Piano Practice Toolkit: Debut

These practice toolkits support The Maestro Online Popular Piano Exams (also supporting other exam boards too), or simply a keen amateur at home who wants to just sit and improvise. These are the piano toolkits that will maximise your piano fun, develop core skills and help you connect theory with sound!

The Maestro Online Debut Piano Practice Toolkits

Rhythm backing tracks to help support your fluency, improvise in time.

Interactive step-by-step scale/key tracks for the relevant keys for each grade, helping you start with just one note per key, then 2 notes, “add it and nail it” without feeling overwhelmed.

Multi-style scale/key backing tracks in Pop, Soft Rock, Reggae and Funk to support your concept of key and improvisation.

Song style backing tracks in the style of a selection of songs on each grade syllabus to help develop your improvisation.

EXCLUSIVE Celebrity Improvisation lessons, tips, tracks, teaching techniques from World-Class Masterclass Tutors, including pianists who played on some of the original pop songs, interesting anecdotes, professional piano player insights, and session musician perspectives.

Rhythm Backing Tracks

Support your fluency, improvise in time in 3/4 and 4/4 with tracks created by our Masterclass Tutors Marcus Brown (Madonna and more) and Nicky Brown (legendary producer & BBC).

Tracks:

• 4/4 Rock
• 3/4 Time
• New York Loop
• Slow Funky Loop
• Slow Drive Loop
• Pop Loop
• Detroit Loop
• Ballad Loop

Bonus: Establishing 4 beats per bar Masterclass Lesson by Nicky Brown.

Scale & Key Fun

Interactive step-by-step tracks in C, F, and G Majors helping you start with just one note per key, then 2 notes, “add it and nail it” without feeling overwhelmed.

Bonus Masterclass – Add it and Nail It method by Mick Donnelly (Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Robbie Williams & more)

Multi-style backing tracks in C, F, and G Majors (plus Mixolydian) in different styles to support your concept of key and improvisation. There are also tracks with the bass removed so that you can develop your LH and RH separately:

• Pop (Pentatonic/Major)
• Soft Rock (Mixolydian)

Mixolydian is really common in rock guitar solos.

Song Style Backing Tracks

These are inspired by songs from the Debut syllabus to help develop your improvisation.

• “Tetris“
• “Minecraft Calm”
• “Oh When the Saints” support lessons.

These tracks have been created exclusively by Andrew Sparham, our Guitar Tutor.

EXCLUSIVE Improvisation lessons, tips, tracks, teaching techniques from World-Class Masterclass Tutors, including pianists who played on some of the original pop songs, interesting anecdotes, professional piano player insights, and session musician perspectives. For Debut Level, tracks by international level pianists include:

• Move to the Groove
• 1 Note Improv
• What Goes Up Must Go Down
• “Oh When the Saints” support lesson helping you hear the LH while playing the tune in the RH.
• “Oh When the Saints“ EXCLUSIVE improv (Bazil Meade MBE)

 

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A Quick Look at a Typical Masterclass Course

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A Quick Look at a Typical Masterclass Course

•  Celebrity video lessons
•  Objectives & exercises
•  Progress tracking
• ️ Interactive music software
•  Certificate on completion