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    HANS-GÜNTER HEUMANN BEGINNERS KEYBOARD CLASS

    Mar 20, 2020 7 minutes

    On these pages, Pianist covers the most basic stages of learning the piano through a series of lessons by Hans-Günter Heumann. This lesson features a warm-up for scales, followed by two exercises involving rests and interchange between the hands (pages 29-30).

    Scale in contrary motion

    Learn first in the key of C (as below) and then try transposing it into G and then F.

    Interchange between the hands

    Lesson 15 The piece below allows us to get used to releasing one hand (lifting it up), while playing with the other. Practise it slowly, making sure to lift the relevant hand for the rests. Imagine that the hands are passing from one to the other. Turn overleaf and you can study it in two different ways: the first, with closed chords (notes played together in crotchet notes); and the second with broken chords in triplet quaver notes.

    Ludvig Schytte (1848-1909) Little Study Op 108 No 5

    Two exercises for Schytte’s Little Study

    Closed chords

    Broken chords   

    Hans-Günter Heumann continues his series for beginners in the next issue. To find out more about Heumann, visit www.schott-music.com

    TRACK 1

    Fritz SPINDLER (1817-1905)

    Song without Words

    BEGINNER

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