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    Sep 18, 2020 4 minutes
    Reviews by Michael MacMillan

    READY TO PLAY BOOKS 1 & 2

    ally Cathcart ISBN: 9 781470 613440 (Bk 1); -613457 (Bk 2) Sally Cathcart is a piano teacher, ABRSM examiner, and co-founder of The Curious Piano Teachers, an online community for piano teachers. These two workbooks aimed at young beginners and written for the first year of study are quite unlike any educational piano book that I have come across. The development of musicianship comes first in these books, utilising activities that focus on rhythm, pulse, singing, and creativity, underscored by solfège and the Kodály method. The piano is merely the instrument through which – where one can listen to all the tracks.]

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