the series preview by Oxford Publishing at:
https://www.yumpu.com/kiosk/OxfordMusic/piano-music-of-africa-and-the-african-diaspora-sampler/63717827
We heartily encourage you to procure the entire volume 1 of this series to be able to work with the entire score. At the time of this posting, some options for purchase include:
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The fourth piece from The Children’s Album benefits from being played with the vibrato technique, cycling and shaping six chords at a time. Fred demonstrates how to cultivate effortless, three-dimensional shaping and explores harmonic phrasing and Tchaikovsky’s expressive usage of hairpins.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 7 hours of detailed instruction of 21 pieces
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
The full 11-lesson set of Late Intermediate masterclasses is available for non-subscribers to purchase. Works by Beethoven, Chopin, MacDowell and others provide opportunities to cultivate leggiero, espressivo, elegant ornaments, metric hierarchy, inflection, imaginative usage of the pedals, and "the secret of rhythmic playing." Other topics include developing a beautiful line in single notes and double thirds, the meaning of hairpins, integrated three-dimensional movement between the hands, melodic voicing in a chordal texture, subito dynamics, quick registral shifts, and Viennese lilt. Key Entrada concepts are reinforced throughout, including three-note slurs, releases, the quiet hand, alignment and the vibrato technique.
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Sacro-monte is a colorful intermediate piece with a few notably advanced elements (so we’re categorizing it as “late intermediate”). Guitarists have understandably enjoyed transcribing this piece for their instrument, as guitar effects abound, along with scales, rhythms, and harmonies that seem to conjure up a slice of Spanish life, perhaps what one might have encountered in the Sacromonte neighborhood of Grenada, known for music and flamenco dancing after dark.
Sacro-monte is a lively piece that’s fun to play--including a frenzied finish that ends fortississimo.
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The opening movement, the captivating Les tendres plaintes, has recently gained popularity as a standalone piece. If played without ornaments, it is an intermediate work and is not complicated. Adding various mordents, trills, and appoggiaturas produces a more advanced level of difficulty.
In any event, it presents a contrast to the more ‘learned’ counterpoint of contemporaries such as J.S.Bach. Les tendres plaintes is a rondeau in ABACA form, with a tender, melancholic melody in a comparatively homophonic (“melody and accompaniment”) texture.
Fred Karpoff walks you through how to execute several different kinds of ornaments while maintaining the essential cantabile quality of the piece. Three-dimensional technique proves essential to playing the many trills with ease--with a quiet hand, clever fingering, momentum, follow through, and release.
The harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, in the notes of his recording of Rameau, wrote:
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...the Suite in D Major, opening with an almost tongue-in-cheek exemplar of the character piece, with a title so hackneyed that Rameau was surely poking a bit of fun: Les tendres plaintes (‘The tender sighs’). Whatever his intentions it is a pearl of a piece, and Rameau clearly thought enough of it to rework it as a ballet movement in Zoroastre (1749)...The use of rondeau form proves effective as the repetition of the main theme after each couplet (contrasting section) creates great intensity
After assigning Fantasy Dance to an intermediate student, I witnessed how the B section of the piece offers special technical and musical challenges. Use short-group (or chained) rhythms, both hands alone and together, in very short segments, gradually expanding to longer segments, to be able to master this piece.
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To purchase the score of Against the Rule or other works by Elissa Milne, go to https://elissamilne.simplero.com/page/154547
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- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- Nearly 3 1/2 hours of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Tutorials on five dynamic pieces provide opportunites for musical and technical growth to progress to the early intermediate level. Concepts include using solfège to heighten listening to independent parts, the vibrato technique for repeated notes, turnaround figures in scalar passages, harmonic listening, and the reinforcement of three-dimensional topics such as the quiet hand, alignment, and continuous alignment adjustments. Musical topics include minuet style, metric inflection, the whole-tone scale, vibrant rhythm, and imagination.
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- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 48 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Four Classical works are featured in this set of early intermediate repertoire, including three spirited pieces and the pastoral slow movement of a Clementi sonatina. Three-dimensional concepts continue to advance versus earlier repertoire, including faster scalar passages, the vibrato technique for repeated notes and waltz accompaniment, cultivating a light thumb, leggiero touch, and fingering for smaller hands. Musical elements include energized and differentiated rhythm; waltz and minuet styles; harmonic analysis; articulation and shaping; and an effective practice strategy for learning any piece at any level.
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Dancing along in ⅜, Czerny’s joyful little study is brimming with opportunities for three-dimensional playing. This technical masterclass includes using the vibrato technique for a left-hand waltz accompaniment; encouraging organic movement during quick, scalar passages; shifting to new hand positions with the ease of a ballet dancer; and an effective practice method that can be applied by any pianist in any piece.
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- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 50 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Four tutorials on early intermediate favorites provide opportunities to focus on musical and technical elements, including playing with good ensemble, contrasting articulation between hands, faster scalar figures with turnarounds and the basic three-dimensional form, integrated rotation, sensitive pedaling, lilt, cantabile, and much more.
