Alfred’s Basic Piano Library | Lesson Book | Level 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4

Alfred's Basic Piano Library, Lesson Book

• Lesson Book Level 1A : Basic keyboard topography and fluent recognition of white key names in relation to black keys. 
• Lesson Book 1B : Reviewing the concepts taught in Lesson Book 1A, then introduces new concepts such as incomplete measures, tempo markings, eighth notes and rests, using the damper pedal, half steps and whole steps.
• Lesson Book 2 : Introduces dotted half notes and dotted quarter notes, plus intervals of 6ths, 7ths and octaves. 
• Lesson Book 3 : Introduces "overlapping pedal"; new time signatures 3/8 and 6/8; and the primary triads in Major and Minor keys.
• Lesson Book 4 : tarantellas; eighth note triplets; arpeggiated chords; first and second inversion triads in C; triads in all positions; major scales in parallel motion; two-part writing; seventh chords and inversions of seventh chords; E harmonic minor scale in contrary motion; primary chords in E minor; sixteenth notes; dotted eighth notes; primary chords in B-flat Major and G Minor; repeated-note warm-ups; and harmonic minor scales in parallel motion.