Alfred's Basic Piano Library - Lesson 4

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. 


Titles: 

* America the Beautiful (Ward) 

* The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Steffe-Howe) 

* Black Forest Polka 

* Blow, Winds, Blow! 

* Calypso Holiday! 

* Comedians' Dance (Kabelevsky) 

* Farewell to Thee (Aloha Oe) 

* Gypsy Dance 

* Haunted House 

* He's Got the Whole World in His Hands 

* The Hokey-Pokey 

* The House of the Rising Sun 

* The Magic Piper 

* Musette (Bach) 

* Olympic Procession 

* Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 (Elgar)

* Prelude in A Minor 

* Space Shuttle Blues 

* Spinning Wheel 

* Swingin' Sevenths 

* Tarentella 

* Waltz in G Minor 

* Waves of the Danube (Ivanovici) 


Coordinating supplemental books for Level 4 include: 

* Classic Themes 

* Duet 

* Ear Training 

* Merry Christmas 

* Musical Concepts 

* Recital 

* Repertoire 

* Sight Reading 

* Technic 

* Theory and Top Hits! Solo, Christmas and Duet books