Well, it’s been thirty years in the making but my sister’s piano teaching method books, Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys, are finally ready. I did the illustrations thirty years ago as well. In fact, it’s so long ago that I barely recognized some of the drawings.
Noreen’s wrote Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys when the three-year-old younger siblings of her students wanted to start piano lessons. Unable to find any teaching material that could hold the attention of a three-year-old, Noreen created her own method book. Her expertise and success in teaching children piano from age 3 filled an unexpected niche and started her Two-Year Waitlist, the title of Noreen’s book for entrepreneurial piano teachers.
My sister has actually spent the last thirty years improving every aspect of Musical Journeys, a piano teaching method book series meant to help children as young as three years old to learn to play the piano:
Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys®
Musical Journeys Book 1 (Online Edition) – Introduction to Piano is the first book of its kind to introduce very young children, ages 3-7, into the exciting world of music through time travel with Keiko, Sam, and their magic piano, Mr. Rubato. Students learn about music history in their quest to find composers and seek out the magic melody and return home. Unique hand-drawn illustrations, photography, and special visual effects make the story come alive.
The live, narrated storybook of Keiko and Sam’s adventure can be used on its own, read on a phone or iPad, and enjoyed over and over. Kids can follow the story and “turn the pages on their own!
Detailed instructions on each page help guide new piano teachers and very young students. This method book has helped decades of students get a great start on learning piano. Noreen’s hands-on experience and interest in early childhood development, make learning to play the piano, FUN!
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Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys®
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Wow, Mia! I had no idea you could draw like that! Beautiful!