Finger Paintings is designed to provide piano students with a wide variety of music repertoire, which will enhance reading and performance skills. Book 1 contains 11 short solos in numerous 5-finger patterns. Students are introduced to most of the basic elements of notation; the tuneful melodies are divided between the hands. For added motivation and enjoyment, optional teacher accompaniments are included.

Entertaining and color-filled compositions are the hallmark of this artistic series for elementary piano students. Many of the pieces explore a wide range of the keyboard and contain simple syncopated rhythms. Students also learn to focus on smoothly transferring melodic lines between hands, quickly changing dynamics and thinking in longer phrase groupings. Occasional easy hand-crossings are a delight to play and bring out the sparkling overtones of the piano. Titles: * Backpack Boogie * Chatty Little Crickets * Fancy Dancy * Lavender Waltz * Leapin' Lizards! * Lickety-Splickety * Medieval Dance * The Ponderous Platypus * Sound the Fanfare! * A Summer Morning * Sun Fun.

Written with teenagers in mind, these seven early-intermediate solos will inspire students to learn through imagery and play with feeling. Each piece is aptly named and will stretch students' imaginations to new heights. Titles: * Blue Boogie * Forest Green * Gray Granite * Orange Soda * Pink Tulips * A Touch of Gold.

The solo piano series Just for You was one of Dennis Alexander's first publications with Alfred and has remained one of his best-selling series. Just for Two features duet versions of many favorites from each book of the original series. Students will enjoy making music together with these duets that are "twice the fun" as the originals. Titles: * Celebration! * Cinnamon Popcorn! * Dance with Me * Scottish Dance * Sour Lemons! * Strolling Along * Spooks from Mars * Tally-Ho March

Sometimes all it takes is a little hands-on playfulness to get children involved in art. So forget the brushes--this third entry in the My Very Favorite Art Book series puts its finger on what kids find fun. The colorful array of creative activities will have budding painters amazed at all the different ways they can use their fingers, hands, and even their feet to make both realistic and abstract pictures. It won't be long before proud youngsters produce galleries of blot masterpieces, dinosaurs, fingerprint people, animals, and crazy creatures. Plus, they'll learn some simple how-tos for mixing colors and making their own paints. And the text is kept to a minimum, so even pre-readers can follow along.

The goal of this book is to introduce early intermediate piano students to the rhythms, harmonies and other unique characteristics of jazz. Students will be motivated by the variety of styles and sounds that have that special Dennis Alexander sound. From lyrical melodies to infectious rhythms and harmonies, playing jazz styles has never been more fun! Titles: * As September Goesξ * Jazz Jamξ * Purple Sageξ * Rhythmiconξ * Smooth as Silkξ * Sneakin' 'Roundξ * Soft-Shoe Bluesξ * Soul Searcherξ * Tahitian Nightsξ * A Touch of Rhumbaξ * Valse du jour

A series of books that meet the challenge of providing students with fun music that makes practicing enjoyable as well as being entertaining for the listener. Three volumes of lyrical waltzes, romantic ballads, lively rags and swinging jazz pieces spanning elementary through intermediate grades.

Each book in this new series contains arrangements and original pieces that provide beautiful, rich harmonies, numerous patterns that easily fit the hands and lyrical melodies that speak to the heart. These sophisticated books are the perfect supplement for any adult method book and include a wealth of motivational repertoire. Titles: * Day's End * Feelin' Fine * Flamenco Fever! * (Theme from) Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 * Lost in Time * On Ol' Broadway! * Plaisir d'amour (The Joy of Love) * Polovetsian Dance (from Prince Igor) * Reflections * Shelby's Waltz * Sneaky Kinda Rag.

The books in the Five-Star Solos series give students and teachers a wide variety of pieces at graded levels. Different styles, colors, tempos, and moods are included in each book. Ballads, waltzes, Latin tunes, contemporary sounds, and "showstoppers" all combine to make teaching both fun and exciting. Students will be rewarded with music that clearly sets them apart from the crowd. Titles: * Country Jamboree! * Crash, Bang, Boogie! * Forever True * Hiking Buddies * Magical Creatures * My First Sonatina * Simple Things * Scottish Highlanders * There's Music in a Hammer * Tribal Dance * Victory March!

This collection of preludes in all major and minor keys contains a wealth of pedagogical challenges for the late-intermediate to early-advanced level student. Each prelude is designed to explore one or more pianistic problems, and serves as excellent preparatory repertoire for the more complex character pieces of the great masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The sounds of Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Ravel, Gershwin, Prokofieff and Copland are echoed in the pieces in this collection.