During this period, he began to publish piano teaching materials through Willis music. 1936 published the first level of Teaching Little Finger to Play and john thompson Modern Piano Course. Different from the previous piano textbooks, his tutorial is lively and easy to be accepted by children, plus a simple teacher with pictures to guide. After his tutorial was launched, it was a great success immediately, and soon he published the second to fifth level tutorials.
1943, adult preparatory book published. 1949 The new series "Melody All the Way" was published. 1955 has published a new series "Simple Piano Course". In addition, Willis Music Publishing House has a large number of supplementary teaching materials and music scores, including etudes, scoring techniques, and selections of the same music style. , constitutes the Thompson Library.
After the success of Thompson's piano textbook, many similar piano methods have appeared in the United States for half a century. They generally have the following characteristics: concise typesetting, easy-to-read music and attractive pictures. Around the main courses, a series of auxiliary teaching materials including music theory, skills, sight-reading and grading teaching materials are published, and the styles of music selection are diverse. Thompson's piano textbooks are still widely published and applied all over the world, and his Modern Piano Course has also become a classic piano textbook.
Thompson's courses are also very popular in Chinese mainland, Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province. In Chinese mainland, his modern piano lesson [2] is called "Datang" for short, and his simple piano lesson is called "Tang Xiao" for short, which is widely used as an introductory piano lesson.