Best Children's Nonfiction Music Books
Its easy and joyful learning style enables the young student to think, feel, and develop musically. * Ode to Joy by Beethoven. * Amazing Grace. * Happy Birthday. * Jingle Bells. * Yankee Doodle. * When the Saints Go Marching In. * Scarborough Fair. * Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. * Mary had a Little Lamb. * Take Me Out to the Ballgame. * Michael, Row the Boat Ashore. * House of the Rising Sun. * This Little Light of Mine. * Home on the Range. * Shenandoah. *And Many More Great Songs and Pieces! Praise for Damon Ferrante's Books and Piano Music: "As a piano teacher I can assure the reader that the Little Piano Bookworks well with students of all ages. As a pianist and professor of piano studies for over 25 years, I was alwayslooking for a book that would teach beginner piano in a fun, useful and musical format. The Little Piano Book is the product of these efforts and is designed for beginner piano students, either learning on their own or working with a teacher.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have played self taught for years but after looking through this book I found that it would have been so much easier for me to learn with this."
"This book is great on the Kindle Fire!"
"I give it five stars because this little book helped me understand something that I wanted to do for the last 20 years...I not only can play the piano but I understand what to do with each hand I tried a couple of left handed lessons (I'm a leftie) first, then I tried a couple of right handed lessons."
"As a pianist and former piano instructor, I wish I had known about this book sooner. I feel that my students would have been able to understand the concept of music much easier than other lesson books such as Alfred’s Basic Piano Books."
"I think this book was very helpful in learning some new things about playing the piano. It helped me learn many new things, and I definitely will recommend the Little Piano Book to anyone trying to learn the piano - young or old!"
Its easy and joyful learning style enables the young student to think, feel, and develop musically. * Ode to Joy by Beethoven. * Amazing Grace. * Happy Birthday. * Jingle Bells. * Yankee Doodle. * When the Saints Go Marching In. * Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. * Mary had a Little Lamb. * Take Me Out to the Ballgame. * Michael, Row the Boat Ashore. * This Little Light of Mine. * Home on the Range. * Shenandoah. *And Many More Great Songs and Pieces! Praise for Damon Ferrante's Guitar Books and Music: "Damon is an extraordinary composer, but he is also a shredder. As a music professor and guitar instructor, for over 25 years, I was always looking for a book that would teach beginner guitar in afun, clear, and useful format. Guitar Teacher, who is looking for material for beginner and intermediate guitar students Teacher, who would like to play the guitar in the classroom Parent, who would like your children to learn how to play the guitar Musician, who would like to add the guitar to the instruments you know how to play.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The concept of a lesson book with graphic explanations and the free online lessons makes this book a tool that I can work with."
"Also, the fact that Iw ill be able to learn how to play in the comfort of my privacy is extremely encouraging, as I have always been someone that suffered from musical stage fight. Thank you for this incredible product, and I am excited to use and try out your other musical eBooks and guides!"
"I got her this book to help her along the way."
"Anyone can learn to play the guitar and it is far cheaper than formal instructions."
"I've been looking for a guitar instructional book that actually helps you learn and teaches in a very simple yet exploratory fashion. I've had a hard time in the past with chords and trying to get them completely right but this really helps the way things are explained."
""Guitar Adventures" by Damon Ferrante is an excellent book for people interested in learning the guitar at many different levels."
"It gives more material than other beginning guitar books that I have seen, for instance when I started learning guitar I wasn't taught how to read the music I was playing, it was just laid out in chord diagrams."
* Easy to follow instructions and illustrations. * Simple exercises to follow and practice. * Learn at their own pace. * Fun and easy songs, chords and tunes to play. * Simply follow the lessons in the book and kids will be playing guitar in no time !
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Bought this to go along with the Guitar I purchased for my 12yr old beginner daughter."
"Just what my grandson needs to learn the guitar."
"book was good but child lost intrest."
"This book is perfect for children that are learning to read and play ."
"Not as simple as proclaimed."
"Big print, easy to read Thanks :)."
"Issue was with it being shipped on time."
