By Nancy and Randall Faber.
A leading choice at leading university programs and music studios around the world this student-centered approach uses analysis, creativity, and expression to develop a musical mind and heart. The delightful, pianistic pieces and creative theory pages, combined with an outstanding technical approach encourage practice and progress with adventure!
The 2nd Edition Level 1 Lesson Book introduces all the notes of the grand staff, elementary chord playing, and the concept of tonic and dominant notes. Students play in varied positions, reinforcing reading skills and recognizing intervals through the 5th. Musicianship is built with the introduction of legato and staccato touches. This level continues the interval orientation to reading across the full range of the Grand Staff. The 5-finger approach is presented here in a fresh, musically appealing way. Book and CD.
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This compact disc contains orchestrated background accompaniments for the pieces in the 2nd Edition Level 1 Lesson Book. Teachers and students will be delighted by newly orchestrated background accompaniments, improvisation opportunities, and the variety of musical textures. 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.
Songs include: Firefly • Mexican Jumping Beans • Mozart's Five Names • Traffic Jam 2nds • Kites in the Sky • Forest Drums • Super Secret Agent • Boogie on Broadway • Song for a Scarecrow • Theme from the London Symphony • Dinosaur Stomp and more.
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 Piano Adventures Level 1 Performance Book and t he Level 1 Technique & Artistry Book are also included on this CD.
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The 2nd Edition Level 1 Theory Book provides important reinforcement and creative application of basic theory concepts. Students will enjoy note-naming with Story Rhymes, exploring improvisation, and engage with eye-training and ear-training activities all within a fun-filled context tied thematically to the Book 1 Lesson pieces.
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Level 1 students can have lots of fun while developing strong sightreading skills. This inventive course uses sets of exercises based on melodic and rhythmic patterns from the Level 1 Lesson Book. Students play one exercise a day, while enjoying the entertaining musical art that guides their sightreading progress.
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The 2nd Edition of this ground-breaking book integrates of technique and artistry, giving students the tools for expressive performance. Four effective “Technique Secrets” open the book, followed by engaging technical exercises. The “Artistry Magic” pieces at the end of each unit promote expressive, pianistic playing for the Level 1 student.
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The 2nd Edition Performance Book provides a collection of 24 effective pieces in a variety of styles that reinforce the concepts presented in the Level 1 Lesson Book. Discovery questions encourage students to explore the music in a new light.
Selections include: The Spanish Guitar • I'm a Fine Musician • Painting with Pastels • Hill and Gully Rider • Rain Dance • Silver Moon Boat • and more.
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The second in a series, Gold Star Performance Level 1, is a challenging collection for the late-elementary pianist featuring changing moods, keys, and hand positions. Like the primer level book, this collection may be used as a “graduation book” to improve artistic, technical, and rhythmic skills before advancing to the next level.
The long awaited addition to the Piano Adventures series features songs and pieces like: Bullfrog Blues • Monster's Midnight March • Little Bunny Foo Foo • Mouses or Meese • and more. Includes the Gold Star Performance CD for both listening and play-along.
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Popular Repertoire Book Contents: The Boogie Woogie March • Fiddler on the Roof • I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat • Matchmaker (from Fiddler on the Roof)• Once Upon a December (from Anastasia) • Over the Rai nbow (from The Wizard of Oz) • Superman (Theme) • This Is It! (Theme from the Bugs Bunny Show) • We're Off to See the Wizard (from The Wizard of Oz).
1 CD containing the background accompaniments for: Matchmaker • I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat • Once Upon a December • This Is It! • Over the Rainbow • Superman (Theme) • Fiddler on the Roof • The Boogie Woogie March • The Boogie Woogie March Gets into Treble • and more. Orchestrations by Edwin McLean.
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Christmas Book: Carefully aligned with the Piano Adventures instruction books, this collection ensures students are still learning while they enjoy playing the songs of the season.
Contents include: Stuffing the Stockings (interval review); Angels We Have Heard on High; Deck the Halls; Jingle Bells; O Come, All Ye Faithful; O Come Little Children; Up on the Housetop; We Three Kings.
