TEACHER’S DESK REFERENCE - 2013
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FABER COMPLETE CATALOG Level by Level Resource Guide Complete Listing of Publications and Song Titles Tips for Teaching with Analysis, ® Creativity, Expression
What’s New!
2nd Edition of Level 2B Piano Adventures® Sightreading Books Level 4 Technique Technique & Artistry Book Boo k Enhanced CDs See pages 2-7 for details.
Pedagogy Articles for Insights and Applications
All publications written by Nancy and Randall Faber are published by Faber Piano Adventures, Inc., based in Ann Arbor, Arbor, Michigan. The Fabers have authored more than 200 publications, including the best-selling Piano Adventures® method and the PreTime® to BigTime® Supplementary Library. Library. Through the Faber Piano Institute and their publishing company, company, the Fabers maintain their commitment to supporting piano teachers and students. Faber Piano Adventures is proud to have a strategic partnership with the Hal Leonard Corporation for the sales, distribution and marketing of the Faber catalog throughout the world. FABER PIANO ADVENTURES 3042 Creek Drive Ann Arbor, MI 48108 877-FABER 411 (877-322(877-322-3741) 3741)
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Index What’s New! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 9 My First Piano Adventure Adventure® . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 10 – 17 Primer Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 18 – 23 Level 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 24 – 29 Level 2A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 30 – 35 Level 2B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 36 – 43 Level 3A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 44 – 49 Level 3B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 50 – 55 Level 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 56 – 61 Level 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 62 – 67 Accelerated Piano Adventures® . . . . . . . . . . 68 68 – 71 Adult Piano Adventures® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 72 – 73 Piano Li Literature Co Collections . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 – 76 76 Complete Library List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 77 – 79 About the Fabers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 80
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2nd Editions of Piano Adventures® Primer, Level 1, Level 2A, Level 4... Primer, ...and now Level 2B! The exciting 2nd Editions are a progressive evolution of the well-loved and time-tested Piano Adventures® curriculum. The “adventurous” hallmarks have been retained and updated with these highlights. Each Lesson Book opens with a progress chart that shows full page-by-page correlation of the four core books: Lesson, Theory, Technique Technique & Artistry, and Performance. Additional pages introduce fresh new repertoire – destined to become student favorites! More pieces from the great composers! The 2nd Edition Lesson Books feature well known classics by Bach, Brahms, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, and Vivaldi. Vivaldi. Graduates of My First Piano Adventure ® will continue to explore new and familiar composers. The Theory Books have been “innovated and renovated” to thematically parallel the Lesson Book pieces for immediate musical connections. New Theory Book improvisations help students explore melodic and rhythmic patterns using scales and chords. The 2nd Edition Performance Books offer an inspiring variety of new and favorite pieces to refresh student recitals.
In the Level 1 Theory Book, students use the G 5-finger scale to improvise their own Dinosaur Dance with the sounds of prehistoric rock.
Improvise in G Major and E Minor 1.
• First, write the chord letter name (G name (G or Em) in each box. • Learn this G major accompaniment. Playwhile yourteacher improvises a melody higher on the keyboard using the G major scale. scale . • Reverse! You improvise while your teacher playsthe accompaniment.
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The new 2nd Editions of Level 2B are here! We are delighted to introduce the latest revisions to the Piano Adventures ® curriculum. For more information about these exciting enhancements to Level 2B, please see pages 38 - 39.
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Piano Adventures® Sightreading Books Primer, Level 1, Level 2A, and Level 2B
Primer Sightreading
Level 1 Sightreading
Level 2A Sightreading
Level 2B Sightreading
FF3006 00420328 $6.95
FF3013 00420338 $6.95
FF3014 00102766 $6.95
FF3015 00117301 $6.95
A breakthrough approach for sightreading pedagogy! Carefully composed variations on the Lesson Book pieces help the student see the “new” against the backdrop of the “familiar.” This accelerates the process of pattern recognition which is the bedrock of skilled music-reading. Fun, lively characters challenge students to see the notes and beyond, while the humorous “Don’t Practice This” logo motivates sightreading with a spirit of play. Students gain skill in: Seeing the new and the familiar “Chunking” musical patterns Reading intervals Note-naming review
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New CDs for the 2nd Edition Lesson Books Primer, Level 1, and Level 2A These new superlative background accompaniments captivate the ears of students and teachers alike. Explore the improvisation opportunities and enjoy the rich, imaginative world of each musical composition! Each selection is played twice: first at a slow practice tempo and then at performance tempo. Enhanced CDs include both the audio files and standard MIDI files. As a special bonus, the MIDI files for the Performance Book and the Technique & Artistry Book are included on the CD.
Primer CD
Level 1 CD Level 2A CD
CD1001 $10.95
CD1002 $10.95
CD1003 $10.95
Primer Level Teacher Guide This one-of-a kind Teacher Guide for the Primer Level is a pioneering publication in the field of piano pedagogy. It presents a systematic approach for teaching beginning students using the Fabers’ philosophy of teaching with Analysis, Creativity, and Expression (A-C-E TM). Written in collaboration with Marienne Uszler, it is an essential resource for college piano pedagogy programs and the independent piano teacher. The big ideas come first: Each page opens with “What’s New” and “What’s Important.” An adventurous teaching path is offered for each Lesson Book piece. The step-by-step approach of “Let’s Get Started” progresses to options for deeper learning in “Explore & Create.” The “Pedagogy Pointers” provide context for honing personal teaching skills. What if we could “See It in Action” with a real student at a real lesson? The comprehensive DVD features model teaching for each piece in the Lesson Book. These inspiring video clips of Nancy Faber working with students provide outstanding demonstration lessons. See it in action! Pedagogy Articles are placed throughout the manual. These foundational articles discuss how to teach technique, guide reading, and cultivate creativity. A boost for teaching! The substantial Appendix includes additional, fun duets for rhythm work and improvisation, and a Thematic Index for planning group lessons and recitals.
Primer Teacher Guide
FF3007 00420327 $39.95
Faber Piano Adventures is proud to offer this unequalled level of teacher support.
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PreTime® to BigTime® Piano Supplementary Library Motivation At Your Fingertips! The right piece at the right time makes all the difference! The PreTime® to BigTime ® library has been updated with exciting new songs! Linus and Lucy Theme, Pink Panther, In Dreams from The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Phantom of the Opera, and so much more!
Wait King “ItoJustBe Can’t ”
Check out the updates to all of the Popular, Rock ’n Roll, and Jazz & Blues books. And, don’t miss the blockbuster, teen-appropriate selections of the new FunTime® and BigTime ® Kids’ Songs.
Popular
Twist and Shout!
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Sleeping Waltz “Beauty ”
Classics Kids’ Songs Favorites Rock ’n Roll
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
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Hymns
Christmas
Take the A Train
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Rock ‘n Roll
Kids’ Songs
Hymns
Christmas
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Visit www.PianoAdventures.com/video for a video tour of the PreTime ® to BigTime® Piano Library. 7
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Piano Adventures® by Nancy & Randall Faber Piano Adventures® has become the leading piano curriculum across North America. Why? Because it works... for all ages! First and foremost, Piano Adventures® is student-centered. The sounds are tailored to each age group to educate, and also to entertain. This vibrant appeal keeps the student engaged. And, the pianistic attributes of the repertoire, along with “secrets” from the Technique & Artistry books, consistently invite expressive playing. My First Piano Adventure
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After completing Book C, students are ready for Level 1 of Piano Adventures®.
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Piano Adventures 1 1 6 s e g A
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Level 2A
Level 2B
Level 3A
Level 3B
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Accelerated Piano Adventures 7 1 1 1 s e g A
After completing Accelerated Piano Adventures® Book 2, students are ready for Level 3A of Piano Adventures ®.
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After completing Adult Piano Adventures® Book 2, students are ready for Level 3A of Piano Adventures ®.
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Approach to Reading The ability to read music is developed by effectively integrating three skills: 1) discrete note recognition, 2) intervallic reading, and 3) a multi-key understanding. These are carefully sequenced and reinforced in Piano Adventures® to... n
Prevent the student from equating a particular note to a particular finger.
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Teach the precise relationship between a note and the keyboard.
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Allow for a free and balanced drop of the arm and hand into the finger.
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Avoid the overuse of two thumbs on C.
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Reduce the dependence on preset hand positions.
Pianistic Music Pianistic arranging is one of the hallmarks of the Fabers’ material. All of the music in Piano Adventures® is specifically written or arranged for the piano. n
The pieces feel right and sound right at the piano.
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Easy and effective use of the damper pedal opens up the rich sonority of the instrument.
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The pieces incorporate essential pianistic gestures— the motions and phrases that are integral to playing the piano.
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Pianistic pieces develop fluent piano technique by encouraging freedom at the keyboard, promoting a relaxed wrist, and introducing gestures that carry the hand across the full range of the instrument.
Artistic Music The pieces included in Piano Adventures® are eminently musical. The course combines technique and artistry which bring out maximum expression in the student’s playing. Parents notice the musicality…students thrive on it…and teachers appreciate the artistic results. The Technique & Artistry books are unparalleled in teaching technical gesture for artistic playing. “Technique Secrets” and exercises deliver the pianistic tools to play with ease and expression. The “Artistry Hint” and “Artistry Piece” that conclude each unit heighten student awareness of sound and musicality.
Student Appeal Students are attracted to the pieces and sounds of Piano Adventures®. Ten years of painstaking pilot testing has ensured that the method has wide student appeal. Over one hundred pieces that did not pass the test of student
enthusiasm were discarded and replaced, until the method met the standards and musical taste of both piano student and teacher.
Supplementary Library The PreTime® to BigTime® Piano Supplementary Library correlates with Piano Adventures® to provide a broad selection of music to meet each individual student’s interest—at the precise level of difficulty. With styles that include Popular, Classics, Rock ‘n Roll, Jazz & Blues, Kids’ Songs, Ragtime & Marches, and Hymns, the teacher can choose the style that motivates the student and be assured that it is arranged to meet the pedagogical demands of the level.
Teacher Support Faber Piano Adventures is dedicated to supporting piano teachers by offering a wide array of teacher support materials: n
Online resources at www.PianoAdventures.com.
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Piano Club Discussion Forum provides an online community for Piano Adventures® teachers.
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Our exciting Primer Teacher Guide is a one-of-akind resource for piano teachers. This guide features lesson plans, pedagogy pointers, duets for improvisation and a comprehensive DVD of model teaching for each piece in the Primer Lesson Book.
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Faber Piano workshops and clinics on musical artistry and talent development inspire audiences of music educators around the world.
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A-C-E™ Instructional Theory: Analysis, Creativity, and Expression comprise a model of artistry with implications for our teaching. In upcoming pages, we’ve included specific tips for each level.
We hope these ideas may assist in developing the personal artistry of your students, as you help each one become a “piano ace.”
MY FIRST PIANO ADVENTURE
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for the young beginner (ages 5-6)
THE “A” BOOKS Pre-Reading The LESSON BOOK and WRITING BOOK include: five musical “friends at the piano”
directional pre-reading notation
basic rhythms ( Œ , Ó , „ )
technique through games and songs
white key names: A B C D E F G
folk, blues, and classical sounds
creative discovery at the keyboard
eye-training and ear-training
About the CD The CD for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the course: when children listen, sing, tap, and move to their music, they play more musically.
Writing Book A FF1620 00420260 $6.95
Lesson Book A FF1619 00420259 $9.95
Christmas Book A Treat your pre-reading students to an adventurous first Christmas book! Young players will be delighted with familiar carols such as “O Christmas Tree” as well as new favorites like “Rudolph’s Little Brother.” First players will benefit from the clean presentation of pre-reading notation and festive teacher duets. The Christmas Music Calendar encourages students to count down the days until Christmas! Christmas Book A FF3001 00001471 $4.95 10
MY FIRST PIANO ADVENTURE
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for the young beginner (ages 5-6)
A look inside the “A” Books . . . Songs
Technique
Catchy pre-reading songs move hands around the keyboard.
Improvisation
Technique is developed with chants, games, and songs.
Eye-training
Students improvise from the first lessons.
Ear-training
Blinker, the owl, loves to LOOK and leads the eye-training.
Tucker, the dog, loves to LISTEN and leads the ear-training.
The Little Yellow Practice Book FF3009 00420330 $3.50
Young students will be delighted with their first practice book featuring the “friends at the piano.”
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MY FIRST PIANO ADVENTURE
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THE “B” BOOKS
for the young beginner
THESteps “B” BOOKS on the Staff The LESSON BOOK and WRITING BOOK include: “friends at the piano” return
step-wise reading on the staff
notes from Bass C to Treble G
technique through games and songs
composer friends, Beethoven and Mozart
classic themes, pop, and jazz sounds
music history Fun Facts and Games
ear-training and eye-training
About the CD The CDs for the A and B Books are a hallmark of the series. The child may listen to the CD from beginning to end at home or in the car. After a piece is learned, the CD track may be used as an optional play-along accompaniment. Enjoy!
Writing Book B FF1622 00420262 $6.95
Lesson Book B FF1621 00420261 $9.95
Christmas Book B Join the My First Piano Adventure® “friends” as they play Christmas songs on the grand staff. Students celebrate with merry melodies such as “A Ten-Foot Icicle,” “Jingle Bells,” the hit song “Must Be Santa,” and carols from around the world. Christmas Book B FF3002 00001472 $5.50 12
MY FIRST PIANO ADVENTURE
THE “B” BOOKS
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for the young beginner
A look inside the “B” Books . . . Songs
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Technique Games like “Silent Jumps” and “Star Crossing Over” make technique fun!
Eye-training Follow these 4 steps.
Ear-training: Yourteacher willpl aytwo shortmelodies. Listen! Iftheyare the same, circle the two apples. Iftheyare different , circle the apple and orange.
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Music history about Mozart and Beethoven is taught with Fun Facts and Games.
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Blinker, the owl, loves to LOOK and presents CLAP for SIghtreading Count-Look-Attention-Play!
Tucker, the dog, loves to LISTEN. Enjoy “Same or Different,” “Playback,” and more activities.
The Little Yellow Practice Book FF3009 00420330 $3.50
The Little Blue Manuscript Book FF3010 00420331 $3.50 NEW!
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MY FIRST PIANO ADVENTURE
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THE “C” BOOKS
for the young beginner
THESkips “C” BOOKS on the Staff The LESSON BOOK and WRITING BOOK include: “friends at the piano” are growing up
C and G 5-finger scales
skips: line-line and space-space
continuation of Technique Games
music history Fun Facts and Games
classic themes, pop, and jazz sounds
composer friends: Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms
ear-training and eye-training
Writing Book C FF1624 00420264 $6.95
Lesson Book C FF1623 00420263 $7.95
Christmas Book C It is an exciting time for the “musical friends” in Christmas Book C! Students play joyful melodies such as “Dance around the Christmas Tree” and “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” as they continue to build pianistic skill and a love of music. Teacher duets expose students to more sophisticated rhythms and harmonies. Christmas Book C FF3003 00001482 $5.50
Primer Gold Star Performance Supplement the C books with the Primer Gold Star Performance book. The Gold Star CD has children’s vocals and orchestrations, as well as solo piano recordings. Delightful! Book with CD FF1602 00420255 $7.95
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MY FIRST PIANO ADVENTURE
THE “C” BOOKS
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for the young beginner
A look inside the “C” Books . . . Songs
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MY FIRST PIANO ADVENTURE® COURSE for the young beginner (ages 5-6)
The Young Beginner: Keys for Connecting As piano teachers, we’re quite adept at bridging our adult world to that of the typical seven - or eight-year-old beginner. It requires only modest effort because most 1st and 2nd grade students also try to bridge their world to ours. The attempt to “bridge worlds” is two-way, so teaching and learning are fluid and reasonably predictable.
is auditory, yet with emotion. Next, make it tactile. Feel the keys; listen to the sounds. Smile and sing. Engage the senses, and engage the child with a playfulness of spirit.
