Juan Cabeza DIVERSIONS 0) GaAbout the author n in Madrid, Spain in 1976, Juan Cabeza began studying piano performance at the Katarina Gurska of Music at the age of nine. He went on to complete a degree in Piano Performance at the anca Conservatory, His instructors include Uta Weyand, Claudio Martinez-Mehner, and Tony Mr. Cabeza has worked as an accompanist for several choirs, most notably the Coro de Nifios y Jovenes de Comunidad de Madrid, Coro de Jovenes de Madrid, and Coro Maravillas. urrently, Mr. Cabeza teaches private and group piano students at the Katarina Gurska School of Music, specializes in students in the early stages of study. result of his research in piano pedagogy, Mr. Cabeza created a blog, megustaelpiano.com. Here the or expresses his ideas about teaching and learning piano, provides teaching resources, and suggests resting piano repertoire. juan Cabeza is also the author of Piano Train Trips, published by Piano Safari. DIVERSIONS 2 BOOK 1Note to teachers Diversions is a collection of 42 patterned etudes for piano. They are divided into two books of 21 progressive pieces. Each etude focuses on a single technical pattern that students may encounter in the early stages of piano study, including scales, arpeggios, chords, repeated notes, intervals, and other common pianistic patterns, The etudes are composed using patterned structures that makes it easy for students to decode and understand the music. Most of the etudes are transposable to other keys to allow students to assimilate each concept in a deeper way. The etudes included in the two volumes of Diversions range in difficulty from elementary to early intermediate level. BOOK 1 3 DIVERSIONSCalm Scans ova throughout transposition suggestion D} [A] DIVERSIONS 4 BORK 1diversion 2 With energy 2 ‘transposition suggestion GF) {0 5 DIVERSIONSWith motion An| DIVERSIONS diversion 3 BOOK 1diversion 4 Playfully , ‘transposition suggestion C}{G : DIVERSIONSdiversion § Distantly transposition suggestion CF DIVERSIONS 8 BODK 1diversion 6 Rather fast 105 fleets transposition suggestion 9 DIVERSIONSdiversion? Allegro eS transposition suggestion Dm) [Gn] DIVERSIONS 10diversion 8 With energy 3 2 transposition suggestion FI [G Nl DIVERSIONSdiversion 9 DIVERSIONS 2diversion 10 Firmly 13201 3 2 ‘transposition suggestion [Am] [Dm) [Gm B DIVERSIONSdiversion i Moderately DIVERSIONS 4diversion 12 af) DIVERSIONSive sion 13 2. = E a = ¢g Calmly Both harids 8va throughout DIVERSIONS 6 BOOK 11 DIVERSIONSdiversion 15 Flowing gracefully ‘transposition suggestion DIVERSIONS 8diversion 18 Ss Moderately z ‘transposition suggestion C 19 DIVERSIONStransposition suggestion Dm} {Gm DIVERSIONS 20 BOOKdiversion 18 Peacefully 3 be 3 ———_$ peetare site 21 DIVERSIONS5 ar 40) ersion iS Playfully 3 DIVERSIONS 22 BOOK 1n20 diversi 9 Fluently 5 ‘transposition suggestion 23 DIVERSIONSdiversion 21 Smoothly P 7 5 2 DIVERSIONS