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Hal Leonard Student Piano Library
“Is My Lesson Over Already?”
10 reasons why your students will come back for more.
1. Students love the music and practice with enthusiasm.
- Singable melodies
- Innovative teacher accompaniments
 2. Students feel comfortable playing music in many styles.
- Features 14 contemporary composers
- Favorite folk tunes
- Classical repertoire
- Pop, rock and jazz
3. Students love playing with the Instrumental Accompaniments.
Using this model for their polished performance, students play with:
- Increased rhythmic security
- Musical feeling
- Appropriate style
4. Students enjoy the personality of the artwork.
- Practice partners Spike and Party Cat make learning fun
- Illustrations enhance the music yet leave room for the students’ imagination
5. Students easily understand the eclectic reading approach.
- Off-staff reading introduces finger numbers and key names
- Intervallic reading introduces steps, skips, and repeats
- Staff reading, using reading guides F, G & C, extends intervallic reading in three-note patterns
- Movable positions, using middle C as a part of each one, keep students from reading by finger number or note name
6. Students take more initiative in their own learning.
- Concepts written in student language
- Ideas presented one at a time in an uncluttered lay-out
7. Students develop two-hand coordination beginning with the
first lesson.
- Melodic phrasing is assigned to each hand
- Contrapuntal and choral skills receive equal emphasis
8. Students relate theory and technique to the music itself.
- Every theory and technique assignment makes music
- The listening and writing activities “play with” each piece aurally, visually and physically
9. Students first improvise within limited boundaries.
- The “My Own Song” improvisations explore new hand positions
- Creative activities expand students’ knowledge of each piece and encourage them to improvise music of their own
10. Students enjoy returning to old favorites, playing their pieces at a higher and higher level of mastery.
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