The complete step-by-step guide for the adult beginner - Step-by-step learning in playing and reading, starting from absolute scratch, presented in clearly structured stages - Also suitable for the 'returning beginner' -

Performance pieces in a range of styles from classical and folk through to jazz - A helpful and stimulating CD with aural development exercises and recordings of the pieces, many with 'play-along' tracks - Warm-up exercises -

Even more performance pieces for each stage which are available as FREE DOWNLOADS from the Universal Edition website together with further advice, information and music theory

Content:

 Praetorius Michael: Old German Dance · Beethoven Ludwig van: Ode to Joy · Mason Lowell: Mary Had a Litlle Lamb · Go Tell Aunt Nancy · Dvorák Antonín: Theme from the 9th symphony · Little Bird · When the Saints Go Marching In · Drink to Me Only · Cornick Mike: Melody-Sharing Exercise 1 · Cornick Mike: Melody-Sharing Exercise 2 · Cornick Mike: On the Other Hand · London's Burning · Rivers of Babylon · Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star · Muss i denn · Kum Ba Yah · Standing in the Need of Prayer · Pop Goes the Weasel · Johnny Todd · Cornick Mike: A Little Waltz · Cornick Mike: Triplet Bagatelle · Amazing Grace · Cornick Mike: Triplet Dance · Cornick Mike: Summer Seascape · Cornick Mike: Carousel Ride · Stevenson John: Vesper Hymn · Cornick Mike: Minor Lament · Cornick Mike: Waltz Misterioso · Scarborough Fair · Cornick Mike: Scalic Swing · Cornick Mike: Just Walkin' · Three Blind Mice · Cornick Mike: Basically Blue · Cornick Mike: On the Level · Cornick Mike: A Blue Waltz · Cornick Mike: Swinging the Quavers · Haydn Joseph: Quadrille · Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus: Minuet · Kabalewski Dmitri: Lyric Waltz · Mary Anne · Sloop John B. · Cornick Mike: Duet Blues