The book contains:
- 42 original pieces and an elementary level Concertino.
- Progressive technique: from changes of position and hand openings, to thumb steps, polyphony, repeated notes, substitutions, various scales and arpeggios.
- Different styles, especially designed to appeal to a young audience: classical, jazz, Celtic, world music and film-style pieces.
- Pieces for reading, improvisation and 4 hands and a final Concertino as a summary of all the technique worked on.
- Colour illustrations, indications of the key, highlights of the concepts highlighted and reminders on each piece. Presentation incomparable with other methodologies, attractive book and especially clear in the presentation of concepts.
- Card set to work on improvisation by chords.
- CD accompaniment for all the pieces, quality audios, also available online. All the accompaniments, on the one hand, enrich the student’s interpretations both harmonically and instrumentally and, on the other hand, help him/her to keep the tempo, to respect the dynamic and articulation indications and to have an overview of the character of the piece.
- Outline of the technical and musical contents of the book.
- Innovative pedagogical approach to working on improvisation: it introduces fundamental concepts such as tonality and chord, which it relates to the reading of some chords in American ciphers (in the fundamental and inverted states) so that the student can begin to interpret and improvise on them. He also gives a series of patterns for the left hand so that the student can get used to thinking harmonically when playing them. Apart from the Concepts pages where this information is presented, the card game allows the student to explore this world by being aware of the chords and scales of some keys.
Sample pages
Listen some of the pieces
Technical Chart
