By Barbara Kreader, Fred Kern, Mona Rejino, Phillip Keveren.
Great music means motivated students, inspired teachers and delighted parents. You couldn't ask for better results! Hal Leonard have combined wonderful music with solid pedagogy and an innovative approach to learning, to create a winning method for everyone. It's a method that encourages practice, progress, confidence, and best of all - success! This package includes a Piano Lessons Book and CD featuring fully orchestrated audio AND General MIDI track accompaniments for every song.
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Theory Workbook: Spike, Party Cat and friends guide the student through fun and creative assignments that introduce the language of music and its symbols for sound, silence, and rhythm. Ear training and basic theory exercises help students learn to write and play the music they are learning as well as the music they create themselves. Correlates to Piano Lessons Book 1.
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This first book in a series of five piano technique books presents short, 4-measure exercises with helpful text imagery (Warm-Ups), and brief etudes. The skills emphasized in the Warm-Ups are given a musical context in the Etudes that follow them. Each Warm-Up and Etude in the book has its own original accompaniment, available on a separate CD or GM disk. Piano Technique Book 1 focuses on basic skills at the piano: good posture & hand position; creating a beautiful tone; attention to silence; playing forte and piano; playing detached tones; and playing connected notes.
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Notespeller: Join Spike, Party Cat and friends on an adventure-filled camping trip as they complete activities that help them learn keyboard geography and finger numbers, identify steps and skips, and read and write notes on the treble and bass staffs. Corresponds to Piano Lessons Book 1.
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Piano Solos books feature original performance repertoire from 14 different composers. These inviting compositions provide ample reinforcement of skills and concepts learned in the corresponding-level Piano Lessons books. The outstanding variety of musical styles makes every solo an important piece in its own right - exciting to both performer and listener. CD includes both a practice and a performance tempo for each piece.
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Piano Practice Games present imaginative ways to introduce pieces in Piano Lessons by coordinating technique, concepts, and creativity with the actual music in the lessons book. These preparation activities help focus learning, by 'playing with' each lesson piece aurally, visually, and physically. Whether used in individual or group lessons, Piano Practice Games are designed to make music. Many activities include accompaniments that can be added by the teacher or by using the CD/GM disk from the corresponding Piano Lessons book.
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Popular Piano Solos: This great collection of pop songs correlates with Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Piano Lessons Book 2, and is a perfect supplementary book for all methods. Large-staff notation is easy to read. Each student solo also has a teacher accompaniment. 10 songs with teacher accompaniments: Beauty and the Beast • Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead • Do You Hear the People Sing? • Edelweiss • Lean on Me • The Loco-Motion • Over the Rainbow • The Rainbow Connection • Smile • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Level: basic note values and rests; sharps, flats and naturals; 3/4, 4/4 meter; melodic and harmonic intervals through a 5th; limited use of hands-together passages. Reading range: from Bass Clef – B (a6th below Middle C), to Treble Clef – B (a 7th above Middle C).
The CD includes MIDI tracks at practice and performance tempos for each song in the book.
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Contains 7 favorite traditional hymns, carefully graded and arranged for piano with great teacher accompaniments: Amazing Grace · Deep and Wide · Faith of Our Fathers · For the Beauty of the Earth · Give Me That Old Time Religion · Jesus Loves Me · Praise God, From Whom All Blessings Flow. Download your complimentary MIDI accompaniment for Praise God, For Whom All Blessings Flow.
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Classical Themes: This series presents favorite orchestral classics, carefully graded and expertly arranged for piano solo with great teacher accompaniments! Online access to instrumental accompaniments, as MP3 or MIDI files, is included using the unique code provided inside the book.
Level 1 includes: Air (Handel) • Can Can (Offenbach) • The Emperor Waltz (J. Strauss, Jr.) • Morning (Grieg) • Russian Dance (Tchaikovsky) • Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) • Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke) • Theme from Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky), plus background notes on each composition.
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Christmas Piano Solos: This collection of best–loved children's carols is the perfect book for beginning piano students. The horizontal–format book and large–staff notation make the songs easy to read and learn. Each song includes an optional teacher accompaniment. Fully orchestrated CD and G M accompaniment disks are available separately. The CDs have both a practice and a performance track for each song.
7 solos corresponding to Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Piano Lessons Book 1: Away in a Manger • Go, Tell It on the Mountain • Good King Wenceslas • Jingle Bells • Jolly Old St. Nicholas• O Come, O Come Immanuel • We Three Kings of Orient Are.
Level: Early Elementary. Basic note values and rests, quarter– whole note/rest; 3/4, 4/4 meter; movement by steps and skips only; single–line melodies. Reading range: Bass Clef Middle G – Treble Clef Middle G; keyboard guides show hand placement.
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More Christmas Piano Solos: Following up on the success of the Christmas Piano Solos books for levels 1-5 in the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library, these books contain additional holiday selections for each grade level that will work great withany piano method. Each song includes an optional teacher accompaniment. The MIDI enhanced CD includes orchestrated accompaniments for practice and performance. 8 songs: Blue Christmas · Do You Hear What I Hear · Frosty the Snow Man · Here Comes Santa Claus (Right down Santa Claus Lane) · Joy to the World · Over the River and Through the Woods · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer · The Snow Lay on the Ground.
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Christmas Piano Ensembles: Four-part student ensembles, expertly arranged for two or more pianos by Phillip Keveren. These ensembles feature favorite Christmas carols and hymns in graded books that correspond directly to the HLSPL Piano Method levels. CD and General MIDI disk accompaniments are available for all levels. Each book in the Christmas Piano Ensembles series includes: four individual student parts for each song on perforated, tear-out sheets (Performance requires purchase of only one book per ensemble team); a conductor's score with optional teacher accompaniment; performance configurations for 2 or more pianos; and suggested instrumentation for digital keyboard. Level 1 includes: Good King Wenceslas · Jingle Bells · Jolly Old St. Nicholas · We Three Kings of Orient Are.
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Piano Ensembles: Four-part student ensembles arranged for two or more pianos. These ensembles, arranged by Phillip Keveren, feature student favorites from Book 1 of the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library. Each book contains four selections which include: · Four student parts · Conductor's score with optional teacher accompaniment · Performance configurations for 2 or more pianos · Suggested instrumentation for electronic keyboards. Fully orchestrated CD and GM accompaniment disks are available separately. Four ensembles: Night Shadows · Party Cat · Trumpet Man · Go For The Gold.
