Book 2: Groups of two or three students, 60 minutes

• Book 2 continues with more difficult major and minor folk songs in duple and triple meters. 

• Students learn to play melody and accompaniment hands together. They also learn how to transpose and change tonality and meter.

• Tonic and dominant accompaniments are in different styles to serve as model accompaniments. Students may learn these accompaniments or play a single-tone tonic/dominant accompaniment.

• For many students a single-tone tonic/dominant accompaniment is learned most easily and efficiently. Single tone root accompaniments foster audiation of chord changes.

• Improvisation activities are included in weekly lessons and assignments.

• Pattern instruction includes duple and triple meter division and elongation rhythm patterns and major and minor tonic and subdominant tonal patterns.

• Tonic and dominant arpeggios are introduced in C Major, A Minor, G Major, E Minor, F Major, and D Minor. Students learn to play in E Major and C-sharp Minor.

• The accompanying CD/Podcast links includes performances of the music, rhythm and tonal patterns for students to echo, and songs to sing.

• Supplemental Material includes: Diversions Book 1, Boogies and Blues, Masterwork Classics, and more.

How often is my child expected to practice each week? Book 2 delivers more folk tunes, more hands together and more supplemental repertoire and piano skills. We require students to practice daily for 10-20 minutes daily for this level.