Contemporary Class Piano

This comprehensive introductory text for the keyboard makes playing the piano fun, yet does so without compromising the book's strong emphasis on musical theory. This book's richly diverse repertoire includes jazz, popular, and classical compositions, as well as 12-bar blues improvisation. Short sight-reading studies and selections featuring teacher accompaniment-all carefully graded in difficulty and correlated with the concepts presented in each unit-keep students on track with vital concepts while maintaining a high level of interest.