Elite Syncopations

Versions

Each easier version only leaves notes out, so every one is still the real piece. Print any of them free.

• As written2238 notes
• Melody and a simpler left hand1798 notes
• Melody and left-hand roots1006 notes
• Right-hand melody859 notes

To practise it on paper: a practice chart for this piece, a week of steps from each hand alone to full tempo, with their speeds.

What it asks of you

• Treble clef from A3 to D6, with ledger lines
• Bass clef from B1 to G4, with ledger lines
• Key signature: 1 flat (F major or D minor)
• Accidentals: flats outside the key, naturals
• Rhythm: quarter notes, eighth notes, dotted quarter notes, sixteenth notes, notes held across the beat, dotted eighth notes
• Intervals: octaves, 2nds (steps), 3rds (skips), 6ths, 4ths, 7ths
• Chords: inverted triads, triads
• Hands playing together, moving the hand to a new position, one hand moving while the other holds, hands in different rhythms, hands taking turns