Kevin Olson

Keys to Success integrates technique, improvisation, transposition, ear training, sightreading, and original repertoire into the study of each key. This book is arranged in 15 units, one for each majo...

Kevin Olson’s Keys to Success series continues with Book 2, similarly arranged in 15 units, this time one for each minor key. (Enharmonic keys are also included.) Technique, improvisation, transpositi...

This outstanding collection continues Kevin Olson’s Jazzed Up! series with an all-new set of classical standards, arranged in his unique style with familiar jazz, pop, or rock sounds. Contents include...

Featuring artistic student/teacher duets for beginning students of all ages, Five-Finger Photographs in Black and White is an exceptional collection of six five-finger pieces. Written in a variety of...

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...

Keys to Success integrates technique, improvisation, transposition, ear training, sight-reading, and original repertoire into the study of each key. This book is arranged in fifteen units (one for eac...

In Recital with Popular Christmas Music, Book 1 features fabulous popular Christmas music edited and performed by Helen Marlais. The two outstanding composers and arrangers for this series, Edwin McLe...

The elementary student will have plenty of choices of popular Christmas music to choose from in Book 2. Christmas hits such as Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Snoopy's Christmas, I Saw Mommy Kissin...

Book 3, for the late elementary student, includes titles such as: The Little Drummer Boy, We Are Santa's Elves, The Night Before Christmas Song, Shake Me, I Rattle (Squeeze Me, I Cry), and many more p...

Book 4 for the early intermediate student offers such hits as: Here We Come A-Wassailing, Christmas Eve in My Home Town, Mary, Did You Know?, and a soon to be popular original by Kevin Olson, Mister S...

The intermediate level student is provided with a wide array of popular Christmas selections of their choice. Such titles as: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, A Marshmallow World, Breath of Heaven...

The late intermediate level student will love the arrangements created for Book 6. Carol of the Bells, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, Home for the Holidays, I'll be Home for Christmas, and It...

In Recital for the Advancing Pianist --- Popular, Book 1 is a collection of artistically-engaging arrangements by FJH composers Kevin Olson and Nancy Lau, and edited by Helen Marlais. This wide variet...

Book 3, for the late elementary level student, includes favorites that are easy to sing along with as well as recital style arrangements of popular pieces such as: All I Have to Do Is Dream; The Best...

Explore this new and exciting series by Kevin and Julia Olson that presents a modern sequential approach to note reading at the piano. This book gives the beginning student a solid foundation for note...

Book 2 continues with short, simple pieces that teach and reinforce note reading at the piano using a systematic, sequential approach. In this book, the notes from Bass C to high G are covered, C posi...

Book 3 of this effective series continues the modern sequential approach to note reading at the piano and focuses on notes in the G positions, F position, and D position. Sharps and flats of the respe...

Eight units cover C Position and Treble C Position, gradually adding one new note per unit. The 24 pieces are one to two pages in length---some with lyrics and some with alternate fingering suggested....

This book of short, fun activities reinforces note reading, trains the ear and eye, and encourages simple composing. There are eight units and each unit consists of five activities: Note Writing; Matc...

Book 2 in this series includes brief, fun activities that reinforce note reading, ear training, and developing composition skills. There are eight units and each unit consists of five activities: Note...