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- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 42 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Three famous selections from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach receive detailed tutorials in this early intermediate set. Two of the tutorials feature demonstrations on the harpischord for added perspective and insight into the world of the 1720's. Some of the musical and technical concepts covered include the meaning of a musette, the elegant character of a minuet, fingering options, ornaments, jumps, navigating figures with and without black keys, various slurs, and repeated notes.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 59 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Two ever-popular intermediate works by the great master receive extensive tutorials. Topics explored include melodic inversion, analysis of invertible counterpoint, trills, and harmonic phrasing. The harpischord is used for demonstration in Bach's famous Prelude and provides perspective on how the damper might tastefully be employed on a modern piano.
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[description] =>Tackling two-voiced counterpoint and melodic inversion, this lesson highlights how to apply three-dimensional solutions to scalar figures, detached arpeggios, and trills.
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[description] =>This iconic, universally-loved piece offers many opportunities for interpretive choices.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 47 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Lessons on two of Burgmuller's Op. 100 etudes feature extensive instruction on pedaling techniques, harmonic listening, four-note slurs, rubato and pacing, and balancing clarity and resonance. Key Entrada concepts are reinforced throughout, including alignment, released fingers, the quiet hand, keeping the hand small, and a whole-body approach to playing pianissimo.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 46 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
A common problem in playing either of these energetic works is held tension that can lead to injury. Mastering the vibrato technique allows you to play these pieces with ease. Instruction centers on cycling and shaping between two and six chords in one integrated motion, combined with other precepts of three-dimensional piano technique. Harmonic phrasing and expressive usage of hairpins are also explored.
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The fourth piece from The Children’s Album benefits from being played with the vibrato technique, cycling and shaping six chords at a time. Fred demonstrates how to cultivate effortless, three-dimensional shaping and explores harmonic phrasing and Tchaikovsky’s expressive usage of hairpins.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 68 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
The ever-popular Spinning Song is bundled with Gurlitt's cantabile miniature and Rebikov's exotic Dance With a Bell. Together, these pieces allow opportunities to cover a wider range of topics, including lilting rhythm, harmonic blocking, playing chords in ensemble, the vibrato technique, mirroring, practicing in overlapping combinations, and the technique of releasing and re-engaging arm weight to produce a continuous legato melody.
[media_count] => 3 [is_core] => 1 [is_promoted] => 0 [display_order] => 10 [difficulty_level] => Intermediate [lessons] => Array ( [0] => stdClass Object ( [id] => 362 [title] => Ellmenreich: Spinning Song [thumbnail] => https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/826923779-ba3e2bcbd66a9ea38c436ffff612c3b2b9f5c40373034bd3520c13ab7c90638e-d_450x285 [summary] =>Albert Ellmenreich's Spinning Song, Op. 14 No. 4, is an infectious piece that continues to be popular with intermediate piano students. Here Fred points out common technical and musical problems and demonstrates dynamic practice strategies such as harmonic blocking, playing chords in ensemble, the vibrato technique, and mirroring.
[description] =>Albert Ellmenreich's Spinning Song, Op. 14 No. 4, is an infectious piece that continues to be popular with intermediate piano students.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 57 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Two favorite and highly contrasting works are joined in this set for you to delve more deeply into sustained melody, hairpins and rubato in Chopin and tremolos, trills, and scales with turnarounds in Clementi. Three-dimensional solutions are at the fore in each work, side by side with musical imagination.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 50 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
This set features three spirited pieces that require active fingers, and benefit from three-dimensional coordination and choreography. The lessons on this intermediate repertoire include focused work on sensing and responding to harmony, released fingers, integrating the movement of larger muscles with fine motor skills, voicing melody within right-hand chords, scalar figures, and maintaining vibrant rhythm throughout.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 54 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
This set features two extensive tutorials on sustained, cantabile playing--one in a classical slow movement, and one in a romantic favorite. The instruction focuses on espressivo, with specific practice techniques for developing a beautiful line in single notes and double thirds. Other topics include ornaments, metric hierarchy, inflection, the meaning of hairpins, and imaginative usage of the pedal.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 62 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Three Romantic-era intermediate works provide opportunities to delve more deeply into integrated three-dimensional movement between the hands, varied articulation, melodic voicing in a chordal texture, balancing voicing in lyrical counterpoint, Viennese lilt, and usage of both the damper and una corda pedals.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 46 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
The two Romantic-era, pieces in this set demand lively fingers and help to cultivate leggiero and faster passage work. Instruction highlights include three-note slurs, a four-octave chromatic scale, focused staccato, releases, the quiet hand, the vibrato technique, registral shifts, and subito dynamics. The discussion of each work calls for heightened imagination and "the secret of rhythmic playing."
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 64 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Subtle dance rhythms and inflection are at the core of each of the sophisticated works in this set. Melodic and rhythmic inflection, rubato, articulation, and lyrical counterpoint are a few of the concepts that receive extensive, detailed instruction in these very appealing pieces.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 66 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Masterclasses on ten early-advanced works are available for non-subscribers to purchase. Works by Bach, Burleigh, Grieg, Granados, and Scriabin are probed in great detail on topics that include Baroque ornamentation, dance rhythms, melodic and rhythmic inflection, rubato, varied articulation, lyrical counterpoint and voicing.
