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In Book 5 of the Sight Reading & Rhythm Every Day(R) series, students learn about compound meters and cut time, chords and their inversions, and new music terms including dolce, meno, and sempre. Also, Book 5 incorporates Rhythm Flashes!, Interval Flashes!, and Pattern Flashes!, which are designed to help students think and plan quickly for excellent sight reading! Original pieces and teacher/student duets along with a carefully sequenced curriculum make learning to sight read an engaging activity for developing students.

Book 2 includes 12 sensational selections---ten original pieces including blues, rags, and Latin styles by Kevin Olson, Edwin McLean, and Robert Schultz. Original pieces by Christopher Goldston, Mary Leaf, and Elizabeth Greenleaf also add to the mix. There is even one folk song and one classical piece. New musical concepts are introduced such as tied notes, legato and staccato articulations, accents and first and second endings. Most pieces call for limited hands-together playing. Students play in a variety of keys using accidentals instead of key signatures.

This book presents all octave major scales and arpeggios in the order of the Circle of Fifths. Features fingering charts, practice suggestions, Technique Tips and Did It! boxes, and four fabulous pages of photos that show a step-by-step approach to playing scales. Students acquire a technique that is consistent, musical, and easy!

Students learn technique with theory rapidly and musically by following practice suggestions, keeping on track with Did It! boxes, using valuable Technique Tips, and playing lively paced games.

The most recent addition to this successful series, is this 12-piece collection, strongly rooted in the classical music tradition ¿ polonaises, serenades, barcarolles, toccatas, rhapsodies ¿ that also contains jazz and Latin music.

Students develop healthy, tension-free technique with 4-8 measure exercises mastered on a daily basis. Easy step-by-step lesson plans with daily check-off boxes save valuable lesson time. Engaging illustrations and titles help students connect the gesture with the sound. Helpful technique tips are found throughout the nine units of this 32-page book.

This Answer Key is the companion to Write, Play, and Hear Your Theory Every Day, Book 4, and provides the correct answers for each of the written exercises as well as playback and ear training activities.

The advancing pianist will love this delightful mix of traditional carols and contemporary favorites! This collection is the perfect cure for the winter blues. Contents include: Mary's Little Boy Child; Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree; I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus; Do You Hear What I Hear; Feliz Navidad; Angels We Have Heard On High; and more.

In Book 4, the early intermediate level student will be offered a variety of popular favorites to choose from. Titles such as: Whistle While You Work, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Under the Sea, from The Little Mermaid; Scarborough Fair; He Ain't Heavy... He's My Brother; and more. Includes full performance recordings and interesting background information about each piece.

Book 2, arranged for the elementary level, contains arrangements of popular favorites such as: Turn! Turn! Turn!; Can You Feel the Love Tonight?, from The Lion King; Music Box Dancer; Be Our Guest, from Beauty and the Beast; and many more. Includes complete performance recordings designed to assist with recital preparation and interesting background information for each piece.

The Answer Key is the companion to Write, Play, and Hear Your Theory Every Day(R), Book 2, and provides the correct answers for each of the written exercises as well as playback and ear training activities. The Lesson Day" activity is an excellent way for teachers to survey their students' progress."

Designed as a companion to the student book, the teacher's Answer Key provides correct answers for each of the written exercises as well as playback and ear training activities. The Lesson Day" activity is an excellent way for teachers to see the progress students are making!"

In Recital(R) for the Advancing Pianist, Christmas presents classic Christmas repertoire in a decidedly un-classic way! Christmas favorites such as Jingle Bells, Joy to the World, Away in a Manger, and more, are arranged with lush harmonies and new rhythmic twists that will bring a smile to everyone's faces. Arranged for the early advanced student, these pieces are sure to become a new Christmas tradition in your studio.

Book 4 for the early intermediate student offers such hits as: Here We Come A-Wassailing, Christmas Eve in My Home Town, Mary, Did You Know?, and a soon to be popular original by Kevin Olson, Mister Snowman. Your early intermediate student will have these plus many more selections to choose from to fill their holiday with great Christmas music! Recordings with listening activities plus interesting information about the pieces and composers are included.

Book 3, for the late elementary student, includes titles such as: The Little Drummer Boy, We Are Santa's Elves, The Night Before Christmas Song, Shake Me, I Rattle (Squeeze Me, I Cry), and many more popular Christmas tunes that students will really enjoy throughout the holiday season. In addition to background information about the pieces and composers, recordings with listening activities areincluded.

The elementary student will have plenty of choices of popular Christmas music to choose from in Book 2. Christmas hits such as Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Snoopy's Christmas, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, and many more, will provide the perfect holiday treat! Includes recordings with special listening activities as well as background information about the pieces and composers.

Focus on fabulous repertoire to motivate your students! These first two books in a new series introduce elementary level students to recital performance, with original, engaging pieces by outstanding FJH composers. Their wide-ranging styles offer teachers and students original solos and duets, arrangements of famous classical themes, and pieces for Halloween, Christmas, and the Fourth of July-all carefully leveled to ensure attainable goals, and to address students' technical strengths and weaknesses.

In the Every Day plan for Book 3A, students learn and practice different rhythmic activities with accent markings, focusing on the dotted quarter note rhythm followed by eighth notes. Tonic and dominant chords are explored, as well as melodic and harmonic intervals of major and minor 2nds and 3rds, and perfect 4ths and 5ths. Extending the usual five-finger pattern by crossing the second finger over the thumb is taught, as well as learning transposition of up to a fifth interval. Students will develop important skills such as eye, ear, and hand coordination through carefully crafted exercises, and will help turn your students into young artists.

