Faber Piano Adventures Level 2B : Lesson Book 2Nd Edition

The Piano Adventures®: Christmas Book - Primer Level contains six festive favourites in easy arrangements that are perfect for students at primer level on the Faber Piano Adventures® course.This songbook includes Away In A Manger Good King Wenceslas Jingle Bells We Wish You A Merry Christmas and more.

Nancy and Randall Faber's student-centric Piano Adventures books have enjoyed huge success and are considered by many to be the one of the most complete and accessible methods for learning the Piano. The Piano Adventures series is now the teaching method of choice at many leading universities and music studios around the world. One secret behind the series' success is that it doesn't just teach students to play the Piano - it helps them to develop a 'musical heart and mind' teaching them to analyse the music that they play and encouraging them to explore their own creativity and expression. The winning combination of varied pieces to play accompanied by creativetheory pages will ensure that students gain a sound technical grounding without detracting from the enjoyment of playing the instrument. This 'all-in-two' edition for students at level 3 includes a Technique & Performance Book and this Lesson & Theory Book. Faber Piano Adventures: Level 3 - Lesson & Theory includes: A step-by-step approach to major and minor scale technique primary chords (I IV V7 and i iv V7) the triplet cut time quavers and musical form. A wide range of musical styles from jazz to classical including melodies of Beethoven Grieg Pachelbel and Tchaikovsky. Pianistic fingerings to build technique and graceful movement across the keyboard. Expressive pieces with teacher duets that build tone articulation and phrasing. Discovery questions creative activities and theory pages to develop the student's 'musical mind'. An included CD featuring imaginative orchestrated accompaniments which encourage expressive playing rhythmic accuracy and practice time.

Piano Adventures?-The Piano Adventures?: Gold Star Performance Primer Level is an adventurous collection for the 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 a lively marching band the bass sounds of roaming pterodactyls or ringing French cathedral bells.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!

Lesson & Theory-The Faber Piano Adventures: Level 2B Lesson And Theory Book offers a systematic approach to scales primary chords (I IV V7) and transposition for thekeys of C G and F major.The new 'Scale and Chord Adventures' appendix offers teachers the flexibility to explore major and minor scale and chord patterns in all twelve keys.This edition has been anglicized.

2nd Edition-The Faber Piano Adventures Level 3B Theory Book is designed to be used in conjunction with the other books in Level 3B. It provides instruction reinforcement and creative applications of theory concepts through writing sightreading and ear-training activities.

The Faber Piano Adventures Level 2A - Christmas Book includes a selection of easy Christmas songs for Piano.

Level 3A-3B-Drawing primarily from symphonic and operatic literature the FunTime level from the Faber Piano Adventures series exposes the Piano student to the wealth of color and imagination of the classical literature.