Christmas Crackers (Get Set! Piano)

As a piano teacher I am always looking for new books. A pupil brought a copy of this to a lessons and I thought it was great. Bought a copy . Starts easy and gets harder. Nice duets tòo

More than just another Christmas book. There are interactive pictures for learners to colour in as they learn, there are beautiful duet parts for teachers to play too. The whole book is thoughtfully out together with little facts about the Christmas tunes. I love that there are bits of theory so students can recap on semitones, key signatures and accidentals and this comes directly before pieces with key signatures are introduced, ever so helpful. There’s even a recap on dynamics and encouragement for learners to be creative and place their own dynamics on the music. The book introduces scales in a fun and tuneful way without the student even realising they are playing scales! And there is an explanation of compound time signatures too. A must have for all learners who love learning at Christmas.

This is an excellent book for near beginners. The music is graded in increasing difficulty but nothing is beyond an Initial/Grade 1. Lots of duet parts for the teacher (or parent). I use this with the Get Set tutor books and find they are really useful.

This is a useful addition to my collection for teaching piano in a primary school. The book includes quite easy tunes to play and some include a harder part for more advanced students (or the teacher) to play. Everyone enjoyed learning Jingle Bells at the end of term, even children who had only been playing piano for a couple of months. The book includes several traditional carols as well as secular Christmas songs.

Brilliant arrangements that can fit in the course. Only thing is I would say non are suitable for early to mid book 1 students

I got this for my mum whose just started learning the keyboard a month ago using other books from this range, the books are so easy to follow and have a lovely design! and the songs in this are lovely.They’ve helped my 50 year old mum, 13 year old sister and my 4 year old all learn to play! 3 generations on the keyboard 😍

This is an attractive and well-designed book, providing material for early beginners to at least Grade one - and sight-reading for those beyond that. It will last a good couple of years if bought for an individual piano student and provides lots of motivation to keep playing over the Christmas holiday.

Lovely collection of Christmas songs and carols. Some easy ones for beginners and others that a more challenging. Great go to book for December.