Gcse Performance Pieces - Piano

The GCSE Performance Pieces series provides exciting contemporary repertoire levelled specifically for GCSE performance examinations accompanied by expert commentary to help your students prepare and achieve their potential with material they really want to play. Each book has been compiled by an experienced instrumental teacher/examiner and overseen by our Series Editor Andrew Coxon who is a senior GCSE examiner and an experienced classroom teacher. The songs have been carefully chosen to provide students with the best opportunity to show off their instrument and skills with a broad range of artists and styles to choose from. This book forPiano: is suitable for all exam boards contains ten songs with a range of difficulty appropriate for GCSE level is accompanied by a CD of professionally recorded backing tracks It includes songs by: One Republic Tears for Fears Maroon 5 Beatles Marc Cohn. Elton John Vanessa Carlton ABBA Beyonce A YouTube playlist has been created containing all the songs in the book along with additional suggested listening such as interesting cover versions or other songs for cultural context allowing the student to explore ideas for their own interpretation.

Passionnant répertoire contemporain nivelé spécifiquement pour des performances GCSE!Accompagné par des commentaires d'experts pour aider vos élèves à se préparer, cette série permettra aux artistes GCSE à réaliser leur potentiel avec le matériel qu'ils veulent vraiment jouer:Couvrant une gamme d'instruments populaires, la série a été compilé par des enseignants instrumentale et pour les instruments rock par les examinateurs de pas de l'Europe. 1 planche d'examen rock, Rockschool, et tous ont été approuvés par notre éditeur de la série, une personne âgée GCSE examinateur.Convient pour tous les conseils d'examen, chaque livre contient dix chansons et couvre une gamme de difficulté approprié pour le niveau du GCSE.Chaque livre est accompagné d'un CD de morceaux d'accompagnement professionnels, et les chansons ont été soigneusement choisis pour fournir aux étudiants la meilleure occasion de montrer leur instrument et de compétences, avec un large éventail d'artistes et de styles allant des charts actuels comme Take That , Coldplay, Cee-Lo Green et Adele aux grands classiques comme les Beatles, Bon Jovi, Oasis et Led Zeppelin. / Piano

Pop Performance Pieces includes 10 carefully selected contemporary and classic pop songs in special arrangements for Clarinet with aPiano accompaniment suitable for Grade 2-5 students as well as teachers. With a Piano score separate Clarinet part and performance hints and tips these fun pieces will hone yourskills and develop ensemble playing.These pieces present a fun alternative to graded exam material and many are suitable for GCSE performance exams. The tunes will be familiar to most players with classicslike Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water and Elton John's Your Song as well as contemporary pop songs like Adele's When We Were Young and KatyPerry's Firework. These 10 songs can be played in instrumental lessons in the classroom and of course on stage. The separate booklet with the Clarinet partfeatures tips by professional musicians with some fingering guidance while the Piano score also includes the tips along with chord symbols and helpful fingering suggestions. 

Pop Performance Pieces includes 10 carefully selected contemporary and classic pop songs in special arrangements for Violin with aPiano accompaniment suitable for Grade 2-5 students as well as teachers. With a Piano score separate Violin part and performance hints and tips these fun pieces will hone yourskills and develop ensemble playing.These pieces present a fun alternative to graded exam material and many are suitable for GCSE performance exams. The tunes will be familiar to most players with classicslike Simon

On Track-13 specially commissioned pieces which aim to breathe new life into a largely neglected component of the GCSE/Key Stage 4 Music syllabus Ensemble Performance.On Track comes complete with a CD-Rom containing all theparts for all the pieces and transpositions for any instrument and these parts come with a licence for printing as many copies as needed directly from the CD-Rom. A separate 'audio' CD also contains recordings of every piece.The book contains scores for each piece and extended notes by the composers to aid in the preparation of the music; there are 5 pieces for fixed ensembles and 8 pieces for flexible ensembles.The editor of the compilation Sadie Harrison comments: 'Playing in an ensemble with one's peers is perhaps the most rewarding and satisfying thing to do as a young performer and it is crucial to nurture this element ofGCSE courses to reflect this. On Track is a fantastic collection of many different styles approaches and sounds. There is something in here for everybody at whatever level and on whatever instrument. This is what GCSE Musicteachers are crying out for and finally here is something that really hits the mark.' Harrison's comments are echoed by recent examiners' reports from EdExcel one of the largest examiners of GCSE music. Theydescribe how the music they heard in examinations demonstrated 'an extreme range of standards and revealed evidence of the very wide range of instruments in use'. The AQA (Assessment and Qualification Alliance) Examiners' reportin 2004 warns schools against allowing their students to present solo music with a piano accompaniment played by a teacher or with a CD accompaniment for the ensemble performance component. It continues saying that 'it is of utmost importance that the chosen ensemble allows the candidate to show rapport with the other player(s). This is a significant requirement with which many [examination] centres did NOT