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It is a different matter, however, when we work with children at ages 4 and 5. Not only is this young beginner’s world substantially different than the adult world and qualitatively different than ages 7-8, the young beginner does not “meet us halfway.” 4-5 year olds require us to find and enter their world . The young beginner is not inclined to adapt to us, so we must adapt to the world of the young beginner.
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Spirit of Play What is this world of the young beginner? It is fun, fantasy and exploration. Seriousness? Teacher-driven rules? Tight control? These close down a young learner’s intrinsic interest. Playfulness? Creativity? Adventure? These drive the youngster’s learning. And the multi-sensory world of music makes a perfect context for such a playful adventure. We take the child into a musical “playground” that engages the emotions and the senses. In this world, we explore, we hear, we look, we learn. To be fully effective, we combine visual, auditory and kinesthetic (feel/touch) experiences with a spirit of play, including playmates—the “friends at the piano” of My First Piano Adventure®.
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Attention We’ve all heard of the young child’s short attention span. While this is a valid characteristic to which we adapt, let’s be equally impressed with the young child’s tenacity when emotionally engaged. Have you heard a youngster say, “Again! Again!” prodding far beyond our own point of tedium? (What might this say about our own attention span?) So, the capacity for sustained attention is there, even in the young child. We simply must recognize when attention is engaged and when it is not. If attention wanes during a visual activity, shift to an auditory or kinesthetic action. And when attention is wholly captivated, reap all the rewards of this “teachable moment.”
The student’s “musical friends” pose a new adventure with each piece: swimming with a whale, climbing a treehouse, dreaming of the Tooth Fairy. Engage with each page as a new encounter, a new surprise. Take in the visual; catch the emotion. Hear what the child says about the context. This adds personal meaning that engages attention and primes memory. Then listen to the CD track. Now the engagement
Activity-based learning—this is key. Each student responds with personal favorites, which makes this level such a joy to teach. The antidote to a short attention span is to get off the bench: move to the table, sit on the floor, move to the board, back to the bench. Activity-based teaching allows adaptation, repetition, and variation. Not every page is essential, but having the student’s attention is. Celebrate student favorites and repeat them from week to week to glean all their capacity for musical development. Use creative variations for fun and challenge.
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MY FIRST PIANO ADVENTURE® COURSE for the young beginner (ages 5-6)
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As a priority for this age, we want to develop the hand structure. (Teaching a floppy wrist and relaxation would be an unproductive starting point.) We need a physical framework that is sorely lacking in the undeveloped hand. The use of braced finger 3, with a relaxed wrist and a freefall drop (arm weight) is perfect because it models the hand structure and alignment of finger, wrist and arm. U nique and effective, “Stone on the Mountain” introduces sophisticated aspects of piano technique. Then we work on the fingertip with Cookie Dough (pushing chocolate chips into imaginary cookie dough), which sets up the next several pages for using only a braced finger 3 (Dipping L.H. and R.H. Donuts, and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star).
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rhythm mascot. “Tap” introduces the Monster Bus Driver (for imitating rhythms), Dancing Feet and Band Practice (for tracking the beat and rhythm notation) and the repeating, notated rhythm patterns of Monsieur Mouse and Mouse Rhythms. The tunes and audio recordings also emphasize pitch. Student voices—girl and boy alike—are carried from “chants,” which open the book, to singing of melodies, including famous classical themes of Beethoven and Mozart in Book B. (Haydn, Brahms and Tchaikovsky in Book C.) Special emphasis is placed on the hearing of tonality and the expressive power of music.
An upward (and/or forward) wrist motion that drives the “bridge” over the fingers is practiced in Mitsy’s Cat Back. This wrist motion is then developed into an expressive “rainbow” gesture that carries that hand across the keyboard.
Summary The joy and reward of teaching young students more than offset the challenges. And the challenges are readily addressed with the right curriculum and the right attitude. My First Piano Adventure® provides the curriculum. The teaching attitude is—keep it fun! The child’s life at this age revolves around fun for good reason. Fun motivates play, and play is the child’s “magic formula” for learning.
Rhythm and Pitch While it is exciting to see the child develop good technique habits at a young age, it is even more exciting to observe the young student’s development of rhythm and pitch perception. These perceptual skills develop most effectively with earlyage exposure, so My First Piano Adventure® puts special focus on this aspect of brain development with the enclosed audio CD.
My First Piano Adventure® allows you to step into the child’s world and, together, explore the joy, challenge, and beauty of music. With fun as your watchword, seek to draw out your student’s full attention and vibrant spirit. The child just may give the same gift back to you.
For rhythm, we emphasize feeling the steady beat in the body. We are going for a kinesthetic response, as in Roll Call, which introduces the Friends. “Tap,” the music firefly, is the
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PRIMER
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
PRIMER LEVEL NEW! Lesson Book CD Audio & MIDI
NEW!
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Sightreading
Teacher Guide
Flashcards
LESSON BOOK
Theory
Technique & Artistry
PreTime Piano Primer Supplementary Series ®
Performance
Popular
Gold Star Performance Popular Repertoire
Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets Bluebird on My Shoulder (duet) Jesus Is My Friend Once I Caught a Fish Particularly Pleasing Piano Piece Pete, the Repeat Bird Pony Express Wee Small Bear Zoom, Zoom, Witch’s Broom
Christmas
Classics
Favorites
Rock ’n Roll
DuetTime® Christmas
Jazz & Blues
Hymns
Kids’ Songs
Christmas
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I Can Read Music Book 1
PRIMER
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Primer Concepts hand position and finger numbers
staff notes: Bass C to Treble G
√ ® and √´ time signatures
note values ( Œ , Ó , Ó˘ , „ ) key names: A B C D E F G
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steps and skips on the staff
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PRIMER
Lesson Book
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Theory
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All My Friends Allegro Alouette Balloons Bells of Great Britain Best Friends The Bugle Boys C-D-E-F-G March Come on, Tigers! Come See the Parade! Copy Cat The Dance Band Driving in the G Clef Elephant Ride The Escalator Football Game Frogs on Logs Gorilla in the Tree Grandmother Hey, Hey, Look at Me! Hey, Mr. Half Note Dot! I Hear the Echo The I Like Song Into the Cave A Joke for You Lemonade Stand Let’s Play Ball! Magic Rhyme for Bass D March on D-E-F Men from Mars Merrily We Roll Along Middle C March Mister Bluebird My Invention Octavius the Octopus Ode to Joy The Old Clock Old MacDonald Had a Song Petite Minuet Princess or Monster? Rodeo Russian Folk Song Sea Story Ten-Second Song Three Little Kittens Tightrope Walker Two Black Ants Two Blackbirds Walking Song Yankee Doodle
Writing Games Eye Training Ear Training Improvisation
The Opposite Song Rain, Rain, Go Away Rex, the Tyrannosaurus School Bell Is Ringing! Shepherd’s Flute A Song About Cats Train’s A-Comin’ Trumpet Song Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Wind in the Trees
NEW!
Primer Teacher Guide
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NEW!
Lesson Book CD
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NEW!
Technique & Artistry
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All the Stars Are Shining Canoeing Upstream Catch Me If You Can! Finger Hops Leading the Parade Peaceful Sunset A Special Ending for Alouette Wheels Going ‘Round
Sightreading
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FF1602, 00420255 $7.95 Bluebird on My Shoulder (Duet) Cartoon Stories Chugging Choo-Choo Eternally Music French Cathedrals Hello to the Drum I Found a Penny I Love Rain! A Particularly Pleasing Piano Piece Pony Express Pterodactyls, Really Neat A Rainbow Is a Smile (Turned Upside Down) Roller Skate Ride Squinchy-Pinchy Shoes Theme and Variations Zoom, Zoom, Witch’s Broom
NFMC CHOICE
(accompaniments in two tempos plus MIDI files for Lesson, Performance, Technique & Artistry books)
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Performance
Gold Star Performance - with CD
Catch a Falling Star Happy Birthday to You I Got Rhythm I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing Lean on Me The Lion Sleeps Tonight The Planets (Animaniacs) The Rose Star Wars (Main Theme)
I Can Read Music, Book 1
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Activity Pages
Christmas
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Away in a Manger Go, Tell It on the Mountain Good King Wenceslas Jingle Bells Jolly Old Saint Nicholas We Wish You a Merry Christmas Sightreading Activities
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PRIMER
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
PreTime® Piano - Primer Level Supplementary Series
Solos/Duets
O, How I Love Jesus Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow Praise Him, Praise Him Rejoice in the Lord Always Whisper a Prayer Hymns MIDI Disk
PreTime® Popular
PreTime® Favorites
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The Candy Man (Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) Groove Tune I Just Can’t Wait to Be King (The Lion King) If I Only Had a Brain (The Wizard of Oz) It’s a Small World The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down Oompa-Loompa Doompadee-Doo (Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) Part of Your World (The Little Mermaid) The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything (Veggie Tales) Scooby Doo Main Title
Alouette Baa! Baa! Black Sheep Hush, Little Baby London Bridge On the Bridge Pop! Goes the Weasel Row, Row, Row Your Boat Shoo, Fly Ten Little Indians The Muffin Man Wheels on the Bus Yankee Doodle
PreTime® Classics
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NFMC CHOICE
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PreTime® Jazz & Blues
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PreTime® Rock ’n Roll
PreTime® Kids’ Songs
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Celebrate with Rock ‘n Roll! Engine Number Nine Hard Rock Candy Old MacDonald Had to Rock Pebbles, Stones, and Rocks Recess Rock Rockin’ in Your Socks Rockin’ on the Soccer Field Stegosaur Rock
A-Tisket, A-Tasket Bingo The Dwarfs’ Yodel Song (The Silly Song) Happy Birthday to You Mail Myself to You Mickey Mouse March On Top of Spaghetti The Train Song Winnie the Pooh
PreTime® Hymns
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The B•I•B•L•E
Deep and Wide God Is So Good I’ve Got the Joy, Joy, Joy Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam 21
Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets Bluebird on My Shoulder (Duet)
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PreTime® Christmas
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A Particularly Pleasing Piano Piece
Away in a Manger Good King Wenceslas I Saw Three Ships Jingle Bells Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Over the River and Through the Woods Silent Night Up on the Housetop We Three Kings of Orient Are
Pete, the Repeat Bird
Pre-Reading Christmas
FF1050, 00420159 $5.50 Away in a Manger Counting the Days Deck the Halls Good King Wenceslas Jingle Bells Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Merry Christmas to You Ring the Bells! The Perfect Christmas Tree The Tree Hunt
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Pony Express
A2019,
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Wee Small Bear
A2032,
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Zoom, Zoom, Witch’s Broom
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DuetTime® Christmas, Primer
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The Little Yellow Practice Book
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FF3010 00420331 $3.50
PRIMER
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Synergy at the Primer Level There is much to share with our beginning students. With limited lesson time, how do we maximize our results? Fortunately, the Primer Level presents three elements of pedagogy that have exponential value when taught in combination: introducing new notes with varied fingerings to develop note-reading skill n
utilizing arm weight for tone production and technique development n
using a braced third finger for rounded hand shape and firm fingertip n
While each element has a unique function, the three concepts reinforce each other in synergistic fashion when the teacher conscientiously integrates them.
Varied Fingering One of the hallmark features of Piano Adventures® is the introduction of new notes using varied fingerings. This allows us to teach a specified s et of notes without a fixed, preset hand position. Middle C March, for example, introduces Middle C as played by fingers 1, 2, then 3. Consequently, the student does not equate Middle C with finger 1.
Arm Weight The Primer Technique & Artistry Book introduces arm weight as Technique Secret 4, using an exercise called Heavy Wet Ropes. The student experiences the feeling of heavy arms by imagining them as waterlogged ropes. The release of heavy arms into the lap gives the sense of dead weight. The ability to release the we ight of the arm into the keyboard is essential. Failure to use arm weight in piano playing places excessive burden on the fingers. Instead of over-taxing the finger muscles and tendons (with the risk of inuring physical problems like tendinitis), the pianist should use gravity efficiently to overcome the weight of the key. The weight of the arm can be dropped, thrust, tossed, balanced on the fingertips, and transferred finger to finger. This effective handling of arm weight forms the basis for good tone production and an effortless, virtuoso technique. There is ample opportunity to apply the concept of arm weight in the Primer Lesson book, beginning with the pre-reading pieces that traverse the range of the keyboard. In each of these, a brief Two Black Ants pattern is initiated with 2’s 3’s a drop of arm weight, and is finished with a lift of the hand that initiates a new drop into the next octave. Black keys are in groups of
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collapsed knuckle and collapsed wrist. The finishing touch is to align a tall knuckle over the playing finger to provide a platform for balancing the arm.
Braced Finger 3 The thumb can be a useful brace for a flattened fingertip. Placed behind the tip of an offending finger, just below the last knuckle, the bracing thumb rounds the hand and firms a potentially collapsing fingertip. The student’s first a ctivity at the keyboard occurs in the Lesson Book with The Pecking Hen and The Pecking Rooster. Here the braced finger 3 is used to round the hand as the student explores pitch direction—pecking higher, then lower, up and down the keyboard.
If this sounds esoteric, don’t be dismayed. The braced fingertip and/or Making O’s handle the issue of alignment beautifully. And it can be done on the keyboard—right when the problem occurs. If a fingertip collapses or the finger and arm appear out of alignment, ask the student to “Make an O” with the finger still on its key. Making an O not only curves the errant fingertip, but it brings the arm, wrist, hand, knuckle, and finger into alignment, restoring a balanced platform for arm weight. We have seen that bracing finger 3 implicitly aligns the finger, hand, and arm. Thus a braced finger 3 is ideal for experiencing a drop of arm weight into the key. At the same time, the concept of varied fingering provides ample opportunity to use a braced finger 3. Notice the value, for example, of using finger 3 to kick off the downbeats in My Invention and The Dance Band. A braced finger 3 can be used here to ensure alignment and to increase the sensation of arm weight.
In the Technique & Artistry Book, the bracing technique is hinted at in Making O’s, the exercise for Technique Secret 3—firm fingertips. This drill accentuates a firm fingertip by bringing the thumb and each fingertip together, then looking for the “O.” With just a slight adjustment of the thumb, Making O’s becomes effectively synonymous with the braced finger technique of The Pecking He n. Making O’s and the braced finger 3 reinforce each other to make the concepts of rounded hand shape and firm fingertip more vivid and the exercises more effective.
“Right” from the Beginning It takes effort and concentration for the student to recognize and associate a note with its corresponding key—but much less effort than having to erase learned finger-number associations. It also takes effort and concentration to help a student balance arm, wrist, and finger in coordinated fashion—but much less effort than having to undo years of practiced tension. The creative combination of pedagogical elements in the Primer Level will help your students “get it right” the first time.
Integration While varied fingering, use of arm weight, and the braced fingertip are each effective in individual context, these three concepts work together for great results.
