Keyboard Fundamentals-book

The Crash Course: Keyboard is a tuition method designed to allow you to learn the Keyboard in just 8 weeks. This fast-track guide will help you develop technique and style on the Keyboard, taking you from novice to competent performer day-by-day. The included audio download features demonstrations of every exercise.Crash Course Keyboard requires a commitment to learning, but features daily lessons, end-of-week tests and demonstration audio to turn your dream of playing the Keyboard into reality in the shortest possible time. Using the book and audio download, you'll develop good Keyboard technique, learn to read notation and chord symbols and understand music theory. As you progress through the days and weeks, you'll begin to play tunes, bass lines and riffs, before improvising and eventually being able to play a range of styles, from blues and jazz to rock and reggae.The Crash Course series condenses many years of learning into an eight week schedule, allowing you to learn the most fundamental parts of the Keyboard in just two months. Each day of each week is logically structured so that you learn the basics through all the key concepts in the most ordered way possible. The accompanying audio download gives you instant online access to matching audio demonstrations of all the exercises, so that you can hear exactly how things should sound, before nailing it yourself.The author, David Mitchell, is an experienced music educator and musician, who has also included a helpful introductory section, where he details what to expect from the Crash Course Keyboard, as well as a brief note on the capabilities of the Keyboard, how to practise effectively and a quick guide to notation, ensuring that even absolute beginners can get started on the instrument with this course.If you are looking for a way to learn the Keyboard but feel like you're too busy during the day, or don't have the motivation to devote so much time to practising, Crash Course Keyboard is for you. By devoting a set amount of time per day to learning, you will progress quickly while the incentive to play will not decrease. In just two months, your playing could be up to a standard you're proud of. / Clavier

Anyone with basic keyboard skills (equivalent to Alfred's Basic Piano, Lesson Book 2) can dig right in and begin learning rock right away. Starting with a thourough review of music fundamentals and basic rock theory, you will learn the basics of rock chords, left-hand patterns, arpeggios, slash chords, how to read lead sheets and get started improvising with the pentatonic scale. Other topics include blues-rock, rock ballads and an introduction to the modes. The essential starter for any rock keyboardist. The CD demonstrates examples and offers opportunities to play along.

Solfège Pratique is a method for learning pitch and sight-reading. The practice of Solfège teaches one to immediately recognise and play notes through careful study of intervals. This particular book is forKeyboard instruments and Harp. Solfège Pratique guides you through the fundamentals of learning to recognise pitch and play immediately. This is an essential skill for all musicians topractice from beginner to advanced. This particular book only focuses on two keys Sol and Fa.

Rockschool is about playing the styles of music you love. The Band Based Keys Syllabus is designed to put Keyboard players right at the heart of a band - where most if not all modern keyboard players perform their music. Band Based Keys Grade 2 is tailored to those of you who are building up confidence in the fundamentals of playing. The Grade 2 book has 6 pieces of original music to choose from covering Glam Rock R n' B and Soul music styles. The Book includes: Standard notation Full mixes & backing track CD Track fact file Playing tips &Walkthrough Unseen test examples & technical exercises. Tuning notes. Students are always encouraged to be creative with the Rockschool tunes so feel free to improvise and adapt them to suit your own playing style. Requirements: Keyboard with 61 keys. Patches: Acoustic piano Electric piano Organ Strings and Synth.

Drum Sessions Book 1. Peter O’Gorman. The most innovative and comprehensive methods for individual or group study available for beginning instrumentalists. The session series for drums keyboard and bass allows you to perform in aband right from the start. For individual study each book teaches the fundamentals of music theory in an easy to understand format technique exercises songs and riffs and a variety of other styles. The tape containsaccompaniments for each ‘Mini-Jam’ and five songs or ‘Sessions’. The Sessions can be played along live with keyboard drum set and bass players or with the parts recorded on the tape. The first Session is playable after just afew lessons!

A great introduction to the fundamentals of country Keyboard playing the Progressive Country Keyboard Method features exercises that sound great while teaching the necessary notes and techniques. This bookcontains all the information needed for playing in a band accompanying a vocalist and solo playing.

Book 1A-Designed to develop the creative potential and reading skills of each student. Necessary music fundamentals are presented to help them become independent learners. Each page is related to the materials in Music for Keyboard 1A.

