Basic Piano Library Top Hits! Christmas Books

Your child - or you! - will enjoy practicing these charming and familiar pieces which will entertain your family and friends during the Christmas season. 

While they do not correspond page-by-page with the Basic Piano Course Lesson Book, the Top Hits! Christmas Books instead progress in order of difficulty, while staying within the appropriate Lesson Book level of any of Alfred's methods. Lesson Books 1A and 1B allow for Carolyne to play duet with your child as they are learning. When titles are repeated, the content is more complex than the earlier version.

​You are welcome to purchase any of these additional books and Carolyne will then incorporate them into your child's lesson.

By Level 5, students will progress to playing original versions of modern Christmas pieces.

Top Hits! Christmas Book 1A

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Top Hits! Christmas 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​​​

Christmas songs, which ​Carolyne will play as a duet along with your child, include:
  • Frosty the Snowman
  • Happy Holiday
  • I'll Be Home for Christmas
  • Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
  • Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • The Christmas Song
  • There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays
  • We Need a Little Christmas​​​​

16 pages
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​Retail Price: $8

Top Hits! Christmas Book 1B

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Top Hits! Christmas Book 1B
Method Concepts
  • Incomplete measures
  • Tempo markings
  • Eighth notes and rests
  • Damper pedal
  • Half steps and whole steps
  • Major scale
  • Tetrachord

Christmas songs, which Carolyne will play as a duet along with your child, include:
  • A Holly Jolly Christmas
  • Do You Hear What I Hear
  • Frosty the Snowman
  • I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
  • I'll Be Home for Christmas
  • Jingle Bell Rock
  • Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • Shake Me I Rattle
  • Silver Bells
  • Suzy Snowflake
  • The Christmas Song 

24 pages
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​Retail Price: $9

Top Hits! Christmas Book 2

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Top Hits! Christmas 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

Christmas songs include:
  • Feliz Navidad
  • Frosty the Snowman
  • Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
  • Mister Santa
  • Nuttin' for Christmas
  • Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
  • Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • The Chipmunk Song
  • There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays
  • When Santa Claus Gets Your Letter

24 pages

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​Retail Price: $9

Top Hits! Christmas Book 3

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Top Hits! Christmas 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 scale

Christmas songs include:
  • A Holly Jolly Christmas
  • Caroling, Caroling
  • Do You Hear What I Hear
  • Frosty the Snowman
  • I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
  • I'll Be Home for Christmas
  • Jingle Bell Rock, 
  • Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
  • Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
  • Shake Me I Rattle
  • Silver Bells

24 pages
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​Retail Price: $9

Top Hits! Christmas Book 4

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Top Hits! Christmas 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

Christmas songs include:
  • A Marshmallow World
  • Christmas Is
  • Happy Holiday
  • It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas
  • Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
  • Mele Kalikimaka
  • Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
  • Some Children See Him
  • The Christmas Song
  • The Christmas Waltz

24 pages
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​Retail Price: $9