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Staccato Beans - Tan Dun - ABRSM 2017/18 Grade 5 Piano C1 with TEACHING NOTES

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TEACHING NOTES
This piece is deceptively tricky. It is pretty fast and the detail in the articulation is important to achieve a good mark in Grade 5 ABRSM Piano exam. Take for example bars 5 and 6. In the first bar the first pair of notes is slurred in both hands at the beginning and then followed by two staccato notes in both hands. However in the next bar, this pattern changes, the LH ONLY has slurs at the beginning and the RH ONLY has slurs at the end of the bar. You will probably have to play this video in slow motion to see this (0:11). This constant changing of articulation runs throughout the piece and you will need to practice it slowly first to make the distinction between slurs and staccato.

Bar 62 is the only instance in the Grade 5 Piano Syllabus of a "fff" so don't be afraid to hit this chord as loud as you like (0:57)

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