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To understand this integration, we need to explore the concept of alignment. When the arm, hand, and playing finger are in a straight line, arm weight can flow directly into the fingertip. If the playing finger and forearm show an angle at the wrist, there is a misalignment which breaks the distribution of arm weight. The tall knuckle and rounded hand shape facilitate use of arm weight by preventing a
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Level 1 Concepts reading across the grand staff
legato and staccato touches
2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th, and octave
quarter, half, and whole rests
half steps, sharps and flats
C and G 5-finger scales
tonic and dominant notes
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Articulation and the Wrist Articulation and the Wrist An essential concept of Level 1 is beginning articulation, specifically legato and staccato. These terms are so familiar to us as music teachers that we might overlook the importance of these touches in developing technique and musical expression. Perhaps you have noticed that there are no articulation marks at the Primer Level—no slurs and no staccato marks. We delay teaching legato to ensure that a modicum of finger independence develops before insisting on connected touch. When a student’s finger and small muscle coordination is undeveloped (common, and not a cause for concern), an insistence on legato playing can cause tension in the hand. This happens when pressure is maintained against the keybed. In most cases, the playing of a key should be followed by immediate relaxation, maintaining only sufficient balance of the hand and arm to keep the key depressed.
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Height of the wrist This is established at the Primer
Level with the Technique & Artistry secret called “Thumb Perch.” Playing on the side tip of the thumb (instead of a horizontal thumb) eliminates a sagging wrist, which is so common at this level.
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Range of wrist motion “Relaxed Wrist,” the Level
One Technique & Artistry Secret No. 2, establishes the range of motion for the wrist in the exercise “Wrist Float-Off.” With hands on the closed keyboard lid, an imaginary balloon pulls the wrist upward until only the tip of finger 3 is in contact. This precludes a locked wrist and models the gesture for a phrase ending.
We commonly hear young primer-level students play all notes detached, poking at each key with a pump of the wrist or a stab with the elbow. While we want to minimize (but not necessarily eliminate) the wrist pumping, this non-legato touch inserts a relaxation between each note, which can be beneficial. The student is naturally building coordination by practicing a relaxation response after each finger plays. Granted, it doesn’t sound good to a musician’s ear, but it does seem to improve coordination (and rhythm as well).
Wrist Gesture What does it mean to play legato? Yes, it is a connected touch, but—more importantly—it is the playing of several notes in a single gesture. It is initiating a phrase with a drop of arm weight and passing (transferring or “rippling”) that weight from finger to finger. In Piano Adventures®, the component parts of the legato touch are isolated and sequenced over several levels in the Technique and Artistry books, so that each element can become an automatic skill. This spiral approach offers both review of a previously learned skill and expansion of the technical concept, polishing the gesture and practicing its applications over advancing levels.
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The wrist gesture At Level 2A (Technique & Artistry
Secret No. 5), the exercise “Moon Walk” applies the Wrist Float-Off to playing keys across the keyboard.
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The slur gesture The drop and release of arm weight
through several notes is specifically practiced at Level 2B with the Technique & Artistry exercise called “Painter’s Brush Stroke.” Here the student perfects the “down-and-up” motion of the slur gesture. n
The tapered ending At Level 3A, the focus is on
“rounding off” the phrase ending. The wrist gesture carries the weight off the key to soften the last note of the slur.
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This is possible because of the technique acquired early in the level (and the compositional placement of the accompanying chords on beats where the melody is sustained, not played).
Legato and the Wrist So what do we expect of the student at Level One? We want a flexible, relaxed wrist that freely moves up within an established range of motion. We don’t focus on down motions of the wrist here, as these tend to collapse the fingertip and lock the wrist low. We do focus on the up motion. It is the flip side of the arm-weight drop. The student drops into the phrase with arm weight a nd releases the weight with the Wrist Float-Off. This needn’t be complex. We simply encourage the student to apply the wrist float-off at certain points in the music.
Summary There are countless applications when we look beyond just phrase endings. The Wrist Float-Off is tremendously valuable for preparation. The rising wrist can carry the hand to its new placement in crossovers, octave leaps, and position changes. It also lends grace to closing chords. And, long-held notes come alive by replacing a static hand with a wrist that slowly rises through the duration of the note.
Staccato and the Wrist There is no single way to play staccato. Staccato playing is always contextual—that is, the execution of the staccato depends on the musical context. For this early level we choose the wrist staccato (Secret No. 3, “Light Hand Bounce”), a technique that essentially dribbles the hand from a slightly elevated wrist. Notice how well this complements the Level 1 theme of relaxing the wrist and finding its appropriate range of motion. With the exercise Woodpecker Taps, this staccato technique applies fittingly to the repeated notes and repeated intervals that characterize much of the repertoire at this level. This gentle hand bounce not only relaxes the wrist, but also provides a technique for playing soft, accompanying chords. This has big payoff at Unit 8 where chords are first introduced. Instead of loud, clunky chords that overwhelm the melody, the left hand effectively plays soft, staccato chords in the first pieces with block chord accompaniment.
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In summary, the Wrist Float-Off and the Light Hand Bounce constitute essential wrist gestures that derive from their counterparts—legato and staccato. These gestures provide a technical foundation on which more refined technique can be developed. And, importantly, whether through shaping a phrase, softening an accompaniment, or adding elegance to an ending, these gestures add a great degree of musical artistry . . . which is especially appreciated at this early level.
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FF1081, 00420174 $6.95 Aardvark Boogie Changing Moods Clock Strikes Thirteen! Elf’s Silver Hammer Famous People Go Tell Aunt Rhody I Am the King Ice Cream In an Old Castle Jazz Blast Kitch-iti-kipi Leftover Popcorn Minuet for Mr. Bach’s Children Moonlight Melody More Ice Cream Mr. Brahms’ Famous Lullaby Mr. Haydn’s Theme My Daydream Ode to Joy Our Detective Agency Peter Pan’s Flight Pirate of the North Sea Puppet Show Queen’s Royal Entrance Skip to My Lou Snake Charmer Spring, Vivaldi Storms on Saturn Sword Dance This L.H. Old Man This R.H. Old Man When the Saints Go Marching In Whirling Leaves
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Theory
Performance
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Writing Games Eye Training Ear Training Improvisation
Coconut Shuffle Dance of the Irish Dance Theme and Variation Green Frog Hop Home on the Range Horseman’s Night Ride Italian Children’s Game Juggler Loch Ness Monster March of the English Guard Mr. McGill’s Boop ShaBop! Pachyderm Caravan Rhino in the Mud Rocky Mountain Train Snow Fort Hideout Storm and the Rainbow
Technique & Artistry
Colorful Sunset Hummingbird Wings Malagueña Race Car Rag The Riddle Song Spotlight on the Left Hand Spotlight on the Right Hand Star Traveler
Popular Repertoire
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Note speller Beginning reading level
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Technique Secrets Artistry Magic Pieces:
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Concert Sonatina First Snowflake of Winter Five-Note Sonatina Grandpa Leprechaun Home Run Harry Hunters’ Chorus I Love the Mountains Little Ghost’s Recital Morning Has Broken (Duet) Snappin’ Harriet There’s Nothing Like a Circus Toy Town
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Activity Pages
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FF1139, 00420207 $4.95 The First Noel Go, Tell It on the Mountain Jingle Bells O Christmas Tree Pat-a-Pan Silent Night We Wish You a Merry Christmas Sightreading Activities
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They’ll Be Back!
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Toy Town
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LEVEL 2A
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ShowTime® Piano - Level 2A Supplementary Series
DuetTime® Christmas, Level 2 ShowTime® Popular
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LEVEL 2A
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Pattern Recognition and Five-Finger Scales Pattern Recognition Why are five-finger positions a necessary part of piano pedagogy? Because our hands have five fingers. So the relevance of five-finger patterns applies at virtually any level of piano playing. Major and minor five-finger patterns a re taught in Level 2A of Piano Adventures®—after the basics of reading are acquired in the Primer and Level 1. With the fundamentals of note recognition and intervallic reading firmly in place, this multi-key approach can take hold without liability. After students learn the basics of reading, we can use fivefinger positions to enhance reading skill by eliciting visual, kinesthetic, and aural pattern recognition.
Contour and Context A student who reads only note-by-note misses the musical picture. Why? Because music is coded in contour and context . Contour of musical line depicts phrasing and the expressiveness of changing pitch. Contour is decoded through recognition of pitch direction and interval. Context suggests another level of pattern recognition. Context provides harmonic meaning through recognition of chords, key, tonic/dominant relationships, and so on. Context provides artistic meaning through recognition of form and motivic relationships, as well as more subtle relationships found through conscientious study of the score. From the standpoint of artistry, understanding of contour and context can reduce a dense score to relative simplicity, and thus provide musical meaning that leads to expressive playing. From the standpoint of reading skill, an ability to grasp contour and context simplifies the reading process by allowing visual information to be processed in “chunks” through recognition of familiar patterns. Piano Adventures® systematically builds skill in pattern
Level 1 introduces five-finger tonality in C and G, with emphasis on tonic and dominant scale steps. n
Level 2A addresses multi-key playing with transpositions to D, A, and to minor five-finger patterns. n
Level 2B adds meaning to triad recognition with awareness of key, key signature, the full major scale, and recognition of primary chord functions—I, IV, and V7. n
Level 3A reinforces and expands recognition of chord names and chord function. n
Level 3B introduces chord inversions and minor tonalities. n
Level 4 reinforces these minor key patterns with special focus on the V7 in root position, and reviews chord inversion recognition. n
Level 5 introduces new flat-key patterns and recognition of I, IV, and V chords in any inversion and any key. n
Intervallic Reading Decoding contour requires recognition of direction (up, down, same) and interval span (step, skip, fourth, fifth, and so on). This reading skill is not a substitute for note recognition, but a skill to be learned concurrent with note naming. For this reason, the Primer level merges note-name recognition with intervallic/directional reading. These skills go hand-in-hand. Note-name recognition is essential for student confidence. Yet, directional/intervallic reading is not of secondary importance. It is essential for grasping musical contour and for fluent sightreading. Intervallic reading is pattern recognition in its most elemental form, and rests on a foundation of note recognition.
recognition: The Primer introduces intervallic reading and Level 1 reinforces it. n
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Five-Finger Scales
of black and white, which is visual. We also stress the feel of the pattern. The pairing of D and A Major highlights both their visual and kinesthetic similarities.
The importance of major and minor five-finger patterns may be obvious, but let’s cite three reasons: Major and minor five-finger patterns (pentascales) reinforce recognition of major and minor triads. n
Major and minor five-finger patterns prepare the student for major and minor scales. n
Major and minor five-finger patterns highlight the tonic and dominant notes. n
Because five-finger patterns lie stepwise under the hand, this context is ideal for reinforcement of intervallic reading and for transposition. Many pieces at Levels 1 and 2A require moving the hand between familiar positions. This movement between positions sharpens the student’s reading, mitigates position dependence, and invites motion that can prevent a locked wrist.
Rhythmic “Chunking” Eighth notes are not presented in Piano Adventures® until Level 2A. This allows the student to be at ease with rhythm at the Primer and Level 1. The beat can be quite fast, unhampered by intruding eighth notes. This promotes a rhythmic fluency based on meter, instead of a slow, interrupted beat. Teachers readily recognize the increase in musicality. By not yet subdividing the beat, these early levels present a limited set of rhythmic values which the student can readily “chunk” into macro patterns, such as 1 1 1-2 or 1-2 1-2. When eighth notes are introduced at the beginning of Level 2A, they are presented in rhythmic groupings.
Thus the student is led to read eighth notes, not as individual counts or sub-counts, but in the context of a meaningful rhythmic pattern that is felt kinesthetically, not just intellectually.
There are three modalities involved with five-finger pattern recognition: n
Staff recognition is visual
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Aural perception of five-note tonality is auditory
Summary Repetition of predictable patterns leads to recognition of these patterns. We can’t assume that random occurrence of principal patterns will lead to recognition. We need to equip students with tools of pattern recognition through systematic presentation of patterns and a matching repertoire.
Since music making involves these modalities in combination, the pedagogical use of five-finger scales provides a playing field for exploring the integration of elementary patterns—visual, kinesthetic, and auditory.
Through transposition, “question and answer,” harmonization, ear training, and a carefully conceived repertoire, five-finger patterns lay a foundation of pattern recognition that ultimately leads to a keen sense of tonality and intelligent, fluent music re ading.
Occasionally, it’s helpful to spotlight a specific modality. For instance, the shift from major to minor (or vice versa) is aurally striking. We introduce five-finger patterns in terms
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LEVEL 2B
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
LEVEL 2B NEW!
Achievement Achievement Skill Sheet #7: Skill Sheet #2: Elementary I-V-I Minor 5-Finger Cadences Patterns (challenging)
Sightreading
Flashcards
Developing Artist Preparatory Piano Literature
LESSON BOOK
I Can Read Music Book 2
Theory
Technique & Artistry
Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 1 (challenging)
Discover Beginning Improvisation
ChordTime Piano Level 2B Supplementary Series ®
Performance
Gold Star Performance (challenging)
Classics
Popular
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Christmas
Favorites
Rock ’n Roll
Jazz & Blues
Ragtime & Marches
Hymns
Kids’ Songs
Christmas
Jewish Favorites
Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets
Once Upon a Rainbow Book 2
Cat Prowl Classic Sonatina Jazz Pizzazz Land of Dreams Little Tin Soldier (Duet) The Notorious Pirate
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LEVEL 2B
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Level 2B Concepts five Cs across the grand staff
cross-hand arpeggios
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C, G, and F major scales
connected pedaling
I, IV, and V7 chords in C, G, and F
eighth rest, dotted quarter note
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LEVEL 2B
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Introducing the 2nd Edition of Level 2B! Join the celebration of the 2nd Edition of Piano Adventures ® Level 2B! This new edition is a dynamic development for the time-tested Level 2B books. The following hallmarks of Piano Adventures® 2B have been strengthened for exciting musical outcomes: A systematic approach to scales, primary chords (I, IV, V7), and transposition for the keys of C, G, and F major. Pianistic repertoire invites technical gestures and musical expression. Varied musical styles span classical, folk, and jazz. Engaging pieces with teacher duets promote rhythmic confidence. Creative and Discovery questions guide deeper learning. Books from the previous edition can easily be interchanged with books from the new edition. For tips and correlation charts, please visit: www.PianoAdventures.com/secondedition
Level 2B Lesson Book Now with sixteen additional pages! The Lesson Book opens with a progress chart that includes full page-by-page correlations of the four core books. Students make an easier transition into Level 2B with the new “Ready for Take-off” review pages. The new edition features nine new songs, plus enhanced arrangements of favorite pieces from the first edition, including Spanish Caballero, Shave and a Haircut, and a jazzy version of Duke of York. New pieces by Beethoven and Bach continue to introduce the great composers, with interesting notes on musical history and culture to help students understand the musical context. The new “Scale and Chord Adventures” appendix offers teachers the flexibility to explore major and minor scale and chord patterns in all twelve keys.
The concept of a lead sheet is explored with the traditional English melody Hey, Ho, Nobody Home.
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Level 2B Theory Book Complete the Melodies of Famous Composers
This thorough reinvention of the 2B Theory Book offers eight superb new pages for in-depth study of chords, harmonization, and rhythm. Here’s more! New improvisation activities for each scale—C major, G major, and F major. Students explore patterns, dynamics, and articulations.
Questions and Answers in G Major Review: Question: A musical question ends on any note except the tonic.
Answer: An answer always ends on the tonic.
Compose a Parallel Answer 1.
Remember, a parallel answer begins like the question, then changes, and ends on the tonic (G).
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Compose a Contrasting Answer 2.
