My First Piano Adventure Lesson Book A.: Lesson Book A: Pre-Reading

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I was sent a review copy of these books free of charge; however, this review is my honest opinion as a teacher. Outstanding audio tracks via online access for the young student to listen, sing, tap, and play along with at the piano. The audio for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals.

This is the second lesson book of this series and goes with the writing book, which has fun reinforcement activities.The audio becomes a ready-made practice partner that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities in the books. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. This section is structured around a number of key pieces of music, each selected to illustrate particular points, demonstrate the versatility of the instrument and encourage musical appreciation. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. We also do not accept products that are intimate or sanitary goods, hazardous materials, or flammable liquids or gases.

Finger numbers are given for the black keys, but for the white keys, students and teachers are encouraged to develop their own fingering. The Fabers' instructional theory "ACE" - Analysis, Creativity, and Expression, guides the pedagogy of My First Piano Adventure. The first book is about teaching children familiarisation of the keyboard, counting one, two and four beats and difference between treble/bass clef with a series of visual simple pieces. It includes favourites like ‘Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses’, ‘Peter Taps with One Hammer’ and ‘The Wheels on the. My First Classical Music Book is a delightfully colourful introduction to classical music, designed to fire the imagination of children aged 5–7 years.A strong focus on technique embedded in the book through playful technique games, chants, and carefully-composed pieces that gently lead the child into pianistic motions. This vibrant book, with over sixty pages of amusing illustrations and music on a bonus audio CD and on a special webpage, offers young children a supreme introduction to classical music. Packed with colourful characters and delightful illustrations, this book offers a gentle introduction to written music, including basic dynamics, first note types, five-finger scales and much more. The orchestrated songs feature children singing the lyrics, which has great appeal to the 5-6 year old beginner. The presentation is such fun and children will really enjoy the book; a great one for piano teachers to have to enthuse their pupils.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The CD for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. 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. This would be a wonderfully enriching book choice for a child beginning piano lessons for the first time. It is always a pleasure to review her publications because they have clearly been tried and tested in practice.This delightful book contains a selection of piano pieces from some of our best-loved composers, including Sarah Watts and Heather Hammond, as well as some exclusive new pieces from Brian Davidson. Written for the young beginner student ages 5-6, My First Piano Adventure captures the child’s playful spirit with five “friends at the piano,” charming songs, and rhythm and technique games. Throughout the book, children are referred to the tracks on the CD or online—however they prefer to listen—so that they can hear examples as they read. Music notation is explored through stepwise directional reading, pattern recognition, and changing hand positions, all in the context of engaging songs, games and creative exploration at the piano.