Preparatory Exercises, Opus 16 for The Piano (An Alfred Masterwork Edition) [Paperback] Review

Look, if this were the only book of its kind, I wouldn't be dumping on it.But since there are so many like it, who would bother with this?

Half of it is technical exercises.If that's your bag, you're far better served by the jaw-droppingly sublime Burgmuller, Czerny & Hanon: Piano Studies Selected for Technique and Musicality - Intermediate - Volume 1, which has three volumes.It starts at a lower level than this but goes much further.So who needs this one?

The other half is basically reference material:spellings-out of various scales, arpeggios, harmonic scales, etc.If that's what you need, the reference book of choice is The Complete Book ofScales, Chords, Arpeggios and Cadences: Includes All the Major, Minor (Natural, Harmonic, Melodic) & Chromatic Scales - Plus Additional Instructions on Music Fundamentals, which has tons more than this Schmitt.

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Aloys Schmitt is best remembered for his Op. 16 exercises. The collection is divided into three sections. The first aids students in developing finger independence through a variety of single and double-note patterns within the range of a fifth. The second section emphasizes passing the thumb under fingers to prepare for scales and arpeggios. The final section provides traditional scales and arpeggios in a notated format with fingering.

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