John Thompson's Easiest Smash Hits: Piano: Instrumental Album

John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course. First published in 1954, John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course is one of the most-loved and best-selling Piano methods in the world. John Thompson’s timeless approach to teaching has been trusted by generations of teachers to start millions of students on their musical journey. Featuring popular smash hits, this book includes 15 repertoire pieces to complement the Easiest Piano Course, helping to reinforce basic technique, develop musicality and increase the enjoyment of learning. Includes smash hits by Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, George Ezra, Billie Eilish, and Camila Cabello./ Recueil / Piano

This Easiest Pop Songs edition of John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course allows the beginner pianist who is progressing from part one to part two of the world-renowned course to learn some fantastic and well-known pop songs. With simplified arrangements and large notation these are popular hits in the familiar John Thompson style.   As well as reinforcing basic technique developing musicality and making learning great fun the Easiest Pop Songs will be familiar to most young beginners allowing them to learn and play some of their favourite tunes of the moment.Repertoire books like this have been specially created and graded to be used with the John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course so pianists who are working through that will recognise the style of this songbook.   This book features a number of pop songs including Taylor Swift's Shake It Off  Sam Smith's Brilliant Stay With Me and Adele's huge smash-hit Hello. There are many more though such as Wings by Birdy Flashlight by Jessie J and I Really Like You by Carly Rae Jepsen. These Easiest Pop Songs are perfect supplementary material for those working through parts 1 and 2 of the course but also make great sight-reading practice for more advanced students. Since dynamics and phrasing are not introduced until part 3 of the course they are not included here although some invaluable hints and tips and fingering guides are featured for all songs.   All beginner Piano pupils will love to learn the famous pop songs included in this repertoire book - an ideal complement to John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course.