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The Music Tree - Part 1 A Plan for Musical Growth at the Piano by Frances Clark Piano Method - Sheet Music
By Frances Clark
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The Music Tree - Part 1
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Piano - Elementary
SKU: AP.0686S
A Plan for Musical Growth at the Piano. Francis Clark Music Tree. Frances Clark Library for Piano Students. Learn To Play. Instructional book. With introductory text, instructional text, illustrations, easy piano notation, fingerings, harmony part (for the teacher) and lyrics (on most songs). 64 pages. Alfred Music #00-0686S. Published by Alfred Music (AP.0686S).ISBN 9780874876864. UPC: 654979004103. 9x12 inches. English.
THE MUSIC TREE series continues the development of complete musicianship by providing the beginner with delightful and varied repertoire. The pupil learns a variety of idioms encompassing folk, jazz, and pop. The creativity of the students is emphasized since they are given musical segments to rearrange, transpose, complete or to use as the basis for a new composition. Technical aspects are also addressed including greater facility, blocked intervals and chords, and more hands together playing. Guided training steps are used to encourage intelligent practice skills.
About The Music Tree
The Music Tree series continues the development of complete musicianship by providing the beginner with delightful and varied repertoire. The pupil learns a variety of idioms encompassing folk, jazz and pop. The creativity of the students is emphasized since they are given musical segments to rearrange, transpose, complete or to use as the basis for a new composition. Technical aspects are also addressed including greater facility, blocked intervals and chords, and more hands together playing. Guided training steps are used to encourage intelligent practice skills.
- Music Tree Part 1 (A)
Ratings + Reviews
Based on 3 Reviews
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Susan W.
February 15, 2023
The best!
I love these books!! Teaching intervalic reading in the best way, with landmark notes C, G, F. Large motor movement all over the keyboard immediately ensures beginner students use their bodies correctly with no tension. Using the whole hand too early causes stress and bad habits, this method does it gradually with wonderful warmups, building the hand shape naturally. Slurs and dynamics are also taught early on to instill listening skills to the early student. Speaking the words in the songs teaches rhythm naturally in a fun way. After the yellow, red and green, most students can graduate into more intermediate classical repertoire with strong reading & rhythm skills and well formed technique. Those who still need more time, can continue into the blue book. (Yellow book best for ages 6-7; Red book works for beginner age 7-8)
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Fv
August 03, 2016
deserved to be more well-known
this is still strikingly the best beginner PIANO method series that I keep coming back to when I am constantly looking around for even better replacement in the past ten years. I wish Alfred can measure up their printing quality, which seems deteriorating. The educational value should be weighted way more than business value, Alfred!
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Anonymous
February 16, 2012
Solid method for reading!
This is a fabulous piano series that often goes unnoticed in the world of piano methods. It takes an intervallic approach to note reading, which means that it teaches the student to read by intervals (2nds, 3rds, 4ths, etc.) before it ever teaches them the name of a note. It does this off the staff, on 2 or 3 lines in Time to Begin, the book before this. In this book, I starts out by teaching them three guide notes - C, G and Bass F and then teaches them to start a 2nd above or below that note, a 3rd above or below that note, all the way up to a 4th or 5th. So they are identify notes in relation to the guide notes. I also love how it doesn't keep them in one position like some other methods - have you ever noticed that students have an issue with always playing middle C with their thumb? If they use this course, they will come out strong readers. I do use this method with another method that teaches by note name because we still want them to learn the names of the notes!
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