Learning to Play Piano - Scale Book

This book provides the pianist with an amazing assortment of easy, essential exercises. Players of all experience levels can utilize this method: beginners will learn to play music through creative exercises, while advanced pianists can add new exercises to their routines. With this book, you will be able to practice scales and chords without the usual monotony. The exercises focus on three 5-note palindrome patterns (which sound the same forwards and backwards) and are excellent for sight reading. Correct fingering is the key to playing piano with dexterity—this book provides all 120 ways these 5-note patterns can be played, giving you the ability to utilize all ten fingers efficiently across 88 keys. / Pédagogie / Date parution : 2018-05-04/ Etude / Piano

No more trouble with whole- and half-time calculations no more bother with scale transpositions and thumb-under passages either. This coursebook provides 2-octave keyboard diagrams for every existing scale (be it major minor pentatonic blues melodic minor harmonic minor or natural minor) and what's more for every existing key - specified for each hand separately. It also provides sample chords over which these scales (solos improvisations or melodies) may be played and brief instructions for their use. The DVD attached to the coursebook makes learning even easier. It shows you all the scales in every key and additionally offers a simultaneousanimation on a virtual Piano keyboard. The above-average backing tracks on the CD give you the opportunity to put the newly-learned scales into practice - in every key and in every musical style(!)

The PianoTrainer Scales Workbook. The PianoTrainer Scales Workbook is an all-in-one must-have resource for scales, arpeggios and broken chords, including all the keys and basic shapes that piano students should learn. With clear scale notation, easy-to-visualise keyboard diagrams and excellent theory activities to consolidate understanding and underline the importance of writing music. It is ideal for developing a bespoke scale curriculum, and the unique PianoTrainer Scale Challenge will help create structure and motivation for students. Suitable for elementary to intermediate (approximately Grade 5) level players, this workbook covers several years? study alongside The Foundation Pianist and The Intermediate Pianist books. Each key includes the major and harmonic, melodic and natural minor scales, plus the arpeggio and broken chord, all covering two octaves. There are also introductions to contrary motion, chromatic and Russian scales. ?This comprehensive collection is a go-to resource that every budding piano student should have, with its clear presentation, creative activities and original coaching tips.? Liz Giannopoulos, Encore Music Tuition

Par COROZINE VINCE. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 of the 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, and bass.Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass piano parts,making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues and pentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swing eighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context of accompanying a soloist (comping): in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazz soloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book.If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time you complete it! Includes access to online audio. Designed to introduce the young intermediate-level pianist to playing the blues, Jazzin' the Blues presents fifteen original blues compositions in various keys, styles and grooves together with downloadable recordings of 40 ofthe 50 examples in the book. The audio tracks are presented both with and without the lead piano part, so the student can play along with a professional rhythm section which includes piano, vibraphone, alto flute, drums, andbass. Historical and performance notes are provided with each blues composition. The author enlisted the skills of jazz pianist Charlie Freeman in editing the book and providing fingering for both the treble and bass pianoparts, making these pieces more accessible to novice players. If your knowledge of blues theory or terminology is lacking, this is the book for you! Author Vince Corozine thoroughly explores and demonstrates: blues andpentatonic scale theory, blue notes, grace notes, pedal-points, tremolos, trills, syncopation, anticipation, delayed beats, slash chords, boogie-woogie left-hand patterns, walking bass, stride piano style, straight eighths, swingeighths, passing tones, rolled chords, riffs, 'filler' chords, substitutions, and comping styles. This book also includes essential blues chord theory as well as tips on tasteful chord voicing presented in the context ofaccompanying a soloist (comping) - in addition, the chord progressions represented by the written notation are carefully annotated in every example in the book. The Appendix includes helpful tips on comping, practice, and jazzsoloing, plus a list of noteworthy jazz pianists, a key to chord symbols, and a glossary of jazz terms used in the book. If you are not a competent blues pianist when you first pick up this book, you will be by the time youcomplete it! Includes access to online audio. / Jazz / Etude / Piano

Avec cette méthode, vous allez enfin apprendre et surtout comprendre comment utiliser la gamme mineure (naturelle) au piano, mais aussi découvrir tout son potentiel mélodique pour l'exploiter au mieux. Après quelques pages indispensables dédiées à la théorie, vous aborderez ces 12 gammes mineures - que tout pianiste se doit de maîtriser -, de la façon la plus cohérente et efficace qui soit. Ainsi, pour chacune d'elles, vous découvrirez en page de gauche le nom et l'emplacement des notes sur le clavier du piano (2 octaves), ainsi que les accords sur lesquels la gamme en question peut être jouée en toute sécurité. Sur la page de droite, en guise d'illustration, vous découvrirez une longue improvisation qui utilise cette seule et unique gamme, accompagnée de deux enregistrements (à télécharger), le premier pour la démonstration et le second pour la mise en application (support playback). Vous pourrez alors jouer à votre tour sur cette bande-son non seulement l'exemple proposé, mais aussi tout autre solo, mélodie ou improvisation de votre conception... issu de la gamme mineure en question bien sûr ! Tous les enregistrements de cette méthode (exemples et playbacks) peuvent être téléchargés gratuitement et très facilement en suivant les indications fournies dans le livre.

3rd Edition. Par . Trusted by hundreds of teachers since 2001, Scale Shapes is the popular, diagram-based way to learn piano scales using the Stocken Method. Based on the new ABRSM syllabus, this fully revised and updated third edition is an invaluable aid for grade exams and general progress. ' BASED ON THE NEW ABRSM SYLLABUS ' UNIQUE KEYBOARD DIAGRAMS make playing scales easy; left- and right-hand diagrams appear together ' SPEED UP the learning process and supplement music lessons with this foolproof aid ' IMPROVE PERFORMANCE with SCALES SHAPES' intuitive method for memorising the physical shapes of different keys/ Etude / Piano

3rd Edition. Par . Trusted by hundreds of teachers since 2001, Scale Shapes is the popular, diagram-based way to learn piano scales using the Stocken Method. Based on the new ABRSM syllabus, this fully revised and updated third edition is an invaluable aid for grade exams and general progress. ' BASED ON THE NEW ABRSM SYLLABUS ' UNIQUE KEYBOARD DIAGRAMS make playing scales easy; left- and right-hand diagrams appear together ' SPEED UP the learning process and supplement music lessons with this foolproof aid ' IMPROVE PERFORMANCE with SCALES SHAPES' intuitive method for memorising the physical shapes of different keys/ Etude / Piano

3rd Edition. Par . Trusted by hundreds of teachers since 2001, Scale Shapes is the popular, diagram-based way to learn piano scales using the Stocken Method. Based on the new ABRSM syllabus, this fully revised and updated third edition is an invaluable aid for grade exams and general progress. ' BASED ON THE NEW ABRSM SYLLABUS ' UNIQUE KEYBOARD DIAGRAMS make playing scales easy; left- and right-hand diagrams appear together ' SPEED UP the learning process and supplement music lessons with this foolproof aid ' IMPROVE PERFORMANCE with SCALES SHAPES' intuitive method for memorising the physical shapes of different keys/ Etude / Piano