Chord scale progression is an essential aspect of beginning piano instruction and students can develop the foundation for solid technique by rehearsing scales and arpeggios. With study and practice musicians will achieve stronger fingers better familiarity with the keyboard and an improved sense of pitch and tonality. Daily exercises will help cultivate skills that will enhance every aspect of piano playing. This volume focuses on scales and arpeggios in all major and minor keys arranged in one- and two-octave studies. Warm-ups provide a chance to get acquainted with the notes of each key. Special scales appear at the end of the major and minor cycles: chromatic pentatonic whole tone blues and modes. These introductions to other styles complement the learning of the main scales. Fingerings are provided. In addition the book is accompanied by MP3 recordings that will help reinforce the exercises.

This well-known pianist and teacher's guide to sound piano technique covers tone production fingering pedaling chords sight-reading and more. Its 63 musical excerpts include works by such masters as Beethoven Chopin Schumann Mendelssohn and Liszt. Numerous exercises complemented by 64 black-and-white photographs demonstrate a variety of technical stylistic and musical approaches.

Description Walter Gieseking and Karl Leimer. A radical approach towards developing finger and expression technique, emphasising listening to one's self and proper understanding as the basis of technique for the piano.