This method is designed for teens who still enjoy music and want to continue their study but have limited practice time. Each book includes solo pieces in varied styles, a Hanon study to develop technical skills and a duet that students can play with a friend. A Study Guide for each piece helps the student practice efficiently. The guide contains four sections: 1-Minute FYI, 5-Minute Warm-Up, 15-Minute Practice Plan and 5-Minute Finishing Touches. Titles: * Ballade (Burgmüller) * Ecossaise (Beethoven) * Exercise No. 2 (The Virtuoso Pianist) (Hanon) * Gypsy Rondo (duet) (Bober) * In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg) * Jazz Stomp (Bober) * Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin) * Minuet in G Major (Petzold) * Swingin' the Blues (Bober) * Sonatina in C Major (Third Movement) (Clementi) * Toccata (Bober) * Twilight (Bober)

This method is designed for teens who still enjoy music and want to continue their study but have limited practice time. Each book includes solo pieces in varied styles, a Hanon study to develop technical skills and a duet that students can play with a friend. A Study Guide for each piece helps the student practice efficiently. The guide contains four sections: 1-Minute FYI, 5-Minute Warm-Up, 15-Minute Practice Plan and 5-Minute Finishing Touches. Titles: * Boogie Blues (Bober) * Canon in D (Pachelbel) * Exercise No. 7 (The Virtuoso Pianist) (Hanon) * Spinning Song (Ellmenreich) * Prelude in E Minor (Chopin) * Jazz it Up! (Bober) * Solfeggio in C Minor (Bach) * Wings (Bober) * Für Elise (Beethoven) * Elite Syncopations (Joplin) * Wild River (duet) (Bober)

A Perfect 10, Book 3, is a collection of piano solos designed to promote musical excellence for the early intermediate-level pianist. Melody has chosen a favorite teaching piece from the four stylistic periods---Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary---and written six original pieces in Jazz, Blues, Ragtime, Latin, Ballad, and Showstopper styles. These 10 solos provide students with technical challenges as well as expressive opportunities for musical growth in mood, rhythm, melody, harmony, form, articulation, and dynamics. Students do not have to be an Olympic hopeful to achieve a perfect "10," but they might feel like one as they practice and perform these selections! Titles: * Arabesque * Blue Sky Rag * Cool Cats * Minuet in D Minor * Sassy Samba * Snake Charmer Blues * Sonatina in C Major * Spring Storm * The Village Maidens

This is the first book that teaches piano practice methods systematically, based on mylifetime of research, and containing the teachings of Combe, material from over 50 pianobooks, hundreds of articles, and decades of internet research and discussions with teachersand pianists. Genius skills are identified and shown to be teachable; learning piano can raiseor lower your IQ. Past widely taught methods based on false assumptions are exposed;substituting them with efficient practice methods allows students to learn piano and obtainthe necessary education to navigate in today's world and even have a second career. See http://www.pianopractice.org/

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