Piano Practice Toolkit: Grade 4

The Maestro Online Grade 4 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
Scales are not a requirement in the exam, but they are great for understanding keys and improvisation. We do them in a really fun way!

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)
• Pentatonic and Major are very common in pop songs.
• Mixolydian is really common in rock guitar solos.

Song Style Backing Tracks
These are inspired by songs from the Grade 4 syllabus to help develop your improvisation.

• YMCA
• Walking on Sunshine
• Summer of 69
• I Can See Clearly Now
• Love Me Like You Do
• Mamma Mia
• Bad Habits

• Move to the Groove (Richard Michael BEM)
• 1 Note Improv
• 1 Chord Improv
• Establishing 4/4 time (Nicky Brown, Legendary Producer)
• Beats 1 & 3 (Nicky Brown)
• The 3 Note Groove (Richard Michael BEM)
• What Goes Up Must Go Down (Richard Michael BEM)
• Shift the Lick (Richard Michael BEM)
• Same Progression, Different Grooves (Nicky Brown)
• Rhythm as Your Hook (Nicky Brown)
• “House of the Rising Sun” LH arpeggio lesson
• “YMCA” pentatonic scale connections lesson
• “Pretty Woman” 7th chords demo
• “Stand by Me” Shift the Lick lesson
• “Stand by Me” The Maestro Online improv
• “Stand by Me” chord progression (Amelia Coburn)
• “Stand by Me” advanced improv (Bazil Meade MBE)
• “Don’t Play that Song for Me” (Bazil Meade MBE)
• “I Can See Clearly Now” ending demonstration (Bazil Meade MBE)
• “I Can See Clearly Now” complete (Bazil Meade MBE)
• “Clocks” exploration (Marcus Brown)
• Original Artist: 17 minute exclusive on “Undiscovered” (James Morrison) by Marcus Brown who created & played the original piano track for this song

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