Baroque Improvisation 2: Twinkle Twinkle Brain Gym (add ii-iii-vi, create a Chorale Prelude)

You are either a pianist, organist, A Level, University or Diploma student. You’ve never quite got your head around improvising with keyboard harmony. You would like to be able to improvise pieces that sound great and to understand how to mix chords up so that they sound good. You would like to play by ear more, play in different keys, create variations of tunes and sound like Bach or Handel. Here’s your first steps – keyboard harmony is real fun! This course is also fantastic for teachers to use with their students ([contact us](https://www.the-maestro-online.com/contact/) for enrolment for schools and universities).

In the second course in the series, it is now time to expand your harmonic pallette, add suspensions and create “real” Baroque pieces!

Baroque Improvisation 2: Twinkle Twinkle Brain Gym (add ii-iii-vi), Create a Chorale Prelude

• Here we explore the relative minor key and its i-iv-v chords and discover that they are chords ii-iii-vi in the relative Major.
• Twinkle is now reharmonised with chord I, ii, iii, IV, V and vi.
• Add suspensions, explore the minor.
• Your first Chorale Prelude will now form.

Root Positions, Chords I-vi
1. Switch to the minor: ii iii vi
2. Same Note, 2 Different Chords
3. Renaissance Dance & Modalism
4. Same Note, 3 Different Chords

Movement Through 3rds
5. Romantic Era 3rd Shifts, Mendelssohn Wedding March
6. Sequences through 3rds

Chorale Preludes
7. Old 100th Chorale Prelude

Adding the Polish
8. Inversions
9. Suspensions
10. The Full Combo
11. Additional Melodies to Explore

Sietze De Vries is an internationally respected organist, improviser and educator.

Sietze began playing by ear at the age of 4 and began formal organ lessons at the age of 9. He found the traditional route of learning to play an instrument uninspiring and boring. Creativity is at the core of his soul!

Besides becoming a performer of international standing, having played by ear since the age of 4, Sietze has become a highly regarded improviser. His improvisations in a Baroque style are not just authentic, but fun and a joy to listen to! Bach, Pachelbel and others form a great inspiration for Sietze and thus his improvisations reflect their styles.

Sietze carries this passion through to his teaching. He is renowned for conveying the most complex of ideas in the simplest of ways. The “Sietze De Vries” method starts at a level that all can understand and ends with fantastic Baroque organ improvisations (which you will still readily understand!).

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