Black & White 1: Piano: Instrumental Tutor

The Piano in Black and White. The Piano in Black and White is for everyone with an unrequited love for the piano. It will entice complete beginners to climb a few important rungs up the ladder, coax the fainthearted to become fully fledged players and welcome back those whose previous pianistic experience did not take them far enough. Packed with inspirational advice, this book demystifies the process of learning the piano through easy-to-follow photographs, ?play along? online audio and unique techniques such as Finger Pilates and The Ten-by-five Practice Method. By the end of the book you will be able to play 12 beautiful pieces - making this an unmissable book for all would-be pianists!

Late Elementary-Level 2B Piano Solo-Uses white and black keys patterns with crescendos for dramatic effect. Cat Prowl will take your students up and down the keyboard. A student winner!

Giles Swayne's Zebra Music comprises twelve pieces written to be suitable for the junior contemporary Piano student offering new music ideas to younger players. As the title suggests the music is written in 'layers' of black and white keys: one hand may be playing the black keys while the other hand plays the white; or both may be on white or both on black - only the final piece mixes the colours. By combining these simple modes with exciting and unusual rhythms Swayne produces a sense of global style within acessible pieces.

Hal Leonard Student Piano Library-A piano method to please students teachers and parents! The Hal Leonard Student Piano Library is clear concise and carefully graded. Perfect for private and group tuition.Piano Lessons Book 1 covers sitting at the piano feeling the beat keyboard structure black-key groups white-key groups playing on all white keys moving in 2nds and moving in 3rds. With Online Audio and MIDI.

CDs with fully orchestrated accompaniment tracks are the hallmark of these instrumental collections. Each book contains a carefully edited part that is appropriate for the Level 2-3 instrumentalist. The CDs include a demo track with a live instrumental performance followed by a play-along track. Songs include: Beat It · Billie Jean · Black or White · Don't Stop Till You Get Enough · Human Nature · I Just Can't Stop Loving You · Man in the Mirror · She's Out of My Life · Thriller · The Way You Make Me Feel · You Are Not Alone. The woodwinds and brass books are compatible with each other and can be played together or as solos: the strings books are compatible with each other butnot with the woodwinds and brass instrument editions.

A Creative and Interactive Piano Course for Children-The first book in this definitive beginner method by leading Piano educator Hans-Günter Heumann. Starting with the black notes and using user-friendly graphic notation this beautifully illustrated book then gradually introduces white notes traditional staves clefs and time signatures building towards a thorough understanding of music with quick noticeable progress. Visit www.piano-junior.com to find out more.What is Piano Junior?Piano Junior is a superb Piano course for beginners. It's creative it's interactive it's colourful it has its own website with additional online material ? and most importantly itreally works! Its characters PJ the friendly robot and his sidekick Mozart the dog motivate and encourage children throughout each level. The course is available as core Lesson Books along with supplementary Theory Duet and Performance Books at each stage.Who is Piano Junior for?Suitable for children from around the age of 6 Piano Junior takes young students on their first steps and prepares them with a solid foundation for early grades. A method for the digital ageTeachers parents and students can visit www.piano-junior.com for demonstration videos and recordings along with a host of other free downloadable resources which really bring practice sessions at home to life!

Sets One and Two for Piano Solo-Both sets of Robert Starer's miniature masterpieces Sketches in Color are now available in one collection! Edited and recorded by Dr. Carolyn True this collection also features detailed performance notes providing new insight into the interpretation and execution of these gems of the intermediate-level Piano repertoire. Set One: 'Black and White' 'Bright Orange' 'Crimson' 'Grey' 'Pink' 'Purple' 'Shades of Blue'; Set Two: 'Aluminum' 'Aquamarine' 'Chrome Yellow' 'Khaki' 'Maroon' 'Pepper and Salt' 'Silver and Gold'. The recordings are accessed online using the unique code found in each book.

A fantastic volume of Five Easy Piano Pieces by Bent Lorentzen. Composed on the Ocassion of the NMPU Congress in Aarhus in 1971. Much of the music has been notated graphically and the player is required to hold down block chords of black and white keys which make this set far from easy and will be an enjoyable challenge for experienced Pianists.

This well-known pianist and teacher's guide to sound piano technique covers tone production fingering pedaling chords sight-reading and more. Its 63 musical excerpts include works by such masters as Beethoven Chopin Schumann Mendelssohn and Liszt. Numerous exercises complemented by 64 black-and-white photographs demonstrate a variety of technical stylistic and musical approaches.