Method Book Contents
Lesson 1: Staff and Notes, The Keyboard, Playing C,D,E
Lesson 2: Keeping Time, Playing Whole Notes
Lesson 3: The Whole Rest, New Note (F), Pieces using F
Haydn Surprise Symphony
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah
Way Down Upon the Swanee River
Lesson 4: New Note (G), the G Clef, 2-Bar Rest Sign
Drills Using C,D,E,F,G
Marine Hymn
Brahms Symphony No.1
Lesson 5: Half Notes and Half Rests, Drills and Pieces
Drills Using Half Notes
Drills Using Half Rests
Half Note Patterns
Toreador Song
Mozart Sonata No.15
Beethoven Turkish March
Mozart Jupiter Symphony
Lesson 6: The Repeat Sign
Haydn Surprise Symphony (Half Notes)
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah (Half Notes)
Marine Hymn (Half Notes)
Lesson 7: Playing With Your Left Hand (C,B,A,G)
Drills and Original Pieces (using C,B,A)
Beethoven Allegretto (Symphony No.7 )
Tchaikovsky Marche Slav
Drills and Pieces (including G)
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
Over Hill, Over Dale
Mozart Sonata No.8
Beethoven Turkish March (left hand version)
Lesson 8: Treble Staff Review
Hymn: Duke Street
Haydn London Symphony
Beethoven Symphony No.2
Lesson 9: More Music for the Left Hand (introducing F)
The F Clef
Original Pieces using C,B,A,G,F
Way Down Upon the Swannee River (Left Hand version)
Mozart Divertimento No.1
America, the Beautiful
Music Workbook Contents
The Workbook contains all the basic instruction from the Method Book plus Note- writing tasks, quizzes, additional Drills and original pieces. Concepts from the Method Book are carefully reinforced in the Workbook so that they are thoroughly learned in a pleasant, not boring way.
It is this unique combination of Method and Workbook that practically guarantees success.
77 pages of materials.
Parent's Manual
Contains additional helps for the parent or teacher, answers to quizzes and some general encouragement.
Method Book Contents
Lesson 10: The Tie
Original Songs
Verdi: La Traviata
Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
Chopin Etude
Beethoven Symphony No.1
Lesson 11: Bars that Measure 3 Beats (the Dotted Half Note)
Original Songs
Home on the Range
Strauss: Vienna Life
Merry Widow Waltz (2 versions)
Lesson 12: New Sign - The Flat
Original Songs
Mozart Symphony No 40
Mozart Sonata No.3
Beethoven Symphony No.4
Lesson 13: New Repeat Sign (Repeat Sign and Repeat Locator)
Original Songs
Haydn Surprise Symphony (expanded)
Sousa: Semper Fidelis March (2 versions)
Lesson 14: New Sign - The Sharp
Original Songs
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.3
Mendelssohn: Fingal's Cave
Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Little Swans (Swan Lake Ballet)
Music Workbook Contents
The Workbook contains all the basic instruction from the Method Book plus quizzes and puzzles. Method Book concepts are thoroughly explored to help guarantee success.
43 pages of materials.
Parent's Manual
Contains additional helps for the parent or teacher, answers to quizzes and some general encouragement.
Method Book Contents
Lesson 1: Quarter Notes, Quarter Note Patterns, original Drills
Pieces using Quarter Note Patterns:
Tchaikovsky Russian Dance (Nutcracker Ballet)
Bizet Toreador Song (Carmen)
Beethoven Allegretto from Symphony No.7
Sousa Stars and Stripes Forever
Lesson 2: The Time Signature 4/4, pieces, changing Clef on one Staff
Mozart Sonata No. 15
Tchaikosky March (Nutcracker Ballet)
Sousa Liberty Bell March
Lesson 3: Mystery Songs: familiar tunes shared by 2 hands
(titles are acronyms)
GKWLO (Good King Wenceslas Looked Out)
TTLS (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
More Mystery Songs using Up Beats
YD (Yankee Doodle)
Bingo
Lesson 4: New Quarter Note Patterns, original Drills, familiar pieces
WDUTSR (Way Down Upon the Swannee River)
Camptown Races
Music Beginning With 2 Up Beats
BB (Billy Boy)
ATTN (All Through the Night)
Lesson 5: Playing With 2 Hands at the Same Time (Hands Together)
Examples of Playing With Hands Together
OMDHAF (Old Mac Donald Had a Farm)
SHARPS - theory explained, chart showing all 7 sharped notes
