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bhn Thompsons
Easiest Piano eourse
PART CI\TE

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 CONTENTS
PAGE PAGE

FOREWORD 3 REVIEW-"Morching Up ond Down" 20

THE KEYBOARD-Showins Middle C 4 R EVIEW-"Rog-time Rog gles" 2l

5 WORK SHEET. 22
KEYBOARD CHART.
6 NEW NOTE-G in the Boss
RUDIMENTS
"The Chimes". 23
C AS A SEMIBREVE-ln the Treble R.EVIEW-"Funny Foces" 24
'$IDDLE
"Let's Ploy"
REVIEW-"OId MocDonold Hod o Form" 25
MIDDIE C A5 A SEMIBREVE-ln the Boss
RESTS-WORK SHEET 26
"Let's Ploy"
TIIDDTE C IN MINIMS REVIEW-"B|ow the Mon Down". 27
"Grondfother's Clock" lo NEW NOTE-F in the Treble
MIDDTE C IN CROTCHETS
Orgon"
"The Church 28

"Moccosin Donce" It REVIEW-"Ycnkee Doodle" 29

WORK SHEET 12 REVIEW-"Corry Me Bock to Old Virginny" 30

NEW NOTE-D in the Treble THE TIE-"The Old Cotton Picker" 3l

"The Troin" l3 NEW NOTE-G in the Treble
Theme from "The New World Symphony", Dvordk 32
NEW NOTE-B in fhe Boss
"The Seobees" 14 REVIEW-"Bugles" 33

WORK SHEET l5 REVIEW-"RoW, Row" 34

TWO-FOUR-New Time Signoture REVIEW-"Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" 35

"Morch of the Gnomes" t6
NEW NOTE-F in the Boss
THREE-FOI.IR-The Dotted M in i m "ln o Rickshow" 36
"Donce of the Gnomes" l7 37
REVIEW-"The Bonio Picker".
NEW NOTE-E in the Treble 38
REVIEW-"Princess Woltz"
"Mory Hod o Little Lomb" l8
WORK SHEET. 39
NEW NOTE-A in the Boss
"The Pordtrooper" r9 CERTIFICAIE .
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FO REWO RD

PURPOSE

lhir Courr. i. d..isn.d to Pr..ni th. .a.i.tl Po.ribl .PPro"h ro Pl'no PlaYing'
port On. i. d.vot.d ro d.vetopins ft.roncy in @dins br no,., .olvins o probl.m thdt tlill ...m. lo rate o. "lruricol En.mv, Nemb.r On." witi
603l Young 5lod.hh.
for rh. h.ckw.rd rrud.nl.
Ih ylork Sh..t. tog.rher *ith rh. Reoditrs Aloud Exer.i.er, opp.dring lr.qu.ntly, dtfo.d Flonty of drill ov.n

SCOPE

The ronse cove.ed in porr One ii purpolety tinired. Only five not6 up ond five note5 down f@n Middre C or. Pr6cnled ond Tim. Yolu.t do nor !o
beyo.d croicfrers Thi, mok6 ir po$ibte ro i.ctude mqny exomplei in rhe fod of Review work ond abviotes the nec.sitv ol $ing toPPlcmstorv hotcrial
th short. .o.h b@k of the cour3. is conptere 6 ihetf ond contoin! iir oM wririnr Exe.ciser, sigfil Reoding Drilk, R.vicw work ond {in loter book) rccfinicol
Studici

ACCOMPANIMENTS
io noke th. lilrl. pi.c.e 3ound ot
A.(onprnimeht, to. teocher cr po'enr oie eupptied wirh mosr of the.ronples. Thcy hove bccn corefullv .ompdod
nuch q, po$ibte tile rrdgnenk tron rorser conposiiions. voluoble in reverol wdyr lhey.ol onty mokc
it posible lo PI.Y in Ydrio6 t'vt, ovoidiDg th3
qr. ployed rod.whot vigorob occcnB,lhsi h'lpinc
deodty mo.oron, of c moio., bu hetr u5e ,mpo'cartrict Tihc ond thorp Rhyrfim, .rpeciolly whe.lhey
with
r pupil ro feel rhe rhyftE frcm lh. very besinni.s.

GIADING
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The Book, in rht CouBe do nor repr.3ent ony c.rrqin srode. Th.y iimply follow in prcp.r tequenc. or Porr OnG, Pqrr lwo, Port 'tc
Thc covRc Prcgr.$G! "Poinf bY Poinl" roth'r rhon
rhe Le$ds meorofed pose by poge. Some pupitr witlmorrcr reverol pogcs per t.$on-lheB dly o...
'.Le*on by L!$on." ond ir i, tcft lo the teocher {*ho, ofter qtt, B rhe only oe qlolified) lo d.cide how
nu(ll or ho* lilile edch PUPiI Gdn obrorb in dG le!$n'

PART IWO

po.t T*o pro<eedj trcn the exocr poinr reoched or rhe end of Pon On.. New Nol6, Tine-volu$ ond Rudin.nt ore pr8cnled. Tchnique lkobegin!
Porr Two ronoint in whot is snGroltv .lo.3ili.d ot P"Porolorv
in pdrt Two-fnr in fte fon ot ,impte ri.g.r Dritts ond toler, no.e errendcd technicol fisur6.

lo lhow iov eor:lt, thotoughly, entcrtoininslt o.al husi.ollr-.other thon fiov fosr-.och puPil con
prcgr'$'
The prime obiecrive of lhe enrire Covrr. is
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THE PIANO KEYBOARD
There ore WHTTE KEYS ond BLACK KEYS on the Piono Keyboord.

