The music in this book is ideally suited for a sixty-one note keyboard with a ‘split’ facility.

 

The aim, is not only to teach the chord names, but also to show how to read the Bass Stave. Thereby enabling the student eventually to pick up any kind of music, i.e. piano/sheet music and be able to ‘read’ and play as written.

 

Book One introduces just four chords. By the end of the book the student can discern the chord to be played by sight.

This book has been carefully written with both student and teacher in mind.

It can be used either by those who are attending individual / group tuition classes, or by those who prefer to teach themselves to play.
  General Topics Musical Pieces  
 

Chords

C major 11

F major 19

G major 11

G7 35

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Bar Lines 7

Double Bar Lines 8

Thin Bar Lines 26

Bass Clef 10

Bass Stave 10

Finger Numbers 7

Flats 37

Keyboard Layout 5

Ledger Lines 7

Middle C (Above Split Point) 5

Middle C (Below Split Point) 10

Naturals 37

Note Names and Values 13

Rests 26

Revision 29

Scale of C Major 26

Sharps 37

Split Point 5

Staccato 37

Stave 6

Tempo 13

Tied Notes 11

Time Signature 13

Treble Clef 6

Treble Stave 6

Cowboys Lament (Trad.) 24

Cuckoo (Trad.) 16

Dreaming (T.J.Brown) 14

English Country Garden (Trad.) 34

Finger-tapper (T.J.Brown) 32

Home Sweet Home (Trad.) 18

Lavenders Blue (Trad.) 20

Little Brown Jug (Trad.) 21

London Bridge (Trad.) 17

Lullaby (Brahms) 22

Merry Polka (T.J.Brown) 12

Minuet (J.S.Bach) 36

Ninth Symphony (excerpt) (Beethoven) 9

Oh' Susanna (Trad.) 23

Over the Hills and Far Away (Trad.) 30

Over the Waves (Juventino Rosas) 38

Progression Waltz (T.J.Brown) 28

Red River Valley (Trad.) 31

Shepherds Hey (Trad.) 33

Study in C (T.J.Brown) 27

Waltz Time (T.J.Brown) 15

When You and I Were Young Maggie (Trad.) 25

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Careful attention has been given to the fingering of each piece, enabling ease of playing. Hints for ease of playing and suggested registrations have been added to each piece of music.