How to Play the Piano


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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.




100 Left Hand Patterns Every Piano Player Should Know


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100 Different Ways to play the same song. Piano students learn 100 fun left hand patterns to take any music and change it up 100 different ways. Also included in the book is the FUN FAKEBOOK which includes 100 piano pieces in facebook format where the melody (Right Hand - treble clef) and the given chords for each measure are shown. The students can then fake or make up a left hand pattern to go along with the melody.




Billy Joel - Piano Man


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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). David Rosenthal has carefully arranged all the tracks from Joel's classic 1973 release to combine the piano parts and vocal melodies into playable arrangements while transcribing those classic piano parts that are integral to each song. This book features the iconic title track and nine others: Ain't No Crime * (The) Ballad of Billy the Kid * Captain Jack * If I Only Had the Words (To Tell You) * Somewhere Along the Line * Stop in Nevada * Travelin' Prayer * Worse Comes to Worst * You're My Home.




The Jazz Piano Book


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The most highly acclaimed jazz piano method ever published! Over 300 pages with complete chapters on Intervals and triads, The major modes and II-V-I, 3-note voicings, Sus. and phrygian Chords, Adding notes to 3-note voicings, Tritone substitution, Left-hand voicings, Altering notes in left-hand Stride and Bud Powell voicings, Block chords, Comping ...and much more! Endorsed by Kenny Barron, Down Beat, Jamey Aebersold, etc.







How to Play from a Fake Book (Music Instruction)


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(Piano). Ever wondered how to create better accompaniments for the melodies in your favorite fake books? This "teach yourself" book introduces you to chord building, various rhythmic styles, and much more, so that you play the songs you like just the way you want them. Keyboard players with a basic understanding of notation and sight-reading will be on their way to more fun with fake books. The relaxed tone of the text and selection of fun songs keep How to Play from a Fake Book entertaining throughout perfect for amateur musicians, or as a supplement for keyboard teachers and their students.




How to Play Piano in 14 Days


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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.




Learn to Play Piano in Six Weeks Or Less


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Wish you could sit down at the piano and effortlessly play without years of lessons? Now you can Many people wish they could sit down at the piano and simply play, their hands flying over the keys as melodies pour out. With this simple, achievable program that's possible . . . in just six weeks. Using Dan Delaney's innovative chord playing techniques, as opposed to more classical methods, musical newcomers and lapsed musicians can quickly and easily gain skills. Each of the six weeks' worth of lessons contains several exercises. The classes build on each other, becoming progressively more difficult as the player's ability improves, and every lesson includes sheet music, practice advice, and an evaluation at the end. Plus, MP3 audios of the lessons will be available for free on Delaney's website.




Progressive Piano Method for Young Beginners - Book 1


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For young pianists. Introduces very easy arrangements of over 35 favorite children's songs. Covers five notes on each hand, using the white keys only.




Piano Games


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