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Fulfill your dreams and play like a legend! You can stop simply dreaming about playing like a star and learn to play like one of the greats. Now you can learn from legendary performers who describe, in their own words, the early years of their paths to stardom. Licks in the style of each performer are included to help you make your dream a reality. These books are great tools for any keyboard player whether performing on a piano, synthesizer or organ. A play-along CD is availab (more...)

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Learn to Play the Piano and Keyboard: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Aspiring pianists now have a new way to take piano lessons. The Learn to Play Piano kit is designed to teach you how to play the musical instrument interactively, without being tied to a computer or CD player. The kit consists of an Interactive Reader (it looks like an oversized pen) and two books optimized for audio that is activated when the Interactive Reader is touched to the book pages. Consider this your own private piano instructor.The Interactive Reader is an optic pen t (more...)

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Piano Presto is a comprehensive and complete music reading and piano playing program that uses CD technology to fully assist the piano student! It guides beginners, and those with more experience, to create wonderful music for you and your loved ones. You may listen to and understand the concepts at your own pace virtually anywhere including while driving-all you need is a CD player. It's like having your own piano teacher with you at all times!

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Get started playing authentic blues piano by ear! No music reading or previous piano experience is necessary. Within minutes you’ll be playing a shuffle rhythm on the bass notes with your left hand and riffing on the treble notes with your right. David Cohen is an expert player and teacher, and his step-by-step method is logically and carefully conceived. He systematically leads you through all the steps you’ll need to play solid blues piano, whether as a soloist or as a mem (more...)

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Beginning-intermediate level. For those with a desire to learn to play from lead sheets and unlock the mysteries of music harmony, this book will lead you on the way to playing by ear. A marvelous teaching manual for classroom, private teaching, or self-instruction. Playing well from written arrangements is an art that requires years of training and practice. Learning music harmony and theory provides a musician with understanding necessary to play creatively by ear. Learning to (more...)

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Ruth and Nayouki Taneda have taught music to children for more than 30 years. In this handbook, they show how it is possible to develop absolute pitch (also known as "perfect pitch") in preschool children, giving them a skill previously thought of as an innate privilege of only especially gifted musicians. The authors discuss the myths related to absolute pitch, and they describe the effects of absolute pitch on a child's musical upbringing. In the process, they present a new (more...)

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Comprehensive guide for learning how to play the piano.

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The Melissa and Doug Learn-to-Play Piano is the colorful and fun way to teach your mini Mozart how to play. The two octaves provides your child with a wide array of notes to help them get started on the fastrack to piano success. The color key charts helps them identify the musical scale. The illustrated songbook helps them learn a few tunes while clanging away at the ivorys. Let your child's inner musician come out with the Learn-to-Play Piano by Melissa and Doug.

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Early Elementary Piano by Carol Matz. This "berry" fun collection is the perfect pre-reading introduction to the piano for young beginners. Contains basic musical concepts and 7 favorite Strawberry Shortcake songs written using off-staff notation. Pieces include optional accompaniments for teacher, parent or older student. Titles: A Berry Happy Birthday * The Cookie Song * Ev'ryone Loves Berry Ball * Friendship Grows * Fun for Fun's Sake * I Can Be * Springtime.

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This easy play-along follow-up to Blues Piano, Volume 1 is the learning blues pianistÕs ticket to the next level! David Cohen helps develop the powerful grooves beloved by blues and rock nÕ roll players alike. His unique step-by-step teaching method is modular, building logically on each preceding section. Once the basics are mastered, adding walking basses, boogie woogie lines, New Orleans-style rhumba rhythms, 9th chords, "the Fats Domino shuffle" and other variations become (more...)

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Learn to play the 12-bar blues using authentic techniques to get the real blues sound.

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Soft Way to Mozart software is a set of seven computer games designed to teach beginners from 3-year-old and up how to read and play music, and support practice of beginners and advanced students. Some of the games use the MIDI connection to an electric piano keyboard or digital piano for interactive support and control of student's playing. This teaching software may be used for home practice and self-teaching, or in music studios or at schools.

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No previous musical knowledge necessary - this book contains everything you need to start playing.

Expert advice to help you select the piano or keyboard that is right for you.

Shows how the keys are fingered, and helps you to develop manual dexterity and co-ordination.

Explains the workings of scales, chords, and other musical "building blocks"

Teaches you how to read music.

Features pieces in a variety of styles for you to learn - ranging from Greensleeves to Tallis's and (more...)

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Book & DVD. Learn To Play The Keyboard is the next best thing to having your own private teacher. No confusion, no frustration, no guesswork--just lessons that are well paced and easy to follow! Contents: Sitting at Your Instrument Sitting at the Piano Sitting at the Electronic Keyboard Hand and Finger Position Fingering The Keyboard and Pitch Finger Warm-ups on the Black Keys The Musical Alphabet and the Names of the White Keys Finger Warm-ups on the White Keys (more...)

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"If you're traveling the 88's you won't find a better navigator than Pete Sears." - --GE Smith (Bob Dylan, Saturday Night Live Band Leader, Hall & Oats)"Pete Sears brings an incredible knowledge of roots music to the table. Whether he is channeling Otis Span or creating his own genre, there is no finer keyboard player. The news is even better. Pete, unlike some artists, knows what he is doing and is a fine teacher. You can dance through the last fifty some years of roots k (more...)

