Skills · Making it music

Making phrases over an accompaniment

Choose pitches and rhythm; keep the background when changing your phrase.

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  1. Lesson 46

    Your four notes

    Choose four notes to make your phrase; the left hand keeps an even beat.

    In Course 10 · Phrase workshop

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  2. Lesson 47

    A phrase with a breath

    Choose a phrase with a rest; the left hand carries on through the breath.

    In Course 10 · Phrase workshop

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  3. Lesson 48

    One phrase over four backgrounds

    Keep your chosen phrase while the accompaniment changes background each bar.

    In Course 10 · Phrase workshop

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  4. Lesson 49

    Write your own blues phrase

    Choose four blues notes, keeping the shuffle bass as you change phrases.

    In Course 10 · Phrase workshop

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  5. Lesson 50

    Your own stage

    Create your phrase, keeping the accompaniment even and the melody forward.

    In Course 10 · Phrase workshop

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  6. Lesson 130

    Pentatonic: two bars singing, two bars breathing

    Make up a short phrase over C–Am–F–G; nothing is graded right or wrong.

    In Piano for adults · Book 2

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