Leading to Mastery of the Instrument
By John W. Schaum
A time-honored tradition just got better! The John W. Schaum Piano Course has been newly revised with 100 percent new engravings and typesetting, color highlighting for concept emphasis, updated song titles and lyrics, and full-color illustrations.
Contents
| Title | Composer |
| Sight Reading Drills | |
| Left Hand Echoes -- Play Ball | |
| Syncopation in 3/4 Time -- Music Box | Liadow |
| Shifting Melody from R.H. to L.H. -- Stalactites and Stalagmites | |
| Different Kinds of Accents -- The Country Fiddler | Folk Dance |
| Arpeggio Recital Piece -- The Elevator | |
| Music Appreciation -- The Harpsichord Player | J. S. Bach |
| The Folk Song -- The Year 1620 | |
| Syncopation in 4/4 Time -- Short'nin' Bread | |
| Crossing Hands (L.H. over) -- Magic Flute | Mozart |
| 6/8 Time -- The Wishbone | |
| Changing Keys (Major to Minor) -- The Campbells Are Coming | |
| A Classical Recital Piece -- The Dress Parade ("March Militaire") | Schubert |
| Key of E-flat Major -- Little Brown Bug | |
| Fermata -- Sailing | |
| How to Practice (Descriptive Music) -- The Clothes Line Waltz | |
| Piano Quiz No. 1 | |
| The Repeat Sign -- Legato Thirds -- Monkey Sees! Monkey Does! | |
| Two Right Hand Positions -- The Ventriloquist and His Dummy | |
| Da Capo al Fine -- Here We Go for a Touch Down | |
| Tarantella Story -- The Spider Dance | |
| Sixteenth Notes -- Wun Long Pan | |
| Two Note Slurs -- The Hair Stylist | |
| Chord Inversions -- The Dentist | |
| How to Use the Damper Pedal | |
| Applying the Pedal to Broken Chords -- Shadow Pictures | |
| Pedal Study -- Strange Lands | Robert Schumann |
| Chord Recital Piece -- Hear Those Lovely Bells | |
| Contrary Motion -- The Fire Engine | |
| Wrist Staccato -- A Fine State of Affairs | |
| Key of E Major -- The Telegraph Operator | |
| Interweaving Hand Legato -- Over the Hurdles | |
| 6/8 Time in the Key of B-flat -- The Daily Comics | |
| Chromatic Passages -- Putting Salt on a Bird's Tail or How Not to Catch a Bird | |
| American Folk Song -- On the Levee | |
| Piano Quiz No. 2 | |
| Certificate of Promotion | |
| Music Dictionary |