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This Masterclass features a complete performance of “A New Hidin’ Place” and a tutorial on this beautiful piece based on the spiritual, “My Lord, What a Morning.” Some of the topics discussed in this lesson include:
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Historical information about Burleigh and Dvorak
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A strategy for using the metronome for a more musical declamation and flow
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Finger substitutions
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Applications of the vibrato technique and the staccato pedal
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A whole-body approach to playing “round” fortissimo chords with optimal alignment
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Practice strategies for jumps and isolating difficult spots
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A way to interpret expressive markings, including hairpins--to “conduct” with proportional accelerando and ritardando
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Projecting legato lines with a single finger
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Dominant seventh chords in all inversions
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And more!
Franz Schubert composed hundreds of short dance pieces for piano--waltzes, Ländler, écossaises, minuets, polonaises, Deutsche, and galops.
In 1827, he published 12 Valse nobles, D. 969. The ninth of this set has become one of the most popular of all his dances, appearing in several anthologies and, most prominently, as the basis for the first section of Liszt’s showpiece, Soirées de Vienne No. 6 (also called “Valse-Caprices d’après Schubert”).
The Valse noble No. 9 in A minor presents opportunities to explore unique challenges of Schubert's style, including sound, gesture, lilt, agogic accents, touch, pedaling--and octaves--in an enchanting miniature. Although this piece is appropriate for many intermediate pianists, we've categorized it as "early advanced" due to its musical sophistication and the advanced concepts covered in this masterclass.
Some of the topics explored in this tutorial are 2- and 3-note slurs, discreet pedaling, the “center of the phrase,” sensing internal subdivisions to phrase with proportion, options for smaller hands, executing ornaments with great coordination, projecting lyrical counterpoint, and “the secret of rhythmic playing.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than four and a half hours of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Masterclasses on seven advanced works are available for non-subscribers to purchase. Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Godowsky, Scriabin and Tchaikovsky receive lavish attention and opportunities to focus on expression, rubato, harmonic response, cantabile, and three-dimensional choreography to play these works with ease. The vibrato technique is highlighted, centering on cycling and shaping between two and six chords in one integrated motion. Whole-body solutions are at the fore in each work to facilitate musical imagination.
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The Prelude is a beautiful, anguished, introspective piece with abundant challenges for the left hand alone, in a work that sounds like it was written for two hands.
This detailed lesson provides technical and interpretative guidance for one of Chopin’s most famous and accessible etudes. Topics covered include: cantabile; interpreting expressive markings and hairpins for rubato; articulation, pacing, voicing, and fingering; technical challenges including double 4ths, 5ths, and 6ths; and practice strategies to play this beautiful work with ease.
[description] =>This detailed lesson provides technical and interpretative guidance for one of Chopin’s most famous and accessible etudes.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- Over five hours of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
An exploration of ornamentation is central to this lesson on Bach’s Sinfonia No. 5 in E-flat. Two versions have come down to us in Bach’s hand, one without and one with ornaments. This lesson explains the difference between fugal and trio-sonata texture, demonstrates principles of baroque articulation, analyzes the harmonic structure for easy memorization, and emphasizes cantabile and human expression within this contrapuntal piece.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 40 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
This extensive, detailed lesson provides technical and interpretive guidance on a wide variety of topics, including how to play the main “rocket” motive, subito dynamics, sudden character shifts, Alberti figures, octaves, sforzandi, agogic accents, fingering, using the vibrato technique to cycle in and out, and expressive hairpins.
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- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 53 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
This first movement from Beethoven’s Sonata in G, Op. 49 No. 2 ignites joy and motivation in any pianist ready to explore advanced repertoire. It poses many challenges that Fred presents in manageable chunks, including finessing an orchestral downbeat, singing techniques to process contrapuntal writing, discovering inflected legato using scat singing, ritornello structure, and choosing dynamics when the composer didn’t indicate them.
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- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 54 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
This detailed lesson provides technical and interpretative guidance for one of Chopin’s most famous and accessible etudes. Topics covered include: cantabile; interpreting expressive markings and hairpins for rubato; articulation, pacing, voicing, and fingering; technical challenges including double 4ths, 5ths, and 6ths; and practice strategies to play this beautiful work with ease.
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[description] =>This detailed lesson provides technical and interpretative guidance for one of Chopin’s most famous and accessible etudes.
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- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 55 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
This hauntingly beautiful piece's popularity skyrocketed after the 2002 film release of The Pianist, where it served to amplify the anguish of the subject. It receives detailed attention in this special lesson which casts light on cantabile Nocturne style, featuring vocal trills, sensitive accompanying, proportional rallentando and accelerando, voicing, pedaling, and interpreting hairpins as the keys to Chopin's inflection and rubato.
