(Educational Piano Library). Great movies have great music scores, and this collection includes many classic favorites as well as themes from recent films: Forrest Gump (Feather Theme) * Hakuna Matata * My Favorite Things * My Heart Will Go On * The Phantom of the Opera * Puttin' on the Ritz * Stand by Me * What a Wonderful World.

(Educational Piano Library). Unit 1 of Book 3 begins by introducing eighth notes in 4/4 and 2/4 time. Swing eighths are also presented in the first half of the book. Folk, jazz, classical, and contemporary selections provide students with an interesting variety of repertoire. The second half of Book 3 , teaches relative and parallel major/minor five-finger patterns, and students learn to improvise their own songs using these basic patterns.

(Educational Piano Library). Book 2 opens with a new My Own Song improvisation on CDEFG. Unit 1 introduces phrasing and legato touch, and also presents harmonic 2nds and 3rds with staccato touch. The following two units are dedicated to the introduction of 4ths and 5ths. Also in Unit 3, sharps are introduced in a diatonic setting starting on D, and flats are introduced as blues notes. Most pieces in the second half of Book 2 coordinate hands playing together. This book works very well for ...

(Educational Piano Library). SHOWCASE SOLOS POPS is a graded series of popular song arrangements for solo piano featuring movie themes, Broadway classics, favorite children's songs, and today's top recorded hits. Each solo is expertly arranged with a winning combination of creativity and solid pedagogy. Ranging from Early Elementary through Late Intermediate levels, these exciting solos provide excellent supplemental material for any method, and are a perfect complement to the Hal Leonard Stu...

(Educational Piano Library). This series presents favorite orchestral classics, carefully graded and expertly arranged for piano solo with great teacher accompaniments! Level 1 includes: Air (Handel) * Can Can (Offenbach) * The Emperor Waltz (J. Strauss, Jr.) * Morning (Grieg) * Russian Dance (Tchaikovsky) * Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven) * Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke) * Theme from Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky), plus background notes on each composition.

(Educational Piano Library). This series presents favorite orchestral classics, carefully graded and expertly arranged for piano solo with great teacher accompaniments! Level 5 includes: Air on the G String (J.S. Bach) * Also Sprach Zarathustra (R. Strauss) * Finale from Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens) * Hungarian Dance No. 5 (Brahms) * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (J.S. Bach) * Theme from Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky) * Sicilienne (Faure) * Spring (Vivaldi) * Symphony No. 40 (W.A. Moza...

(Educational Piano Library). A superb collection of popular songs, sure to please the progressing student! Correlated with Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Piano Lessons Book 3, these arrangements are also a perfect supplementary choice for all methods. Includes both stand-alone solos, and student solos with teacher accompaniments. 9 songs, some with teacher accompaniments: The Bare Necessities * Climb Ev'ry Mountain * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * Go the Distance * God Help the Outca...

(Educational Piano Library). Six quintessential Joplin rags arranged by Fred Kern: Bethena (Concert Waltz) * The Entertainer * Maple Leaf Rag * Pineapple Rag * Pleasant Moments (Ragtime Waltz) * Swipesy (Cake Walk).

(Educational Piano Library). Hal Leonard Student Piano Library mascots Spike, Party Cat and friends guide students through fun and creative assignments that introduce the language of music and its symbols for sound, silence and rhythm. Ear training and basic theory exercises help students learn to write and play the music they are learning, as well as music they create themselves. Now updated to correlate with the newly revised Piano Lessons Book 3 !

(Educational Piano Library). Hal Leonard Student Piano Library mascots Spike, Party Cat and friends guide the student through fun, creative assignments that introduce the language of music and its symbols for sound, silence, and rhythm. Ear training and basic theory exercises help students learn to write and play the music they are learning as well as the music they create themselves. This book correlates directly to Piano Lessons Book 2.

(Educational Piano Library). Piano Theory Workbook 5 includes practical, intermediate-level exercises in identifying chords and their inversions, counting 16ths, subdividing beats into various dotted-sixteenth rhythms, identifying chords of the key, writing Major and minor scales, and exercises in transposition and improvisation. Each exercise is correlated to the musical concepts learned in Piano Lessons Book 5 .

(Educational Piano Library). New from the Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Basic Skills Series. Scales, Patterns and Improvs provides students with a valuable resource for building technique through one octave scales, I-IV-V7 chords and arpeggios in all major and minor keys. Students apply these basic skills through improv exercises and reading pieces in every key, and by learning to transpose, create an accompaniment and play from a lead line. The accompanying audio features MIDI orchest...