Piano Safari offers a range of piano teaching supplements at a variety of levels.
Supplements include:
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- Sight Reading & Rhythm Cards
- Additional Card Supplements
- Pattern Pieces (Rote Pieces)
- Piano solos
Sight Reading & Rhythm Cards
If you purchased a Level 1, 2, or 3 Pack, you already have the Sight Reading & Rhythm Cards.
We include them here on the supplements page because these products work well with other programs while also functioning as a key component of our method.
The Sight Reading Card Pack contains cards for Levels 1, 2, and 3.
Additional Card Supplements
The following card supplements may be used with any piano method. They are available on Piano Safari Asia as a Digital School License. This means that an individual school or teacher may purchase this license and print the resource for use within their school or group of students.
Piano Safari Friends and Level 1 Card Supplements
Animal Rhythm Patterns are commonly occurring rhythms that students learn to recognize on sight at the beginning of study. This card set contains notated rhythms and corresponding animal pictures for students to match.
Music Alphabet Cards are designed for use at the beginning of study to aid students in learning the Music Alphabet and corresponding notes on the keyboard.
Interval Cards provide extra reinforcement in reading 2nds and 3rds on the staff for preschoolers and students with special needs, while also serving as a useful review for any student.
Level 2 Card Supplements
Major Triads are designed to correlate with the triads introduced in Piano Safari Levels 2 and 3. They may be used in private lessons or in group classes to reinforce the names of major triads in root position.
Minor Triads are designed to correlate with the triads introduced in Piano Safari Levels 2 and 3. They may be used in private lessons or in group classes to reinforce the names of minor triads in root position.
Note Name Cards cover a four octave range from Low C to High C. They are designed to help students instantly recognize notes on the staff. Three suggested methods of introduction are included.
Level 3 Card Supplements
Chord Inversion Cards correlate with Piano Safari Level 3, but may be used with any piano method. Inversions in the keys of C Major, A Minor, G Major, E Minor, F Major, and D Minor are included.
Chord Progression Cards correlate with the chord progression introduced in Piano Safari Level 3. The keys of C Major, A Minor, G Major, E Minor, F Major, and D Minor are included.
Animal Adventures
Animal Adventures contains the animal technical exercises found in Repertoire Book 1 along with the corresponding Improvisation Pieces and Rote Pieces.
Supplemental music books
The compositions by Chee Hwa Tan encourage students to explore and express sound images at the piano while developing specific technical skills necessary for artistic playing.
Through the Windowpane, A Child’s Garden of Verses, and Windy Nights and Other Tales are sets of pieces that correspond to poems by Robert Louis Stevenson. They are suitable for elementary, late elementary and intermediate skill levels, respectively.
Circus Sonatinas is a set of two three-movement Sonatinas, and is suitable for late elementary skill levels.
A Royal Birthday Celebration: Suite in Baroque Style is a collection of seven dances inspired by the Baroque composers Bach, Handel, and Telemann. The overall theme of the suite is set at a royal court during a birthday celebration.
Chee Hwa Tan supplements also appear in our guest composers section.