My First Piano Adventure, Lesson Book A

Written for ages 5 and 6 My First Piano Adventure captures the child's playful spirit. Fun-filled songs rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Three distinguishing features of the Lesson Book A make it unique and effective for the young 5-6 year old beginner. 1. A strong focus on technique embedded in the book through playful technique games chants and carefully-composed pieces that gently lead the child into pianistic motions. 2. An outstanding CD for the young student to listen sing tap and play along with at the piano. The orchestrated songs on the CD feature children singing the lyrics which has great appeal to the 5-6 year old beginner. The CD becomes a ready-made practice partner that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities in the books. 3. The fanciful art features five multi-cultural children who are also learning to play. These friends at the piano introduce basic rhythms white key names and a variety of white and black-key songs that span classical folk and blues. Young students will listen sing create and play more musically with Nancy and Randall Faber's My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book A. The Lesson Book introduces directional pre-reading elementary music theory and technique with engaging songs games and creative discovery at the keyboard. Young students will enjoy the multi-cultural ?friends at the piano? who introduce white-key names basic rhythms and a variety of songs which span classical folk and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of the curriculum. The Fabers' instructional theory ?ACE? - Analysis Creativity and Expression guides the pedagogy of My First Piano Adventure.Analysis leads to understanding creativity leads to self-discovery and expression develops personal artistry. The CD for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the

Book B from My First Piano Adventure moves the student into staff-reading. Music notation is explored through stepwise directional reading pattern recognition and changing hand positions all in the context of engaging songs games and creative exploration at the piano. Maintaining the child-centered philosophy of the series the ?friends at the piano? from the A Books introduce students to the music of two new composer friends Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven. Classic themes share the stage with contemporary pop and jazz sounds for young ears to absorb and enjoy. The Book B CD presents a vibrant mix of sounds from boogie to Beethoven.It serves as a listening CD which educates and as an accompaniment CD for play-along.

Adult Piano Adventures® is a comprehensive course in reading playing and listening to music by Nancy and Randall Faber. It is a logical and effective approach to note-reading and the pace is refreshing and smooth with the language and presentation more suited to adults and late beginners. Book Two continues from the first volume with a broader repertoire and special instruction in harmony and chord accompaniments. All-In-One Lesson Book 2 is a natural progression from Book 1 with carefully sequenced instruction in note reading music theory and Piano technique. It expands on chord playing from lead sheets and offers a review of musicfundamentals a dictionary of musical terms chord chart and an outstanding selection of World-famous popular and classical melodies chosen specifically for adults. Included are musical gems such as: I Want to Hold Your Hand; Swing Low Sweet Chariot; Amazing Grace; The James Bond Theme; Pachelbelâ??s Canon and Scarborough Fair plus plenty more beloved melodies. This book includes lessons technique and theory all in one complete volume for ease of use. Develop musical understanding and reading skills further while playing enjoyable engaging music. This terrific CD edition also contains 2 packed CDs with Background accompaniments to the melodies and pieces in the book. This extra resource will help compound learning and understanding as each piece is played twice once at a slow practice tempo with the piano part included and the other at performance speed.

Primer Level-PreTime Piano Favourites is a brilliant collection of popular favourites arranged for the Primer-level pianist. This book concentrates on well loved nursery rhymes and folk songs to build confidence and above all make the first steps enjoyable. All wonderfully arranged by Nancy and Randall Faber with optional teacher duets helpful hints and practice warm-ups these twelve fabulous tunes will inspire and motivate students whilst introducing lessons and theory. This volume is part of the Primer level of the PreTime To BigTime Piano Supplementary Library series. The PreTime Level provides the earliest level of reading for the beginning Pianist andrequires little to no previous experience. No eighth notes or dotted rhythms are used and the hands remain in the Middle C position throughout the book. Part of FJH Music's National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC).

For the Young Beginner-This set of ten flashcard sheets provides interactive fun to help students 'read with ease.' Each sheet is correlated by book and unit to the My First Piano Adventure course offering excellent reinforcement of note reading and music concepts. Every laminated sheet features a 16-box grid with answers printed on the back. Included are a variety of games and activities for individual and group lessons.