John Thompson’s Easiest Piano Course PART ONE CHAPPELL & CO., LTD. 50, NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W.1 THE WILLIS MUSIC CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO.FOREWORD THE KEYBOARD— Showing Middle C KEYBOARD CHART RUDIMENTS. MIDDLE C AS A SEMIBREVE —in the Treble “Lets Play” MIDDLE C AS A SEMIBREVE—in the Boss Lets Play’ MIDDLE ¢ IN MINIMS, “Grandfathers Clock MIDDLE ¢ IN CROTCHETS ‘Moccasin Dance’ WORK SHEET NEW NOTE in the Treble “The Train” NEW NOTE in the Boss “The Seabees” Work SHEET TWO-FOUR—Now Tine Signature “March of the Gnomes" ‘THREE-FOUR—The Dotted Mini “Dance of the Gnomes" NEW NOTE£ inthe Troble “Mary Hod o Litle Lomb NEW NOTE—A in the Bass “The Paratrooper” CONTENTS 13 “ 1s 8 ” REVIEW "Marching Up and Down’ REVIEW—"Rag-tine Roggles" WORK SHEET NEW NOTE—G in the Rose “The Chimes" REVIEW—"Furny Faces REVIEW—"Old MacDonald Had « Form” RESTS—WORK SHEET REVIEW. NEW NOTE—F inthe Treble “The Church Orgon” low the Man Down" REVIEW—"Yonkoe Doodle” REVIEW "Corry Me Bock 10 Old Virginny” THE TIE. “The Old Cotton Picker” NEW NOTE—G in the Trable Theme from "The New Werld Symphony", Bvordie REVIEW—"Bugles” REVIEW-—“Row, Row’ REVIEW. NEW NOTE—F in the Boss in-@ Rickshaw" REVIEW REVIEW. WORK SHEET CERTIFICATE "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen he Bono Picker" Princess Wala a 2 aa 24 25 26 28 29 30 32 33 4 35 36 7 a8 9 40FOREWORD PURPOSE proach to Plane Plying. is devoted te developing fvency in rating byte, solving problem that Mic Enemy, Member One’ with i tegthor with he Rowing 1 feaquatly, ard slety of dil even fo score The ronge covered in Fart Oe is prpcsely ited, Chly Five als op ond five noes down from Mids C oe presented end Tine Vie dort 90 Be eee sie Incsnokes pone to nese mony examples nthe frm of Review Work ond bites the necessity of wing spplemenlory mote. Pyedn och book of the Cane compet heard canine own Wing Execses, Sgt Recding Di, Review Work ond (in eter Boca Tetical ACCOMPANIMENTS [Accompaniment or eosher forest ot supplied wth mos f the exomlas, Thay hove been corey composed to make the Ile pce ound seatay nese f mee bet he we pene si Tie end shorp Rhythm, especialy when they replayed wih somewhot wigerew accent hs ling GRADING The Rocks nth Coun dona reprevert ony cetain grade ‘hey simply folow in proper sequence ot Fort One, Pt Two, For Tra, a. Nor are the tem meonuted page by page. sme pup wi moses Srpeger pe lesen thers ely ene The Cou progress “Po by Pot” rte thon Thar by Lnson ons ttt the eocer fo, era he none used) to decide how much or how tle wech pupil an ober in one PART TWO, Fat Two proceeds from he excct pt reached ot he end of Por One. New Notes, TineVelos ond Reient ‘he pine obec heer Come io show how ely, hoougly, energy Arh. Thenofor—__THE PIANO KEYBOARD ‘There ore WHITE KEYS and BLACK KEYS onthe Pion Keyboord on Beh hh HBS ect the letters ofthe Musical Alphabet savoral ine ‘The BLACK KEYS are grouped in TWO ond THREES. “Touch all the grove af TWO BLACK KEYS on your pono Cit found othe al ofthe TWO BLACK KEYS Latter all the Cs you can ind onthe Keyboord Chart nest poge. Now, 0 your plano, PLAY al he C's you con ning the nb.REVEO nD) aun board) LL MtMIDDLE C ON THE MUSIC The Stott use writen onthe LINES and SPACES ofthe STAFF ‘The NOTES onthe Mi ol us which KEYS to ploy. “here ore ferent kinds of Note, but ftw sal lar the SEMIBREVE [A SEMIBREVE took tke ths, © Ini eld for FOUR COUNTS. Clef Signs ie Sn This is hw MIDDLE C looks i the Treble weinen os @ SEMIBREVE, ond get four cunts Ini ployed by the RIGHT MAND thm Ploy it and count FOUR This how MIDDLE C tock in the Bors. item os a SEMIBREVE, it gets four cout Its ployed by the LEFT Mane? ur, Poy # ond cour FOUR.