Best Children's Music Books
Nikki’s sure she can handle everything, but will all the excitement cause new problems for Nikki and Brandon, now that cameras are everywhere Nikki goes? Between filming the show, band practice, voice lessons, dance rehearsals, studying, and homework, Nikki is barely able to squeeze in time with her crush, Brandon. Overall, this is a seamless fit with the rest of the series and will be popular with fans of the previous books.—Anne Bozievich, Friendship Elementary School, Glen Rock, PA Rachel Renée Russell is an attorney who prefers writing tween books to legal briefs.
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"Easy reading and my grand daughter love the story line of each book."
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"my daughter loves these books, great price."
"It is the best because....I Don't want to spoil it too much but......Brandon kissed.........Sorry I have to go....."
"My kids love all her books."
"Have a book worm in the house and she loves this series."
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Only Steve Duncan and his friend Pitch know of the valley hidden behind the high cliffs of the remote Caribbean Azul Island.
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"A little put there with science fiction but a great story."
"It also teaches a little exciting history even if history is not all that exciting."
"My daughter is now falling in love with Farley's gorgeous, wild, spirited horses!"
"The Island Stallion is my favorite book of the series."
"A trip back to the horse-crazy days of my youth!"
Best Piano Music
Titles: * Alouette. * Alpine Melody. * Amazing Grace. * Au Claire de la Lune. * Aunt Rhody. * Auld Lang Syne. * Aura Lee. * The Bandleader. * Beautiful Brown Eyes. * Blow the Man Down! * Largo (Dvorak). * Lavender's Blue. * Lightly Row. * Little Brown Jug. * Liza Jane. * London Bridge. * Lone Star Waltz. * Love Somebody. * Lullaby. * The Marine's Hymn. * Mary Ann. * Merrily We Roll Along. * Mexican Hat Dance. * Michael, Row the Boat Ashore. * Money Can't Buy Everything. * My Fifth. * Ode to Joy. * On Top of Old Smoky. * O Sole Mio. * Raisins and Almonds. * Rock Along. * Rockets. * Rockin' Intervals.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It took me about 1 1/2 months to work through the book and I rate it as excellent instruction for anyone wanting to learn or re-learn the piano."
"A little background before I get into the real review: My 14 y/o trumpet player daughter has been wanting to learn the piano for years. Her trumpet teacher disagreed and recommended she start with the Suzuki method as she has and incredibly good ear and quite a bit of natural musical talent. I bought this book to help rectify that, knowing that I'll be sitting in on her weekly lessons and absorbing a lot of information there. It's pretty exciting to go from not knowing where middle C is located to playing Jingle Bells with a bit of harmony in 2 days! I do plan on adding scales and such to my practice sessions, as these are truly the things that will help you progress and give you a more fundamental understanding of how music is put together. I feel like I'm able to grasp the concepts that are introduced and will be able to help my daughter along once her lessons start in a couple of weeks."
"No CD, but Youtube is better than the CD anyway."
"So far, helping me learn the piano."
"A little bit hard if you are teaching yourself."
"I love this book!!!"
"This is a wonderful book for adult learners and my instructor agrees with me."
"This is a really great book on beginning piano playing."
Best Children's Nonfiction Art Books
Learn how to create awesome drawings of everything from crazy monsters to monster trucks. Aaron Sautter is a Capstone Press author.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"He has shown an interest in drawing and asked for art supplies for Christmas."
"Great, great gift for boys who love warrior and anime type characters."
"This is a great how-to for drawing all different kinds of characters."
"This was a Christmas gift for my stepson and he has really enjoyed it!"
"So fun to watch my son use this -- little advanced for an 8 year old, but great options."
"My son thought that it was "cool"."
"I would recommend this for any boy who is into drawing!"
"This is not for a beginner and my 11 yo son found it discouraging till he just gave up and started tracing the pictures."
Best Children's Nonfiction Performing Art
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"My son loves these books."
"Great quality."
"I get that the sort of "middle school boy" humor is not necessarily what I find amusing, but I found the character's nonexistant moral grounding to be distributing."
"This book seemed too young for me but my little nephews loved it."