Leatham Music

Teaching Resources

I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. — Virgil Thomson (1896–1989)

Gregory Lewis — qualifications and teaching experience

• Beginner Booklet – Information for students and parents.
• Sticky notes for music students
• Mr Gordon Rhythm Videos (10 levels)
• Michael Griffin Books
• Article on effective practising

AMEB Exam Resources

• Register & Enrol for AMEB Exams
• AMEB video repertoire exam guide
• AMEB sheet music shop
• AMEB online theory courses
• AMEB Aural test practice

  Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3
  Grade 4 | Grade 5 | Grade 6
  Grade 7 | Grade 8

• Performances by Brenda Jones

  Technical | Preliminary
  Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3
  Grade 4 | Grade 5

Faber Piano Adventures

• Primer Lesson Book (Sam)
• Lesson Book 1 (Sam)
• Lesson Book 1 (Piano Stop)
• Lesson Book 2A (Beth)
• Lesson Book 2B (Beth)
• Backings for all Lesson Books
• Performance Book 1
• Performance Book 2A
• Adult Piano Adventures Book 1 (Beth)
• Backings for Adult Book 1
• Adult Piano Adventures Book 2 (Beth)
• Backings for Adult Book 2

Elissa Milne books

• Getting to Preliminary – The New Mix (Beth)
• Getting to Grade One – The New Mix (Beth)
• Getting to Grade Two – The New Mix (Beth)
• Getting to Grade Three – The New Mix (Beth)

Piano Teaching Resources

• Core Piano Repertoire
• Graham Fitch – Practising the Piano Blog
• John Mortensen – Cedarville Studios
• Pianist Magazine – intermediate | advanced
• Piano Teacher Magazine – for teachers and parents.
• Piano Street – free piano music and classical piano news.
• Hanon & Czerny – five-finger fallacies for fanciful finger flapping fanatics.
• How to practice technical work
• Learning a new piece ? – tips for starting difficult music.
• My Big List – favourite piano music. (introductory letter)
• Piano Tales – history of pianos

Other instruments

• Exams – Recorder | Trombone | Strings
• Recorder downloads – solo | group | technical
• Brass downloads – trumpet | horn | trombone | euphonium
• Charlie Porter – Trumpet YouTube Channel
• Greg Spence – Trumpet Mystery to Mastery

General Resources

• My Music Theory
• Teoria, online music theory
• Naxos classical music streaming
• Bigger Better Brains – music and brain development
• Bulletproof Musician – practice and coping with stress
• Italian music terms (Google)
• General Knowledge guides
• Petrucci, free non-copyright music

Music apps

• Piano Notes!  Apple iOS
• Chet Ear Training  Apple iOS
• Ella Sight Singing & Reading  Apple iOS
• Theory Lessons Apple iOS or Web version
• Theory Exercises Apple iOS or Web version
• Tunable  Apple | Android