Basic Piano Library Top Hits! Solo Books

Alfred's Top Hits Books combine well known songs from Broadway, Hollywood, television and recordings. As students look forward to playing the enjoyable pieces, practicing becomes more fun and rewarding.

Each Top Hits Solo book correlates page-by-page with the Basic Piano Lesson Books, and Top Hits Solo Books 1 and 2 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 6, students will progress to playing original versions of popular pieces.

​Top Hits! Solo Book Complete 1 (1A and 1B Combined)

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Top Hits! Solo Book Complete 1    

This book is a compilation of Level 1A and Level 1B Top Hits Solo Books.

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
• Incomplete measures
• Tempo markings
• Eighth notes and rests
• Damper pedal
• Half steps and whole steps
• Major scale
• Tetrachords
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Top Hits, which Carolyne will play as a duet along with your child, include:

• A Teenager in Love
• Brady Bunch Theme
• C Is for Cookie (from Sesame Street)
• Casper the Friendly Ghost Theme
• Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Sound of Music)
• Do-Re-Mi (Sound of Music)
• Edelweiss (Sound of Music)
• Happy Days Theme
• I'm Late (from Alice in Wonderland)
• It's a Small World (Disney)
• Mickey Mouse March (Disney)
• My Heart Will Go On (from Titanic)
• Peter Cottontail
• Popeye the Sailor Man Theme
• Puff, Magic Dragon (Peter, Paul Mary)
• Rubber Duckie (from Sesame Street)
• The Siamese Cat Song (Lady and Tramp)
• Winnie the Pooh
• You'll Be in My Heart (from Tarzan)

         
40 pages
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​​Top Hits! Solo Book ​2

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​Top Hits! Solo 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
  
  

Top Hits, which Carolyne will play as a duet along with your child, include:

• Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
• Be Our Guest (from Beauty and the Beast)
• Can You Feel the Love Tonight (Lion King)
• My Favorite Things (Sound of Music)
• Part of Your World (from Little Mermaid)
• Rainbow Connection (Muppet Movie)
• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
• The Bare Necessities (from Jungle Book)
• The Grouch Song (Sesame Street)
• Tomorrow (from Annie)
• What a Wonderful World
• Won't You Be My Neighbour (Mr. Rogers)
  
  

32 pages
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​Top Hits! Solo Book ​3

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​Top Hits! Solo 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
  
  

Content

• A Whole New World (from Aladdin)
• Colors of the Wind (from Pocahontas)
• Cruella De Vil (from 101 Dalmations)
• Heart and Soul
• I Just Can't Wait to Be King (Lion King)
• Memory (from Cats)
• My Heart Will Go On (from Titanic)
• Nadia's Theme (Young and the Restless)
• Rockin' Robin
• The Sound of Music
• Unbirthday Song (Alice in Wonderland)

40 pages
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​​Top Hits! Solo Book ​4

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​Top Hits! Solo 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
  
  

Content

• Addams Family Theme
• Axel F (from Beverly Hills Cop)
• Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
• Can You Feel the Love Tonight (Lion King)
• Chim Chim Cher-ee (from Mary Poppins)
• It's the Hard-Knock Life (from Annie)
• Mission Impossible Theme
• Think of Me (from Phantom of the Opera)
• This Is the Moment (Jekyll and Hyde)
• Under the Sea (from Little Mermaid)
• Yesterday (Beatles)​​

48 pages
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​Top Hits! Solo Book ​5

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Top Hits! Solo Book 5   

Method Concepts​​

• Ornaments:
  - long and short appoggiatura
  - trill and mordent
• Arpeggios
• A Major scale
• Keys of B minor and C minor
• Minuets, sonatinas, preludes, arias
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Content

• A Time for Us
• Brady Bunch Theme
• Getting to Know You (The King and I)
• I Love Lucy Theme
• Odd Couple Theme
• Reflection (from Milan)
• She Loves You (Beatles)
• Sing (Carpenters)
• Summer Nights (from Grease)
• The Way We Were Theme
• Till There Was You (from The Music Man)
• Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (Phantom of the Opera)
• Y.M.C.A. (Village People)

​32 pages​

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​Top Hits! Solo Book ​6

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Top Hits! Solo Book 6    

Method Concepts​​

• Diminished and augmented triads
• Diminished seventh chord
• Pedaling styles
• Key of F-sharp Minor
• E Major scale
• Key of C-sharp minor
• A-flat Major scale
• Thirty-second notes
• Dotted sixteenth notes
  
  

Content

• I Dream of Jeannie Theme
• I Dreamed a Dream (from Les Miserables)
• Puttin' on the Ritz
• Someday Out of the Blue (El Dorado)
• Speak Softly Love (from The Godfather)
• Splish, Splash
• When I Fall in Love
• Where Do I Begin (from Love Story)
• Written in the Stars (from Aida)
• You'll Be in My Heart (from Tarzan)
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32 pages
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