Re-issued Dutch edition. The Absolute Beginners course has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you pick up your instrument. With this superb book you get a comprehensiveKeyboard course featuring step-by-step pictures which take you from first day exercises to playing along with backing tracks.

Piano students of Latin American heritage often do not relate to the folk tunes that most methods use because the majority of those melodies do not flow with the rhythm of the Spanish language. This method is based on melodiesoriginal to the Mexican culture. These children's songs flow more naturally with the language and in accord with the Kodály method of music education give a better foundation for teaching basic musical elements in aSpanish language culture. Coupled with constant work on sight-reading this new method is a valuable tool for native Spanish speakers in learning to play the piano and will serve as a helpful and interesting supplement to Englishspeaking students. Muchas veces los alumnos de piano de herencia latina no se identifican con la música folklórica utilizado en los métodos de piano porque la mayoría de las melodías no fluyencon el ritmo del español. Este método está basado en melodías originales de la cultura mexicana. Estos cantos de niños fluyen con más naturalidad con el idioma y de acuerdo almétodo Kodály de la educación musical dan un mejor fundamento para la enseñanza de elementos musicales básicos en una cultura de habla hispana. Junto con un trabajo constante de la lectura aprimera vista este nuevo método es un instrumento valioso para que aquellos cuya lengua materna es el español aprendan a tocar el piano con más facilidad y servirá como un suplemento benéfico einteresante a los estudiantes de habla inglesa.

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.

Technique & Performance - Anglicised Edition-Piano Adventures: Technique And Performance Book - Level 1 is the essential companion to the Lesson & Theory book.Piano Adventures: Technique And Performance Book - Level 1 combines two essential elements of Pianism:- The student develops technical skill through the application of 'Technique Secrets'.- Engaging etudes and performance pieces allow these techniques to be tools for musical expression.This integration of technique and artistic performance the sequence of Technique Secrets through the levels and unique emphasis on gesture that co-ordinates arm wristand fingers make this series especially powerful.Thisversion is the new anglicised edition.

Ministeps To Music Phase II develops the pattern of tuition established in the previous book. The aim is to encourage keyboard facility and promote a sensitive musicality at an inflexibly defined rate of progress.

Lesson & Theory - Anglicised Edition-Piano Adventures: Lesson And Theory Book - Level 1 is an exciting comprehensive piano method that teaches children analysis creativity and musical expression. Piano Adventures: Lesson And Theory Book - Level 1 provides an integrated step-by-step approach to music reading a wide range of musical styles from jazz to classical pianistic fingerings to build technique and movement across the keyboard. Piano Adventures: Lesson And Theory Book - Level 1 has expressive appealing pieces with teacher duets discovery questions creative activities and theory pages to reinforce concepts. The Technique& Performance book is an essential component of the curriculum. Discover the power of technique secrets for artistic performance. This version is the new anglicised edition.

CD Edition-Now available as a book and CD edition. This easy and fun approach to learning the Piano has a modern look with clear and straight-forward layouts plus amusing new characters who help emphasise the information being taught. As new notes are introduced the pupil is given the opportunity to play examples in which only one hand is required. Each book of the course contains its own writing exercises sightreading drills review work and later technical studies. Accompaniments for teacher or parent are supplied with most of the examples. The accompanying CD is a wonderful tool for enhancing this method with highly acclaimed midi-orchestrated backingtracks. Practice becomes so much fun! Each track is split to enable the pupil to hear both Piano part and accompaniment if the balance is centred the accompaniment without Piano if the balance is to the left and the Piano part alone if the balance is all the way to the right. There are also two tempos for each song allowing slower practice while it's needed - an ideal accompaniment for learning!

Level 1-Contents include: Are You Sleeping; Aura Lee; Camptown Races; Down in the Valley; Good-Night Ladies!; Grandfatherâ??s Clock; Home on the Range; O Susanna; Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be?; Reveille; Sheâ??ll Be Cominâ?? Round the Mountain; Sleep Baby Sleep; Snake Dance; Sweetly Sings the Donkey; Taps; This Old Man; When the Saints Go Marching In.

