Adult Piano Course Book 1

Preface                                           

Introductory Section                              
Rudiments / Elements of Notation

MAIN SECTION                                    
Hints on How to Practice                       
The Phrase---Musical Form and Patterns         
"Swans on the Lake"---Tonal Shading/Dynamics  
Half Steps and Whole Steps                    
"Stepping Stones"---Study in Half Steps and Whole Steps
Drill for Left Hand---Leger Lines "In the Swing"
Hanon Exercise---Phrasing in Twos             
"Swaying Silver Birches"                      
Hanon Exercise---Phrasing in Fours           
"Dutch Dance"---Dance Forms                 
The Major Scale                             
Etude---Ascending C Major Scale Figure "Church Bells"---Descending C Major Scale
Figure
Etude---G Major Scale Figures "Lullaby" (Brahms)
Chord Building / Inversions / Triads          
Arpeggio Drill Etude---Broken Chords          
Drill---F Major Scale and Arpeggio Etude in F Major---Chords and Broken Chords
"Marche Slav" (Tchaikovsky)                   
Hanon Exercise---Finger Legato                 
Drill---Broken Chords with Inversions / Triplets "Forest Dawn"---Trills and Broken Chords
Drill---D Major Scale and Arpeggio "Lightly Row"---Folk Tune
Drill---A Major Scale and Arpeggio Air from "Sonata in A Major" (Mozart)
Etude---Five-finger Legato Groups            
"Moccasin Dance"---Minor Mode       
Etude---F Major Scale and Chord Figures "The Dancing Lesson"---Leger Lines
Hanon Exercise---Wrist Staccato              
Etude---Wrist Staccato "The Woodpecker"     
"Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes"-6/8 Time
Etude---Staccato and Legato in 6/8 "The Cuckoo Clock"- Two-note Phrasing in 6/8
Etude---Wrist Staccato in Double Notes "Valse"
Drill---B-fiat Major Scale and Arpeggio "Nocturne"
Drill---E-flat Major Scale and Arpeggio "Etude in E-flat Major"
"On an Irish Green"---Cross-hands             
"Silent Night" (Gruber)                       
"Rain Dance"---Etude for Left Hand Alone       
"A Spanish Fiesta"---Syncopation              
Drill---E Major Scale and Arpeggio "Peasant Dance"
"The Lonesome Pine"---Extended Broken Chords   
"Long, Long Ago" (Bayly)---Broken Chords as Accompaniment
Hanon Exercise---Forearm Attack               
"Twilight Song"---Forearm Chord Playing        
Drill---A-flat Major Scale and Arpeggio "To a Skyscraper"
Air from "New World Symphony" (Dvorak)        
Etude---Scales and Chords "Dublin Town"---Gigue in 6/8
"John Peel"---Sixteenth Notes                 
Etude---The Trill                            
"Sweet and Low" (Barnby)                       
"Under the Leaves" (Thome)                     
Glossary