Mike Cornick: Start Piano Jazz: Piano: Instrumental Album

Level 2 of Mike Cornick's Play the Piano! moves seamlessly on from Level 1 ensuring continuous musical and technical progress for the adult or older teenager. With the raised technical levels the choice of musical genres is even more enriched with arrangements of traditional folk music and music by for example J. S. Bach W. A. Mozart Beethoven Chopin Tchaikovsky Mike Cornick Elton John and more. The result is a feast of beautiful music and the continued guidance from Mike Cornick will help the player develop the technical skills and confidence to interact with the rewarding musical experiences provided by the CDs. Again ateach stage more pieces may be downloaded free from the Universal Edition website.Play the Piano! featuresStep-by-step learning in playing and reading starting from absolute scratch presented in clearly structured stagesAlso suitable for the 'returning beginner'Performance pieces in a range of styles from classical and folk through to jazzHelpful and stimulating CDs with aural development exercises and recordings of the pieces many with 'play-along' tracksWarm-up exercisesEven more performance pieces which together with more supporting material for each stage are available as free downloads from the Universal Edition website'The book goes to the top of the pile of piano tutorials currently available for the older beginner ... excellent!'Pianist Magazine (Michael McMillan) 2011

The complete step-by-step guide for the adult beginner - Step-by-step learning in playing and reading starting from absolute scratch presented in clearly structured stages- Also suitable for the 'returning beginner' -Performance pieces in a range of styles from classical and folk through to jazz- A helpful and stimulating CD with aural development exercises and recordings of the pieces many with 'play-along' tracks- Warm-up exercises - Even more performance pieces for each stage which are available as FREE DOWNLOADS from the Universal Edition website together with further advice information and music theoryThis editionis only available in English.German version: Piano Coach (UE 34991)