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HAL LEONARD STUDENT PIANO LIBRARY

The Hal Leonard Student Piano Library has great music. It's that simple.

Great music means motivated students, inspired teachers and delighted parents. You couldn't ask for better results! We've combined wonderful music with solid pedagogy and an innovative approach to learning, to create a winning method for everyone. It's a method that encourages practice, progress, confidence, and best of all - success! Students respond with enthusiasm to the:

• Variety of styles and moods
• Natural rhythmic flow, singable melodies and lyrics
• Exceptional teacher accompaniments
• Improvisations threaded throughout the series
• Instrumental Accompaniments for every piece available on CD or General MIDI disk
• Supportive supplementary materials graded to complement the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library, including: fantastic seasonal music, solo and ensembles songbooks, and helpful teaching aids.

• Realistic pacing that challenges without overwhelming
• Clear and concise presentation of concepts
• Uncluttered page layout that keeps the focus on the music.

• Lessons

• Practice Games

• Technique

• Solos

• Theory Workbook

• Notespeller

• Piano Ensembles

   

Concepts introduced in Level 1

Concepts introduced in Level 2

Concepts introduced in Level 3

Concepts introduced in Level 4

Concepts introduced in Level 5

10 reasons why your students will come back for more.
 

1. Students love the music and practice with enthusiasm.

• Singable melodies

• Innovative teacher accompaniments

2. Students feel comfortable playing music in many styles.

• Features 14 contemporary composers

• Favourite folk tunes

• Classical repertoire

• Pop, rock and jazz

3. Students love playing with the Instrumental Accompaniments.
Using this model for their polished performance, students play with:

• Increased rhythmic security

• Musical feeling

• Appropriate style

4. Students enjoy the personality of the artwork.

• Practice partners Spike and Party Cat make learning fun

• Illustrations enhance the music yet leave room for the students’ imagination

5. Students easily understand the eclectic reading approach.

• Off-staff reading introduces finger numbers and key names

• Intervallic reading introduces steps, skips, and repeats

• Staff reading, using reading guides F, G & C, extends intervallic reading in three-note patterns

• Movable positions, using middle C as a part of each one, keep students from reading by finger number or note name

6. Students take more initiative in their own learning.

• Concepts written in student language

• Ideas presented one at a time in an uncluttered lay-out

7. Students develop two-hand coordination beginning with the first lesson.

• Melodic phrasing is assigned to each hand

• Contrapuntal and choral skills receive equal emphasis

8. Students relate theory and technique to the music itself.

• Every theory and technique assignment makes music

• The listening and writing activities “play with” each piece aurally, visually and physically

9. Students first improvise within limited boundaries.

• The “My Own Song” improvisations explore new hand positions

• Creative activities expand students’ knowledge of each piece and encourage them to improvise music of their own

10. Students enjoy returning to old favourites, playing their pieces at a higher and higher level of mastery.