John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano - The First Grade Book
by John Thompson
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About John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano - The First Grade Book
(Something New Every Lesson). For piano. This edition: 5640. Willis. Learn To Play. Instructional book. Introductory text, instructional text, instructional photos, illustrations, easy piano notation, fingerings and lyrics (on some songs). 79 pages. Published by Willis Music (HL.412081).
ISBN 0757929931. With introductory text, instructional text, instructional photos, illustrations, easy piano notation, fingerings and lyrics (on some songs). Learn To Play. 9x12 inches.
The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series.
Contents
- Foreword
- 1. Hand Position (C Major) - The Phrase "Music Land"
- 2. Musical Form - "Patterns"
- 3. Rhythm and Accents - "Runaway River"
- 4. Tonal Shading - "Swans on the Lake"
- Half Steps - Sharps, Flats and Natural
- Whole Steps - Writing Lesson
- 6. Accidentals - "The Scissors Grinder"
- 7. New "Hand Position" (G Major) - "A Sng of Penny Candy"
- 8. Two Melody Patterns - The Man in the Moon"
- 9. Folk-tunes - "The Party"
- Phrasing Attack - Right Hand and Left Hand
- 10. Combing Hand Position - "The Robin"
- 11. Finger and Harmony Patterns - "The Merry Clown"
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