Students will be “hands on” as they identify I, IV, and V7 chords. Harmony rules then guide students to create accompaniments to timeless melodies. This early grounding in harmony gives students the tools to memorize the classics, try out for the school jazz band, or to eventually accompany the choir!
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Level 2B Technique & Artistry Book Enhancements to the book include more emphasis on pattern recognition, new teacher duets for several Artistry Magic pieces, and a new exercise to prepare students for playing chord changes. The four effective technique secrets, which are used as warm-ups throughout the book, correlate perfectly for “phrasing with the wrist” and a “light thumb” for balance in L.H. accompaniments and scales.
Level 2B Performance Book The revised 2B Performance Book fosters a love of the piano while stretching the student’s technique and musical expression. Eight additional pages include a Theme by Haydn, a catchy Jamaican folk song, and a lively four-hand duet.
• Learn both the Secondo and Primo parts. • Have fun playing with a friend or your teacher.
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Ludwig vanBeethoven (1770-1827, Germany) Russian FolkSong
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FABER PIANO ADVENTURES Developing Artist Preparatory Piano Literature - with CD
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Level 2B Lesson Book
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LEVEL 2B
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
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LEVEL 2B
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
The Power of Primary Chords Perhaps the favorite application of music theory in piano instruction is the teaching of I, IV and V7 chords in that familiar cluster surrounding the root-position I chord. This aspect of piano pedagogy is a guiding concept for Level 2B of Piano Adventures® and the corresponding ChordTime® Piano series. This simple chord formula is favored for good reason: n
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Staging the V7 Chord The earlier levels of Piano Adventures® work with a two-note V7 chord that lies readily under the hand. This allows for easy and rapid switching between I and V7 chords. Using the more common three-note V7 chord at early levels can sabotage the student’s rhythm at the bar line because of the difficult shift of finger five. In contrast, a two-note V7 chord allows the student to maintain rhythmic fluency and, importantly, the musicality of a flowing meter.
Thee next steps toward using three-notes for the V7 are presented in stages at Level 2B: the interval of a 6th and the leading tone. In teaching the major scale, we help the student hear the leading tone move by half step to the tonic. Then we help the student hear the leading tone of the V7 chord resolve to its tonic note. Indeed, this leading tone is the new note of the V7 chord. By addressing the V7 in stages across Levels 2A and 2B, we eliminate the technical hurdle and promote a heightened aural sense of the V7.
The Chord Accompaniment It is not enough merely to read the notes of a chord, or even to recognize the notes as a chord. A student needs to understand the role of chords in accompanying a melody. So, immediately after introducing the three-note V7, we present a two-hand accompaniment for Camptown Races with the melody displayed on a third staff. This “piano/vocal” score provides much insight for the student: conceptualization of melody and accompaniment, the utility of I and V harmonies, the concept of chord progression, and exposure to ensemble playing.
Reading Chord Symbols With each new key (C, G, and F), chord patterns are presented under the heading “Reading Chord Symbols.” After the student blocks the chords, have him or her play an accompaniment that follows the given chord progression.
The teacher can draw bar lines between the chord symbols (see above) to show a chord chart more specifically. Time spent listening, memorizing, and transposing these chord progressions is time well spent. Then, let your student loose to create melodies and various accompaniment patterns based on the chord progressions. The creative questions that end each unit will provide nudges toward such work. For most students, though, you’ll want to push the creative activities even more. It’s amazing how much similarity there is among chord progressions, and how much value is derived from working them over and over.
The IV Chord The hip, barrelhouse LH of Boxcar Rumble reinforces the 6th and hints at an alternating I-IV pattern. You might revisit this piece after the IV chord is learned, adding the omitted chord tones to the LH pattern. For a somewhat easier variation, repeat each chord before changing harmony. You’ll still want to play a chord on every beat, but the harmonic rhythm slows to a change of chords every two beats instead of every beat. ? # 4 œ 4 œ œ
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LEVEL 2B
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Accompaniments That Dance
Tipping over “Snowman” Chords
We have all heard plenty of thumping thumbs in left-hand accompaniments. Yes, the left-hand accompaniments can use repetitive practice, but they also require the right technique. That’s where the Technique & Artistry Books shine. For example, Technique Secret No. 3 at Level 2B specifically works for a light thumb to remedy—or better—to prevent the thumping thumb. In fact, all of the “technique secrets” at this level converge to provide coordination and beauty in a lefthand accompaniment: A drop of arm weight (Heavy Arms) initiates the LH pattern. n
Students typically recognize chords on the staff only when notes are stacked in thirds. I call this the “snowman chord” syndrome. Our goal is to tip the chord over so that a harmony is recognized when it spans horizontally across the measure and vertically over both treble and bass clefs. The first tool in this perceptual transformation is the CrossHand Arpeggio, which distributes chord tones over several measures and between clefs. The skill continues to be sharpened as the student moves through the higher levels of Piano Adventures®. Whether we synthesize accompaniments from a given chord pattern as in Reading Chord Symbols, or we analyze to find chord patterns in an otherwise complex piece, primary chords provide a common denominator to which we can relate aurally, visually, and kinesthetically. The power of primary chords is in their simplicity. And, as a watchword for both the student and professional artist, “Always look for the simplicity.”
The energy flows through a slur gesture (Painter’s Brush Stroke). n
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The entire level is designed to achieve beauty and efficiency by playing several notes with a single gesture. This is applied specifically to left-hand accompaniments through a combination of “drop” and “up” touches.
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LEVEL 3A
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
LEVEL 3A Achievement Skill Sheet #3: 1-Octave Major Scales and Arpeggios
I Can Read Music Book 3 Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 1
Developing Artist Piano Sonatinas Book 1 (challenging)
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LEVEL 3A
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Level 3A Concepts binary and ternary form
ostinato and alberti bass
interval of a 7th
common time and cut time
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ledger lines
swing rhythm
one-octave arpeggios
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Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 1 - with CD
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LEVEL 3A
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
FunTime® Piano Supplemental Series O Come, All Ye Faithful O Little Town of Bethlehem Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Silent Night The Night Before Christmas Song We Wish You a Merry Christmas
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LEVEL 3A
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
The Role of Review We’v e’vee all seen an occasional precocious student move up the levels with impressive speed. We We regard this speedy progress through the method as a reliable predictor of future success… and we are thus seduced. The high-numbered level level makes the teacher look good and the parent beam with pride. So we tend to push students, hoping to see nine-year old Erin in Level 4, or ten-year-old Jason playing Für Elise. But the actual variable that predicted success with a fastmoving student is the ease with which the student moved up the levels—an exceptional capacity in some students that makes it possible to progress quickly. quickly. A teacher’s push to get there fast does not itself predict success. Indeed, it can backfire. The fast track can leave knowledge gaps, feelings of uncertainty,, and may insidiously undermine technical and uncertainty musical development even when the student is apparently keeping pace with the decoding of notation. It is important to understand that a student’s level of advancement and speed of advancement are not the measures of good teaching. A better measure is how much the student knows and how much the student can do at his or her current level—regardless level—re gardless of what level that may be.
Review and Repeat The late-elementary student must absorb and apply knowledge of note reading, rhythmic notation, chord structures, and musical expression—all while grappling with the physical mechanics of hand shape, arm weight, finger coordination, and wrist relaxation. At the same time, the student is expected to be listening—indeed hearing—what he/she is playing, evaluating sounds as they pass in time, and adjusting to the idealized sound envisioned in the mind’s ear. This is not going to happen readily and does not happen fast. Knowledge needs review so that it will endure in long-term memory and be readily accessed. Skills need practice so that they become automatized —played —played without conscious attention. Review and repetition, then, become operational basics for the piano teacher. We consolidate knowledge with fastidious review while we steadily move forward. We We consolidate skills by practicing what the student can do well instead of practicing incorrect playing. We We use repetition to make well-executed skills become automatic, freeing attention for new challenges.
Moving Too Too Fast Fast What happens if we move the student into difficult repertoire too soon? We lose the opportunity for review and repetition. Familiar concepts are buried in a complex setting and thus overlooked, instead of reviewed. New concepts are encountered that the student does not and cannot yet understand. Old skills do not become automatic. Instead, they are skipped through before they a re developed and eventually are buried under an accumulation of hidden physical tensions and habits. Because this danger becomes acute at the intermediate level, the role of Piano Adventures® Level 3A becomes clear: n
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We tend to think of a method as the means to introduce new material. In light of the above discussion, let’s instead reframe the role of Piano Adventures®. The method provides a structure that both prevents premature advancement and promotes adequate review and practice. The goal is not to get out of the method as soon as possible; the goal is to fully employ the method to yield sufficient review for retention and sufficient practice to develop deep-rooted skills. The method is more than a bridge to the literature; the method is an engine for deep learning along the way.
Spiral Curriculum Instructional pacing should routinely dip back to review concepts already learned before adding new instruction. When we cue the recall reca ll of earlier concepts before adding something new, new, we help our students integrate the new knowledge, instead of just accumulating unrelated facts. Jerome Bruner coined the term “spiral “ spiral curriculum” to describe this instructional process of review. review. Each time a concept is revisited, it is clarified for more precise understanding or amplified for broader application. The key point here is the necessity for review—to keep coming back to principal concepts and enriching them with expanded knowledge and application. This idea of a spiral curriculum is designed into the theory theory,, technique, and repertoire of Level 3A.
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LEVEL 3A
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Expanding Theory Aptitude The primary chords (I, IV, V7) that characterize Level 2B are reviewed in Unit 1, then explored in expanded contexts: with syncopation, with expressive articulations, and using Alberti Bass.
Level 3A, and even to the playing of a full one-octave scale in a single gesture (8-Note Scoops). Notice how expression is developed through gesture.
The interval of a 7th is introduced by highlighting its notational similarity to 3rds and 5ths, all notated as line-toline or space-to-space. The chromatic scale builds on the half-step presentation at Level 2A, expanding the chromatic fragments to the full octave. Simple binary form introduced at the beginning of Level 3A expands to ABA; then, by the end of the level, to ABA with both Introduction and Coda.
Repertoire to Reinforce We want our students to develop a depth of skill . . . and this takes time. With the leveling, 2A-2B, 3A-3B, the student feels a sense of accomplishment by graduating from one book to the next, but doesn’t encounter too much difficulty too soon.
Building Expressive Technique The carefully sequenced handling of the wrist in the Technique & Artistry Books reaches a culmination at Level 3A with the Round-Off. The Thumb Perch at the Primer Level established the wrist height. The Wrist Float-Off at Level 1 established the range of wrist motion. Levels 2A and 2B established the slur gesture. The Round-Off at Level 3A refines the phrase ending, adding polish to both sound and gesture.
The FunTime® Piano series also offers an opportunity to consolidate skill, through familiar tunes in a variety of musical styles. A teacher can harness this series to adjust the method pacing. We frequently put a student through several FunTime® books, one at a time, before moving up to Level 4 or BigTime® Piano. Students often discover a favorite musical style while becoming increasingly comfortable with the process of reading music.
Rotation, an important Technique Secret at Level 3A, incorporates a throwing of arm weight with rebound, thus building on the Arm Weight secret taught at both the Primer and 2B levels. The “pedal by ear” secret, Pedal Rhythms, builds on the connected pedaling technique secret of Level 2B, now requiring the student to depress the damper pedal more quickly—on the “and” of the beat, and asking for more careful listening. Pedaling is approached in stages throughout Piano Adventures®: holding the pedal throughout a piece at the Primer and Level 1, up-down pedal notation at Level 2A, connected pedal at Level 2B, and more refined pedaling at Level 3A. There is a continuing progression toward playing multiple notes in a single gesture. The three-note slur of Painter’s Brush Stroke at Level 2B expands to 5-Note Scoops in
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Deeper Understanding and Broader Application Yes, we maintain high aspirations for our students. But instead of being concerned about speedy progress up the levels, we should focus our teaching on developing depth and breadth at the student’s current level. The payoff is not just in the student’s future success, with the ease in which repertoire will be mastered. There is payoff here and now. Theory comprehension isn’t deferred until advanced study, but occurs with each piece at the current level. Artistry is not postponed for later piano literature. Artistic playing can be heard now—in the next piece your student plays.
LEVEL 3B
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
LEVEL 3B Achievement Skill Sheet #4: 1-Octave Minor Scales and Arpeggios Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 1 (easier)
Achievement Skill Sheet #8: Intermediate Cadence Booklet (challenging)
LESSON BOOK
Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 2 (challenging)
Technique & Artistry
Developing Artist Piano Sonatinas Book 1
Theory
FunTime Piano Level 3B Supplementary Series ®
Performance
NEW!
Popular Repertoire
Kids’ Songs
Popular
Christmas
Once Upon a Rainbow Book 3
Discover Blues Improvisation (easier)
Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets
Classics
Favorites
Rock ’n Roll
Ragtime & Marches
Hymns
Christmas
Etude Drammatico Hallelujah Chorus Millions of Stars Whispers of the Wind Would You Go In?
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Jazz & Blues
LEVEL 3B
Level 3B Lesson Book
FF1180, 00420220 $6.95 Andante Fiesta España Gavotte Highland Jig House of the Rising Sun Humoresque Minuet in F Pachelbel Canon Phantom of the Keys Rage Over a Lost Penny Sea Chantey Snowfall Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Tropical Island Tum-Balalaika Westminster Chimes
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Technique & Artistry
Popular Repertoire
FF1289, 00420240 $6.50
FF1290, 00420241 $7.50
Technique Secrets Artistry Magic Pieces:
Angel Eyes Honky Cat I Believe I Can Fly I Got Rhythm I’ll Be There for You Inspector Gadget Jeopardy Theme The Rose Sunrise, Sunset
Cat Patrol Deer in the Woods Etude Energico Gypsy Camp Loxodanta Africana Nightfall Sonatina Theme
FF1182, 00420222 $6.50
FF1181, 00420221 $6.50 Writing Sightreading Ear Training
AS5004, 00420025 $2.95 Achievement Skill Sheet #8: Cadence Booklet
AS5008, 00420029 $3.95
Activity Pages
Performance
Theory
Achievement Skill Sheet #4: 1-Octave Minor Scales & Arpeggios
All Through the Night Bagatelle in G Fascination Funeral March of a Marionette Glad Cat Rag Guitars of Seville Hava Nagila Legend of Madrid Minuet in G Piano Concerto No. 1 The Piano Playin’ Chocolate Eater’s Blues The Return The Star-Spangled Banner The Tempest
Christmas
FF1201, 00420226 $6.50 Coventry Carol God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Hallelujah Chorus Joy to the World Parade of the Tin Soldiers Silent Night Toyland Twelve Days of Christmas
Once Upon a Rainbow, Book 3
FF1105, 00420196 $4.50 Amber Rhapsody Crystalline Rag Rainbow Splendor Shimmering Waterfalls To Have a Rainbow Valse Indigo
Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 2 - with CD
FF1034, 00420143 $7.50 Air in D Minor, Speer The Bear, Rebikov Bourrée, Graupner Dance in F Major, Mozart Ecossaise, Beethoven The Happy Farmer, Schumann In the Garden, Gurlitt King William’s March, Clarke Long Gone Blues, McKay Mazurka, Szymanowska Menuet en Rondeau, Rameau Minuet in C Major, Mozart Minuet in G Major, Penzold Old French Song, Tchaikovsky Polka, Hummel (Duet) Prelude in A Minor, J.C. Bach The Return, Gurlitt Russian Folk Dance, Beethoven Soldier’s March, Schumann Sonatina in G Major, Beethoven Waltz Macabre, Faber Yi-Ki, A Mesopotamian Elephant, Poe
Sightreading Activities
Background Accompaniments Lesson Book Enhanced CD
CD1006, 00420073 $10.95 (accompaniments in two tempos plus MIDI files for Lesson, Performance, Technique & Artistry books)
Popular Repertoire CD
CD1028, 00420094 $10.95 Popular Repertoire MIDI
GM1036, 00420297 $10.95
Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 1 - with CD
FF1030, 00420139 $6.95 See Level 3A for contents
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Developing Artist Piano Sonatinas Book 1
FF1110, 00420199 $6.95 See Level 3A for contents
LEVEL 3B
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
FunTime® Piano Supplemental Series FunTime® Accompaniments Christmas CD
CD1039, 00420104 $10.95 Classics CD
CD1011, 00420078 $10.95 Favorites CD
CD1012, 00420079 $10.95 Christmas MIDI
FunTime® Popular
FunTime® Favorites
FF1007, 00420116 $6.50
FF1054, 00420163 $6.50
Colors of the Wind Eleanor Rigby He’s a Pirate! (from Pirates of the Caribbean) I Saw Her Standing There La Bamba The Lion Sleeps Tonight Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) Music Box Dancer Pachelbel Canon Phantom of the Opera Star Wars (Main Theme) A Whole New World (Aladdin)
Arkansas Traveler Chopsticks Give My Regards to Broadway Glow Worm Greensleeves Hello, My Baby I’ve Been Working on the Railroad Scarborough Fair Skaters’ Waltz Song of the Volga Boatmen Two Guitars
FunTime® Jazz & Blues
FF1010, 00420119 $6.50 Come On, Summer Dallas Blues Frankie and Johnny House of the Rising Sun In the Mood Love Potion No. 9 Misty Piano Playin’ Chocolate Eater’s Blues Royal Cat Blues St. James Infirmary This Masquerade Tuxedo Junction
FunTime® Hymns
GM1045, 00420304 $10.95 Classics MIDI
FF1033, 00420142 $6.50
GM1024, 00420286 $9.95
See Level 3A for contents
Hymns MIDI
Favorites MIDI
GM1023, 00420285 $9.95 GM1034, 00420295 $9.95
Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets Etude Drammatico
A2038,
00420064 $2.50
Hallelujah Chorus
ASA7002, 00420017 $2.50 Millions of Stars
ASA7003, 00420018 $2.95 Whispers of the Wind
A2012,
FunTime® Christmas
00420041
$2.50
Would You Go In?
