Halloween - Level 2: Piano: Instrumental Album

Your students will have a frighteningly fun time celebrating Halloween with these new tunes complete with lyrics and colourful illustrations! Carefully graded for all levels of development these collections will be so successfulwith your pianists it'll be spooky! This Primer Level includes 9 original songs each with Teacher Duets for added enjoyment.

Level 4-One CD featuring the background accompaniments of Morning Has Broken; I Love a Piano; I'm Henery the Eighth I Am; The Spy; Oh! You Beautiful Doll; Clair de Lune; Beautiful Dreamer; Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home?; Cielito Lindo; Fanfare on America; Good Morning Blues; Halloween Sonatine; Tarantella Italiana; Theme from the Moonlight Sonata.

Mid-Elementary-Level 2A Piano Solo-Rhythmic and appealing this piece explores the fun of ritardando and a tempo as halloween characters appear at the door. The music fades to the high reaches of the keyboard as the characters disappear. But they will be back next year. A 'spooktacular' delight!

Early Elementary Level-An excellent seasonal solo! The lyrics begin: On a dark and scary night ... There are gasps on every line and a spooky surprise awaits at the end of the piece. In mostly five-finger pattern. Key: C Major.

Your students will have a frighteningly fun time celebrating Halloween with these new tunes complete with lyrics and colourful illustrations! Carefully graded for all levels of development these collections will be so successfulwith your pianists it'll be spooky! Level Two includes 8 original songs that provide a wonderful Left- and Right-Hand stepping stone for the progressing pianist.

Halloween Treats is a delightful collection of level 4 holiday pieces that may be used to supplement Bastien Piano Basics or any level 4 piano course. Additionally Halloween Treats has exciting reinforcing level 4theory activities that will captivate your students' interest. Get ready to celebrate Halloween early - by making music with your students!

Halloween Treats is a delightful collection of level 2 holiday pieces that may be used to supplement Bastien Piano Basics or any level 2 piano course.

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.

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 4 is suitable for Early Intermediate pianists and covers many basic principles including:Dotted rhythmic patterns as well as sixteenth-note patternsPlaying pieces with common time signatures as well as simple compound metersPlaying with more intricate finger crossovers Playing pieces with numerous changes of tempo articulation and moodMajor Minor and diminished root position chords and their inversions are reinforced as well as subdominant and dominant chordsPlaying hand-over-hand arpeggiosPlaying pieces in which one hand holds down notes while simultaneously playing moving notesOctave scale passages and blocked octavesLeft-hand parts increase in intricacy with more involved accompaniment figures or in some cases the left hand plays the melody while the right hand accompaniesPlaying pieces which include modulations from one key to anotherHand positions expand to larger than a fifthReinforcing basic musical terminology and symbols such as ritardando diminuendo subito piano subito

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 5 is suitable for Intermediate pianists and covers many basic principles including:Triplet and sixteenth-note patterns as well as dotted rhythmic patterns and syncopated rhythmsPlaying one and two octave scale passages and blocked octavesPlaying rolled chords and double third configurationsUse of rubato in playingChords and their inversions reinforcedPlaying two voices within the same handUse of simple ornamentationPieces introduce the following musical terms: cantabile largamente molto agitato along with basic musical terminology found in books 1-4A mixtures of major and minor keys which strengthen the student’s command of the piano.