Piano Muscle Builders for Older Beginners – Paperback

This brand-new edition combines all three levels of Piano Muscle Builders for Older Beginners into a beautifully-designed technique book. It is a fantastic way to teach scales, arpeggios, chords, inversions and chord progressions. It works wonderfully for beginning students who are too old for the My Muscle Builder Books and in need of something that is more straightforward, less cutesy, and moves more quickly through the material. Emphasis is placed on playing the exercises with good technique and with a musical purpose. Each exercise is listed with five stars next to it, one to color in each day the exercise is practiced; this encourages consistent practice and accountability.

This book takes the place of all six My Muscle Builder Books. Students who complete this book will have a solid understanding of pentascales, chords, inversions, and I-IV-I-V7-I chord progressions in all major and minor keys and will be ready to begin learning full scales and arpeggios, hands separate. This book helps students become musically-literate quickly and gives them the skills necessary to begin harmonizing lead sheets, composing and making their own arrangements. The entire book can be completed in about five months if students are committed and complete one page per week.

Read more about this book and see sample pages here.