Resources for Teachers

Some of HMTA's favorite resources for various educational purposes.

Apps

- Baby Piano: for little ones
- For Score: organizational app for online scores
- Note Rush: note reading flashcard game
- Perfect Ear: ear training app
- Piano Maestro: helper for elementary students learning method pieces
- Read Ahead: disappearing sightreading game

Beginner Materials

- Easy Keyboard Pieces for Kids
​- Music for Little Mozarts (4-5yo)
- Supersonics Method

Business Resources

- DuetPartner
- Music Studio Startup/Andrea Miller: tips for how to run a business, financial worksheets

Chording Materials

- "Best Songs Ever" Super Easy Songbook
​- "Disney" Super Easy Songbook
- "Hit Songs" Super Easy Songbook
​- "Kids Songs" Super Easy Songbook
- Supersonics Pop School Level 1
​- "Pop Songs for Kids" Super Easy Songbook

Church Music

- Hymnary
- Hymn Collection by Phillip Keveren
​- Hymns Super Easy Songbook
​- Hymn Medleys by Phillip Keveren
- Worship Super Easy Songbook

Client Experience

- Online E-Card Subscription 

Finding Materials

- colorinmypiano.com
- composecreate.com
- pianosafari.com
- Friskin & Freundlich - Music for the Piano
- Jane Magrath - The Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature
- Maurice Hinson - Guide to the Pianists Repertoire
- National Federation of Music Clubs Festival Bulletin
- Royal Conservatory
- Yamaha Academy

Lesson Planning

- Color in My Piano Lesson Plans
​- RCM 2015 Syllabus

Music for Teens

- The Amadeus Anthems: Classical Pop Solos
- The Beethoven Sessions: Classical Pop Solos
​- The Chopin Sessions: Classical Pop Solos
​- The Victress Sessions: Classical Pop Solos Inspired By Female Composers
- The Sebastian Sessions: Classical Pop Solos
- Wunderkeys Pop-Infused Lesson Companion To Reinforce Scales, Chords, Triads, And Left-Hand Patterns 
- Wunderkeys: An Intermediate Performance Companion For Pop Studies 1

Physical Health at the Instrument

- What Every Pianist Needs to Know About the Body

Practice

- Practicing the Piano: How Students, Parents, and Teachers Can Make Practicing More Effective

Sightreading

- Alfred's Sight Reading Unlimited
​- A Line A Day Sightreading

Supplemental Material

- Color In My Piano
- ComposeCreate
- Tim Topham

Technique Materials

- Czerny Op. 599

Theory Materials

-  Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory, Bk 1

Favorite Pieces By Level
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Beginner

• The Juggler by Fabers
• Jazz Blast by Fabers
• Alfred’s Performance Book Levels 1A and 1B
• The Bold Escape by Wendy Stevens
• Shadows at Dusk by Julie Knerr
  
  

Elementary

• Burgmüller 25 Progressive Pieces
• Kabalevsky Pieces for Children Op. 39
• The Soggy Sonatina by Wendy Stevens
• Rainbow Colors by Julie Knerr

Intermediate

• Jazzy from Randall's Modes and Moods
• Swirling Leaves by Martha Mier
• Diabelli Sonatina in F major
• Kabalevsky Etude No. 3, Op. 27
• Valse Melancolique by Christopher Fisher
• Sunrise Over the Yangtze by Christopher Fisher
• Drastic Measures by Wendy Stevens
• 20th Century American Composers
  

​Advanced

• Mendelssohn, Op. 67 No. 4 Spinnerlied
• ​Abram Chassins’ “Rush Hour in Hong Kong”

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