My First Piano Adventure

Written for ages 5 and 6 My First Piano Adventure captures the child's playful spirit with fun-filled songs rhythm games and technique activities designed to develop beginning keyboard skills.Packed with colourful characters and delightful illustrations this book offers a gentle introduction to written music including basic dynamics first note types five-finger scales and much more.

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

For the Young Beginner-This set of ten flashcard sheets provides interactive fun to help students 'read with ease.' Each sheet is correlated by book and unit to the My First Piano Adventure course offering excellent reinforcement of note reading and music concepts. Every laminated sheet features a 16-box grid with answers printed on the back. Included are a variety of games and activities for individual and group lessons.

Join the My First Piano Adventure® friends as they play Christmas songs on the grand staff. Students celebrate with merry melodies such as A Ten-Foot Icicle Jingle Bells the hit song Must Be Santa and carols from around the world.Songs include: A Ten-Foot Icicle • Deck the Halls • Go Tell It on the Mountain • He Is Born the Heav'nly Child • Infant Holy Infant Lowly • Jingle Bells • Must Be Santa • The 24th of December • What Did the Angel Say? • We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

My First Piano Adventure Writing Book B includes 64 pages of fun-filled activities support the music learning process. Reading steps on the staff is a primary focus of Book B. The inventive Writing Book guides young players in reading hearing and creating with steps on the Grand Staff. Teachers will welcome the special ?C.L.A.P. for Sightreading? pages designed to reinforce and celebrate note-reading. Students touch on music history with Mozart's and Beethoven's Fun Facts and Games and take a peek into Beethoven's Composing Room. Tucker Blinker and Tap return with ear-training sightreading and rhythm fun. Then there is also the Tooth Fairy Visit RhythmBeads Escape of the Quarter Notes... and much more.

Adult Piano Adventures®-This supplementary songbook in the Adult Piano Adventures series allows adult beginners to celebrate Christmas with a range of sacred carols humorous Santa songs and winter favourites for the Piano. This book features three sections: Beginning Christmas Songs Christmas Songs in the Key of C major and Christmas Songs in the key of G major. Contents include: We Wish You a Merry Christmas Angels We Have Heard on High Away in a Manger Jingle Bells We Three Kings of Orient Are (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays It Came Upon the Midnight Clear O Little Town of Bethlehem Frosty the Snowman Jingle-Bell Rock I'll Be Home for Christmas Little Drummer Boy Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and more.

Adult Piano Adventures® is a comprehensive course in reading playing and listening to music by Nancy and Randall Faber. It is a logical and effective approach to note-reading and the pace is refreshing and smooth with the language and presentation more suited to adults and late beginners. Book Two continues from the first volume with a broader repertoire and special instruction in harmony and chord accompaniments. All-In-One Lesson Book 2 is a natural progression from Book 1 with carefully sequenced instruction in note reading music theory and Piano technique. It expands on chord playing from lead sheets and offers a review of musicfundamentals a dictionary of musical terms chord chart and an outstanding selection of World-famous popular and classical melodies chosen specifically for adults. Included are musical gems such as: I Want to Hold Your Hand; Swing Low Sweet Chariot; Amazing Grace; The James Bond Theme; Pachelbelâ??s Canon and Scarborough Fair plus plenty more beloved melodies. This book includes lessons technique and theory all in one complete volume for ease of use. Develop musical understanding and reading skills further while playing enjoyable engaging music. This terrific CD edition also contains 2 packed CDs with Background accompaniments to the melodies and pieces in the book. This extra resource will help compound learning and understanding as each piece is played twice once at a slow practice tempo with the piano part included and the other at performance speed.

Young students will be delighted with their first practice book featuring Mrs. Razzle-Dazzle and the friends at the piano. Each page features a different scene from My First Piano Adventure© and a keyboard graphic. Students willbuild healthy practice habits when they color a key each day they practice.