(are IP DIVIDED BY BAR LINES A INTO DAR, The figures ofter the Clef Signs tel us how to count. In this book we need only reed the fop figure It shows how many counts fo each bar Each finger ho: © number. The thumbs ave number 1 ght HondMiddle C as a Semibreve MAb In the Treble t Accompaniment (play wine GAT HAND THUNB] $0 Enc NOTE. | Let's Play With the Right HondMiddle C as a Semibreve : In the Boss Let's Play With the Left Hand LAY WITH,Middle C in Minims Ploy the ftowing, counting TWO to eoch note—"ONE, 1B he ft notes “THREE, FOUR” Yo the second note of ech Grandfather’s ClockMiddle C in Crotchets A CROTCHET lose i (or ond eae Moccasin Dance : Count: One Two Three FourMake Minims of the following by adding stom, Stems Up + ‘Stems Down (Change the folowing into Crotchets by filing in the heads and edn soms when aecenory. = Write Middle Cin ach Cl Ivo for re or Semirove Hime otc Nee crovches SeiteAccompaniment “ vie Aare (TURN To THE WORK JHEET) ON PAGE 15. AND DO. D2 EXERCLES TANThe Seabees 3 over Ng eneves "| oases |Semibreve __Minims __Cratehets the now note (8) o indicated Minims Srotchees Inthe flowing exersite fist draw the Bar Lines where they belong. ote Time Signcture) [Next wie the eter names ofthe notes. ally, mark he Tine Voles—using | for @ Crotchet, 2 fora Minim and + for a Semibreve, Letter Names © Time Values 2* Accompanim:-" TWO-FOURTHREE-FOUR . and cen ale The Dotted Minim cond ie held for 3 count. ‘he dotted minim. ting? These are the some notes you played in "March ofthe Gnomes” but thay make © nes weesRead Aloud Write the new note (El below. ‘Accompaniment Semibreveco, splat aa al Prt The Paratrooperbe? Read Aloud Marching Up and Down March - ing Waco. 7259a Rag-Time Raggles= Work Sheet (FIRTT, LOOK AT THE TIME iGNATURED | NEXT, DRAW BAR LINES IN THEIR. PROPER PLACES ~ THEN, WRITE THE Me LETTER-NAMES UNDER THE NOTES GatesTATE ere [sjatsfefefel TTT) The Chimes Bk ‘rte the now note (6) below.Funny FacesRead Aloud Read Aloud = Old MacDonald 1d aise-Don-att | nad a farm, | Re-eye, Be-eye, | uh! And 7 op this farm he | hadsomeducks | Re-eye, He-oye, Quack Quick here | QuackQuack,there = Br-y-where © [Quack Quack Quack, | Old MacDonald | nad a farm | Bo-eye, Eo-eye, | oh!i. RESTS RESTS ore signs of lance, Each kind of Note hos @ Rest Sign of equal valve ms A SEMIBREVE MINIM ‘whole bar’ vest Gate 2 counts Sana THE GAR LINET INTHE FOLLOWING Mea) [een ro rr CAC Sat BY) WiLL HAVE THE NIIMBER OF SILENT SOUNC SHOWN INTHE TIME SIGNATURE ( "BLOW THE MAN. DOWN" (next poge) SH as a aBlow the Man Downfod a, = EDT etprrecich vera rorRead Aloud Read Aloud Yankee Doodle came to town a ~ Jetted him Mac - waco. 700Carry Me Back to Old Virginny ames A. Bland ‘Theres wherethe | cot-ton and the feorn and ‘ta toes | grow, There's where the [bints warble inthe |spring-tine, There wherethe | old dar-key's = lneart am tonged to | go. ‘Accompaniment ~ 1VERS The Old Cotton Picker Pick-iat | cot-toa, Tve| not for = gotten, The hours Ive fspentin € Bend in’ | 0 ver, youre] aot in | clo-ver, The frork is | ao-bod- ys Accompaniment‘rite the wo G's you hove leamed Theme from : “New World” Symphony aun Droit, =on, Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen Spiritual &[etatatctotelels 1 “TTT | = = ne In a RickshawThe Banjo PickerPrincess WaltzCertificate of Merit This certifies that has successfully completed PART ONE oF John Thompson’s EASIEST PIANO COURSE and is eligible for promotion to PART TWO