Level One Textbook: The Mayron Cole Piano Method

The Level 1 Textbook is for beginners in 1st-5th grades, or graduates of The Mayron Cole Piano Method Pre-Level 1, Blast Off with Piano, or Blast Off with Piano Junior. Level 1 teaches how to count two-eighths, quarter, half, dotted-half, whole, and dotted-quarter/eighth rhythms, with two-eighths rhythm introduced in the first lesson. Level 1 then teaches the keys on the piano; staff notes Middle C up to G and Middle C down to F as well as harmonic seconds, thirds, and fourths. The theory taught in each lesson is the theory needed to play the new piece in that lesson, and the music concepts that have been previously taught are reinforced as many times as possible in subsequent compositions and theory fun sheets.The Level 1 Textbook is paperback-bound with color covers and spine, contains 40 lessons, 279 pages, 68 original solos, 15 folk song solos, 3 classical solos, 3 five-piano ensembles, 110 corresponding theory sheets, 212 original drawings. This book is also available on FreePianoMethod.com website as a free pdf download; please visit FreePianoMethod.com for free orchestrated accompaniments to the compositions in this book. Amazon does not allow returns, but before you order you can preview each lesson of the book on FreePianoMethod.com. Original copyright 1980; current edition copyrighted 2018.(Level 1 is exactly the same material as the previously printed Level 1A and Level 1B of The Mayron Cole Piano Method.)Graduates of Level 1 will progress to Level 2 of The Mayron Cole Piano Method.