Lesson: Accelerated Piano Adventures for the Older Beginner features the proven, pedagogical approach set forth in the original piano method and continues the tradition of learning music through discovery, creativity, and adventure. Book 2 is a condensed and more mature version of the Level 2A and 2B of the basic Piano Adventures series. ideal for students aged 11 and up. (This International Edition uses British terminology)
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This compact disc contains orchestrated background accompaniments for the pieces in the Accelerated Piano Adventures® Lesson Book 2. Each selection in the book is played twice: first at a slow practice tempo and then at performance tempo. The piano part is included in the slow track. For the performance track, the piano part is omitted or is in the background, allowing the student to be the featured performer.
The Enhanced CD also includes standard MIDI files that can be accessed with a computer. When used with your software, keyboard, or synthesizer, the MIDI files allow you to adjust tempos, isolate track playbacks, and transpose to different keys.
Special bonus: MIDI files for the Accelerated Piano Adventures® Performance Book 2 and the Technique & Artistry Book 2 are also included on this CD.
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Accelerated Theory Book 2 is divided into fifteen units, correlating with the fifteen units of Lesson Book 2. Each unit provides valuable reinforcement of basic theory concepts through writing, sightreading, and ear-training activities.
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Good sightreading ability is a necessary skill for the developing musician. The Accelerated Sightreading Book 2 builds confident readers as students play musical variations based on their Lesson Book pieces. Theory activities help students focus on key concepts: eighth note and dotted quarter note rhythms, major and minor five-finger scales, intervals through the 6th, plus one-octave scales and primary chords in the keys of C, G, and F major.
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Technique & Artistry Book 2 combines “Technique Secrets” from levels 2A and 2B with new exercises and “Artistry Magic” pieces that correlate with Accelerated Piano Adventures Lesson Book 2. These elegantly simple “technique secrets” build a solid technical foundation for the older beginner and are used as daily warm-ups throughout the book. Students are guided to produce a variety of pianistic motions always with the purpose of creating artistic sounds.
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Performance: Contents include: African Celebration • Club Jazz • Down by the Riverside • Everybody Ought to Know • Gallop on the Moor • German Dance • Holiday Fanfare • Mysterious Cavern • Niagra Falls • 'O Sole Mio! • Pale Moon Serenade • Peppermint Rag • Prelude in F • Prince of Denmark's March • Ride of Paul Revere • The Snow Castle • “Surprise” Symphony Theme • Tambourin • The Time Machine • Waltz in D Major.
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Accelerated Popular Repertoire, Book 2 is skillfully arranged and correlated with the concepts in Accelerated Lesson Book 2. Contents include: Hero Theme from Spiderman • A New Day Has Come • The Game of Love • I Will Remember You • The James Bond Theme • Bring on the Rain • Because You Loved Me • and more.
