Freedom through Music: A Beginner Method for Piano Book 1 [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

Freedom through Music: A Beginner Method for Piano Book 1 will get your fingers moving, your brain thinking and your ears listening! It is designed to provide a year’s worth of study material for absolute beginners as well as preparation for Preliminary level piano exams in Australia.Students work from six different categories, all dispersed throughout the book: Theory, Technique, Songs, Scales, Rhythm and Pieces. Material is organised in a manner designed to continually pique curiosity and stoke forward momentum. Aural skills have been made central to every section, as this valuable skill is too often overlooked by other method books.Whether taking exams or simply playing for enjoyment, this method book will provide any beginner with the skills they need to explore the instrument and to begin making music in a meaningful way. Read on for more detail of the contents of each category included in this book.SONGS: Hot Cross Buns; Mary Had a Little Lamb; Old MacDonald; Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Row, Row, Row Your Boat; Happy Birthday; Brother John; Pop Goes the Weasel; Humpty Dumpty; Jingle Bells; Incy Wincy Spider; Three Blind Mice; Hickory Dickory Dock; Advance Australia Fair; This Old Man; and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.RHYTHM: Clap and Count 4; Clap and Count 2; Clap and Count 3; Clap and Count 6; Basic Rhythms 1 with Crotchets and Minims; Clap and Count 6 in 6/8 Time; Basic Rhythms 2 with Quavers; Clap and Count 12.PIECES: Pentatonic Playground; At the Park; The Speeding Bus; Irish Jig; Ode to Joy; and Doing a Dance (Duet).SCALES: The Chromatic Scale; Major Scales with Sharps; Major Scales with Flats; Natural Minor Scales with Sharps; Natural Minor Scales with Flats; Starfish in the Ocean (pentatonic scale); Rhythm and Sol-fa for the Major Scale; Rhythm & Sol-fa for the Natural Minor Scale; Modes in the Major Scale; Contrary Motion Major Scales; D Chromatic Scale Contrary Motion.THEORY: Trace Your Hands; Sol-fa Syllables and Hand Signs; The Stave and Grand Stave; The Treble and Bass Clef; Notes and Rests Chart; Writing Practice 1 (notes and rests); The Treble and Bass Staves; Accidentals and the Musical Alphabet; Music Dynamics; Dynamics Word Search; Writing Practice 2 (line notes); Writing Practice 3 (space notes); Scale Degrees; Dotted Notes and Rests Chart.TECHNIQUE: The Finger Song; Sharps on the Black Keys; Semitones on the White Keys; Flats on the Black Keys; Movements at the Piano; Notes on the White Keys; Finding D and G Sharp; Checking the Fingers for Round Joints; Leap Frog (minor 3rds); Rotation Using 2nds and 3rds; Mi Fa Mi – Do Ti Do (semitones); Line Notes with Fingers 1 and 3; Space Notes with Fingers 2 and 4; Hundreds and Thousands! (five finger scales); Jumping Frog (harmonic 5ths); Up and Down the Mountain (chromatic scale preparation); Running in the Rain (single rotation); Chooks in the Yard (staccato); Intervals in Contrary Motion; Disorientated (similar and contrary motion); Infinity! (combining five finger scales and chords); and Bumbling Gnomes (root position chords). Read more