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Learn to Play Keyboard Bundle is a complete learning tool for developing skills with a piano or keyboard. This bundle combines the eMedia Piano & Keyboard Method CD-ROM with a high quality 49-key full-size, touch-sensitive MIDI keyboard. Hook up the keyboard to your USB port and start teaching yourself to play. The small Desktop keyboard is ideal for use on your Computer desk. Also includes Pitch bend and modulation wheels and a pedal port. Learn To Play Keyboard CD features 250 (more...)

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Everything you need to know to start playing now! Whether you're a beginner with no prior musical training, or you ""used to play"" and are need of a refresher course, Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Piano is the perfect resource to teach yourself piano, even though you have never taken a lesson. Complete with on-screen scrolling music, MP3 play-along tracks for every example, and iPod*-compatible video files, you will master how to make rhythms made simple, how to form the most (more...)

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Tune in and tone down piano-shopping stress. Unfamiliar with manufacturers, manufacturing methods, materials, or price ranges, the piano buyer can still educate himself before making the big investment, saving time, money, and frustration. This is the first book written by salespeople that dispels myths and airs dirty tricks, making it an easy-to- use buyer’s guide for all the well known, and many of the not-so-well known, piano models. •How to choose from new or used, digital (more...)

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Tired of playing Chopsticks? The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Piano Chords takes the intimidation out of learning to play the piano with a quick and easy method for playing the songs everyone loves—without having to read complex musical notation. This non-classical method of piano playing will teach readers the basics of keyboard geography, chords, scales, pattern progressions, and reading lead sheets.

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Review

Sammy Cahn President, Songwriter's Hall of Fame I have "High Hopes" this book can teach you to play -- "All the way" -- and you know you can't "Call Me Irresponsible." -- Review

"Anyone who can dial a telephone can learn to play popular piano quickly and easily." So says Norman Monath, author of How to Play Popular Piano in 10 Easy Lessons. His no-frills, no-drills method will have you playing simple tunes within 30 minutes -- even if you don't know on (more...)

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Learning the piano can be both fun and easy. Professional pianist Evan A. Copp takes students through the basics—from choosing an instrument to playing favorite songs. Starting with the absolute basics of posture and proper hand placement, this easy-to-use guide progresses through reading basic musical notation, playing simple songs, and learning scales and music theory all the way up to techniques for playing by ear and with a group of musicians. This guide features:Easy-to-fo (more...)

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Instruct: to provide with knowledge, especially in a methodical way. That is, in fact, what Phillips and Chappel of Cherry Lane Music do in this logical, pedagogic introduction to keyboard instruments, music theory, and piano technique. The chapter on the famous?or is it infamous??"Part of Tens" includes information about past and present masters of the instrument, ways of expanding your interest beyond the scope of the book, and tips on finding a teacher. Pr (more...)

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Want to go beyond "Chopsticks?" This visual guide to tickling the ivories will show you the way. By Chapter 2, you'll be playing simple pieces and practicing scales. You'll progress from getting familiar with notes, symbols, and keys to playing basic chords and reading music like a pro. Without getting bogged down in boring theory, you'll learn what you need to know and enjoy playing as you go! Whether you like Bach or rock, jazz or country, golden oldies or new age, you'll love (more...)

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Many people wish they could sit down at the piano and simply play, their hands flying over the keys as melodies pour out. With this simple, achievable program that’s possible…in just six weeks. Using Dan Delaney’s innovative chord playing techniques, as opposed to more classical methods, musical newcomers and lapsed musicians can quickly and easily gain skills. Each of the six weeks’ worth of lessons contains several exercises. The classes build on each other, becoming p (more...)

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Now you can play this foot-stomping music style by creating the boogie sounds of such great pianists as Jelly Roll Morton and Jools Holland. Play along cd provides a matching audio track to every music example in the book.

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Many students want to lean to play piano without spending years on chords, scales, or reading music. They want the knowledge, understanding and the skills in an uncomplicated fashion. They want the lessons that are designed as basic building blocks to help the music knowledge grow with each step. They want a tool that will help them play the songs they cherish, without reading notes. Welcome to The Bollywood Piano. A self-taught player and music producer himself, Rajan Shah pr (more...)

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Video Demonstration - The 14 DVDs contained in Learn & Master Piano are really the heart of this course. Each lesson is clearly explained and demonstrated, so you know exactly what and how to practice. And because it's from Legacy Learning Systems, you know the training quality is of the highest caliber.

Printed Materials - The Learn & Master Piano Lesson Book contains all of the songs and exercises demonstrated in the video lessons so you can continue practicing at your own pa (more...)

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Lots of piano books offer either in-depth analysis or quick gimmicks that don't really teach music theory. But The Only Basic Piano Instruction Book You'll Ever Need is different. For students who want to learn the basics and dive right into playing, this book skips all the unnecessary trivia on the history of pianos and avoids lengthy digressions on classical and contemporary musicians. Instead, it focuses specifically on piano instruction and includes: The basics of musical t (more...)

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