Without a teacher to provide daily activities, kids need piano student workbooks to avoid stumbling through summer practice sessions.
After just a few summer days, they skip technical exercises, get bored with repertoire, and run out of musical things to do. It is not uncommon for primer and level 1 students to return in the fall having missed six weeks of piano practice.
To be honest, though, it’s not anyone’s fault.
After 10 hard months of instruction, piano teachers cannot be expected to plan a summer’s worth of practice for every student. After 10 hard months of running a family, parents deserve a break and the opportunity to let routines slide.
That’s why we’re here to pick up the summer slack. Today, Trevor and I want to share three all-summer-long resources that will keep kids practicing while requiring no prep for parents or teachers.
Three Piano Student Workbooks For Simple Summer Practice
If you want your young piano students to stay sharp this summer, check out the piano student workbooks we are showcasing below.
Summer Resource 1 – Primer Piano Storybook Composing
A few years back, we launched a Primer Piano Storybook Composing series, which includes three piano books: Barnyard Brooke and the Magical Motives, James B. Daring and the Magical Motives, and Penny Petticrew and the Magical Motives.
In this heartwarming primer piano book series that highlights the power of music, your students will compose their way through a captivating adventure by creating missing motives (motifs) for unfinished piano pieces.
If your kids need a summer piano project that will keep them motivated for months, this series will do the trick. Click the links below to learn more about these books on Amazon:
Click here to Buy Barnyard Brooke and the Magical Motives.
Click here to Buy James B. Daring and the Magical Motives.
Click here to Buy Penny Petticrew and the Magical Motives.
Summer Resource 2 – Rock Repertoire For Teen Beginners
If you want to keep your beginning teen piano students motivated this summer, you’ll need some awesome music they can learn independently.
With WunderKeys Rock Repertoire, we are revolutionizing piano music for teen beginners. You won’t find Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, or Mary Had a Little Lamb in this book. Instead, you’ll find rock-infused music written just for teens in their first year of piano lessons.
And the best part… every piano piece in this series has an online backing track! So, when you aren’t around to rock duets with your students this summer, they can still make awesome music.
Click here to Buy WunderKeys Rock Repertoire For Teen Beginners 1.
Click here to Buy WunderKeys Rock Repertoire For Teen Beginners 2.
Summer Resource 3 – Timed Note Reading Tests
Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Timed Note Reading Tests For Piano, Book 1 offers 90 days of note reading exercises in Middle C Position and C Position. It will ensure that your primer, level 1 kids, and beginning teens know their notes!
For great piano players, note reading is second nature. The ability to instantly transfer notes on a page to sounds on a piano frees them to focus on the little things that make music magical. Therefore, it is essential that students learn to read notes fluently as soon as possible.
There are many tools to improve note reading, and this book is one of them. By encouraging your piano students to sit down with this book once a day for a few short minutes, 90 days from now, their note-reading skills will be second nature.
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