Play Piano Now! is for busy adults whose practice time is limited and for adults without previous musical training. It is a slower-paced method that uses the same conceptual core of the original Adult Piano Course but with several very important added features: more gradual introduction of music fundamentals more pages of reinforcement and a greater emphasis on sight-reading exercises one of the most important skills needed to ensure long-term enjoyment of the piano. Includes specially marked written exercises that can be completed away from the keyboard.

It has often struck me as intriguing that The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (a collection of keyboard music spanning the period c.1562-1612) occupies a virtually non-existent place in the literature considered viable by pianists.Needless to say harpsichordists continue to hold the music in the highest esteem while a number of transcriptions for instruments and ensembles have been made available in more recent times. How can it be that this ancient heritage - which in keyboard music terms might be regarded as the equivalent to the Dead Sea Scrolls - has hitherto seemed a no-go area for pianists? It is as if the first 'proper' keyboard music tumbledmiraculously out of some parallel universe around Bach's time i.e. the first half of the 18th century. While our modern piano is perhaps as different from a virginal as a washing machine is from a mangle there are in fact a good many facets of virginal music which read across perfectly well to today's instruments. For this to be possible we need to take the time to lookbeyond peculiarities in translation which to a significant extent comes down to issues resulting from burgeoning notational practices. It also becomes necessary to re-imagine the music in light of what is possible as well as what is desirable. Problems with accessing the sound-world of pre-Baroque keyboard music can be overcome quite easily just as it is possible to become better in resonance withavant garde musical styles given appropriate immersion. Since the writing of the performance notes to The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book more than a century ago (by J.A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay Squire) the momentum generated by the Early Music Revival has brought about immeasurable insights into the intentions of Renaissance and Baroque composers. Performances on periodinstruments continue to reacquaint us with a bygone age and stimulate a healthy fascination for the practices that were once fundamental to the craft. On balance however the potential for a major

Afro-Cuban Keyboard Grooves By Manny Patiño and Jorge MorenoThis book will help any musician unlock the secrets of the Afro-Cuban rhythmic feel. By clearly demonstrating the underlying pattern called the Clave and the comping patterns called Tumbaos that are played over the Clave this book will help every keyboard player learn these fundamental Latin rhythms. [Matching bass book (EL9707CD) also available.]

Excellence in Theory is especially designed to creatively enrich the curriculums of beginning Instrumental Choral and General Music classes! It's all here - Theory and Ear Training Notation Composition and History complete inthree volumes.Progressive Theory concepts and skills are reinforced and reviewed through both written and aural exercises. Ear Training examples and exercises are accessible by teach or student via the Kjos MultimediaLibrary at www.kjos.com. History pages come alive with vibrant colour images and comprehensive quizzes to help put events styles and details into perspective.Separate Theory and History sections are presented offeringmultiple teaching possibilities. Theory and History can be taught together or separately depending on your class objectives and scheduling considerations. A Keyboard illustration glossary and blank manuscript pages are alsoincluded as convenient study tools.The Theory section in Book Three begins with a review of the theory concepts introduced in Book Two Book Three before introducing more advanced time signatures; major minor augmentedand diminished triads; and minor chords chord progressions and harmonizing melodies. By the end of students will be composing short melodies and will have a fundamental understanding of the building blocks of Westernmusic.Ear Training pages with aural exercises are again applied throughout Book Three incorporating the knowledge gained in the steadily advancing lessons and putting it immediately into practice.The Historysection of Book Three continues to deepen the connection among all aspects learned throughout the series putting music into perspective with social and political events and progressions within all the arts. Book Three alsoincludes a colorful comprehensive timeline including all composers and performers studied thus providing quick reference and motivation toward further study.

Teach yourself to play blues-style Piano with these easy lessons for beginners. The Progressive Blues Piano Method covers the fundamental techniques and practical music theory required to learn to playblues Piano including soloing improvisation and accompaniment. Suitable for all ages and all types of Pianos and Keyboards this book includes 100 examples chord progressions and easy songs in the 12 bar blues shuffle R

This method which can be used for any size of instrument from 12 to 120 bass takes the student rapidly through the fundamentals in a manner to establish self-confidence from the first lesson. This book presents a new and scientifically correct program for mastering finger technique enabling the accordionist to acquire the brilliant technique of the professional player far more rapidly than by indiscriminate and haphazard practice. Included also is a neasily understood course in Keyboard Harmony and its adaptation in harmonizing melodies and playing effectively from piano and violon music. Finally this method contains a series of carefully graded and edited solosembracing all forms of music from Swing-Boogie to the Classics.