Book 5: Partner Lessons (60 minutes), Individual Lessons (45 minutes), or Individual with Partner Overlapping (30 minutes individual, 30 minutes partner, 60 minutes total)

• Book 5 is a workbook for developing more advanced audiation skills while students learn increasingly difficult repertoire.

• New improvisation, music notation, and keyboard skills help students grow in musicianship.

• Lydian, Phrygian, Aeolian, and Locrian tonalities are presented with their resting tones, characteristic tones, melodic cadences, and primary cadences.

• Combined meter and changing meter song arrangements and chants expand the understanding of meter.

• Students learn how to create variations using retrograde, inversion, diminution, and augmentation.

• 7th, 9th, and 11th chords are introduced as well as the chromatic mediant.

• Students learn to play in C-flat Major and A-flat Minor, E-flat Major and C Minor, and B-flat Major and G Minor.

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

• Supplemental Material based on student ability and teacher’s discretion.

How often is my child expected to practice each week? Book 5 is designed for advanced students and they should be practicing for around 30 minutes a day.