The Piano Student Resource Manual includes:
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• Weekly Assignment Sheets

  • One year's supply enables you to track each student's assignment and progress on a weekly basis.

  • Monitor each student's practice habits.  Which pieces does he/she practice most?

  • Technique section includes scales, arpeggios, cadences, and Hanon exercises.

  • Repertoire assignment includes title, style, book, page number, notes section for teacher suggestions, practice record section, and section for theory or composition assignment.

• Composers

  • Colorful pictures of composers with birth & death dates and country of origin

  • Includes female composers

  • Includes composers of different ethnicities

  • Don't let your students believe that only men of European origin wrote music.

• Repertoire Record

  • Keep track of each student’s learned repertoire

  • Organized by historical style period

• Music Dictionary

  • Don’t just tell your students; show them.

  • Includes pronunciation key

• Music Theory

  • Note names (beginning and intermediate levels)

  • Circle of 5ths

  • Triads (major, minor, diminished, augmented)

  • Inversions

  • 7^th chords (intermediate and advanced levels)

  • Accompaniment patterns for the advancing pianist (intermediate and advanced levels)

• Scales

  • Written with accidentals instead of key signatures to be easier for students to read

  • 4th finger emphasized to prepare for hands together

  • 1, 2, or 4 octaves (depending on level)

  • Major and all forms of minor (depending on level)

• Hanon Exercises

  • All fingerings included

  • Easy to read

• Arpeggios

• Cadences

• Repertoire Guide (Reference Manual Only)

• 27 page guide to classical repertoire from the Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Modern periods

• Organized by level of difficulty 1-10

• Click to see sample page