(Educational Piano Library). Spike, Party Cat and friends guide the student through fun and creative assignments that introduce the language of music and its symbols for sound, silence, and rhythm. Ear training and basic theory exercises help students learn to write and play the music they are learning as well as the music they create themselves. Correlates to Piano Lessons Book 1.

(Piano Solo Songbook). 27 terrific hits, standards & themes many of which have never been available in piano solo arrangements! Includes: All I Ask of You * Bella's Lullaby * Bohemian Rhapsody * Don't Stop Believin' * Forrest Gump Main Title * Grenade * Hallelujah * Hello * Just the Way You Are * Let It Be * On My Own * The Pink Panther * Someone like You * When She Loved Me * and more.

(Educational Piano Library). A superb collection of popular songs, sure to please the progressing student! Correlated with Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Piano Lessons Book 3, these arrangements are also a perfect supplementary choice for all methods. Includes both stand-alone solos, and student solos with teacher accompaniments. 9 songs, some with teacher accompaniments: The Bare Necessities * Climb Ev'ry Mountain * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * Go the Distance * God Help the Outcasts * I Whistle a Happy Tune * Once upon a Dream * Part of Your World * Sesame Street Theme * Stand by Me * Tomorrow * What a Wonderful World. Level: Late Elementary. Notation includes all note values and rests, including eighths/dotted-eighths; 3/4 and 4/4; swing eighths; simple pedaling; D.S. al Fine; 1st/2nd endings; intervals through a 6th; 5-finger patterns, limited movement around the keyboard via 5-finger-pattern or triad positions. Reading range: Bass Clef outer Ledger C-Treble Clef outer Ledger C.

(Educational Piano Library). Unit 1 of Book 3 begins by introducing eighth notes in 4/4 and 2/4 time. Swing eighths are also presented in the first half of the book. Folk, jazz, classical, and contemporary selections provide students with an interesting variety of repertoire. The second half of Book 3 , teaches relative and parallel major/minor five-finger patterns, and students learn to improvise their own songs using these basic patterns.

(Piano Solo Songbook). 100 pop and classical standards that every piano player should master, including: Air on the G String * Bridge over Troubled Water * Canon in D * Clair de Lune * Fields of Gold * Fur Elise * I Dreamed a Dream * I Will Always Love You * Imagine * Lullaby of Birdland * Memory * Misty * Moon River * On My Own * Over the Rainbow * The Shadow of Your Smile * Smile * Stardust * Summertime * Sunrise, Sunset * Time After Time * Unexpected Song * The Way You Look Tonight * We've Only Just Begun * What a Wonderful World * Yesterday * You Raise Me Up * Your Song * and more!

(Educational Piano Library). This great collection of classic popular songs correlates with Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Piano Lessons Book 4 , and is a perfect supplementary book for all methods. Advancing students will love the great-sounding arrangements, easy-to-learn, and richly rewarding to play! 7 songs: Cruella De Vil * Theme from E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial) * Forrest Gump Main Title (Feather Theme) * The Muppet Show Theme * My Favorite Things * The Rainbow Connection * Under the Sea. Level: Early Intermediate. Notation includes all note values and rests, including eighths/dotted-eighths; swing eighths and syncopation; 3/4, 4/4, 6/8, 6/4 and Cut Time; syncopated & simple pedaling; intervals through an 8va; three-note chords. D.S. al Coda; Songs fall within one-octave scale patterns in the keys of C, G, and F. Reading range: entire keyboard.

(Educational Piano Library). In Book 5 , students are introduced to sixteenth notes in various rhythm patterns. The wide variety of student selections include 3 folk, 4 jazz, 13 classical, and 8 contemporary original pieces. Scales (in both 8th and 16th-note patterns) with their cadences are presented in five major and five minor keys. Root, 1st inversion, 2nd inversion, and open position chords for each key center are also introduced.