• Teaches music to beginners the same way children learn a language — by listening and speaking before learning to read the symbols.
• Helps beginners acquire a sense of ease and familiarity at the keyboard, solid rhythm playing, attention to proper technique, improvisation skills, and ensemble playing prior to reading music notation.
• Introduces a unique five-finger position referred to as the Modified Chopin Position (MCP). The MCP is modified from the position that Frederic Chopin, the famous pianist-composer, recommended to promote a natural playing position. The MCP places the middle three fingers on a three-black-key group with fingers one and five resting lightly on the adjacent white keys F and B. (Chopin’s position used E instead of F.)
• Explores the topography of the keyboard through refreshing new music that beginners love to sing and play.
• Contains a CD that includes the student part of each composition with MIDI accompaniment. The recordings have musical introductions, instead of metronome clicks, to cue students and to develop their listening skills. Performance and practice tempos are included. In the beginning pieces, ear icons show the number of beats in the introduction.

Product Description
Book 1 teaches beginners to play piano/keyboard through icons rather than reading notes. An included CD contains both piano and attractive orchestration for each song in the book. Beginning piano students are often discouraged by traditional method books and styles of teaching the piano. That is because those methods put music reading ahead of playing the instrument. The revolutionary Klav-Ear Method teaches beginners to play the piano, including complicated rhythms… More >>

Klav-Ear for Kids: A Comprehensive Method of Piano/Keyboard Instruction Book 1

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