Learn from the Legends: Blues Keyboard (Paperback)
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 Piano From Melody Line And Chord Symbols (Paperback)
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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Education for Absolute Pitch: A New Way to Learn Piano (Perfect Paperback)
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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Learn To Play Keyboard (Book & DVD) (Alfred’s Max Series) (Paperback)
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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Piano Lessons: Learn how to play Piano keyboard the Smart Way! (Paperback)
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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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The Pocket Idiot’s Guide to Piano Chords (Pocket Idiot’s Guides) (Paperback)
Tired of playing Chopsticks? The Pocket Idiots 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 loveswithout 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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Karen Berger is a pianist on the fa (more...)
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Piano For Dummies (For Dummies (Sports & Hobbies)) (Paperback)
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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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Teach Yourself VISUALLY Piano (Paperback)
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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