A2028,
00420055
$1.95
FF1006, 00420115 $6.50 See Level 3A for contents
FunTime® Classics
FF1022, 00420131 $6.50 Barber of Seville Blue Danube Waltz Brahms Waltz Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Eine Kleine Nachtmusik In the Hall of the Mountain King Light Cavalry Overture Musetta’s Song Peter and the Wolf Theme Pomp and Circumstance Scheherazade Theme Toreador’s Song “Unfinished” Symphony Theme
FunTime® Rock ’n Roll
FF1023, 00420132 $6.50 All I Have to Do Is Dream Bye Bye, Love Come Go with Me Hey Jude Hound Dog Howl at the Moon Last Night of Summer Mumbo Jumbo Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu Rockin’ Robin Runaround Sue Stand by Me
FunTime® Ragtime & Marches
FF1008, 00420117 $6.50 American Patrol The Ants Came Marching Dixie The Easy Winners The Entertainer Glad Cat Rag Maple Leaf Rag Parade of the Tin Soldiers Snowflake Rag Stars and Stripes Forever When the Saints Go Marching In
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Discover Blues Impovisation - with CD NEW! FunTime® Kids’ Songs
FF3004, 00420324 $6.50 The Addams Family Theme Arabian Nights (Aladdin) Be Our Guest (Beauty and the Beast) Consider Yourself (Oliver) Edelweiss (The Sound of Music) Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! Walking on Sunshine Yellow Submarine You’ve Got a Friend in Me (Toy Story)
FF1155CD, 00420215 $8.95 Blues improvisation, ear-training, theory and technique. Includes enhanced CD with background accompaniments (audio and MIDI)
LEVEL 3B
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Playing Fast This is what the student has been waiting for—a chance to play fast. “Now I can really show off!” Then we tell the student, “The first lesson in playing fast is … slow practice.” We’ve just taken the wind out of their sails. Well … almost. There are secrets to playing fast. And if we let students in on these secrets, they are usually more than willing to go through the necessary paces to achieve fast playing.
Building Speed It is tempting to push for virtuoso playing when we se e potential, but pushing into big repertoire almost always backfires if we fail to ramp up through prerequisite stages. In fingerwork, for example, the student must develop coordination that allows instantaneous contraction followed by relaxation, and precise contraction that does not also tense up neighboring muscles. This takes time to develop and requires specific practice routines. Virtuosity cannot be forced; virtuosity unfolds from well-practiced repetitions that are based on correct information and appropriate monitoring.
Pulsing The Level 3B Lesson Book opens with Beethoven’s Rage Over a Lost Penny, providing a review of cut time. Why does cut time so effectively increase speed? Because it invites pulsing every two beats instead of pulsing every beat. Consider a set of four eighth notes. If we provide a metric pulse on both quarter-note beats, the passage bogs down with heaviness, as if running with boots in the sand. If we pulse only on the first of the four eighth notes, we get fluency and musicality.
Measure 3 invites a drop of arm weight into the first of the four eighth notes (beat 1) and a wrist float-off at the end of the slur (beat 3). Match this “down-up” motion in the left hand. The four quarter-note chords are played as “DOWNand-UP-and.” The down-up motions match that of the right hand and the “ands” are played with a light ripple. Notice how the half-note pulsing of this down-up gesture matches the feel of cut time. It propels the beat, not only through halfnote pulses, but from measure to measure.
Rotation Rotation refers to the back-and-forth turning of the forearm, as if turning a doorknob or a key in a lock. The efficacy of forearm rotation is that it plays two notes with the effort of one. In Interval Review the tenuto notes are played with the forearm rotating toward the thumb and the recurring Cs are played effortlessly on the rebound. The many notes of the passage are thus reduced to a simple descending major scale. Efficiency is gained by employing the natural fall of a turned hand and its rebound.
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Slow Practice So, how do you practice slowly, yet execute the gesture? The simplest way is to use slow practice to exaggerate the gesture. Slow practice just for finger work has limited workability because the gesture required for speed and expression may be absent. Bringing the gesture into the slow practice makes slow practice exponentially more valuable. Sometimes you need to “sprint” with a passage to find the gesture, then execute it in slow motion. With a facile technique, this can all be done in very little time. But students need yet to develop a facile technique. Developmental steps need to be taken to build fundamental finger coordination. Note, however, that we’re not going for building muscles or “finger power.” We’re looking for instantaneous, precision “firing” of very specific muscles, with simultaneous relaxation of the surrounding muscles. Thus, c oordination is key; strength is not. (Arm weight, rotation, and forearm thrust provide sources of impact that are much more effective than finger strength.) 54
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For students at the early stage, the firing of a finger generates many contractions in a generalized area. Specificity is weak; generalized tension is high. Slow practice can provide a relaxation immediately after the note is played, thus allowing the inappropriate contractions to relax. Over time, generalized tension diminishes and finger contractions become very specific with concurrent relaxation of proximate muscles. This is how slow practice, done correctly and over time, can build the neurological basis for speed. In Piano Adventures®, we accelerate the development of this sophisticated neurology through specially developed exercises. We help build “fast fingers” by incorporating the process of “play-relax” with slow practice and repetition. (See the Technique Secrets of Levels 2A and 2B.) Adding the correct gesture provides the formula for expressive virtuosity.
Uptouch We’ve discussed arm weight at previous levels. But efficient playing also utilizes what we c all the “uptouch.” Here the hand springs from the surface of the key, with active fingers and a thrust of the forearm. The spring of the up-touch sends the hand and fingers to upcoming notes, in precise preparation for the next chord or passage. The touch is effective for either loud or soft chords, and makes a wonderful counterpart to the “drop-touch” of arm weight.
Alignment We open the Level 3B Technique & Artistry Book with a secret called “Closed, Cupped Hand for Scale Passages.” Here we contract the hand, bringing the fingers close together with visibly tall knuckles. This contracted position allows the arm and bridge of the hand to align with the finger that plays. We avoid any angle between the playing finger and arm, preferring straight alignment. In this way the weight of the arm can transfer finger-to-finger for efficiency and evenness of touch. The contracted, closed, cupped hand invites continuous alignment through stepwise passages. A slight adjustment is made by the wrist and forearm for each finger being played. You can easily check the alignment at any time by touching the thumb to the tip of the playing finger, then releasing. This brings the hand (with its tall knuckle) and the forearm into balance over the fingertip.
In summary, we work slowly with smart practice to build speed. Students want to play fast, so let’s give them the tools to do it correctly. We can harness our students’ motivation for speed to elicit hours of practice. Then students can indeed show off—with flying fingers and the groundwork for virtuosity. 5
This is an advanced application of the Primer Level technique-secret “Making Os,” which builds a firm fingertip. At Level 3B, the “closed, cupped” handshape essentially brings the “O” to the keyboard for effective passagework.
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LEVEL 4
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
LEVEL 4 Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 2 (easier)
Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 3 (challenging) Achievement Skill Sheet #5: 2-Octave Major Scales and Arpeggios
NEW! Developing Artist Piano Sonatinas Book 2
LESSON BOOK
Technique & Artistry
Developing Artist Selections from the Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach
Theory
Achievement Skill Sheet #8: Intermediate Cadence Booklet
BigTime Piano Level 4 Supplementary Series ®
Performance
Popular Repertoire
NEW!
Popular
Christmas
Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets Ave Maria Halloween Sonatine Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Nocturne Shimmering Waterfalls Sonatina in G Major, Beethoven
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Kids’ Songs
Classics
Favorites
Rock ’n Roll
Jazz & Blues
Christmas
Ragtime & Marches
Hymns
LEVEL 4
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Level 4 Lesson Book
NEW! Technique & Artistry
FF1090, 00420183 $6.95
FF3012, 00420339 $6.50
Allegro Grazioso, Biehl Aurora Borealis The Blue Danube Bourée, Graupner Ceremony for Peace Chanson French Minuet, Lully Gigue in A Major Grand Central Station Great Barrier Reef In the Hall of the Mountain King Maple Leaf Rag Mazurka in F Major Medieval Fair Prelude in C, JS Bach The Spy Summer Solstice Volga Boatmen Wild Flowers
Appendix Technique Secrets Scale and Arpeggio Artistry Magic Pieces:
Caspian Sea Excalibur A Midsummer Night’s Dream Moonlight Sonata Silver Rain Etude
Popular Repertoire
FF1315, 00420244 $7.95 Ashokan Farewell Change the World The Greatest Love of All I Will Remember You If You Believe Jurassic Park King of the Hill Etude Mr. Bojangles New York, New York The Way It Is
Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 2 - with CD
FF1034, 00420143 $7.50
FF1111, 00420200 $7.95
See Level 3B for contents
Sonatina (Op. 157, No. 1), Spindler Sonatina (Op. 36, No. 1), Clementi Sonatina (Op. 39, No. 1), Lynes Sonatina (Op. 55, No. 1), Kuhlau Sonatina in A Minor, Jacoby Sonatina in C, Latour Sonatina in C, Haslinger Sonatina in F, Diabelli Sonatina in F, Attwood Sonatina in G, Beethoven Sonatina in G, Latour
Activity Pages
Popular Repertoire Enhanced CD
NEW!
CD1029 00420095 $10.95 Popular Repertoire MIDI
GM1037 00420298 $10.95
Developing Artist Piano Sonatinas, Book 2
Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 3 - with CD
FF1056, 00420165 $9.50 See Level 5 for contents
Performance
Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets
FF1092, 00420185 $6.50
Theory
FF1091, 00420184 $6.50 Writing Sightreading Ear Training
Arabesque Dance in F Major, Mozart Distant Bells Farewell to Fiunary Greensleeves Gypsy Legend Polka, Hummel Seaside Suite Sonatina in C, Lynes Strawberry Malt Three Blues Pieces
Ave Maria
ASA7005, 00420020 $2.50 Halloween Sonatine
A2034,
Christmas
FF1142, 00420210 $5.50 Ave Maria Fum, Fum, Fum Housetop Boogie It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Silent Night Waltz of the Flowers We Wish You a Merry Christmas
00420061 $2.50
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
ASA7004, 00420019 $2.50 Nocturne
A2004,
00420033 $2.95
Shimmering Waterfalls
A2021,
00420048 $2.95
Sonatina in G Major, Beethoven
AL6003, 00420007 $2.95
Achievement Skill Sheet #5: 2-Octave Major Scales and Arpeggios
AS5005, 00420026 $2.95 Achievement Skill Sheet #8: Cadence Booklet
AS5008, 00420029 $3.95 58
Developing Artist Selections from the Notebook of Anna Magdalena Bach
FF1049, 00420158 $4.95 Minuet in G, Pezold Minuet in Gm, Pezold Minuet in Dm March in D, C.P.E. Bach Minuet in G Musette in D Polonaise in Gm Minuet in Cm Minuet in G, attr. to Boehm March in G, C.P.E. Bach Polonaise in Gm, C.P.E. Bach
LEVEL 4
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
BigTime® Piano Supplemental Series O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee The Old Rugged Cross Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow Rock of Ages Shall We Gather at the River Sweet Hour of Prayer
BigTime® Popular
BigTime® Favorites
FF1009, 00420118 $6.95
FF1191, 00420224 $6.95
100 Years Dancing Queen (Mamma Mia) I Saw Her Standing There Lean On Me The Medallion Calls (Pirates of the Caribbean) The Music of the Night (Phantom of the Opera) On Broadway Pachelbel Canon Pure Imagination Star Wars You Raise Me Up
NFMC CHOICE
Beautiful Dreamer Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home? Cielito Lindo Clair de Lune Fanfare on America Good Morning Blues Halloween Sonatine I Love a Piano I’m Henery the Eighth, I Am Morning Has Broken Oh! You Beautiful Doll The Spy Tarantella Italiana Theme from the Moonlight Sonata NFMC CHOICE
NFMC CHOICE
BigTime® Jazz & Blues
NEW! BigTime® Kids’ Songs
FF1011, 00420120 $6.95
FF3005, 00420325 $6.95
All the Things You Are Autumn Leaves Big City Blues Cast Your Fate to the Wind Desafinado Equinox Georgia on My Mind Locomotive Blues Lullaby of Birdland Misty Night Train Perdido Satin Doll Take the “A” Train A Taste of Honey
Can You Feel the Love Tonight (The Lion King) Cruella De Vil Flight of the Bumblbee Hakuna Matata (The Lion King) I’m a Believer In Dreams (The Lord of the Rings) Linus and Lucy (Meet) The Flintstones My Favorite Things Once Upon a Dream (Sleeping Beauty) The Pink Panther Thank You for Being a Friend
BigTime® Classics
FF1031, 00420140 $6.95 Arioso Canon in D Danse Macabre The Great Gate of Kiev Habanera Hornpipe Hungarian Dance No. 5 Liebesfreud Rondeau Russian Sailor’s Dance Songs of India Spring Song Tales from the Vienna Woods Theme from Symphony No. 40
BigTime® Ragtime & Marches
BigTime® Hymns
FF1029, 00420138 $6.95
FF1144, 00420211 $6.95
FF1435, 00420251 $6.95
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown The Game of Love Great Balls of Fire I Feel the Earth Move I Heard It Through the Grapevine I May Have Lost My Girlfriend, But I’ve Still Got My Car My Special Angel Piano Man Rock Around the Clock Strawberry Malt When a Man Loves a Woman
Champagne Rag Chatterbox Rag “Dill Pickles” Rag Entrance of the Gladiators The Entertainer Funeral March of a Marionette March of the Toys Solace Washington Post March Wild Cherries Rag Yanlee Doodle Boy
All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name All Night, All Day Break Thou the Bread of Life Come, Ye Thankful People, Come Crown Him with Many Crowns Deep River Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken It Is Well With My Soul Jesus Shall Reign Just As I Am A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
BigTime® Rock ’n Roll
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BigTime® Christmas
FF1016, 00420125 $6.95 Carol of the Bells The First Noel Hallelujah Chorus Hark! The Herald Angels Sing A Holly Jolly Christmas I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! O Come, O Come, Emmanuel O Holy Night Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Silent Night What Child Is This? Winter Wonderland
BigTime® Accompaniments Classics CD
CD1023 00420090 $10.95 Classics MIDI
GM1026 00420288 $9.95 Favorites CD
CD1022 00420089 $10.95 Favorites MIDI
GM1027 00420289 $9.95 Christmas CD
CD1040 00420105 $10.95 Christmas MIDI
GM1046 00420305 $10.95
LEVEL 4
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
Lyric Playing and “Personal Sound” At Level 3B, we appealed to the student’s interest in fast playing. At Level 4 the student learns lyric playing—the ability to project and beautifully shape a melody. We positioned lyric playing after fast playing because it requires more mature expression. We like to discuss the excitement of speed and the expressive quality of lyric playing as contrasting modes of expression—both powerful in different ways. Almost every student can relate to facile speed at the keyboard, but most need to be coached into the expressive mode. With exposure, most students find the more subtle expression personally rewarding. Lyric playing isn’t entirely new to the student. Back in Level 2A we even devoted a unit to Shaping the Phrase. Building on the Level 1 Wrist Float-off, the Technique & Artistry secrets gradually develop more sophisticated wrist gestures. Painter’s Brush Stroke at Level 2B particularly addresses shaping the slur. At Level 3A, the Round-Off ensures the student hears a softened phrase ending, and the Wrist Circles of Level 3A employ the wrist to shape a longer phrase. Level 3B Technique & Artistry worked with Voicing the Melody to develop melodic projection. Now, here at Level 4, the repertoire is specifically tailored for beautiful handling of melody.
