Alain Lopez

How to make a good music recipe with few ingredients? Take some quavers, long values and swing the harmonies...

The purpose of this composition is to familiarize yourself with the unusual 5/4 metric, often associated to the famous jazz standard by Paul Desmond, Take Five. Rhythms and articulation are varied but...

Blues with simple rhythmic cells and small ascending and descending chromatic movements. This piece will allow you to familiarize yourself with 'swing', supported by the piano accompaniment, imitating...

The wind carries away the yellow leaves fallen on the pavement, the cafes put tables and chairs in... I evoke here a fall tour that is difficult to do quietly in Paris. How to take your time in this c...

A rythmic composition in which the cells 'quaver / two semiquaver' and ' two semiquaver / quaver ' are like a leitmotiv until the end of the Piece. The numerous triplets are a wink of 'Rhapsody in Blu...

This bluesy ballad proposes an easy approach of doted quaver followed by semiquaver and helps going one step further since this solemn rhythm is always followed by 2 quavers!

As a fan of bossa-novas from Antonio Carlos Jobim (with complex and moving harmonies), I have created my samba jazz in order to motivate students to work on typical rhythms of this musical style - Ala...

Melodic composition targeted to 'young' students where rhythms of half note, quarter note, eighth note, on beat, are exclusively used.

Original composition using the famous habanera rhythmic cell (dotted quarter/dotted quarter/quarter), without which there would not be any tango...

How to make a good music recipe with few ingredients? Take some quavers, long values and swing the harmonies...

The purpose of this composition is to familiarize yourself with the unusual 5/4 metric, often associated to the famous jazz standard by Paul Desmond, Take Five. Rhythms and articulation are varied but...

This composition was created for young musicians (mostly teenagers), and will be played as a pop song. Indeed, its texture (silky and polished) is related to the use of triplets and harmonic series bu...

The wind carries away the yellow leaves fallen on the pavement, the cafes put tables and chairs in... I evoke here a fall tour that is difficult to do quietly in Paris. How to take your time in this c...

A rythmic composition in which the cells 'quaver / two semiquaver' and ' two semiquaver / quaver ' are like a leitmotiv until the end of the Piece. The numerous triplets are a wink of 'Rhapsody in Blu...

This bluesy ballad proposes an easy approach of doted quaver followed by semiquaver and helps going one step further since this solemn rhythm is always followed by 2 quavers!

A rhythmically simple composition that I wanted to be very melodic to encourage students to become familiar with repeated notes. - Alain LOPEZ

Melodic composition targeted to 'young' students where rhythms of half note, quarter note, eighth note, on beat, are exclusively used.

Original composition using the famous habanera rhythmic cell (dotted quarter/dotted quarter/quarter), without which there would not be any tango...

Latin music divided into three parts of 32 mes. each: the first is for students with 1-2 years of experience (only long values and small chromatisms are used), the second is for those who have 2 or 3...

How to make a good music recipe with few ingredients? Take some quavers, long values and swing the harmonies...

The purpose of this composition is to familiarize yourself with the unusual 5/4 metric, often associated to the famous jazz standard by Paul Desmond, Take Five. Rhythms and articulation are varied but...

The wind carries away the yellow leaves fallen on the pavement, the cafes put tables and chairs in... I evoke here a fall tour that is difficult to do quietly in Paris. How to take your time in this c...

A rythmic composition in which the cells 'quaver / two semiquaver' and ' two semiquaver / quaver ' are like a leitmotiv until the end of the Piece. The numerous triplets are a wink of 'Rhapsody in Blu...

This bluesy ballad proposes an easy approach of doted quaver followed by semiquaver and helps going one step further since this solemn rhythm is always followed by 2 quavers!

A rhythmically simple composition that I wanted to be very melodic to encourage students to become familiar with repeated notes. - Alain LOPEZ