Discover the piano with "Tio on Tour"

Little Tio "on Tour" means that he wanders across the meadows, whistles a few melodies, runs into grasshoppers, birds, caterpillars, even bears and snakes, and in no time at all he's compiled a collection of 40 new pieces. "Tio on Tour" also means: the piano has many more keys than the notes within the interval of a fifth. So let's go! We move our hands by following Tio, stretch them and explore the keys little by little. We master them from above and below, use the (right) pedal ... and realize that we can also go "on tour" for a little recital with Tio and these catchy pieces. Applause, applause!

 

Tio on Tour is a colorful playing book for children, which is suitable on a relatively long-term basis as a varied and welcome supplement to any piano method.

 

Initially fanning out step by step into the extended tonal range, it then proceeds more freely in the course of the book (from approx. page 6). As I have addressed quite a variety of needs, this collection covers a wide range of levels of difficulty. This is why it would be helpful to invent apposite technical and reading exercises for individual pieces.

 

Some pieces (e.g. Staccatino on page 16 or the tricky Scherzino on page 21) are ideally suited for memorization and are perfect for treating memorization as a topic to be practiced.

 

While the book does not require the use of the pedal, fingerings have not been omitted altogether; however, they can be worked out together during lessons. Now it’s your turn to go on tour with Tio!

 

◎作編譯者簡介：

Kerstin Strecke (* 1961)

Born in Munich, Kerstin Strecke began taking piano lessons along with instruction in painting and sketching in Frankfurt (Main) at the age of ten.

She studied music in Waldemar Streckes private piano class in Frankfurt, and she underwent a training in artistic handicraft in Kalle Sippels master studio in Coburg. She has been a piano teacher and freelance artist in Frankfurt since 1986.

 

1. Climbing Tour

2. Lost in Thoughts

3. Walk like a Caterpillar!

4. Good Mood Song

5. The Old Bear is Sick

6. Friends

7. Dance of the Fleas

8. Cat in the Sun

9. The Beggar

10. The Woodpecker

11. Key Training

12. Melody

13. Tio and Luna

14. We Quarreled

15. Ballee, Ballaa, Balloon

16. Catching Grasshoppers

17. Little Dance of Dwarves

18. At the Funfair

19. In Late Autumn

20. Weird Notes

21. Two Little Monkeys on the Ladder

22. Little Pest

23. The Waltz of the Toads

24. The Snake

25. Achoo!

26. Shadow Play

27. March of the Elephants

28. Baby Bird, Fallen from the Nest

29. Staccatino

30. The Onlooker

31. A Deep Well

32. Red Ants

33. Cuckoo Family

34. Puppet Dance

35. Little Etude

36. Juggling Notes

37. Knight Bluebeard

38. Scherzino

39. Rustic Dance