Variety of Repertoire In most teaching studios, there is a range of musical tastes among students. Some students tell us their preference upfront, but, generally, we have to explore a range of sounds to find the style that really resonates with the individual. Broad exposure to various sounds and styles helps the teacher and student uncover a special interest—a personal sound. Once identified, we might celebrate this interest with a tailored supplement from the PreTime® to BigTime® library or from literature collections in The Developing Artist Library.
The motivational impact of this customization can be dramatic. In addition to harnessing the magnetic attraction to an individual’s favorite musical sounds, this process personalizes piano study. This shift in “locus of control” from teacher to learner constitutes a major move toward intrinsic motivation. We find more attentiveness, better retention, more practice, and a significant change in the communication dynamics. The right music makes all the difference.
Motivation isn’t the only benefit of exploring many styles. A variety of styles invites a range of fundamental competencies which coalesce into the essentials of intermediate piano playing: note-reading, chord recognition, steady tempo, dynamic contrast, pedal coloring, coordination of fingers, wrist, arm and torso, technical gestures, long line, melodic shaping and projection, and so on. While this list is not intended to be comprehensive, even for elementary piano pedagogy, it nonetheless suggests a range of skills with an implication of se quence. The method levels provide proper sequence, and the special repertoire characteristics of each level help provide focus.
Focus of Repertoire It is easy to assume that once taught , a concept is learned . Experience tells us otherwise. Neuroscience informs us that cognitive patterns and motor skills must be repeated to be retained. If at level 3B we didn’t immerse the student in the coordinated movements of fast playing, motor patterning would not become automatic. If we taught I, IV, V only in a single unit, there would be little or no recall of this a year later. So the entirety of Level 2B focuses on the primary chords, the bulk of Level 3B focuses on fast playing, and Level 4 focuses on lyric playing. By immersing the student in the defining character of the level, motor patterns, perceptual patterns, and cognitive patterns become reasonably lasting—not yet robust, perhaps—but sufficiently stable for the move to the next level.
Lyricism Let’s examine the Level 4 characteristic—lyricism. The lyric is the text of song, so lyricism refers to the singing quality in instrumental playing. The pianist does not simply accompany the singer; the pianist emulates the singer. We breathe the phrase, project the phrase, shape the phrase, and we imbue it with meaning—just as the voice does so naturally.
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In lyric playing, we give meaning to each phrase without words. Our goal in lyric playing is to bring the me lody to the fore with intention and sensitivity. We don’t just play the melody, we speak the melody through our instrument. When we give each note meaning—as in the spoken word— a melody takes on special magic. It becomes a personalized, poetic communication—indeed, a song without words.
Does the melody fall away (characteristic of Viennese Classical) or move toward (as in the late Romantics)? How does the wrist assist phrase shaping? Does the passage invite wrist circles that can help transfer arm weight finger-to-finger? Consider, for example, Chanson (French, meaning “song”), which is explicitly melody over accompaniment. The melody is intentionally long and beautiful. Though the first gesture is a simple 3-note slur, the melody continues to unfold across seven measures. Use the pedal to sustain the D and take a new drop into the continuing phrase (pickup to measure 2). The long line invites awareness of direction in melody.
The magic of melody often comes from its context. In other words, a melody derives its character, in part, from the colors of the accompanying voices. The setting critically frames the melody. How is the melody set against the accompaniment? To what degree does it contrast in dynamic? Does the accompaniment invoke the mood?
Probably the highpoint of expressive lyricism would be the coloratura soprano singing an operatic solo cadenza. So we give this to the student pianist in Wild Flowers.
Invariably, students play the melody too softly. Students need to be taught to project the melody way above the background setting. Not just louder—a lot louder. This is accomplished with the drop of arm weight and its roll through the melodic phrase, but also with the softening of the accompaniment. We’re after big projection, but also big contrast, which is made possible by intentionally softening the accompanying voices. Lyricism requires sensitivity to the contour of the melody. Are there expressive leaps? If so, might we stretch time through the larger interval?
The expressive quality of the cadenza is enhanced by the color tones of the forte chord at measure 27 which sustain beyond the fermata. The singer ascends freely to the high B with a crescendo, but also with subtle 2-note diminuendi in the appoggiaturas B-A, E-D, G-F, A-G. Soften the second note in each of these stepwise pairings while maintaining a legato throughout. Remind the student of the expressive quality of the F Ω that begins the resolution. It is borrowed from the parallel minor (and from the B section) and also forms a tritone (three whole steps) against the preceding B. The finishing expressive gesture places the V chord atop the I chord (E major atop A major) through a molto ritardando.
The student learns that expression derives from the musical content, and yet needs to be infused by the performer. We find hints for expression in our analysis—our analysis of phrase shape, and even our theory analysis. Informed by the simplicities and subtleties of the score, we add the warmth and expressive power of human emotion.
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LEVEL 5 Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 3 (easier)
Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 4 (challenging)
Developing Artist Piano Sonatinas Book 3
Achievement Skill Sheet #6: 2-Octave Minor Scales and Arpeggios Developing Artist Piano Sonatinas Book 4 (advancing)
Developing Artist Piano Literature for a Dark and Stormy Night
e T o B e d a s R e l e
LESSON BOOK
Achievement Skill Sheet #8: Intermediate Cadence Booklet
Theory
Technique & Artistry
AdvanceTime Piano Level 5 Supplementary Series ®
Popular Repertoire
Performance
Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets American Frontier Dance Brillante Für Elise, Beethoven Ghost in Our Piano Sonata in C Major Prelude in C, J.S. Bach Solfeggietto, C.P.E. Bach Sonata in G Major, Beethoven
Christmas
Beyond Level 5 Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets Pachelbel Canon, Pop & Jazz Arrangement Chinese Dragons (Duet) Egyptian Rhapsody Toccata in Morse Code
Achievement Literature Sheets Claire de lune, Debussy Tarantella, Pieczonka Rondo alla Turca, Mozart Prelude in D-at Major, Chopin La flle aux cheveux de lin, Debussy
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The Keyboard Artist Three Easier Waltzes, Chopin Three Mazurkas, Chopin Four Lyric Pieces, Grieg
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Level 5 Concepts I, IV, V7 chord inversion studies
cadences in major and minor keys
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more repertoire in E major
time signature
perfect intervals (4th, 5th, octave)
major/minor intervals (2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th)
circle of 5ths
two-octave arpeggios: C, G, D, A, E, B
flat key signatures
two-octave flat scales: F, B≤, E≤
three forms of minor scales
changing time signatures
Teach with...Analysis Recognition of triads in all inversions is important at the early intermediate level. At Level 5, work with the student’s recognition of the primary chords (I, IV and V) in any inversion. This is not achieved by playing the music, but only through deliberate analysis. “Steven, let’s find the chord names and label them above each measure. Look across both the bass and treble clefs. Can you bring the chord tones together under the hand?” “Laura, what is the chord function of C7 in this context? Does it resolve to I? Below each of these measures, let’s write I, IV or V7.”
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Level 5 Lesson Book
FF1093, 00420186 $6.95 Around the World Autumn Ballad Ballade Blue Etude Carillon Fantasia The Chase Choral Reef Etude Fanfare on America Hot Pursuit Jazz Reflection Naming Intervals Pomp and Circumstance Rhythm Flight Risoluto Rolling River Etude Shenandoah Smoky Mountain Prelude Sonatina St. Louis Blues Tumbleweed Blues Two Guitars When the Sun Rises… Whirlwind
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Performance
FF1095, 00420188 $6.50 Allegro in A Major Appalachian Trail Bearcat Boogie Come Back to Sorrento The Danube Waves Gypsy Prayer Mazurka in G Minor Poetic Theme and Variations Simple Gifts St. Anthony’s Chorale The Swan Waltz in E Flat
Achievement Skill Sheet #6: 2-Octave Minor Scales & Arpeggios
AS5006, 00420027 $3.95
Achievement Skill Sheet #8: Cadence Booklet
AS5008, 00420029 $3.95
Popular Repertoire
FF1323, 00420245 $7.95
Theory
Butterfly Kisses Candle in the Wind Hedwig’s Theme Over the Rainbow Summertime Take Five Tears in Heaven There You’ll Be Viewer Mail Theme Wind Beneath My Wings
FF1094, 00420187 $6.50
Activity Pages
Writing Sightreading Ear Training
Popular Repertoire CD
Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets American Frontier
A2011,
00420040 $2.95
Dance Brillante
A2007,
00420036 $2.95
Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 3 - with CD
FF1056, 00420165 $9.50 Allegro in A Major, L. Mozart Allegro in F Major, Haydn Arabesque, Burgmüller Avalanche, Heller Ballade, Burgmüller Chinese Figurine, Rebikov Cowboy Song, McKay Fanfare in C Major, Dumcombe Gavotte, Reinecke German Dance in D Major, Haydn
Harmony of the Angels, Burgmüller A Little Flower, Gurlitt March in D Major, C.P.E. Bach Melody, Schumann Minuet in A Minor, Krieger Minuet in D Minor, Lully Minuet in G Major, Anon. Minuet in G Major, Haydn Minuet in G Minor, Pezold Moons of Jupiter, Faber Musette in D Major, Anon Playing Soldiers, Rebikov Rondo for Four Hands, Diabelli (Duet) Solfeggio in D Major, J.C. Bach Sonatina in C Major, Clementi Sonatina in C Major, Haslinger Sonatina in G Major, Diabelli Sonatina, Jacoby Song of the Range Rider, McKay Spinning Song, Ellmenreich Tambourin, Gossec Two German Dances, Beethoven Wild Rider, Schumann
BigTime® Piano... Level 4 and Beyond! Students at Level 5 and above often work on increasingly difficult repertoire— pieces that can take weeks or months to learn and polish. It is important to pair that repertoire with shorter pieces that can be learned in a week or two. For that reason, consider assigning a sequence of books from the BigTime ® Piano Library to your advancing students. They can learn pieces quickly, often completing an entire book in just a couple of months. While developing facile reading skill, the contrasting styles and sounds allow work on the essential elements of tone and expression. And, it is fun for the teacher and the student!
Für Elise, Beethoven
AL6002, 00420006 $2.95 The Ghost in Our Piano
CD1030, 00420096 $10.95
A2029, 00420056 $2.95
Popular Repertoire MIDI
Prelude in C, J.S. Bach
GM1038, 00420299 $10.95
AL6006, 00420010 $2.95 Solfeggietto, C.P.E. Bach
AL6004, 00420008 $2.50 Sonata in G Major, Beethoven
AL6009, 00420013 $3.95 Sonata in C Major, Mozart
AL6008, 00420012 $3.95 64
See page 59 for more details!
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Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 4- with CD
Developing Artist Piano Sonatinas, Book 3
FF1282, 00420239 $15.95
FF1112, 00420201 $8.95
Adagio and Furiant, Fibich Allegro in A Major, W.F. Bach Bourrée in E Minor, J.S. Bach Bronco Bill, McKay Canoeing, Beach Concerto in C, Haydn Dance with a Bell, Rebikov Distant Sierras, McKay Folia, Scarlatti Für Elise, Beethoven Giant Purple Butterflies, Rossi In the Forest, Rebikov Intrada, Graupner L’Orage, Burgmüeller Little Prelude in C Major, J.S. Bach Little Prelude in F Major, J.S. Bach Mazurka in F Major, Chopin Miniature, Gurlitt Minuet in D Minor, Buttstedt Minuet in G Major, Beethoven Musette in G Major, J.S. Bach Prelude in B Minor, Chopin Prelude in C Major, J.S. Bach Prelude in E Minor, Chopin Presto, Pescetti Ride of Pegasus, Faber Sailor’s Song, Grieg Scherzo in D Minor, Gurlitt Solfeggietto, C.P.E. Bach Sonatina in A Minor, Benda Sonatina in C Major, Kuhlau Sonatina in G Major, Clementi Sweet Dream, Tchaikovsky Waltz in A Minor, Chopin Watchman’s Song, Grieg Winter Painting, Faber
Sonatina (Op. 157, No. 4), Spindler Sonatina (Op. 20, No. 1), Kuhlau Sonatina (Op. 36, No. 2), Clementi Sonatina (Op. 36, No. 3), Clementi Sonatina (Op. 4, No. 10), Wesley Sonatina (Op. 49, No. 1), Lichner Sonatina (Op. 55, No. 3), Kuhlau Sonatina in A Minor, Benda Sonatina in C, Mozart Sonatina in D, Camidge Sonatina in F, Beethoven
Developing Artist Piano Literature for a Dark and Stormy Night
FF1175, 00420219 $4.95 Allegro con Fuoco, Diabelli (Duet) Avalanche, Heller Etude in C Minor, Bertini The Ghost in the Fireplace, Kullak Storm and Stress, Gurlitt The Wild Horseman, Schumann
Egyptian Rhapsody
A2014, 00420043 $3.50
Clair de lune, Debussy
AL6007, 00420011 $2.95
Pachelbel Canon, Pop-Jazz Arrangement
La fille aux chevex de lin, Debussy
A2013, 00420042 $2.95
AL6011, 00420015 $2.50
Toccata in Morse Code
Prelude in D-flat Major, Chopin
AD3001, 00420000 $3.50
AL6001, 00420005 $2.95
Chinese Dragons (Duet)
Rondo alla Turca, Mozart
AD3005, 00420004 $5.95
AL6005, 00420009 $2.95 Tarantella, Pieczonka
AdvanceTime Christmas
AL6010, 00420014 $3.50
FF1124, 00420203 $6.50 Developing Artist Piano Sonatinas, Book 4
FF1113, 00420202 $9.95 Rondo à la Turk, Mozart Sonata (Hob. XVI/13, 3rd Movement), Haydn Sonata (K. 545), Mozart Sonata (Op. 49, No. 2), Beethoven Sonatina (Op. 36, No. 4), Clementi Sonatina (Op. 36, No. 6), Clementi Sonatina (Op. 54, No. 1), Gurlitt Sonatina, Keller Sonatina (Op. 88, No. 1), Kuhlau Sonatina (Op. 88, No. 3, 3rd Movement), Kuhlau
Auld Lang Syne Celebration of Carols Dance of the Reed Pipes Go Tell It on the Mountain God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Jingle Bells March (Nutcracker Suite) Over the River and Through the Woods Silent Night Skaters’ Waltz We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Four Lyric Pieces, Grieg
FF1187, 00420223 $4.50 Three Easier Waltzes, Chopin
FF1154, 00420213 $4.50 Three Mazurkas, Chopin
FF1153, 00420212 $4.50
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The I-IV-V Tapestry As we read and create music, we weave through a I-IV-V tapestry of primary chords. At Piano Adventures® Level 5, we ensure that the student can see and feel this structural tapestry for each tonal piece.
