Piano Adventures: Lesson Book - Primer Level - Paperback

Its confusing when they put a book picture and the description says its CD !!!

Very good primer level book

Good

Bon livre pour apprendre le piano bien expliqué et évolutif par palier

This book really makes teaching and learning piano fun. I as a teacher and my 6 year old whom I am teaching both love & enjoy the exercises in the book. There is an accompanying video lesson with each page, which is very useful. The book contents, exercises and video lessons are very nicely arranged to create a great overall experience. (There are also some advance challenges which are fun). Overall - I give the book full marks in making teaching & learning interesting and ideally pacing the lessons & exercises for kids.

I ordered this lesson book, along with the Primer Level Technique and Artistry, Theory, Writing Book, Performance and Popular Repertoire books for my five and six year olds, to start them out on the piano. I am teaching them myself and decided on this curriculum because of its great reviews. I am enormously pleased that I did. Within the first few lessons my children were playing songs independently on the piano, and when I play the teacher's accompaniment along with them, and sing along with the provided lyrics, my kids feel like accomplished musicians. They are proud of themselves and eager to learn more. I really like how this curriculum is set up to teach musicianship in a holistic sense, right from the start. The first few lessons get them acquainted with the patterns on the keyboard, and exploring the different sounds it can make. The first ten pages or so have the students playing exclusively on the black keys, which are easier for the children to identify (they are not expected to know the names of the notes at first; once they know the number of each finger and LH/RH, a picture is provided to help them find the right positions, and they are only expected to use two or three fingers on each hand). The only tricky part about this is that I had to play the teacher's accompaniment in keys with five or six flats, which I haven't done in more years than I care to say, so sometimes I was the one making all the mistakes. But the kids flew right through those lessons and mastered them easily. They are next introduced to the names of the white keys, and it is not until half way through the book that they are introduced to reading music on staffs. I use the Lesson Book as my primary resource, but include the similar-skill pages from the other books I purchased to enhance their learning. My kids love the written activities that support their work on the keyboard, which are appropriate and fun for kids this age. I really appreciate how musicianship skills are incorporated right from the beginning: we are only a third of the way through the Primer Level, and my kids already have a musical vocabulary that includes piano (soft), forte (loud), quarter note, half note, whole note, repeat sign. There are exercises that teach sight reading, ear training, dexterity and strength training, and even composition. My kids feel empowered by the skills they are learning through this curriculum and I am confident they are getting a solid introduction to musicianship in general, not just piano playing. This curriculum gets five stars from me.

As described. Very helpful for kids.

My daughter has started piano lessons and this book is perfect to aid her progress and help her to practice at home