By Margaret Brandman.

The overall objective of the material in Book 1A and 1B is to enable the student to play within the five-finger hand position over the range of four octaves, with extensions to the intervals of sixth, seventh and octave, in all major keys, using note-values from the whole note to the sixteenth note.

BOOK 1B: keys - F, B, Bflat, Eflat, Aflat, Dflat, Fsharp/Gflat.

Applying the pre-learned block and broken chords to the pieces.
- this process required analysis of the musical figures and leads to reading larger unit as a whole:
a) five-finger pattern
b) scale figures
c) chord figures, both block and broken

Additional Skills
1) Chord-chart reading
2) Improvising
3) Adding a left-hand accompaniment to a melody line using close chords
4) Adding a left-hand accompaniment to a melody line using stride bass
5) Syncopation
6) Music in odd times 5/4 and 5/8