Scales “Why learn scales?” students ask. Our answer? A scale reduces 88 keys to seven. Five keys are eliminated in each octave (12 chromatic tones minus five leaves seven diatonic scale steps), and each of these seven tones retains its own meaning regardless of octave.
The last three measures of this piece offer opportunity for improvisation. Taking the short rhythmic motive given, explore any tones from the B-flat major “thread.” It is surprising to see—and to hear—how easy this can be.
Well, yes, there is that issue of fumbled fingering. Fortunately, the flat-key scales give special opportunity to simplify fingering, which is why we devote Level 5 to the flat key signatures. Here’s the rule: For RH flat-key scales, the thumb plays on C and F.
So we always have RH fingers 1-2-3 on C-D-E, and fingers 1-2-3-4 on F, G, A, B.
So when playing the Pachelbel Canon in D, for instance, we can ignore one third of the keys on the keyboard and visualize a simple thread of the D major scale weaving through seven tones per octave, across the entire keyboard. Whether reading or improvising, attention is delimited to this D major thread for security, predictability, and confidence. Consider When the Sun Rises . . . from the Level 5 Lesson Book (p. 36). The piece is essentially an “ improvisation” in B-flat major, excepting a brief color detour with the A-flat in measures 6-9. By delimiting the keyboard to the notes of the B-flat major scale, and imagining this “scale thread” of two black keys interspersed with five white keys, the piece becomes easy to read and easy to play. Furthermore, there is little chance of a bad note sounding because the scale tones all relate to the tonality.
Without shifting this image, let’s flat the B under finger 4. n
Now also flat the E in the 3-finger pattern up from C. n
Now add A-flat to the 4-finger pattern. n
n
Back to the 3-finger pattern for D-flat, etc.
And so we go around the flat side of the circle of 5ths: C-FB≤-E≤-A≤-D≤-G≤. In every case, the RH fingering is consistent: three fingers built up from C, and four fingers built up from F. Work this over in blocked fashion—three fingers, four fingers—without beginning on the actual keynote. Then block it out in this same fashion, but going up several octaves. Now play the actual sc ale. (It’s not really important which finger plays the black key opening tonic.) With this fingering in mind, let’s revisit When the Sun Rises and improvise on measure 6, where we find an A-flat chord over the B-flat pedal point. Place RH fingers over C-D-E ≤ and/or F-G-A≤-B≤ and improvise over the LH ostinato. One might return to B-flat major accompanied by the opening ostinato. Also consider exploring alternative scale passages m odeled after those in measures 13 and 14. (See Level 5 Lesson Book p. 37.) We composed these scale passages to begin with thumb on F (measure 13) and thumb on C (measure 14) 66
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to reinforce the flat-key fingering rule. In improvising, one might use the prescribed hand placements, but begin on any note.
Chord Etudes Scales are invaluable, but it is the combining of scale tones in thirds that gives tonal music its harmonic structure. Recalling our metaphor, we use the scale “thread” to weave the chord tapestry. First and foremost, we weave the tapestry of I, IV, and V chords—in all inversions. As Level 5 progresses through various keys, each piece is preceded by a short etude, disguised by a title. Coral Reef Etude, for example, opens the book as a primary-chord study in C, featuring all inversions of I, IV, and V. To maximize the effectiveness of this and similar etudes:
Notice that Blue Etude (p. 11) is a primary-chord etude in F, preparing for Tumbleweed Blues (p. 12). Similarly, Rolling River Etude (p. 14) drills the primary chords in A major using the LH pattern of Shenandoah (p. 15). As the student progresses to new keys, come back to Blue Etude, transposing, for example, to B-flat (especially for those pre-jazzers who will be playing in B-flat with brass players). Revisit Rolling River Etude as preparation for the pieces in C minor and G minor when these are encountered later in the book.
Popular Repertoire
Play by memory. Encourage students to look at their hands for these etudes so that the keyboard patterns are visually imprinted. n
Play with eyes closed. Highlight the feel of the keys and the feel of the thirds and fourths. n
Transpose. Use Coral Reef Etude as a generic warm-up for every piece, in any key, whether major or minor. n
Coral Reef Etude is the harmonic grid, the primary-chord tapestry. It is essential for the student to grasp these chord patterns that combine the student’s understanding of primary chords with understanding of chord inversions. This is the bridge to the intermediate repertoire.
A look at Piano Adventures® Popular Repertoire Level 5 gives insight into the importance of chord comprehension. Consider Elton John’s Candle in the Wind. The entire verse (mm. 5-20) simply alternates between I and IV chords (G and C in the key of G major). Yet, how many students fail to recognize this simple chord pattern and struggle to decode 150 notes instead of two chords? So we pair the arrangement with an “Accompanying Activity” that drills I-IV chords in a pop accompaniment style. The arrangement then reduces to simplicity. In a different context, we again explore the repetition of I and IV in Wind Beneath My Wings. The corresponding activity page, titled “The Bass Beneath My Wings,” explores aural recognition of the bass line and various accompaniments for the I-IV chord progression.
The Power of Primary Chords In the Level 2B, we discussed “The Power of Primary Chords.” Indeed, one can’t overestimate the value of recognizing fundamental harmonies—for reading, for memorization, and for musical creativity. We recapitulate this concept here at Level 5 by weaving an elementary understanding of primary chords into a patterned “I-IV-V Tapestry” that includes chord inversions. The warm-up etudes in Piano Adventures® Level 5 provide some very effective tools. But learning the etudes once, in the key written, will not make a real musician. We need to roll up our sleeves and help students transpose these etudes to many, if not all, keys. Do so in conjunction with learning each new scale and each new piece. With this higher expectation, we can indeed develop a “I-IV-V Tapestry” that won’t fade by next week’s lesson.
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ACCELERATED COURSE
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
for the older beginner
ACCELERATED BOOK 1 Flashcards
I Can Read Music Book 1
LESSON BOOK
Developing Artist Preparatory Piano Literature (challenging)
Technique & Artistry
Achievement Skill Sheet #1: Major 5-finger patterns
Theory
spans... PlayTime ® and ShowTime®
Performance
Discover Beginning Improvisation
Popular Repertoire
PlayTime® Popular PlayTime® Classics PlayTime® Favorites PlayTime® Rock ‘n Roll PlayTime® Jazz & Blues PlayTime® Hymns PlayTime® Christmas (see pg. 19 for song lists)
Christmas
Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets
Once Upon A Rainbow, Book 1
Pony Express Shout Boo They’ll Be Back Walk on a Rainbow Cat Prowl
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ShowTime® Popular ShowTime ® Classics ShowTime ® Favorites ShowTime ® Jazz & Blues ShowTime ® Hymns ShowTime ® Christmas (see pg. 25 for song lists)
ACCELERATED COURSE
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
for the older beginner
Accelerated Book 1 Lesson Book
FF1205, 00420227 $8.95 Aloha Oe Amazing Grace Bagpipes Bus Stop Boogie Camptown Races Chant of the Monk Chant of the Monks Chinese Dragon Dreamscape Eine Kleine Nachtmusik English Minuet Fife and Drum Forest Drums French Minuet Go Down Moses Guide Note Pinball Gypsy Band Halftime Show Hard-Drivin’ Blues Hungarian Dance I’ve Got Music Irish Washerwoman Journey by Camel The Lonely Pine Melody on C and G Midnight Ride Minuet Morning Musette My Invention No Moon Tonight Ode to Joy Oh! Susanna Pep Rally The Piano Tuner Planetarium Polovtsian Dance Prince of Denmark’s March Promenade Racecar Rally Rhythm and Blues Roman Trumpets Row, Row, Row Your Boat Russian Folk Song Scenic Train Ride Sugarfoot Rag “Surprise” Symphony Toccatina Two-Hand Conversation Waltz When the Saints Go Marching In Zum Gali Gali
Theory
Performance
FF1206, 00420228 $6.95
FF1207, 00420229 $6.50
Writing Sightreading Eartraining
Allegro Alouette Backpacking Boogie in 3rds Carousel Melody Clock Tower Bells For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow Greensleeves The Handbell Choir (Duet) Horse and Sleigh La Cinquantaine March of the English Guard A Merry March Miniature Sonatina Mr. McGill Painting with Pastels Party Time Reveille Showboat Simple Gifts Snake Dance Square Dance Strike Up the Band! The San Francisco Trolley The Spanish Guitar Theme by Mozart
Technique & Artistry
FF1420, 00420250 $6.95 Alaskan Sled Team Contrary Motion Study Dance of the Irish Double Ferris Wheel Finlandia Good Music to You! Jazzy Saints Painter in the Park Perilous Midnight Ride Sleeping Beauty Waltz Swan Lake Theme Viking Ship
Popular Repertoire
Christmas
FF1470, 00420252 $6.95
FF1209, 00420230 $5.50
Fiddler on the Roof Hedwig’s Theme In Dreams The Lion Sleeps Tonight Over the Rainbow Soak Up the Sun Star Wars (Main Theme) Video What a Wonderful World
Angels We Have Heard on High Deck the Halls Good King Wenceslas Jingle Bells Joy to the World O Come, All Ye Faithful Silent Night We Three Kings of Orient Are We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Duet)
Background Accompanimnts Lesson Book 1 Enhanced CD
CD1016, 00420083 $14.95 (accompaniments in two tempos plus MIDI files for Lesson, Performance, Technique & Artistry books)
Popular Repertoire Book 1 CD
CD1041, 00420106 $10.95 Popular Repertoire Book 1 MIDI
GM1047, 00420306 $10.95
Discover Beginning Improvisation FF1051CD 00420160 $8.95
book with enhanced CD
The ability to improvise can be developed rather easily. Discover Beginning Improvisation is designed for students of all ages who have had no previous experience improvising. The book lays the foundation for composition and improvisation using the simplest possible exercises in imaginative settings. It features: • solo and duet improvisations • written assignments
• theory review • teacher accompaniments.
The enhanced CD provides audio background accompaniments as well as MIDI files. Exercises in Discover Improvisation are virtually foolproof, inspiring student creativity and offering fun-filled exploration for both student and teacher. Students should have an elementary music-reading proficiency, completing Piano Adventures ® Level 2A.
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ACCELERATED COURSE
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
for the older beginner
ACCELERATED BOOK 2 Flashcards
Achievement Skill Sheet #2: Minor 5-finger patterns
Developing Artist Preparatory Piano Literature
I Can Read Music Book 2
LESSON BOOK
Developing Artist Piano Literature Book 1 (challenging)
Technique & Artistry
Theory Discover Blues Improvisation
Performance
spans... ShowTime ® and ChordTime®
Popular Repertoire
ShowTime ® Popular ShowTime ® Classics ShowTime ® Favorites ShowTime ® Jazz & Blues ShowTime ® Hymns ShowTime ® Christmas (see pg. 25 for song lists) Once Upon A Rainbow, Book 2
Achievement Solo & Duet Sheets Walk in a Rainbow Cat Prowl Classic Sonatina Jazz Pizzazz Land of Dreams
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ChordTime® Popular ChordTime® Classics ChordTime® Favorites ChordTime® Rock ‘n Roll ChordTime® Jazz & Blues ChordTime® Hymns ChordTime® Christmas (see pg. 31 for song lists)
ACCELERATED COURSE
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
for the older beginner
Accelerated Book 2 Lesson Book
FF1210, 00420231 $9.95 50’s Jukebox Almost Like a Dream America American Fiddle Tune (Turkey in the Straw) Beach Party Beethoven’s 5th Symphony Blues Train The Boogie Machine Brahms’ Lullaby Can-Can Cathedral Chimes Classical Dance El Matador The Entertainer Evening Guitars The Flight French Dance Give My Regards to Broadway Jazz Blast Jumpin’ Jazz Cat The King’s Royal Entrance Kum Ba Yah Lazy Chord Blues Magnolia Waltz Malaguena Minuet in G Mysterious Casbah New River Train New World Symphony Parasailing Pumpkin Boogie Rise and Shine Rowing on a Stormy Sea Rustic Dance Silent Movie Music Sounds from the Gumdrop Factory Stars and Stripes Forever Summer Stars Taps Waltz Wayfaring Stranger Whirling Leaves William Tell Overture
Theory
Technique & Artistry
Performance
Popular Repertoire
FF1474, 00420253 $6.95
FF1746, 00420265 $7.50
FF1212, 00420232 $6.50
FF1479, 00420254 $6.95
Writing Sightreading Ear Training
Captain Hook’s Rockin’ Party Dancin’ to the CD Etude in C Gusts of Wind The King’s Royal Exit Long, Long Ago (Variation) Long, Long Ago, (Theme) Mirage Musette Mystery Waltz The Potato Chip Thief Track Meet Winner’s Waltz Zebras Running
African Celebration Club Jazz Down by the Riverside Everybody Ought to Know Gallop on the Moor German Dance Holiday Fanfare Mysterious Cavern Niagara Falls O Sole Mio! Pale Moon Serenade Peppermint Rag Prelude in F Prince of Denmark’s March Ride of Paul Revere The Snow Castle “Surprise” Symphony Tambourin The Time Machine (A Stop at the 18th Century) Waltz in D Major
Because You Loved Me Bring On the Rain Empire State of Mind The Game of Love Hero I Will Remember You The James Bond Theme A New Day Has Come Thank You You
Background Accompanimnts Lesson Book 2 Enhanced CD
CD1024, 00420091 $9.95 (accompaniments in two tempos plus MIDI files for Lesson, Performance, Technique & Artistry books)
Popular Repertoire Book 2 CD
CD1042, 00420107 $10.95 Popular Repertoire Book 2 MIDI
GM1048, 00420307 $10.95
Discover Blues Improvisation FF1155CD 00420215 $8.95
book with enhanced CD
Discover Blues Improvisation offers piano students a chance to explore the blues, and improvise in other styles such as popular music and jazz. The enhanced CD includes real blues band accompaniments, as well as standard MIDI files. Students should have an elementary music-reading proficiency, completing Piano Adventures ® Level 2B or Accelerated Piano Adventures® Book 2. The exercises and pieces in this book nurture creativity and self-expression through the framework of the 12-bar blues. The improvisation exercises are simple, effective, and fun for both student and teacher. This comprehensive approach features: • instruction in improvisation and theory • appealing pieces with improvisation options • blues technique • blues ear training.
