Helen Marlais
Pianist, Pedagogue, Pedagogical author.
Book 3, for the late elementary student, includes titles such as: Give My Regards to Broadway; Clementine; You’re A Grand Old Flag; I’m Always Chasing Rainbows; Down By the Old Mill Stream; and many more favorite tunes that students will enjoy throughout the year. In addition to background information about the pieces and composers, recordings...
The late elementary level student will experience a substantial variety of classical themes within Book 3. The solos and duets in this book include themes from a violin concerto, a string quartet, symphonies, and more. Students will obtain a greater personal understanding of these classical themes as they read the level appropriate information included in...
Book 3 is especially arranged for the late-elementary student, who will love practicing and performing pieces from this collection. Solos such as “The Entertainer,” “Alarm Clock Blues,” and “Ain’t We Got Fun?” are just a few of the wonderful choices that will fulfill a student’s jazzy mood! Includes a full-performance downloadable audio tracks along with...
Book 3, for the late elementary student, includes titles such as: The Little Drummer Boy, We Are Santa’s Elves, The Night Before Christmas Song, Shake Me, I Rattle (Squeeze Me, I Cry), and many more popular Christmas tunes that students will really enjoy throughout the holiday season. In addition to background information about the pieces...
Book 3, for the late elementary level student, includes favorites that are easy to sing along with as well as recital style arrangements of popular pieces such as: All I Have to Do Is Dream; The Best of Both Worlds; She Loves You; The Chicken Dance; and many more. The complete performance recordings, along with...
Book 3, for the late elementary student, contains solos such as: Onward Christian Soldiers; I Need Thee Every Hour; Shall We Gather at the River; Rock of Ages; What Wondrous Love Is This; and more favorites that students will enjoy. Most have lyrics; some are styled with a country, gospel feel, while others are reverent...
This artistic collection of over 30 piano miniatures are contrasting in nature – some are energetic, others lyrical – some are sad, others humorous. With variations on familiar melodies (Twinkle Winkle, Jack and Jill, Hickory Dickory Dock, and more) included among Rahbee’s original teaching pieces, these miniatures serve to help expand the student’s grasp of...
Following the format set forth in Book 1, On Stage! Book 2 progresses from the elementary to late elementary level by applying new and more advanced intervallic reading techniques. Some of the concepts include blocking (playing together) intervals,identifying intervals including the octave, identifying whole tone scales, melodic and harmonic intervals, half and whole steps, triads,...
This book presents all octave major scales and arpeggios in the order of the Circle of Fifths. Features fingering charts, practice suggestions, Technique Tips and Did It! boxes, and four fabulous pages of photos that show a step-by-step approach to playing scales. Students acquire a technique that is consistent, musical, and easy!
In the Every Day plan for Book 2A, students learn key and time signature recognition; how to count basic rhythms that include eighth notes; interval and pattern recognition through major five-finger patterns; single-line music played between the hands; immediate response to articulations; dynamics; and beginning transposition.