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- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 49 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
This waltz is one of the most accessible pieces by Chopin and thus serves as a great choice for intermediate pianists to get acquainted with his music. The waltz style poses special challenges; this tutorial features a method of metronome practice that aids in both steadiness and flexibility; how to hone a comfortable left-hand accompanimental technique; and how to cultivate shades of pedaling while maintaining a stylistic, elegant waltz lilt throughout.
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- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
- More than 44 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Enrique Granados’ "Andaluza" is a maravilloso gem that allows students to explore spicy Spanish ornamentation—including some unprinted ornaments discovered in Granados' own recorded performance of the piece. Repeated notes are in the style of flamenco guitar, and Fred teaches an easy way to approach them at the piano for a similar rhapsodic effect. The accompanying annotated score suggests exactly where some of these changes can be inserted for an intriguing interpretation.
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- More than 44 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Offering a wide range of strategies for bringing this piece to life, this lesson includes: practice options for the fast 32nd-notes and large jumps; utilizing the vibrato technique for the alternating hands section and octaves; responding to harmony and sensing tension and release; playing with partial pedals and focused articulation, and alternative fingering choices for small hands.
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- More than 44 minutes of detailed instruction
- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
This exquisite work is given a warm reading and a devoted lesson that focuses on musical pacing, rubato, and feeling. Elements covered include flexibly playing the cross-rhythms while balancing cantabile melody, phrase centers, finger substitutions, trills, double notes, harmonic colors, and pedaling.
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- Professionally filmed with dedicated audio, including overhead and detail angles to bring the viewer directly into the learning environment
- Marked scores provided for each piece to amplify musical and technical understanding.
- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
This extensive tutorial provides an in-depth consideration of elastic and proportional rubato, especially in regard to the interpretation of hairpins. Other topics covered include the “cello” voice of the left hand, tenuto markings, maintaining a small hand, three-dimensional rotation, voicing, pedaling and more. The marked scores provided note detailed fingering, numerous subsitutions, harmonic analysis, and options for small hands in a separate, second score.
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- Access to Entrada’s interactive Glossary of Terms
Masterclass Bundles
Early Elementary
4 lessons
Four early elementary pieces to teach three-dimensional movement from the very beginning. Arm-weight drops, staccato and legato, hand-to-hand arpeggios, and early application of the vibrato technique are covered in attractive, easy repertoire.
Elementary
Reinagle: English Minuet
Elementary
Türk: Little March in C Major
Elementary
Wohlfahrt: Little Romance in D Minor
Elementary I
4 lessons
Lessons on four elementary pieces lay the groundwork for good work habits to cultivate healthful, effortless playing at all levels. Hands-together coordination, portato, legato, animated left-hand accompaniment, alternating-hands arpeggios, alignment, and three-dimensional shaping are among the topics covered in this repertoire set.
Elementary
Anonymous: Bagpipe
Elementary
Berens: Etude in C Major, Op.70 No.10
Elementary
Diabelli: Morning
Elementary
Schytte: Little Prelude
Late Elementary I
5 lessons
Tutorials on four late elementary pieces develop more whole-body concepts, including 2- and 3-note slurs, the basic three-dimensional form, parallel chords, pedaling, and new coordination challenges. Musical concepts include tied notes, melodic inversion between the hands, left-hand cantabile playing, tone clusters, voicing, chord ensemble, and an introduction to ornaments.
Late Elementary
Alt: On the Ocean Floor
Late Elementary
Gurlitt: Morgengruss
Late Elementary
Lynes: Tarantella
Late Elementary
Mouret: The Highlander
Late Elementary
Schytte: Melody for Left Hand, Op 108 No. 12
Progressing to Intermediate
5 lessons
Tutorials on five dynamic pieces provide opportunites for musical and technical growth to progress to the early intermediate level. Concepts include using solfège to heighten listening to independent parts, the vibrato technique for repeated notes, turnaround figures in scalar passages, harmonic listening, and the reinforcement of three-dimensional topics such as the quiet hand, alignment, and continuous alignment adjustments. Musical topics include minuet style, metric inflection, the whole-tone scale, vibrant rhythm, and imagination.
Late Elementary
Beethoven: Russian Folk Dance
Late Elementary
Czerny: Exercise in C Major, Op. 261 No. 81
Late Elementary
Haydn: Minuet in G
Late Elementary
Rebikov: The Bear
Early Intermediate
Schumann: Soldier's March, Op. 68 No. 2
Early Intermediate I
4 lessons
Four Classical works are featured in this set of early intermediate repertoire, including three spirited pieces and the pastoral slow movement of a Clementi sonatina. Three-dimensional concepts continue to advance versus earlier repertoire, including faster scalar passages, the vibrato technique for repeated notes and waltz accompaniment, cultivating a light thumb, leggiero touch, and fingering for smaller hands. Musical elements include energized and differentiated rhythm; waltz and minuet styles; harmonic analysis; articulation and shaping; and an effective practice strategy for learning any piece at any level.
Early Intermediate
Clementi: Sonatina in G, Op. 36 No. 2, 2nd mvt.
