Kevin Olson Helen Marlais: Sight Reading and Rhythm Every Day - Book 1B: Piano:

In Book 4B of this outstanding series Helen Marlais along with Kevin Olson provide students with creative and structured lessons to further develop their sight reading and rhythm abilities. New concepts include: reading chord symbols; reading intervals that include ledger lines; the beginning of playing one octave scales; further study of intervals cadences chord progressions and keys; to name a few.

In Recital® with Popular Christmas Music series features fabulous popular Christmas music edited and performed by Helen Marlais. Book 4 for the early intermediate student offers such hits as: Here We Come A-Wassailing; Christmas Eve in My Home Town; Mary Did You Know? and a soon to be popular original by Kevin Olson Mister Snowman. Your early intermediate student will have these plus many more selections to choose from to fill their holiday with great Christmas music! A CD with listening activities plus interesting information about the pieces and composers are included.

In Recital® with Popular Christmas Music series features fabulous popular Christmas music edited and performed by Helen Marlais. Book 3 for the late elementary student includes titles such as: The Little Drummer Boy; We Are Santa's Elves; The Night Before Christmas Song; Shake Me I Rattle (Squeeze Me I Cry); and many more popular Christmas tunes that students will really enjoy throughout the holiday season. In addition to background information about the pieces and composers a CD with listening activities is included.

In Recital® with Popular Christmas Music series features fabulous popular Christmas music edited and performed by Helen Marlais. The elementary student will have plenty of choices of popular Christmas music to choose from in Book 2. Christmas hits such as Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Snoopy's Christmas I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus and many more will provide the perfect holiday treat! Includes a CD with special listening activities as well as background information about the pieces and composers.

Let's Get Started-Designed to be accessible to young beginners we've used larger fonts and added lyrics that appeal to kids. Each unit has a theme such as At the Park Up in Space or Creepy Crawly Things.Every day the student claps/counts two short rhythm lines and sight reads two short pieces and checks off a Did It! box. This carefully sequenced book starts with reading 2nds and 3rds from guide notes Middle C Treble G and Bass F; then adds the interval of a 4th in Unit 4.This new addition to the series guides students in a simple way to sight read with ease accuracy and musicality.

Sight Reading & Rhythm Every Day is designed to help students achieve an impeccable sense of rhythm which is the first step in successful sight reading and to develop their skills with key recognition time signature recognition pattern identification interval recognition and intermediate response to articulation and dynamics.This series will help the student to develop an internal sense of pulse so that the underlying rhythm in a sight-reading example becomes second nature. This allows the student to concentrate on the other elements of music making. As the books progress four-measure sight-reading drills for one hand progress into longer pieces for bothhands. Students learn the concept of playing from beginning to end without stopping and every unit ends with a teacher-student duet to reinforce the idea that when sight readers start to play they do not stop.Throughout the series new concepts are gradually introduced to provide adequate reinforcement of each concept. Every day students are asked to count rhythms analyse and circle patterns and play sight-reading examples. The manageable task size and carefully structured format of each unit make progress immediately noticeable which helps to motivate students.The carefully crafted musical examples and exercises effectively develop eye ear and hand coordination. This series guides students in a simple straightforward way to develop into students who sight read with ease accuracy and musicality.In the Every Day plan for Book 3A students learn and practice different rhythmic activities with accent markings focusing on the dotted quarter note rhythm followed by eighth notes. Tonic and dominant chords are explored as well as melodic and harmonic intervals of major and minor 2nds and 3rds and perfect 4ths and 5ths. Extending the usual five-finger pattern by crossing the second finger over the thumb is taught as well as learning transposition up a fifth interval as well as to the nearest key. Students will

Sight Reading & Rhythm Every Day is designed to help students achieve an impeccable sense of rhythm which is the first step in successful sight reading and to develop their skills with key recognition time signature recognition pattern identification interval recognition and intermediate response to articulation and dynamics.This series will help the student to develop an internal sense of pulse so that the underlying rhythm in a sight-reading example becomes second nature. This allows the student to concentrate on the other elements of music making. As the books progress four-measure sight-reading drills for one hand progress into longer pieces for bothhands. Students learn the concept of playing from beginning to end without stopping and every unit ends with a teacher-student duet to reinforce the idea that when sight readers start to play they do not stop.Throughout the series new concepts are gradually introduced to provide adequate reinforcement of each concept. Every day students are asked to count rhythms analyse and circle patterns and play sight-reading examples. The manageable task size and carefully structured format of each unit make progress immediately noticeable which helps to motivate students.The carefully crafted musical examples and exercises effectively develop eye ear and hand coordination. This series guides students in a simple straightforward way to develop into students who sight read with ease accuracy and musicality.In the Every Day plan for Book 1B students learn: Key and time signature recognitionHow to count basic rhythms in time signatures of 2/4 3/4 and 4/4Interval recognition starting on and around the guide notes of middle C treble G treble C and bass CPattern identification andImmediate response to articulations and dynamics.

In Book 3B of this distinctive series new concepts carefully interweave with reviewed concepts to further the students’ knowledge and hone their sight-reading abilities. Some of the concepts reviewed include:Rhythms that include dotted quarter notes followed by eighth notesCrossovers of the second finger over the thumb extending the five finger patternTonic and dominant chords. New concepts are introduced includingHow to count tripletsPlaying and recognising Sus4 (suspended fourth) chordsPlaying and recognising authentic cadencesExpanding knowledge of intervals to include major 2nd minor 2nd major 3rd minor3rd perfect 4th and perfect 5th.Students will also play in the keys of B flat major and B minor.

Sight Reading & Rhythm Every Day is designed to help students achieve an impeccable sense of rhythm which is the first step in successful sight reading and to develop their skills with key recognition time signature recognition pattern identification interval recognition and intermediate response to articulation and dynamics.This series will help the student to develop an internal sense of pulse so that the underlying rhythm in a sight-reading example becomes second nature. This allows the student to concentrate on the other elements of music making. As the books progress four-measure sight-reading drills for one hand progress into longer pieces for bothhands. Students learn the concept of playing from beginning to end without stopping and every unit ends with a teacher-student duet to reinforce the idea that when sight readers start to play they do not stop.Throughout the series new concepts are gradually introduced to provide adequate reinforcement of each concept. Every day students are asked to count rhythms analyse and circle patterns and play sight-reading examples. The manageable task size and carefully structured format of each unit make progress immediately noticeable which helps to motivate students.The carefully crafted musical examples and exercises effectively develop eye ear and hand coordination. This series guides students in a simple straightforward way to develop into students who sight read with ease accuracy and musicality. In the Every Day plan for Book 2A students learn: Key signature recognitionHow to count rhythms that include eighth notesInterval and pattern recognition through major and minor five-finger patterns and single-line music played between the handsImmediate response to staccato and legato articulations and dynamicsBeginning transposition.In the Every Day plan for Book 2A students review:Time signature recognitionIntervals of 2nds through 5thsInterval