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Leading to Mastery of the Instrument

A time-honored tradition just got better! The John W. Schaum Piano Course has been newly revised with 100 percent new engravings and typesetting, color highlighting for concept emphasis, updated song titles and lyrics, and full-color illustrations.

• Major Key Signature Drills
• Theme and Variations — Reuben and Rachel in Society
• Natural Accents in 6/8 Time — A Harvest Melody – Beethoven
• Spanish Music — El Caballero – Moszkowski
• Reading Three Staffs — Garden of the Stars – Saint-Saëns
• The Viennese Waltz Form — The Waltz King – Johann Strauss, Jr.
• An American Song — There’s Music in the Air – Root
• Study for the Weaker Fingers — Three Blind Mice
• How to Practice Blocking Chords — The Bird Bath
• Music and Politics — Two Military Heroes
• Minor Scales — Harmonic Minor Scale Pattern
• Key of A Minor — The Masked Horseman – Schumann
• Key of G Minor — The District Attorney – Rachmaninoff
• Key of E Minor — In the Hall of the Mountain King – Grieg
• Technical Pattern — The Isle of Ecalpon – Streabbog
• Piano Quiz No. 1
• Scale Passage Playing — In an Eighteenth Century Flower Garden – Mozart
• Staccato in 6/8 Time — Pals of the Saddle – Von Suppé
• Polyphonic Music — Two Tunes at Once
• The ROUND and the CANON (Two examples of Polyphonic Music) — Smitty’s Ditty and Main Street After Dark
• Another Type of Polyphonic Music — Bobcat Boogie
• An Early Polyphonic Piece — The Cuckoo – Daquin
• Left Hand Alone — Southpaw Serenade – Raff
• Characteristic Music — March of the Lions
• Singing Tone — The Swan – Saint-Saëns
• Polytonality — A Modern Sound — Henry’s Hennery
• Expression in Music — Moonlight and Orchids – Lemare
• Plantation Spiritual — Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
• One-Finger Pedal Study — Waltz for the Index Finger – Weber
• The Chromatic Scale — The Hornet
• Black Key Study — Rhapsody in Orange
• Chord Study — Mountain Grandeur
• Piano Quiz No. 2
• Scale Fingering Charts
• Certificate of Promotion
• Music Dictionary