John W. Schaum Piano Course, B: The Blue Book

Sight Reading Drills
Left Hand Echoes — Play Ball
Syncopation in 3/4 Time — Music Box Liadow
Shifting Melody from R.H. to L.H. — Stalactites and Stalagmites
Different Kinds of Accents — The Country Fiddler Folk Dance
Arpeggio Recital Piece — The Elevator
Music Appreciation — The Harpsichord Player J. S. Bach
The Folk Song — The Year 1620
Syncopation in 4/4 Time — Short’nin’ Bread
Crossing Hands (L.H. over) — Magic Flute Mozart
6/8 Time — The Wishbone
Changing Keys (Major to Minor) — The Campbells Are Coming
A Classical Recital Piece — The Dress Parade (“March Militaire”) Schubert
Key of E-flat Major — Little Brown Bug
Fermata — Sailing
How to Practice (Descriptive Music) — The Clothes Line Waltz
Piano Quiz No. 1
The Repeat Sign — Legato Thirds — Monkey Sees! Monkey Does!
Two Right Hand Positions — The Ventriloquist and His Dummy
Da Capo al Fine — Here We Go for a Touch Down
Tarantella Story — The Spider Dance
Sixteenth Notes — Wun Long Pan
Two Note Slurs — The Hair Stylist
Chord Inversions — The Dentist
How to Use the Damper Pedal
Applying the Pedal to Broken Chords — Shadow Pictures
Pedal Study — Strange Lands Robert Schumann
Chord Recital Piece — Hear Those Lovely Bells
Contrary Motion — The Fire Engine
Wrist Staccato — A Fine State of Affairs
Key of E Major — The Telegraph Operator
Interweaving Hand Legato — Over the Hurdles
6/8 Time in the Key of B-flat — The Daily Comics
Chromatic Passages — Putting Salt on a Bird’s Tail or How Not to Catch a Bird
American Folk Song — On the Levee
Piano Quiz No. 2
Certificate of Promotion
Music Dictionary