Beginner Piano Lessons for Children (2)

Author: Xianyi Liu et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The second volume collects pieces that primarily express children's life interests, while also including one hundred and one tunes such as folk songs from China and abroad, and excerpts from world-famous classical compositions. This volume begins to focus on training the technique of dividing phrases, correctly mastering the "rise" and "fall" actions, helping students understand how to play the beginning and ending phrases. In technical training, exercises such as staccato, double notes, same-note finger switching, and octave leaps are included. Students also start to encounter pieces with polyphonic elements, training their hands' independence and learning to listen to the different progressions of two voices. The key signatures increase from one sharp and one flat to four sharps and three flats. The note values also progress from eighth notes to sixteenth notes. This volume can be used by beginners for one semester or slightly longer, depending on the student's age and individual learning conditions.