Me and My Piano Complete Edition

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Part 1 takes the young pianist step by step through the earliest stages of piano technique, leading to very easy pieces for hands together using a constant five-finger hand position in C major. In 2015, at the age of 95, Dame Fanny retired as Chairman of the Leeds International Piano Competition and also published her autobiography, Dame Fanny Waterman: My Life in Music. This emphasizes the need for an instrument that works, not just a low-cost ‘toy’ sold by so many high street multiple retailers.

We are one of the top suppliers of woodwind, brass and orchestral strings across Sussex and are main agents for most of the instruments we sell. p>The saying goes ‘a stitch in time saves nine’ and never a truer word was spoken when it comes to Brass instrument stands. Fanny Waterman and Marion Harewood's Me And My Piano series is probably the UK's most widely-used and biggest selling piano method. Not only do they fulfil the need for in tune painless practice, so essential in the development of every young player, they also help in being more sociably acceptable while practicing with others around! She continues to involve herself in music education through projects such as Young Audiences, Live Music Now!

Part 2 builds on these foundations by extending the compass of notes, introducing new rhythms, note values, chords and changes of hand position.

Fanny Waterman and Marion Harewood’s Me And My Piano Series is probably the UK’s most widely-used and biggest selling piano method. Games and puzzles give elementary theory a new lease of life, and children will love the rhymes and songs introducing characters such the Ostrich, Sammy Squirrel and the Old Man with the Beard!It progresses nicely from one-note rhythms, ending on simple two-hand songs, with just enough theory for it all to make sense. This is a woman who, well into her nineties, thinks nothing of flying to Beijing one week and Toronto the next. Me and My Piano" aims to make learning the piano an enjoyable experience for both pupil and teacher. Me and My Piano Part 1 is attractively laid out, with lovely illustrations, useful fact boxes, occasional theory pages, musical detective questions, and simple duet accompaniments to some of the pieces.

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My daughter loves the illustrations and is impatient to play the tunes on the pages with her favourite pictures. Me and My Piano is the best-selling series by the distinguished authors Fanny Waterman and Marion Harewood, that has sold over 2 million copies worldwide. Fanny Waterman’s success as a teacher stems from her concentration on security of technique combined with the development of imagination and musicianship. Designed especially for the needs of the younger beginner and delightfully illustrated throughout, the series makes learning the piano an enjoyable experience for both pupil and teacher. It is very easy for young children to learn from and doesn't move to quickly in teaching new notes and concepts.