Tea For Two - For Solo Piano

For all my site visitors - here is a free arrangement for you! It is one I give to my piano students to learn. Usually, I prefer to teach pieces without using music concentrating on musical concepts and aural awareness. In my arrangements for students I try to deliberately incorporate concepts and techniques that we learn in the lessons. Here, there are several concepts involved!

1. Left hand plays root and 7 or root and 3rd (- a shell voicing), as accompaniment to the right hand melody.

2. Left hand plays root and 10th (3rd) or root and 7th - the broken 'stride' section which is a nice way to practice locating the 7th and the '10th' or third of a chord.

3. Three note voicing incorporating the melody (my definition of a 'three note voicing' has the root in the left hand with just the third and seventh or seventh and third in the right). Again practicing the location of those chord tones.

4. As a rhythmic study the piece moves to a 3/4 feel in which a stock jazz waltz rhythm is played between the two hands.

5. As a technical study there is a broken arpeggio played between two hands.

6. Finally, a little history and a talking point - a quote from a Willie The Lion Smith and Fats Waller-style ending for the piece - the rolling boogie-woogie-like left hand line.

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