Lesson 5 of 16PianoBeginner

Piano Star - piece demonstration

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Watch Talia Girton demonstrate 'Piano Star', a playful beginner piece combining octaves and rhythm changes - start slow, then build the tempo.

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    • 01. G to C in the left and right hand

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      1:32

    • 02. Octave pieces

      3:36

    • 03. More Notes Please - piece demonstration

      3:16

    • 04. More Notes Please - piece performance

      1:17

    • 05. Piano Star - piece demonstration

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    • 06. Piano Star - piece performance

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Lesson transcript

Our next piece, ‘Piano Star,’ combines octaves and rhythm changes. Let’s try playing it slowly at first to build control, then pick up the tempo as we go along.

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Talia Girton

Talia Girton

Talia Girton is a musician and HCPC-registered music therapist, and the founder of The Cycling Music Teachers. Her work brings together music therapy, counselling and education, and she tutors internationally on the music therapy training course at UDELAS in Panama as well as contributing to professional development with the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA). On MusicGurus she teaches the Piano Method and Piano Foundations courses, guiding complete beginners from first steps through rhythm, both hands, theory and performance.

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