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Get Set! Piano Tutor Book 1 is an exciting new course by Heather Hammond and Karen Marshall, written specially for the twenty-first century child. Packed with familiar classics and engaging new pieces in contemporary styles, the tried and tested progression is carefully paced to build confidence from the start.

About the Author

Karen Marshall is a practising private and peripatetic teacher in York with students from five to seventy-one years of age. Karen specialises in multi-sensory music teaching and is a Kodály practitioner. A member of the British Dyslexia Association’s music committee, Karen has trained teachers across the UK on teaching students with Special Educational needs. She writes for Music Teacher Magazine, was a piano and pedagogue student of the late Christine Brown and works voluntarily to support music education at her local Primary and Secondary school.

Heather Hammond trained at Leeds College of Music and Bretton Hall and worked for five years as a primary school teacher. She is a practising piano teacher with a thriving teaching practice in York with students of all ages and abilities. Heather is also an educational music author and has written many books for young piano and woodwind players with pieces included in examination syllabuses for ABRSM, Trinity Guildhall and London College of Music. Heather also writes for adults, contributing regularly to the Yamaha Keyboard Club Magazine. For more information visit www.HeatherHammond.co.uk

Reviews

‘With lively…illustrations, this new piano tutor is refreshingly full of lovely exercises, puzzles and things to do…The modern child will readily take to the sheer variety of approach here. …it is clear that I am excited by “Get Set! Piano” and plan to use it with all younger beginners who come to me from now on. This of course means that in a year or so I should hopefully be able to come back with a follow-up article, and let you all know how it goes! Hopefully my enthusiasm will be undiminished of course! But don’t wait – go ahead and order up a set of these tremendous books, and check out all the great resources on the “Get Set! Piano” website – you really won’t regret it!'
Andrew Eales – Pianodao ‘Get Set Piano! by Karen Marshall & Heather Hammond is probably the most outstanding – and exciting – piano tutor series to be published in recent years, and is one that I use personally for teaching children who are old enough to begin learning to read notation concurrently with playing. The visual appeal is instant and children find the mixture of favourite and new tunes engaging. The wide-ranging scope of these books inspires teachers to provide a comprehensive music learning experience as well as a meticulously thought-out piano teaching curriculum.’ – Sandy Holland, music educator, pianist and examiner