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Strutting Rag March
Written for the Method by Musalea
Key G major
Style Modern, jazz and dance
Roughly RCM 3 · ABRSM 3 · Trinity 3 · Henle 2
Focus March the ragtime rhythm over a steady root-and-fifth left hand, and name each chord from its symbol.
What its lesson teaches
Study Strutting Rag March, an original rag march in G. Its chord symbols, printed above the tune, change once a bar (G, G, C, D, G, G) and twice in bar 7 (C, then D): name each chord from its symbol and play the left-hand root–fifth pattern under the tune. At the keyboard: play block chords from a lead sheet.
Technique G major scale, hands separately, 2 octaves
The other lesson pieces of Level 3
Kleine Studie (Little Study), Op. 68 No. 14 Traditioner af swenska folk-dansar, Part 1 No. 17 Innocence, Op. 100 No. 5 Rondo in C major, Op. 42 No. 1 Minuet in G minor (Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach), BWV Anh. 115 La gracieuse, Op. 100 No. 8 Album for the Young, Op. 39 No. 5: March of the Wooden Soldiers Sonatina in C major, Op. 36 No. 1: I. Spiritoso A New Irish Tune (Lilliburlero), Z.646
Previous piece A New Irish Tune (Lilliburlero), Z.646The repertoire of Level 3
Next piece Minuet in F major, BWV Anh. 113
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