Early Intermediate
Czerny: Exercise in C Major, Op. 261 No. 3
Early Intermediate
Duvernoy: Etude in C Major, Op. 176 No. 24
Early Intermediate
Mozart: Minuet in F Major, K. 2
Early Intermediate II
4 lessons
Four tutorials on early intermediate favorites provide opportunities to focus on musical and technical elements, including playing with good ensemble, contrasting articulation between hands, faster scalar figures with turnarounds and the basic three-dimensional form, integrated rotation, sensitive pedaling, lilt, cantabile, and much more.
Early Intermediate
Beethoven (attributed): Sonatina in G Major, 1st mvt
Early Intermediate
Beethoven (attributed): Sonatina in G Major, 2nd mvt.
Early Intermediate
Czerny: Exercise in C Major, Op. 261 No. 1
Early Intermediate
Tchaikovsky: Old French Song, Op. 39 No. 16
Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
3 lessons
Three famous selections from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach receive detailed tutorials in this early intermediate set. Two of the tutorials feature demonstrations on the harpischord for added perspective and insight into the world of the 1720's. Some of the musical and technical concepts covered include the meaning of a musette, the elegant character of a minuet, fingering options, ornaments, jumps, navigating figures with and without black keys, various slurs, and repeated notes.
Early Intermediate
Anonymous: Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 126
Early Intermediate
Petzold: Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh.114
J. S. Bach
2 lessons
Two ever-popular intermediate works by the great master receive extensive tutorials. Topics explored include melodic inversion, analysis of invertible counterpoint, trills, and harmonic phrasing. The harpischord is used for demonstration in Bach's famous Prelude and provides perspective on how the damper might tastefully be employed on a modern piano.
Intermediate
Bach, J.S.: Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775
Intermediate
Bach, J.S.: Prelude in C Major, WTC I, BWV 846
Burgmuller
2 lessons
Lessons on two of Burgmuller's Op. 100 etudes feature extensive instruction on pedaling techniques, harmonic listening, four-note slurs, rubato and pacing, and balancing clarity and resonance. Key Entrada concepts are reinforced throughout, including alignment, released fingers, the quiet hand, keeping the hand small, and a whole-body approach to playing pianissimo.
Early Intermediate
Burgmuller: Etude in C Major, Op. 100 No. 1 "Sincerity"
Tchaikovsky
2 lessons
A common problem in playing either of these energetic works is held tension that can lead to injury. Mastering the vibrato technique allows you to play these pieces with ease. Instruction centers on cycling and shaping between two and six chords in one integrated motion, combined with other precepts of three-dimensional piano technique. Harmonic phrasing and expressive usage of hairpins are also explored.
Intermediate Favorites I
3 lessons
The ever-popular Spinning Song is bundled with Gurlitt's cantabile miniature and Rebikov's exotic Dance With a Bell. Together, these pieces allow opportunities to cover a wider range of topics, including lilting rhythm, harmonic blocking, playing chords in ensemble, the vibrato technique, mirroring, practicing in overlapping combinations, and the technique of releasing and re-engaging arm weight to produce a continuous legato melody.
Intermediate
Ellmenreich: Spinning Song
Intermediate
Gurlitt: Miniature
Intermediate
Rebikov: Dance with a Bell
Intermediate Favorites II
2 lessons
Two favorite and highly contrasting works are joined in this set for you to delve more deeply into sustained melody, hairpins and rubato in Chopin and tremolos, trills, and scales with turnarounds in Clementi. Three-dimensional solutions are at the fore in each work, side by side with musical imagination.
Late Intermediate
Chopin: Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4
Spirited Gems
3 lessons
This set features three spirited pieces that require active fingers, and benefit from three-dimensional coordination and choreography. The lessons on this intermediate repertoire include focused work on sensing and responding to harmony, released fingers, integrating the movement of larger muscles with fine motor skills, voicing melody within right-hand chords, scalar figures, and maintaining vibrant rhythm throughout.
Intermediate
Bach, J.S.: Prelude in C Minor, BWV 999
Intermediate
Heller: "Avalanche" (Etude in A Minor), Op. 45 No. 2
Intermediate
Spindler: Sonatina in C Major, Op. 157 No. 4
Espressivo
2 lessons
This set features two extensive tutorials on sustained, cantabile playing--one in a classical slow movement, and one in a romantic favorite. The instruction focuses on espressivo, with specific practice techniques for developing a beautiful line in single notes and double thirds. Other topics include ornaments, metric hierarchy, inflection, the meaning of hairpins, and imaginative usage of the pedal.
Late Intermediate
MacDowell: To A Wild Rose, Op. 51 No. 1
Resonance and Imagination
3 lessons
Three Romantic-era intermediate works provide opportunities to delve more deeply into integrated three-dimensional movement between the hands, varied articulation, melodic voicing in a chordal texture, balancing voicing in lyrical counterpoint, Viennese lilt, and usage of both the damper and una corda pedals.
