Alfred's Children's Programs

Sit down at the piano and be swept away to Jane Austen's elegant world of 18th-century drawing rooms and ballroom dancing! This stand-out collection of musical arrangements includes pieces from classic feature films including Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion. Composers include Rachel Portman, Patrick Doyle, Carl Davis, and Jeremy Sams. Intermediate level. 29 pages, softcover from Alfred.

Teach your 7- to 12-year-olds the basics behind making beautiful music! Althouse helps kids identify fundamental symbols and notations in four sequential units of eight lessons each. Covers staff, clefs, notes, rhythm, pitch, and tempo. Includes lesson review work sheets and answer key. 120 reproducible pages, spiralbound softcover from Alfred.

You don't need fancy instruments to learn to play the drums! This colorful kid's drum course will teach little ones to play rhythms and songs on at-hand sources such as pots and pans. From simple instructions on keeping time to recognizing notes, tempo, accents and other sheet music terms, children will enjoy learning to play with this fun source of musical instruction. 47 pages, softcover with CD included.

Have even more fun learning to play the ukulele with 14 familiar sacred songs! The arrangements in this book correlate to Alfred's Kid's Ukulele Course, Books 1, 2, and Complete---with handy page references throughout to help you integrate them directly into your lessons. Plus, the accompanying CD contains every song performed by a professional ukulele player for listening and playing along.

Titles: Amazing Grace * God Is So Good * He's Got the Whole World in His Hands * If You're Happy and You Know It * I've Got Peace Like a River * I've Got the Joy, Joy, Joy * Jesus Loves Me * Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho * Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee * Kum Ba Yah (Chord Version) * Kum Ba Yah (Melody Version) * Michael, Row the Boat Ashore * Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen * Onward, Christian Soldiers * Shall We Gather at the River * Swing Low, Sweet Chariot * This Little Light of Mine.

Your budding musicians will build a crescendo of knowledge with this fun resource! Color-coded and numbered, 89 flash cards include need-to-know notes, symbols, and terms for the first two years of study on any instrument. Watch your students pick up the tempo from adagio to allegro as they move through the stack and gain a solid understanding of the basics!

Representing an 88-key instrument, one side of this fold-out diagram displays the name of each piano key with its corresponding note on the grand staff for four octaves. Place that side above the actual keyboard during your music lessons. Use the keyboard-only side away from the piano for additional review. Measures 48.75" x 5.5". From Alfred.