E-Z Play Today Book A. Introducing the E-Z way to reading music notes, chords, and learning musical terms! Keyboards are among the most versatile of all musical instruments, and many electronic keyboards today have special automatic features and automatic rhythms. These features make making music even more fun and versatile! If you've always wanted to learn how to play the keyboard, this book is your first step to success! Beginnings Book A provides easy-to-understand instructions with popular songs and favorite tunes so you can start playing music you know and love while learning to play! In practically no time, you'll be performing some of your favorite standards, including: Aura Lee · DannyBoy · He's Got the Whole World in His Hands · Kumbaya · Lullaby (Cradle Song) · On Top of Old Smoky · Simple Gifts · When the Saints Go Marching In · Yankee Doodle · and more. This book also includes access to online recordings of demonstration and backing tracks, so you can listen to the demos to hear how the piece should sound, then play along with the backing tracks to sound like a pro! Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. / Pédagogie / Recueil / Clavier

Updated Edition-Beginnings for Keyboards is an introduction to the E-Z Play Today series. And E-Z means just that: easy. The series was created for anyone and everyone who:Wants to learn to play the keyboardDoesn’t have time to take music lessonsWants to play popular songs and favourite tunes instantlyKeyboards are among the most versatile of all musical instruments and many electric keyboards today have special automatic features and automatic rhythms. All the arrangements are versatile too because they can be played on:A chord organAn electronic keyboard with one-key chord accompaniment and automaticrhythmA conventional keyboard instrument without automatic featuresIn other words E-Z Play Today music is for all keyboards and all keyboard players. In practically no time you’ll be performing some of your favourite tunes.This introductory folio includes the following well-known songs: ‘Aura Lee’ ‘The Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn)’ ‘Danny Boy’ ‘Down By The Riverside’ ‘He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands’ ‘Kumbaya’ ‘Lullaby’ ‘The Marines’ Hymn’ ‘Old Folks At Home (Swanee River)’ ‘On Top Of Old Smoky’ ‘Simple Gifts’ ‘Skip To My Lou’ ‘Somebody’s Knocking At Your Door’ ‘Steal Away (Steal Away To Jesus)’ ‘When The Saints Go Marching In’ and ‘Yankee Doodle’.

Based on popular songs and with easy-to-follow text and diagrams, this excellent course assumes no prior knowledge of keyboards or music yet right from the beginning, you will be playing arrangements which include a complete rhythm section with full sounding chords, bass and drums. Irish Songs is a superb compilation of 17 popular songs from Ireland, arranged for all types of electronic keyboard by Kenneth Baker. Includes suggested registrations, fingering and lyrics, plus chord symbols and charts. / Ligne Mélodique, Paroles Et Accords (Avec Grilles D'Accords)

Par GRIFFIN MICHAEL. This clear and well organised text is suitable for students of arranging and composition, and for classically trained musicians wishing to further grasp the simple logic of jazz harmony. Essential understandings: - Triad structures and inversions - How to select chords - chord symbols - Simple but effective voicing formulae - The circle of 4th progressions, - Extensions to the 9ths and dominant 13ths, and altered 5ths and 9ths. Included in the 107 pages are comprehensive explanations, examples, exercises and solutions. For school students, the course can be started in year 9 and worked through to year 13. 'This book certainly delivers. Mr. Griffin does a superb job giving clear and concise steps that students should take when approaching the task of harmonizing a melody. The book is laid out in a clean, easy-to-understand format. Mr. Griffin is obviously a gifted teacher, and has developed a book that would be a great resource for any music teacher or student interested in understanding and implementing more complex theory/harmony concepts.' - Natalie Wickham, Music Matters, USA. 'Particularly good for A Level pupils composing in a pop and jazz style. The material gradually increases in difficulty and there are a lot of useful exercises to be completed by students”- Music teacher, UK. 'Excellent resource which will save teachers hours of preparatory work. Useful for a general understanding of options when harmonising in composition. An essential part of KS5 harmony work which goes beyond the common chords and progressions. Very professionally set out.”- ZigZag Education, UK./ Méthode / Tout Instrument