Level 2B – Theory Book Piano Adventures

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Piano Adventures

Theory Book Level 2B – 2nd Edition

By Nancy and Randall Faber.

The 2B Theory Book offers eight superb new pages for in-depth study of chords, harmonization, and rhythm. New improvisation activities offer creative exploration of scales in C major, G major and F major.

Topics covered include:

  • The family of C’s
  • Arpeggios
  • G Major scale
  • The damper pedal
  • The eighth rest
  • The dotted quarter note
  • and more!

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Publisher ‏ : ‎

Faber Piano Adventures; 2nd edition (January 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎

English
Paperback ‏ : ‎

48 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎

1616770856
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎

978-1616770853
Item Weight ‏ : ‎

6.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎

9 x 0.16 x 12 inches
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Best Sellers Rank:

#26 in Music Instruction & Study (Books)
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Customer Reviews:

1,118 ratings

60 reviews for Level 2B – Theory Book Piano Adventures

  1. NM –

    Exceptional series – very well thought out and developmentally appropriate …

    Exceptional series – very well thought out and developmentally appropriate. Combines the right amount of moving ahead with review. All the pieces are appealing and student-friendly.

  2. flower –

    Good

    Good book!

  3. 1000 Hours Outside –

    Top teaching book!

    I’ve been teaching for 20 years and I love using the Faber Adventures book!

  4. Lexar –

    Great lesson books

    My son is taking lessons and this is the book his teacher used. He is learning a lot through a lot of fun songs in this serials. .

  5. S. Phoenix –

    Great piano series!

    Great piano series. We homeschool our three children and have used this series for four years. It is easy to follow and fun. What more could a parent and teacher ask for?

  6. Pichette –

    Love the convenience

    Exactly as described! Love the convenience!

    One person found this helpful

  7. Beth Vye –

    I love it.

    This is a great theory book. This has great exercises that my daughter understands. We would purchase again. Definitely would recommend.

  8. Kelly Mom –

    Five Stars

    Great theory book.

    One person found this helpful

  9. Ray –

    Five Stars

    Good

  10. cripplefinger –

    Faber piano books are excellent

    Purchased this book for a student. Faber piano books are excellent

  11. TB –

    Great quality book

    Arrived promptly. Great quality book. I’ve used them as a teacher and as a parent.

  12. A.W –

    Perft

    Grandson loves it

  13. J&K L –

    Faber piano books are wonderful, and theory is interesting and colorful

    Faber piano books are wonderful, and theory is interesting and colorful, trying to make it fun for them! I recommend these for young children under 12.

  14. preachermama –

    Good instructional music book

    We ordered this because our son’s music teacher asked us to. However, I prefer the music adventures to other music instructional books that I have seen. They seem rather kid and teacher friendly.

  15. santillomk –

    Solid Plan

    Good song selections, progressively challenging lesson plan. My daughter really enjoys it. It motivates her to play regularly and she has been making solid improvements in her piano skills and music theory knowledge.

  16. Anonymous101 –

    Perfect condition

    Perfect condition

  17. rdandkids –

    Great Series

    Arrived on time and in perfect condition. Great series for piano students. I have used these from the beginning with my kids and find them very easy to follow. They have very nice songs, and have a diverse collection of music.

  18. Jacob SHIN –

    Working good

    Working good

  19. Era industries –

    Great series of piano books.

    Great series of piano books. My daughter has been using this series for years. They are great!

    One person found this helpful

  20. Amazon Customer –

    Five Stars

    Purchased for my grandson and is working out great.

  21. Victoria Michelle –

    good accompaniment to lesson book

    I always use the theory book together with the lesson book. I think it is especially important when new concepts begin to be introduced, like in 2B. A great resource

  22. Lily –

    The best!

    Truest the best piano instruction books. My sons’s piano teacher as well as my sons love these books!

  23. Cameron and CarolCameron and Carol –

    Great book. Not good condition

    Not rating the book..I like the series and they work. 5 star. I’m rating the condition. 1 star.I didn’t think this was going to be a used book. A third of the book has been completed!! If I didn’t need it right away I would send this crap back. Guess you get what you pay for. I was able to erase most of it but there is some things written in ink. WTF??

  24. Janelle Hvidsten –

    What can I say it’s a book

    nice book

  25. Aman P. –

    Awesome theory book!

    I bought this for my daughter, and it has great exercises to strengthen knowledge of music! The exercises were also very fun and I would recommend this book to any intermediate piano player!

  26. Premarital –

    Perfect 🙂

    I used it to practice some piano with my kid. It wasn’t used beforehand and was freshly printed. No complaints!

  27. Cn –

    We all like Piano adventure more

    My son used Bastien piano basic in the beginning when he was 3. A few months later after he finished level 1B, he transferred to Piano adventure (Lesson, Theory, Performance, Technic & Sight-reading), because his piano teacher was using it. It’s well organized. We all like Piano adventure more, and my son loves to do theory book the most. His teacher teaches him Suzuki level 2 at the same time. Now he is almost 4 and half, he finishes Level 2A , half of Level 2B and half of Suzuki 2. I am going to buy Piano adventure Level 3A.

