Beautifully presented and intelligently paced, the Lesson Books combine unusually attractive music and lyrics. The books feature note reading, rhythm reading, sight-reading and technical workouts. Each piece on the CD was recorded at a performance tempo and a slower practice tempo.

Lesson Book 2 starts as pre-reading, then moves to reading on the staff. After a review, the new concepts taught are: Dotted quarter note and 4/4 time, 4/4 time, Mezzo-forte, Staff and note reading, Steps and skips, Grand staff. New notes taught are F and G in the LH and RH, completing the Middle C position.

Beautifully presented and intelligently paced, the Lesson Books combine unusually attractive music and lyrics. The books feature note reading, rhythm reading, sight-reading and technical workouts. Each piece on the CD was recorded at a performance tempo and a slower practice tempo.

Lesson Book 1 is pre-reading. Concepts taught are: How to sit at the piano; Correct hand position; High and low; Loud and soft (forte and piano); Keyboard topography; Bar line and measure, Quarter, half, whole notes and rests; and Repeat signs. The first pieces in the book are played on the black keys. Later in the book, C D E for the RH and C B A for the LH (Middle C position) are taught with letter notes (the name of the note is written inside the note head).

The Music Workbook contains pages of coloring, tracing, matching, ear training and listening that have been carefully designed to reinforce the musical concepts introduced in the Music Lesson Book 3. In full color, 48 pages.

A valuable assortment of teacher/student duets in their original form written by teachers and composers during the 18th and 19th centuries. Arranged in order of difficulty, the student parts are limited to a single five-finger position and fall primarily within the grand staff reading range. Each book includes works by such composers as Diabelli, Gurlitt, Bercucci, Wohlfahrt, Berens and others.

The Music for Little Mozarts Recital Book 3 includes motivational music to reinforce performance concepts that are introduced in the Music Lesson Books. The book includes an all new story about Mozart Mouse and Nina Ballerina, as well as familiar music for performance.

The adventures of Beethoven Bear and Mozart Mouse continue in this new series of solo/activity books written to correlate with the Music for Little Mozarts series. In Christmas Fun!, Book 2, Clara Schumann-Cat is having a Christmas party. Students will enjoy the Christmas story with its related pictures, piano solo (with optional teacher duets) and activity pages. Many will also want to color the illustrations found throughout the story. Use this book during the Christmas season after the student has studied page 38 in the Music Lesson Book 2.

Coordinated page-by-page with the Lesson Books, the Notespeller Books reinforce note-reading concepts through coloring and written exercises.

The Activity & Ear Training Books include coloring activities to help students recognize notes, musical symbols, rhythms and more, both aurally and visually. Each activity is carefully designed to encourage teacher/student interaction. Every activity coordinates page-by-page with the Lesson Books.

Notespeller 1B reinforces note-reading concepts presented in Lesson Book 1B through written exercises. Note and interval identification exercises are presented to provide systematic reinforcement to help the student read and write notes on the staff. QR codes are included and link directly to Premier Online Assistant videos that further support and increase understanding of the concepts.

Meet the Music Friends provides an introduction to music and the piano for four- and five-year olds. It consists of a series of five lessons that include singing, listening, movement, rhythm activities and beginning activities at the keyboard. Mozart Mouse, Beethoven Bear, and Clara Schumann-Cat guide the students through the lessons. The program is designed to be taught in a music classroom with one keyboard instrument. The Curriculum Book contains five complete lesson plans for a classroom lesson of 45-60 minutes. After completing the five lessons, students should begin Level 1 of the Music for Little Mozarts piano course.

Beautifully presented and intelligently paced, the Lesson Books combine unusually attractive music and lyrics. The books feature note reading, rhythm reading, sight-reading and technical workouts. Each piece on the CD was recorded at a performance tempo and a slower practice tempo.

The Music Workbook contains pages of coloring, tracing, matching, ear training and listening that have been carefully designed to reinforce the musical concepts introduced in the Music Lesson Book 1. In full color, 48 pages.

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: Fast Track Boogie (Bober) * Rage Over the Lost Penny (Beethoven) * Exercise No. 1 (The Virtuoso Pianist) (Hanon) * On a Mission (Bober) * Sonatina in C Major (First Movement) (Lynes) * Midnight Ride (Bober) * Musette in D Major (Bach) * Love Those Blues (Bober) * Arabesque (BurgmA1/4ller) * Emerald Fountain (Bober) * The Entertainer (Joplin) * Fiesta Cha-Cha (duet) (Bober).

This book is designed for parents as well as for families who are a part of the homeschool movement and wish to include piano in the curriculum. The step-by-step method provides materials that allow students to play pieces on the piano immediately. With an accompanying CD that demonstrates how the music sounds, each lesson is explained in plain language that is easy to understand. The enclosed CD contains a recording of every piece in the book. Preceding each student page is an Instructional Guide for the parent. The Instructional Guide suggests steps for introducing the page to the student, follow-up practice suggestions for the student to do without the parent, and suggestions for reviewing the page in subsequent lessons.

Students are finding the Theory Books in Alfred's Premier Piano Course not only fun to do but very helpful in reinforcing new materials introduced in the Lesson Book. The Learning Links included in the Theory Book relate to learning more about important subjects found in the music and lyrics in the Lesson Book making for a more rounded education. Continued from previous Theory Books are Fun Zones, Now Hear This (ear training), and Now Play This (sight reading exercises) which add additional reinforcement to written theory.