Piano Explorer is a beginner’s book with a difference! This book encourages beginners to become confident (and happy!) readers, encouraging them to really understand the concept of music reading, whilst having enormous fun, and being creative.

This is a book for the very first lesson, or even before, and takes beginners through to their first book of little beginners pieces.

It is a beginners book with a difference! Read on!….

Do your pupils struggle with sight reading? … or dislike it immensely?
Do you have beginners (and beyond) who struggle to read notes and even find them on the keys?

So did I!!!    So do lots of us!… which is why I thought “there must be a better way” which after finding one, meant that beginners could devote more time to listening to their own playing, and in lessons we had more time to devote to technique, listening skills, and everything else to do with general musicianship, other than grinding though pieces where pupils struggled with every note.

I now use this completely different method right from the start and it also works with those who struggle. It seems to produce quite reasonable sight readers (and ones who are fearless and enjoy it!)

(The book is around 60 pages long)

The book contains:

 

Characters to cut out

Two games, to help teach “up and down”

Pages of large coloured notes for “dipping”

Pages of large coloured dynamics for “dipping”

Pages to encourage improvisation

(with references to interactive Youtube videos)

Aural “games”

Giant stave

Explanations of dynamics pages

A few first simple tunes, to lead to their first book of beginners pieces

 

Look inside (a selection of pages)

 

One of the ideas from the book is explained further here: (all the coloured notes and dynamics shown here are in the book to use).

 

Price £5.00