Music for the performer in all of us brings together blockbuster popular, jazz, and movie hits with band and orchestral backgrounds available on CD. Here are NEW hot hits and performer and audience favorites pianistically arranged by Gail Lew and Chris Lobdell using effective chord substitutions to give a "big" professional sound. Titles: What a Wonderful World * The Imperial March * Singin' In the Rain * In Dreams * Inspector Gadget * Double Trouble * Believe * The Rose.

Alfred's Basic Piano Library---Popular Hits answers the often expressed need for popular music to be used as supplementary music for students. Soon after beginning piano study, students can play attractive versions of the best-known melodies of today. This book is a compilation of Level 2 and Level 3 of Alfred's Basic Piano Library Popular Hits books, and correlates page-by-page with Lesson Book, Complete Levels 2 & 3 of Alfred's Basic Piano Library. Titles: All Night (Icona Pop) * Best Day of My Life (American Authors) * The Big Bang Theory (Main Title) * Colour My World (Chicago) * Don't Stop Believin' (Journey) * Flicker (Kanye West Rework) * Hedwig's Theme (from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) * James Bond Theme * Maybe (from Annie) * Over the Rainbow (As sung by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole) * Raiders March (from Raiders of the Lost Ark) * Run with the Herd (from Walt Disney Pictures' The Good Dinosaur---A Pixar Film) * See You Again (from Furious 7) * Some Nights (fun.) * Star Wars(R) (Main Theme) * Take On the World (Theme from Girl Meets World) * What Do You Mean? (Justin Bieber) * When She Loved Me (from Walt Disney's Toy Story 2) * You Raise Me Up (Josh Groban) * You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile (from Annie---2014 Film Version) * You've Got a Friend in Me (from Toy Story).

Music for the performer in all of us brings together blockbuster popular, jazz, and movie hits with band and orchestral backgrounds available on CD and MIDI disk. Carefully chosen for their broad appeal to performers, students, and audiences, all titles are pianistically arranged by Larry Minsky, Tom Roed, Gail Lew, and Eugenie Rocherolle using effective chord substitutions to give a "big" professional sound. Titles: Over the Rainbow * Hedwig's Theme * Fawkes the Phoenix * Talk to the Animals * The James Bond Theme * Star Wars (Main Theme) * The Polar Express * Gollum's Song * Double Trouble * And All That Jazz.

The appealing repertoire with charming lyrics further reinforces and enhances the learning of new musical concepts introduced in the Lesson Book. Includes attractive music created by internationally acclaimed composers in a variety of styles, plus tips on how to perform more musically. Each piece on the CD was recorded at a performance tempo and a slower practice tempo The audio for this book is also available for download here The music from this book is available in the Piano Maestro app that's downloadable here. Learn more About JoyTunes, the maker of Piano Maestro here.

(Educational Piano Library). Six blockbuster movie favorites arranged for intermediate-level piano solo: Bella's Lullaby * Breaking Free * Dawn * Georgiana * He's a Pirate * That's How You Know.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). The appeal of popular music spans generations and genres. In this collection of 27 hits, enjoy folk tunes like "Ashokan Farewell" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water," movie themes from James Bond and Batman , Broadway numbers from Evita and A Little Night Music , and chart-toppers performed by Michael Jackson, Adele, Billy Joel, and more. Adult Piano Adventures Popular Book 2 provides this variety, yet with accessible arrangements for the progressing pianist. Students may advance through the book alongside method studies, or jump to all their favorites. Optional chord symbols above the staff guide understanding and personal expression.

Music for the performer in all of us brings together blockbuster popular, jazz, and movie hits. Here are hot hits with performer and audience favorites pianistically arranged by Gail Lew and Chris Lobdell using effective chord substitutions to give a "big" professional sound. Titles: * Star Wars (Main Theme) * Theme from Superman * Over the Rainbow * The Lion Sleeps Tonight * The James Bond Theme * Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? * The Pink Panther * Fawkes the Phoenix * A Window to the Past * Hedwig's Theme

This series answers the often-expressed need for a variety of supplementary material in many different popular styles. What could be more fun for an adult than to play the music that everybody knows and loves? When the books in the Greatest Hits series are assigned in conjunction with the Lesson Books, these appealing pieces reinforce new concepts as they are introduced. In addition, the motivation the music provides could not be better. The emotional satisfaction students receive from mastering each popular song increases their enthusiasm to begin the next one. With the popular music available in the Greatest Hits series (Levels 1 and 2), the use of both books will significantly increase every adult's interest in piano study. Two selections from this book are featured on the Royal Conservatory of Music Popular Selection List (2007 Ed.): * The Rainbow Connection * Nadia's Theme

This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Lesson Book 2 continues where Level 1B finishes. This book introduces dotted half notes and dotted quarter notes, plus intervals of 6ths, 7ths and octaves. Teaches greater movement of the hands, including crossing two over one and scalework. Students will also learn more about triads, primary chords, and blocked and broken chords. Songs Include: 18th Century Dance * Alouette * Blue Scales * Calypso Carnival * The Can-Can * Cockles and Mussels * The Galway Piper * Get Away! * Got Lotsa Rhythm * Kum-ba-yah! * Lavender's Blue * London Bridge * Lone Star Waltz * Malaguena * Nick Nack Paddy Wack * Ode to Joy * Oh! Susanna! * On the Bridge at Avignon * Our Special Waltz * Prelude * Red River Valley * Sarasponda * Square Dance * When You Grow Up * Why Am I Blue?

Alfred's Basic Piano Library: Popular Hits offers Broadway, pop, and movie music arrangements to be used as supplementary pieces for students. Soon after beginning piano study, students can play attractive versions of favorite classics, as well as the best-known popular music of today. This book is correlated page by page with Alfred's Basic Piano Library: Lesson Book 6. When pieces from the Popular Hits book are assigned in conjunction with the material in the Lesson Book, new concepts are reinforced in a fun and motivating way, increasing the student's interest in piano study. Titles: 27 Years Later (from IT Chapter Two) * Aerith's Theme (from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children) * Ashokan Farewell (from the PBS series The Civil War) * Happy Together (The Turtles) * Havana (Camila Cabello) * I'll Be There for You (Theme from Friends) * Little Shop of Horrors (from Little Shop of Horrors) * Money (Pink Floyd) * Salamander Eyes (from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) * Shallow (from A Star Is Born) * Speechless (from Walt Disney's 2019 Aladdin) * Star Wars(R) (Main Title).