Free digital cards level 1: beginners = walk in the park
Piano Comics – free digital cards level 1: beginners = walk in the park 
*at the end of each week a new level will be added to this blog/post.
Dear teachers-colleagues: ‘Break’ a piano lesson with short, simple, effective and easy pieces that train useful piano skills. Practice music forms such as Menuets and Canons, exercice and strengthen polyphonic abilities for the fingers and enrich, ear-train your students for more ‘modern’ harmonies and rhythmical patterns.
The cards are divided into 5 levels:
Level 1: Beginners = walk in the park
Level 2: Late beginners = bicycle ride
Level 3: Early elementary = baking a cake
Level 4: Elementary = knowing the time table
Level 5: Bold little pianists = not falling off a snowboard
*the names of levels are relative to each teacher’s pedagogical system
Each of the heroes of Piano Comics are presenting their own piece:
Fusha – Polyphonic Pieces
Goliath – Studies
Spiky – Canons
Webeh – ‘Jazzy Blues, Bluesy Jazz’
BTB – Menuets
Dear students: Get to know our 5 heroes, animal friends of Piano Comics. They are adorable:
Fusha, the self-absorbed, snob and intelligent grey cat.
Goliath, the energetic, competitive and fearless piglet.
Spiky, the naive, timid, tender and golden-hearted hedgehog.
Webeh, the mischievous, greedy, lazy but loyal frog.
BTB, the wise, calm and sometimes melancholic Blue Teddy Bear.
Use these cards in any way you think would be helpful for a student at the appropriate level.
*click the cards to download them in high resolution.
Enjoy and have a fun practice! Cause learning piano is simple, fun and no adult has ever stated ‘I wish I didn’t have piano (insert any instrument here) lessons when I was a kid’.
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Piano Comics
Hi again Rita. I’m not sure I understand the question, if you’d like to write to our e-mail or here your concrete requests and things we need to clarify so that you have no second thoughts. If you mean a lesson book from step a to b to c etc, no, there is no such book. If you mean ‘how to use Piano Comics’ in piano lessons to benefit your students and yourself there is a section on our website – FAQ ‘How to use Piano Comics’ in piano classes and there I give 5 examples of how I’ve used them withmy students. If still you have questions, I’d be happy to answer any of them.
The free Piano Comics ( Blue’s scale, antiparallel scale, chromatic scale, etc ) are short, simple pieces used just to ignite the interest of students or to apply some scale technique you as a teacher might have given in a previous or the same lesson ex. your students learn and play the c-major scale and you want to show them also the antiparallel, you can use the Piano Comics ‘Antiparallel Scale’ in a form of a story, rhymed lyrics, illustrations.
The free digital cards have 5 different levels ( all levels are very much relative cause every teacher and country has its own pedagogical system and piano teaching curriculum ) :
1st: beginners – approximately kids that play piano for like a year and a half.
2nd: late beginners – students that learn piano for at least 2-3 years.
3rd: early elementary – students that learn piano for at least 3 years and can read simple scores almost without the help of the teacher, have played 15-40 pieces, know basic music theory, have build some solid skills with scales, etudes etc.
4th : elementary – students that can read fluently scores, can play polyphonic ( at least 3 voices ) pieces, have more athletic fingers and pianistic techniques up their sleeves ( 4voice arpeggios, chords and invertions, speed, finger dexterity , wide range of dunamics and tempo/rhythm stability etc )
5th : ‘bold little pianists’ – this level is for the free interpretation of each teacher 🙂5 cards for 5 heroes/5 different Genres : Fusha , the cat : Polyphonic pieces, Goliath , the piglet: Studies, Spiky, the hedgehog : Canons, Webeh, the frog : Free pieces based on jazz and blues, BTB, the bear : Menuets.
These digital cards can be used completely free, with different fingers than the ones I wrote, with changed dynamics and tempos for their students.Our 1st paid product ‘A Strange Gift’ of Piano Comics is a story of those 5 heroes and an adventure they get into. The lyrics rhyme with the melody but please have in mind that they don’t need to sing if they don’t want to ( not all students wanna sing and for different reasons ). There are 10 pieces for an elementary or early intermediate level ( again the levels are relative ), 10 pages ( this is my personal editing mistake – I wanted to fit all scores/pieces onto 1 page so that the other had the consequent illustration/comic but the pieces are quite long – 30 to 60 bars- ), 1st leads to 2nd etc, with the illustrations also following this order and these pieces are also written for an easier level – late beginners. The music pieces have various composition forms ( ex. canon ) and harmonic languages from different regions ( balcans, Ireland, Blues’, Western Music ). This Piano Comics give also a free choice for the teacher on how to use it, students don’t need to play the whole comic, they or you may choose different pieces, like 3-4 out of 10.
Hope Piano Comics make a little more sense now…
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Rita Martin
I am soooooo glad I stumbled onto this. Is there a lesson book too?