The WHITE KEYS ore nomed

Recite the letters of the Musicol Alphobet severol times.

T++l-r i!
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C oN YorlR- PrANo
The BLACK KEYS ore grouped in TWOS ond THREES.

Toudr oll ihe groups of TWO BTACK KEYS on your piono.

C is found ro ?he leff of rhe TwO BLACK KEYS.

Letter oll the C's you ctrn find on the Keyboord Chort, next poge.

Now, on your piono, PL,AY oll the C's you con finC-using the thumb.

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(A seclion of the Keyboord)

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T++Ir IT A PICTUR Otr PART OF

YOU R KIYBOARD - A-r YOU
LARN THE I\AME OF AC+} NEU/
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AND A^ARK ALL THE KYJ ++AVINq
THE -TAME. NAME.

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 MIDDLE C ON THE MUSIC
The Stoff

Music is written on the LINES ond SPACES of the STAFF'

The NOTES on the Music tell us which KEYS to

ploy'

the SEMIBRFVE'
There ore different kinds of Notes, but first we sholl leorn

A SEMIBREVE looks like this, O

It is held for FOUR COUNTS.

Clef Signs
Treble Clef sign
v This is how MIDDIE C looks in the Treble'

It is written os o SEMIBREVE, ond gets four counfs'

It is ployed by the RIGHT HAND thumb'
Ploy it ond counf FOUR.

how MIDDLE C looks in the Boss'

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Written os o SEMIBREVE, it gets four counts'
It is ployed bY the LEFT HAND thumb'
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Ploy it ond counl FOUR.
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Bor Bor Bor

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The figures ofter the Clef Signs tell us how

to count'

ln this book we need only reod the lop figure'

It shows how mony counts to eoch bar'

Count 2 fo
Count 3 to
Count 4 to each bar
each b:rr
each bar

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Right Hond
Left Hond
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With the Righf Hond

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ln the Boss
Accomponimenl

Lef's PIoy
With the Left Hond
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,,THREE, FOUR" ro dre secood note of eo<h
pr'ov *. rolto*ing, corrnting Two to eodr note_,,oNE,Two" to ftc
firit note ond
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COUNT FOUR-TO
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Grandfather's Clock

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Count: One-Two Three-Four
 Middle C in Crotchets
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Mork the Time Volues of the following

notes' using I for Crotchets :r for Minims and I for Semibreves'
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Moke Minims of the following bY odding
stems'
Stems UP

2
Stems Down

f illing in the heads and odding stems

when necessory'
Chonge the following into Crotchets by

Write }liddle C in eoch Clef' Four

Two Four Se m i breve
C rotchets
Semibreve M inims C rotchets

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3,4 AND 5 U.S. Navy's CONSTRUCTION BATTALION
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Write the new nofe (D) os indicoted.

Write the letter nqmes under the notes.
Semibreve M in ims

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Write the letter nomes under the notes. Write lhe new note (B) os indicoted.

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Sem i breve Two Four
M inims Crotchets

In the following exercise, first drow the Bor Lines where they belong. (note Time Signoture)-

Next write the letter nomes of the notes.

Finotly, mork the Time Votues-using I for o Crotchet, 2 for a Minim and .1 for a Semibreve.

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Accomponimenl TWO-FOUR

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HOLD fOR3 COUNT/

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Mary Had a Little Lamb

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Se m i breve Minim Dotted Crotchet

Minim
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The Chimes

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Dotted
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Ev - 'ry - where a Quack,Quack,Quack, Old Mac-Don-ald Ee-eye, Ee-eye,

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RESTS
Eoch kind of Note hos o Resi Sign of equol volue'
RESTS ore signs of silence'

CROTCHET
MINIM
SEMIBREVE

Gets 1 count
Gets 2 counts
A whole bar's rest

AccomPoniment to
.'BLOW THE MAN DOWN'' (next poge)

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See Accomponimenl on opposite poge.

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The Church Organ

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Accomponiment Write the new note (F) below.

Semibreve Minim

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Yankee Doodle
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Carry Me Back to Old Yirginny

James A. Bland

Car - ry me back to gln - nY.

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Accomponiment

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logelher, the second nole is not
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Accomponimenl

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Semibreve

Theme from
"l{ew World" SY*PhonY

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I\obody Knows the Trouhle f,ve Seen

Spirituol

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Accomponiment

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In a Rickshaw

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Princess $[raltz

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c- r-., D _tl k
(Wrlte letter nomes)

Clop the time (one clop to eoch count) while reciting the letter-rromes
of the notes.
Afterwords, ploy the exomple on your piono, first morking the fingering for
eqch note.

Clop fhe time ond recite the iotes os obove.

Mork the fingering, then ploy on the piono.

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