Beginning Piano and Keyboard

We recommend the Alfred or Bastien methods. We suggest that if 2 students from the same family are starting lessons, that one goes into the Bastien and one into Alfred, to eliminate competition.

Preschool

Alfred's "Music for Little Mozarts"

Ages 5-7

Alfred Basic Piano Prep Course

Bastien Piano for the Young Beginner Primer A

Ages 7-9

Alfred Basic Piano Lesson Book Level 1A

Bastien Piano Primer level

Ages 9-12

Alfred Basic Lesson Book Complete Level 1 For the Later Beginner

Teen/Adult Beginners

Alfred Basic Adult Piano Course Lesson Book Level 1 or Alfred Complete Adult Piano Course Level 1

Guitar

Young Beginners:

• Kids Guitar Course w/CD (Harnsberger/Manus) or
• Girls Guitar Method w/CD (Ciravolo) 

Older Beginners:

• Jerry Snyder's Guitar School Method Book 1 or
• Beginning Rock Guitar (Howard)
• Hal Leonard Book 1

Strings

We use Essential Elements for Strings and Suzuki Violin School

These exciting string methods keep students motivated with an interesting selection of well-known classics, folk songs and original compositions, while teaching essential string technique in a logical and easy-to-use format. Included are a variety of duets and string orchestra arrangements to make those first performances a rousing success.

"Instant Piano" Adult Workshop

We use Robert Laughlin's "Chord Style Piano"

from the "The Original One Day Workshop"

"Music Reading for the Total Beginner"

Also by Robert Laughlin

Academic Tutoring

We use Harcourt’s cutting-edge reading program. It is a user friendly, interactive, research-driven program, which integrates seamlessly with all of the reading programs used by the public schools. It is based on National, State and District standards.

We also use Harcourt’s program for math, which offers the same cutting-edge, multi-media advantages as the reading program.