Description:
Adult Piano Adventures® is a comprehensive course in reading, playing, and listening to music. With its logical and effective approach to note-reading, Book One gives you the basic skills to play hundreds of melodies by the completion of the book. This series includes lessons, technique, and theory together in each volume for ease of use. You will learn to play chords and gain an understanding of basic harmony while developing reading skills.

The enjoyment of familiar songs is a hallmark of Piano Adventures®. You will find world-famous classic and popular melodies, as well as folk songs from around the world, jazz and blues favorites, and beloved spirituals.

These Adult All-In-One books are available with or without an accompaniment CD or the CD may be purchased seperately. Each CD offers teachers and students: practice and performance tempos for each piece; live musicians on acoustic instruments blended with the digital recording; and an expressive count-in measure to convey the character of each piece. Each CD features orchestrations created especially for Piano Adventures® and are distinctive and unique. The accompaniments feature the instrumentation of the marching band, Baroque chamber group, jazz ensemble, chamber orchestra, rock group, etc. Students not only benefit from exposure to the sounds of these ensembles, but have the opportunity to play along. For many students, the orchestrations will be an introduction to these ensemble sounds. And, hopefully, the orchestrations will inspire many toward ensemble playing in the future. Distributed by Hal Leonard.