Products tagged with 'piano'

Piano is the main lesson book in the Bastien Piano Basics course. The carefully graded, logical learning sequence assures steady, continual progress. Original music by the Bastiens includes a stimulating mixture of pop, folk, classical, and contemporary styles. Full-color illustrations throughout entertain and reinforce musical concepts along the way. The gradual multi-key approach takes students through all 12 keys -- 3 in each of Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4. Each page is carefully correlated page-by-page with Theory, Performance, and Technic. All in all, a dynamic way to introduce students to the marvelous world of music! Level 4 presents the overlapping pedal, 1st and 2nd inversion triads, sixteenth notes, dotted eigth notes, altered intervals, augmented and diminished triads, syncopation, parallel major and minor scales, grace notes, and the keys of G-flat, B-flat, and B.

Theory is the theory workbook portion of the Bastien Piano Basics course. Each book contains written work and some short pieces to reinforce the concepts presented in Piano. Games, puzzles, and colorful illustrations make learning fun! Your students will gain a better understanding of the music they are playing, and they will learn more easily when theory instruction is a regular part of their piano studies. Each page is carefully correlated with Piano, Performance, and Technic. Level 2 provides theory materials correlated with Piano.

Pam Wedgwood has been inspiring teachers and pupils through her work in music education--as composer, teacher and performer--for more than thirty years. In this piano method book for the older beginner, she has arranged a mix of familiar classical and traditional themes interspersed with her innovative original compositions. Music theory and terminology with lots of emphasis on chords is included. Pieces are written in the keys of C, F and G major and A, E and D minor. This book uses the British system of terminology for rhythmic values, such as crotchet" for quarter note.

World Jazz Piano Grades 4-5 (like ABRSM's offerings) involve playing a diverse range of jazz styles—from blues, calypso, jazz waltzes to funk—requiring developing core jazz skills like rhythmic swing, chord voicings, left-hand comping, and basic improvisation, often using lead sheets with guideline pitches, focusing on stylistic expression and building a cohesive performance with backing tracks.

Piano is the main lesson book in the Bastien Piano Basics course. The carefully graded, logical learning sequence assures steady, continual progress. Original music by the Bastiens includes a stimulating mixture of pop, folk, classical, and contemporary styles. Full-color illustrations throughout entertain and reinforce musical concepts along the way.