Lesson: This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Level 6 concepts include: a review of major and minor triads; diminished and augmented triads; the diminished seventh chord; a special style of pedaling; the key of F-sharp Minor; the E Major scale; the key of C-sharp minor; the A-flat Major scale; thirty-second notes; and dotted sixteenth notes. This book also contains an important daily scale routine and a dictionary of musical terms. For reinforcement of each principle as it is introduced, supplementary material is carefully coordinated, page for page, at each level of instruction. Correlated supplemental books for Level 6 include: Ear Training * Recital * Theory and Top Hits! Solo. Songs include: Ay-Ay-Ay * Shenandoah * Barcarolle (Morovsky) * Blue Rondo * A Classy Rag * Deep River * Dry Bones * Fascination (Marchetti) * Festive Dance * Fur Elise (Beethoven) * Hungarian Dance * Jazz Ostinato in C-sharp Minor * La Folia (Theme and Variations) * Menuet, French Suite No. 6 (Bach ) * Music Machine (Palmer) * Prelude in D Minor (Clementi) * Scherzo (Kabalevsky) * Solfeggio (C. P. E. Bach) * Theme from Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky) * Toccata (Palmer) * Variations on "Canon in D" (Pachelbel) * Waltz Impromptu (Kullak).
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Theory: Designed to coordinate page-by-page with the Lesson Books. Contains enjoyable games and quizzes that reinforce the principles presented in the Lesson Books. Students can increase their musical understanding while they are away from the keyboard.
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Ear Training: The Ear Training Books reinforce each concept presented in the Lesson Books and specifically focus on the training and development of the ear. Rhythmic, melodic and intervallic concepts are drilled throughout each book and each page is designed to be completed using approximately five minutes of the lesson time.
Recital: The Recital Books congratulate students for a job well done by providing correlated repertoire to their Lesson Books that are based on concepts they've already learned. As a result, the pieces are quickly mastered. Recital Book Level 6 contains mostly original pieces of standard literature by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Chopin Debussy and Rebikov. Also included is the first movement of Beehoven's Moonlight Sonata.
Popular Hits: Alfred's Basic Piano Library: Popular Hits offers Broadway, pop, and movie music arrangements to be used as supplementary pieces for students. Soon after beginning piano study, students can play attractive versions of favorite classics, as well as the best-known popular music of today. This book is correlated page by page with Alfred's Basic Piano Library: Lesson Book 6. When pieces from the Popular Hits book are assigned in conjunction with the material in the Lesson Book, new concepts are reinforced in a fun and motivating way, increasing the student's interest in piano study. Titles: 27 Years Later (from IT Chapter Two) * Aerith's Theme (from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children) * Ashokan Farewell (from the PBS series The Civil War) * Happy Together (The Turtles) * Havana (Camila Cabello) * I'll Be There for You (Theme from Friends) * Little Shop of Horrors (from Little Shop of Horrors) * Money (Pink Floyd) * Salamander Eyes (from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) * Shallow (from A Star Is Born) * Speechless (from Walt Disney's 2019 Aladdin) * Star Wars® (Main Title).
Top Hits! Solo: Alfred's Top Hits series has overwhelmingly been accepted by students and teachers. This series combines just the right combination of hits from Broadway, Hollywood, television and recordings! As you might expect from Alfred, this series offers a rare combination of great music arranged with care and creativity. Your beginning and intermediate students can savor the excitement of playing pop music and reap the benefits from making practicing more fun and rewarding. Titles: I Dreamed a Dream * Jeannie * Puttin' on the Ritz * Someday Out of the Blue * Speak Softly, Love * Splish Splash * When I Fall in Love * Where Do I Begin * Written in the Stars * You'll Be in My Heart.