With its highly attractive full-colour age-appropriate layout Poco Piano For Young Children encourages young children to take the first steps on a difficult but thoroughly rewarding journey. Together with the Music Theory for Young Children books the Poco Piano For Young Children series leads the child from the very beginning to grade 1 level.Poco Piano for Young Children includes exercises to help the child develop technique rhythm and reading and it involves the child in activities such as pasting colouring tracing circling and clapping.Book 4 reinforces and revises allconcepts learned in Books 1-3. It contains attractive repertoire in various styles and from different periods. Each piece has a comprehensive preparation section covering the musical technical and structural matters which will be encountered. The aim is to cultivate critical thinking and musical awareness in the student. As in previous books the child is actively involved through the use of writing colouring tracing and pasting thereby making the preparation an enjoyable activity. The standard of the repertoire approaches that of Grade 1.

With Pianolude learning to play the Piano becomes learning to play 'with' the Piano. This tuition book covers many essential aspects of learning the Piano that are rarely mentioned together in other collections. Together with traditional education Pianolude integrates popular and contemporary music creating an enjoyable and practical method that is always exciting.  Alongside traditional and progressive Piano learning Pianolude invites children to play with all tonal resources available on the instrument. The accompanying CD provides professionally-recorded demonstrations of all the pieces in thebook as well as examples of the creative activities.

A wealth of sight-reading practice material for up to and including Grade 1 of the major examination boards. A step-by-step approach to the basic elements of playing at sight containing over 100 exercises with hints on how toget sight-reading right - first time! This series is ideal for pianists of all ages who wish to develop their sight-reading skills and learn new music more quickly.

A Quick and Easy Introduction for Beginners-A Quick and Easy Introduction for Beginners. This easy-to-understand book will get you playing right away and at your own pace in the comfort of your home! Teach Yourself to Play Piano covers everything from the basics of hand position and good posture to playing melodies and songs. By the end of the book you'll be able to play hands together using a combination of whole half quarter and eighth notes and their respective rests. You will also be able to read a selection of notes from both the bass and treble clefs and you will be able to play some simple chords in the left hand. Don't wait any longer - there's never been an easier way to teach yourself piano!

Playing With Colour Book 3 starts the journey to Grade 1 and formal notation. The colourful staves and coloured notation gradually give way to an increase of pieces in standard form and includes some grade one pieces from previous syllabus years so the teacher and student can truly gauge their progress in preparation for their own first graded exam.Book 3 still features imaginative original pieces like; Goodbye Snowman; The Golden Eagle and the delightful Rainy Day Blues; but also many classical former exam pieces by Mozart Greig Beethoven and more.

The ultimate guide to beginning the Piano - this easy to follow DVD will teach you everything you need to know and much more! Get ahead with clear demonstrations and jargon-free explanations that will make learning the Piano easier and more fun than you ever thought possible! You will discover:Correct posture and hand positionHow to find your way around the keyboardBasic music notation and readingHow to learn note namesHow different rhythms workPlaying with both hands separately and togetherThe disc contains many special features that include:On-screen notation that is synchronised with the video of both handsplayingExclusive interviews with top performers and teachersProfessional backing tracks to give you the best accompaniment to practice and perform toA booklet containing all of the musical examples featured during the lessonsNTSC format.

You Can Teach Yourself Piano is a revolutionary concept in piano instruction. No other method comes close to matching this book's scope in teaching not only basic music reading skills but also the essential technique andtheory for playing in all contemporary keyboard styles. Central to the philosophy of the You Can Teach Yourself series this beginner's book is written to give the serious adult student a solid foundation while studying on theirown without the advantage of having a private teacher; it will show you all you need to know to get an authoritative start on the instrument presenting technical and theoretical concepts as needed while offering carefully graded challenging material to hold your interest. In addition to the incalculable assets of ear training and development of taste in modern harmony upon completion of this method the student will be fully prepared to handle the demandsof modern piano music.