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A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs.
Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teach how to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include piano sheets of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read sheet music and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 5 and up, Play It! is the perfect companion on your musical journey.
Features these classical songs and includes color labels inside the book:
Ode to Joy
Lullaby
Spring from The Four Seasons
Serenade No. 2 in A Major
Jimbo's Lullaby
Largo from Symphony No. 9
Symphony No. 8
Can-Can from Orphée aux Enfers
Rondo from Orchestral Suite No. 2
Air on a G String
Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
Cradle Song (Wiegenlied)
Fantaisie Impromptu
Song of the Toreador from Carmen
Die Fledermaus
Glockenspiel from The Magic Flute
Minuet in D Minor
Allegro from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Symphony No. 5
Swan Lake
Turkish March
Gavotte
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
The Blue Danube
Intermezzo No. 1
Minuet from Don Giovanni
La Donna è mobile
Sonata Pathetique
Over the Waves
Morning from Peer Gynt
Bagatelle in G Minor, Op. 119, No.1
Minuet in G (Beethoven)
Minuet in G (Bach)
William Tell Overture
Moonlight Sonata
Habanera from Carmen
About the author
Jennifer Kemmeter is a designer and publisher, as well as the author and creator of the best-selling Build It! series, easy and fun LEGO® books with creative building projects for young kids. Her new Play It! series focuses on teaching beginners how to read sheet music and play the piano or keyboard. Through books, she seeks to develop image-based tools to aid children in developing logical and creative approaches to independent problem solving. Jennifer lives in London, England, with twin sons who fill her home with their own piano education.
Antimo Marrone earned a Masters degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples and has taught piano in Italy and the United Kingdom since 2000. He has instructed students of all levels, from beginner to advanced, in technique, music theory, improvisation, composition, and history. Antimo is passionate about developing innovative techniques to help students learn more effectively and become more motivated, and seeks to apply this passion to his love of music and piano.
Summary
A fun and easy way to learn to play the piano or keyboard, with helpful instruction on classic and favorite songs.
Written by the author of the best-selling Build It! series in collaboration with an experienced piano teacher, the Play It! books teach how to play the piano or keyboard in a simple, effective way. Using color-coded notes and character icons, the books include piano sheets of popular and favorite songs as well as a primer on how to read sheet music and some basic techniques. For beginners ages 5 and up, Play It! is the perfect companion on your musical journey.
Features these classical songs and includes color labels inside the book:
- Ode to Joy
- Lullaby
- Spring from The Four Seasons
- Serenade No. 2 in A Major
- Jimbo's Lullaby
- Largo from Symphony No. 9
- Symphony No. 8
- Can-Can from Orphée aux Enfers
- Rondo from Orchestral Suite No. 2
- Air on a G String
- Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin
- Cradle Song (Wiegenlied)
- Fantaisie Impromptu
- Song of the Toreador from Carmen
- Die Fledermaus
- Glockenspiel from The Magic Flute
- Minuet in D Minor
- Allegro from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
- Symphony No. 5
- Swan Lake
- Turkish March
- Gavotte
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
- The Blue Danube
- Intermezzo No. 1
- Minuet from Don Giovanni
- La Donna è mobile
- Sonata Pathetique
- Over the Waves
- Morning from Peer Gynt
- Bagatelle in G Minor, Op. 119, No.1
- Minuet in G (Beethoven)
- Minuet in G (Bach)
- William Tell Overture
- Moonlight Sonata
- Habanera from Carmen
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