33 Melodies for Piano 4 Hands for Beginners + CD

This songbook offers 33 pieces for piano 4 hands designed to be played by “absolute beginners”.
David Neyrolles deploys a style that is at once playful, pedagogical and musical, ideal for sharing the keyboard between children, parents, friends or students.

Here is what he tells us about it:

“Like every piano teacher, I am constantly looking for ideas to motivate young and not-so-young students to discover the instrument.

The repertoire for piano four hands accessible to beginners is fairly limited. Piano writing in this genre must take into account limited piano technique and music-theory notions still being learned, without any of this detracting from the musical result.

That is why I had the idea of creating this “absolute beginners” songbook, mindful of these difficulties, a book in which any young pianist can tackle a four-hands piece from their very first lesson, with their teacher or another student. The experience, first applied with my own students, is truly enriching: it reveals the importance of rhythm, strengthens musicality and motivation, and above all brings the sharing of music and listening to one another.”

The book comes with a CD offering the 4-hands version and the 2 separate piano parts.

This songbook is enriched with illustrations by graphic designer Matthieu Liégeois.