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Anybody Can Play
Original series Books
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Can Play Books
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Book One:
Busy Buzzy Bumblebee
Book Two: Mary had a Little
Lamb
Book Three: Sweetly Sings the
Donkey
Book Four: Old McDonald Had a
Farm
Book Five: Mary had a Little
Lamb with chords
Book Six: Fiddle Dee Dee
Book Seven: Oats, Peas, Beans
and the Barley Grow
Book Eight: Down by the Station
Book Nine: Jingle Bells
Book Ten: Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star
Book Eleven: Hush Little Baby
Book One: Busy Buzzy
Bumblebee:
Entering a new discipline with the industry and enthusiasm of
Busy Buzzy Bumblebee
Skills Learned:
- Identifying groups of two and groups of three black keys on the keyboard
- Using specific fingers on specific keys
- Playing even rhythm, five finger pattern song in parallel (both hands playing same tune simultaneously)
- Recognition, naming, tracing and reproducing musical symbols
Features:
- Suitable for ages 3 through 6 as well as older beginner students
- Assumes no music background and parents with NO prior music background can assist their child
- Theory included
Book Two: Mary
Had a Little Lamb
The pleasure and satisfaction of learning the all-time
favorite song!
Skills Learned:
- Internal phrasing by lifting properly out of the keys; building on knowledge and skills previously learned in Busy Buzzy Bumblebee
- Playing a new rhythm
- Recognizing, naming, defining, tracing and reproducing musical symbols.
Features:
- Suitable for ages 3 through 6 (with assistance coloring, cutting, etc.) as well as older beginner students.
- Theory included
- Parents with NO prior music background can assist their child
Book Three: Sweetly
Sings the Donkey
The joy of dissonance!
Skills Learned:
- Playing 3 beat sets, rather than 4 beat sets
- Playing two notes together with EACH hand simultaneously
- Continuing to build knowledge and skills from prior books
- Recognizing, naming, defining, tracing and reproducing many new musical symbols.
- Improving playing skills
Features:
- Ability to play former songs assumed
- Suitable for ages 3 through 6 (with assistance coloring, cutting, etc.) as well as older beginner students
- Appropriate theory included
- Song played in parallel, both hands playing simultaneously
- Parents with very little music background can assist their child (Parents who have gone through previous two books will be able to easily assist their child.)
Book Four: Old
McDonald Had a Farm
Another old favorite with lots of variants
Skills Learned:
- Increased ability to follow directions not only for playing song, but also for completing activities in the book.
- Playing song with both hands using Pentatonic Scale (on black keys)
- Playing a more complicated rhythm
- Recognizing, naming, defining, tracing and reproducing many more new musical symbols.
- Organizing musical symbols for review with flashcards
Features:
- Ability to play former songs assumed
- Suitable for ages 3 through 6 (with assistance operating tape recorder, coloring, cutting, etc.) as well as older beginner students
- Parents able to play songs from the first three books can easily assist their child
- Appropriate theory included
- Assumes ability to play a simple tune with both hands simultaneously and requires very little music background
Book Five: Mary Had
a Little Lamb with chords
The old favorite dressed up with chords and sounding great!
SKILLS LEARNED:
- Playing block C chord and G7th chord
- Playing right hand melody with chord accompaniment
- Recognizing and playing the "G" of the treble clef
- Recognizing and playing the note above and below the treble G
- Beginning to sight read on Grand Staff
- Improving the playing of previous songs
- Playing by dictation
FEATURES:
- Suitable for ages 4 through 6 (with assistance coloring, cutting, etc.) as well as older beginner students
- Reviews previously learned material and includes appropriate theory; ability to play former songs assumed
- Parents with little music background can assist their children
Book Six: Fiddle
Dee Dee
Starting to sound like a real pianist!
SKILLS LEARNED:
- Playing song with right hand melody, left hand broken chord accompaniment
- Sight reading music notation
- Writing and playing own composition
- Improving previous songs
- Identifying 2nd and 3rd intervals in relation to reading notation
FEATURES:
- Suitable for ages 4 through 6 (with assistance operating tape recorder, coloring, cutting, etc.) as well as older beginner students
- Assumes ability to play at the level of books one through five for both student and parent assisting.
Book Seven: Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow
SKILLS LEARNED:
- Playing longer song with melody and broken chord accompaniment
- Improving sight reading skills
- Adding Bass Clef to note reading
- Reading music from Grand Staff
- Adding to list of learned musical symbols
- Improving the memory reflex by reviewing (and improving) all prior pieces learned
FEATURES:
- Suitable for ages 4 through 6 (with assistance) as well as older beginner students
- Assumes ability to play through level six on the part of both student and assisting parent
Book Eight: Down By the Station
SKILLS LEARNED:
- Playing song with Alberti Bass accompaniment
- Reading and playing notation on Grand Staff (reading treble and bass clefs simultaneously)
- Writing, reading, and playing own composition utilizing both treble and bass clefs
- Able to identify, name, give beat value, write, read and play all notes and rests introduced to this point
- New technique added
- More music symbols learned and used
FEATURES:
- Suitable for ages 4 through 6 (with assistance) as well as older students
- Assumes ability to play through level seven for student and at least understanding concepts through level seven for parent assisting.
SKILLS LEARNED:
- Playing dotted quarter right hand against a left hand even beat Alberti Bass
- Playing right hand eighth notes against a left hand even beat quarter note Albert Bass
- Playing ascending and descending C Scale
- Reading all notes from an octave below to an octave above middle C
- Playing dictation
- Reviewing and using previously learned skills
- Improving review songs
FEATURES:
- Suitable for ages 4 through 6 (with assistance) as well as older students
- Assumes ability to play contrary motion with ease
- Assumes ability to play through level eight on the part of student
- Assumes at least understanding concepts through level eight for parent assisting
Book Ten: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
SKILLS LEARNED:
- Playing left hand eighth note Alberti Bass against right hand melody
- Playing out of the five-finger hand position in the right hand
- Adding a new chord to bass pattern
- Playing ascending C Scale, both hands together
- Bringing sight reading and playing skills together
- Building Major Scales with the correct whole/half step pattern
- Reading inner ledger lines and spaces
- Recognizing and using new theory and musical symbols
- Reviewing previously learned songs to keep in memory to further train the memory reflex
FEATURES:
- Suitable for ages 4 through 6 as well as older students
- Assumes ability to play through level nine for student
- Assisting parent needs to understand concepts through level nine
SKILLS LEARNED:
- Playing songs in the Key of F with F and C7th block and broken chord accompaniment
- Playing a new pattern with chords
- Learning new songs completely by note reading
- Able to analyze written music for Hush Little Baby with musical tools learned in previous books
- Reading and playing own composition
- Playing tetrachords
- Identifying tonic tone, dominant, and sub-dominant
- Building C Scale to G Scale with tetrachords
- Building D Scale to F Scale with tetrachords (descending
to subdominant)
FEATURES:
- Suitable for any age that can play at the level of books one through ten
- Assumes ability to play through level ten on the part of student
- Parent needs at least to understand concepts through level ten if assisting