Winner of 2021 Best Tools for Schools Award for Best Method
Would you like to offer a music program for students interested in creating music outside of traditional ensemble options? Do you need reliable and engaging music lessons for kids eager to learn an instrument? Music Will and Hal Leonard's Modern Band Method Series is the answer! Educators now have the opportunity to teach students instruments in an ensemble setting or individually.
Revolutionizing How Kids Are Learning Music
Music Will (formerly Little Kids Rock) is the largest nonprofit music program in the US public school system. They provide music education to over a million students who might not have otherwise had access in their schools. Students of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels find the modern band approach appealing and fun. Writers from Music Will teamed up with publisher Hal Leonard to create the Modern Band Method Series; complete with guided lesson plans, audio tracks, video instruction, and popular songs.
Keyboard, Book 1
This edition includes a guided lesson plan full of piano fundamentals: proper playing posture, reading notes and rhythms, scales, chords, syncopation, articulations, composing a song, writing lyrics, and more. Audio tracks use PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows players to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. This keyboard method works in tandem with the other instrument method books so students can play songs like “Back in Black” and “Umbrella” together as a full band!
The modern band method is a fresh approach to music education that engages educators and inspires students.
Song List
Bad
Bad Romance
Best Day Of My Life
Burn
Can't Stop The Feeling!
Clocks
Closer
Dark Horse
Dazed And Confused
The Edge Of Glory
Evil Ways
Funkytown
Haiti
Halo
Heathens
Hey There Delilah
I Gotta Feeling
Imagine
Kick Push
Kids
Land Of A Thousand Dances
Little Talks
Low Rider
Moves Like Jagger
My Girl
Oye Como Va
Push It
See You Again
Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
Shake It Off
Someone Like You
Stir It Up
Summer
Sunshine Of Your Love
Take On Me
25 Or 6 To 4
Umbrella
Uptown Funk
Waiting In Vain
Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)
Wake Me Up
What Makes You Beautiful
Wild Thing
Without You
Zombie
Instrumentation
Keyboard
Piano/Keyboard
Product Details
#HL 00325721
9781540076717
888680986872
9.0"
12.0"
64 Pages
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The Modern Band Method series provides a guided lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and many popular songs by the biggest artists of the day! This keyboard method works in tandem with the other instrument methods in the series, allowing students to play the same songs together as a full band!
Keyboard lessons include:
• Proper playing posture
• Reading notes and rhythms
• Scales, chords and arpeggios
• Syncopation
• Rock, pop, Latin, funk, hip hop and island styles
• Articulations
• Composing a song
• Writing lyrics
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