How to Play the Piano

Author: James Rhodes
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
ISBN: 1615195491
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 75

Book Description
Now you can master Bach’s most beautiful prelude—even if you’ve never sat down at a piano before! Do you have a piano (or keyboard) and forty-five spare minutes every day? Then spend the next six weeks with acclaimed concert pianist James Rhodes. By the end, you’ll be able to perform Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in C major—no prior musical experience required! Rhodes reveals How to Play the Piano step by step—how to read the treble and bass clefs as well as sharp and flat notes, and then how to practice—before teaching the Prelude in easy, bite-size segments. His method is free of tedious drills, and filled with inspiration: “If listening to music is soothing for the soul, then playing music is achieving enlightenment.” Before you know it, not only will you have learned how to play one of Bach’s most beloved masterpieces—you also will have unleashed your creativity, exercising your mind (and fingers) and accomplishing something you never thought possible. Bravo! Includes four instructional videos supported by select e-reader devices.

My First Piano Adventure: Lesson Book A with CD

Author:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1616778865
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Written for ages 5 and 6, My First Piano Adventure captures the child's playful spirit. Fun-filled songs, rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Three distinguishing features of the Lesson Book A make it unique and effective for the young 5-6 year old beginner. 1. A strong focus on technique embedded in the book through playful technique games, chants, and carefully-composed pieces that gently lead the child into pianistic motions. 2. An outstanding CD for the young student to listen, sing, tap, and play along with at the piano. The orchestrated songs on the CD feature children singing the lyrics, which has great appeal to the 5-6 year old beginner. The CD becomes a ready-made practice partner that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities in the books. 3. The fanciful art features five multi-cultural children who are also learning to play. These friends at the piano introduce basic rhythms, white key names, and a variety of white and black-key songs that span classical, folk, and blues. Young students will listen, sing, create, and play more musically with Nancy and Randall Faber s My First Piano Adventure, Lesson Book A. The Lesson Book introduces directional pre-reading, elementary music theory and technique with engaging songs, games, and creative discovery at the keyboard. Young students will enjoy the multi-cultural "friends at the piano" who introduce white-key names, basic rhythms, and a variety of songs which span classical, folk, and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of the curriculum. The Fabers' instructional theory "ACE" - Analysis, Creativity, and Expression, guides the pedagogy of My First Piano Adventure. Analysis leads to understanding, creativity leads to self-discovery, and expression develops personal artistry. The CD for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the course: when children listen, sing, tap, and move to their piano music, they play more musically. View Helpful Introductory Videos Here

How I Learned What I Learned

Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780573705892
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson comes a one-man show that chronicles his life as a Black artist in the Hill District in Pittsburgh. From stories about his first jobs to his first loves and his experiences with racism, Wilson recounts his life from his roots to the completion of The American Century Cycle. How I Learned What I Learned gives an inside look into one of the most celebrated playwriting voices of the twentieth century.

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593087607
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and Gone—Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. “The glow accompanying August Wilson’s place in contemporary American theater is fixed.”—Toni Morrison When Harold Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man—in body. But the scars of his enslavement and a sense of inescapable alienation oppress his spirit still, and the seemingly hospitable rooming house seethes with tension and distrust in the presence of this tormented stranger. Loomis is looking for the wife he left behind, believing that she can help him reclaim his old identity. But through his encounters with the other residents he begins to realize that what he really seeks is his rightful place in a new world—and it will take more than the skill of the local “People Finder” to discover it. This jazz-influenced drama is a moving narrative of African-American experience in the 20th century.

Play Piano in a Flash

Author: Scott Houston
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9781401307660
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
As seen on public television stations nationwide, a revolutionary new approach to playing non-classical music on the piano. Have you ever wished you could play the piano Well, now you can! Scott "The Piano Guy" Houston teaches you to play the way the pros play, in a style enormously simpler than traditional classical piano and with an absolute minimum of note-reading. By focusing on playing the melody with the right hand (one note at a time) and simple chords with the left hand, Houston gives you the tools you need for a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Best of all, your tour guide to this adventure forces you to have fun along the way!

