This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Lesson Book 4 concepts include: tarantellas; eighth note triplets; arpeggiated chords; first and second inversion triads in C; triads in all positions; major scales in parallel motion; two-part writing; seventh chords and inversions of seventh chords; E harmonic minor scale in contrary motion; primary chords in E minor; sixteenth notes; dotted eighth notes; primary chords in B-flat Major and G Minor; repeated-note warm-ups; and harmonic minor scales in parallel motion.
For reinforcement of each principle as it is introduced, supplementary material is carefully coordinated, page for page, at each level of instruction.
Songlist: America, the Beautiful Black Forest Polka Blow, Winds, Blow! Calypso Holiday! Comedians' Dance Farewell to Thee (Aloha Oe) Gypsy Dance Haunted House He's Got the Whole World in His Hands Musette Olympic Procession Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 Prelude in A Minor Space Shuttle Blues Spinning Wheel Swinging Sevenths The Battle Hymn of the Republic The Hokey-Pokey The House of the Rising Sun The Magic Piper Waltz in G Minor Waves of the Danube