Recommended Books

Piano

Learning the piano

Young beginners (5 to 9 years old)

Tunes for 10 fingers - Pauline Hall
More Tunes for 10 fingers - Pauline Hall

Children (8 to 12 years old)

Piano Time 1 - Pauline Hall
Piano Time 2 - Pauline Hall
Piano Time 3 - Pauline Hall
Michael Aaron Piano Course - Grades 1 to  5

Adults and Teenagers

The Classic Piano Book 1 - Starting to play - Carol Barratt
The Classic Piano Book 2 - Building yours skills - Carol Baratt
The Complete piano player - Books 1 to 5 - Wise publication
Michael Aaron Adult Piano Course, books 1 and 2

Piano Grade exams books (Aural Books are also for Music Theory)

ABRSM Selected Piano Exam Pieces 2011-2012 - Grades 1 to 8

ABRSM Piano Specimen Sight Reading Tests: From 2009 - Grades 1 to 9

ABRSM Specimen Aural Tests - Grades 1-3 (2011+)

ABRSM Specimen Aural Tests - Grades 4-5 (2011+)

ABRSM Specimen Aural Tests - Grade 6, 7, 8, 9 (2011+)
Sight Reading for Today - Grades 1 to 8 - John Last
ABRSM Piano Prep Test ABRSM publisher (beginners)

Scales and Broken Chords

ABRSM Piano Scales, Arpeggios and Broken Chords: From 2009
- Grades 1 to 8
Frederick Stocken: Scale Shapes For Piano - Grades 1 to 8 (Revised Edition)

Exercises

A dozen a day - Wills Music - The whole series
Charles Hanon: The Virtuoso Pianist In Sixty Exercises For The Piano (Complete)
Carl Czerny: 101 Exercises Op. 261 (Brown ed.)

Carl Czerny: 160 Eight-Measure Exercises For Piano Op.821
Carl Czerny: Forty Daily Exercises Op.337
Muzio Clementi: Preludes And Exercises - School Of Scales For The Piano
Friedrich Burgmuller: 25 Easy And Progressive Studies For Piano Op.100 (ABRSM)

Pieces

Piano Time Pieces- Pauline Hall - A series of repertoire for beginners pop, classical, jazz, opera, carols, etc.
Piano Pieces For Adult Beginners - Wise publications
ABRSM Jazz Piano: Pieces  Various grades
World Famous Piano Pieces - Music Sales (Advanced)
World Renowned Piano Pieces Book 1 - Alfred Lengnick
G.F. Handel: Easy Piano Pieces And Dances - Barenheiter

Singing

ABRSM Grade Exams

David Turnbull: Singing Time! Grade 1 to grade 8
ABRSM Singing Prep Test - ABRSM publisher
ABRSM Sight Singing Tests: From 2009 - grades 1 to 8
The ABRSM Songbook - Books 1 to 5
The Art of Song high voice and medium to low voice - Ed. Peters Books 1 and 2

Singing Exercises

Nicola Vaccai: Metodo Pratico (High or Low voice)
Young Voiceworks: 32 Songs For Young Singers - Jo McNally
J. Michael Diack: Vocal Exercises On Tone Placing And Enunciation (High and Medium-Low Voice)
Vocal Exercises - Various books - Trinity

Singing Repertoire

The Language of Song - Elementary (High or low voice) - Faber Music
The Language of Song - Intermediate (High or low voice) - Faber Music
Voiceworks 1: A Handbook For Singing - Peter Hunt (Voiceworks is a series of books - all good)








 
 
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