The Accelerated Piano Adventures: For the Older Beginner series is the perfect introduction to piano for students who don't need the cutesy-cartoons that often pepper beginning piano instruction books. Each level has four additional books (all of which are sold-separately): Lesson, Theory, Technique & Artistry, and Performance. A piano method based on discovery, creativity and adventure through music, students will soon become acquainted with the great Classical musicians and plenty of additional enjoyable works.
Accelerated Piano Adventures: For the Older Beginner SightReading Book 1 teaches students the basics of sight reading. Students will learn to recognize individual notes and note patterns (both rhythmic and melodic) through studying musical variations drawn from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, as well as traditional folk songs. Students will learn to sight-read music that includes eighth note rhythms, all the notes of a grand staff, intervals of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and octave, C and G five-finger melodies, and I and V7 chords in the keys of C and G.
The Piano Adventures method teaches students through a step-by -step approach with constant review. This book is organized into sets of five daily exercises based upon the (not-included and sold-separately) lesson book. Students are to play one exercise a day for one set completed per week. 95 pages, softcover.
