AMEB Piano For Leisure Series 4 Grade 1 - How to teach exam piano

Watch and learn as consultant editor of PFL Series 4, Tim Topham, takes you through the pieces he choose for each book.

Piano for Leisure Series 4, which is only available in Australia, is designed to inspire and motivate students and teachers through well-chosen, sequenced repertoire and creative teaching recommendations and ideas.

I was lucky enough to be consultant editor for this new series and so I've recorded a short series of videos about the selections in each book - how to teach the pieces, what examiners will be looking out for and how to get creative with the works.

I hope you enjoy the music!

Here’s the music:

0:10 | Glenda Austin - Going Baroque
1:12 | Sonny Chua - Jive Turkey
2:04 | Henry Purcell - Trumpet Tune
3:28 | Kevin Costley - Dance of the Gnomes
3:37 | Stephen Duro - Warm Starry Nights
4:11 | Heather Hammond - Dudes keep Struttin'
5:08 | Michael Hannan - Prayer
6:54 | Christopher Norton - Sea bird
7:49 | Wynn-Anne Rossi
8:24 | Gioachino Rossini - Overture
9:11 | Howard Shore - In Dreams
10:02 | Giuseppe Verdi - La Donna e mobile

Watch out for the Grade 2 video on August 19th.

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[darkman]

Hi Tim, thanks for that video. I'm currently studying for my grade 1 using series 4 but there's one piece that seem way harder than the other one in the book. It's Overture with a written minimum tempo of 132. Can't do it even after 3 months of practicing it along with other pieces. I was able to pick up the other ones a lot quicker (Trumpet Tune, In Dreams, Warm starry nights and one outside the book Mozart's minuet in F Major K2). Not sure what I'm missing... I can go up to 110 -120 without mistakes and with the right dynamics, etc but at 130 it all falls apart. I've tried for weeks but I always make a mistake at some point.

[bradleymarshallmusic]

He's energy reminds me of Hugh Jackman

[kimedwards]

Hi Tim, am I right in saying "In Dreams" has an anacrusis error since there should be three crotchet beats at the end instead of four?