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Piano Adventures Lesson Book, Level 1 (Faber Piano Adventures®) |  | Author: Nancy and Randall Faber
Publisher: Faber Piano Adventures
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 3119
Media: Paperback
Pages: 56
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 8.8 x 0.2
ISBN: 1616770783
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9781616770785
ASIN: 1616770783
Publication Date: January 1, 1996
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Product Description
Level 1 introduces all the notes of the grand staff, elementary chord playing, and the concept of tonic and dominant notes. Students play in varied positions, reinforcing reading skills and recognizing intervals through the 5th. Musicianship is built with the introduction of legato and staccato touches. This level continues the interval orientation to reading across the full range of the Grand Staff. The 5-finger approach is presented here in a fresh, musically appealing way.
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 Piano Teacher Loves these Books March 18, 2010
Monica L. Boyd (Santa Ana, CA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've been teaching for over 12 years and I use the Faber Piano Adventure series, starting with Primer level for young students, usually 5-7 years old. For younger students, (preK/K), see Music for Little Mozarts by Alfred. For more information see piano and voice teacher drives 2 you web site.
The primer level starts slowly, but shows overall good use of the keyboard, even before the student starts learning the note names. Working on the black keys for a few weeks gives young fingers the opportunity to play sooner, and gain coordination. These books come in a system that you can self select, definitely start with the Lesson book. I always recommend the recital book for extra songs (no one wants to play or hear the same four to eight measure song over and over again for a week between lessons, too much repetition leads to boredom). I love the Popular Repertoire series in all the levels of the books. Just look at the covers for names of the songs. They are all well known tunes the students love. These have come and gone out of print, but have recently come back into print.
I use the Faber books as a bridge with another series called Alfred Basic Piano library. If students find Alfred's pace challenging, Faber helps fill in the gaps. It also teaches "Middle C position" where both thumbs are on middle C (the singing range of most young children), on the staff earlier in the primer level. This allows use of the fabulous set of Faber books in the Pre-time (primer), Playtime (level 1 five finger melodies), Showtime (level 2A-just outside the comfort zone), Chordtime (2B-wait for fingers to mature to play 3 note chord progressions-but are really the best in the series), Funtime (3-more challenging) and Big Time (usually used around level 4-5). These come in a variety of genres like Classical, Popular, Jazz, Ragtime, Rock, Children's Favorites, Hymns, (Hebrew Favorites only in Chordtime), I like to use as many as possible in the early years and then focus in on what student shows an interest in for later study.
Later versions of the Faber books teach higher notes on the treble staff that Alfred misses. But the Alfred books are very good at teaching intervals sight reading. My feeling about these books is that you want more books that keep the pace nice and even, if there are a few songs that seem too similar, and the student is ready to move on, move on, but more often than not, the extra songs give a student many opportunities for sight reading, which is really what I try to teach. Try starting 5 min per year old for the lesson and 1 song per year old per week, and see how it goes. A five year old can sit and play for 1/2 hour on about 5 short pieces, with some singing, clapping, and other activities. Whereas a nine year old can sit for about 45 minutes, and has no problem with 9-10 songs a week.
Give your child the gift of reading music as you would reading books.
Great primer book. December 22, 2008
J. M. Russeau (Monroe, MI USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This was requested by my 7-year-old son's piano teacher. It is the perfect pace for a beginning piano student.
Love the Faber books! January 24, 2009
D. Lambert (Roosevelt, UT)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
As a piano teacher, all my students use the Faber series. I have used the other authors, but Faber is my favorite. The books do a great job of teaching the concepts in a fun way with fun songs and ideas. A++
Great 1st learning piano Book October 10, 2007
Sue-zanne
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is a clear and easy to understand book for very beginners of piano. It makes learning fun and enjoyable.
Piano music book review December 27, 2008
Quality review (Third Culture)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the series our Britsh-based piano teacher recommended. Our three children have used it and continue to progress with it. I'd like to see more theory practices and minuets for finger fluidity. However, this is not a book to be used for self-teaching.
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