Each book includes two-hour teaching tape(s), your choice of audio or video cassettes.

It is recommended that all students begin with Book I, even if the student has had prior training. The system used throughout the course is explained in Book I and repeated in Books 2 and 3 without explanation.

In Learning the Piano by Ear, Book 1, the student will learn:

• How to build major scales
• How to build major and minor chords
• Chord positions for the right hand
• Introduction to the Roman numeral system
  (I, IV, V, ii, vi, and iii chords)
• Three different rhythmic patterns
• How to play in six different keys
• Thirteen songs
• Plus much more!

In Playing the Piano by Ear, Book 2, the student will learn:

• How to build and use three different types of 7th chords
• The use of the major II, VI, and III chords
• Diminished and augmented chords and when to use them
• Suspensions, plus many fills for the right hand
• Introduction to Black gospel style playing
• Three new keys
• Twenty-seven songs
• Plus much more!

In Mastering the Piano by Ear, Book 3, the student will learn:

• How to build, play and use 9th, 11th, 13th and 6th chords
• Ideas for contemporary. Southern gospel and Black gospel style playing
• Many fills and bass line ideas
• How to play the Wedding March by ear
• How to add the melody to your playing
• How to play songs in minor keys
• Three new keys
• Twenty-five songs
• Plus much more!

Ear Training is to be used in conjunction with Books 2 and 3. The workbook is accompanied by four audio cassettes. In this book the student will learn:

• How to hear and identify musical intervals
• How to hear and identify rhythms
• How to hear and identify chord progressions
• How to determine in what key to play a song
• How to play melodies by ear
• Plus much more!