Tonal Center Reinforcements

Solidifying Intermediate Keyboard Skills for Lifelong Piano Successes

ISBN: 978-1-5323-8275-8
By: Leister-Linstrom, Traci

ABOUT THE BOOK

An intermediate piano text which covers technical exercises, functional skills, sight reading and repertoire. Each unit is all in the same key to reinforce that particular tonal center. It's unique approach has a flexibility which allows adjustments for different student levels within the intermediate range. Repertoire includes pieces from all four major historical styles.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Traci Leister-Linstrom

Traci Linstrom is a skillfully trained piano instructor in Southern California with years of successful students behind her. Her undergraduate music degree was received from Chapman University and she also completed courses in collaborative piano from the University of Southern California. She received her Master's Degree in Piano Pedagogy from California State University at Fullerton under the tutelage of Dr. Martha Baker Jordan. She is a current evaluator for the Certificate of Merit program sponsored by the Music Teachers' Association of California. As an author and composer, she has created a text focused on intermediate piano proficiency which she has used in her position assuccessfully used this text in her position as head of the piano program at Victor Valley College for over ten years, enabling class piano students to be well prepared to pass piano proficiency exams and enabling private students to progress as well. She equally enjoys working with beginner through advanced students.