Includes 32 weeks of lesson assignments and a music dictionary.

My First Piano Adventure for the young beginner is written for ages 5 and 6 to capture the child's playful spirit. Fun-filled songs, rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Young students will enjoy the multi-cultural 'friends at the piano' who introduce white-key names, basic rhythms, and a variety of songs which span classical, folk and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of the curriculum.

An innovative intermediate piano method written to fill the need of students who have completed a beginning piano method and/or are ready to study the classics. Each collection comes with a study guide that emphasize analysis and enable students to understand the elements of music theory in each piece thus facilitating the learning and memorizing process. The music is arranged in order of musical period and is in their original form.

The Music Tree series continues the development of complete musicianship by providing the beginner with delightful and varied repertoire. The pupil learns a variety of idioms encompassing folk, jazz and pop. The creativity of the students is emphasized since they are given musical segments to rearrange, transpose, complete or to use as the basis for a new composition. Technical aspects are also addressed including greater facility, blocked intervals and chords, and more hands together playing. Guided training steps are used to encourage intelligent practice skills.

This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Lesson Book Level 1A begins by teaching basic keyboard topography and fluent recognition of white key names in relation to black keys. It focuses on simple rhythms and prepares students for intervallic reading with entertaining songs that focus on "same," "stepping up" and "stepping down." It then introduces lines and space notes in treble and bass clefs, melodic and harmonic intervals of 2nds, 3rds, 4ths and 5ths, and graduates to reading on the grand staff. It also introduces the flat and sharp signs.

My First Piano Adventure for the young beginner is written for ages 5 and 6 to capture the child's playful spirit. Fun-filled songs, rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Young students will enjoy the multi-cultural 'friends at the piano' who introduce white-key names, basic rhythms, and a variety of songs which span classical, folk and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of the curriculum.

The Dozen a Day books are universally recognized as one of the most remarkable technique series on the market for all ages! Each book in this series contains short warm-up exercises to be played at the beginning of each practice session, providing excellent day-to-day training for the student.

Lesson Book 1 is pre-reading. Concepts taught are: How to sit at the piano; Correct hand position; High and low; Loud and soft (forte and piano); Keyboard topography; Bar line and measure, Quarter, half, whole notes and rests; and Repeat signs. The first pieces in the book are played on the black keys. Later in the book, C D E for the RH and C B A for the LH (Middle C position) are taught with letter notes (the name of the note is written inside the note head).

This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Lesson Book 3 introduces "overlapping pedal"; new time signatures 3/8 and 6/8; and the primary triads in Major and Minor keys. Concepts include: passing one under two and one under three; playing major scales in contrary motion; the chromatic scale; the minor scale.

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My First Piano Adventure for the young beginner is written for ages 5 and 6 to capture the child's playful spirit. Fun-filled songs, rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Young students will enjoy the multi-cultural 'friends at the piano' who introduce white-key names, basic rhythms, and a variety of songs which span classical, folk and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of the curriculum.

This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Lesson Book 2 continues where Level 1B finishes. This book introduces dotted half notes and dotted quarter notes, plus intervals of 6ths, 7ths and octaves. Teaches greater movement of the hands, including crossing two over one and scalework. Students will also learn more about triads, primary chords, and blocked and broken chords.

Appealing, accessible keyboard originals from the best teacher-composers of the 18th and 19th centuries in a meticulously graded and edited series of three books. Composers include: Arnold * Attwood * J.C. Bach * Dandrieu * Daquin * Diabelli * Duncombe * Hoffmeister * Hook * Kohler * Krieger * Kuhlau * Kunz * L. Mozart * Neefe * Spindler * Turk * Vogel.

Piano Practice Games presents imaginative ways to introduce pieces in Piano Lessons by coordinating technique, concepts, and creativity with the actual music in the Piano Lessons books. These preparation activities help focus learning by 'playing with' each lesson piece aurally, visually, and physically. Whether used in individual or group lessons, Piano Practice Games are all designed to make music.