This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Lesson Book 4 concepts include: 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.
For reinforcement of each principle as it is introduced, supplementary material is carefully coordinated, page for page, at each level of instruction.
Titles:
* America the Beautiful (Ward)
* The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Steffe-Howe)
* Black Forest Polka
* Blow, Winds, Blow!
* Calypso Holiday!
* Comedians' Dance (Kabelevsky)
* Farewell to Thee (Aloha Oe)
* Gypsy Dance
* Haunted House
* He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
* The Hokey-Pokey
* The House of the Rising Sun
* The Magic Piper
* Musette (Bach)
* Olympic Procession
* Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 (Elgar)
* Prelude in A Minor
* Space Shuttle Blues
* Spinning Wheel
* Swingin' Sevenths
* Tarentella
* Waltz in G Minor
* Waves of the Danube (Ivanovici)
Coordinating supplemental books for Level 4 include:
* Classic Themes
* Duet
* Ear Training
* Merry Christmas
* Musical Concepts
* Recital
* Repertoire
* Sight Reading
* Technic
* Theory and Top Hits! Solo, Christmas and Duet books
