Piano Practice Toolkit: Grade 7

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  • Play your favourite pop tunes, use masterclasses & toolkits to help
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What You'll Learn
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 Grade 7 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!

This pack also includes a step-by-step phrase structure Blues Scale tutorial backing track from the Richard Michael BEM course.

Interactive step-by-step tracks in C, F, G, D, A E, Bb, Eb, and Ab 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, G, D, A, E, Bb, Eb and Ab Majors (plus Mixolydian, and relative natural minors and harmonic minor in Am, Dm, Em, Bm, F#m, Gm, Cm, C#m and Fm) 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)
  • Reggae (harmonic minor)
  • Funk (natural minor)
  • Blues/Country (mixolydian/blues)

Pentatonic and Major are very common in pop songs.

Mixolydian is really common in rock guitar solos.

Natural minor is also particular common in guitar solos.
Blues scale is used to create inflexions in many blues and gospel solos.

Song Style Backing Tracks
These are inspired by songs from the Grade 7 syllabus to help develop your improvisation.

  • As it Was (Harry Styles)
  • A Thousand Miles (Vanessa Carlton)
  • Piano Man (Billy Joel)
  • Billy Jean (Michael Jackson)
  • Billie Bossa Nova (Billie Eilish)
  • Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
Your Maestro Teacher
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 Grade 7, tracks by international level pianists include:

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 Grade 7 tracks by international level pianists include:

  • “Oh Happy Day” Masterclass Excerpt.
  • “Superstition” Ebm Pentatonic Improv demonstration by leading guitarist (Andrew Sparham)
  • Introduction to 7ths via Oh When the Saints (Richard Michael BEM)
  • Samba Inspired Texture/Rhythm (Marcus Brown – Madonna, James Morrison and more)
  • Connecting Melody and Chord Voicing (Marcus Brown – Madonna, James Morrison and more)
  • Fats Domino Style Texture and Bass (Nicky Brown – BBC, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Emeli Sande, Earth Wind and Fire and more)

The Maestro Online Grade 7 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!

This pack also includes a step-by-step phrase structure Blues Scale tutorial backing track from the Richard Michael BEM course.

Interactive step-by-step tracks in C, F, G, D, A E, Bb, Eb, and Ab 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, G, D, A, E, Bb, Eb and Ab Majors (plus Mixolydian, and relative natural minors and harmonic minor in Am, Dm, Em, Bm, F#m, Gm, Cm, C#m and Fm) 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)
  • Reggae (harmonic minor)
  • Funk (natural minor)
  • Blues/Country (mixolydian/blues)

Pentatonic and Major are very common in pop songs.

Mixolydian is really common in rock guitar solos.

Natural minor is also particular common in guitar solos.
Blues scale is used to create inflexions in many blues and gospel solos.

Song Style Backing Tracks
These are inspired by songs from the Grade 7 syllabus to help develop your improvisation.

  • As it Was (Harry Styles)
  • A Thousand Miles (Vanessa Carlton)
  • Piano Man (Billy Joel)
  • Billy Jean (Michael Jackson)
  • Billie Bossa Nova (Billie Eilish)
  • Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
Your Maestro Teacher
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 Grade 7, tracks by international level pianists include:

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 Grade 7 tracks by international level pianists include:

  • “Oh Happy Day” Masterclass Excerpt.
  • “Superstition” Ebm Pentatonic Improv demonstration by leading guitarist (Andrew Sparham)
  • Introduction to 7ths via Oh When the Saints (Richard Michael BEM)
  • Samba Inspired Texture/Rhythm (Marcus Brown – Madonna, James Morrison and more)
  • Connecting Melody and Chord Voicing (Marcus Brown – Madonna, James Morrison and more)
  • Fats Domino Style Texture and Bass (Nicky Brown – BBC, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Emeli Sande, Earth Wind and Fire and more)


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