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(More customer reviews)I'm a music teacher with over 12 years experience teaching young children. I use The Music For Little Mozart's Series for my youngest students first. To ensure that you have adequate coverage of all the materials presented, make sure you get most of the books in the series. The Lesson Book is a great start, but this is the next most important book. It has Great songs to sing and play along with. Don't worry if you don't sing, your child will, with encouragement, and the help of the CD that comes as a two CD set (the other CD goes with the Lesson Book). These are very important for teaching steady beat and the joy and fun of music, and can "bring them back" to the keyboard when interest wanes. No kid can resist the racing car song with the Glissando's where they run their fingers over the keys after the song says, "Ready, set, go!"
The next most important book is the workbook that gives the student the chance to show off their new skills and has some great listening exercises you can do with them. It is not the coloring book, which is really just a coloring book. Lastly, I recommend also the Recital book. It tells you at the top of the page which page in the Lesson book it corresponds with (they all do), and it gives the student one more song to practice their skills with.
I recommend sitting down with the student for no more than 1/2 hour breaking it up into 5 min. each of review of previous topics, lesson book, recital book, workbook and Music Discovery Book with CD. You can play the CD with the lesson book to review the material on a later date and the CD of the Music Discovery Book at any time while they are playing with their toys or doing "homework" in their workbook.
I like Book 2 set as well, and you can continue through 3&4 or move to Alfred's other Piano books 1A-6 .
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