Intermediate
Beach: Canoeing
Intermediate
Grieg: Watchman's Song, Op. 12 No. 3
Intermediate
Schubert: German Dance in B-Flat Major, D. 783 No. 7
Lively Fingers
2 lessons
The two Romantic-era, pieces in this set demand lively fingers and help to cultivate leggiero and faster passage work. Instruction highlights include three-note slurs, a four-octave chromatic scale, focused staccato, releases, the quiet hand, the vibrato technique, registral shifts, and subito dynamics. The discussion of each work calls for heightened imagination and "the secret of rhythmic playing."
Late Intermediate
MacDowell: Alla Tarantella, Op. 39 No. 2
Late Intermediate
Schytte: Jumping Competition, Op. 107 No. 10
Rubato and Inflection
2 lessons
Subtle dance rhythms and inflection are at the core of each of the sophisticated works in this set. Melodic and rhythmic inflection, rubato, articulation, and lyrical counterpoint are a few of the concepts that receive extensive, detailed instruction in these very appealing pieces.
Advanced
Godowsky: Alt Wien
Bach: Sinfonia No. 5 in Eb, BWV 791
1 lesson
An exploration of ornamentation is central to this lesson on Bach’s Sinfonia No. 5 in E-flat. Two versions have come down to us in Bach’s hand, one without and one with ornaments. This lesson explains the difference between fugal and trio-sonata texture, demonstrates principles of baroque articulation, analyzes the harmonic structure for easy memorization, and emphasizes cantabile and human expression within this contrapuntal piece.
Early Advanced
Bach, J.S.: Sinfonia No. 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 791
Beethoven: Sonata in C Minor, Op. 10 No. 1, 1st mvt
1 lesson
This extensive, detailed lesson provides technical and interpretive guidance on a wide variety of topics, including how to play the main “rocket” motive, subito dynamics, sudden character shifts, Alberti figures, octaves, sforzandi, agogic accents, fingering, using the vibrato technique to cycle in and out, and expressive hairpins.
Beethoven: Sonata in G, Op.49 No. 2, 1st mvt
1 lesson
This first movement from Beethoven’s Sonata in G, Op. 49 No. 2 ignites joy and motivation in any pianist ready to explore advanced repertoire. It poses many challenges that Fred presents in manageable chunks, including finessing an orchestral downbeat, singing techniques to process contrapuntal writing, discovering inflected legato using scat singing, ritornello structure, and choosing dynamics when the composer didn’t indicate them.
Late Intermediate
Beethoven: Sonata in G Major, Op.49 No. 2, 1st mvt.
Chopin: Etude in E Major, Op. 10 No. 3
1 lesson
This detailed lesson provides technical and interpretative guidance for one of Chopin’s most famous and accessible etudes. Topics covered include: cantabile; interpreting expressive markings and hairpins for rubato; articulation, pacing, voicing, and fingering; technical challenges including double 4ths, 5ths, and 6ths; and practice strategies to play this beautiful work with ease.
Chopin: Nocturne in C# Minor, Op. Post.
1 lesson
This hauntingly beautiful piece's popularity skyrocketed after the 2002 film release of The Pianist, where it served to amplify the anguish of the subject. It receives detailed attention in this special lesson which casts light on cantabile Nocturne style, featuring vocal trills, sensitive accompanying, proportional rallentando and accelerando, voicing, pedaling, and interpreting hairpins as the keys to Chopin's inflection and rubato.
Chopin: Waltz in A Minor, B. 150
1 lesson
This waltz is one of the most accessible pieces by Chopin and thus serves as a great choice for intermediate pianists to get acquainted with his music. The waltz style poses special challenges; this tutorial features a method of metronome practice that aids in both steadiness and flexibility; how to hone a comfortable left-hand accompanimental technique; and how to cultivate shades of pedaling while maintaining a stylistic, elegant waltz lilt throughout.
Intermediate
Chopin: Waltz in A minor, B. 150
Granados: Spanish Dance No. 5
1 lesson
Enrique Granados’ "Andaluza" is a maravilloso gem that allows students to explore spicy Spanish ornamentation—including some unprinted ornaments discovered in Granados' own recorded performance of the piece. Repeated notes are in the style of flamenco guitar, and Fred teaches an easy way to approach them at the piano for a similar rhapsodic effect. The accompanying annotated score suggests exactly where some of these changes can be inserted for an intriguing interpretation.
Early Advanced
Granados: Spanish Dance No. 5
Grieg: March of the Trolls, Op. 54 No. 3
1 lesson
Offering a wide range of strategies for bringing this piece to life, this lesson includes: practice options for the fast 32nd-notes and large jumps; utilizing the vibrato technique for the alternating hands section and octaves; responding to harmony and sensing tension and release; playing with partial pedals and focused articulation, and alternative fingering choices for small hands.
Early Advanced
Grieg: March of the Trolls, Op. 54 No. 3
Grieg: Nocturne, Op. 54 No. 4
1 lesson
This exquisite work is given a warm reading and a devoted lesson that focuses on musical pacing, rubato, and feeling. Elements covered include flexibly playing the cross-rhythms while balancing cantabile melody, phrase centers, finger substitutions, trills, double notes, harmonic colors, and pedaling.
