Mystery of the Lost Crown: A piano mystery adventure book (Harmonia Piano Detective Series)($18.25Value)

Description

'The Mystery of the Lost Crown' takes the traditional piano method book into a land of adventure and is the second book in this series after 'Who Ate The Apples'. Budding detectives are immersed in a fun mystery designed to engage students right from the very first lesson. One day Frankie, chief mouse of the 'Mouse Detective Agency', leaves Terry the turtle in charge while he goes on holiday. Poor Terry was only supposed to answer the phone but finds himself in the middle of a case! Only piano and theory skills will solve the mystery and find the lost crown. This story based adventure book can be used from age 5 or 6 upwards and works well as both a stand-alone first method book, or alongside any other piano method series as a supplement to reinforce learning. 'Mystery of the Lost Crown' has many varied activities to make lessons fun, including tunes to learn, 'clues' to discover in the theory puzzles, doodling or improvising, mini composing, and even two player games ideal for student versus teacher. There are mazes, scramble puzzles, match ups, colouring activities and more. The book begins with an off stave review of book one, followed by introducing notation. It covers notes CDE in the treble clef and CBAG in the bass clef, plus simple time signatures of 2, 3, or 4 in a bar, note values of 1, 2, 3, and 4 beats, simple rest values, and musical signs like the pause, repeat, forte and piano. Students rule out fake crowns one by one as they progress through the book. A QR code leads to the solution to check if the piano detective found the true lost crown, and there is a colourful certificate at the back of the book for successful investigators.