Play It! Children's Songs

Antimo Marrone, Jennifer Kemmeter

Description

A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs.

Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teaches how to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include piano sheets of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read sheet music and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 5 and up, Play It! is the perfect companion on your musical journey.

Features classic songs like "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "Greensleeves." Piano labels can be downloaded at westmarginpress.com.

Sujets

• Musique
• Technique musicale
• Technique musicale
• Keyboard Repertoire
• Piano Repertoire
• Printed Music
• Music

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 29 octobre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 10
• EAN13: 9781513262475
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

By Jenni fer Ke mmeter and Antimo M arrone
A Superf ast W ay to Learn A wesome Songs on Y ou r Piano or Keyb oard
LEVEL 1

CHILDREN’S SONGS
© 2019 by Je nnifer Kemmete r and Antimo Marrone
All righ ts res erve d. No part of this book may be reprod uced or transmitte d in any form or by any mea ns, electro nic or mechanica l, including photo copying, recording, or by any infor mation st orage a nd retrieval sys tem, without written p ermission of the publisher .
Library of Congres s Control N umber: 201 99513 75
ISBN: 97815132 62451 (paperback) | 9781 51326246 8 (hardbound) | 97815132 62475 (e -boo k)
Proudly distr ibuted by Ingram Pub lisher Serv ices.
Published by Gr aphic Ar ts Books an imprint of We st Margin Press
West MarginPress. com
WEST MARGIN PRESS
Publishing Direc tor: Je nnifer Newens Marketin g Manager: Angela Zbo rnik Editor: Olivia Ngai Design & Prod uction: Rachel Lopez Metzger
Content s
GOOD PIANO POSTU RE 7
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK 8
LET’S GET ST AR TED! 10
TIME TO WA RM UP! 11
EXERCISE 1 12
Mary Had a Little La mb 13
EXERCISE 2 14
Oh When the Saints Go Marching In 15
The Itsy Bitsy Spider 16
Twi nkle, T wi nkle Little Star 17
EXERCISE 3 18
Clock Chimes 20
Row, Row, Row Y ou r Boat 21
Yan kee Doodle Da ndy 22
EXERCISE 4 23
Skip to My Lou 24
This Land is Y ou r Land 25
London Bridge is Fa lling Down 26
EXERCISE 5 27
Are Y ou Sleeping? 28
Old MacDonald Had a Farm 29
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring 30
For He’ s a Jolly Good Fel low 31
Oh! Susanna 33
QUIZ TIME! 34
EXERCISE 6 35
If Y ou ’re Happy and Y ou Know It 36
Three Blind Mice 37
Baa Baa Black Sheep 38
Hickory Dickory Dock 39
The Wheels on the Bus 40
I’m a Little T ea pot 41
B-I-N-G- O 42
The Muff in Man 43
Pop Goes the We asel 44
EXERCISE 7 45
QUIZ TIME! 46
Happy Birt hday T o Yo u 48
Five Little Duc ks 49
Home on the Range 50
When Johnny Comes Marc hing Home 51
She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain 52
The Grand Old Duk e of Y or k 53
The Man on the Flying T ra peze 54
Hot Cross Buns 55
Daisy Bell 56
America the Beautiful 57
Greensleeves 58
LABELS & CERTIFICA TE OF COMPLETION LINK 59

Hi Kids! M y Name is Zo oey I’m going to teach yo u how to pl ay music Using my awes ome system y ou don’ t need to know anyt hing fanc y or techni cal— all you n eed is to know your co lors be able to follow a tune and maybe e ven sing along It’ s easy! Once y ou learn m y cool color c oded system you’ll be able to play a bunch of s ongs you probably already rec ognize j ust by pressing the colors on the k eyboar d Let’ s play!
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Good Piano Po sture

also know n as The Pro’ s Pose!
It may not seem import ant at f ir st but when you sit down to p lay the way y ou sit on th e bench or chair plays a par t in how good y our music s ounds Follow th is diagr am to look and sou nd like a pro:
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Let your u pper arms hang loose and relax ed from y our shoulder
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Keep you r back stra ight and lean fo rwa rd slightly
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You want your e lbows slig htly higher th an the ke yboard to get the best soun d from the ke ys (y ou may need to adjust the seat height or sit on a book to get thin gs just right )
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Sit on the fro nt half of the benc h or chair s o that yo ur weight is p ositioned forw ard toward the key board
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Position you rself so that your knees are sligh tly underneat h the keybo ard
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Keep yo ur feet f la t on the f lo or If they don ’t touch put some books or a step underneath the m
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Use rounded h ands to strik e the k eys—hold y our wrist s above the keyb oard and arch y our f in gers down toward the k eys
That’ s it! Now yo u look lik e a r ock sta r!