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My First Piano Adventure® |
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The
internationally-known husband and wife team of Nancy and Randall
Faber have now written cutting-edge material for early childhood
education – My First Piano Adventure®.
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Three
distinguishing features of the Lesson Book A make it unique
and effective for the young 5 and 6 year-old beginner:
1. The 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.
2. The outstanding
CD for the young student to listen, sing, tap, and play along
with at the piano. The orchestrated songs on the CD feature children
singing the lyrics, which has great appeal to the 5 and 6
year-old beginner. The CD becomes a ready-made practice partner
that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities
in the books.
3. The fanciful art
features five multi-cultural children who are also learning to
play. 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.
Young students
will listen, sing, create, and play more musically with Nancy and
Randall Faber's My First Piano Adventure®, Lesson
Book A. |
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Developing the ear
and training the eye of the young child is a key component of
the Writing Book A.
Tucker, the mascot
dog who loves to LISTEN, is always on the scene as the young child imitates,
matches, and creates rhythmic and melodic patterns.
The multi-cultural friends present improvisation and simple,
guided composition activities.
Blinker, the owl
who loves to LOOK, helps students recognize patterns of rhythms and
notes, and introduces sightreading.
The Writing Book
offers a holistic, musical approach to theory through
discovery, creativity, imagination, and fun! |
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Book B of the
Fabers' new method for the young beginner moves the student into
staff-reading. 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.
Maintaining the
child-centered philosophy of the series, the "friends at the
piano" from the A Books introduce students to the music of two
new composer friends--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van
Beethoven. Classic themes share the stage with contemporary pop and
jazz sounds for young ears to absorb and enjoy.
The Book B CD
presents a vibrant mix of sounds, from boogie to Beethoven. It serves
as a listening CD which educates and as an accompaniment CD for play-along. |
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64 pages of
fun-filled activities support the music learning process. Reading
steps on the staff is a primary focus of Book B. The inventive
Writing Book guides young players in reading, hearing and creating
with steps on the Grand Staff. Teachers will welcome the special
"C.L.A.P. for Sightreading" pages, designed to reinforce
and celebrate note-reading.
Students touch on
music history with Mozart's and Beethoven's Fun Facts and Games and
take a peek into Beethoven's Composing Room.
Tucker, Blinker
and Tap return with ear-training, sightreading, and rhythm fun. Then
there is also the Tooth Fairy Visit, Rhythm Beads, Escape of the
Quarter Notes... and much more. |
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Book C of
the Fabers' young beginner method continues the staff-reading
adventure with the introduction of skips (3rds). Students first
explore skips aurally and kinesthetically across the full range of
the keyboard. A delightful variety of songs follow which carefully
and comfortably guide the child toward line-line and space-space
staff recognition. [View
Sample Page] |
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Writing Book C
(the companion book for Lesson Book C) provides 64 colorful,
fun-filled pages of writing, ear-training and "CLAP for
Sightreading" activities. A focus on reading skips leads
students to cross bridges, connect flags, meet a mouse, and skip to
deep-sea treasures, to name just a few!
Writing Book C
engages children in the lives and melodies of classical composers
introduced in the Lesson Book C. Take part in Haydn's Fun
Facts and Game, make after-dinner music with Mozart, tap Beethoven's
rhythms, and help Tchaikovsky tell the story of a doll with a broken arm.
The valuable
educational activities and vibrant illustrations of My First Piano Adventure
® are sure to delight the young beginner and teacher. |
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