Adventures in Rhythm

Lesson Book 1 from the Faber Piano Adventures: Accelerated Piano Adventures for the Older Beginner series covers fundamental rhythms, all the notes of the grand staff, C position, G position. / Piano

Piano Adventures?-The Piano Adventures?: Gold Star Performance Level 1 is an adventurous collection for the late-elementary pianist featuring changing moods keys and hand positions. The series offers performance pieces ???with a challenge.??? This collection may also be used as a graduation book to improve artistic technical and rhythmic skills before advancing to the next level.As the title Gold Star suggests these pieces are especially appropriate for recitals and other musical events. A broad range of styles are presented to enhance the young musician???s awareness of classical jazz folk and impressionistic sounds. Pieces need not necessarily be taught in theorder presented.The Gold Star Performance CD is a discovery in sound for both listening and play-along. Repeated listening with and without the score will familiarize students with diverse musical textures and sonorities an ancient Chinese folk song ???bullfrog??? blues or a sonatina accompanied with orchestra.The educational recordings provide more than student demonstration they provide settings in harmony style and rhythm which explore the expressive and dramatic qualities of the piano. Solo piano performances superlatively performed by Randall and Nancy Faber are included at the end of the CD.Gold Star characteristics of each piece are listed in the table of contents and a Gold Star music dictionary and certificate conclude the book.G-O-L-D Star Performance: a Guide Offering Lyricism and Drama at the Keyboard!

By Level 4 students are sightreading variations on Scott Joplin's ?Maple Leaf Rag? new settings of Grieg's ?Hall of the Mountain King? and patterned variations of Bach's ?Prelude in C?. Rhythm patterns become more complex with the dotted eighth to sixteenth; harmonic patterns advance to the V7 chord in root position and sharp key signatures of D A and E major.

Popular Repertoire Book 2-Play some of the memorable melodies and catchy rhythms from these popular pieces providing a superb enrichment to your repertoire. These arrangements of popular pieces for solo Piano provides fun supplementary repertoire to the Accelerated Piano Adventures series motivating your studentâ??s to learn and play more.This book includes teacher duets offering further rhythmic and harmonic excitement as beginning pianists play the music they recognise and love. A music dictionary at the end of the book provides a quick and easy reference for basic musical terms.

Written for ages 5 and 6, My First Piano Adventure® captures the child's playful spirit. Fun-filled songs, rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Three distinguishing features of the Lesson Book A make it unique and effective for the young 5-6 year old beginner. 1. A strong focus on technique embedded in the book through playful technique games, chants, and carefully-composed pieces that gently lead the child into pianistic motions. 2. An outstanding CD for the young student to listen, sing, tap, and play along with at the piano. The orchestrated songs on the CD feature children singing the lyrics, which has great appeal to the 5-6 year old beginner. The CD becomes a ready-made practice partner that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities in the books. 3. The fanciful art features five multi-cultural children who are also learning to play. These friends at the piano introduce basic rhythms, white key names, and a variety of white and black-key songs that span classical, folk, and blues. Young students will listen, sing, create, and play more musically with Nancy and Randall Faber s My First Piano Adventure, Lesson Book A. The Lesson Book introduces directional pre-reading, elementary music theory and technique with engaging songs, games, and creative discovery at the keyboard. 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 Fabers' instructional theory 'ACE? - Analysis, Creativity, and Expression, guides the pedagogy of My First Piano Adventure. Analysis leads to understanding, creativity leads to self-discovery, and expression develops personal artistry. The CD for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the course: when children listen, sing, tap, and move to their piano music, they play more musically. / Piano

The Faber Piano Adventures 2B Theory Book offers eight superb new pages for in-depth study of chords, harmonization and rhythm. New improvisation activities offer creative exploration of scales in C major, G major and F major. / Piano

