 THE KEYQUEST BOOKS
Keyquest is a unique series of four electronic keyboard tutor books which provide progressive material from beginner right through to advanced level. They have found particular popularity among all teachers committed to giving their students a thorough, musical introduction to playing an instrument, and student really enjoy learning the fun, varied and original music included throughout.
The Keyquest Books:
systematically inbtroduce all the features of the modern digital keyboard, making the most of the exciting auto-accompaniment styles available to today's players
develop proper music reading skills logically, and avoid the errors commonly found in keyboard tutors (such as excessive fingering and note names). This includes a progressive introduction of the treble clef, chord notation, and the bass clef (from Book 3 onwards).
include a varied mixture of well known tunes and original pieces in popular styles; also a number of ensemble pieces.
encourage creativity through developing arrangements of pieces, using keyboard registrations effectively, improvising within pieces, and composing
foster good playing technique, including introducing major, minor and pentatonic scales - as well as arpeggios - in every key by Keyquest Book Four.
introduce chords in a properly structured way, starting with single-finger major triads and moving to full chords and ultimately a comprehensive range of chord extensions, bringing an advanced understanding of popular harmony.
Each Keyquest Book contains sufficient material to keep most pupils occupied for about a year. The series is ideal for group teaching, as the skills and understanding introduced in each unit are common to all, while the choice of pieces from the unit and rate of progress may vary between pupils, allowing for suitable differentiation.
Although the Keyquest series is suitable for any and all aspiring keyboard players - whenever and wherever they are taught - the material has been carefully tailored to be used in conjunction with A Common Approach and relate to the first four Programmes of Study. The books are also ideal for those wishing to take the ABRSM Music Medals for electronic keyboard, and contain selected solo pieces for every one of the five Medals available.
But of course, these books provide excellent musical material whatever you use them as
a complete structured method, or in conjunction with any other curriculum! | 
