Basic Piano Course Technic Books

Correlating page-by-page with the Basic Piano Lesson Books, each Technic Book contains groups of four short, but progressive, warm-up exercises. Offering much more than just the development of technical skill, these reading, playing and rhythm drills reinforce every principal of the Method.

Technic Book 1A

Alfred's Basic Piano Library:
​Technic Book 1A 
Method Concepts
  • Introduction to playing
  • Keyboard orientation
  • Finger number recognition
  • White Keys
  • Middle C Position
  • The Staff
  • The Bass Clef
  • The Treble Clef
  • The Grand Staff
  • Melodic and harmonic intervals:
    2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
  • G Position
  • Legato
  • Sharps / F#
  • Flats / Bb
  • Staccato

40 pages
​
View sample
​Retail Price: $7

Technic Book 1B

Alfred's Basic Piano Library:
​Technic Book 1B
Method Concepts
  • Incomplete measures
  • Tempo markings
  • Eighth notes and rests
  • Damper pedal
  • Half steps and whole steps
  • Major scale
  • Tetrachords
    ​​​
24 pages
​
View sample
​Retail Price: $7​

Technic Book 2

Alfred's Basic Piano Library:
​Technic Book 2
Method Concepts
  • Dotted half notes, dotted quarter notes
  • Melodic and harmonic intervals:
    6ths, 7ths and octaves
  • Crossing two over one
  • Scales
  • Triads, primary chords, blocked and broken chords
    ​
32 pages

View sample
​Retail Price: $7

Technic Book 3

Alfred's Basic Piano Library:
​Technic Book 3
Method Concepts​
  • Overlapping pedal
  • 3/8 and 6/8 time signatures
  • Primary triads in Major and Minor keys
  • Passing one under two / one under three
  • Major scales in contrary motion
  • Chromatic scale
  • Minor scales

32 pages
​​
View sample
​Retail Price: $8

Technic Book 4

Alfred's Basic Piano Library:
​Technic Book 4
Method Concepts​​
  • Tarantellas
  • Eighth note triplets
  • Arpeggiated chords
  • First and second inversion triads in C
  • Triads in all positions
  • Major scales in parallel motion
  • Two-part writing
  • Seventh chords and inversions
  • E harmonic minor scale in contrary motion
  • Primary chords in E minor
  • Sixteenth notes
  • Dotted eighth notes
  • Primary chords in B-flat Major and G Minor
  • Repeated-note warm-ups
  • Harmonic minor scales in parallel motion
    ​
40 pages
​​
View sample
​Retail Price: $7