Nancy Faber Randall Faber: Adult Piano Adventures All-in-One Book 2 + CD: Piano:

Hardcover with DVD-The Teaching Piano Adventures: Primer Level Teacher Guide provides comprehensive support for instructing beginning students using the Fabers' student-centered curriculum. Included are updated lesson plans tips for reinforcing concepts and skills and ideas for creative music exploration. Watch Nancy Faber and her young students in over 60 model teaching videos. Review and reflect with 20 new pedagogy articles and ?ask yourself? study questions. And prepare for group activities with new ensemble parts stories and extended teacher duets. Get inspired to Analyze Create and Express with your Primer students!This printedition includes the 176-page hardcover Teacher Guide 64-page softcover Duet Appendix and a DVD featuring over three hours of video lessons.

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!

The Collaborative Artist Flute Cello Piano-Faber Piano Adventures is proud to present a new chamber music composition Curiouser and Curiouser. Composed by Nancy Faber this unique piece was commissioned by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) to celebratethe organization's Year of Collaborative Music and was debuted at the 2011 MTNA National Convention.Written for late intermediate to early advanced students this chamber trio features a ?curious? one-noteopening followed by a quirky merry melody that leads the performers to unexpected musical places. The piece ends as mysteriously as it begins ? with a final flourish.This piece is suitable for piano students whohave completed Piano Adventures® Level 5.

The Collaborative Artist Flute Viola Piano-Faber Piano Adventures is proud to present a new chamber music composition Curiouser and Curiouser. Composed by Nancy Faber this unique piece was commissioned by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) to celebratethe organization's Year of Collaborative Music and was debuted at the 2011 MTNA National Convention.Written for late intermediate to early advanced students this chamber trio features a ?curious? one-noteopening followed by a quirky merry melody that leads the performers to unexpected musical places. The piece ends as mysteriously as it begins ? with a final flourish.This piece is suitable for piano students whohave completed Piano Adventures® Level 5.

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