Piano Teaching
Discover a world of great music...
With so many piano composers and styles to choose from, students are encouraged to explore the repertoire as widely but always to select music that interests them. This approach helps sustain each student's musical interest but inspires the development of new skills and techniques along the way leading to great musical accomplishment.
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Working with such a wide range of students at different ages and levels is both rewarding and invaluable: to appreciate how students learn and develop across a much wider plane and the challenges faced at advanced levels provides perspective and understanding, and help shape the learning programmes of those just starting out.
Establishing the basics
Taking your first steps as a beginner may be daunting but with a carefully-selected programme of attractive and enticing pieces, and supportive exercises to develop your technique, you will soon have the basis of a musical foundation on which to build.
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We will start by learning how to sit at the piano and the importance of adopting a good hand position. After a few simple warm-up exercises to get some mobility in the fingers, we will learn our first piece together. This will be shown to you without the music, initially, to help you develop a better aural sense of the music and to make your first piece more accessible.
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You will, of course, still be taught how to read music: a vital skill that gives pupils the confidence to discover new music independently; however, approaching a new piece without the music helps new students actually play something meaningful at their first lesson without being overwhelmed with reading and playing simultaneously.
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To develop rhythmic awareness and listening skills further, a number of duets intended for beginners will be introduced. But, please don't worry about this: many beginners find the playing of duets really enjoyable and are surprised by just how good the ensemble sounds! Having worked with many beginners, rest assured, we will find the one that is right for you.
Piano Accompaniment
Completing the ensemble...
Est. 2000
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Repertoire Lists
Extending your options...
Welcome to the Repertoire Lists - an exclusive area of the website for IMJMusic students only.
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Here's your find an enhanced list of over 800 pieces, arranged according to difficulty, to extend your search for new repertoire even further. You should be able to find recordings of almost all of them on Spotify and YouTube - however, make sure you find a quality recording to ensure you hear the piece at its best!
The pieces below may not be used as repertoire pieces for exams unless they are listed on the syllabus.
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Pieces that have been recorded and appear in the Listening Zone have been marked with an asterisk (*).
Repertoire Lists
​Grade 1
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*BACH Air in F from A Keyboard Anthology: First Series, Book 1 [ABRSM]
BAUMFELDER Das Kind ist müde from LCM Piano Handbook 2021-24: Grade 1 [LCM]
*BULLARD, ALAN Flying Above the Clouds from LCM Piano Handbook 2018: Grade 1 [LCM]
*CHAMBERLAIN, LOUISE Baby Bossanova from Step it Up! Grades 0-1 [Faber]
*CHAPPLE, BRIAN Copycat from In the Pink [Chester Music]
*CLARKE The Prince of Denmark from Music Through Time: Book 1 [Oxford University Press]
*CLEMENTI Adagio from Sonatina in C, op. 36, no. 3 from Clementi: Six Sonatinas, op. 36 [Alfred]