How to Play the Piano Despite Years of Lessons

Author:
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780385142632
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Ten progressively advanced sections, each with notations and keyboard diagrams, make up a new approach to learning how to play the piano quickly and pleasurably, with no scale exercises and a minimum of memorization

A Piano Chord Book You Can Actually Use!

Author: Aaron Whitehead
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781438202860
Category : Piano
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book offers a fresh look at how to learn chords on the piano. Made with the beginning piano player in mind, this book is perfect for the person desiring to learn and play their favorite song on the piano. For more information about our piano program, please view our tutorials on YouTube at youtube.com/thepianochordbook

The Little Yellow Practice Book

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781616776336
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Young students will be delighted with their first practice book featuring Mrs. Razzle-Dazzle and the "friends at the piano." Each page features a different scene from My First Piano Adventure and a keyboard graphic. Students will build healthy practice habits when they color a key each day they practice.

How to Play Piano in 14 Days

Author: Austin Crosby
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
This book is a modern piano lesson book with a new take on the best way to learn piano. It is jam-packed with fundamental piano exercises so you can learn to play piano fast. Introducing a revolutionary new PIANO TAB to make sight-reading piano even easier! From the publisher of over a dozen top-selling music lesson titles, How to Play Piano in 14 Days from Troy Nelson Music takes a novel approach to piano education that will have you playing great-sounding music in no time! This is not your grandma's beginner piano method! How to Play Piano in 14 Days is a brand new method for learning the piano. Have you struggled to learn piano because of the "old" way it's taught? We've taken the concept of learning piano and made it even easier than ever to learn piano and even teach piano. How is this book a different kind of piano technique book? Introducing PIANO TAB (C) - a revolutionary new way to read the notes of a piano that you will only find in this book. This is a method the author and publisher invented to make it easy for you to take the notes and get them right onto your piano quickly-no music reading required! Features contemporary music examples and exercises, updated for your modern discerning ear. How to Play Piano in 14 Days is a modern approach to piano lessons. This piano book will teach you Major, Minor, and Pentatonic Scales Modern Melodies and Chord Progressions Fundamental Rhythms: Basic to Advanced How to Play Complete Musical Pieces The Circle of 5ths This beginner piano method is not designed to be an exhaustive, be-all, end-all resource for piano; instead, this book's intention is to jumpstart your piano playing so you can learn piano quickly. You don't have to know how to read music to use this book! Why? Because of our PIANO TAB, an easy way to learn how to play piano by seeing the keys you need to play right on the page. This piano book for adult beginners and beginner kids alike will help you learn the piano quickly. This beginner's guide also provides an easy introduction to reading and playing music. Packed full of easy-to-follow instructions Tons of illustrations to demonstrate piano technique Simple exercises with our brand new PIANO TAB visuals Learn at your own pace or in as fast as 14 days Fun and easy chords and songs to play Buy With Confidence: Read it! Hear it! Play it! Music examples are presented in notes and tab. This practical, step-by-step guide to piano includes quick-and-easy access to audio tracks via download or streaming-right from troynelsonmusic.com. No signup required! From the top-selling series Play Guitar in 14 Days from publisher Troy Nelson Music. Author and editor Troy Nelson has sold more than 300,000 books and has 1,000s of reviews. You will see our books average 4.5 stars or more! About Austin Crosby: Austin has been a piano player for 20 years and a worship bandleader for a decade. MORE: Austin's passion is helping others learn to love the piano as much as he does. REMEMBER Free access to instant audio downloads from Troy's website included. BONUS Includes customer support! Questions during practice? Email us from our website and we will happily help you.

Piano Games

Author: Natasha Mikhaylova
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646919249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

Book Description