Product Description
Piano Duets are an important part of the Piano Partners beginning method and are designed to encourage family participation in the early education process by bringing the student, parent, and piano teacher together.
The Piano Partners Beginning Method approach to learning piano brings the student, parent, and teacher together to work on:
- Learning new pieces
- Playing duets
- Developing technique
- Establishing basic rhythm patterns
- Inventing musical ideas
- Playing musical games
- Developing a discerning ear
- Organizing practice procedures
Piano Partners – Book One
๐ I Love Coffee, I Love Tea: This original classic by Bernard Shaak is the cornerstone of the Piano Partners beginning piano method. When the beginning piano student can play all six variations of I Love Coffee it is an important event.
๐ Basic rhythm patterns, such as Jingle bells, Colorado Mountains and Hippity Hop are fun to play, and they establish a fundamentally firm hand position. In addition, they make it possible to perform rhythms not easily read until months later. Bass patterns for improvisation provide the platform the student needs to develop his/her own creative ideas.
๐ Piano Duets are an important part of the collection, such as Skip to My Lou and French Folk Song, designed to encourage family participation in the early music education process.
๐ The beginnings of piano technique are illustrated in technical exercises simply called Chords and Legato.
๐ Pieces such as Frere Jacques and Row Row Row can be played as a duet at first and then as a solo, illustrating the extraordinary capacity of the piano โ to make melody and harmony simultaneously.
This book is partย of the Piano Partners 3-Book Set.
Read a review of Piano Partners by Sandy Lundberg – I Will Not Teach Piano Without These Books: A Review of Piano Partners.
