A warm, lighthearted attitude AND music that speaks to the student’s interest! These can dissolve even challenging concepts and passages. Watch student Serena’s eyes light up in this teaching demonstration by Theresa Cheng. She is using sharable slides from the Disney KIT, a simple but powerful digital bundle for the nine songs of PreTime Disney. […]
Get ready! This new Atlas release offers a melting pot of music from around the world, styles from across the musical periods, and distinct sounds—major, minor, and modal. Discover the exciting, dramatic, and poignant sounds of China in this carefully-graded 6-book Music from China series. Offered in the PreTime® to BigTime® Piano Library, students will […]
Let the “good times roll” on the piano keys with this week’s new release in the Teacher Atlas— six levels of Rock ’n Roll and six levels of Kids’ Songs from the PreTime to BigTime Library. These two genres offer outstanding fun on the keys with such selections as Rockin’ Robin, The Pink Panther, Hakuna […]
Summer is here! Time to add some pop to the Atlas. Celebrate two more genres with the addition of the Popular and Jazz & Blues series to the Piano Adventures Teacher Atlas. Each style has great choices across the six graded levels: PreTime® PlayTime® ShowTime®, ChordTime® FunTime®, and BigTime®, all from the well-known PreTime to […]
Just in time for your summer lessons, the Teacher Atlas now has 10 exciting new books from the PreTime® to BigTime® Piano Library. Enjoy Disney favorites at your fingertips for 6 levels: PreTime (Primer), PlayTime® (Level 1), ShowTime® (Level 2A), ChordTime® (Level 2B), FunTime® (Level 3A-3B) and BigTime (Level 4 and above). Have a musical […]
In our quest to make the Piano Adventures Teacher Atlas a “repository of learning materials,” we are pleased to announce an additional 18 books from the PreTime® to BigTime® Piano Library — Classics, Favorites, and Hymns. These books offer a wide variety of repertoire at 6 levels of difficulty: PreTime Piano (Primer), PlayTime® Piano (Level […]
For this week’s musical treat, watch a pup turn pages at the piano for one of Disney’s favorite songs about a “freaky fashionista.” The costume is spots, the rhythm is swing, and the key is C—for candy, of course, and Cruella de Vil. Enjoy this jazzy arrangement in FunTime® Piano Disney, for Level 3A and up.
Ed Sheeran’s “Perfect” from ChordTime Piano Hits may be the favorite wedding song of our generation. It also happens to be the perfect song to learn four chords that define western popular music: I, vi, IV, and V. These chords surely sound familiar by now—they’re the same four chords we looked at last week. If […]
“I wanna see you be brave!” This chorus from Sara Bareilles’ “Brave” offers words of encouragement for each of us—as piano teachers, students, and performers. How many of us grew up playing only classical piano, while listening to the Beatles, Billy Joel, and Coldplay? Perhaps being brave as a teacher means exploring music with our students, […]
Sharing a chord progression from your student’s favorite pop song is a sure-fire way to engage and connect. In addition to rocketing your cool status, brain neurons will spark, as your students explore music theory and creativity in ways that complement traditional repertoire. This week we take a look at “Whatever It Takes” by Imagine […]
