Piano Lab

Links from Class:
Benjamin Zander Video - "Giving an A" - youtube link


Games for note reading can be found here:
http://www.dancetothink.com/forstudents-687575.html


Link to our class google drive:
Piano Lab I Google Drive. 
If you need some song ideas:
Many of the golden oldies - 
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/instruments/piano/easy-piano-pieces/ ​

Songs with the same chords: https://www.hooktheory.com/trends

Some advanced songs here -
https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/25-easy-classical-piano-songs-for-beginner-pianists/

Some free sheet music - 
https://www.onlinepianocoach.com/piano-songs.html

Beginning Lesson Sequence
1)Penta scales in circle of 5ths,
2) connecting up nursery rhymes with scale learning
3) Notation and memorization
3a) Label the intervals in the nursery rhyme you just wrote out
4) could lead to theme and variations
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Books
John W. Shaum Note Speller Book 1 and Book 2

The James Bastian Piano Literature Series, for continuing students

Books of Spirituals:
Hall Johnson Collection, in the Bennington Library​

Advancing Classical Pieces
Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Op. 71, No. 3 'Puck'
Bach Prelude in C Major from WTC Book 1