I've just had a pupil return to me, who I taught at his primary school for 5 years, he's now 12 and had no joy at secondary school music lessons so is coming to me privately. He's a very bright, very musical boy, in fact a bit of a dream pupil, who reached around G3-4 standard at primary school. He wants to learn to read the bass clef rather than just chord symbols, but I don't know what repertoire to use specifically for the keyboard rather than the piano. We've been doing a few pieces from "Piano Adventures" to start him off, and there are one or two pieces in the London College keyboard exam books that include bass clef, but I need some more ideas please. Maybe Microjazz, as that says it's for piano or keyboard. His keyboard is 5 octaves, is not touch-sensitive and doesn't have a sustain pedal, which rules out quite a bit of piano repertoire. Any other suggestions would be welcome.

You could try the Get Set Jazz series by B. Crosland (Spartan Press). I use these books with pupils who have currently taken Grades 1/2 LCM keyboard exams. The pieces are fun, vary in style and are well edited. Book 1 would be an ideal introduction to bass clef. I would definitely specify that your pupil upgrades his keyboard to a touch sensitive model as soon as possible in order to not hold back his technique anymore.

Have you seen the Rockschool band based keys syllabus. It's chordal but written on the stave