Early Advanced
Grieg: Nocturne, Op. 54 No. 4
Scriabin: Prelude in E, Op. 11 No. 9
1 lesson
This extensive tutorial provides an in-depth consideration of elastic and proportional rubato, especially in regard to the interpretation of hairpins. Other topics covered include the “cello” voice of the left hand, tenuto markings, maintaining a small hand, three-dimensional rotation, voicing, pedaling and more. The marked scores provided note detailed fingering, numerous subsitutions, harmonic analysis, and options for small hands in a separate, second score.
Early Advanced
Scriabin: Prelude in E Major, Op. 11 No. 9
Masterclass Full List
Core: Elementary
13 lessons
Lessons on early and mid-elementary pieces lay the groundwork for good work habits to cultivate healthful, effortless playing at all levels. Arm-weight drops, staccato and legato, hand-to-hand arpeggios, and early application of the vibrato technique are covered in attractive, easy repertoire. Other topics include hands-together coordination, portato, animated left-hand accompaniment, alternating-hands arpeggios, alignment, and three-dimensional shaping.
Elementary
Köhler: Allegretto
Elementary
Türk: Little March in C Major
Elementary
J.C. Bach: Prelude A Minor
Elementary
Milne: Smooth and Crunchy
Elementary
Stevens: Prairie Creek Sunrise
Elementary
Anonymous: Bagpipe
Elementary
Wohlfahrt: Little Romance in D Minor
Elementary
Reinagle: English Minuet
Elementary
Diabelli: Morning
Elementary
Milne: Sunshower
Elementary
Berens: Etude in C Major, Op.70 No.10
Elementary
Hidy: All Cooped Up
Elementary
Schytte: Little Prelude
Core: Late Elementary
13 lessons
Tutorials on late elementary pieces build on initial whole-body concepts, including 2- and 3-note slurs, the basic three-dimensional form, parallel chords, pedaling, and new coordination challenges. Musical concepts include tied notes, melodic inversion between the hands, left-hand cantabile playing, tone clusters, voicing, chord ensemble, and an introduction to ornaments.
Late Elementary
Alt: On the Ocean Floor
Late Elementary
Gurlitt: Morgengruss
Late Elementary
Graupner: Bourrée
Late Elementary
Mouret: The Highlander
Late Elementary
Schytte: Melody for Left Hand, Op 108 No. 12
Late Elementary
Beethoven: Russian Folk Dance
Late Elementary
Mozart: Minuet in C, K. 6
Late Elementary
Haydn: Minuet in G
Late Elementary
Rebikov: The Bear
Late Elementary
Lynes: Tarantella
Late Elementary
Hidy: Belladonna
Late Elementary
Czerny: Exercise in C Major, Op. 261 No. 81
Late Elementary
Chopin: Wiosna (Spring), B.117
Core: Early Intermediate
18 lessons
The full 17-lesson set of early intermediate masterclasses is available for non-subscribers to purchase. Three-dimensional concepts continue to advance versus earlier repertoire, including faster scalar passages, the vibrato technique for repeated notes and waltz accompaniment, cultivating a light thumb, leggiero touch, and fingering for smaller hands. Musical elements include energized and differentiated rhythm; waltz and minuet styles; harmonic analysis; articulation and shaping; and effective practice strategies for learning any piece at any level. Other topics include playing with good ensemble, contrasting articulation between hands, faster scalar figures with turnarounds and the basic three-dimensional form, integrated rotation, sensitive pedaling, lilt, cantabile, and much more.
Early Intermediate
Mozart: Minuet in F Major, K. 2
Early Intermediate
Capers: Ella Scats the Little Lamb
Early Intermediate
Clementi: Sonatina in G, Op. 36 No. 2, 2nd mvt.
Early Intermediate
Beethoven (attributed): Sonatina in G Major, 1st mvt
Early Intermediate
Beethoven (attributed): Sonatina in G Major, 2nd mvt.
Early Intermediate
Schumann: Soldier's March, Op. 68 No. 2
Early Intermediate
Czerny: Exercise in C Major, Op. 261 No. 1
Early Intermediate
Czerny: Exercise in C Major, Op. 261 No. 3
Early Intermediate
Petzold: Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh.114
Early Intermediate
Anonymous: Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 126
Early Intermediate
Burgmuller: Etude in C Major, Op. 100 No. 1 "Sincerity"
Early Intermediate
Tchaikovsky: Old French Song, Op. 39 No. 16
Early Intermediate
Satie: Gymnopédie No.1
Early Intermediate
Tchaikovsky: Waltz, Op. 39 No. 9
Early Intermediate
Hidy: Just For Now
Early Intermediate
Duvernoy: Etude in C Major, Op. 176 No. 24
Early Intermediate
Capers: A Taste of Bass
Early Intermediate
Beach: Polka Op.36, No.5
Core: Intermediate
28 lessons
The full 28-lesson set of Intermediate masterclasses is available for non-subscribers to purchase. Key Entrada concepts are reinforced throughout, including alignment, released fingers, the quiet hand, keeping the hand small, and a whole-body approach to playing pianissimo. Lessons on favorite repertoire by Bach, Burgmuller, Ellmenreich, Grieg, Heller, Clementi, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and others feature extensive instruction on pedaling techniques, harmonic listening, four-note slurs, rubato and pacing, voicing, and balancing clarity and resonance. Other topics include lilting rhythm, harmonic blocking, playing chords in ensemble, the vibrato technique, mirroring, practicing in overlapping combinations, and the technique of releasing and re-engaging arm weight to produce a continuous legato melody.
