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My Muscle Builder Book Bundle: Books 1-3

Original price was: $45.00.Current price is: $40.00.

My Muscle Builder Books teach your students how to play scales, arpeggios and chords in major and minor keys all over the keyboard! This not only helps them understand music theory, but also gives them the confidence and the skills to harmonize lead sheets, transpose, arrange and compose their own music, and much more.

The Muscle Builder Books series is a technique curriculum that can supplement any method book series. I use them with my students right from the first lesson, and I love that within a few weeks they are playing and understanding chords in several keys and are able to harmonize a simple lead sheet.

Each exercise includes something to color each time a student practices that skill, adding a layer of fun and accountability and letting you know how much they have practiced.

Studio-licensed digital download, 129 pages.

Description

Concepts Learned in Book 1:

  • Five-finger scales, simple arpeggios and block chords in the keys of C, G, D, A, E, B and F Major.
  • Curved fingers, firm fingertips and flexible wrist.
  • Playing scales in different ways.
  • Playing scales evenly with the metronome.
  • How to spell the major chord of each key.

Concepts Learned in Book 2:

  • Spelling major white-key chords
  • Minor white-key pentacles and chords
  • “Fancy arpeggios” review – hand over hand four-octave major arpeggios with crescendo/diminuendo
  • Reviewing white-key major scales: staccato, legato, opposite-motion scales
  • Transposing to major keys
  • Major and minor arpeggios and chords
  • Major chord inversions

Concepts Learned in Book 3:

  • Sneaky Thumb Snake technique
  • One-octave hands alone major scales in the keys of C, G, D, A, E, B and F Major
  • Alberti bass
  • Tonic and dominant notes and chords
  • Tonic-dominant-tonic chord progressions in the keys of C, G, D, A, E, B and F Major
  • Memorize order of sharps and flats

The New Edition

I am so happy to be releasing this brand new edition of the My Muscle Builder Book series! My Muscle Builder Books have been a staple in my studio and many others for many years. I use it with every new beginning child student that I teach, and its benefits are huge when students realize that they can harmonize a lead sheet, play in so many keys and positions on the piano and have greater confidence in their musical literacy. I have been wanting to redo this book for a long time now to give it a fresh look and make it even better.

This new edition makes printing much simpler for teachers – you do not need a color printer, and it you simply print it one page per regular sheet of paper. Although it is not in color, it is absolutely adorable, and students learn accountability and the importance of daily practicing of their scales with the motivating reward of coloring a picture on the coloring page each time they complete the page of exercises.

This new edition is also easier to print and more affordable when you purchase paperback copies for your students.

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