Best Beginning Piano Book for Kids

First Pop Hits is a collection of popular songs in simplified arrangements designed for Pianists working through parts two to four of the renowned John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course.This repertoire book has been specially created to be complementary with the original and best selling Easiest Piano Course. The songs are ordered so that they progress in difficulty so that songs at the beginning like Fight For This Love and Let It Be are best suited to beginning Piano players just getting started with the course. As the book progresses songs like The Sound OfSilence and Let It Go are introduced reinforcing more advanced musical techniques through well-known songs. To see the full list of songs included in First Pop Hits scroll down.With 15 contemporary pieces this songbook is ideal for students who will be able to put what they've learned into practice with songs that are enjoyable fun and familiar. This will help to develop musicality since the student will know how the song is supposed to be played.Helpfully dynamics and phrasing are not included with some of the earlier pieces since these concepts are not introduced until part three of the course. Outline fingering is included with the hand assumed to stay in a five-finger position until a new position is indicated. The pieces can also be used as sight-reading practice for more advanced students making these pieces truly versatile and useful.Whether you or your student is working through John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course First Pop Hits is the perfect songbook to transform the newly-learned skills and techniques into the beginnings of a crowd-pleasing repertoire.

Around The World - Teacher's Book-From Panama to Polynesia Jamaica to Japan Recorder From The Beginning Around The World is a unique collection of songs and dances from 40 different countries especially arranged and graded and ideal for recorder playersof any age. Designed to be used alongside the author's best-selling Recorder From The Beginning teaching scheme this book will be suitable for players who have reached the beginning of book 2 of the tutor. Thiscollection is a useful multi-cultural resource with numerous cross-curricular links and a valuable introduction to a variety of styles and rhythms from around the world.

The Really Easy Piano Playalong series provides you with Easy Piano arrangements of hit songs by the most popular artists of today, with a unique download card that gives you demonstration and playalong tracks for each tune. With this edition of the bestselling series, you can learn 17 Chart Hits then play along to professionally-recorded backing tracks. Featuring many of the top tunes of today, Chart Hits includes simplified arrangements for solo Piano, so these massively famous songs can be played by all abilities. With songs like Best Song Ever by One Direction, Happy by Pharrell Williams, Roar by Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud, these pop chart-toppers will impress anyone and everyone when played on the Piano. Each tune is arranged for Easy Piano, meaning the chords and tune can be picked up by beginners to the Piano, letting them play famous songs quickly and easily. Using the accompanying download card, you can get instant online access to demonstration and backing tracks of each song, letting you first hear how it's meant to be played, then learn the song using the sheet music, and finally play along to a professionally-recorded backing track, ensuring you sound great and just like the original! Also included in this Really Easy Piano Playalong sheet music songbook is some very helpful and useful fingering tips, as well as lyrics, fascinating background information and invaluable performance hints, all contributing to make this a really great way for beginning pianists to learn all the best tunes of today. With songs by Miley Cyrus, Passenger, Coldplay, Adele, Taylor Swift and Rihanna, Really Easy Piano Playalong presents a great number of today's bestselling, radio-conquering Chart Hits along with some demonstrations and backing tracks that will enable beginning pianists to play 17 brilliant pop songs with ease. / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Piano

Designed for beginning Piano students who are looking for fun modern music to play Jazz Piano For The Young Beginner includes an introduction to the theory behind playing the instrument as well as 30enjoyable tunes. This book begins with chapters on how to find notes on the Piano hand positioning and an introduction to rhythm and musical notation. It discusses posture explains how to select an appropriate instrumentand includes a simple glossary of musical terms. Jazz Piano For The Young Beginner contains of 30 fun Piano pieces including Chatter Rag Friday Boogie Max's Trot and Blue All the Way composed by Mel Bay best selling author of Jazz Piano Chords and Jazz Piano Scales Misha V. Stefanuk. This book comes with access to online audio allowing students to enjoy the music and to hear how the piecesshould be performed. Access to online audio is provided.

Budget Books, the sensational value for money series presents Jazz Standards, arranged for PVG. 88 Songs, including Besame Mucho, Caravan, Georgia on My Mind, I'm beginning to See the Light, It Might as Well Be Spring, My Favourite Things, That Old Black Magic, You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You. / Jazz / Partition /

Learn fun blues and soul solos to supplement your piano lessons! Blues and Soul Masters for Piano is a wonderful supplement to the student-level piano repertoire. It introduces you to colorful, fun-to-play pieces in a variety of blues and soul styles. Take a guided tour through the important styles of the blues and soul masters. You'll learn how they get their unique sound---while progressively arranged, original compositions give you a chance to try out these styles on your own. Accompanying every piece are listening suggestions, a biography of the artist who inspired it, and specially tailored preparatory exercises. Blues and Soul Masters for Piano is recommended for students age 12 and older, but younger musicians can enjoy playing the pieces under the guidance of a teacher. The included CD demonstrates all the examples and allows you to play along (with solo keyboard or full band).* Perfect for curious piano students and self-learners* A great supplement to piano lessons * For both young and adult learners * Correlates with Alfred Music's best-selling piano methods Each solo piano piece in the Masters for Piano series correlates to pages in Alfred's Complete Methods---such as Beginning, Intermediate, and Mastering Blues Keyboard---as well as Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course and Alfred's Basic Adult Piano All-in-One Course. / Piano

The ultimate Christmas songbook for Piano, Christmas Piano Gefällt Mir! features 50 top hits from the charts and blockbuster movies, in Easy Piano arrangements by the bestselling Hans-Günter Heumann. This edition also includes a CD with backing tracks to play along with.The songbook features some new pop tunes like I'll Be Home by Meghan Trainor and Mistletoe by Justin Bieber alongside some classic Christmas songs in Wonderful Christmastime, Do They Know It's Christmas and Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Every song is arranged for Easy Piano, so it includes standard notation, full lyrics, a fingering guide, as well as chord symbols throughout. Heumann's Piano Gefällt Mir! series has proven consistent in helping beginner and intermediate pianists play the greatest songs, and this Christmas book is no exception. Including a fine selection of popular songs as well as traditional hymns and carols, as well as some favourites from a variety of films, the 50 tunes are everything you'll need for some well-loved repertoire during the festive period.Continuing the brilliant Piano Gefällt Mir! series, Hans-Günter Heumann has brought together some of the best Christmas songs for Easy Piano, giving you an essential songbook for the festive time of year. / Piano

The Music Tree is the most carefully researched and laboratory-tested series for elementary Piano students available. This edition combines the best of the old and the new - a natural child-orientated sequence of learning experiences that has always been the hallmark of Frances Clark materials combined with new music of unprecedented variety and appeal. Great pedagogy and great music - a winning combination!The Music Tree consists of the eight books to be used in sequence.Used together these companion volumes provide a comprehensive plan for musical growth at the Piano and prepare for the intermediate materials that follow at Levels 3 and 4.

A great selection of 100 of the best film songs ever, arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Features fabulous songs from all your favourite movies including: Casablanca, Cabaret, Mary Poppins, Forest Gump, Midnight Cowboy, Footloose, Jaws, Star Trek, Ghost, Titanic, Schindler's List, Saturday Night Fever, Stand By Me, Love Story, Breakfast At Tiffany's... and many, many more!

150 des plus célébres standards de jazz, speciallement arrangés pour piano, chant et guitare (accords) / Variétés Internationale / Partition /