A time-honored tradition just got better! The John W. Schaum Piano Course has been newly revised with 100 percent new engravings and typesetting, color highlighting for concept emphasis, updated song titles and lyrics, and full-color illustrations.

• Rhythm Drills
  
• Finger Staccato Study -- The Globe Trotter Gautier
  
• Chime Effects -- The Angelus Bell Sibelius
  
• Scale Passages -- Deer at Winter Feeding Place Beethoven
  
• Rural Dance Form -- Barnyard Jamboree Baumfelder
  
• Melody Playing -- Summer Moon Fibich
  
• Finger Dexterity -- The Chase Lichner
  
• Tremolo -- "1812" Overture (Excerpt) Tchaikowsky
  
• Left Hand Rotation -- Log-Rolling Contest Koelling
  
• Whole Tone Harmony -- Stratosphere Man
  
• A Norwegian Composer -- Starlight over Norway Grieg
  
• Sentiment in Music -- I Love Thee Grieg
  
• Gypsy Rhythm -- Camp of the Gypsies Behr
  
• Glissando -- Sliding on a Rainbow
  
• Legato Melody with Staccato Accompaniment -- Wild Horse Canyon Concone
  
• The Mordent (Plain and Inverted) -- Gavotte Gluck
  
• Pep Rally March -- The Track Meet J. F. Wagner
  
• Opera Theme -- The Bullfighters' March Bizet
  
• Oratorio Theme -- The Shepherd and His Sheep (from Messiah) Handel
  
• Arpeggio Study (Thumb Under) -- Up the Airy Mountain Streabbog
  
• Staccatissimo Touch -- Pappy's Polka Strauss
  
• Musical Emotion -- Purple Sunset Liszt
  
• The Waltz as an Art Form -- Crystal Ballroom Chopin
  
• Tenuto -- The Postage Stamp Czerny
  
• The Soft Pedal -- Magic Carpet of Dreams Debussy
  
• The Barcarolle Form -- Theme from Oberon Weber
  
• Velocity Study -- Thirty Seconds to Go Koelling
  
• Reading a Vocal Accompaniment -- Merry Widow Waltz Lehar
  
• Passing Left Hand over Right -- Pass the Sugar, Please
  
• How to Turn a Page of Music -- News Flashes Behr
  
• Alternating Finger Study -- Crazy Quilt
  
• Depicting Nature in Music -- Fingal's Cave Mendelssohn
  
• Schaum Piano Quiz
  
• Schaum Music Dictionary
  
• Certificate of Promotion