Alfred's Basic Piano LIbrary Lesson Book 1A
by Willard A. Palmer Author, Morton Manus Author, Amanda Vick Lethco Author
This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Lesson Book Level 1A begins by teaching basic keyboard topography and fluent recognition of white key names in relation to black keys. It focuses on simple rhythms and prepares students for intervallic reading with entertaining songs that focus on "same," "stepping up" and "stepping down." It then introduces lines and space notes in treble and bass clefs, melodic and harmonic intervals of 2nds, 3rds, 4ths and 5ths, and graduates to reading on the grand staff. It also introduces the flat and sharp signs. This course is most effective when used under the direction of a piano teacher or experienced musician. Songs Include: Balloons * Batter Up! * The Donkey * A Friend Like You * Hand-Bells * A Happy Song * Horse Sense * Indian Song * It's Halloween! * Jingle Bells! * Jolly Old Saint Nicholas * July the Fourth! * Just a Second! * Love Somebody * Merrily We Roll Along O'er the Deep Blue Sea * Mexican Hat Dance * My Clever Pup * My Fifth * My Robot * Old MacDonald * Old Uncle Bill * Play a Fourth * Raindrops * Rain, Rain! * Rockets * Rockin' Tune * Rock Song * Sailing * Sea Divers * See-Saws * Skating * Who's on Third? * Willie and Tillie * Wishing Well * The Zoo
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Lesson Book
- ISBN
- 0-88284-788-0
- Print Status
- In Print
- Lessons
- 59
- Pages
- 64
- Suggested Grades
- 1st - 3rd
- Publisher
- Alfred Publishing Co.
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Copyright
- MCMXCIX
Lessons
- 1 How to Sit at the Piano
- 2 Fingers Have Numbers
- 3 Piano Tones
- 4 The Keyboard
- 5 Low Sounds and High Sounds
- 6 Quarter Note
- 7 Half Note
- 8 Quarter Note and Half Note Practice - Merrily We Roll Along
- 9 Whole Note
- 10 Practice - Hand-Bells Part 1 (For Left Hand)
- 11 Practice - Hand-Bells Part 2 (For Right Hand)
- 12 Jolly Old Saint Nicholas - Part 1
- 13 Jolly Old Saint Nicholas - Part 2
- 14 Old MacDonald
- 15 Sound Effects
- 16 Piano Key Names - A B C D E F G
- 17 Finding Keys - An Easy Way to Find Any White Key
- 18 Practice - Batter Up!
- 19 Time Signature Song - My Clever Pup
- 20 Mezzo Forte Song - The Zoo
- 21 Playing in a New Position
- 22 New Time Signature and Dotted Half Note - Sailing
- 23 Skating
- 24 C Position - Wishing Well
- 25 The Staff
- 26 The Bass Clef Sign
- 27 Rain Rain
- 28 The Treble Clef Sign
- 29 A Happy Song
- 30 The Grand Staff
- 31 C Position on the Grand Staff
- 32 A Happy Song for Both Hands
- 33 Legato Playing
- 34 Measuring Distances in Music
- 35 Baloons
- 36 Who's on Third
- 37 Mexican Hat Dance
- 38 More about Intervals
- 39 Rests
- 40 Rockets
- 41 Sea Divers
- 42 Play a Fourth
- 43 July the Fourth!
- 44 Old Uncle Bill
- 45 Love Somebody
- 46 My Fifth
- 47 The Donkey
- 48 Playing in G Position
- 49 Jingle Bells!
- 50 Incomplete Measure - Willie & Tillie
- 51 Half Rest - A Friend Like You
- 52 The Sharp Sign - My Robot
- 53 The Flat Sign - Rockin' Tune
- 54 Indian Song
- 55 Staccato Playing - Raindrops
- 56 New Dynamic Signs
- 57 It's Holloween!
- 58 C Position Review - Horse Sense
- 59 Review
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