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FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
WITH CDs
PIANO LITERATURE Original Keyboard Classics from Baroque to Contemporary
Preparatory
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
FF1027 00420136 $5.95
FF1030 00420139 $6.95
FF1034 00420143 $7.50
FF1056 00420165 $9.50
FF1282 00420239 $15.95
Beyer Bolck Köhler Löw Praetorius Türk Vogel Wilton
Alt Attwood J.C. Bach Diabelli Dubliansky Faber Gurlitt Haydn Hook Lynes Mouret Praetorius Salutrinskaya Schytte Spindler Telemann Türk Von der Hofe Wohlfahrt
J.C. Bach Beethoven Clarke Faber Graupner Gurlitt Hummel McKay Mozart Pezold Poe Rameau Rebikov Schumann Speer Szymanowska Tchaikovsky
C.P.E. Bach J.C.F. Bach Beethoven Burgmüller Clementi Diabelli Duncombe Ellmenreich Faber Gossec Gurlitt Haslinger Haydn Heller Jacoby Krieger L. Mozart Lully McKay Pezold Rebikov Schumann Reinecke
C.P.E. Bach J.S. Bach W.F. Bach Beach Beethoven Benda Burgmüller Buttstedt Chopin Clementi Faber Fibich Graupner Grieg Gurlitt Haydn Kuhlau McKay Pescetti Rebikov Rossi Scarlatti Tchaikovsky
Correlation with PIANO ADVENTURES Level 2A-2B
Level 2B
Accelerated Books 1 & 2
Level 3A-3B
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Level 3B
Level 4
Level 4
Level 5
Beyond Level 5
Accelerated Books 1 & 2
More Literature Choices For the Developing Artist Selections from the Notebook for Anna Magdelana Bach
Piano Literature for a Dark and Stormy Night
FF1049 00420158 $4.95
FF1175 00420219 $4.95
Use with Level 4
Use with Level 5
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DEVELOPING ARTIST
FABER PIANO ADVENTURES
PIANO SONATINAS A Comprehensive Well-Graded Series of Authentic Keyboard Sonatinas
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
FF1110 $6.95
FF1111 $7.95
FF1112 $8.95
00420199
00420200
Attwood Beethoven Clementi Diabelli Haslinger Jacoby Kuhlau Latour Lynes Spindler
Attwood Biehl Czerny Duncombe Gurlitt Salutrinskaya
Book 4 00420201
Beethoven Benda Camidge Clementi Kuhlau Lichner Mozart Spindler Wesley
FF1113 $9.95
00420202
Beethoven Clementi Gurlitt Haydn Keller Kuhlau Mozart
Correlation with PIANO ADVENTURES ® Level 3A-3B
Level 4
Level 5
Beyond Level 5
LITERATURE SHEETS Piano Repertoire from Baroque to Contemporary • Edited by Randall Faber Baroque Classical Romantic Impressionistic J.S. Bach: Prelude in C AL6006 00420010 $5.95
C.P.E. Bach: Solfeggietto AL6004 00420008 $2.50 Beethoven: Für Elise AL6002 00420006 $2.95 Beethoven: Sonatina in G Major AL6003 00420007 $3.50 Beethoven: Sonata in G Major AL6009 00420013 $3.50 Mozart: Rondo alla Turca AL6005 00420009 $2.95 Mozart: Sonata in C Major AL6008 00420012 $3.95
Chopin: Prelude in D-flat Major “Raindrop” AL6001 00420005 $2.95 Pieczonka: Tarantella AL6010 0042001 $3.50
Debussy: Clair de Lune AL6007 00420011 $2.95 Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin AL6011 00420015 $2.50
THE KEYBOARD ARTIST Edited by Randall Faber
Chopin: Three Easier Waltzes
Chopin: Three Mazurkas
Grieg: Four Lyric Pieces
FF1154 00420213 $4.50 Waltz in A Minor (Op. Posthumous) Waltz in B Minor (Op. 69, No. 2) Waltz in A-flat Major (Op. 69, No. 1)
FF1153 00420212 $4.50 Mazurka in F Major (Op. 68, No. 3) Mazurka in G Minor (Op. 67, No. 2) Mazurka in B-flat Major (Op. 7, No. 1)
FF1187 00420223 $4.50 Waltz (Op. 12, No. 2) Watchman’s Song (Op. 12, No. 3) Puck (Op. 71, No. 3) Sailor’s Song (Op. 68, No. 1)
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Curiouser and Curiouser Trio by Nancy Faber
This unique piece was commissioned by the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) to celebrate the organization’s Year of Collaborative Music, and was debuted at the 2011 MTNA National Convention. Written for late intermediate to early a dvanced students, this chamber trio features a “curious” one-note opening followed by a quirky, merry melody that leads the performers to unexpected musical places. The piece ends as mysteriously as it begins—with a final flourish.
Available in five orchestrations: B-Flat Clarinet, E-Flat Saxophone, Piano FF7001 00420319 $16.95
Flute, Cello, Piano FF7004 00420322 $16.95 (To Be Released)
Flute, Viola, Piano FF7002 00420320 $16.95
Violin, Cello, Piano FF7005 00420323 $16.95 (To Be Released)
Flute, Violin, Piano FF7003 00420321 $16.95
This piece is suitable for piano students who have completed Piano Adventures® Level 5.
Bettyian Roulade Flute Solo by Nancy Faber Bettyian Roulade is an advanced solo flute piece premiered at the 2012 National Flute Convention in honor of Betty Mather, the famed flute pedagogue. The word “roulade” originates from the French word “rouler” that means “to roll.” This piece features “rouladian” passages that combine overblown arpeggios, tremolos, and harmonics. Listen to an audio recording at www.PianoAdventures.com/roulade Bettyian Roulade FF7008 00103217 $8.95
Christmas Chamber Music Celebrate the joy of the holiday season with this advancedlevel trio arrangement of a beloved carol. This expansive concert arrangement by Nancy Faber offers sparkling melodic interplay and captivating harmonies for flute, cello, and piano. Joy to the World FF7006 00420335 $9.95
This serene presentation of Silent Night offers an expressive chamber music performance for flute, cello, and piano. Arranged by Nancy Faber. (moderately advanced) Silent Night FF7007 00420336 $9.95 76
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My First Piano Adventure®
Lesson Book A with CD
$9.95
FF1619
00420259
Writing Book A
$6.95
FF1620
00420260
Lesson Book B with CD
$9.95
FF1621
00420261
Writing Book B
$6.95
FF1622
00420262
Lesson Book C
$7.95
FF1623
00420263
Writing Book C
$6.95
FF1624
00420264
Christmas Book A
$4.95
FF3001
00001471
Christmas Book B
$5.50
FF3002
00001472
Christmas Book C
$5.50
FF3003
00001482
My Little Yellow Practice Book
$3.50
FF3009
00420330
My Little Blue Manuscript Book
$3.50
FF3010
00420331
Piano Adventures® Primer Level
Piano Adventures® Level 2B
Lesson Book
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$6.95
FF1084
00420177
Theory Book
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$6.50
FF1085
00420178
Technique & Artistry Book NEW 2nd Edition! $6.50
FF1099
00420192
Performance Book
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$6.50
FF1086
00420179
Sightreading Book
NEW!
$6.95
FF3015
00117301
Gold Star Performance with CD
$7.95
FF1605
00420258
Popular Repertoire Book
$6.95
FF1259
00420237
Christmas Book
$4.95
FF1140
00420208
Lesson Book Enhanced CD
$10.95
CD1004
00420071
Popular Repertoire Enhanced CD NEW! $10.95
CD1020
00420087
Popular Repertoire MIDI
$10.95
GM1016
00420278
Lesson Book
$6.95
FF1087
00420180
Theory Book
$6.50
FF1088
00420181
Technique & Artistry Book
$6.50
FF1100
00420193
Performance Book
$6.50
FF1089
00420182
Popular Repertoire Book
$7.50
FF1260
00420238
Christmas Book
$5.50
FF1141
00420209
Lesson Book Enhanced CD
$10.95
CD1005
00420072
Popular Repertoire Enhanced CD NEW! $10.95
CD1027
00420093
Piano Adventures® Level 3A
Lesson Book
$6.95
FF1075
00420168
Theory Book
$6.50
FF1076
00420169
Technique & Artistry Book
$6.50
FF1096
00420189
Performance Book
$6.50
FF1077
00420170
Sightreading Book
$6.95
FF3006
00420328
Teacher Guide
$39.95
FF3007
00420327
Gold Star Performance with CD
$7.95
FF1602
00420255
Popular Repertoire Book
$6.95
FF1256
00420234
Piano Adventures® Level 3B
Christmas Book
$3.95
FF1137
00420205
Lesson Book
$6.95
FF1180
00420220
Lesson Book Enhanced CD
$10.95
CD1001
00420068
Theory Book
$6.50
FF1181
00420221
Popular Repertoire CD
$10.95
CD1017
00420084
Technique & Artistry Book
$6.50
FF1289
00420240
Popular Repertoire MIDI
$10.95
GM1013
00420275
Performance Book
$6.50
FF1182
00420222
Popular Repertoire Book
$7.50
FF1290
00420241
Christmas Book
$6.50
FF1201
00420226
Lesson Book Enhanced CD
$10.95
CD1006
00420073
Popular Repertoire CD
$10.95
CD1028
00420094
Popular Repertoire MIDI
$10.95
GM1036
00420297
Piano Adventures® Level 1
Lesson Book
$6.95
FF1078
00420171
Theory Book
$6.50
FF1079
00420172
Technique & Artistry Book
$6.50
FF1097
00420190
Performance Book
$6.50
FF1080
00420173
Sightreading Book
$6.95
FF3013
00420338
Piano Adventures® Level 4
Gold Star Performance with CD
$7.95
FF1603
00420256
Lesson Book
$6.95
FF1090
00420183
Popular Repertoire Book
$6.95
FF1257
00420235
Theory Book
$6.50
FF1091
00420184
Christmas Book
$4.95
FF1138
00420206
Technique & Artistry Book
$6.50
FF3012
00420339
Lesson Book Enhanced CD
$10.95
CD1002
00420069
Performance Book
$6.50
FF1092
00420185
Popular Repertoire CD
$10.95
CD1018
00420085
Popular Repertoire Book
$7.95
FF1315
00420244
Popular Repertoire MIDI
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GM1014
00420276
Christmas Book
$5.50
FF1142
00420210
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CD1029
00420095
Popular Repertoire MIDI
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GM1037
00420298
Piano Adventures® Level 2A
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$6.95
FF1081
00420174
Theory Book
$6.50
FF1082
00420175
Piano Adventures® Level 5
Technique & Artistry Book
$6.50
FF1098
00420191
Lesson Book
$6.95
FF1093
00420186
Performance Book
$6.50
FF1083
00420176
Theory Book
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FF1094
00420187
$6.95
FF3014
00102766
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FF1095
00420188
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FF1604
00420257
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FF1323
00420245
Popular Repertoire Book
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00420236
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CD1030
00420096
Christmas Book
$4.95
FF1139
00420207
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GM1038
00420299
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CD1003
00420070
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CD1019
00420086
PracticeTime Assignment Book
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FF1167
00420217
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GM1015
00420277
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FF1168
00420218
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FF1205
00420227
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FF1302
00420242
Theory Book 1
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FF1206
00420228
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00420243
Technique & Artistry Book 1
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00420250
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CD1025
00420092
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00420229
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00420246
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00420252
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00420247
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00420230
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CD1031
00420097
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CD1016
00420083
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00420248
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CD1041
00420106
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FF1371
00420249
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GM1047
00420306
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00420231
Pre-Reading Christmas - Primer
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00420159
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00420253
DuetTime Christmas - Primer
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FF1025
00420134
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00420265
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FF1026
00420135
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00420232
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00420147
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00420254
Once Upon a Rainbow - Book 1
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FF1103
00420194
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CD1024
00420091
Once Upon a Rainbow - Book 2
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FF1104
00420195
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CD1042
00420107
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FF1005
00420196
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GM1048
00420307
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00420157
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00420167
The Developing Artist
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00420136
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00420233
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00420139
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00420160
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00420143
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00420215
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00420165
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00420108
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00420239
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MN1001
00420311
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00420199
Practice & Progress Lesson Notebook
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FF1024
00420133
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00420200
The Collaborative Artist
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00420201
Curiouser and Curiouser (Clarinet, Saxophone, Piano)
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FF7001
00420319
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00420202
Curiouser and Curiouser (Flute, Viola, Piano)
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00420320
Piano Lit. for a Dark & Stormy Night
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00420219
Curiouser and Curiouser (Flute, Violin, Piano)
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00420321
Selections from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
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00420158
Joy to the World (Flute, Cello, Piano)
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00420335
Silent Night (Flute, Cello Piano)
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00420336
Bach, J.S. - Prelude in C
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AL6006
00420010
Bettyian Roulade (Advanced Flute Solo)
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00103217
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00420008
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00420006
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00420013
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AS5001
00420022
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AL6003
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00420023
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00420009
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00420024
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00420012
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00420025
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00420026
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00420027
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00420014
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00420028
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00420011
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00420029
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00420015
American Frontier
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00420040
Ave Maria
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00420020
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00420062
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00420034
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00420056
The Keyboard Artist
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00420213
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00420212
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00420223
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Look at What I Can Do!
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Once I Caught a Fish
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Pete, the Repeat Bird
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Toy Town
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Walk In a Rainbow
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Wee Small Bear
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00420132
Would You Go In?
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00420119
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00420117
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00420078
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About the Fabers Nancy and Randall Faber have combined their backgrounds as composer and performer to become leading supporters of piano teachers and students. The husband and wife team has authored over 200 publications, including the bestselling Piano Adventures® method and the PreTime® to BigTime® Piano Supplementary Library. Nancy Faber was named “Distinguished Composer of the Year” by the Music Teachers National Association for her award-winning composition Tennessee Suite for Piano and String Quartet. Her flute quartet Voices from Between Worlds was the winning composition for the National Flute Association’s Professional Chamber Music Competition. Her most recent commissions include Curiouser and Curiouser for Clarinet, Saxophone, and Piano, commissioned by MTNA for the 2011 National Convention in celebration of its Year of Collaborative Music, and Bettyian Roulade for the 2012 National Flute Convention. Nancy’s music has been heard on network television and public radio. Teachers of composition include Joan Tower, William Albright, and British composer Nicholas Maw; piano studies were at the Eastman School and Michigan State University. Randall Faber performs extensively as a classical pianist and lectures on musical artistry and talent development around the world. His performances have aired on television and public radio. A guest artist at universities throughout Asia and North America and a frequent convention artist, Faber has been a master teacher for the World Piano Pedagogy Conference, the Music Teachers National Association Conference, and the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy. Dr. Faber holds three degrees from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in education and human development from Vanderbilt University. Faber is a Steinway Artist. The Fabers advocate piano study not only for personal expression and performance success, but also as a vehicle for the student’s creative, cognitive, and personal development. Their philosophy is reflected in their writing, their public appearances, and in their own teaching.
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