Alfred's Basic Adult All-in-One Course, Book 1
Learn How to Play Piano with Lesson, Theory and Technic
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3.5 • 22 Ratings
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Alfred's Basic Adult All-in-One Course is designed for use with an instructor for the beginning student looking for a truly complete piano course. It is a greatly expanded version of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course that will include lesson, theory, technic and additional repertoire in a convenient, "all-in-one" format. This comprehensive course adds such features as isometric hand exercises, finger strengthening drills, and written assignments that reinforce each lesson's concepts. There is a smooth, logical progression between each lesson, a thorough explanation of chord theory and playing styles, and outstanding extra songs, including folk, classical, and contemporary selections. At the completion of this course, the student will have learned to play some of the most popular music ever written and will have gained a good understanding of basic musical concepts and styles. The audio has accompaniments to support the student's playing of the exercises and songs.
Titles:
*Alouette
*Alpine Melody
*Amazing Grace
*Au Claire de la Lune
*Aunt Rhody
*Auld Lang Syne
*Aura Lee
*The Bandleader
*Beautiful Brown Eyes
*Blow the Man Down!
*Blues for Wynton Marsalis
*Brother John
*Café Vienna
*The Can-Can
*Chasing the Blues Away
*Chiapanecas
*Cockles and Mussels
*The Cuckoo
*Day is Done
*Dueling Harmonics
*The Entertainer
*A Friend Like You
*Go Down, Moses
*Good King Wenceslas
*Good Morning to You!
*Good People
*Got Those Blues
*Greensleeves
*Happy Birthday to You!
*Harmonica Rock
*Harp Song
*Here's a Happy Song!
*He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
*I'm Gonna Lay My Burden Down
*Jericho
*Jingle Bells
*Joy to the World!
*Kum-ba-yah!
*Largo (Dvorak)
*Lavender's Blue
*Lightly Row
*Little Brown Jug
*Liza Jane
*London Bridge
*Lone Star Waltz
*Love Somebody
*Lullaby
*The Marine's Hymn
*Mary Ann
*Merrily We Roll Along
*Mexican Hat Dance
*Michael, Row the Boat Ashore
*Money Can't Buy Everything
*My Fifth
*Ode to Joy
*On Top of Old Smoky
*O Sole Mio
*Raisins and Almonds
*Rock Along
*Rockets
*Rockin' Intervals
*Rock It Away!
*Scarborough Fair
*Shoo, Fly, Shoo!
*Skip to My Lou!
*Standing in the Need of Prayer
*The Stranger
*Tisket, a Tasket
*Waltzing Chords
*Waltz Time
*What Can I Share
*When the Saints Go Marching In
*Why Am I Blue?
Customer Reviews
Wrong page orientation
The material of the book itslef is great. I’ve been using this series for two decades of piano instruction. I was excited to try the electronic version and was considering recommending it to my students as well.
There is one frustrating glitch that is annoying enough to deduct two stars from my rating. When you click on the icon to make the page full-size, it rotates it so the page is landscape, while the material is still portrait. In other words you have to bend your head fully to the right in order to view the page correctly!
It’s a relatively simple fix; I just take a screen shot and rotate the image 90 degrees to the left. However though siimple, this is a step I shouldn’t have to take for *every piece in the book*. I also cannot ask my students to have to do so either.
Fix this issue and I’ll gladly bump my rating to a full 5 stars.