Method Books

Piano Pronto®

Student Books

The Piano Pronto method, is our original core series, and designed to fit students of all ages. Piano Pronto method books get students reading music and playing recognizable songs from day one! Each book includes music from a wide array of genres including classical melodies, jazz-style solos, folk tunes, and beyond. A step-by-step approach allows the lesson books to be easily used by piano teachers or parents with some musical background interested in teaching their children.

Each book in the Piano Pronto series includes hand-friendly arrangements, integrated explanations of musical concepts and terminology, short written music theory exercises, and Pronto Prep sections that teach students how to practice and learn new pieces effectively through section work. See our Method Book Visual Guide for an overview of the entire series and order of books.

Piano Pronto® Power Pages™

While the Piano Pronto method books offer a basic level of integrated music theory, the Piano Pronto Power Pages take a deeper dive into theory concepts. Power Pages books are available for the first five levels of the Piano Pronto series (Keyboard Kickoff, Prelude, and Movements 1, 2, and 3) and include individual lessons that extrapolate on related concepts in tandem with the materials students are learning in their method book. These supplemental theory workbooks offer a range of various activities including written theory work, technical exercises, composition activities, ear training, lead-sheet playing, and much more.

Teacher Duet Books

Piano Pronto Teacher Duet Books provide a great way to introduce collaborative work to students of all ages and levels. Our teacher duets are contemporary in their styling and help to elevate beginning level materials and add excitement to lessons for both teachers and students. Duet books are available as separate volumes due to their complexity (gone are the days of oom-pa-pa accompaniments stuffed down at the bottom of the page) and are a must-have item!

Soundtracks & Super Soundtracks

Piano Pronto Super Soundtracks allow your students to continue their collaborative work at home during their practice sessions and serve as a great stand-in for you during virtual lessons. Super Soundtracks include rockin’ orchestrated play-along tracks and duet play-along tracks (with and without the student part) for all of the pieces in their method book. Soundtracks include the recorded piece only meant to be used as a reference track.

Fired Up!™ (Teens & up)

Student Books

The Fired Up! Method book series, is designed for students who are early teens and up and features original compositions by Jennifer Eklund written in a variety of pop-syles. Fired Up! is a playing-based series that focuses on learning to read music, developing interpretive skills, basic integrated theory, and implements a scaffolding approach to learning new music. Upon completing the two Fired Up! Method books, students are prepared to move directly into repertoire books that suit their tastes or move to Piano Pronto: Movement 2 if they would like to continue in a traditional method book series.

Teacher Duet Books

Fired Up! Duet Books provide a great way to introduce collaborative work to your older beginners. The Fired Up! teacher duets are contemporary in their styling and help to elevate beginning level materials and add excitement to lessons for both teachers and students. Duet books are available as separate volumes and are a must-have item!

Super Soundtracks

Fired Up! Super Soundtracks allow your students to continue their collaborative work at home during their practice sessions and serve as a great stand-in for you during virtual lessons. Super Soundtracks include rockin’ orchestrated play-along tracks and duet play-along tracks (with and without the student part) for all of the pieces in the Fired Up! Method books.

Roadtrip® (Preschool & up)

Student Books

Roadtrip! is a lateral series for students ages 4 and up. The series is flexible and fun allowing lots of room for creativity both on and off the bench. All four books in the series feature eighteen multi-key, primer level songs, written on the staff, that can be taught by rote, note, or finger number. While you can start a total beginner with any book, we recommend that you view our Roadtrip Series Overview chart.

After the completion of any Roadtrip! book, students are ready to move into Piano Pronto: Keyboard Kickoff. Alternatively, you can use any of the Roadtrip! books in tandem with Keyboard Kickoff to maximize their exposure to keyboard geography, basic note reading, and a variety of rhythms.

Teacher Guidebook & Duets

Roadtrip! Teacher Guidebooks provide comprehensive lesson plans for every piece in the correlating student book. as well as contemporary teacher duets. This essential item Includes teacher duets, off-bench activity suggestions, and much more so you can be the best tour guide possible!

Super Soundtracks

Roadtrip! Super Soundtracks allow your students to continue their collaborative work at home during their practice sessions and serve as a great stand-in for you during virtual lessons. Super Soundtracks are great for at-home studies and include vocal versions of each song, orchestrated play-along tracks, and recordings of the duet versions of each song.