Christmas Crackers (Get Set! Piano)
£8.50
The popular beginner instruction books for kids with fun exercises, theory and easy songs to play.
This book contains over 30 carols for the beginner pianist, featuring a range of techniques and quizzes to support musical development from the very first lessons to Grade 2.
Full of festive favourites such as Jingle bells, Silent night and Deck the halls, with a few lesser known carols included for good measure, many of the pieces have simple but effective teacher duet parts to encourage ensemble playing from the start. The book is illustrated throughout in the charming Get Set! style, and students are encouraged to decorate and colour in the drawings to reflect their progress.
Packed with fantastic, tried-and-tested arrangements and a variety of fun activities to reinforce learning, this is the ultimate beginner piano Christmas book!
Expertly put together by award-winning authors, pieces include:
• Good King Wenceslas
• Jolly old Saint Nicholas
• O come, all ye faithful
• Up on the housetop
• Jingle, bells
• Away in a manger
• Infant holy, Infant lowly
• Under Bethl’hem’s star so bright
• The holly and the ivy
• The first Nowell
• O little town of Bethlehem
• We wish you a Merry Christmas
• Once in royal David’s city
• Hark! the herald angels sing
• Silent night
• Deck the hall
• The Virgin Mary had a baby boy
• Ding dong! merrily on high
• God rest you merry, gentlemen
• Huron carol
• Patapan
• Gabriel’s message
• Cantemos a María
• While shepherds watched their flocks
• Mary rocked her baby!
• I saw three ships
• Y Gelynnen (The holly)
• We three kings of Orient are
• Go, tell it on the mountain
Read more
Additional information
| Publisher | Collins Music (10 Aug. 2018) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 40 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0008306141 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0008306144 |
| Reading age | 7 – 13 years |
| Dimensions | 22.23 x 0.76 x 30.48 cm |
by Lozarus
I got this for my mum whose just started learning the keyboard a month ago using other books from this range, the books are so easy to follow and have a lovely design! and the songs in this are lovely.
They’ve helped my 50 year old mum, 13 year old sister and my 4 year old all learn to play! 3 generations on the keyboard ????
by CB
Lovely collection of Christmas songs and carols. Some easy ones for beginners and others that a more challenging. Great go to book for December.
by jordan
Really good daughter loves it
by Jill
This is an attractive and well-designed book, providing material for early beginners to at least Grade one – and sight-reading for those beyond that. It will last a good couple of years if bought for an individual piano student and provides lots of motivation to keep playing over the Christmas holiday.
by tori prosser
Lovely book and will last a while as my son is working towards grade 1. He can play some pieces and next year he should be able to play some more
by No
Brilliant arrangements that can fit in the course. Only thing is I would say non are suitable for early to mid book 1 students
by angel40m
As a piano teacher I am always looking for new books. A pupil brought a copy of this to a lessons and I thought it was great. Bought a copy . Starts easy and gets harder. Nice duets tòo
by No
More than just another Christmas book. There are interactive pictures for learners to colour in as they learn, there are beautiful duet parts for teachers to play too. The whole book is thoughtfully out together with little facts about the Christmas tunes. I love that there are bits of theory so students can recap on semitones, key signatures and accidentals and this comes directly before pieces with key signatures are introduced, ever so helpful. There’s even a recap on dynamics and encouragement for learners to be creative and place their own dynamics on the music. The book introduces scales in a fun and tuneful way without the student even realising they are playing scales! And there is an explanation of compound time signatures too. A must have for all learners who love learning at Christmas.