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Octave Walk Shuffle
Written for the Method by Musalea
Key G major
Style Studies
Roughly RCM 6 · ABRSM 6 · Trinity 6 · Henle 4
Focus Walk octaves in the left hand while the right hand answers with the blues scale's flat third, flat fifth and flat seventh.
What its lesson teaches
Study Octave Walk Shuffle, an original 12/8 shuffle study in G whose left hand walks in octaves. Its right hand uses the G blues scale: B flat, the blue third, crushed onto B (bar 1); C sharp, the flattened fifth (bar 2); and F, the flattened seventh, over that walking bass. Then compare that colour with pentatonic and whole-tone scales. At the keyboard: compare pentatonic, whole-tone and blues scales.
Technique G major scale, hands together, 2 octaves, staccato
The other lesson pieces of Level 6
Prelude in C minor, Op. 28 No. 20 Sonatina in C major, Op. 20 No. 1: I. Allegro Suonata quarta: Fuga cromatica (L’organo suonarino, Op. 13) Mazurka in C major, Op. 24 No. 2 Air avec variations (Aylesford Piece 16), Aylesford Pieces Minuet in E-flat major, WoO 82 Peacherine Rag Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 39 No. 15 Wiegenlied, Op. 49 No. 4
Previous piece Mazurka in C major, Op. 24 No. 2The repertoire of Level 6
Next piece Air avec variations (Aylesford Piece 16), Aylesford Pieces
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