Piano Lesson Books

What Piano Lesson Books?

I teach Piano Lessons And I am not sure I 100% sure I like the lesson materials that I use for my kids (age 7 to 16). Teacher, what do you use for your students or parents, what is your kids learning from. I just want to get an idea of what people are actually using before I go and sit on the floor of the local music store again.

First off, how devoted are you in teaching your students and how much time can you allow to teach? Second, how many students do you have?

Currently, I teach at a Piano School where we use two major sets of books: Piano Adventures (which are for the beginners/students that treat piano lessons as daycare, etc) and the Celebration Series Perspectives (which can be used for third year students who can work well on songs). Both of the series include a technique and lesson book, however, the Celebration Series presents material in a more mature manner.

If you can afford both, that would be very beneficial to your students. If not, I’d recommend the Celebration Series for two reasons: it’s a nationally acclaimed program and it’s a long term program (I was involved in that program for ten years). You see some more about the National Music Certificate Program, the program that correlates with the Celebration Series, using the last link listed below. The downside is that this program is costly for the instructor and the student because of an exam as well as the materials fee for the four books the student should have to be successful on the exam. It’ll probably cost around $50 per student for the materials, so if you would rather deal with less money, go for Piano Adventures. I strongly support both series and I have a large amount of students who would agree.

I hope this helps!

Prison Work Song from The Piano Lesson, August Wilson

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