Grand One-Hand Solos for Piano, Book 2: 8 Elementary Pieces for Right or Left Hand Alone: Piano

This collection addresses a genuine need that rarely gets attention in publisher catalogs. Rather than sidelining students with hand or arm injuries, Bober creates a pathway for them to keep growing musically and technically, turning a limitation into focused skill development. The variety of styles, keys, and tempos across these eight pieces means each hand gets a complete learning experience, not a workaround.

Each piece brings its own character: playful circus energy, medieval atmosphere, twinkling innocence, ceremonial brightness, dreamy relaxation, suspenseful narrative, prehistoric adventure, and waltzing grace. The right-hand pieces live in brighter registers and often in major keys, while the left-hand selections explore deeper registers and more varied emotional terrain, giving students distinct voices to discover in each hand.

This book is essential for piano students managing a hand or arm injury who need to continue lessons without interruption. It also serves students or teachers who want to isolate and strengthen a single hand's technical foundation, identify and correct reading weaknesses in one hand, or develop greater independence and voicing awareness in each hand.

• Examine hand position and posture carefully when playing one hand alone; without the counterbalance of two-hand work, tension patterns can emerge more easily.
• Focus on voicing and phrasing as deliberate skills. One hand must now carry both melody and harmonic context, making interpretive choices stand out more clearly.
• Record yourself playing to hear how musical ideas come across without the other hand's support, then adjust dynamics and tone color accordingly.

Assign individual pieces during recovery or remediation periods when a student needs to keep progressing despite physical limitations. You might also use these in a studio recital context, pairing pieces from this collection with two-hand work from other levels to showcase student resilience and adaptability. They work equally well as studio teaching tools for students who benefit from concentrated single-hand technique building.

• Single-hand melodic phrasing and musical interpretation
• Reading and technical control in one hand independent of the other
• Voice awareness and harmonic understanding within a single-hand line
• Playing across different registers and key signatures without bimanual support
• Finger independence, hand strength, and coordination within one hand