Covers all the basic aspects of beginning piano such as Broken Chords, Chromatics, Travelling Fingers, Staccato Sixths, Pedal, Independance of Hands, Octaves, Developing Scales and more. To put these aspects into practice the book contains lots of exercises with a sporting theme such as Cross-Country Run, Mountain Race, Scaling the Cliffs, Saddling Up, Snookered, Sailing Home, Pole-Vaulting, On The Trapeze and others.