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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nPaul Sheftel is an American pianist, teacher and composer. He has published a lot of collections of piano pieces for piano students. Sheftel is also a pioneer in the creation of instructional materials using MIDI technology, some of his collection of pieces go with MIDI accompaniment. Most of the pieces are for late elementary and intermediate piano students. There are several things I like in his works:<\/p>\n
-patterned pieces<\/p>\n
-modern and refreshing sounds<\/p>\n
-explanations of the difficulties in each piece<\/p>\n
-students really like his compositions<\/p>\n
-you can prepare one whole piece in a single lesson<\/p>\n
He has a very well developed website,\u00a0paulsheftel.com<\/a>, where he explains in depth each of his books; in addition to several sample of his pieces. Also, for all of you interested in Midi materials, he shows the MIDI accompaniments of the books that contain this material.<\/p>\n In other posts I included youtube recordings of the pieces I mentioned. In this case, the best way to know Paul Sheftel\u00b4s work is going to his website and watching he himshelf talking about his materials.<\/p>\n The titles of his pieces are often very funny too, for example, there is a book called I Haven\u00b4t Practiced..<\/span>. . Each piece\u00b4s title finishes the excuses one can come up with in order to avoid practicing such as: “But my nails are short” (I haven\u00b4t practiced but my nails are short), “That Much” or “Can You still love me?”.<\/p>\n He also has books for 4 hands, I have one called Further Festivities<\/span><\/a> and it contains several interesting duets.<\/p>\n Here I\u00b4m going to talk briefly about the books I use more by Paul Sheftel.<\/p>\n As it says in its cover, in this book you can find: “Scales, intervals and triads combined in three logical groupings. A unique musical composition follows each teaching concept”. My favorite pieces from this book are: “Ascents and `D\u00b4scents” and “Toccata in Thirds”.<\/p>\n The book contains 11 original pieces, all of them based on chords. Some of them are focused on a single chord position and others combined two or three diferent positions. As in most of his books, each piece contains study notes where the author explains how the piece is formed. “Waltz” is my favorite piece of this book, In Perfect Accord<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\nModules:<\/h3>\n
In Perfect Accord:<\/h3>\n
Keyboard Challenges and Patterns for fun books 1 and 2:<\/h3>\n
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These three collections of pieces are very similar in their ideas, Keyboard Challenges<\/a>, Patterns for fun 1<\/a> and Patterns for fun 2<\/a>. Pieces designed around a single idea developed in an attractive manner. The two “Patterns for fun” books include suggestions for practice for each of the pieces. My favorite ones: “Ins and Outs”, “Climbing”, “Progression Rock” and “Fishin\u00b4for the third position”.<\/p>\n