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!

The 'Traditional' manner in which most people acquire the skill to play piano is to choose a teacher commit to lessons and spend many hours practicing. Although there is no substitute for the time it takes to master this instrument we can provide an alternative to the regimented lesson format. Ensenese A Tocar El Piano the Spanish Edition of Teach Yourself Piano by Bob Hartz was created for support as you learn the basics of piano on your own schedule and the authentic translation acquaints you with playing at a pace only governed by you. Bob Hartz begins by presenting the basics and explaining the fundamentals in a logical manner. Additional information is providedin a methodic fashion in an attempt to build on the knowledge previously gained. Teaching yourself is challenging but ultimately quite rewarding as you acquire the ability to read music play chords and apply these skills to piano. Should you desire further study upon completion of this 'self-taught' methodic approach then choosing a good teacher would be the next step. To truly master the piano it takes many years of dedicated practice and study but some would like to dabble enough to simply have fun. If this endeavor is meant for recreation or you're just in need of a refresher course then Ensenese A Tocar El Piano is the perfect instructional guide for you. IndiceAcerca del autor - Introducción - Unos datos de interés - Veamos el piano - Postura/posición de las manos - Disposición del teclado - El pentagrama maestro - Nota - Leccion No. 1 - Ejereicios de la mano derecha - Ejereicios de la mano izquierda - Valores de las notas - compases - Ejercicio de negras/minimas - Corchea - Melodioa de dos octavas - Cuadro de silencios - Movimiento paralelo/movimiento contrario - Intercambio de la melodia - Accidentales - Dinamica - Nota con puntillo y ligaduras - Acordes -Tonalidades - Circulo de cuartos/circulo de quintos -Todas las notas sobre cuatro octavas - Escala de Do mayor - Escala de Sol mayor -Tresillos y compases nuevos - Repaso de ritmo con nuevo valor de nota - Acordes y simbolos de acorde - Anacrusis/uso de los pedales - Canción de cuna de Brahms - Staccato y legato - Sección de referencia de acordes - Conclusion.

This is one of four level-three books in the American Popular Piano series - the educational piano course by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith.The series has 11 difficulty Levels and each Level contains: Repertoire album with CD; Etudes album (including Improvisation); Skills book; Technic (technique) book. Level Three For early intermediate students- Basic syncopation accidentals swung eighth notes- Whole half quarter note dotted half note eighth note triplet- Whole rest half rest quarter rest dotted-half rest eighth rest- pp p mp mf f ff crescendo and diminuendo- Slur legato staccato accent tenuto grace notes- 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures- Keysignatures up to two sharps and one flat- Repeat 8va 8vb tie fermata ritardando a tempo- Fine DC al Fine Coda DS al Coda About the American Popular Piano series:?Why can?t I play more music like this?? asked a fourteen-year-old piano student. ?My friends like to hear me play cool music.? Why not indeed. J.S. Bach taught his sons using the music of his time popular dances preludes and exercises by living composers. It would never have occurred to him to seek out pieces in styles and rhythms one hundred years old. He expected his boys to thrive in the musical world of their time.American Popular Piano has been developed on the same principles. Students working in this series will? ? develop traditional pianistic and musical skills through music in contemporary popular styles;? be motivated to practice by working on music that is familiar fun and that they can?t wait to play; ? nurture their creativity and spontaneity through a user-friendly modular approach to improvisation; ? enjoy regular ensemble playing; ? and find pleasure in a lifelong relationship with music!Written entirely by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith American Popular Piano is an educational piano course which comprises 44 books clearly divided into 11 difficulty levels. With 4 resources

This is one of four level-four books in the American Popular Piano series - the educational piano course by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith.The series has 11 difficulty Levels and each Level contains: Repertoire album with CD; Etudes album (including Improvisation); Skills book; Technic (technique) book. Level Four For intermediate students- Frequent jumps and spans of more than a 5th- Whole half quarter note dotted half note dotted quarter note eighth note triplet eighth triplet sixteenth- Whole rest half rest quarter rest dotted-half rest eighth rest- pp p mp mf f ff crescendo and diminuendo- Slur legato staccato accent tenuto grace notes- 3/4 4/4 and 6/8 time signatures- Key signatures up to three sharps and two flats- Repeat 8va 8vb tie fermata ritardando a tempo- Fine DC al Fine Coda DS al CodaAbout the American Popular Piano series:?Why can?t I play more music like this?? asked a fourteen-year-old piano student. ?My friends like to hear me play cool music.? Why not indeed. J.S. Bach taught his sons using the music of his time popular dances preludes and exercises by living composers. It would never have occurred to him to seek out pieces in styles and rhythms one hundred years old. He expected his boys to thrive in the musical world of their time.American Popular Piano has been developed on the same principles. Students working in this series will? ? develop traditional pianistic and musical skills through music in contemporary popular styles;? be motivated to practice by working on music that is familiar fun and that they can?t wait to play; ? nurture their creativity and spontaneity through a user-friendly modular approach to improvisation; ? enjoy regular ensemble playing; ? and find pleasure in a lifelong relationship with music!Written entirely by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith American Popular Piano is an educational piano course which comprises 44 books clearly divided into 11 difficulty levels. With

