(Willis). A comprehensive step-by-step course specifically designed to suit the needs of all children beginning the piano. Includes: characters and illustrations * writing exercises * sight reading drills * review work * accompaniments * and more.

Contains easy piano arrangements for top jazz complete with song background notes and playing hints and tips.

Contains easy piano arrangements to top ballads complete with song background notes and playing hints and tips.

This work includes 15 fantastic songs transcribed from the original recordings as performed by Elton John. It also includes note-for-note piano accompaniment with complete piano solos, lyrics, melody line and guitar chord voicings.

Essential piano songs arranged for piano, guitar and voice.

Easy piano arrangements with song lyrics and chord symbols complete with song background notes and playing hits and tips. Suitable for grades 1 - 3.

Easy piano arrangements with song lyrics and chord symbols complete with song background notes and playing hints and tips. Suitable for grades 1 - 3.

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A great collection of 76 beloved Irish tunes, from folk songs to Tin Pan Alley favorites Includes: Danny Boy * Erin Oh Erin * Father O'Flynn * Finnegan's Wake * I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen * The Irish Rover * The Irish Washerwoman * Jug of Punch * Kerry Dance * Mary's a Grand Old Name * Molly Malone * My Wild Irish Rose * Peg O' My Heart * 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer * Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra (That's an Irish Lullaby) * When Irish Eyes Are Smiling * Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder * Wild Rover * and more.

This full size book, CD & DVD pack is an easy to follow Piano method for the complete beginner. Covers note reading, music fundamentals, finger technique and playing chords with the left hand. Includes many well known songs in a variety of styles.

Among the world's instruments, the piano stands out as the most versatile, powerful, and misunderstood -- even by those who have spent much of their lives learning to play. In "Piano Notes, " a finalist for a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award, Charles Rosen, one of the world's most talented pianists, distills a lifetime of wisdom and lore into an unforgettable tour of the hidden world of piano playing.

You'll read about how a note is produced, why a chord can move us, why the piano -- "hero and villain" of tonality -- has shaped the course of Western music, and why it is growing obsolete. Rosen explains what it means that Beethoven composed in his head whereas Mozart would never dream of doing so, why there are no "fortissimos" in the works of Ravel, and why a piano player's acrobatics have an important dramatic effect but nothing more. Ending on a contemplative note, "Piano Notes" offers an elegant argument that piano music "is not just sound or even significant sound" but a mechanical, physical, and fetishistic experience that faces new challenges in an era of recorded music. Rosen ponders whether piano playing will ever again be the same, and his insights astonish.

Designed for first-year students who are beginning to read music notation, this music activity volume contains eight familiar melodies from The Nutcracker Suite. All student parts are in five-finger position and do not contain dotted rhythms or eighth notes. Optional teacher/parent duets provide additional harmonic and rhythmic support. The activity pages reinforce rhythm patterns, musical terms and theory with games, puzzles and coloring pages

The Virtuoso Pianist first appeared in 1873 and has become one of the standards of piano technique throughout the world. For this edition, Mr. Schaum has used eighth notes instead of sixteenth notes and has indicated hands played two octaves apart for ease in reading. With the modifications indicated by Mr. Schaum, this valuable set of exercises is suitable for elementary students. Mr. Schaum also provides valuable performance suggestions and an informative preface by Charles Hanon.

These exciting, easy arrangements of John Williams' motion picture score capture the sounds and characters from this thrilling movie. Muggles of all ages will want to play these memorable themes including: Hedwig's Theme
-- Harry's Wondrous World
-- Diagon Alley
-- Hogwarts Forever
-- Quidditch Match
-- Voldemort
-- Nimbus 2000
-- Family Portrait. This great piano collection may be used just for fun or as supplementary study along with Level Three or Level Four piano methods.

This three part classic piano course is now available in one useful volume. Whether you're starting from scratch, or starting again, this course has been dsigned to guide you gently into playing simple tunes from day one. Containing familiar favourites from the classical repertoire, themes from opera and ballet, folk-songs and blues plus music by contemporary classical composers. Including items of musical history and biography, an easy-to-follow introduction to the theory of music, and suggested listening to enhance your musical appreciation. A free dummy keyboard is included for silent practice group tuitition and theory work.

(Evans Piano Education). Features 11 jazzy Christmas tunes arranged at the intermediate level in Lee Evans' inimitable style. Includes: Caroling, Caroling * The Christmas Song * The Christmas Waltz * Feliz Navidad * Frosty the Snow Man * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * I'll Be Home for Christmas * Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow * A Marshmallow World * My Favorite Things * Silver Bells.

The Music Tree series continues the development of complete musicianship by providing the beginner with delightful and varied repertoire. The pupil learns a variety of idioms encompassing folk, jazz and pop. The creativity of the students is emphasized since they are given musical segments to rearrange, transpose, complete or to use as the basis for a new composition. Technical aspects are also addressed including greater facility, blocked intervals and chords, and more hands together playing. Guided training steps are used to encourage intelligent practice skills.

Lesson Book 4 is the last in the Music for Little Mozarts series. After a review, the new concepts taught are: Flat and sharp sign; Tie; Crescendo and diminuendo. After reviewing C position and Middle C position, G position is taught. All three positions are used alternately throughout the rest of the book, with flat and sharp notes incorporated. When the student is finished with Lesson Book 4, he/she moves either into Alfred's Basic Piano Library, Prep Course, Level C or Alfred's Premier Piano Course, Level 1B.