Dvorak Finale from New World Symphony
FTHOM (From the Halls of Montezuma [Marine Hymn])
Bach Italian Concerto
BBOS (Blue Bells of Scotland)
Lesson 6: The Quarter Rest, Quarter Note Patterns with Rests
Beethoven Turkish March
The Time Signature 3/4
3/4 Patterns
DTMOWTE (Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes)
We Three Kings
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
OTOOSACWS (On Top of Old Smokey all Covered With Snow)
Lesson 7: New Notes in the Treble Staff (A,B), Fingering, Familiar tunes
Merry Widow Waltz
GATDWMHWYAG (Gone Are the Days When My Heart Was Young and Gay)
OBFSS (O Beautiful for Spacious Skies)
AAMBAA (Anchors Aweigh, My Boys, Anchors Aweigh)
Lesson 8: New Notes - Bass Staff (G,F,E,D,C)
10 Original Drills
Santa Lucia
New Sign - Repeated Bar Sign
Beethoven Turkish Rondo
Sign for Multiple Bars Rest
Sousa High School Cadets March
Sousa Liberty Bell March
Sign for Multiple Repeated Bars
Haydn Symphony No.100
Lesson 9: New Notes in the Treble Staff (A below Middle C,B,C,D,E)
Greensleeves
Pieces combining New Left Hand and New Right Hand Notes
Danny Boy
Sidewalks of New York
A Bicycle Built for Two
Lesson 10: The Natural Sign, D.C. al Fine
Tchaikovsky March (Nutcracker Ballet) [some higher Treble Staff Notes]
Lesson 11: Chords, how Accidentals affect Chord tones
Bizet Toreador Song (Carmen)
Marine Hymn
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mozart Sonata No.15
Brahms Finale from Symphony No,1
Haydn Surprise Symphony (solo version)
Lesson 12: More About the Repeated Bar Sign
Strauss Tales from the Vienna Woods
ICUTMC (It Came Upon the Midnight Clear)
Lesson 13: Dynamic Marks - forte and piano
Mozart Sonata No.7
New Dynamic Marks - mezzo forte and mezzo piano
Tchaikovsky Scene from Nutcracker Ballet
Lesson 14: Strauss Roses from the South Waltz
Lesson 15: Some Pieces, First and Second Endings
Battle Hymn of the Republic (two versions)
America, the Beautiful
Tchaikovsy Waltz from Eugene Onegin
Workbook Contents
The Workbook contains all the basic information presented in the Method Book.
It also contains additional Drills, Quizzes and Puzzles which reinforce the Lesson materials.
ADDITIONAL PIECES INCLUDE:
LLA (Long, Long Ago)
GTAR (Go Tell Aunt Rhody)
AL (Aura Lee [Love Me Tender])
Mr. Monk (A Mighty Fortress is Our God)
Mr. Mayor (original)
Mr. Scott (original)
Short'nin' Bread
Jolly Old St. Nicholas
From the Flow (Praise God From Whom all Blessings Flow)
Short Polly (Polly Wolly Doodle)
Loch Lomond
Red River Valley
TTLS (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star [2-hand version])
Children's Song (Jesus Loves Me)
Lightly Row
When You Wore a Tulip
Folk Song
Duke Street (hymn)
Fox, You Have Stolen the Goose
Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
Faith of Our Fathers
Good Christian Men Rejoice
Sweet Betsy From Pike
Doggone (Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little DOGGONE)
Brahms the Blacksmith
The Farmer in the Dell
Chopsticks
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Oh, How Lovely is the Evening
Give My Regards to Broadway
Toyland
St. Anne (Our God, Our Help in Ages Past)
Saints (Oh When the Saints Go Marchin' In)
DTMOWTE (Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes [2 hand version])
Going Home (Theme from Dvorak New World Symphony)
Little Star (the one that twinkles [2 hand version])
Abide With Me (hymn)
Chopin Etude, Op.10, No.3
Blue Bells of Scotland
Down in the Valley
Virginny (Carry me back to Old Virginny)
Merry Widow Waltz (2 hands)
Old Folks at Home
Sun of My Soul (hymn)
We Rejoice in Life
Pony Song (Hop, Hop, Hop)
Bill Bailey (Won't You Please Come Home)
Ten Little Indians
Aunt Rhody (2 hands)
Sleep, Baby, Sleep
Early One Morning
Sur le Pont d'Avignon
Over the Waves
Carnival of Venice
Dream Waltz
A Song of Praise
Cuckoo Variations (variations on the familiar German folk song)
Hatikva (Israeli National Anthem)
German Folk Song
Bill Groggin's Goat
Laura Lee (Stephen Foster)
Sole Mio Piace d'Amor
In My Merry Oldsmobile Behold How Good
The Minstrel Boy Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Foster)