28 pp., soft-cover, spiral bound The best time to start working on technique with your beginner piano students is before they start reading on-staff notation. The different songs in Pentascale Magic will help student master five-finger patterns and triads in every major and minor key. Singing, coloring and movement activities as well as catchy lyrics reinforce the patterns of whole steps and half steps and the aural recognition of major and minor tonalities. The first song in the book, The Pentascale Song, received Honorable Mention in the Teaching Pieces category of the 2011 Alberta Piano Teachers Association Creative Writing Competition.