In the Every Day plan for Book 2B, students learn triads and begin to play pieces with both hands together on two staffs. Attention is given to different articulations and dynamics, and students are asked to transpose short pieces to the nearest keys. In addition, students learn to plan" for note and rhythmic accuracy, correct articulations, and a good sound. Helpful suggestions guide students to think before they play, and not to stop once they have started. Students are also asked to count rhythmic examples out loud and clap, tap, point, snap their fingers, and march. Developing these important skills lays the proper foundation for music making and fosters stellar piano playing."

In Recital(R) with Christmas Favorites, Book Five is designed to help teachers motivate students while also providing a perfect holiday treat. Triplet and sixteenth-note patterns as well as dotted rhythmic patterns and syncopated rhythms are used. Reinforces concepts like rubato, chords and their inversions, octave scale passages, arpeggios, blocked octaves, simple ornamentation, and playing two voices within the same hand. Contains beautiful arrangements of classics like: The Holly and the Ivy; Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella; O Little Town of Bethlehem; Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; and more.

Book 5 of In Recital(R) Vol. Two offers tips on recital preparation, a Calendar for Success" practice guide to set goals, performance strategies for before and the day of the recital, and "Practicing with the Metronome," as part of a continuing discussion on the art of performance. Triplets, one- and two-octave scale passages, rolled chords, double thirds, simple ornamentation and playing two voices within the same hand are introduced and explored in the teaching pages. Contents include classical themes: Tchaikovsky (arr. Olson), Miniature Overture from The Nutcracker Suite, and an equal part duet arrangement of Rossini's The Barber of Seville Overture (arr. Brown), plus original solos, and an equal part duet."

Book 4 of In Recital(R) Vol. Two offers tips on recital preparation, a Preparing for Success" practice guide, a "Creating a Story" feature, and "During and After the Recital," as part of a progressive discussion on the art of performance. New elements include: sixteenth note patterns, compound meters, inversions of major, minor, and diminished I, IV, and V chords, hand-over-hand arpeggios, some L.H. melodic passages, and more intricate accompaniments. Contents include solos and arrangements, plus classical and patriotic themes: An equal part duet version of Bizet's Habanera (arr. Olson), and a solo arrangement of Battle Hymn of the Republic (arr. Bober)."

Book 3 of In Recital(R) Vol. Two offers tips on recital preparation, a friendly practice guide and schedule, a 2 weeks, 2 tips" feature, and "Steps for a Winning Performance," as part of an ongoing discussion on the art of performance. In Book 3, students learn: playing legato and staccato at the same time, blocked and broken major, minor, and diminished chords, and scales with finger crossings that extend beyond 5-finger patterns as part of the curriculum. Contents include classical theme arrangements: Ravel (arr. Brown), Pavane pour une infante défunte and Brahms (arr. McLean), Symphony No. 1, 4th Movement; plus solos, arrangements, and an equal part duet."

Book 2 of In Recital(R) Vol. Two offers tips on recital preparation, a friendly practice guide and schedule, an Imagine Your Performance" feature, and an "After the Recital" review, as part of a continuing discussion on the art of performance. New musical concepts are introduced (legato and staccato articulations, crescendo/ decrescendo, ritardando, rests, etc.), and familiar ones reinforced (note values, keys, hand positions, etc.). Contents include a classical theme arrangement: Tchaikovsky (arr. Brown) Serenade for Strings, 2nd Movement --- Waltz;, and a patriotic solo: George M. Cohan (arr. McLean) You're a Grand Old Flag; plus solos, arrangements, and an equal part duet."

Book 1 of In Recital(R) Vol. Two offers tips on recital preparation, a friendly practice guide and schedule, a checklist for playing before an audience, and Steps for a Winning Performance," as part of an ongoing discussion on the art of performance. It features engaging pieces by FJH composers for the early elementary student. Highlights include arrangements of classical themes: Liszt (arr. Strickland), Liebestraum, Nocturne No. 3, Tchaikovsky (arr. Brown), Piano Concerto No.1, 2nd Movement; and a patriotic solo: Sousa (arr. McLean) The Stars and Stripes Forever, plus lyrical solos, duets, and holiday selections."

Some of the most rewarding In Recital music is here in the final book of Volume One! Melody Bober leads off with a lyrical solo. Kevin Olson then offers a Toccata and Fugue arrangement and later, a jazzy Christmas solo. Ed McLean contributes an equal-part duet arrangement of the Toreador Song, while Martín Cuéllar, David Karp, and Timothy Brown (2 solos!), showcase highlights of their own. New elements include dotted eighths, triplet sixteenths, scales in tenths, syncopation, jazz chords, parallel and color chords, middle pedal use, and more, found in the teaching text.

In Book 4, we welcome contributions by Martín Cuéllar (a lyrical etude), David Karp (a Halloween piece and an equal-part duet), and Kevin Costley (an arrangement of America the Beautiful), along with showpieces by Melody Bober and Kevin Olson, who has also arranged a classical theme solo of Offenbach's Barcarolle. New elements include: sixteenth note patterns, compound meters, inversions of I, IV, and V chords, octave scale passages, some LH melodic passages, and more intricate accompaniments.

In this third In Recital(R) collection, Judith Strickland joins us, with a lyrical solo, Autumn Colors. The repertoire features arrangements of Puccini's O mio babbino caro, Beethoven's Allegretto, from Symphony No. 7, and the theme from Mozart's Symphony No. 40, along with solos and duets from Bober, Brown, Greenleaf, McLean, and Olson. As part of the curriculum, students learn: playing legato and staccato at the same time, blocked and broken major, minor, and diminished chords, and scales with finger crossings that extend beyond 5-finger patterns.