Jazz Chords On Piano by Tormod Vinsand (2017). A methodical introduction to the understanding and usage of jazz chords on piano. Over the years many non-pianists ( i.e. musicianswho do not use the piano as their main instrument) have tried to transfer the principles of traditional triads and tetrachords to jazz chords - with varying degrees of success. With the book 'Jazz Chords on Piano' Tormod Vinsand gives you some guidelines that may help demystify the process of making a piano arrangement with melody and jazz chords. The reader will get tools making it possible to create a pianoarrangement which will adequately include the melodics harmonics and rhythm of a composition.The book is not meant to be a school in jazz piano - but more an introduction into the work with jazz harmonics and melody playing of a piano arrangement. The overall basis of the book is standard jazz which means jazz with its harmonic basis in II - V - I connections. The book's tunes are recorded by the composer himself and can be accessed via the web.

This is one of four level-one books in the American Popular Piano series - the educational piano course by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith.The series has 11 difficulty Levels and each Level contains: Repertoire album with CD; Etudes album (including Improvisation); Skills book; Technic (technique) book. Level One For advanced beginners- Hands play together- Whole note half note quarter note dotted half note- Whole rest half rest quarter rest dotted-half rest- pp p mp mf f ff crescendo and diminuendo- Slur legato staccato accent- 3/4 4/4 and 5/4 time signatures- Key signatures up to one sharp and one flat- Repeat 8va tie fermata ritardando atempoSkills Books:round out the comprehensive course of study. Paced to enhance progress in the corresponding Repertoire and Etudes Albums the module structure ensures a smooth integration of Ear-Training Sight-Reading and Technic. ? Ear-training: reinforces the auraldevelopment already achieved through the repertoire and improvisation etudes; ? Sight-reading: time-effective module structure leads to regular practice the single most important contributing factor to success;? Technic: provides a structured and measured approach; prepares for the challenges ahead.About the American Popular Piano series:?Why can?t I play more music like this?? asked a fourteen-year-old piano student. ?My friends like to hear me play cool music.? Why not indeed. J.S. Bach taught his sons using the music of his time popular dances preludes and exercises by living composers. It would never have occurred to him to seek out pieces in styles and rhythms one hundred years old. He expected his boys to thrive in the musical world of their time.American Popular Piano has been developed on the same principles. Students working in this series will? ? develop traditional pianistic and musical skills through music in contemporary popular styles;? be motivated to practice by working on

This is one of four level-three books in the American Popular Piano series - the educational piano course by Christopher Norton and Scott McBride Smith.The series has 11 difficulty Levels and each Level contains: Repertoire album with CD; Etudes album (including Improvisation); Skills book; Technic (technique) book. Level Three For early intermediate students- Basic syncopation accidentals swung eighth notes- Whole half quarter note dotted half note eighth note triplet- Whole rest half rest quarter rest dotted-half rest eighth rest- pp p mp mf f ff crescendo and diminuendo- Slur legato staccato accent tenuto grace notes- 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures- Keysignatures up to two sharps and one flat- Repeat 8va 8vb tie fermata ritardando a tempo- Fine DC al Fine Coda DS al Coda Skills Books:round out the comprehensive course of study. Paced to enhance progress in the corresponding Repertoire and Etudes Albums the module structure ensures a smooth integration of Ear-Training Sight-Reading and Technic. ? Ear-training: reinforces the auraldevelopment already achieved through the repertoire and improvisation etudes; ? Sight-reading: time-effective module structure leads to regular practice the single most important contributing factor to success;? Technic: provides a structured and measured approach; prepares for the challenges ahead.About the American Popular Piano series:?Why can?t I play more music like this?? asked a fourteen-year-old piano student. ?My friends like to hear me play cool music.? Why not indeed. J.S. Bach taught his sons using the music of his time popular dances preludes and exercises by living composers. It would never have occurred to him to seek out pieces in styles and rhythms one hundred years old. He expected his boys to thrive in the musical world of their time.American Popular Piano has been developed on the same principles. Students working in this series will? ? develop traditional

