The Russian School Of Piano Playing 1, Part 1

The first volume of one of the most systematic and successful piano methods ever compiled. Volume 1 covers the elementary stages of study, including singing and picking out melodies, familiarisation with the keyboard and reading printed music.

• Singing by ear; the keyboard and the names of notes, picking out on the piano melodies already learnt; Notes, their different durations and positions on the stave
• Melodic examples to be played with different fingers (non-legato detached)
• Marks for changing the pitch of the note (Accidentals)
• The smooth playing of Melodie (legato)
• Quavers (Eighth notes)
• Bass Clef
• More difficult rhythmic patterns
• Anacrusis (Incomplete bar)
• Semiquavers (Sixteenth notes)
• Appendix