This series is designed to help students achieve an impeccable sense of rhythm which is the first step in successful sight reading, as well as develop their skills with key recognition, time signature recognition, pattern identification, interval recognition, and immediate response to articulation and dynamics. In Book 4A of this outstanding series, Helen Marlais along with Kevin Olson, provide students with creative, structuredlessons and activities to further develop their sight reading abilities . New concepts include: sliding the thumb under the third finger; reading intervals that include ledger lines; the beginning of playing one octave scales; further study of intervals, cadences, chord progressions, andkeys; to name a few.
