This is the ultimate method book! Lesson One To Grade One includes over 120 piano pieces and exercises, progressing from the earliest and easiest 3-finger pieces up to Grade 1 standard.

Also covering theory, improvisation, sight reading, scales and other technical exercises, Lesson One To Grade One is packed full of fun and well-known songs, including children's favourites, nursery rhymes, folk, Christmas and famous classical pieces.

Perfect for kids and teachers alike, this book is all you'll need to take you from lesson one right up to Grade 1 standard.

CONTENTS

C-D-E (three finger tunes) Where Am I Going? ◦ I Have Fallen On My Head ◦ When You Smile ◦ Mary Had A Little Lamb
C-B-A (three finger tunes) C-B-A ◦ The Mummy’s Tomb
Four Finger Tunes A Question On Snowmen ◦ Troy
Five Finger Tunes (for right hand) Oh, When The Saints Go Marching In ◦ Jingle Bells ◦ Oranges And Lemons ◦ Ode To Joy ◦ Step Reading Exercise
Five Finger Tunes (for left hand) Aura Lea ◦ Girls And Boys Come Out To Play ◦ Simple Gifts ◦ Drink To Me Only With Thin Eyes ◦ Musette in D Major ◦ Give Me Sweets, Good Mama ◦ Step Reading Exercises
Both Hands On The Keyboard: On C Alouette ◦ Westminster Chimes ◦ Incy Wincy Spider ◦ Hot Cross Buns ◦ Quiz ◦ Trumpet Voluntary ◦ Name That Note
Both Hands On The Keyboard: On D London Bridge Is Falling Down ◦ A-Tisket A-Tasket ◦ Kumbaya ◦ Rain, Rain, Go Away ◦ Pop! Goes The Weasel ◦ Michael, Row the Boat Ashore ◦ Ties ◦ Drawing Practise
Both Hands On C Again: Shared Melodies Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush ◦ Old MacDonald Had A Farm ◦ Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ◦ Improvisation Station ◦ Good King Wenceslas ◦ We Three Kings ◦ Raindrop Prelude ◦ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ◦ B-I-N-G-O ◦ Note Writing Exercise ◦ Liebesträume No. 3 ◦ Five Little Ducks ◦ Row, Row, Row Your Boat ◦ Happy Birthday ◦ Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (4th mv) ◦ New Notes! ◦ Tempo
Shared Melodies. Different Positions Yankee Doodle ◦ Three Blind Mice ◦ The First Nowell ◦ Sight Reading: Thirds ◦ For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow ◦ Improvisation Creation ◦ Battle Hymn Of The Republic ◦ Norwegian Dance No. 1
Putting Hands Together Air ◦ London’s Burning ◦ The Unicorn ◦ Musette in D Major ◦ Dynamics ◦ Mary Had A Little Lamb ◦ Ode To Joy ◦ Sonata in A Major ◦ Jingle Bells ◦ Saint Anthony Variations ◦ Improvisation Sensation ◦ Autumn ◦ Fairy Dust
Rhythm Patterns & Sight Reading
Playing Chords Barcarolle ◦ Jellyfish ◦ Arabian Song ◦ Medieval Music ◦ Scales ◦ Frère Jacques ◦ Drunken Sailor ◦ Playing Chords ◦ Pastoral Symphony (1st mv)
Moving The Right Hand This Old Man ◦ English Country Garden ◦ She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain ◦ Funeral March ◦ Do You Know The Muffin Man ◦ Soliloquy ◦ Good King Wenceslas ◦ Ding Dong Merrily On High ◦ Sight Reading: The Fourth
Sharps And Flats Oh, When The Saints Go Marching In ◦ Abide With Me ◦ Heads, Shoulders, Knees And Toes ◦ Improvisation Fascination ◦ While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night ◦ Note Drawing Exercise
Initial Grade Standard Scarborough Fair ◦ Carol Of The Bells ◦ Camptown Races ◦ Spring ◦ The Fire ◦ Away In A Manger ◦ Sight Reading: The Fifth
With A Moving Left Hand Largo ◦ Pavane ◦ We Wish You A Merry Christmas ◦ Hungarian Dance (no. 5)
Key Signatures
◦ G Major: Little Brown Jug ◦ Minuet in G ◦ For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow
◦ F Major: Portrait In F Major ◦ Hark! The Herald Angels Sing ◦ O Little Town Of Bethlehem
◦ D Minor: We Three Kings ◦ Sarabande in D Minor
◦ A Minor
Three-Note Chords (Triads) Kumbaya ◦ Broken Chords ◦ Improvisation Proclamation
Grade 1 Standard Pieces In The Bleak Midwinter ◦ Nocturne ◦ Skye Boat Song ◦ Fantasie Impromptu ◦ O Come All Ye Faithful
Specimen Grade 1 Sight Reading Tests