Faber Piano Adventures: Level 1 Lesson Book 2nd Edition

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Theory and Technique Books correlate page-by-page with the Lesson Book to analyze, create, and express at the piano. Students play one exercise a day, while enjoying the entertaining musical art that guides their sightreading progress. Piano Adventures – Level 1 continues the intervallic orientation to reading across the full range of the Grand Staff.

Vivian melts into a ball of giggles as she imagines her arm as the dinosaur’s tail playing the last note.

This inventive course uses sets of exercises based on melodic and rhythmic patterns from the Level 1 Lesson Book. For teachers, the art of teaching can be seen as a wholistic process using the ACE triangle— analyze, create, express. Today we are pleased to announce that the Gold Star Performance audio files for all four levels in the Gold Star series are available as interactive audio in the Piano Adventures Player app. In Accelerated Book 1, a systematic reading strategy presents Grand Staff reading with classical composer themes, world folk tunes, and Faber originals. Note reading expands across the Grand Staff with themes of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, folk tunes, and Faber originals.

This method truly brings a sense of adventure to learning the piano, and encourages and motivates student’s to learn, with its diverse range of repertoire and resources.

You’ll notice the seeds of the Faber’s ACE philosophy for student-centered learning throughout the site. Its wide and varied 8-level curriculum includes appealing repertoire, probing theory, improvisation and composition, and a systematic technique program from the start. This collection, arranged by Nancy and Randall Faber, offers musical treasure from contemporary to classic for today’s piano students.