Mozart, Sonata in B flat major, K. 570. Intermediate level.

Little Pianist First Steps follows the Russian tradition of playing and teaching the piano. From the very early stages of learning it focuses on establishing a good hand position, developing correct playing habits and freedom of movement. Freedom and flexibility of hands is the main principle, which determines our approach to all technical aspects of teaching piano. In accordance with this principle of freedom and flexibility of hands we avoid any kind of positional playing as it can cause unnecessary tension of child's hands. It also appears to be ineffective for learning music notation. In...

Children's play activities show that they all have a good sense of rhythm. The reason that a music instructor may encounter certain difficulties in teaching students to read and understand musical rhythms is usually not their lack of sense of rhythm; rather, it is the inability of young children to correlate it with the way we write music. The exercises in "My First Book of Rhythm" are intended to bridge the gap between children's habitual rhythmic activities and the principles of writing the rhythm in music. They are based on close analogies that are found between rhythm of speech and rhythm...

Little Pianist First Steps follows the Russian tradition of playing and teaching the piano. From the very early stages of learning it focuses on establishing a good hand position, developing correct playing habits and freedom of movement. Freedom and flexibility of hands is the main principle, which determines our approach to all technical aspects of teaching piano. In accordance with this principle of freedom and flexibility of hands we avoid any kind of positional playing as it can cause unnecessary tension of child's hands. It also appears to be ineffective for learning music notation. In...

Little Pianist First Steps Level Two should be started after completing the previous Little Pianist books - Introductory & Level One. By that time students should be able to fluently read notes in treble and bass clefs, have a good knowledge of time values of notes including sixteenth notes and understand different rhythmic patterns including dotted-note rhythms. Most importantly, after learning the first book of Little Pianist (Introductory & Level One) students are supposed to acquire the basic playing habits of correct execution of different articulations: non legato, two-note slurs,...

First Piano Book for Beginners, part two should be started after completing the previous book of this series. By that time students should be able to fluently read notes in treble and bass clefs, have a good knowledge of time values of notes including sixteenth notes and understand different rhythmic patterns including dotted-note rhythms. Most importantly, after learning the first book students have already mastered the basic playing habits of correct execution of different articulations: non legato, two-note slurs, staccato, legato. These fundamental elements of piano technique should be...

Read the Notes Workbook is written in response to the needs of students to facilitate the process of learning and reading notes at the initial phase of studying to play a musical instrument. According to the range of notes that are learned, this version of the book is designed for flute and oboe beginners. The workbook should be used as a supplementary material, accompanying any Flute or Oboe Method books. The primary purpose of this workbook is to develop in students the ability to analyze simple music text. Exercises are designed to teach students not only to recognize the notes taken...