Christmas Piano Solos - Level 3

Christmas Piano Solos: Level 3 - CD (Hal Leonard Student Piano Library). Arranged by Phillip Keveren, Mona Rejino and Fred Kern. For Piano/Keyboard. Educational Piano Library. SMP Level 2 (Late Elementary). Softcover. 24 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

A superb collection of treasured Christmas classics, sure to please the progressing student! Correlated with Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Piano Lessons Book 3, these arrangements are also a perfect supplementary choice for all methods. Includes both stand-alone solos, and student solos with teacher accompaniments. Fully orchestrated CD and GM accompaniment disks are available separately. The CDs have a practice and a performance track for each song.

11 songs: Carol of the Bells • The Chipmunk Song • Deck the Hall • The First Noel • Frosty the Snow Man • My Favorite Things • O Christmas Tree • Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer • We Need a Little Christmas • We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

Level: Late Elementary. Notation includes all note values and rests, including eighths/dotted-eighths; 3/4, 4/4 and Cut Time; swing eighths; simple pedaling; intervals through a 6th; three–note chords; 5–finger patterns, hands–together playing within 5–finger patterns; limited movement around the keyboard via 5–finger–pattern or triad positions; 1st/2nd endings. Reading range: Bass Clef outer Ledger C–Treble Clef outer Ledger C.

About SMP Level 2 (Late Elementary) 

5-finger patterns still used but position changes are more frequent including one octave scale passages. Some 3 note chords.