HAL LEONARD

Written for ages 5 and 6, My First Piano Adventure® captures the child’s playful spirit. Fun-filled songs, rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Three distinguishing features of the LessonBook A make it unique and effective for the young 5-6 year old beginner. 1. A strong focus on technique embedded in the book through playful technique games, chants, and carefully-composed pieces that gently lead the child intopianistic motions. 2. An outstanding CD for the young student to listen, sing, tap, and play along with at the piano. The orchestrated songs on the CD feature children singing the lyrics, which has great appeal to the 5-6 year oldbeginner. The CD becomes a ready-made practice partner that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities in the books. 3. The fanciful art features five multi-cultural children who are also learning to play.These friends at the piano introduce basic rhythms, white key names, and a variety of white and black-key songs that span classical, folk, and blues. Young students will listen, sing, create, and play more musically with Nancy andRandall Faber s My First Piano Adventure, Lesson Book A. The Lesson Book introduces directional pre-reading, elementary music theory and technique with engaging songs, games, and creative discovery at the keyboard. Young studentswill enjoy the multi-cultural “friends at the piano” who introduce white-key names, basic rhythms, and a variety of songs which span classical, folk, and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of thecurriculum. The Fabers’ instructional theory “ACE” – Analysis, Creativity, and Expression, guides the pedagogy of My First Piano Adventure. Analysis leads to understanding, creativity leads to self-discovery, andexpression develops personal artistry. The CD for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the course: when children listen, sing,tap, and move to their piano music, they play more musically.
Contents

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
This old man
Turkey Talk
Bed On A Boat
Birthday Train
Boa Constrictor
Buckle My Shoe
Cookie Dough
Cookie’s Journey Up The Mountain
Cuckoo Clock
Dallas Dips L.H. Donuts
Dallas Dips R.H. Donuts
Dinosaur Music Night
Eensie Weensie Spider
Graduation Party
Hangin’ On A Fencepost
I Feel Rhythm
If Your’re Happy
Jungle Wedding
Kangaroo Show
Katie Scores
Katie’s Dog Tucker
L.H. Rainbows
Little Lost Kitty
Magic Tree House
Mary’s Rockin’ Pets
Mitsy’s Cat Back
Monsieur Mouse
Monster Bus Driver
Mouse Rhythms
Oh! I Love Snack Time
Old Pig-Donald
Queen Treble Clef
R.H. Rainbows
Raccoon’s Lullaby
Riding The Escalator
Rockin’ On C And F
Roll Call
Shepherd, Count Your Sheep
Stone On The Mountain
The Music Alphabet
Tigers At My Door
Train Rhythms
Wendy The Whale
What’s In The Honey Pot?
Will You Play?
Wish I Were A Fish
Wrist, Forearm, Fingertips

 
 
Pages: 88Language: EnglishPublisher: Hal Leonard

64 pages of fun-filled activities support the music learning process. Reading steps on the staff is a primary focus of Book B. The inventive Writing Book guides young players in reading, hearing and creating with steps on theGrand Staff. Teachers will welcome the special “C.L.A.P. for Sightreading” pages, designed to reinforce and celebrate note-reading. Students touch on music history with Mozart’s and Beethoven’s Fun Facts and Games andtake a peek into Beethoven’s Composing Room. Tucker, Blinker and Tap return with ear-training, sightreading, and rhythm fun. Then there is also the Tooth Fairy Visit, Rhythm Beads, Escape of the Quarter Notes… and much more.
 
 
Pages: 64Language: EnglishPublisher: Hal Leonard