PIANO ADVENTURES®

pproaches. The series offers a wide variety of sounds and styles with many optional teacher duets.

Piano Adventures® has set a new standard for quality educational publications. This innovative and exciting method series continues to enjoy an unprecedented response from teachers and students around the world.

Piano Adventures® features:

• combines the strengths of intervallic reading, multi-key, and Middle C approaches

• offers a wide variety of sounds and styles with many optional teacher duets

• entertains and delights students with beautiful color illustrations and a carefully conceived layout

• background accompaniments are now available on CD or MIDI diskette

• Lesson

• Theory

• Performance

• Technique and Artistry

• Popular Repertoire

• CD

• MIDI

PRETIME® TO BIGTIME® PIANO

Almost everyone has a favorite style of music. PreTime® to BigTime® Piano lets you explore the style of music you love, regardless of your reading ability at the piano. Arranged at seven levels of difficulty, the series offers enjoyable arrangements of well-known pieces at precisely the appropriate grade level.

Teachers find the PreTime® to BigTime® books to be tremendously motivational because these are the students' books. They bring fun to the study of piano.

Each level in PreTime® to BigTime® has a corresponding name; the list below on the left shows the name for each level. Each level offers a full range of musical genres; the list below on the right shows the list of available genres.
Click a level name to view its available genres, or click a genre name to view its available levels.

• PreTime Piano - Primer Level

• PlayTime Piano - Level 1

• ShowTime Piano - Level 2A

• ChordTime Piano - Level 2B

• FunTime Piano - Level 3

• BigTime Piano - Level 4

• AdvanceTime Piano - Level 5

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• Popular

• More Popular

• Favorites

• Classics

• Jazz And Blues

• Rock N Roll

• Ragtime and Marches

• Children's Songs

• Hymns

• Christmas

• Jewish Favorites

ADULT PIANO ADVENTURES®

Adult Piano Adventures is a comprehensive course in reading, playing, and listening to music. With its logical and effective approach to note-reading, Book One gives you the basic skills to play hundreds of melodies by the completion of the book.

The enjoyment of familiar songs is a hallmark of Piano Adventures®. You will find world-famous classic and popular melodies, as well as folk songs from around the world, jazz and blues favorites, and beloved spirituals. You will learn to play chords and gain an understanding of basic harmony while developing reading skills.

This series includes lessons, technique, and theory together in each volume for ease of use. Each unit includes a “3-Minute Technique” page to develop finger dexterity and a “Music Theory” page to develop understanding of rhythm and harmony. Though study with an experienced piano teacher is recommended, adults interested in beginning on their own will also find these books invaluable.

• Lesson Book

• Lesson Book with CD

• CD

• MIDI

ACCELERATED PIANO ADVENTURES®

Accelerated Piano Adventures® for the Older Beginner features the proven, pedagogical approach set forth in the basic piano method and continues the tradition of learning music through discovery, creativity, and adventure. Book 1 of the accelerated series combines the Primer Level and Level One of the basic Piano Adventures® method. Book 2 combines Levels 2A and 2B.

• Lesson

• Theory

• Performance

• Technique and Artistry

• Popular Repertoire

• CD

• MIDI

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

I Can Read Music® books can be used as a supplementary reading tool to any method. These books help to motivate students and promote confidence in note reading.

The Piano Adventures® PracticeTime Assignment Book is specially designed to optimize both lesson time and practice time. The book can be used effectively at any level of the Piano Adventures® method.
 

The Developing Artist® Library is a supplementary library with a comprehensive set of literature books for the serious-minded student. The music in this library is all authentic keyboard repertoire.