Bøker av Cynthia Ali

"WARM UPS: A Great Way to Learn Piano Skills" has been written for young piano students to develop piano skills. There are colored pictures with each warm up it. Inside this book, students will learn warm ups for hand positions, chord preparation, scale preparation, intervals, embellishments and enharmonics. Students will also have a fun adventure learning new skills such as the small and large mountain, rabbit, spider, monkey, peacock and many more. These warms ups are a reflection from the musical village "FaReDo", This village has many trees, forests, rivers, meadows, waterfalls, fountains, butterflies and flowers that are always full of songs. Enjoy your musical journey through the "Village of FaReDo".

"Cats & Dogs" is a fun way for young piano students to learn scales., The students will name all of their CATS and DOGS with names starting with the first letter of the scale name. Students love naming their CATS and DOGS and it personalizes the experience they have learning scales. Students will enjoy playing scales and will discover each one has its own personality. This is a fun way to learn scales. The students will first learn the right hand fingering to all twelve major scales. Lastly, they will learn the left hand fingerings to all twelve major scales.

The main goal of this book is for students to get familiar with the fingerings of all twelve major pentascales. The sharp pentascales are KITTENS, the flat pentascales are PUPPIES. The student can begin learning the pentascales before they even know how to read all the notes. In a search to discover a fun way to learn pentascales for a young piano player, "Kittens and Puppies, A Fun Way to Learn Piano Pentascales" Students will discover that playing pentascales can be fun.

This chord learning book will give young piano learners a clear and quick understanding of basic chords. The color pictures and clear explanations interest young students. Cynthia Ali, NCTM is sharing her secret to chord playing. She has developed the book as a foundation to open the door into the wonderful musical language. Just like a person learns to speak a language with letters, sounds, sentences and paragraphs, learning chords is a piece of the musical language. In this book, chords are referred to as TREES They are named trees because the name of the chord is the root. So each TREE has a root, trunk and leaves. The students will learn major chords, chord variations and chord inversions. The chords are learned with finger numbers and letter names. The main objective is to get the chord into the student's muscle memory. Learning how to read the chord on the staff will come at a later time. Students can learn how to play chords before they know how to read notes. There are chords for reference on the staff for students that already can read notes.Cynthia Ali, NCTM has created a musical village that has many trees, forests, rivers, meadows, waterfalls, fountains, butterflies and flowers that are always full of songs. This book is a reflection of the "Village of FaReDo", the little village that is filled with music. Enjoy your musical journey through the "Village of FaReDo".Cynthia Ali, NCTM Nationally Certified Teacher of Music in Piano