Helen Marlais
Pianist, Pedagogue, Pedagogical author.
In Book Four of In Recital® with Christmas Favorites students will learn to play pieces with numerous changes of tempo, articulations, and moods. This book reinforces octave passages; playing pieces with modulations from one key to another key; playing hand-over-hand arpeggios; and much more. Featuring arrangements of What Child Is This; Deck the Halls; The...
In Recital® with Christmas Favorites, Book Five is designed to help teachers motivate students while also providing a perfect holiday treat. Triplet and sixteenth-note patterns as well as dotted rhythmic patterns and syncopated rhythms are used. Reinforces concepts like rubato, chords and their inversions, octave scale passages, arpeggios, blocked octaves, simple ornamentation, and playing two...
Book Six of In Recital® with Christmas Favorites reinforces concepts such as rhythmic patterns of dotted eighth notes, triplets, and sixteenth notes; pieces in simple, compound, and mixed meters, ornamentation consisting of grace notes and trills. Technical challenges encompass one- and two-octave scales, octaves, rolled chords, and hand-over-hand configurations. A delightful inclusion in this volume...
