Helen Marlais

In the Every Day plan for Book 1B, students learn key and time signature recognition; how to count basic rhythms in time signatures of 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4; interval recognition starting on and around th...

In Book 5 of the Sight Reading & Rhythm Every Day series, students learn about compound meters and cut time, chords and their inversions, and new music terms including dolce, meno, and sempre. Also, B...

Book 7 continues to develop student's ability to sight read with ease, accuracy and musicality! Carefully crafted musical examples develop eye, ear, and hand coordination. New concepts are: sixteenth-...

This two-volume collection of preludes contains short character pieces with a wide range of emotional expression and a wide range of technical demands from intermediate to advanced. The performer may...

Succeeding with the Masters is a collection of 26 graded repertoire pieces by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. It provides a complete overview of the musical characteristics of the Classical Era in an ea...

Baroque Era, Volume One of Succeeding with the Masters is a collection of 22 graded repertoire pieces by J.S. Bach, Handel and Scarlatti. These works, mostly dances, build a foundation for playing mor...

Succeeding with the Masters, Romantic Era, Volume One, is a collection of graded repertoire featuring selections from Tchaikovsky, Schumann, and Schubert-three great masters of the Romantic era. These...

This two-volume collection of preludes contains short character pieces with a wide range of emotional expression and a wide range of technical demands from intermediate to advanced. The performer may...

Contents include: Daydreams (Miller); Marshmallow Rag (Massoud); Emerald Toccata (Massoud); Full Moon Serenade (Matz); Shanghai Shuffle (Costley); Cuban Nights (Olson); Bayou Boogaloo (McLean); Russia...

In Book 3, students will get to experience duets written using eighth notes, five-finger patterns, cut time, patterns that extend from a five-finger position, and many more new musical concepts. This...

This Early Intermediate level book utilizes dotted-quarter notes followed by eighth notes and sixteenth notes, one-octave arpeggios in one hand, and an introduction to the blues style. This book is a...

This Student Activity Book is full of enjoyable activities that will help your students learn about the master composers of the Baroque Era. The stories, games, puzzles, and activities for listening,...

In Grade 4 of Succeeding at the Piano students continue to cultivate musicianship and a passion for playing piano! New concepts are: triads and inversions; two octave scales; the circle of fifths; dom...

Focus on fabulous repertoire to motivate your students! These first two books in a new series introduce elementary level students to recital performance, with original, engaging pieces by outstanding...

The outstanding FJH composers of Book 1 return to further engage and challenge more experienced elementary students in Book 2 of In Recital Throughout the Year. New musical concepts are introduced (le...

In this third In Recital collection, Judith Strickland joins us, with a lyrical solo, Autumn Colors. The repertoire features arrangements of Puccini's O mio babbino caro, Beethoven's Allegretto, from...

In Book 4, we welcome contributions by Martín Cuéllar (a lyrical etude), David Karp (a Halloween piece and an equal-part duet), and Kevin Costley (an arrangement of America the Beautiful), along with...

In Recital Book 5 opens with an expressive Notturno by Valerie Roth Roubos, affording the chance to demonstrate beautifully sustained legato line, and other accomplishments, learned in earlier books....

Some of the most rewarding In Recital music is here in the final book of Volume One! Melody Bober leads off with a lyrical solo. Kevin Olson then offers a Toccata and Fugue arrangement and later, a ja...

In the Every Day plan for Book 2A, students learn key and time signature recognition; how to count basic rhythms that include eighth notes; interval and pattern recognition through major five-finger p...

In the Every Day plan for Book 3A, students learn and practice different rhythmic activities with accent markings, focusing on the dotted quarter note rhythm followed by eighth notes. Tonic and domina...

In Book 3B of this distinctive series, new concepts carefully interweave with reviewed concepts to further the students’ knowledge and hone their sight-reading abilities. Some of the concepts reviewed...

In Book 4A of this outstanding series, Helen Marlais along with Kevin Olson, provide students with creative, structured lessons and activities to further develop their sight reading abilities. New con...

In Book 4B of this outstanding series, Helen Marlais along with Kevin Olson, provide students with creative and structured lessons to further develop their sight reading and rhythm abilities. New conc...

Book 6 of Sight Reading & Rhythm Every Day reinforces previous skills and adds new skills such as reading sixteenth-note rhythms in several different keys and includes combinations of rhythms such as...