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John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course: Part 2 – Revised Edition is an easy and fun approach to learning the piano.
With a modern look, a clear and straight-forward layout plus amusing new characters who help emphasise the information being taught, this is the essential follow up to John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course: Part 1.
As new notes are introduced, the pupil is given the opportunity to play examples in which only one hand is required.
Includes
Characters and illustrations
Writing exercises
Sight reading drills
Review work
Accompaniments and more
 
 
Pages: 48Language: EnglishPublisher: Willis Music

Now beginning pianists can enjoy Book 2 with play-along tracks! This piano course provides the student the opportunity to experience the joy of playing while learning the rudiments of music in a logical order, with gradual and steady progress, presenting a challenge toward increasing pianistic facility. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
 
 
Pages: 48Language: EnglishPublisher: Willis Music

First Pop Hits is a collection of popular songs in simplified arrangements designed for Pianists working through parts two to four of the renowned John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course.
This repertoire book has been specially created to be complementary with the original and best selling Easiest Piano Course. The songs are ordered so that they progress in difficulty, so that songs at the beginning, like Fight For This Love and Let It Be, are best suited to beginning Piano players just getting started with the course. As the book progresses, songs like The Sound Of Silence and Let It Go are introduced, reinforcing more advanced musical techniques through well-known songs. To see the full list of songs included in First Pop Hits scroll down.
With 15 contemporary pieces, this songbook is ideal for students who will be able to put what they’ve learned into practice with songs that are enjoyable, fun and familiar. This will help to develop musicality since the student will know how the song is supposed to be played.
Helpfully, dynamics and phrasing are not included with some of the earlier pieces, since these concepts are not introduced until part three of the course. Outline fingering is included, with the hand assumed to stay in a five-finger position until a new position is indicated. The pieces can also be used as sight-reading practice for more advanced students, making these pieces truly versatile and useful.
Whether you or your student is working through John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course, First Pop Hits is the perfect songbook to transform the newly-learned skills and techniques into the beginnings of a crowd-pleasing repertoire.
Songlist
Can’t Get You Out Of My Head [Minogue, Kylie]
Chasing Cars [Snow Patrol]
Every Breath You Take [Police, The]
Fight For This Love [Cole, Cheryl]
Halo [Beyonce]
Human [Killers, The]
Let It Be [Beatles, The]
Let It Go [Anderson-Lopez, Kirsten & Lopez, Robert]
Price Tag [Jessie J]
Rule The World [Take That]
Skyfall [Adele]
Stay [Rihanna]
The Sound Of Silence [Simon & Garfunkel]
Trouble [Coldplay]
Wonderful Tonight [Clapton, Eric]
 
 
Pages: 32Language: EnglishPublisher: Willis Music

John Thompson: First Christmas Pops has been specially created and graded to be used with John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course.
The pieces in this book are ideal for pupils reaching Part Two, Part Three or Part Four of the Easiest Piano Course.
As well as reinforcing basic technique they also help to develop musicality and increase the enjoyment of learning.
Songlist
(There’s No Place Like) Home For The Holidays
All I Want For Christmas Is You
Blue Christmas
C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s
Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Jingle Bell Rock
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
Mistletoe And Wine
Stop The Cavalry
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
The Christmas Waltz
Walking In The Air (Theme from ‘The Snowman’)
White Christmas
Wonderful Christmastime
 
 
Pages: 32Language: EnglishPublisher: Willis Music

H John Thompson’s modern course for the Piano είναι η βασική μέθοδος πιάνου για αρχάριους μαθητές όλων των ηλικιών. Καλογραμμένο, απλό και κατανοητό αυτό το Modern Course έχει αποδειχτεί ότι είναι το αγαπημένο σε δασκάλους και μαθητές, έχοντας πουλήσει εκατομμύρια αντίτυπα παγκοσμίως.
Σελίδες: 94Γλώσσα: ΑγγλικάΕκδότης: The Willis Music Company
 

Pre-practice technical exercises for the piano.
The purpose of this book is to help develop strong hands and flexible fingers. The idea is to learn two or three exercises at a time, which should be played each day before practising. Only when these are mastered should you add another. When all in the first group are mastered, the next group may be introduced. Many of these exercises may be transposed to different keys.
 
 
Pages: 36Language: EnglishPublisher: The Willis Music Company

The primary purpose of Part 4 is to allow the pupil to develop efficiency and fluency in the application of knowledge gained in the earlier books. Several new keys are introduced, leger lines are presented, the dotted crotchet is explained, and simple use of the pedal.
In celebration of 120 years of Willis Music, the beloved characters in John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course Parts One – Four have been redrawn. The content remains the same, so, like countless others before them, today’s young students can continue to benefit from the Easiest Courses’s clear and simple approach.
 
 
Pages: 48Language: EnglishPublisher: The Willis Music Company