Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course--Popular Hits, Level 2

By Tom Gerou

Item Number: AP.44698

ISBN 9781470627348. English.

Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course: Popular Hits answers the often-expressed need for a variety of supplemental material in many different popular styles. Students can play attractive versions of the best-known music of today. This book is correlated page-by-page with Lesson Book 2 of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course and Level 2 of Alfred's Basic Adult All-in-One Course. When pieces from the Popular Hits books are assigned in conjunction with the material in the Lesson Books, new concepts are reinforced in a fun and motivating way, increasing the student's interest in piano study. Titles: As Time Goes By (from Casablanca) * At Last (Etta James) * Bring It On Home to Me (from Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2) * Embraceable You (George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin) * Everywhere You Look (Theme from Full House) * Fever (Peggy Lee) * Firework (Katy Perry) * Get Smart (from Warner Bros. Pictures' Get Smart) * Greatest Love of All (Whitney Houston) * Havana (Camila Cabello) * Hedwig's Theme (from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) * The Magnificent Seven * The Man I Love (George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin) * Mia & Sebastian's Theme (from La La Land) * My Funny Valentine (Rodgers and Hart) * Princess Leia's Theme (from Star Wars) * They Can't Take That Away from Me (George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin) * The Wind Beneath My Wings (from Beaches) * You'll Be Back (from the Broadway musical Hamilton).

About Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course

Designed for use with an instructor, the Adult All-in-One Course is for the beginning student looking for a truly complete piano course. It is a greatly expanded version of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course that includes lessons, theory, technique, and additional repertoire in a convenient all-in-one format. This comprehensive course features written assignments that reinforce each lesson's concepts, a smooth, logical progression between each lesson, a thorough explanation of chord theory and playing styles, and outstanding extra songs, including folk, classical, and contemporary selections. At the completion of this course, the student will have learned to play some of the most popular music ever written and will have gained a good understanding of basic musical concepts and styles.