Shawnee Press
Piano Method Series, Level C
Available from J. W. Pepper
There are 7 books in this series. Costs for each book varies.
Source Books (free) are available only through Mark Hayes Productions –
please contact mark@markhayes.com for details.
Level C starts with a review of basic note-reading concepts and takes extra time to review legato and staccato in preparation for playing these two articulations simultaneously, one for each hand. Other concepts introduced include playing fourths and fifths in parallel motion; sixths, sevenths, and octaves; half and whole steps; major and minor pentascales; transposition; incomplete measures (upbeats); dotted half notes and dotted quarter notes; crossing finger two over finger one; and tenuto.
Level C reviews all the material in Level B and introduces the following new concepts:
natural signs
parallel motion
intervals of sixths, sevenths, and octaves
upbeats incomplete measures)
half-steps
whole steps
notes inegales
major and minor pentascales
C, G, & F major triads
dotted half and quarter notes
finger crossing