    3 people found this helpful

  28. Heather –

    Nice book

    My daughter loves this book. It presents itself well.

  29. Amazon Customer –

    This was a great product

    Nice product but it did take a bit of time to arrive

  30. Sulmax99 –

    My degree is a B. A. in Music …

    My degree is a B.A. in Music Theory with an emphasis in Piano Pedagogy. I have taught piano to all ages, and I have also played professionally with various groups. In my 40 years as a musician I have never seen a piano method in book form that is as complete and well thought out as this one. I don’t think anything else available would keep a student as engaged or produce a more well-rounded musician as this series.

    2 people found this helpful

  31. Melissa Perry Moraja: Award Winning Author –

    Piano teacher requires

    My twin son and daughters piano teacher use; as does all the kids who are playing piano in our neighborhood.

  32. A Merrill –

    For the piano student

    Great book for the piano student. It is easy for my student to understand.

  33. precise –

    great

    gave this book to nephew for christmas. he was so excited to get them. he started playing them right away.

  34. L. Allen –

    Five Stars

    Great piano lesson series

    One person found this helpful

  35. Aloha Momma –

    great book for kids

    Great music theory book. This book makes learning theory fun for my daughter. The instructions are understandable and the book pages are eye-catching.

  36. Kindle Customer –

    needed for class

    the books came quickly and were just what we needed for my son’s piano lessons. He’s been using these books from the start.

  37. gary 44 –

    Five Stars

    just what i needed

  38. T Summers –

    Music Theory Can Be Fun!

    This method helps my daughter have fun while learning piano theory.

  39. S. Sanders –

    Piano

    These Faber Piano Adventure series are very easy to use in teaching beginning and intermediate students. It is easy for teacher and student.

  40. Amazon Customer –

    Five Stars

    Great

  41. Stone54 –

    Five Stars

    Good book for learning piano

  42. Monica Gribnau –

    Five Stars

    great book

  43. Big chief –

    Five Stars

    Great

  44. Caligirl –

    Five Stars

    great

  45. Boomer –

    Five Stars

    Our youngest will enjoy these.

  46. Jim ‘n Em –

    Five Stars

    Great series to teach kids piano.

  47. julie cook –

    Five Stars

    Very good product!

  48. Gina –

    Five Stars

    Great piano books.

  49. joyce –

    Three Stars

    The piano teacher asked for it.

  50. Assia Cioffi –

    Five Stars

    good book

  51. trini_rag –

    Great lesson book

    Recommended by our piano teacher. Easy to follow along for lessons in piano.

  52. Mike D –

    Great songs and presentation of concepts

    I like the Faber and Faber series because they present fundamental musical ideas in a systematic order, the songs are by and large interesting, and the pictures are well done. The music of course is the most important part, but the presentation can affect how the student frames the piece, mentally, which in turn affects how they approach it. I also like how they stress the identification of intervals in the accompanying theory book. Some other books don’t stress this aspect of reading, but it is very useful for most students.

    2 people found this helpful

  53. Grand Staff –

    Does a great job of introducing new theory concepts at the same …

    Does a great job of introducing new theory concepts at the same level as the other Lesson Books in this group. It explains how to do the theory so it can easily be done at home after or without short explanations with the teacher.

  54. Charmaine –

    Good

    Good

  55. HTS –

    Great series!

    The entire series is very well done! My daughters studies through these courses in piano lessons. The progression and explanations are great.

  56. Emstar –

    Great books for adults

    Great piano books for adults. Bought these for my husband to start taking lessons. He and his teacher like them.

  57. Familyties –

    Great piano books

    My boys use these books for piano lessons. They are easy to use and learn from and my boys have both learned a lot through this series of piano books. A must buy for any piano player learning to play.

    2 people found this helpful

  58. 1derwoman –

    Great series

    We’re raising 5 pianists, all using the Piano Adventures series and they are all excelling at their own speed and ability. Great teaching tool with more theory overall than any other set I’ve seen. Our kids know things I was never taught about music and at such an early age. It’s fabulous.

    3 people found this helpful

  59. Amazon Customer –

    Great theory books

    I use these all the time as a piano teacher.