Boogie-Woogie And The Blues is dedicated to all the great Blues and Boogie-Woogie pianists who Andrew has had the privilege of listening to over the last 40 years. His first recollection of being inspired to learn Blues piano was in 1968 when he heard the Blues piano solo by Nicky Hopkins on the song ???Blues Deluxe??? from Jeff Beck???s first album ???Truth??? Just as that piano solo inspired him in turn he hopes these songs inspire you in the same way. The song ???Boogie with Nicky??? is dedicated to Nicky Hopkins. He hopes that you have the same enjoyment learning and playing these songs as he did creating them.There are nine songs in this book which Andrew composedranging from the slow Blues of H.R. Blues to the up-tempo Boogie-Woogie of Holly and Ben???s Boogie as well as the Ragtime feel of Raggedy Blues. Beside learning from this book it is important to listen to the masters of Blues and Boogie-Woogie piano styles a discography on page 2 will get you started.'You have so imaginatively integrated traditional blues sounds in a new and innovative way. I myself have been in what I call a 'riff rut'. Studying this book is going to open my mind immensely. I am really excited about practicing these tunes.' - User feedback

Fugue No.1 from 36 Fugues for Piano (BA9541) The Czech composer Antonin Rejcha (also Anton Reicha 1770–1836) was famous as both an experimental composer and as a teacher and theorist. His “36 Fugues for Piano” testify to this experimentalism; they can be seen as a type of “Well-Tempered Piano of the new ages” basing the traditional Baroque fugue on radical new fundaments. The first edition of this unusual collection was produced in 1803 in Vienna by Reicha’s own publishing company “Au Magasin de l’Imprimerie chimique”. It included both a dedication poem to JosephHaydn and a comprehensive foreword in which Reicha identifies the characteristics of his compositional style. The second edition (Vienna 1805) included a short theoretical text “Über das neue Fugensystem” (“On the new fugal system”) in the form of a polemic reacting to his critics one of whom was Beethoven. Six fugues are based on the themes of other composers (Haydn Bach Mozart Scarlatti Frescobaldi Handel). The musical text (BA9541) is a corrected reprint of the edition by Václav Jan Sýkora from 1973 which itself was based on the referred to edition from 1805 as well as on the later edition by Tobias Haslinger (Vienna c. 1828). Works historically important to the development of the fugue. New foreword by Roman Dykast (Cz/Eng/Ger)

The purpose of the John W. Schaum Piano Course is: To teach piano in the most natural and happiest way To present technical information accurately and progressively Not to define the scope of Crade I -or Grade II- or any other grades Not to confine the intellectual range of the pupil within the first year or any other period of time. But to offer a gradual and progressive pedagodic continuity through a series of books named Pre-A A B C D Leading to the eventual mastery of the instrument The POPULAR PIANO PIECES books correspond with the traditional course books providing the student with additional material to reinforce the musical understanding and keyboard skills acquired through study of the Course books. Each piece has been carefully selected and carefully arranged to capture and retain the interest of the performer and the listener. The solo arrangements are complete and satisfying; The duet accompaniments add harmonic and rhythmic flavor.

Level 3A-3B-FunTime Piano - Favorites contains pianistic arrangements of traditional ever-popular melodies for the early intermediate piano student. Pieces are in the keys of C G F A minor and D minor.This book is part of FJH Music Company's National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC).

Using a simple step-by-step approach this workbook is dedicated to helping students conquer reading naming and writing notes. Line notes and space notes are presented separately alternating between the treble and bassclefs.All notes are then exercised on the grand staff. The final exercises of the book are dedicated to identifying notes in the context of harmonic thirds and triads. While part of the popular Piano Town method series this volume can be studied to advantaged with any traditional piano course.

A unique collection for piano solo by the celebrated Spanish composer Joaquin Turina. His prolific output shows the influence of Debussy and Ravel but was mainly inspired by traditional Spanish music. His music for piano is elegant and descriptive inspired by literary of visual ideas. Suitable for advanced pianists.

Beethovenâ?? supreme skill and dramatic creativity are demonstrated again in Sonata In E Flat Major For Piano Op.27 No.1 completed in 1802. In part instigated by the onset of his deafness and rejection Beethoven moved away from the traditional movement structure of the Sonata and titled each one Sonata Quasi una Fantasia (Sonata in the form of a fantasia). It is a more continuous whole the changes of tempo and mood occurring within movements and it has a more fluid approach to key thematic development and form. Written for Solo Piano Op.27 No.1 is deceptively difficult at first seeming playful and childish but becoming more formidable as itprogresses.

30 easy pieces for the older beginner-A fantastic anthology compiled especially for the older pianist. The collection is packed full of favourite pieces from a variety of different genres with thirty accessible arrangements for beginner pianists.A wide range of styles including Classical and Romantic favourites popular songs and show tunes traditional melodies Christmas carols easy contemporary pieces and original works by the authors. Includes useful tips on style and technique and informative background information on the pieces. Steady and graded progression helps to build confidence at the Piano. Perfect companion to Piano works.