Our group classes feature award-winning methods such as Faber and Faber Piano Adventures, Primer, Gold Star Series and My First Piano Adventure, as well as Music For Little Mozarts, Alfred Guitar Series, and FJH Guitar.

Why Use Piano Adventures®?
Piano Adventures® has set a new standard for a new century of piano teaching. It is fast becoming the method of choice at leading university pedagogy programs and major teaching studios around the world. But more importantly, Piano Adventures® is bringing smiles to the faces of thousands of piano students. It can do the same for your students. Here's why:

Approach to Reading
Every teacher has experienced the frustration of students who have difficulty reading music. Have you heard students perpetually ask, "What hand position am I in?" Perhaps you've heard a concerned parent remark, "But she still doesn't know her notes!" Piano Adventures® has established the new model for piano methods with its composite approach to note reading. The ability to read music is developed by effectively integrating three skills: 1) individual note recognition; 2) intervalic reading; and 3) a multi-key understanding. These are carefully sequenced and reinforced to ensure success.

Students begin by learning a limited set of notes – the notes of Middle C Position... yet they play these notes with varied fingerings. For example, the student plays Middle C with finger 1, finger 2, and then with finger 3. As the student learns Treble G (the next in a series of important guide notes – Middle C, Treble G, Bass F), the pieces require the student to play finger 3 on G, and then 5 on G. Similarly, varied fingering is used for Bass F and other notes presented. This pedagogy has several important benefits:

It prevents the student from equating a particular note to a particular finger.


It teaches the precise relationship between a note and the keyboard.

It allows for a free and balanced drop of the arm and hand into the finger.

Student Appeal
Students are attracted to the pieces and sounds of Piano Adventures®. Ten years of painstaking pilot testing has ensured that the method has wide student appeal. Literally, over one hundred pieces that did not pass the test of student enthusiasm were discarded and replaced, until the method met the standard and musical taste of both piano student and teacher. The tremendous appeal of the music as published has been confirmed by the thousands of letters and comments from teachers and students across North America.

The husband and wife team Nancy and Randall Faber are internationally known as authors of the Piano Adventures® teaching method and over two hundred publications for the piano. They recently founded the Faber Piano Institute in Ann Arbor, MI, where they live with their daughter Vivian.

Nancy Faber, who was named "Distinguished Composer of the Year" by the Music Teachers National Association, enjoys a busy schedule of commissions for the concert stage in addition to her educational composing. Recent commissions include The Snow Queen for narrator and orchestra, The Picture My Imagination Has Painted for Flute Quartet and Piano, and Trio for Flute, Saxophone and Piano. Her pieces have been heard on U.S. public radio and network television. She studied composition with Joan Tower, William Albright, and British composer Nicholas Maw; piano studies were at the Eastman School and Michigan State University.

The Fabers advocate piano study not only for personal expression and performance success, but also as a vehicle for the student's creative and cognitive development. Their philosophy is reflected in their writing, their public appearances, and in their own teaching.