Experience the joy of creating music with younger students. Learn to play your favorite children's songs, as you discover new notes, chords and styles. Develop correct techniques right from the start, using easy-to-understand diagrams and beautiful color illustrations. Anyone can learn from this book as no previous musical knowledge is required.
Featuring easy-to-read traditional notation, this best-selling lesson plan contains over 35 exercises, including simple arrangements of popular piano songs for children.
Starting with the rudiments of reading music, it details the correct posture, hand position and fingering technique for five notes in the right hand and five note in the left. Explore musical concepts that include note values, rests and time signatures, using great sounding examples. Discover plenty of tips, shortcuts and tricks for reading and playing any music notation, including free sheet music for piano or keyboard.
This enhanced edition contains over 115 video lessons and audio examples, featuring full-page scores, live video footage and score animations of all exercises. The audio examples include solo piano, band-only and complete versions for all exercises in order to study each part by itself, experience playing in a band, or hear a full performance.
An exciting and comprehensive introduction on how to play the piano, this carefully graded, lesson-by-lesson learning method is a favorite with students and teachers worldwide.
