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Parents Students Instruments Encyclopedias Free Scores Sound Files Software AMEB Research
Learning Links for Parents What are the real benefits of piano lessons? ** Advice on
when your child is ready to begin How to help your child play and practice at home ** The role of the parent in supervising home practice ** The Practice Revolution ** More
advice on practicing ** PianoNanny free, online, beginner piano lessons (NB. American terms are used) ** Learning Links for Students Blitz Books, invaluable resources! how to blitz theory and musicianship in the early grades ** Teoria, extremely useful interactive aural training for Rhythm, harmonies, scales and chords as well as theory tutorials ** Good Ear interactive aural training (uses Quicktime) ** Interactive chord decoder ** Interactive scale Genie ** Scale Chef - print easy to use guides to your set scales ** What
is effective practice? ** Learning the notes of new music ** Getting a head start on learning new music ** What NOT to do when you get stuck! ** Making scale practice fun - How you SHOULD practice those scales! ** Get your clone to do your practice?! ** Learning piano as an adult ** Considering a
career in piano? ** Instrument
Interests and Care Carlingford Music Centre for music books, instruments and advice ** Studio 19 financial provisions for instrument hire-purchase ** Encyclopedias
- About Composers and Music Notation Piano Street music dictionary ** PracticeSpot music dictionary of common terms (great theory help) ** Piano Society (very comprehensive list of composers and biographies) ** The Classical Music Pages (very useable information - composers, music periods, music forms, works and sound files for opening bars in many classic pieces) ** Guitar Files Music Dictionary (very comprehensive list of terms for all types of music) ** Chopin Society (complex analytical study and biography) ** Free Piano Scores Free Piano Music! (highly recommended versions of favourites from easiest beginner to intermediate) ** Piano Street (excellent quality scores - mostly for the advanced student) ** The Sheet Music Archive (large range of scores from classical composers, download limits=3/day) ** Sheet Music Digital (many favourites for early levels and original scores) ** Free Classical Sheet Music (good favourite scores, easy to intermediate levels - limited downloads / day) ** mFiles (a selection of favourites from beginner to intermediate - some require purchase) ** Free Scores.com (enormous library of scores for all instruments, most for purchase - it takes some browsing but files are worthwhile - PDF and MP3) ** Free Sound Files Piano Society (good selection of sound files and quality biographies - follow links) ** Classical Music Archives (highly recommended, enormous selection of quality sound recordings of the works of classical composers - limit 5 downloads/day plus 5 emails or unlimited paid membership; requires registration) ** Sheet Music Digital (many favourites to print and listen to - some on purchased membership) ** Classic Cat (enormous range of downloadable sound files and links to related sites) ** The Piano Education Site (good selection of files for many composers) ** Complete Bach Midi Index (sound files for virtually all of Bach's compositions) ** Composition Software Finale
Notepad all the software you need to create and print your own compositions.
Free download and installment. Registration only AMEB Web Site News and publications from AMEB NSW - exam dates, costs and results. ** Articles of Interest Playing on the right side of the brain, in Libretto publication (PDF) **
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