  60. Carlene –

    Great product

    Great product, kids loved it

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        Use for repetoire, don’t use for learning

        I’m a guitar teacher, so my review is biased towards music education. My view of this book is that it has good content – if you can already play some guitar and want to quickly expand your repertoire, this book fits the bill. It has a lot of great and recognizable riffs, and you’re likely to find something in here that you don’t already know and can learn quickly to add to your personal catalog. (Note, many of the “songs” are really just a couple of bars with the main riff, but it’s a good starting point to find songs you’d like to learn.) I use many of these riffs in my lessons. But, and this is a big but, the book leaves a lot to be desired as a “method”. It shows you how to play some things, but addresses virtually none of the why. This stems from – you guessed it – not teaching music, but teaching tabs instead. This leaves the depth of music in this book only surface deep – it’s like learning to read a book out loud, but not understanding what any of the words actually mean.So, I’m going to split the bill and give it 3 stars. If you are an intermediate or better guitar player, you will likely find some useful things in here and can use this book to teach yourself repertoire. But if you are a beginner, do yourself a favor and don’t start here – get yourself a book with an actual music method (I like Hal Leonard’s regular guitar method book) and a good teacher to go through it with. Learning to read music is an invaluable skill to have, and will lend itself to understanding what it is that you’re actually playing.

        8 people found this helpful

      3. acadia –

        this is good for the BEGINNER beginner

        This was good for me when I knew absolutely nothing about the guitar. Very short snippets to play and you can hear how it is supposed to sound w the tracks online but these snippets are so well known, you won’t need it

      4. A.B.C. –

        Fun

        Most books are boring but this is fun.

      5. KM –

        As a gift I was told it was good.

        This was a gift

      6. pen name –

        Fun

        This book is a lot of fun to go through. I will admit however, it is not a part of my daily practice routine, but more a part of when I want to just get on the guitar and noodle. It has a lot of short riffs to it that are fairly simple, even for a beginner. For the price of the book, I definitely recommend it.

        One person found this helpful

      7. Brian Rhody –

        Very easy to follow

        I like the samples. Very easy to work with.

      8. NamelessNameless –

        Kindle Version has broken multimedia – But the content is good !

        Really good book BUT! Once I began reading it none of the audio clips would play in my Kindle apps. Not the Android, not the PC version.The audio clips worked fine when I was looking at the book sample before I purchased.Back to the content… Other than the audio clips not working for me… the rest of the content seems to be really good. Three Stars for the bad audio clips.

        4 people found this helpful

      9. Ken K –

        Different from other HL guitar books!

        This book takes the beginner approach from their other books and turns it upside down. The “riffs” all start from the lowE string vs starting on the high E. The riffs are easy and mostly well known and fun for the student. The only problem is that they only learn the riffs and not the whole song. The images are all in “tab” orientation and look upside down in the book.

        2 people found this helpful

      10. Dragonryder –

        Tab Method Warning!

        Get this. Better on computer or iPad as the music is embedded. If not the included CD has it all. Great way to learn and to learn short riffs.This should be a book anyone starting to play should get. The warning is you’ll wind up buying them all. :-)Fun way to learn.

        2 people found this helpful

      11. stueystu –

        Excellent

        I would recommend this to others. The audio and text combined make the book very easy to understand. Well done.

      12. John Mercer –

        Four Stars

        Not all songs complete.

      13. GAP –

        Four Stars

        Great book now why does this one come with a CD but the acoustic one doesn’t?

      14. Amazon Customer –

        Four Stars

        Guitar teacher recommended. Was a clean book in great condition.

      15. DEER –

        Good one.

        Good one.

      16. Agnes M. Hoff –

        Three Stars

        As expected.

      17. Chet –

        Great product

        Best learning book yet easy to follow and not under done or over your head makes it easy to learn

      18. Amazon Customer –

        No audio/video with Kindle edition

        No audio/video with Kindle edition; I am using iPad.

      19. Laura –

        molto bello

        libro molto ben fatto e indispensabile per muovere i primi passi con la chitarra!esercizi carini e divertenti!si imparano i riff più famosi!è scritto in inglese!

      20. ipad user –

        Good book for beginners

        I am new to the guitar. The book walks you through it slowly. It’s a good way to start learning small parts of some popular songs you know.

      21. Yasmeen Gagnon –

        Great music book

        Excellent beginner guitar book

      22. David G –

        Good for acoustic or electric beginners

        This is a good method for beginning acoustic or electric players wanting to learn TAB. Lots of short snippets of famous tunes in TAB format.

      23. FIONA.A.GILL –

        Four Stars

        great thanks

      24. davide albertindavide albertin –

        Recensione Hal Leonard Guitar Tab Method Book One

        The author takes us by the hand and guides us step by step through the fantastic world of music, in this case specifically centered on the instrument that, more or less, we all have, at least once, tried to play the guitar!Just an excellent job that the author did in preparing this manual. Inside, many tips, explanations and practical explanations on how to get started, well presented even for a neophyte like me. I was afraid in too difficult a reading and that it would discourage me, but the guide is gradual and helps to make progress starting from the basics.There are tips on how to choose the guitar, what it is made of, how to tune it, the posture to use while playing, scales, chords, etc … It also suggests some techniques for playing without a pick, to embellish the songs, to improvise, in short, a small bible to devour !!!!

        One person found this helpful

      25. genonceau –

        enfin une methode pour les debutants

        superbe methode pour apprendre les bases de la guitare a travers de morceaux connus tres bonne pedagogie pedagogiea achetez sans hesiter

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