Faber & Faber The Lang Lang Piano Method: Level 1

My granddaughter was excited to get to learn the piano. This is a great starter book

Everything ok as expected

Good product in time

My beginner pupils love this bookIt moves at a good pace and is full of really pianistic material. The first piece suggests repeating an octave higher - a great encouragement to explore more of the piano. For pieces that have duet lines we’ve used the ‘download and print’ accomps to get to know the pieces, and saved up the downloadable audio file accomps, which have additional layers and sound effects, as a treat. I found the best way to access these audio tracks quickly was via the QR code – I’d never used one before but it was easy to find a free QR code app to download onto a tablet. (First time, I practised opening files before pupils arrived, so there were no technical hitches!) A really interesting aspect of this book is the ‘Time for a break’ pages. Here you look at a picture of a painting while listening to an audio track of Lang Lang playing a well-known piece. We listen to a track twice, comparing notes after the first time, then listening out for each other’s ideas the second time. What an excellent stimulus! It gets pupils thinking about the stories or journeys in the pieces they are learning or listening to elsewhere. The overall presentation and ‘look’ of the book is very appealing - they’ve all liked the strong colourful illustrations, which complement the pieces. And there are little bits of theory and information dotted around, and a couple of theory fill-in pages. Just enough and not too much! Personally I would recommend starting this series at age 7-8, and it works well for older children too, especially for piano as a second instrument.

Surprise ! En anglais, dommage ! Livraison laissée sur le poteau de mon portail… magique…!!