Mode Crash Course

In this book, you will break away from the major scale, unlock the mysteries of modes (and your own imagination) and learn easy-but-powerful melodic patterns that sound amazing. You will be able to use these “Mode Code” patterns to build your melody-making skills and improvise. This book is a great choice for music teachers wanting to inject fun and interest into lessons, self-learners interested in mode theory or any musician or student who wants to break outside the musical box.

Super Start
My First Piano Gamebook

Adventure from island to island in this game book especially designed for young beginner piano students. Thoughtfully designed and colorfully illustrated, these games help practice skills like hands, keys, finger numbers, rhythm, ear training, note reading, improvisation, creativity and more!

Chord Crash Course

for Adults and Teens

Play piano without the struggle (and without reading music) using the power of chords! Do you want to accompany yourself as a singer, songwriter or performer? Have you always wanted to play an instrument but don’t know where to start? Are you a music instructor who is looking for a way to liven up lessons or teach popular music?

Chord Crash course is an innovative approach to music instruction that will give you the tools you need to accompany yourself, play your favorite songs and even create your own music. A professional educator and musician, Meridee Winters originally created “Chord Crash Course” while working in a recording studio. She found that many vocalists could not play piano or guitar, and thus could not fully complete a song on their own. As a solution, she developed a “chord crash course” that easily taught them the skills they needed, helping hundreds of musicians become better writers and performers along the way. Years later, she began teaching piano to children (this time applying her experience as a former school teacher), and found that her “crash course” was a great tool for students of all ages and levels. This pattern-based approach is also great for alternative learners, including those with ADHD, ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and more. Her teaching method has now reached thousands of students. You'll find that this book teaches basic skills and chords in a fun, step-by-step way. Unlike traditional music books, which slowly work up to playing real songs, Chord Crash Course uses the power of patterns to have you playing great-sounding music right away.

Chord Quest Piano Series

for CHildren 7 and up

It’s a piano exercise book. A teach-yourself-keyboard book. A piano-teacher’s-secret-weapon-book. A chord theory book. A comic book quest. Somehow, Chord Quest is all of these things – but above all, it's a book that uses music’s most universal patterns to have everyone sounding great. (Whether they read music or not.)

The future of learning keyboard and piano is here – AND it's simple, creative and fun! This book is the first of the Chord Quest Powerful Piano Lessons Series, and is a re-imagined reboot of Meridee's All Star Piano Patterns Series. (Students of those books can transition seamlessly to this series, as the levels correspond.) Chord Quest is designed specifically for grade school kids who are new beginners to piano. In fact, it's the same great teaching style and material from Meridee's Chord Crash Course Series – but for kids.

Beginning piano students—and their teachers and parents—face a universal problem: there’s often a long wait between when you start learning an instrument and when you can actually play music that sounds (and feels) good. With her trailblazing Chord Quest series, Meridee uses the universal power of patterns to have you playing and creating great music from day one, without reading a note. Best of all – it all happens along a fun-filled comic book quest complete with games, jokes, villains and creative activities. Where else could you play Pachelbel's Canon AND rescue zombified piano students from Professor Perfecto?

Super Start Piano Patterns

for young children

"Meridee Winters Super Start! My First Piano Patterns" is designed especially for young beginners, and contains 36 games, songs and activities that will guarantee a fun and successful start to piano lessons. By using musical patterns, simple diagrams and playful characters, students sound great from their very first lesson – without needing to read music.

Each exercise is explained in a visual, step-by-step way to allow for frustration-free playing. Songs gradually increase in skill throughout the book, culminating in a final chapter of youngster-friendly waltzes and classically-inspired pattern songs.

The Super Start series was a created by Meridee Winters, a trained educator, musician and performer with several decades of experience creating innovative music teaching materials for her cult-favorite Philadelphia area music school. At first glance, her books seem like fun collections of catchy songs and whimsical games, but they are deliberately designed to promote creativity, engage higher level thinking, and demonstrate the powerful patterns found throughout music.

Super Start! My First Piano Patterns takes students on a fun tour through Planet Plunk, where they learn new skills and songs in each chapter. Once they complete their final concert, they'll be ready to space-surf to Meridee's "Chord Quest Powerful Piano Lessons" series where they'll learn chords, arpeggios and much, much more!

Easy Piano Songs For Kids

The Ultimate collection of beginner classics

Meridee Winters Easy Piano Songs for Kids: The Ultimate Collection of Beginner Classics is a carefully curated collection of over 70 amazing songs from around the world.

Designed so that even beginners can play great-sounding songs (without the filler), these thoughtful arrangements are destined to be loved, memorized and performed.

Note Quest Piano Game Book

Note reading drills for kids of all ages

NEW AND IMPROVED! Now with over twenty additional games, riddles and activities, as well as instructions for parents, teachers and practice partners!

Note Quest is 92 pages of vibrant note reading games to play with a parent, teacher or friend. From board games (and even DIY dice for rolling) to word finds, riddles and timed challenges, this upgraded edition makes a great gift for a playful piano student or a valuable tool for a fun-loving piano teacher.

Note Quest has been used and tested by over 10,000 students. Meridee Winters Note Quest is an innovative music education tool that features nearly 100 pages of vibrant, effective and FUN note reading games. These activities are great way to strengthen note reading and sight reading skills, since students are drilling and internalizing notes while focusing on specific hand positions, intervals, ledger lines and more. Music is a language, and best practiced with others. With that in mind, the games in this book are primarily designed to be played with a partner as a fun and powerful lesson tool. (Don't worry non-music readers! We've included a cheat sheet!)

Each playful, space-themed game can be used in a variety of ways, from timing yourself on the page and trying the beat a previous record to searching the page for each occurrence of a specific note. See the table of contents for more great ways to play, or invent your own. Note Quest also includes templates for creating your own games, which you can custom tailor to you or your students’ needs.

Piano & Keyboard Super Journal

*Available in convenient Spiral Bound version directly from your Meridee Winters teacher!

Supercharge your lesson progress with Meridee Winters Piano & Keyboard Super Journal. With pages for goal-setting, planning, composing, creating and practice tracking, this is more than just an assignment book – it's an all-in-one supertool.

The Meridee Winters TOP SECRET Game Book

games and creative exploration for mw students only

A student AND teacher favorite, the MW Game book has been called a “secret weapon” that keeps lessons engaging while helping build and practice essential musical skills. Music has never been more fun or imaginative! This book includes exercises in note reading, songwriting, improvisation, rhythm and more. Improve your skills and creativity by leaps and bounds while playing games that are fun for all ages!