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 9ABRSM 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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