Sfx Start Playing Keyboard Tutor Book 2

The Road to Stardom Starts Here-This award-winning method starts children on their musical journey by teaching the basic principles of playing piano. It begins with proper posture and hand positioning for effective learning. Next follow a gradual and progressive learning path to read music notation while learning rhythm timing and how they are used to play songs. Learn chords demonstrated with audio play along tracks. Everything your child needs to start playing piano or keyboard is here! Includes downloadable video lesson examples and audio backing tracks and demonstrations.

Beginner Level-Master instructor Albert Margolis guides you step-by-step through the basic techniques you need to play Blues and Rock keyboards to get you started playing today!Designed for the beginner you will learn the roots of rock and blues with basic chords scales and rhythms. A set of backing tracks will give you the chance to try the ideas and techniques along with the energy and excitement of a backing band.Full online support is provided and included FREE with this DVD.

Starter Series DVD-Filled with rock solid information from beginning to end this intermediate-level DVD helps keyboard players build a stronger foundation covering essential concepts such as: the circle of fifths inversions passing tones and triads scales and chords chord progressions improvising melodies soloing and more!Includes a jam session with a live band playing in rock blues and funk styles and a detailed booklet showing all examples in standard notation.

The Perfect Way To Rediscover The Piano-Did you used to play the piano' Would you like to play again' Play it again: Piano uses real pieces from the piano repertoire to teach specific techniques and tips getting you playing fluently once again. This is the second book which is for the more confident 'former' piano player or for those continuing their journey from Book 1. The level of pieces in this second book progresses from around UK grades 5 to 8 (intermediate to late advanced). 'I used to play the piano''Aimed at 'returning' players who have spent some time away from the keyboard Play it again: Piano gives you the confidence to revisit this fulfilling pastime and go beyond what you previously thoughtyou could achieve.Each of the 21 pieces in Book 2 is accompanied by two full pages of easy-to-understand practice tips all designed to get your fingers speeding comfortably across the keys once again! There are more comprehensive Piano Technique and Theory sections at the front and back of each book so you can also delve deeper to regain a fuller understanding of music and technique. A refresher course for all abilities each book is arranged in 4 progressive sections with Book 1 moving from 'Elementary' to 'Intermediate' and Book 2 taking you from 'Late Intermediate' to 'Late Advanced'. Dip in and out wherever your level of playing suits: this two-book course starts with simple and elegant miniatures and concludes with the famously showy Prelude in C-sharp minor by Rachmaninoff! Confident pianists could start with Book 2 but there is a wealth of delightful repertoire and valuable practice tips in Book 1 it's always useful to go 'back to basics'. From Schumann to shuffles. Baroque Classical and Romantic works sit alongside Jazz Ragtime contemporary or traditional pieces at every level so each lesson brings something different and you'll learn to play in a range of styles some of which may be new to your fingers. If you often find yourself saying 'I used to play the piano'' but wish you still did then Play it again:

Designed by John McCarthy for piano or electronic keyboard this Master Edition combines all three levels of this award wining series in a complete course! As a bonus we have included a complete ?Key Tab? section that will quickly and easily show you how to play chords progressions and entire songs.Learn all the essential techniques needed to play all genres of music. Start with proper posture and hand position. Next you will follow a gradual and progressive learning path to read music and play songs and master the keyboard. You will learn everything from classical pieces to blues progressions and challenging techniques. Learn melodies scales and thebasics of improvising.As an added bonus included are audio backing tracks and playing examples you can download that follow each lesson and let you apply them over full band backing tracks.

inspiring confidence to play by touch-Richard Smith's Don't LOOK At The Keys! teaches students how to play by touch feeling their way around the keyboard using various 'signposts' whilst keeping their eyes on the music. Designed to make sight reading easier and more effective the books in this innovative series contain a progressive set of imaginative pieces to take students and teachers step by step through the technique. This is not just another sight reading book. Don't LOOK At The Keys! contains actual practice pieces as well as instructions that demonstrate how toplay Piano by touch. It instructs and develops the skill and confidence to look at the music instead of the hands and helps those students who commit pieces to memory or play by ear then wonder where to look while playing. 'Don't LOOK At The Keys!' is a progressive series in three parts teaching piano keyboard geography by touch in an accessible enjoyable way making sight reading easier and more effective. The pieces in Book 2 are all within an octave spread in each hand to demonstrate progress and inspire confidence following the five finger range in Book 1. To get started there is one page of notes for teachers and students followed by a varied selection of 14 pieces; titles such as 'It Only Took A Minuet' 'Hot Israeli Nights' the boogie woogie pieces 'Lazy' and 'Toe Tapper' as well as 'Flat Footed Flip Flop Waltz' - inspirational and great fun!

It is no secret that the majority of piano owners in addition to playing classical music would also like to play popular standards and pop songs just like the piano player in a bar or cocktail lounge does improvising and going from one tune to another. How nice it would be if one could sit down to the piano at home or at a party producing all those lovely melodies by ear. Unfortunately up till now there has not been a single useful method that teaches how to acquire this ability; one that is written in a simple manner and starting from the basics. Here finally you hold in your hands an absolutely new and simple method that will enable you to fulfill your secret wish toimprovise at the piano completely by ear. I have the feeling that one of these days everyone who owns a piano a keyboard instrument or a synthesizer will own this book.