Piano Flow: "Amazing Grace" a step by step guide to musical decision making
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Composed by John Newton, Traditional. Arranged by Mark Kline. Christian,Instructional. Score. 14 pages. Mark Kline #3602945. Published by Mark Kline (A0.933483).The Piano Flow series is for intermediate players wishing to improve their skills in improvisation, arrangement, and playing by ear. Playing from a lead sheet is a very different skill than reading or memorizing a pre-existing arrangement. Piano Flow provides a precise notated pathway through fourteen cumulative steps, beginning with the melody alone and culminating with a full arrangement. In the course of this journey, the development of free-flowing musical thought is emphasized.
To succeed with this method, be sure to follow all given directions. Also, a knowledge of major and minor triads and dominant seventh chords is helpful, but notation is also provided.
The value of this Piano Flow guide is not in the completed arrangement of the final steps. Indeed, many piano players could perform the final arrangement with ease, and yet gain nothing from it in terms of freely flowing musical thought. Though some of the steps may seem easy and trivial, they are meant to guide you along the kind of thinking which can lead to a completed arrangement of any song with minimal time or effort. The final arrangement provided is not in itself particularly flashy or impressive (though your own arrangements may be!), and Piano Flow is meant to augment, not replace, your continued study of challenging notated works.
Over time, other melodies will be incrementally added to the Piano Flow series, containing essentially the same instructions as this one (revised for clarity and precision as needed). The eventual goal would be to collect perhaps 10-20 melodies into a single volume with full notation. After the accomplishment of that goal, further supplemental volumes could easily be added containing only notated melodies with lyrics and chord symbols; users of the supplements would be ready to create their own arrangements, using the provided melodies for convenience.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard’s global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
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