Contemporary Piano Method Book 1A - by Margaret Susan Brandman (Paperback)

About the Book

This book is designed to equip the student with the necessary skills to play both Classical & Modern music with ease and understanding. Suitable for both young and adult learners. Easy reading is fostered using the simplified interval approach. Music is typeset proportionally to simplify the understanding of rhythm notation for the beginner.

Book Synopsis

Margaret Brandman's 'Contemporary Piano Method' Book 1A is designed to equip the student with the necessary skills to play both Classical and Modern music with ease and understanding. The methodology is multi-sensory: aural, visual and tactile.
The course incorporates a variety of progressive learning modalities which speed up the learning process namely the simplified interval approach, colour-coding and multi-key learning using pictorial patterns to facilitate scale and key understanding. In this book these modalities are implemented in order to simplify the learning of music in five major keys C, G, D, A and E.

Review Quotes

I highly recommend Margaret Brandman's Contemporary Piano Method as a very broad foundation for piano and keyboard study. It is devised and written with logic and filled with clear explanations by a composer/performer who well understands the need for strong reading skills, an open ear and enquiring mind for how music works !'

David Grisdale -teacher, Central Coast NSW

'Once you have taught by Margaret Brandman's intervallic approach along the keyboard pathways it becomes part of you. It is the simplest, quickest, most logical and effective method of teaching reading from there on. It is also very helpful in teaching transposition and improvisation. '

Robyn Watts -teacher, Dural NSW