*DUNCOMBE Sonatina from Essential Keyboard Repertoire: Vol 1 [Alfred]
*DUNCOMBE Trumpet Tune from LCM Piano Handbook 2013: Grade 1 [LCM]
*DUNHILL A Song of Erin from Easier Piano Pieces No. 51 [ABRSM]
*DUNHILL Eastern Dance from Easier Piano Pieces No. 51 [ABRSM]
*DUNHILL Melody in C from Easier Piano Pieces No. 51 [ABRSM]
*DUNHILL The Old Abbey from Easier Piano Pieces No. 51 [ABRSM]
*DUNHILL The Old Windmill from Easier Piano Pieces No. 51 [ABRSM]
*DUNHILL Where the nodding Violet grows from Easier Piano Pieces No. 51 [ABRSM]
*HALL, PAULINE Cowboy Blues from Piano Time Jazz: Book 1 [OUP]
*HANDEL Gavotte in C from LCM Graded Piano Album: Grade 1 [LCM]
*HALL, PAULINE Coconut Calypso from Piano Time Jazz: Book 1 [OUP]
*HAYDN Minuet in C from LCM Piano Handbook 2006 - Grade 1 [LCM Piano Handbook]
GRILL, JOYCE I’m Happy from Trinity Piano Pieces: Grade 2: 2021-23 [Trinity]
*JEAN HENRI D'ANGLEBERT French Minuet from Piano Progress: Book 1 (Faber)
*JOHN GUILFOYLE Ticking away from LCM Piano Anthology 2013: Grades 1 and 2
*KRIEGER Minuet in A minor from Essential Keyboard Repertoire: Volume 1 [Alfred]
*LANE, PHILIP Lazy Old Joe from Bric-a-brac for Piano
*MACARDLE, FIONA Late at Night from Piano Time Jazz, Book 2 [OUP]
*MACARDLE, FIONA Homework Blues from Piano Time Jazz: Book 1 [OUP]
*MACARDLE, FIONA Temper Tantrum Tango from Piano Time Jazz: Book1 [OUP]
*MIER, MARTHA Just Struttin' Along from Jazz, Rags & Blues: Book 1 (Alfred)
*MIER, MARTHA A Story from Long Ago from Romantic Sketches: Book 1 [Alfred]
*MAXNER, REBEKAH Jazz! Goes the Weasel from LCM Piano Handbook 2018: Grade 1 [LCM]
*MOZART Minuet in C from Graded Piano Album: Grade 1 [LCM]
*MOZART Minuet in F from Essential Keyboard Repertoire: Volume 1 [Alfred]
*NEVADA, GEORGE A Little Dream from George Nevada: Romantic Impressions [Schott]
*NEEFE Canzonet from Piano Progress: Book 2 [Faber]
*NORTON, CHRISTOPHER Ragtime from Microjazz: Collection 1 [Boosey & Hawkes]
*NORTON, CHRISTOPHER Struttin' from Microjazz: Collection 1 [Boosey & Hawkes]
*NORTON, CHRISTOPHER The Emptiness of Space from The Final Frontier [Boosey & Hawkes]
* RODNEY BENNETT, RICHARD Friday from Seven Days a Week [Belwyn Mills]
* RODNEY BENNETT, RICHARD Monday from Seven Days a Week [Belwyn Mills]
*ROSSINI Theme from 'William Tell' from Music Through Time: Book 1 [Oxford University Press]
*ROWCROFT, JOHN Rhapsody from LCM Piano Handbook 2006: Grade 1 [LCM]
*SALTER, LIONEL Country Dance from Lional Salter: Easy Going Pieces [ABRSM]
*SPINDLER Song without Words from LCM Piano Handbook 2013: Grade 1 [LCM]
*SWINSTEAD An Old Garden from Easier Piano Pieces No. 51 [ABRSM]
*TELEMANN Gavotte from LCM Piano Handbook 2006: Grade 1 [LCM]
*TURK Arioso from Essential Keyboard Repertoire: Volume 1 [Alfred]
*TURK Little Suite from Graded Piano Album: Grade 1 [LCM]
*VERDI La Donna e mobile from Piano Mix 1 [ABRSM]
*WEDGWOOD, PAM Baby Bossanova from LCM Piano Anthology 2013: Grades 1 and 2 [LCM]
*WEDGWOOD, PAM Fifth Avenue from Easy Jazzin' About [Faber]
*WEDGWOOD, PAM Garage Sale from Encore: Grades 1 & 2 [ABRSM]
*WEDGWOOD, PAM Motorway Blues from Easy Jazzin' About [Faber]
*WEDGWOOD, PAM Pluto from LCM Piano Anthology 2013: Grades 1 and 2 [LCM]
*WEDGWOOD, PAM Saturday Shuffle from LCM Piano Anthology 2013: Grades 1 and 2 [LCM]
*WILD, PETER Scarborough Fair from LCM Piano Handbook 2013: Grade 1 [LCM]
*WILD, PETER Study in C from LCM Piano Handbook 2006: Grade 1 [LCM]
*WOODING, KEVIN The Egyptian Level from Spooky Piano Time [Oxford University Press]
IMJMusic provides friendly, expert tuition in piano, music theory, and accompaniment on a German grand piano in an air-conditioned teaching studio in Swindon
How do find me:
2 Romney Way | Shaw Ridge
Swindon | Wiltshire | SN5 5QB
How to contact me:
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