(Faber Piano Adventures ). Written for ages 5 and 6, My First Piano Adventure captures the child’s playful spirit. Fun-filled songs, rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Three distinguishing features of the Lesson Book A make it unique and effective for the young 5-6 year old beginner. 1. A strong focus on technique embedded in the book through playful technique games, chants, and carefully-composed pieces that gently lead the child into pianistic motions. 2. Outstanding audio tracks via online access for the young student to listen, sing, tap, and play along with at the piano. The orchestrated songs feature children singing the lyrics, which has great appeal to the 5-6 year old beginner. The audio becomes a ready-made practice partner that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities in the books. 3. The fanciful art features five multi-cultural children who are also learning to play. These friends at the piano introduce basic rhythms, white key names, and a variety of white and black-key songs that span classical, folk, and blues. Young students will listen, sing, create, and play more musically with Nancy and Randall Faber s My First Piano Adventure, Lesson Book A. The Lesson Book introduces directional pre-reading, elementary music theory and technique with engaging songs, games, and creative discovery at the keyboard. Young students will enjoy the multi-cultural “friends at the piano” who introduce white-key names, basic rhythms, and a variety of songs which span classical, folk, and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of the curriculum. The Fabers’ instructional theory “ACE” – Analysis, Creativity, and Expression, guides the pedagogy of My First Piano Adventure. Analysis leads to understanding, creativity leads to self-discovery, and expression develops personal artistry. The audio for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the course: when children listen, sing, tap, and move to their piano music, they play more musically. View Helpful Introductory Videos Here
Kotek –
I am no pianist, but I am able to teach piano till probably level 3-4 Alfred’s lessons. I play a bit and have been always involved in my oldest daughter’s lessons. I have learned a lot myself too. My 5 year old scatter brain or rather active son is not ready to take piano seriously and I don’t even have access to a piano teacher who accepts kids his age (pre reading and this active!). He begged for piano lessons so I bought him this book along with Alfred’s Prep Course A set.
Alfred’s a bit too fast for him. He needed something even easier and more fun. This is real fun for him. He can’t get enough and he just cracks himself up with some songs, laughing no matter how many times he plays it. The best is Kangaroo song with it’s boing in a wiggly voice at the end. He made me make a movie of him playing it for his cousin 🙂 I think after this book he would be ready for Prep Course from Alfred’s set. I also need to add that my 7 year old is having fun with it. She took piano lessons with a teacher almost a year ago, stopped at Alfred’s level 1a book and didn’t want to continue her lessons. Now almost year later, she is having fun with this one with her brother. It’s way too easy for her, but fun. After not playing piano for almost a year, she is asking for lessons again… Thanks to this silly book 🙂
However, I must add that this book would have been too simple, boring and easy for my oldest daughter at this very same age: 5. We had something similar for her to start with: Hal’s with CD and it wasn’t her cup of tea. She went right into Alfred’s level 1a and flew through it in a month. She got to level 4 in 4 semesters. My then 6 year old had to go through the Alfred’s primer level before getting to 1a. So it really depends on a kid….
It worked for us and I am happy we have it. Hearing my son and ROTFLOL with every practice is just so much fun for me 🙂
April Monique –
Good for beginners learning piano
German –
My son just starts learning to play piano. This book is recommended by his piano teacher and he likes it so much. Very colorful, easy to read, suitable for preschooler.
saverio –
Bella la grafica e interessanti le musiche
Leidis –
Excelente 👌 ha sido de mucha ayuda para mi hija
Richard a lesley –
Easy for here to use
SW –
We have used Faber primer before. I loved that we found this non-reader option for our 4 year old. It’s a great first intro.
Issa Lozano –
Muy buen material para las clases de piano de niños de 5 a 6 años que apenas empiezan a explorar la música.
Vanessa j Bordoli –
My eldest daughter has been using this book in her piano lessons for about 15 months now and is getting on really well with it. It teaches her to play the piano slowly and she really enjoys the pieces she plays from this book.
You can also download an app which has the music backtracks to play along to, and this makes practise at home much more fun. I’d definitely recommend these books.
C. M. Parker –
This has been a great motivator. The lessons are very, very easy, but it’s the perfect place to start with a child from 3-5. We’re actually using it as the ‘fun review book’ among other books with a bit more content. My seven year old secretly likes to watch and do it with us, even though he’s pretty far beyond the level. It’s just plain fun. I think they’ll keep dancing to the CD after we’ve finished the book. (We have to listen twice; once to play along on the piano, and once to dance.)
Beverly Taylor –
I play piano and wanted to get my preschool son started too. He’s been showing interest and I thought we could just follow the book. I’ve never taught lessons but don’t want to pay just yet for them. There is a website that has all of the corresponding tracks, so I just bookmarked it on my phone. It’s better than the cd in my opinion because I don’t have a cd player at my house. My preschooler is engaged and talks about what he learned at meal times and in the car. It’s very easy to follow the book and it covers all of the most important basics in a logical order.
sean d. –
The piano book was better than expected with quick delivery. I’m very pleased. 🙂
Sosanjo –
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