Intermediate
Bach, J.S.: Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775
Intermediate
Capers: The Monk
Intermediate
Hensel: Melodie in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 4 No. 2
Intermediate
Wallace Cheatham: Poor Mourner's Got a Home
Intermediate
Gretchaninov: Prelude in B-Flat Minor, Op. 37 No. 2,
Intermediate
Mel Bonis: Prelude in E-Flat, Op. 10
Intermediate
Stevens: Cascading
Intermediate
Bach, J.S.: Prelude in C Major, WTC I, BWV 846
Intermediate
Bach, J.S.: Prelude in C Minor, BWV 999
Intermediate
Beach: Canoeing
Intermediate
Scarlatti: Sonata in G, K. 431
Intermediate
Chopin: Waltz in A minor, B. 150
Intermediate
Ellmenreich: Spinning Song
Intermediate
Gossec: Tambourin
Intermediate
Grieg: Watchman's Song, Op. 12 No. 3
Intermediate
Gurlitt: In the Garden
Intermediate
Gurlitt: Miniature
Intermediate
Heller: "Avalanche" (Etude in A Minor), Op. 45 No. 2
Intermediate
Nketia: Builsa Work Song
Intermediate
Rebikov: Dance with a Bell
Intermediate
Schubert: German Dance in B-Flat Major, D. 783 No. 7
Intermediate
Spindler: Sonatina in C Major, Op. 157 No. 4
Intermediate
Tchaikovsky: Playing Hobby-Horses Op. 39 No.4
Core: Late Intermediate
11 lessons
The full 11-lesson set of Late Intermediate masterclasses is available for non-subscribers to purchase. Works by Beethoven, Chopin, MacDowell and others provide opportunities to cultivate leggiero, espressivo, elegant ornaments, metric hierarchy, inflection, imaginative usage of the pedals, and "the secret of rhythmic playing." Other topics include developing a beautiful line in single notes and double thirds, the meaning of hairpins, integrated three-dimensional movement between the hands, melodic voicing in a chordal texture, subito dynamics, quick registral shifts, and Viennese lilt. Key Entrada concepts are reinforced throughout, including three-note slurs, releases, the quiet hand, alignment and the vibrato technique.
Late Intermediate
Beethoven: Sonata in G Major, Op.49 No. 2, 1st mvt.
Late Intermediate
Chopin: Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28 No. 4
Late Intermediate
Severac: The Old Music Box
Late Intermediate
Turina: Sacro-Monte
Late Intermediate
Rameau: Les Tendres Plaintes
Late Intermediate
Schumann: Fantasy Dance, Op. 124 No. 5
Late Intermediate
Hofmann: Scherzo, Op. 77 No. 7
Late Intermediate
MacDowell: Alla Tarantella, Op. 39 No. 2
Late Intermediate
MacDowell: To A Wild Rose, Op. 51 No. 1
Late Intermediate
Milne, Elissa: Against the Rule
Late Intermediate
Schytte: Jumping Competition, Op. 107 No. 10
Core: Early Advanced
11 lessons
Masterclasses on ten early-advanced works are available for non-subscribers to purchase. Works by Bach, Burleigh, Grieg, Granados, and Scriabin are probed in great detail on topics that include Baroque ornamentation, dance rhythms, melodic and rhythmic inflection, rubato, varied articulation, lyrical counterpoint and voicing.
Early Advanced
Bach, J.S.: Sinfonia No. 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 791
Early Advanced
Burleigh: A New Hidin' Place
Early Advanced
Schubert: Valse Noble in A Minor
Early Advanced
Bach/Busoni: Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme
Early Advanced
Grieg: To Spring
Early Advanced
Soler: Sonata in D Minor, M. 8
Early Advanced
Couperin: Les baricades mystérieuses
Early Advanced
Granados: Spanish Dance No. 5
Early Advanced
Grieg: March of the Trolls, Op. 54 No. 3
Early Advanced
Grieg: Nocturne, Op. 54 No. 4
Early Advanced
Scriabin: Prelude in E Major, Op. 11 No. 9
Core: Advanced
7 lessons
Masterclasses on seven advanced works are available for non-subscribers to purchase. Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Godowsky, Scriabin and Tchaikovsky receive lavish attention and opportunities to focus on expression, rubato, harmonic response, cantabile, and three-dimensional choreography to play these works with ease. The vibrato technique is highlighted, centering on cycling and shaping between two and six chords in one integrated motion. Whole-body solutions are at the fore in each work to facilitate musical imagination.
Advanced