Piano Methods

The first of a two-volume reading course designed to enable students of all ages to read music using the three basic patterns of step, skip, and repeat. Book I contains: basic instructional material w...

Book 1 includes the following concepts: quarter, half, and whole notes and rests; measures; time signatures; counting by measure; tied notes; dotted half notes; and more.

Covello's simple yet ingenious approach to basic music reading is expanded in Book 2 to include hands-together playing. Sequential and methodical, the second installment of this unique reading course...

Focus on Melody, Volume 1 contains piano literature with a wide variety of melodic treatments aimed at helping performers develop the skill of recognizing melodic features. The cleanly engraved scores...

The second installment of this exceptional piano literature series continues to strengthen a student's ability to find and project melody. The music represents a variety of keys, tempi, meters, and st...

The second installment in this series covers: pulse, tempo, eighth notes and rests, 2/4 time, ties, dotted-quarter notes and rests, and 2/2 time.

This extraordinary collection of elementary piano solos features music written for one hand alone that can just as readily be performed with the other hand! Each of these short, creative pieces allows...

Students of all ages will enjoy the variety of jazz, blues, and swing styles while they enhance their performance repertoire. Includes: The Saints Go Swingin' In (When The Saints Go Marching In); Gree...

Book 5 includes dominant 7th chords, mixed cadences, warm-ups for cadences, two-octave arpeggios, interval inversions, some fun with scales, and arpeggio fingering. In addition, most major and minor k...

Keys to Worship, Book 1 is the first volume in a series of student solos --- featuring teachers’ duets, teaching aids, and background information. Contents of this spirited collection include: Sunday...

That's A Good Question discusses how asking questions in the studio can be an effective teaching strategy. This comprehensive book covers what questions to ask, and how to tailor questions to differen...

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...

Containing lyrics and teacher accompaniments, this pre-reading collection will be enjoyed by beginners of all ages. The five white-key pieces and four black-key pieces depict sights and sounds that mi...

For piano students who have never played jazz, this fascinating book offers invaluable technical and musical ideas for the development of jazz style. It includes original jazz pieces as well as tradit...

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...

This pre-reading collection contains a mixture of folk tunes, nursery songs, and novelty pieces that beginners of all ages will recognize and enjoy playing. Some student parts are written only for the...

Kids' Klassics, Volume 2 contains pre-reading arrangements of timeless children's songs. Some of the pieces are written on black keys, and read with finger numbers that follow the keyboard diagram loc...

The second volume of this series of student solos, Keys to Worship, Book 2 features Sunday school songs, hymns, gospel music, and patriotic music. Contents include: Hallelujah! What a Savior!; We Thre...

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...

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....