Christmas at the Keyboard: Piano: Instrumental Album

A sumptuous Christmas Songbook packed with festive favourites for your electronic Keyboard. Author Mick Cornick has provided a full guide to getting the best from your instrument including choosing the right voices and rhythms styles working with introductions and auto-accompaniment making this book ideal for those who want their performances to really shine!

Hal Leonard Student Piano Library. Four-part student ensembles arranged for two or more pianos by Phillip Keveren. These ensembles feature favorite Christmas carols and hymns in graded books that correspond directly to the HLSPL Piano Method levels. CD and GM disk accompaniments are available for all levels. Each book in the Christmas Piano Ensembles series includes: 4 individual student parts for each song on perforated tear-out sheets (Performance requires purchase of only one book per ensemble team); A conductor's score with optional teacher accompaniment; Performance configurations for 2 or more pianos; Suggested instrumentation for digital keyboard. Level 3 includes:Carol of the Bells · Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer · We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

Easy Instrumental Play-Along Book with Online Audio Tracks-This volume in the Easy Instrumental Play-Along series contains 10 Christmas Carols carefully selected and arranged for first-year Keyboard players.Audio demonstration tracks featuring real instruments are available to download helping you to hear how the song should sound. Once you've mastered the notes download the backing tracks to play along with the band.This songbook includes the favourites Angels We Have Heard on High Christ Was Born on Christmas Day Jingle Bells Jolly Old St. Nicholas On Christmas Night Up on the Housetop and more.

Carols And Counterpoint For Keyboard-A Baroque Christmas - Carols And Counterpoint For Keyboard as arranged for Piano by Edwin McLean. Contents include: Nöel Nouvelet; God Rest You Merry Gentlemen; What Child Is This; The Coventry Carol; We Three Kings; Pat-A-Pan; In Dulci Jubilo; O Come; O Come Emmanuel; Good King Wenceslas; Silent Night; and Adeste Fideles.

Designed to help the teacher motivate while also providing a wonderful collection of Christmas favorites In Recital with Christmas Favorites? Book One covers quarter half dotted half and whole notes; uses only 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures and reinforces basic musical terminology and symbols. Students experience movement up and down the keyboard with 8va signs. Most of the pieces call for only limited use of hands-together playing. This book features arrangements by Bober Brown Costley Greenleaf Leaf McLean Olson and Schultz.

With Performance Strategies-In Recital Throughout The Year is a series that focuses on fabulous repertoire with musically engaging pieces by leading FJH composers and arrangers. This series of books is carefully levelled to ensure that goals are attainable which is essential in motivating students. Providing excellent teaching material these books address the strengths and weaknesses of students with progressive discussions by Dr. Helen Marlais on the art of performance and an analysis of performance strategies.The pieces presented in these books provide repertoire for the entire year including pieces for Halloween and Christmas as well as arrangements of famous classicalthemes with original solos and duets.The accompanying CD includes demonstrations of the pieces presented in this book allowing the student to develop their interpretive skills.Volume Two Book 3 is suitable for Late Elementary pianists and covers many basic principles including:Eighth notes and those basic notes and rests introduced in books 1 and 2 dotted quarter notes are also introduced at the end of the bookPlaying different articulations such as legato and staccato at the same timePlaying pieces in a variety of different moods tempos and formPlaying block and broken major minor and diminished chordsPieces which reinforce five-finger scales as well as scale patterns that extend from the usual five-finger patterns (with finger crossing)Playing blocked intervals up to a sixth double thirds and hand-over-hand arpeggiosContinued movement up and down the keyboard and using the pedal artisticallyReinforcing basic musical terminology and symbols such as crescendo decrescendo ritardando fermata mezzo forte mezzo piano forte piano fortissimo pianissimo and D.S. al CodaKeys C G F A minor and D minor.

With Performance Strategies-In Recital Throughout The Year is a series that focuses on fabulous repertoire with musically engaging pieces by leading FJH composers and arrangers. This series of books is carefully levelled to ensure that goals are attainable which is essential in motivating students. Providing excellent teaching material these books address the strengths and weaknesses of students with progressive discussions by Dr. Helen Marlais on the art of performance and an analysis of performance strategies.The pieces presented in these books provide repertoire for the entire year including pieces for Halloween and Christmas as well as arrangements of famous classicalthemes with original solos and duets.The accompanying CD includes demonstrations of the pieces presented in this book allowing the student to develop their interpretive skills.Volume One Book 2 is suitable for Elementary pianists and covers many basic principles including:Basic notes and their corresponding rests such as quarter half dotted half and whole notesPlaying tied notes legato and staccato articulations accents upbeats a few chords blocked intervals and five-finger hand positionsPracticing moving up and down the keyboard as well as use of the pedal to create a larger soundReinforcing basic musical terminology and symbols such as crescendo decrescendo ritardando fermata mf mp forte piano loco and D.C. al fineUse of basic keys C G F A minor and D minor (with accidentals instead of key signatures).

In Recital Throughout The Year is a series that focuses on fabulous repertoire with musically engaging pieces by leading FJH composers and arrangers. This series of books is carefully levelled to ensure that goals are attainable which is essential in motivating students. Providing excellent teaching material these books address the strengths and weaknesses of students with progressive discussions by Dr. Helen Marlais on the art of performance and an analysis of performance strategies.The pieces presented in these books provide repertoire for the entire year including pieces for Halloween and Christmas as well as arrangements of famous classicalthemes with original solos and duets.The accompanying CD includes demonstrations of the pieces presented in this book allowing the student to develop their interpretive skills.Volume One Book 1 is suitable for Early Elementary pianists and covers many basic principles including:Basic notes such as quarter half dotted half and whole notes3/4 and 4/4 time signaturesUse of 8va signs and therefore practicing moving up and down the keyboardUse of the pedal to create a larger soundPlaying with both a detached and a smooth touchUnderstanding of basic musical terminology such as forte piano and repeat signsPieces which use the middle C position as well as other basic hand positionsUse of basic keys C F and A minor (written using accidentals instead of key signatures).

Fresh arrangements in a wide range of keyboard styles including new age jazz pop and blues.