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Movement 1: Power Pages is an all-in-one supplement to be used in tandem with the Piano Pronto Movement 1 method book. This workbook provides written theory, sightreading/technique, ear training, lead-sheet playing, and composition exercises to reinforce all of the concepts introduced in the Movement 1 student book. This essential item will help build strong readers and confident students!

Movement 3 Power Pages Answer Guide will help save you and your students valuable time during lessons by allowing you to quickly check the answers on all of the written exercises. The page layout directly mirrors the student workbook with applicable sections that need checking marked in red.

Mission: X Volume Two is a method-style songbook for late beginners featuring three themed chapters: Atlantis, Supernatural, and Alter Ego. Each chapter begins with “Mission Training” blocks that contain a mix of written theory work and light music analysis to help prepare students to learn the pieces in the mission. These engaging pieces and materials by Chrissy Ricker will be a hit with students of all ages.

Music Theory for Guitar: Level Three is the final entry in a comprehensive series of music theory workbooks for guitarists in which Amy Hite draws from her experience teaching the guitar and leading the Guitar Syllabus Committee with the Music Teachers’ Association of California, where she built an extensive guitar curriculum from the ground-up that included eleven graded levels of music theory.

This volume rounds off your theory lessons by covering: all notes on the music staff and the fretboard through the 12th fret, all major and minor key signatures, all major, natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor scales, major, perfect, and minor intervals, the circle of fifths, triads and chord construction, Barre chord theory, patterns, and construction, authentic, half, and plagal cadences, chord progressions, transposition, advanced rhythms, time signatures, and counting, nusic symbols and terminology, and music analysis applying all aspects of theory to a real piece of music!

Mission: X Get in the Game! is a sport-themed, short-form method-style songbook, for late beginners with a focus on triplets and swing-style eighth notes. Each block begins with “Mission Training” that contains a mix of written theory work and light music analysis to help prepare students to learn the pieces. These engaging pieces and materials by Chrissy Ricker will be a hit with students of all ages.

Mission: X is a method-style songbook for beginners featuring three themed chapters: Andromeda, Undercover, and Ancient Lands. Each chapter begins with “Mission Training” blocks that contain a mix of written theory work and light music analysis to help prepare students to learn the pieces in the mission. These engaging pieces and materials by Chrissy Ricker will be a hit with students of all ages.

This is the answer book for all three workbooks in the Music Theory for Guitar series. This series is a comprehensive set of music theory workbooks for guitarists in which Amy Hite draws from her experience teaching the guitar and leading the Guitar Syllabus Committee with the Music Teachers’ Association of California, where she built an extensive guitar curriculum from the ground-up that included graded levels of music theory.

This series includes levels one through three plus an answer book, so it’s practical for both self-study and guided music lessons with the help of a guitar teacher. The workbooks begin at the most basic level and advance into college-level music theory. They are used by students, professionals, teachers, and music schools worldwide.

Write that Down is a composition workbook by Jennifer Eklund intended for students of all ages and levels. Students will learn essential songwriting skills through scalable, template-based activities that take the “fear of the blank page” out of composition. Teachers are encouraged to use these exercises as a launching pad to creating other similar exercises for their students.

Mission: X Play Ball! is a sport-themed, short-form method-style songbook, for beginners with a focus on eighth notes, eighth rests, and simple dotted rhythms. Each block begins with “Mission Training” that contains a mix of written theory work and light music analysis to help prepare students to learn the pieces. These engaging pieces and materials by Chrissy Ricker will be a hit with students of all ages.

Movement 3: Power Pages is an all-in-one supplement to be used in tandem with the Piano Pronto Movement 3 method book. This workbook provides written theory, sightreading/technique, ear training, lead-sheet playing, and composition exercises to reinforce all of the concepts introduced in the Movement 3 student book. This essential item will help build strong readers and confident students!

Composition Corner is a guided composition workbook by Jennifer Eklund intended for beginners of all ages. Students will practice proper notation skills and compose short pieces through basic composition prompts and templated activities. The activities cover basic rhythms, various tonal centers, accidentals, harmonization. Teachers are encouraged to use these exercises as a launching point for creating other similar exercises for their students. Blank staff paper in various formats is offered at the back of the book so that exercises may be repeated.

Movement 2 Power Pages Answer Guide will help save you and your students valuable time during lessons by allowing you to quickly check the answers on all of the written exercises. The page layout directly mirrors the student workbook with applicable sections that need checking marked in red.

My Composition book is a free resource from Piano Pronto Publishing full of user-friendly pages to allow aspiring composers a place to document and sketch their musical ideas including melodies, chord progressions, full compositions, lyrics, and titles. Use this flexible staff paper book to complete exercises from the “Write That Down!” composition workbook or any short composition activity of your choice.

This worksheet packet is a great launching point for students to learn about transposition and proper handwriting skills. After learning a base version of Dvorak’s “Largo” in the key of C major, they have the opportunity to notate the piece in two alternate tonal centers: D major and G major. Answer guides are included.

Music Theory for Guitar: Level One is the first entry in a comprehensive series of music theory workbooks for guitarists in which Amy Hite draws from her experience teaching the guitar and leading the Guitar Syllabus Committee with the Music Teachers’ Association of California, where she built an extensive guitar curriculum from the ground-up that included eleven graded levels of music theory.

In this volume you’ll begin by learning a wide range of subjects including: parts of the guitar, first position notes on the fretboard and the music staff, Whole steps and half steps on the fretboard and the music staff, basic rhythms, time signatures and counting, an introduction to sharps and flats, the C Major and a natural and harmonic minor scales, an introduction to intervals, basic music symbols and terminology.

Keyboard Kickoff: Power Pages is an all-in-one supplement to be used in tandem with the Keyboard Kickoff method book. This workbook provides written theory, sightreading/technique, ear training, and composition exercises to reinforce all of the concepts introduced in Keyboard Kickoff. This essential item will help build strong readers and confident students!

My First Composition book is a free resource from Piano Pronto Publishing full of user-friendly, landscape-oriented pages of blank staff paper. Twenty-one unique templates provide the flexibility for you to guide beginning level students through short composition and writing activities of your choice.

Movement 2: Power Pages is an all-in-one supplement to be used in tandem with the Piano Pronto Movement 2 method book. This workbook provides written theory, sightreading/technique, ear training, lead-sheet playing, and composition exercises to reinforce all of the concepts introduced in the Movement 2 student book. This essential item will help build strong readers and confident students!