We are excited to announce that Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Very Useful Piano Library is growing again!
Today we are releasing Nuts For Alpha Notes, V. U. Level C: Pre-Reading Songs and Activities for Early Primer Piano Students.
This book combines alpha notes with the Wunder Staff to create a pedagogically perfect resource for young students who are not yet playing on the grand staff.
If you have been refreshing Amazon all weekend waiting for Nuts For Alpha Notes to appear, you can find it right here.
But, if you want to learn more, in today’s post we are digging deeper into this adorable resource and sharing some Look Inside previews.
Kids Go Nuts for Alpha Notes!
Nuts For Alpha Notes, V. U Level C is the ninth book we have released to Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Very Useful Piano Library.
If you are new to Teach Piano Today and WunderKeys, Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Very Useful Piano Library is a 17-level (A to Q) piano book collection that is taking the music world by storm.
With titles like The Rainbow Said Songbook, Muttzart and Ratmaninoff in Eine Kleine Feline, and Make Some Noise For High Jump Jackson, we are capturing the imaginations of piano students like no other piano series to come before.
Just like Harry Potter inspired a generation to fall in love with reading, the story-based piano books in Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Very Useful Piano Library are inspiring a new generation of students to fall in love with music.
To truly understand just how motivating these books are, check out the Look Inside previews below from our newest release, Nuts For Alpha Notes.
Click here or on the cover below to buy Nuts For Alpha Notes, or keep scrolling to take a sneak peek inside.
Let’s Look Inside Nuts For Alpha Notes…
Like all of the piano books in Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Very Useful Piano Library, Nuts For Alpha Notes is a pedagogical powerhouse jam-packed with piano songs and activities.
Inside you will discover 7 loveable piano pieces with lyrics and teacher duets, keyboard awareness games, rhythm reading practice, finger number exercises, a coloring activity, a practice tracker, and a certificate of achievement.
And there’s more…
Nuts For Alpha Notes contains piano solos composed on the Wunder Staff.
Unique to the WunderKeys Method Books and resources, the Wunder Staff is a modified grand staff used with very new piano students.
Its unique design builds a foundation for future note reading success while also providing a home for alpha notes so students can learn the directional movement of music with much greater success.
Let’s take a look…
1. Piano Pieces
Nuts For Alpha Notes contains seven pre-reading piano solos for early primer students. The piano solos contain lyrics that tell an adorable tale and are accompanied by teacher duets.
Too often, early primer piano students do not feel like they are playing “real music”. That is definitely not the case with Nuts For Alpha Notes. The piano solos composed on the Wunder Staff are fully-developed tunes that allow little students to feel like “real piano players”.
2. Activity Pages
Interspersed throughout the book are activity pages to supplement the music. These activity pages include keyboard awareness games, rhythm reading activities, sight-reading exercises, and finger strength building. Here are a few samples of these pages:
3. Warm-Up Exercises
Before young students jump into songs, they need to warm up their fingers and exercise their musical minds. In Nuts For Alpha Notes, we’ve included four pages of warm-ups, that can be used as needed.
4. A Practice Tracker
Kids practice more often when they take ownership of their learning. At the end of Nuts For Alpha Notes, students will find a practice tracker page where they can keep track of their hard work in a kid-friendly way.
5. A Certificate Of Achievement
Upon completion of Nuts For Alpha Notes, students receive a Certificate of Achievement to reward their efforts. Simply cut out the certificate, fill in the relevant details, and present it to the deserving student.
Buy Nuts For Alpha Notes
If you teach early primer piano students you will definitely want to hop on over to Amazon right now and pick up Nuts For Alpha Notes.
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