Kids' Guide to Playing the Piano and Keyboard E-Book

Emily Arrow

• Herausgeber: Happy Fox Books
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 30

Beschreibung

Children learn best when they can learn through multi-sensory means. By using hearing, seeing and kinesthetic methods, Emily Arrow has created this easy and fun book, Kid's Guide to Playing Piano or Keyboard, for children to use as an introduction to learn how to play the piano. The book is a simple and much needed piano method for beginning musicians ages 6 and older. Her process, which follows the Orff Schulwerk method, is very approachable as she walks young musicians through 7 lessons learning musical notes and chords on a keyboard through a color dot method. She uses colorful stickers to represent the notes, flashcards to learn the rainbow chords and video/audio links for students to access for further help. The book also introduces young minds to important musical vocabulary, fun facts and the history of the piano and provides a practice chart. It even provides on-line audio access so young minds can hear what the piece should sound like. Students will learn to play songs such as The Colorful Musical Alphabet, Row, Row, Row Your Boat, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and more! If your child needs an easy and fun guide to learning the piano, this is the book for you.

Leseprobe

A special thank you to Kristin Cifelli who taught me to find and share my own voice.

© 2023 by Emily Arrow and Happy Fox Books, an imprint of Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., 903 Square Street, Mount Joy, PA 17552.

Kids’ Guide to Playing the Piano and Keyboard is an original work, first published in 2023 by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc. Reproduction of its contents is strictly prohibited without written permission from the rights holder.

Print ISBN 978-1-64124-336-0ISBN 978-1-63741-303-6

Project Team

Managing Editor: Gretchen Bacon

Acquisitions Editor: Amelia Johanson

Editor: Christa Oestreich

Designer: Wendy Reynolds

Tech Editor: Chad Young

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For a printable PDF of the patterns used in this book, please contact Fox Chapel Publishing at [email protected], with 9781641243360 Kids’ Guide to Playing the Piano and Keyboard in the subject line.

Image Credits

All author photography by Alex Crawford

The following images are credited to Shutterstock.com and their respective creators: used throughout: Aepsilon (watercolor background), Alano Design (stars), Fourleaflover (bursts around heads, hands, text), Istry Istry (music notes), maak (music notation); front cover: Julia August (music notes), Pixel-Shot (boy inset), Solntca (colored keyboard), Twinsterphoto (main image), VALUA VITALY (girl inset); pages: miniaria (6 girl playing piano), graphic-line (7), Anthony Correia (10 Billy Joel), asantosg (10 pianos), Everett Collection (10 Mozart), Mazur Travel (10 Elton John), murciof (10 electric keyboard), Nicku (10 Beethoven), hudoi.baran (12, 82 spider), VALUA VITALY (16 model), lesyauna (20–25 microphone), Malenkka (20–25 wave), Nutkins.J (20–25 glue), Iegorova Olesia (29, 30 bear), Drawlab19 (29, 31 mice), Monkey Business Images (32 models), Roman Samborskyi (33 model), Matiushenko Yelyzaveta (35 rabbits), Olha Saiuk (37 birds), Twinsterphoto (41) Denis Cristo (43 soccer game), FamVeld (47, 63), GoodStudio (50 book), SkyPics Studio (65 oar), elroyspelbos (69 hands), Monstar Studio (74 model), cosmic_pony (76 acorn), Seregam (78 pizza), New Africa (85 model), Colorlife (88 ghost), tn-prints (88 pumpkin), StockBURIN (90–91 party hats), Dragon Images (92 models), mhatzapa (92 illustration), Pixel-Shot (93), Azindianlany (95 roar), IrynMerry (95 dinosaur), vvvita (98 model)

Designed by Freepik: rainbow (14)

Designed by Canva: hands (used throughout), frog (used throughout), cloud (used throughout), unicorn (56), rainbow (used throughout), shh symbol (62, 74)

Hello! Hello!

I’m Emily Arrow (she/they), and I love to learn, play, and teach music.