Level Five Textbook: The Mayron Cole Piano Method Hardcover – January 1, 1980

The Level 5 Textbook is for graduates of The Mayron Cole Piano Method Level 4 and builds directly on the knowledge from Levels 1, 2, 3, & 4. The compositions in this level have been especially written to keep teenage students motivated in piano with six of Mayron's popular circus compositions plus fifteen classical favorites including a fantastic “silent movie" version of Burgmuller’s The Chase! Level 5 contains a thorough study of triplet and sixteenth note rhythm combinations including alternating between eighth notes, triplets, and sixteenth notes in a composition; grace notes; upper, lower, and inner ledger notes; chain chords; chord inversions; stem rules; D.S. al Coda; twelve music history stories; studies of sharp and flat scales including Mayron's Memory Helper Hands, Mayron's Circle of Fifths song, and The Great Scale Detective cases; major and harmonic minor scales & cadences; and a glossary of musical terms.The Level 5 Textbook is paperback-bound with color covers and spine, contains 28 lessons, 198 pages, 13 original solos, 15 classical solos, 127 corresponding theory sheets & music history lessons, major and harmonic minor scales & cadences, glossary of musical terms, and 154 original drawings. This book is also available on FreePianoMethod.com website as a free pdf download; please visit FreePianoMethod.com for free orchestrated accompaniments to the compositions in this book. Amazon does not allow returns, but before you order you can preview each lesson of the book on FreePianoMethod.com. Original copyright 1980; current edition copyrighted 2018. (Level 5 is exactly the same material as the previously printed Level 5A and Level 5B of The Mayron Cole Piano Method.)Graduates of Level 5 will progress to Level 6 of The Mayron Cole Piano Method. Read more