Par FABER NANCY / FABER RANDALL. The 2nd Edition Level 2A Lesson Book follows Piano Adventures Level 1. The book opens with a Note Reading Guide and an introduction to eighth note rhythm patterns. Students work with 5-finger transposition, functional harmony, andmusical phrases. Exploration of C, G, D and A major and minor 5-finger positions builds on intervallic reading skills that were introduced in the earlier level. Appealing repertoire reinforces key concepts and encourages studentsto explore musical expression through varied dynamics and tempos. Selections include well-known classics from the great composers and original compositions. / Date parution : 2022-03-12/ Méthode / Piano

Designed with older beginners in mind the Accelerated Piano Adventures course will have you sightreading in no time.Accelerated Piano Adventures: Sightreading - Book 1 includes five variations of each piece from the Accelerated Lesson Book 1 one for each day between lessons. Learning activities scattered throughout the book are helpful for building pattern recognition skills.Concepts covered in Accelerated Piano Adventures Sightreading: Book 1 include: fundamental rhythms (including eighth notes) all the notes of the grand staff intervals and five-finger scale melodies in C and G.

Designed with older beginners in mind the exercises in Accelerated Piano Adventures: Sightreading - Book 2 will help developing musicians to improve their sightreading ability.The Accelerated Sightreading Book 2 builds confident readers as students following the Faber Piano Adventures® method play musical variations based on their Lesson Book pieces. Theory activities help students to focus on key concepts: eighth note and dotted quarter note rhythms major and minor five-finger scales intervals through the 6th plus one-octave scales and primary chords in the keys of C G and F major.

For Fingerstyle Guitarists Book/Cd Set-How do you combine the elegance of the classics with the energy of contemporary grooves? The answer is Global Adventures for Fingerstyle Guitarists. Considered by critics as the Fernando Sor of the 21st Century Steve Eckels hascomposed and arranged 23 fingerstyle guitar arrangements based on the styles of Carlos Santana Yanni Klezmer Bollywood Bob Marley Brazil 66 Mariachi Jose Feliciano Harry Belofante Flameco and others. Eckels aNational Board Certified teacher has tested and perfected the arrangements in his high school guitar classes and the music is playable and recreational for high school age and older. Eckels arrangements are known to millions ofguitarists for their clarity of notation playability and 'hit-song' sound. This book continues the tradition that Mason Williams started with hit song Classical Gas by combining classical techniques with excitingrhythms. This book is a perfect supplement for Eckels landmark book 'A Modern Method for Fingerstyle Guitar.” Audio CD includes a recording of each tune played by the author. Standard notation and Tablature.

Primer Level-1 CD containing the background accompaniments for Catch a Falling Star; I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing; Happy Birthday to You; The Planets; The Lion Sleeps Tonight; 'The Lion Sleeps Another Night'; I Got Rhythm; 'I Got More Rhythm'; Star Wars (Main Theme); Lean On Me; The Rose.

Playing Piano Is Fun Book 4 is a keyboard tutor series for beginners. It is designed to meet the developmental needs of children as they journey through the wonderful world of music. The tunes are specially composed by Alice Chua, and are based on the characters and subjects from the classic stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. The literary experience is translated into the language of music with the intention of awakening the musical interests of children.Playing Piano Is Fun is a novel approach developed through the author's practical experience derived from teacher-pupil interaction. The large music font size captures the students' attention and helps them to focus. Meanwhile, pages are left intentionally without pictures to encourage students to further express their creativity by providing illustrations for the songs themselves. New elements are introduced incrementally and are incorporated progressively. Teacher's accompaniment is encouraged to enhance the musical experience, thus inspiring and motivating students. Some suggestions for the enhancement of the teaching elements can be found inside the front cover. In addition to playing piano, this series' unique approach includes listening, singing, transposing, harmonising, improvising and composing at an early stage. / Piano

'Hot Licks Rhtyhms and Grooves is a journey through 30 years of my musical life. I touch on many different styles and approaches to playing lead and rhythm guitar. My goal as a player is to expand these perimeters and expresswhat I feel musically. My goal as a teacher is to present this in such a manner that you can absorb it play it and then use the ideas and take them to new places. I hope you find this musical adventure to be as enjoyable for youto learn from as it was for me to make' - Buster B. Jones