Leading to Mastery of The Instrument

The John W. Schaum Piano Course is a classic in the world of Piano tutors. This Blue Book is best suited to players at around Grades 1 to 2 or for players who have progressed through the Red Book. The John W. Schaum series is a comprehensive tutor for beginners of all ages. 

Piano Time Sports is an imaginative collection of exercises to limber up young hands and develop the technical skills required for the early grades.

Practice makes Perfect takes you through all the various aspects of playing your instrument, clearly, helpfully, and progressively. It's full of useful advice, tunes, exercises, practice tips, studies, listening games, and projects about your instrument, designed to show that technique is neither difficult nor boring - but can be fun!

Piano Time Sports 2 is an imaginative collection of exercises which introduces a new range of fundamental techniques and develops further some of those found in book 1.

An entertaining mix of dinosaur pieces, games, and puzzles at about the level of Piano Time 2. Lively full colour illustrations introduce you to each of the friendly (or not-so-friendly) monsters, and all the material has a solid musical and tutorial basis as well as being tremendous fun.

The book includes 29 pieces in a range of jazz and light-hearted styles, supported by witty illustrations. It begins with wonderfully simple repertoire that succeeds in being both truly jazzy and very easy.Piano Time Jazz Book 1 is around the level of Piano Time 2.

Piano Time Dance is a fantastic collection of pieces in a dazzling array of dance styles. Witness the development of dance through the ages as you discover courtly gavottes, graceful waltzes, jazzy foxtrots, and lively Latin American tangos and sambas.

38 really easy arrangements of the best-loved familiar tunes you will recognize from recordings, radio, and TV. The witty cartoons will bring a smile to the lips of even the most jaded piano pupil.

40 really easy arrangements of popular classical tunes graded in order of increasing difficulty. Children (and adults!) will enjoy learning them as a welcome break from slogging away at all those exam pieces.

This second collection of piano pieces in the Party Time! series is imaginatively themed to illustrate different holiday activities and will appeal to children who have recently started to learn piano. The pieces have been written to help students practise basic fingering patterns and simple technical problems. Many are ideal for ABRSM's Prep Test.