Easiest Way To Learn Chords, Scales and Arpeggios

Upon completion of this book, you will be able to play from popular piano sheet music and lead sheets, and be ready to play in a band! Alfred Music's exclusive TNT 2 software lets you customize the audio tracks for practice. Use it to slow down tracks, isolate and loop parts, and change tempos and keys. Features: *The easiest way to learn to play rock keyboard *Step-by-step explanation on how to read music *Learn basics like how to sit at the keyboard and proper hand position *Easy-to-understand approach to scales and chords *Music examples in the style of Billy Joel, The Kingsmen, Coldplay, Ben Folds Five, and more.*Essential chord chart with all the major and minor chords for the right hand / Clavier

The quickest, easiest, most enjoyable method for learning to play the mandolin! Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method is one of the many new additions to the Alfred's Basic family of methods, featuring clear, well-paced instruction. Learning to play has never been easier or more fun than with Alfred's Basic Mandolin Method---the best choice for today's beginning mandolin students. Book 2 features: * New major and minor scales and keys * Solos and duets including American, German, Irish, Italian, Mexican, and Scottish folk songs * Power chords, double unisons, and palm muting * Additional chords and strumming patterns * How to transpose * Triplets, swing rhythms, and blues soloing * Accents and staccato (chop) articulations* Photos and diagrams * Songs include 'The Entertainer,' 'Tarantella,' 'Greensleeves,' and many others. / Mandoline

To Chord Theory and Chord Voicing For The Guitarist-In this 2-DVD set master guitarist and instructor John Miller walks you through the fundamentals of chord theory providing you with the conceptual tools needed to understand chord structure and then shows you how to apply thatknowledge to the neck of guitar making practical sense of the information so that you will be equipped to voice chords up and down the neck in any key.In Volume One of the set John goes over the major scale and itsstructure and then moves on to intervals familiarizing you with the different interval types and the language used to define and describe them. He moves then into triads and shows how the diatonic triads are derived from scalestructure following up triads with seventh chords the diatonic seventh chords and the various seventh chord types. As you move through these topics you will find a variety of exercises on the PDF that is included on your DVD exercises that will test and build your knowledge of these topics. Having laid the initial theoretical groundwork John then shows you how to voice triads and seventh chords out of the E A C D and F positions.In VolumeTwo John starts out by defining sixth chords and showing how to voice them then discusses tonic function and seventh chord function. The remainder of Volume Two is devoted to working on songs seeing how to play the same song ina variety of keys and positions and how to use the way the guitar is tuned to transpose from one key to another in the easiest possible fashion. After working through this 2-DVD set you will have a sound fundamental understandingof triad sixth and seventh chord structures in a variety of positions and won't be deterred from learning songs in flat keys or playing up the neck without a capo. If you are really interested in understanding chords and readyto work on developing your understanding Introduction to Chord Theory and Chord Voicing for the Guitarist will get you well on your way towards that goal.On the PDF accompanying the DVD you'll have the opportunity to